"I know enough about the moon to know……" — Wally Schirra
"I know enough about the moon to know how unpleasant and inhospitable it is. . . . I know enough about Mars to know that you can't live there, you can't settle it. Mars and the moon are two ugly islands. So then, you say, what's the point of going to them? The point is to be able to say I've been there, I've set foot on them, and I can go further to look for beautiful islands."
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29 Quotes by Wally Schirra
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You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes,…
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I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should…
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I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one
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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's…
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or…
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I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for…
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good.…
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Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just…
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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's…
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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up,…
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