"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by,……" — Wally Schirra
"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen."
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29 Quotes by Wally Schirra
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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…
- I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.
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- He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one
- Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's…
- I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or…
- I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for…
- Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good.…
- Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just…
- 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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