Quotes by Wally Schirra - Page 1

NASA should start thinking about this planet.
Wally Schirra / Aviator
Nasa
Planet
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A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.
Wally Schirra / Aviator
Apollo
Levity
Littles
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one
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Apollo
Command
Flight
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
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Apollo
Flight
Commands
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We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.
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At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.
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Careers
Military
Nasa
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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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Space
Earth
Three
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Break Up
Smile
Apollo
Program
Wife
Apart
Breaking
Wives
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
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American Football
English Football
Equipment
Football
Soccer
Afford
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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Helping
Life Story
Needs
Stories
Website
Life Me My Life
Figure
Web
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As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.
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Men
Children
Circus
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Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.
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Boredom
Levity
Stress
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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 don't believe in it
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Kids
Believe
Engagement
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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 don't believe in it.
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Divorced
Get Married
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Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane.
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Airplane
Apollo
Trying
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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, even if it's just in your own eyes.
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Dad
Fathers Day
Hero
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I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.
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Kids
Beautiful
Wings
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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 service and supplies before heading further out
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Space
Gas Stations
Names
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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Apollo
Cuba
Goal
Mess
Moon
Pigs
Program
Bay
To The Moon
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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 service and supplies before heading further out.
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Gas
Supplies
Further
Gas Station
Heading
Space Station
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
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Dad
Air Force
Airplane
Canada
Hands
Royal
Stick
Ride
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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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Flying
Sitting
Waiting
Booster
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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 very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while
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Ladders
Pilots
Tests
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I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
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War
Hero
Hunting
Jimmy
War Hero
Bee
Gee
Racer
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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 very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
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Demeaning
Considers
Herself
Ladder
Pilot
Test
Test Pilot
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John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
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Politics
Obvious
Public Relations
Publicity
Thinking
Admit
Glenn
John
Relations
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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself
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Believe
Pilots
Tests
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When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it
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Command
People
Said
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When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.
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Landing
Shuttle
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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.
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Flight
Believes
Pilot
Test
Test Pilot
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Fierce
Houston
Real
Severe
Real Problem
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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 go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.
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Mars
Moon
Orbit
Launch
Pad
Practiced
To The Moon
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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 more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept
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Space
Thinking
Years
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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 more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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Exploration
Anywhere
Concept
Space People Way
Near
Space Station
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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 a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
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Girl
Men
Acquaintance
Looks
Passing
Pretty Girl
Rendezvous
Walks
Ear
Sees
Waves
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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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Beautiful
Islands
Moon
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Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable... and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again.
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Biblical
Dirty
Pride
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