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Wally Schirra

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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. - Wally Schirra
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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. - Wally Schirra
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment. - Wally Schirra
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one. - Wally Schirra
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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. - Wally Schirra
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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. - Wally Schirra
#Airplane
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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. - Wally Schirra
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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. - Wally Schirra
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At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military. - Wally Schirra
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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. - 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 go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced. - Wally Schirra
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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. - Wally Schirra
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We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right. - Wally Schirra
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days. - Wally Schirra
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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. - Wally Schirra
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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. - Wally Schirra
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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. - Wally Schirra
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#Know
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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! - Wally Schirra
#Head
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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! - Wally Schirra
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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. - Wally Schirra
#Life
#Me
#My Life
#Website
#Why
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