Top 35 Wally Schirra Quotes
#1. 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.
Wally Schirra
#2. Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.
Glenn Greenwald
#3. 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
#4. It's very nice to work with my father as a peer in a lot of ways. You know, he asked me advice about certain things about the show and I'd ask him and sometimes I'd listen to his direction and sometimes I wouldn't.
Emily Deschanel
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
Wally Schirra
#8. A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.
Wally Schirra
#9. 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
#10. It's strange how close love and fear live to each other.
Fredrik Backman
#11. I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.
Oprah Winfrey
#12. Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.
Wally Schirra
#13. I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.
Wally Schirra
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.
Elizabeth Warren
#18. 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
#19. Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
Wally Schirra
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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.
Wally Schirra
#23. 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
#24. I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.
Brian Pinkerton
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.
Wally Schirra
#28. 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.
Wally Schirra
#29. My brothers and sister and me grew up making fun of each other, the way we'd speak or move. When we get together, everyone's funny, quick, loud, and speaks on top of each other. It was like a great comedy school; nothing is precious.
Colman Domingo
#30. 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
#32. 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
#33. I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
Wally Schirra
#34. At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.
Wally Schirra
#35. If sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.
Randall Jarrell
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