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Wally Schirra
American
Astronaut
About the author
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,
American
Astronaut
#Want
#Kids
#Today
#Friends
NASA should start thinking about this planet.
Wally Schirra,
American
Astronaut
#Thinking
We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.
Wally Schirra,
American
Astronaut
#Time
#Right
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,
American
Astronaut
#Man
#Pretty
#Acquaintance
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,
American
Astronaut
At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.
Wally Schirra,
American
Astronaut
#End
#Military
#Careers
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,
American
Astronaut
#Thought
#Name
#Space
#Service
Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
Wally Schirra,
American
Astronaut
#Wives
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,
American
Astronaut
#Houston
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,
American
Astronaut
#Flying
#Waiting
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,
American
Astronaut
#Years
#War
#Childhood
#Hunting
I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
Wally Schirra,
American
Astronaut
#American
#English
#Football
#Soccer
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,
American
Astronaut
#People
#Will
#Exploration
#Space
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,
American
Astronaut
#Earth
#First
#Moon
He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
Wally Schirra,
American
Astronaut
#Will
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,
American
Astronaut
#First
#Force
#Dad
#Canada
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,
American
Astronaut
#Now
#Women
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,
American
Astronaut
#Life
#Needs
#Help
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,
American
Astronaut
#Goal
#Moon
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,
American
Astronaut
#Public
#Pretty
#Politics
#Publicity
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,
American
Astronaut
#Love
#People