We have managed to hang in for 55 years, which isn't bad. My wife says our marriage has lasted so long because I was away half the time
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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
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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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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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Apollo was just too big, like flying a big transport airplane, which fighter pilots don't really revere. Gemini was just about the right size.
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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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