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