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Alan Shepard Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.”
— Alan Shepard
Tagged: Astronomer, Scientific Breakthroughs, pilot, inspiration, ability, skills
“The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.”
— Alan Shepard, Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
Tagged: planet, Landing, Rocket
“Neil’s voice was calm, confident, most of all clear. ‘Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.’ It was 4:17:42 P.M. EDT, Sunday, July 20, 1969.”
— Alan Shepard, Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
Tagged: Man on the moon, Landing, calmness, confident
“If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.”
— Alan Shepard, Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
Tagged: Experience, Past, Knowledge, Learning
“It didn’t matter who liked whom, or on what side a man might find himself, because they were all on the side of a world of very definite finite resources, and they would all suffer terrifying consequences if they drained to bare bones the world that had conceived the life of the human race, fostered and nurtured that life, which now threatened to contaminate and destroy—”
— Alan Shepard, Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
Tagged: purpose, human race, Consequence
“The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.”
— Alan Shepard, When asked by a reporter what he thought about while inside the capsule atop the Redstone rocket.
Tagged: Ship, Investment, Bidding, Building
“We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space.”
— Alan Shepard, people
Tagged: Passengers, Change, Space Station, Worth, Weekend in space
“We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.”
— Alan Shepard, The Flight of Memory- Mercury Reunion Honors Glenn's Voyage
Tagged: Adversity, condition, Agency, Strength And Courage
“The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.”
— Alan Shepard, The Day the Earth Stood Still- On Film, Anyway
Tagged: Flying, Space Station, Worth, Experience
“This is the first time that astronauts of the first group have exhibited things that are personal and sentimental to them. We hope it will encourage youngsters to follow in our footsteps.”
— Alan Shepard, Five of Mercury Seven return to the Cape, Launch Hall of Fame- Astronauts hope exhibits will inspire youths to learn
Tagged: Astronaut, Encouragement, motivation
“I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.”
— Alan Shepard, Ex-Astronaut Recalls Thrill of 1st U.S. Space Flight
Tagged: pilot, Astronaut, America, History
“No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.”
— Alan Shepard, Blastoff to the Past- Tribute to America's First Men in Space
Tagged: Hero, pilot, best pilot, Challenge
“If we had said 30 years ago that we were going to have only two incidents with casualties, we would have thought, 'Boy, that's great. To me, that indicates that the program has really exceeded what the early expectations were.”
— Alan Shepard, First American in Space Marks 30th Anniversary
Tagged: Incidents, Casualties, Success, Failure, Expectations
“I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.”
— Alan Shepard, Shepard still shoots for moon
Tagged: accomplishment, Achievement, Man on the moon
“The first one I hit pretty flush with one hand - went about 200 yards. And the second one I shanked, and it rolled into a crater about 40 yards away.”
— Alan Shepard, Describing his golf shots made on the Moon
Tagged: Golf, Man on the moon
“I guess those of us who have been with NASA … kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.”
— Alan Shepard, It's Been 25 Years Since We Took That Giant Leap For Mankind- Moon Odyssey
Tagged: Excitement, thrill, Celebration, National Pride, Apollo Program
“I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.”
— Alan Shepard, What Does Moon Flight Mean Now
Tagged: Outerspace, planet, fragility, Preservation, Living, Finite
“There were similarities between these two incidents. The similarity was too much success … over-confidence and complacency, quite frankly.”
— Alan Shepard, Even Cosmos Is Aghast at Size of Earthly Egos
Tagged: similarities, Success, Confidence, Complacency
“There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.”
— Alan Shepard, The thrill of space? Let's ask Alan Shepard
Tagged: Questions, Generations, First Flight
“It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”
— Alan Shepard
Tagged: Feelings, realization, Outerspace, Contracts, Bidding, Governement, Safety
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