Alan Shepard Quotes

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• 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

  Peace, Fighting, Space

  "What Does Moon Flight Mean Now" by Josh Getlin, The Seattle Times, p. A10, July 19, 1994.

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• When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Space, Earth

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• It's 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

  Space, Government, Safety

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• Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Light, Littles

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• You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

  Alan Shepard

  Attention, May, Talent

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• If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Space, Earth

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• The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.

  Alan Shepard

  Ships, Facts, Lows

  "Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond". Book by Gene Kranz, 2000.

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• 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

  Book, America, Pages

  "Ex-Astronaut Recalls Thrill of 1st U.S. Space Flight" by Marcia Dunn, The Deseret News, p. A, May 01, 1991.

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• I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

  Alan Shepard

  Pieces

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• I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Swings, Earth

  "Lunar-Golfer Shepard Takes Swings In Tourney". The Orlando Sentinel, p. A2, August 13, 1992.

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• 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

  Believe, Pilots, Fields

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• Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

  Alan Shepard

  Airplane, Roger, Aviation

  Jay Barbree, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton (2011). “Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings”, p.130, Open Road Media

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• You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.

  Alan Shepard

  Real, Done, Flight

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• Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

  Alan Shepard

  Navy, Becoming, Aircraft Carriers

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• Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Long, Als

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• You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

  Alan Shepard

  World, Pilots, Tests

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• I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

  Alan Shepard

  Teacher, Smart, Thinking

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• Why don't you light that candle ?

  Alan Shepard

  Science, Light, Candle

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• And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

  Alan Shepard

  Thinking, Research And Development, Design

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• 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

  Pride, Mars, Apollo

  "It's Been 25 Years Since We Took That Giant Leap For Mankind - Moon Odyssey" by James Endrst, The Hartford Courant, p. B1, July 08, 1994.

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• Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

  Alan Shepard

  Golf, Balls, Dirt

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• I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Pasadena, Knows

  "Astronaut Late to Signing". Sun-Sentinel, p. 2A, June 19, 1995.

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• 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

  Weekend, Years, Space

  "People". The Dallas Morning News, p. 2A, July 28, 1986.

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• 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

  Moon, Men, Thinking

  "Shepard Still Shoots for Moon". The Denver Post, p. 1D, September 29, 1992+.

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• The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

  Alan Shepard

  Attitude, Airplane, Pilots

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