Quotes Wally Schirra

Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-...

Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the...

Apollo was just too big, like flying a big transport airplan...

As a Naval officer, I was trained, essentially bred, to be a...

At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in...

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadi...

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that t...

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second o...

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch ...

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for ex...

I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was...

I have fought the centrifuge ever since. When I visited Star...

I played English football - soccer - instead of American foo...

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee rac...

I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe...

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to fig...

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should...

In Mercury, you couldn't translate. You could just change at...

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would adm...

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had t...

Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their frie...

NASA has changed since Kennedy's day. Attitudes have changed...

NASA should start thinking about this planet....

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It starte...

We have managed to hang in for 55 years, which isn't bad. My...