Wally Schirra

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Within NASA, there were lots of things that were not appropriate to bring out to the public, because the press did not handle it well.

While I was in test pilot school, I was writing a report on an airplane that just barely exceeded the speed of sound.

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.

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!

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!

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.

We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.

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.