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" An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program. "
Space
Beginning
Think
" Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard. "
Vegetable
Call
Cannot
" As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all. "
Early
Space
Good
" Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing. "
Interferes
You
Fear
" I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time. "
Space
Ponder
Dream
" I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. "
Beautiful
Day
You
" If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have. "
New
People
Problem
" I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot. "
Flying
Fact
Pilot
" I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living. "
Living
More
Up
" In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are. "
Meaning
You
Special
" In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism. "
Communism
Days
Old
" I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future. "
Future
Say
Gamble
" It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities. "
World
Always
Observation
" I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place. "
Purpose
Space
Bad
" I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that. "
World
Fly
Myself
" I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it. "
Program
Women
Training
" People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime. "
Want
Talking
People
" The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. "
Education
Science
Technology
" There is still no cure for the common birthday. "
Still
Common
Birthday
" The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless. "
Research
Space
Unique
" The time will come when we permit more people in space. "
Come
Time
Space
" This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. "
Century
Day
Avoid
" When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure. "
New
Adventure
Become
" You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books. "
You
Say
Go
" You can't relive your life. "
Your
Life
You
" You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions. "
You
Run
Life
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