#ay

It's been a long way, but we're here. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#here #long #long way #way

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#become #began #better #bit #candidates

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

— Alan Shepard

#after #am #history #i #i am

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#certainly #chance #i #i think #maybe

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

#finish #five #get #glad #grades

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#away #bike #clean #clean up #early

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#course #days #grade #grade school #just

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet. ↗

— Cybill Sheperd

#battle #bet #may #nor #race

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 #cues #flew #had #his

They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#away #good #landing #say #they say