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- Long
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It's been a long way, but we're here.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.
- Feeling
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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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
- Duty
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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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.
- Discipline
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I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.
- Clean Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Becoming
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Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
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