When people have asked if I’d like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don’t get to fly it, except for landing, which I’d love to do. I wouldn’t go unless I could command it.
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Showing all text quotesBirth: | 12th March, 1923 |
Death: | 3rd May, 2007 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Astronaut |
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Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. was an American naval officer, Naval Aviator and test pilot, and one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, America's first effort to put humans in space. He flew the six orbit, nine hour Mercury Atlas 8 mission on October 3, 1962, becoming the fifth American, and the ninth human, to ride a rocket into space.
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