Alan Shepard's Quote - The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation

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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

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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

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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. – Alan Shepard

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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

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