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Wally Schirra
(12 Mar 1923 - 3 May 2007)
American astronaut and pilot was the only astronaut who flew in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. He was one of the first seven men picked by NASA to be Mercury astronauts.
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Science Quotes by Wally Schirra (1 quote)
Feeling weightless… it’s so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that’s dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable . . . and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you’ve been born again.
— Wally Schirra
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See also:
- 12 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Schirra's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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