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And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
~ Alan Shepard
Basically
Business
Cope
Designing
Development
Go
How
I Think
More
Planning
Research
Right
Spend
Still
Than
Them
Things
Think
Time
Training
True
Which
Wrong
You
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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.
~ Alan Shepard
After
Become
Began
Better
Bit
Candidates
Duty
First
Little
Little Bit
Maybe
Pilot
Realize
School
Selected
Test
Test Pilot
Tour
Very
You
Youngest
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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.
~ Alan Shepard
Artistic
Good
Good Student
I Think
Interested
Math
Me
Mind
More
Obviously
Physical
Physical Science
Pretty
Pretty Good
Science
Some
Student
Studying
Subjects
Than
Think
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I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
~ Alan Shepard
Admit
After
Am
History
I Am
Maybe
Must
Piece
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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
Believed
Certainly
Chance
I Think
Maybe
Mission
Odds
Said
Statistics
Success
Survival
Take
Think
Those
Us
Were
Which
Willing
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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.
~ Alan Shepard
Achievement
Did
Discipline
Family
Helpful
I Think
Later
Plus
Really
Received
School
Sense
Think
Very
Were
Which
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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.
~ Alan Shepard
Anything
Before
Eating
Getting
Go
Going
Here
Hour
Just
Mental
Much
Over
Physical
Practiced
Remember
Rote
Started
Suit
Supposed
Through
Up
Where
Woke
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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
Enough
Finish
Five
Get
Glad
Grades
I Think
Just
Like
Me
Perhaps
Rid
Say
Six
Smart
Teacher
Think
Years
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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.
~ Alan Shepard
Contract
Determined
Factor
Feeling
Government
Lowest
Realize
Safety
Space
Up
Very
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It's been a long way, but we're here.
~ Alan Shepard
Been
Here
Long
Long Way
Way
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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
Airplane
Airport
Away
Bike
Clean
Clean Up
Early
Every
Later
Miles
Morning
Nearest
Out
Push
Ride
Saturday
Saturday Morning
Teens
Ten
Up
Used
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Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.
~ Alan Shepard
Aircraft
Becoming
Challenged
Landing
Naval
Obviously
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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.
~ Alan Shepard
About
Cabin
Cleaning
Course
Delighted
Flight
Get
Had
Hatch
How
Inside
Over
Still
Up
Worry
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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
Around
Course
Days
Grade
Grade School
Just
Organized
Our
Out
Ran
Recess
School
Sports
Those
Were
Yard
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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.
~ Alan Shepard
Choose
Everything
Fine
Get
Given
Go
Involved
Man
Opportunity
Out
Project
Space
Turned
Wanted
Washington
Were
Whether
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The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.
~ Alan Shepard
Build
Carrying
Excitement
Launch
Me
Pad
Pulled
Really
Sort
Space
Start
Stuff
Suit
Trailer
Until
Up
Which
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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.
~ Alan Shepard
Because
Buddy
Built
Crashed
Feet
First
Four
Get
Ground
Homemade
More
Off
Plane
Ride
Than
Unfortunately
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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
Airplane
Attitude
Flew
Had
He
His
Looked
Orientation
Pilot
Same
Speed
Us
Way
Would
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The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.
~ Alan Shepard
Fact
Flight
Forces
Had
Just
Like
Matter
Minutes
Perfectly
Period
Rather
Rocket
Short
Short Period
Survive
Time
Worked
You
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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.
~ Alan Shepard
Anybody
Astronaut
Being
Best
Better
Business
Challenge
Doing
Ever
Experienced
Flight
Flown
Fly
Had
Keep
Led
More
Pilots
Recognized
Test
Then
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Alan Shepard
Profession
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BirthDate
18 November, 1923
DeathDate
21 July, 1998
Country
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