You wanna be an engineer, you’re not gonna have time for anything else, because you’re gonna have to work ten times harder than the boys. You don’t just have to be on time, you have to be early. Put everything else aside.[to Aleida]
Well, sir, I don’t wear pants.[Gene Kranz: I’ve had guys on FIDO, solid guys, damn near piss their pants during a rocky re-entry.]
In ten years, I’ll be running NASA.[Wernher von Braun: What is your goal? Where do you see yourself in ten years?]
Flying a spacecraft isn’t like driving a car. It doesn’t just go where you point it.
