Home › Authors › Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard Quotes
1923–1998 United States
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) (Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.) was the second person and the first American in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the moon.
United States Astronauts Aviators Businesspeople Also known as: Alan Shepherd
Random Alan Shepard quote
15 quotes
We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space.
I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.
I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.
I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.
The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.
This is the first time that astronauts of the first group have exhibited things that are personal and sentimental to them. We hope it will encourage youngsters to follow in our footsteps.
There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.
I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.
The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.
We need a continuing presence in space.
We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.
The first one I hit pretty flush with one hand - went about 200 yards. And the second one I shanked, and it rolled into a crater about 40 yards away.
There were similarities between these two incidents. The similarity was too much success … over-confidence and complacency, quite frankly.
If we had said 30 years ago that we were going to have only two incidents with casualties, we would have thought, 'Boy, that's great. To me, that indicates that the program has really exceeded what the early expectations were.
I guess those of us who have been with NASA … kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.
Topics Alan Shepard is quoted on