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There were similarities between these two incidents. The similarity was too much success … over-confidence and complacency, quite frankly.

— Alan Shepard

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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.

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