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"NASA should start thinking about this planet."
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"I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast."

"So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together."

"I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."

"The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking."

"Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed."

"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."

"Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved."
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"I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web."


"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen."


"I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him."


"I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept."


"Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal,."


"Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while."


"I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced."


"Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days."


"John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations."
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