I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.
“I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.”
— Leroy Chiao · Aircraft
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I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.
“I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.”
— Leroy Chiao · Aircraft
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“I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.”
“One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.”
“Growing up in the 1960s, I can't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated by airplanes and rockets.”
“I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.”
“The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.”
“The biggest technical challenge to sending astronauts on farther and longer missions is biomedical: How do we keep them healthy?”
“We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.”
“I was the first woman Marine to fly in an F-18 in combat, and I got to land on aircraft carriers.”
“Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.”
“At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.”
“In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.”
“If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.”