Alan Shepard America Quotations

So even though we were there competing with each other for the first ride, we were still acting as a team, and helping each other in those days.

They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

It's been a long way, but we're here.

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.