Author: Chuck Yeager

Quotes

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

- Chuck Yeager

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

- Chuck Yeager

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

- Chuck Yeager

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

- Chuck Yeager

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

- Chuck Yeager

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

- Chuck Yeager

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