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

It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.

It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.

- 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

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

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

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