There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

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.

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

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.

As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We got it above mach one, and once we got it above the speed of sound, then you have supersonic flow over the whole airplane, so you have no more shock waves on it that are causing buffeting...You really don't think about the outcome of any kind of a flight, whether it's combat, or any other kinds of flights, because you really have no control over it.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

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