After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."
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.
All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force.
There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.
At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.