In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.
Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.
You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of a serious situation. That’s the way the X-1 was.
There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
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.
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.