I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.
I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.
I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.
I'm terrified of flying and have tried everything from prescription drugs to booze and herbal remedies. The only thing that works is Valium. I don't know why I'm so frightened - I think it's from seeing my mum freak out when I was young.
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.
My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.
All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
