Pete Conrad's Quotes

Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going.

I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing.

The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.