We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.

- Wally Schirra

Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane.

- Wally Schirra

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

- Wally Schirra

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across …

- Wally Schirra

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

- Wally Schirra

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

- Wally Schirra

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in …

- Wally Schirra

Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, stick…

- Wally Schirra

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.

- Wally Schirra