Deke Slayton famous quotes

07-11-2025

I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.
-- Deke Slayton

#Nice #Feet #Afternoon
As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk.
-- Deke Slayton

#Weather #Feet #Three
About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.
-- Deke Slayton

#Running #Climbing #Going Away
Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!
-- Deke Slayton

#Men #Years #Space
I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.
-- Deke Slayton

#Stars #Future #Years
You're on your way, Jose!
-- Deke Slayton

#Moon #Way #Star Gazing

My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.

Deke Slayton famous quotes

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