Deke Slayton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

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