10 Quotes by Mike Melvill


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    I wasn't doing any psychological or emotional evaluations... I was busy flying an airplane! I don't know what you were doing...

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    This whole program was about keeping everybody alive, ... We were asking three pilots to take some tremendous risks.

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    Private enterprise can do things in many ways much more efficiently, ... As small as we are and as little money as we had, we did amazing things.

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    Probably, I stepped on something too quickly and caused the roll, ... It's nice to do a roll at the top of the climb.

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    It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of M&Ms in the cockpit. It was amazing . . . Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.

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    The flight was spectacular. Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.

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