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Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork in.

I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.