We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.
We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.
We trained for a lot more malfunctions than any ever happen.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.
It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.