You need lab rabbits. Sorry, I didn't get that. I said you need lab rabbits to curl up in...
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Chuck Yeager:
[NASA recruiters are talking to test pilots]
You need lab rabbits.
Recruiter:
Sorry, I didn't get that.
Chuck Yeager:
I said you need lab rabbits to curl up in your damn capsule. With its heart going "pitter-patter". And a wire up the kazook. I don't hold with it.
Scott Crossfield:
I don't either. You want a pilot to become a balistic missile. And then splash down - possibly get lost at sea.
Pancho Barnes:
See, some peckerwood's gotta get the thing up. And some peckerwood's gotta land the son of a bitch. And that "peckerwood" is called a "pilot".
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I said "lab rabbits."
What's that mean?
It means you don't need
honest-to-God pilots.
You need a lab rabbit
to curl up in your capsule...
...with its heart beating...
...and wire up the kazoo.
I don't hold with it.
I don't either.
You want a pilot to be
a ballistic missile, then splash down.
Possibly get lost at sea.
There's some things you can't change.
Some peckerwood's
got to take the beast up.
And some peckerwood's
got to land it.
And that peckerwood
is called a pilot.
You're mighty right.
The boys smell panic in your program.
That's one thing they don't respond to.
Now maybe if we talk privately
to Yeager and some of the other boys--
Anybody goes up in the damn
thing's gonna be Spam in a can.
Yeager doesn't fit the profile.
Yeager doesn't fit?
He didn't go to college.
We're only taking college personnel.
Forget about Walker and Crossfield
and the other civilian pilots too.
The security clearance just takes
too long with those people.
Besides, they seem
a little too independent.
You mean for this space race
you don't want our best pilots?
Clip duration: 89 seconds
Views: 311
Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 00s
Uploaded: 13 December, 2020
Genres: adventure, biography, drama
Summary: The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers prefe
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