"We're a poorer country. You've seen how we're stealing airplane parts for our fighter jets. We're going to do something that will make you very proud."

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I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its wings. It's a magical feeling to climb toward the heavens, seeing objects and people on the ground grow smaller and more insignificant. You have left that world beneath you. You are inside the sky.

— Gordon Cooper