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Yeager breaks the barrier one last time

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Yeager, 79, split the air with a sonic boom as he opened an air show that drew thousands of fans to the desert base. Yeager took an F-15 Eagle to just over 30,000 feet on his last supersonic flight, capping a 60-year career.

The rest of the story at: http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/West/10/26/yeager.sound.ap/index.html
 
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tali264

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I like his quote at the end, I might have to save that one [^]

"If you can't do anything about the outcome of something, forget it," he said. "Instead you better concentrate on staying alive where you are."
 
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Hudson

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Something about not having a college degree I think. It almost prevented him from becoming a test pilot. I think that is what I remember from his autobiography. I read it back in high school
 
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If you watch the movie "The Right Stuff," they don't select him for the space program because of his lack of a college degree. Something about him not being "good enough" without secondary education. Can you imagine? I'm almost glad he didn't go though. I can't imagine if we had lost him in some kind of accident! You know he would have "pushed the envelope" and as fragile as our space program was back then, something would have broke!
 
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It's more complicated than him not having a degree, also he reasoned that if the first american into space was a monkey, what was the point? Read Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff," for the full explanation.

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