LCDR Harmon 'Harm' Rabb and LTJG Meg Austin in “Recovery”

The space program likes Navy pilots. We make their best astronauts.

Right, I think I read that somewhere in Kepler's laws of planetary motion.

Hey, all I need to say is the first American in outer space was not an Air Force jock. They put up a man who knew how to make a trap.

Then why was the first man in orbit a Marine?