Quotes about Robert Crippen

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never...

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I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting...

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I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We...

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Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was...

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You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour...

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When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to...

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We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse...

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We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside...

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We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had...

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The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that...

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The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was...

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The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

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