Robert Crippen quotes
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“The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.”
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“We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.”
-- Robert CrippenSource : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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“The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.”
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“Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.”
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“Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.”
-- Robert CrippenSource : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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“If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.”
-- Robert CrippenSource : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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“I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.”
-- Robert CrippenSource : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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“We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.”
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“When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.”
-- Robert CrippenSource : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". "NASA Direct" with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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“The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.”
-- Robert CrippenSource : Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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“Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.”
-- Robert CrippenSource : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". "NASA Direct" with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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“The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.”
-- Robert CrippenSource : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". "NASA Direct" with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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“Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.”
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“This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.”
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“You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.”
-- Robert CrippenSource : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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