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Robert Crippen Quotes
For landing, we came in over Edwards about 40,000 feet. We set up for a big circling pattern coming in to land down on the lake bed. - Robert Crippen Quotes
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight. - Robert Crippen Quotes
I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured wed scrub several times since its a pretty complicated vehicle. - Robert Crippen Quotes
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 Crippen Quotes
I would truly love to see us go back to the Moon and on to Mars; certainly the shuttle is not the right vehicle to make that happen. - Robert Crippen Quotes
If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle thats never been flown, you want to go with a pro. - Robert Crippen Quotes
It was only after we got the first maneuver off that I began to enjoy the outside view. We actually could see the external tank out in front of us. - Robert Crippen Quotes
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. - Robert Crippen Quotes
Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit. - Robert Crippen Quotes
Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery. - Robert Crippen Quotes
The nature of the shuttle was, we couldnt put a crew escape system in it. - Robert Crippen Quotes
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 were all lucky to inhabit. - Robert Crippen Quotes
The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that weve ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space. - Robert Crippen Quotes
We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts. - Robert Crippen Quotes
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. - Robert Crippen Quotes
We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless. - Robert Crippen Quotes
When you work really hard for something for a long time its almost impossible to believe that its coming true. - Robert Crippen Quotes
Youre going very fast when youre on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half. - Robert Crippen Quotes
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