Robert Crippen Quotes

• I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...

  Robert Crippen

  Military, Half, Astronaut

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview 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 Crippen

  Space, People, Fantastic

  Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

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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 Crippen

  Believe, Long, Impossible

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". "NASA Direct" with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

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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.

  Robert Crippen

  Airplane, Eight, Sitting Still

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• We were only on orbit a little over two days so we had no adverse effects from being weightless...

  Robert Crippen

  Adverse Effects, Two, Orbit

  "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.

  Robert Crippen

  Tripulación

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• Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.

  Robert Crippen

  Mystery, Crew, Selection

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• Mirando hacia la Tierra, empezó a percibir una sensación de velocidad mucho mayor de la que había notado en órbita.

  Robert Crippen

  Orbit, Earth, Speed

  "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 Crippen

  Space, Want, Firsts

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

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• Estábamos en el lado oscuro de la Tierra cuando empezamos a ver por la ventana este suave resplandor rosa, que son un montón de pequeños iones furiosos que van muy rápido. Los estábamos golpeando muy rápido.

  Robert Crippen

  Dark, Glowing, Ions

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

  Robert Crippen

  Opportunity, Space, Tests

  "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 spaceship Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

  Robert Crippen

  Beautiful, Real, Lucky

  "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.

  Robert Crippen

  Dirty, Sleep, Camping

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• This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

  Robert Crippen

  Airplane, Aviation, Spaceships

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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 Crippen

  Orbit, Half, World

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

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