Quotes by Robert Crippen - Page 1

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.
Robert Crippen / Astronaut
Crew
Mystery
Selection
Somewhat
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The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
Robert Crippen / Astronaut
Crew
Escape
Shuttle
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This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.
Robert Crippen / Astronaut
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 / Astronaut
Half
Orbit
World
Hour
Hour And A Half
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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 / Astronaut
Adverse
Effects
Orbit
Weightless
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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 / Astronaut
Adverse Effects
Orbit
Two
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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 Crippen / Astronaut
Earth
Orbit
Speed
Noticed
Pick
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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 / Astronaut
Space
First Time
Firsts
Vehicle
Want
Flown
Pro
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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 / Astronaut
Opportunity
Space
Flight
Space Shuttle
Tests
Ultimate
Shuttle
Test
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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 / Astronaut
Believe
Impossible
Long
Work Time Believe
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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 / Astronaut
Flying
Pilots
Vehicle
Test
Winged
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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 / Astronaut
Camping
Dirty
Housekeeping
Pay Attention
Sleep
Ended
Shuttle
Sleeping
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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 / Astronaut
Space
Fantastic
People
Space Shuttle
Vehicle
Capabilities
Carried
Unlike
Several
Shuttle
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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 Crippen / Astronaut
Pleasure
Inhabit
Real Pleasure
Weightless
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I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle.
Robert Crippen / Astronaut
Complicated
Vehicle
Figured
Pad
Scrub
Several
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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 Crippen / Astronaut
Astronaut
Half
Laboratory
Military
Nasa
Program
Selected
Cancelled
Ended
Manned
Taking
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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 / Astronaut
Astronaut
Half
Military
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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 / Astronaut
Beautiful
Lucky
Real
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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.
Robert Crippen / Astronaut
Angry
Dark
Dark Side
Glowing
Hitting
Ions
Window
Glow
Pink
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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 / Astronaut
Airplane
Eight
Sitting Still
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