Robert Crippen Quotes
- 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…
- This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.
- 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…
- 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…
- Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
- 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…
- When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.
- Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.
- The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
- We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.
- You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
- 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…
- 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…