Robert Crippen Quotes & Sayings
15 most famous Robert Crippen quotes and sayings (astronaut). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.”
“Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.”
“You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.”
“When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.”
“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.”
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