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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."
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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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"If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation."
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"The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?"
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"I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941."
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"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."
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"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."
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"I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too."
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"We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence."
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"Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery."
Recruitment
"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."
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"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."
Being
"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
Earth
"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."
Opportunity
"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."
Military
"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."
Love
"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."
Thought
"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."
Earth
"When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true."
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