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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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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers."
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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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"Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA."
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"When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it."
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"We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have."
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"They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise."
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"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."
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"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."
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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."
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"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."
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"The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it."
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"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."
Being
"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."
People
"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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"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."
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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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"Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery."
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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."
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