"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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"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."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."

Robyn Hitchcock, English Musician

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"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."

Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Statesman

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"We won't always have the strongest military."

Howard Dean, American Politician

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"I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer."

Marc Garneau, Canadian Astronaut

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"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."

Dean Acheson, American Statesman

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"Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues."

John Keegan, English Historian

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"Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine."

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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 eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply."

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"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."

Opportunity

"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."

World

"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."

Time

"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

"The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it."

Nature

"When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true."

Time

"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."

Earth

"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

"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."

Being

"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