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"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."
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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"Doubt isn't original."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out."
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"The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity."
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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
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"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."
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
"When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true."
Time
"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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"Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery."
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"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."
Opportunity
"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."
Being
"The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it."
Nature
"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
Earth
"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
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