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"Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery."
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"He didn't recruit me, Cett pointed out. "I got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco."I wish I cared enough to apologize, Elend said, staring at them."
"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."
"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."
"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."
"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."
"When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true."
"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
"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."
"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."
"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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