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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."
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"Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery."
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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
"Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty."
Attention
"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
"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
"Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery."
Recruitment
"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."
World
"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."
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