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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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"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."
"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."
"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."
"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."
"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."
"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."
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