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"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
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"Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet."
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"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
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"Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know."
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"We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat."
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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."
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"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."
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"When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true."
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"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."
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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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"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."
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"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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"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."
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"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
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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."
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