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"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."
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"Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!"
"I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules."
"When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself."
"We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great."
"Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite."
"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."
"As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!"
"You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together."
"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."
"Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service."
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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."
"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."
"When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."
"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."
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