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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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"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
"When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true."
"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."
"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."
"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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