"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."

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"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."

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"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."

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