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Robert Crippen

"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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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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Donna Grant

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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Donna Grant

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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Donna Grant

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

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Donna Grant

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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Robert Crippen
"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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Robert Crippen
"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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Robert Crippen
"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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Robert Crippen
"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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Robert Crippen
"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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Robert Crippen
"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."

People

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Robert Crippen
"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."

Time

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Robert Crippen
"Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery."

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Robert Crippen
"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."

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

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