Robert Crippen quotes

Robert Crippen is an American astronaut and naval officer, best known for piloting the first Space Shuttle mission. His contributions helped lay the groundwork for the Shuttle era in space exploration. He later continued to play key leadership roles at NASA. Here are 13 of his quotes:

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. (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. View quote
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Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight. View quote
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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. View quote
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The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it. View quote
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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. View quote
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You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half. View quote
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We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless. View quote
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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. View quote
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Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery. View quote
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I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us... (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. View quote
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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 spaceship Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit. View quote
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Robert Crippen

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Occupation: American Astronaut
Born: September 11, 1937
Quotes count: 13