32 Quotes by Robert Crippen

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.