Robert Crippen Quotes

Robert Crippen — American Astronaut born on September 11, 1937,

Robert Laurel "Bob" Crippen , (Capt, USN, Ret.), is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and former astronaut for the United States Department of Defense and for NASA. He was the Pilot of the first Space Shuttle flight and flew three more missions as Commander. Crippen received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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.

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

Robert Crippen Quotes

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