Crippen Quotes

#1. In Anglo-Saxon times, according to Crippen, it was customary for someone offering a drink to say, "Wassail!" and for the recipient to respond "Drinkhail!" and for the participants to repeat the exercise until comfortably horizontal.

Bill Bryson

#2. Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai.

Chloe Sutton

#3. 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.

Robert Crippen

#4. 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.

Robert Crippen

#5. Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

Robert Crippen

#6. [On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or preserve roast Meat from too fierce a Fire; yet in that Shape I shall be useful to my Country.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#7. When you write from the heart, it is always beautiful.

Debasish Mridha

#8. 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.

Robert Crippen

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

Robert Crippen

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

Robert Crippen

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

Robert Crippen

#12. 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.

Robert Crippen

#13. The hurt is the place where the music enters you.

Ella Leya

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

Robert Crippen

#15. The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.

Philip Zaleski

#16. I'm so afraid to speak.
So afraid to move my lips.
I'm so scared that if I move even an inch, my body will snap in half and everyone will see that my insides are made up of nothing but all the tears I'm swallowing back right now.

Tahereh Mafi

#17. I was at a point in my life where I didn't have any hope, but it wasn't the end for me. I buckled down, put in the effort and hard work and was able to get myself out of that hole. You always have to have hope.

Jason Peter

#18. When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

Robert Crippen

#19. I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#20. Nothing trains like the triumph in trials.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a model created in Rome several thousand years ago.

Stephen Greenblatt

#22. 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.

Robert Crippen

#23. 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

#24. 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.

Robert Crippen

#25. 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.

Robert Crippen

#26. Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.

Robert Crippen

#27. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Anthony Robbins

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

Robert Crippen

#29. You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

Henry A. Kissinger

#30. One small thing
I've learned these years,
how to be alone,
and at the edge of aloneness
how to be found by the world.

David Whyte