Robert Crippen Quotes

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

Robert Crippen

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Robert Crippen

#5. I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

Erin Morgenstern

#6. What has happened over the ensuing two millennia is that we who confess Christ have deftly (and mostly unconsciously) crafted a religion that neatly separates the Jesus who died on the cross for the radical ideas he preached - ideas that Jesus foresaw would lead to his crucifixion.

Brian Zahnd

#7. 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

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

Robert Crippen

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

Robert Crippen

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

Robert Crippen

#11. 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

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

Robert Crippen

#13. Olympe is not one for affected charades, the way some people in the building are, to prove that because she is a well-brought-up-child-of-leftists-without-prejudices she is conversing with the concierge.

Muriel Barbery

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

Robert Crippen

#15. I would love to know who killed my father. So would my brother." Her next words stunned me and left me breathless. "We want to forgive them. We want to forgive, but we don't know who to forgive.

Desmond Tutu

#16. Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here

Robert M. Fresco

#17. 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

#18. He done taught me de maiden language all over.

Zora Neale Hurston

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. I've never loved anyone the way I love you," he whispered.
"Lucky them.

Melissa Marr

#22. White teas required only one to two minutes, and black teas between two and three minutes, while herbal teas could steep for three to six minutes.

Laura Childs

#23. 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

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

Robert Crippen

#25. Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.

Ted Bundy

#26. If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.

Gilbert Gottfried