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Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva?

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

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The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.

Airplane, Benefit, Program, Sitting, Sitting Still, Space

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

Adverse Effects, Days, Orbit, Two, Weightless

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

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Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.

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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.

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