Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test … - Robert Crippen

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I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain? People who are very remote - I'm thinking of Newfoundland - feel very connected though the radio.

Robert Crippen

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

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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.

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

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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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