There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.
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.
We were only on orbit a little over two days so we had no adverse effects from being weightless. . .
The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.
Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.
There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
We are rapidly moving toward a nation of the super-rich, by the super-rich and for the super-rich
I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels.
If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.