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Top 10 Robert Crippen Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert Crippen Quote: “You’re going very fast when you’re on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.”

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

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Robert Crippen Quote: “The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn’t put a crew escape system in it.”

2. “The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn’t put a crew escape system in it.”

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Robert Crippen Quote: “Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.”

3. “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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Robert Crippen Quote: “When you work really hard for something for a long time it’s almost impossible to believe that it’s coming true.”

4. “When you work really hard for something for a long time it’s almost impossible to believe that it’s coming true.”

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Robert Crippen Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Robert Crippen Quote: “We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.”

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

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Robert Crippen Quote: “Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.”

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

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Robert Crippen Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Robert Crippen Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Robert Crippen Quote: “This vehicle is performing like a champ. I’ve got a super spaceship under me.”

10. “This vehicle is performing like a champ. I’ve got a super spaceship under me.”

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Robert Crippen Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Robert Crippen Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Robert Crippen Quote: “Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.”

13. “Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.”

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Robert Crippen Quote: “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.”

14. “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

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