Crippen Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I'm busy trying not to look like anything edible. — Elle Lothlorien

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery. — Robert Crippen

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

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

This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me. — Robert Crippen

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt. — Ruben Hinojosa

Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls. — John G. Lake

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

Something must be fundamentally wrong with me, Tsukuru often thought. Something must be blocking the normal flow of emotions, warping my personality. But Tsukuru couldn't tell whether this blockage came about when he was rejected by his four friends, or whether it was something innate, a structural issue unrelated to the trauma he'd gone through. — Haruki Murakami

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

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

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work. — Dean Koontz

Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai. — Chloe Sutton

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one. — Waylon Jennings

In Anglo-Saxon times, according to Crippen, it was customary for someone offering a drink to say, "Wassail!" and for the recipient to respond "Drinkhail!" and for the participants to repeat the exercise until comfortably horizontal. — Bill Bryson

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. — Robert Crippen

When Jennifer Lawrence says it's 'dumb' to go hungry to make other people happy, she's saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform. — Jennifer Armintrout

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

Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what's around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of buildings look like, what noises do you hear? If you bring your analytical powers to bear, you can make almost anything interesting. — Gretchen Rubin

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

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

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

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in. — Kathie Lee Gifford

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

You are afraid to lose, you don't react, you are afraid of the horror of something which can be brutal killings and such... You are prepared to a victim I can said from here! — Deyth Banger

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

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

None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future. — Josip Broz Tito