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

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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.

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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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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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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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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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Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Astronaut

Born: September 11th, 1937

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