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Bob Crippen
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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.
Astronaut Bob Crippen
Regards the first flight of the Space Shuttle, STS-1.
This vehicle is performing like a champ. I’ve got a super spaceship under me.
Astronaut Bob Crippen
Pilot of STS-1, first space flight, Space Shuttle Columbia, from orbit, 12 April 1981. Quoted in 1990 book NASA Visions of Space: Capturing the History of NASA.
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