"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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Source : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

Robert Crippen

#Orbit Quotes #Earth Quotes #Speed Quotes

“My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.”
“People hook up. People don't hook up. I don't judge.”
“Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.”
“One night I couldn't sleep and I was up and just Googling random stuff and I'm like, 'Hmmm, PETA.' I saw all the videos and I just thought it was horrible, Pickler told People. It's animal cruelty. A lot of it has to do with knowing what happens to the animals and it really bothered me and so I will not eat meat.”
“Do not ask yourself if your love is big enough, because love is neither big nor small, it is simply love.”
“Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us.”
“Out of water, I am nothing.”
“I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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