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

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

Robert Crippen

#Opportunity Quotes #Space Quotes #Tests Quotes

“with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.41, LSU Press
“You can't applaud a referee.”
“For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.”

Source : Donald Hall (2017). “Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)”, p.59, North Point Press
“All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.”
“As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.”

Source : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
“I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.”
“You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.”

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