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Robert Crippen

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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


#different #done #ever #flying #had

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


#dark #dark side #earth #fast #glow

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


— Robert Crippen


#being #days #effects #had #little

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


— Robert Crippen


#believe #coming #hard #impossible #long

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


— Robert Crippen


#every #fast #going #half #hour






About Robert Crippen

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Did you know about Robert Crippen?

He was selected to be a member of Naval Aviators Golden Eagles in 2009. Following the cancellation of the MOL program he became a NASA astronaut in September 1969 and was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Skylab 2 Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 missions and for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. Awards and honors

Crippen's accomplishments have earned him many notable awards including the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1972.

He married Pandora Lee Puckett of Miami Florida. At the Johnson Space Center Robert Crippen was the first Payload Deployment and Retrieval System training supervisor and a member of the initial Space Shuttle training team.

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