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

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

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...

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.

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

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

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.