You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
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For landing, we came in over Edwards about 40,000 feet. We set up for a big circling pattern coming in to land down on the lake bed.Robert Crippen
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.
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Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
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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.
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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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We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.
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