I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.
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I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle.
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The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
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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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