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

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred peo….

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

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery..

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things ….

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

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 N….

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 go….

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

This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me..

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to... spend some time looking out at this beautiful spaceship Ea….

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

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

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..

The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the la….