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.
From Robert Crippen
Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.
Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.
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.
We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.
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