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.

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 too dirty.

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

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.