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April 12 marked the 40th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle launch, STS-1. For Paul Dye, former Lead Flight Director who was with NASA through the entire lifespan of the Shuttle, the images are still fresh in his mind.
I vividly remember a question the press asked John Young and Bob Crippen before the launch of STS-1. Some reporter piped up and asked, “Are you nervous before taking up a new machine that has never flown?” Young answered (like any seasoned test pilot would): “If you’re not a little nervous before a flight like that, you obviously don’t understand what it is that you are about to do.”
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By Lisa Turner
“Do you think I could win an award?” Karen looked up from the backpack she was rustling through next to the airplane and told Stan, “I don’t see why not; it looks great to me. Why don’t you go ahead and put a ‘judge me’ card on it?”
“Well, this was my first project, I might have missed something,” said Stan. “When we went to that class, they said it was easy.”
“Yeah, they said that, and they were right, it wasn’t hard, but it sure was time consuming.”
A 1994 Christen Eagle, famous for an iconic paint scheme that took as long to craft as the build itself. Or so the story goes.