Space Shuttle Flight 1 (STS-1) Post Flight Presentation 

I find it scary because they were flying columbia And later stuff flying of the tank and hitting the tiles destroyed columbia

That's what I was thinking too

And with a computer that didn't had a fraction of a current smartphone!

John's deadpan delivery was one of the highlights of his personality. The man walked on the freaking Moon and he dealt with it like it was nothing!

Next 3 flights after them also 2. but from 5 onward, crews keeping bigger and bigger

Interestingly, both were selected as NASA astronauts in the 1960's, although this was Crippen's first ever spaceflight. As a matter of fact, many astronauts selected in the 60's had to wait over a decade a half to finally fly in the Shuttle era, including Story Musgrave (who was selected in 1967 but had to wait until 1983 to make his first spaceflight, and has since gone on to fly 5 additional times), Don L Lind (the record holder for the widest gap between astronaut selection and first flight (selected in 1966, but finally flew in 1985)), and more.

@@axr7149 From all of the 60s astronauts, no one got a worse deal than Don Lind. A whopping 19 years before he could make his trip into space.

@@IronMan-tk8uc that when you are not pilots (although Lind and Bruce McCandless were selected in pilot group, due to their advanced degrees, they were considered scientist-astronauts from almost get-go) plus Lind had trouble with George Abbey, which further delayed his flight

@@kidpagronprimsank05 Yep.

Tile damage was common on many shuttle flights. Tile damage is only a big threat if it affects a large number of tiles in a very vulnerable place.