We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the — Mike Mullane, Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut

We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the — Mike Mullane, Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut

We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the — Mike Mullane, Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut

We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the — Mike Mullane, Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut

We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the — Mike Mullane, Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut

We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the summit. Like those climbers, we were motivated by a fear far greater than death—the fear of not reaching the top.

— Mike Mullane, Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut

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