posted 02-08-2016 12:01 PM               

"I think we were supposed to go to an apogee of around 340 nautical miles. So we would have gotten to see a much different perspective on the Earth from that altitude. Certainly going to a 72-degree inclination orbit would have given us the chance to fly over, basically, all the inhabited parts of the world, which would have been the first time ever for that. That would have been pretty cool. And, of course, getting to do anything for the first time, flying out of Vandenberg for the first time, overflying the icy parts of the world, would have been very cool, no doubt about it."