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um hi my name is bernie hill this is

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dave koval cordell williams and hal

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bandy and we have worked out here at the

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kennedy space center for 28 years

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together we have been with various

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contracts and through all the wonderful

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memories of the shuttle program

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one memory of course would be the loss

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of challenger where we all observed that

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loss at the same time together

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and that wasn't a favorite memory of

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course but some of our favorite memories

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were being able to get out to the

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visitors

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box the press site and watch shuttles up

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close and personal

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it's been a thrill to work out here it's

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one of the most exciting places in the

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world and it is truly a treasure

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my favorite launches were the night

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launchers i think they were awesome i

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saw a couple of them

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and also being awarded the silver snoopy

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award by the astronauts that was a great

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honor to see

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appreciate that my favorite uh launch

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was uh from the press box released at

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the press box

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it was a great launch we just we're just

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in awe about that

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okay i uh my favorite uh

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memory is working on the return to

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flight

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for uh columbia after the columbia

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accident i worked on the

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boom system which was an awesome