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we were in Cold War there was darn close

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to hot war with the Russians they had

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been launching some rockets and ours too

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often had been blowing up on the launch

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pad and that was sort of the background

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of what happened in in 57 when they sent

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ups Putney right there i think we all

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inwardly resolved that that one go left

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you go do something about it it was just

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a faint beep radio beacon coming from a

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shiny little orb circling the earth in

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1957 Sputnik signaled the beginning of

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the Space Age and the United States was

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behind our first successful answer to

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Sputnik came with the launch of the

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Explorer 1 satellite and within the year

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the formation of the National

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Aeronautics and Space Administration

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explore one had science instruments on

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and so is really marks the first use of

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space for scientific exploration

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we have one of the most challenging

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assignments that has ever been given to

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modern man we will be preparing for the

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Alan Shepards flight was a fantastic

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moment in the history of the NASA I

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think back on that and I watch him come

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out of that van on the Redstone pad and

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look up at that rocket in that silver

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suit he had on wondering himself what

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the hell he was doing there this nation

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should commit itself to achieving the

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goal before this decade is out of

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landing a man on the moon and returning

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him safely to the earth that was all

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heady stuff and we were all you know go

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go man go some of the doctors were

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concerned for instance that when you're

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in zero-g for a while for several hours

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you're afraid your eyes might change

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shape it truly was the age of aquarius

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in that 60s the mood around us was

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always electric the press revered the

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astronauts and it revered those of us in

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the front of the program communications

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are lots of course cable to be in and a

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lot of other neat things have happened

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as a result of that technology push

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there's the drop before it returns to

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earth again the x-15 may apply some 60

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miles straight up at nearly 4,000 miles

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per hour the country was trying to build

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a supersonic transport at least to do

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some research and builds and prototypes

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so by trying to study the flow fields

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about these vehicles trying to compute

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the sonic booms and their propagation to

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the ground was a very interesting man

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challenging problem

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two one liftoff Gemini was the program

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between mercury of the single seater and

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Earth orbit and Apollo the three seater

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all the way to the moon Kevin e12

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Houston Capcom alleviate beautiful job

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the fire on the pad was a traumatic

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event he ripped us apart be perfectly

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honest with you it was a terrible day

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five weeks later as the backup crew we

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inherited the first manned apollo

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mission which turned out the Apollo 7 so

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we were quite proud of the fact that

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we've had a triumph out of a disaster

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Apollo way when we wrote into the

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spacecraft it's often the very first

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time the far side of the Moon only 60

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miles below we were like free school

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hello car I just thought there were so

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many unknowns that I would have given us

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about a 50-50 chance of being the first

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flight to land and return someone safely

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okay engine stop we copy you down eagle

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and body babe here an eagle has landed I

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think it was the biggest event from an

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aviation point of view and probably from

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scientific point of view that happened

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in 20th century at one false step for

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man one giant leap for our first steps

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on the moon were the culmination of

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efforts put forth by a host of people

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who simply refuse to believe it could

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not be done was an accomplishment of

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human ingenuity and tenacity paulo 11

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was the end of the race to the moon an

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important milestone in our exploration

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okay yeah we've had a problem here

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supposed to be looking out the back so

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we are betting trumpet that series of

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events started the saga of Apollo 13 the

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trust that existed between crew and

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ground was absolute because it takes

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trust to make split-second decisions the

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whole family's bought out almost

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probably a face to the agent power

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ah ah Charlie's best for home season

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come on out here give me a phone we not

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only did a lot of work on him we had a

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good time hippity-hop hippity-hop tovar

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you'll read do you know you're only

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gonna come that way once in your life

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it's gotta be one of most proud moments

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give us the real

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sunny

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we saw the fragments around Skylab go

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over us and I thought oh brother there's

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been an accident in the Skylab launch

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and jack'll asthma was the best EV a guy

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that I've ever met lo and behold he goes

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out there and fools around with it a

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while puts it all together and it worked

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great and he went on to a Brent

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scientific discovery and it gave us some

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forward momentum in the science that

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continues right now till today let me

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call to express my very great admiration

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for your hard work your total dedication

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in preparing for this first joint flight

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Mars showed seasonal variations that

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suggests that something was alive and I

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think that was the basis for creating

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Viking when we got down and found out

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how dry and arid and barren the place

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really was came as a bit of a surprise

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when we flew by Neptune people were

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standing in line at night at

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planetariums in order to be able to see