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and the time has arrived the induction

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of the 10th class of space shuttle

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astronauts into the united states

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astronaut hall of fame

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they will be introduced in the order in

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which they flew into space

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our first inductee is

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during his 19 years in the astronaut

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program colonel bobco flew on three

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space shuttle missions and logged more

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than 386 hours in space

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beau served as pilot during the first

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voyage of space shuttle challenger

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aboard sts-6 during which the crew

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conducted the first space shuttle

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spacewalks in april 1985 bose served as

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the commander of sts-51d

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after seven days in space he

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successfully landed space shuttle

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discovery in spite of a blown main

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in october 85 he flew on sts-51j

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the first flight of the shuttle atlantis

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and the second department of defense

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mission for the space shuttle program

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beau retired from nasa and the united

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states air force in 1988. currently he

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serves as president of the united states

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chapter of the association of space

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explorers

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now let's take a look at a few video

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it's been a very rewarding experience

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turn to ask the questions that have been

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proposed by the press there

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a new orbiter joins the shuttle fleet

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and it has cleared the tower

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ladies and gentlemen astronaut beau bob

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and now to present bo bobco for

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induction into the united states hall of

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fame please welcome hall of fame

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well i am absolutely delighted and

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honored to be able to introduce my first

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mission commander and my good friend

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carol j bobco or as we all know him beau

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now you'll hear him talk in a little

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while and you may not be able to tell it

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from his accent but beau was actually

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born in new york city and so like myself

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he is a genuine apple astronaut

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i did a little research into his

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childhood in preparation for these

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remarks and i found an amazing fact

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during all of his youth his mother never

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once called him bo

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she called him carol which is a good

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polish name and

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i actually will jump ahead in time a

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little bit to tell another story about

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carol joseph bobco's polish heritage

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this was actually the first time that i

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specifically became aware of beau as a

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distinct personality in the astronaut

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office it was in october 1978

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right after carol joseph voit was

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elected pope

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and a sign appeared on bo's office door

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proclaim proclaiming in very large

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that from hencefor henceforth it would

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be considered a mortal sin to tell

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and i hope that this story i've just

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told doesn't count as a polish joke

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um and i never heard any polish jokes

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and expressed the desire to be an

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astronaut from a very early age as i did

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actually although we differed in our

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attitude towards airplanes for me

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airplanes didn't go fast enough or high

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enough i just dreamt about rockets but

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airplanes seemed like

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the best route to space

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he enrolled in and graduated in the

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first class of the then new air force

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academy in colorado springs

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a an unexpected life-altering side

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effect of this decision was his

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proximity to denver which led to his

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meeting and eventually marrying diane

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a happy marriage which is still thriving

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full of music full of love and which has

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led to two wonderful children paul and

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always shared his experiences with his

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whole family he wanted them to enjoy as

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much as he did some of the pleasures

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that he was having while training and

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someday wanted to fly in space and she

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fighter squadrons he made his way to

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edwards and that was great timing

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because that's just when the air force

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was selecting astronauts for their

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manned orbiting laboratory program and

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mole astronauts becoming the first air

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force academy graduate to be selected as

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mol never flew never made it to orbit so

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the problem was nasa wasn't quite sure

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what to do with bo so for safe keeping

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punishment for anything he had done

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and bill thornton would make out in a

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simulated skylab mission known as smeat

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that beau is probably happy that he was

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born in new york and not in moscow

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support crew for apollo soyuz

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and the russians taught him a lot about

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survival tactics how to make it through

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well he survived and finally did get

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thus becoming the first air force

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as astronaut but actually to fly in

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space fulfilling his long-held dream

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commander of a flight which originally

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leading a team of four rookies don

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outnumbered by two navy pilots

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regulations and regularly quizzed him on

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frankly the story of how our crew

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progressed through four different flight

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was the auspicious day when beau led us

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anyway by the time we finally launched

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we had sent out 26 different letters to

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our launch guests updating them about

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when and with what orbiter and on what

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mission we might finally fly

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example of good leadership when i give

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which we had been planning to deploy and

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who hadn't flown before and here's where

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guys let's party and that's typical of

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this on numerous occasions the first of

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which was right after main engine cutoff

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the fill and drain valve which could

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plts here i hope i got that right main

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a huge raw moment because the dump

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through discovery about 90 degrees out

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of attitude led to almost constant

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how loud they are i mean i was a rookie

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i don't know bo you may have some

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special karma about satellites i mean

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the first ius tdrs which you guys

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deployed on your first flight didn't get

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to the proper orbit

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the second tdrs that was going to be

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launched

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which would have been the third of our

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assigned flights the previous january

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had a problem it was still on the ground

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and now even though our first satellite

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worked okay we deployed the second

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satellite and it never turned on

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so i don't know but it sure turned out

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to be a lot of fun

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because mission control came up with a

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really neat plan by which we would

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manufacture some special tools

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resembling fly swatters after which beau

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became known as the leader of nasa's

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swat team

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then we would do an eva a spacewalk to

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attach them to the remote manipulator

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arm and then finally rendezvous with the

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simcom satellite to flick a possibly

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malfunctioning switch on this

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spinning satellite now the problem was

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that nasa had never before done a

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completely unplanned eva

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the arm had never been used for anything

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remotely like this

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and most important it had been 10 months

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since we had ever done any rendezvous

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practice i mean we didn't even have a

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rendezvous checklist on board and so

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they had to transcribe the entire

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checklist send it up to us by

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teleprinter we ended up with a 20 foot

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long yellow

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rendezvous scroll basically which bo and

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don williams had to cut up into page

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size pieces and paste into our post

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insertion checklist and i still treasure

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the image of bo and don pasting together

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this

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cherish the memory of beau helping me

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into my spacesuit

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so it was quite an adventure

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and it was nearing the final phases of

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rendezvous when beau taught me another

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lesson in leadership

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i was helping bo and don as the

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rendezvous navigator back in those days

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things were a bit more primitive than

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they are now and one of the primary ways

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in which we determined how far away a

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satellite was was to measure the size of

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the satellite on the tv screen and that

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was my job

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but i have to admit that

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we saw this huge satellite floating

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motionless outside the shuttle i mean i

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had never imagined anything like this

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and and i got sort of lost in a state of

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reverie when all of a sudden i heard a

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soft voice

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calmly asking i can't understand why

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nobody is giving me range calls

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i mean no shouting no panic no nasty

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language just the cool voice of

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authority that brought me back

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that's the way to lead and we all

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appreciate and that's the image of beau

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that i'll never forget because i mean

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there we were doing something we had

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never anticipated

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for which our last training was almost a

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year out of date and yet beau was calmly

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looking out the window flying discovery

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with great skill as though we had

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rehearsed this many many times and

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keeping a cool head throughout

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well beau had one more flight after 51 d

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but it was a military flight so i can't

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tell you a whole lot about it other than

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that it was the maiden voyage of

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atlantis which made it the second

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inaugural shuttle flight that beau was

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on and that was his final shuttle flight

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diane tells me that one of the saddest

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days of beau's life was when he had to

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clean out his flight locker at ellington

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because beau so loved to fly and of

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course it's hard to say goodbye

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but beau has continued to serve the

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space program both in houston and now in

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california where he's in charge of the

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simulators at nasa ames

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flying simulators may not be as exciting

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as flying airplanes or space shuttles

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but beau loves technical challenges and

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he continues to be a fine team leader

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and a fine person

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bo we are truly delighted to welcome you

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now for the congratulations

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thank you jeff

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the 50th anniversary of human space

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flight has caused me to look back on my

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own career in aerospace

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it's been about 50 years

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when the first satellite was launched i

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was a cadet at the air force academy

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and my instructor said it's not going to

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be very long before people start to fly

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in space

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it was at that time that i decided i

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wanted to be one of those space

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explorers

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when the first man did fly i was

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finishing my training and just entering

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the operational air force as a fighter

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pilot

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my wife says that whenever i had a

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chance i selected the path towards

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in those days the air force was anxious

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to get people in space

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they've been called the test pilot

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school the aerospace research pilot

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school

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it was not long before the air force had

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hopes of flying dinosaur and then the

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manned orbiting laboratory as jeff has

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already spoken to you about

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i was selected as one of those mol crew

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members

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until the program was cancelled

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fortunately

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seven of us mol people were picked up by

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nasa as astronauts

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of course there were times i didn't it

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didn't seem that joining nasa was

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fortunate

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because they were canceling apollo

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program

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flights they were cancelling skylab

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flights and the shuttle kept moving to

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the right

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the closest i got to flight in those

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early days with the skylab medical

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experiment which you've already

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heard about the only difference is it

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was two months not just one month

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i can

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remember

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bill thornton who was a medical doctor

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calling out our

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out to our flight surgeon who was

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outside and telling him how he was

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noting strange behavior

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bill taked off a list of items you could

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and you could hear the flight surgeon

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get

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more and more excited

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finally the flight surgeon couldn't ask

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that

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standard anymore and asked bill

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okay tell me which one of the crew is

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having the problems

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the answer was it wasn't inside smeat it

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was the management committee on the

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i also worked with the russians as as

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jeff mentioned

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i remember this was at the height of the

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cold war

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i can remember walking across red square

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one night when uh with bob overmeyer and

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he said

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you know bo

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i never doubted i'd be here

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i just thought it would be at 200 feet

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the job that did require some flying was

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the shuttle approach and landing tests

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bob obermeyer and i alternated between

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being capcom and the prime shuttle chase

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being next to the shuttle as it flew off

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at the top of the 747

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really was quite a sight

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and being with angle and truly as they

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prepared for a flight was quite an

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experience

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as an example they had china and

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candelabra

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not paper plates and plastic forks on

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between these various tasks i have

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described i worked on space shuttle

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development

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especially on approaching landing

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rollout and auto land

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that auto land development experience

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probably was partially responsible

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for our crew getting the detailed test

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objective of

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of uh flying the auto land

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our motto was

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spectre mater nullis manus which means

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i don't know whether it was fortunate or

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not but that

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dto was canceled and so we never did the

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auto land

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one day john young came to my office and

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he pulled on my sleeve and said

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he would like me to take a small group

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of folks and go to ksc to help them get

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colombia ready for flight

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we would work with the countdown working

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group

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help decide what testing should be

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performed

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and then participate in the testing

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serve as a liaison between the astronaut

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office and the shuttle activities that

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were taking place at the cape and do

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whatever was necessary to be done down

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there

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a bit of travel for a couple of months

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actually there was quite a bit of travel

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for a couple of years

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when they were trying to get colombia

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ready to flight

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when colombia flew from palmdale to ksc

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quite a few of the tiles came off

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that meant all the tiles were

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questionable and needed to be tested

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it was a year before they were pasting

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more tiles back on the shuttle before

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they were taking tiles off of the

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shuttle

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but it wasn't only the tiles

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the first time columbia was powered up i

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gave dick scoby the honor

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of being in the cockpit for the power up

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dick was there for the call to stations

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at 8 a.m

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the test started a little later

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and he was still there when i came to

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relieve him the next morning at 6 am

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the problem was i couldn't get dick out

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of the cockpit until he had thrown at

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least one switch

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we had a lot to learn a lot to learn in

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those days

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the tiles were were just the item that

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was taking the blame i made a graph

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which showed how long it would be to

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launch

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and as we progressed through time the

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time to launch kept getting longer

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and

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you know i couldn't i could hardly

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understand it i thought i was a cosine

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wave in a sine wave world

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just out of phase with everything that

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was going on

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finally after 13 years

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00:23:07,510 --> 00:23:05,360
there were my three flights

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i won't try to describe space flight to

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this group

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since you are one of the few groups and

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in the world who really understand what

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my first flight was exciting for me

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since space was a new environment and

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there were so many new items to see and

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do

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the second flight was challenging since

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we were asked to perform an unplanned

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dva

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00:23:32,710 --> 00:23:30,640
rendezvous and activities with the robot

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arm which jeff has already told you

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about

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my third flight was enjoyable

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00:23:40,149 --> 00:23:38,720
since by then i was familiar with flying

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the shuttle and was an experienced

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commander

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i could tell you more about exactly what

562
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happened on that flight

563
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but then i'd have to shoot just since it

564
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was a military flight

565
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and of course all space flight

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is beautiful and inspiring

567
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it all didn't end with my last space

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flight

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i was in my office one day when pj

570
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white's the commander of my first call

571
00:24:06,950 --> 00:24:05,520
my first flight called me on the phone

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and said

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bo we are going to open a new tal site

574
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which is transatlantic a board site

575
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for the coming mission i said to him pj

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tell me who's going

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when is he going

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and how long will he stay

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his answer was you tomorrow and i don't

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that started

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me looking at emergency sites over

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africa

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and equipping all the shuttle landing

584
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sites with the right equipment

585
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after i left nasa in the air force and

586
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joined the aerospace industry

587
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i have been working with the shuttle and

588
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station programs for quite a few years

589
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i still have an enjoyable job

590
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again as jeff mentioned i am the program

591
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manager for the contract which maintains

592
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and operates the research simulators at

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the name nasa ames research center we

594
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have had simulations of rendezvous and

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docking lunar landing and entry in the

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space arena

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and lots of aircraft and air traffic

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when i was recalling the things that i

599
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have done i also recalled

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the people i worked with

601
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the people who had helped me

602
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along the way

603
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and the people i looked up to

604
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with me that started with an eighth

605
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who helped me get into a good technical

606
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high school

607
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she and her husband offered to let me

608
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live with them so that i would be in the

609
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proper school district

610
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but that was just the start many of the

611
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people in this audience helped me along

612
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the way

613
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your help and encouragement

614
00:25:52,149 --> 00:25:49,600
have been instrumental in my standing

615
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here today to receive the honor of being

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inducted into the astronaut hall of fame

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i decided i wouldn't read off a long

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and that's my wife diana 50 years

619
00:26:22,830 --> 00:26:19,830
she has followed me and supported me

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00:26:25,190 --> 00:26:22,840
through all this even before we were

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married so

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i humbly accept this honor as i

623
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recognize all the people

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who are also a part of this great

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00:26:36,789 --> 00:26:33,120
adventure

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congratulations