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This afternoon we honor

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force lieutenant colonel

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and astronaut Edward white use my class
of 1952

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and the first American to walk in space
at this time please direct your

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attention to the video screen

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for a short video presentation about
lieutenant-colonel way

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on

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nineteen thirty

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was destined to become a hero of the
American space program

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with a bachelor's degree from West Point
and a master's from the University of

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Michigan

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whites military career was spent in the
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from Florida to Germany from Edwards Air
Force Base

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to wright-patterson as a test pilot and
white brought the right stuff

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the nineteen fifties in nineteen sixties
brought about a raise

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that would change humanity forever white

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along with such noteworthy maidens F
sheppard

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blame Collins Armstrong

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altering were members have these early
group of pilots turned astronauts

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some of whom were also West Point
graduates we kinda

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call them a straight arrow

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that's where the way years directed
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what the objective the

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after humankind reached space in 1961

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the race continues what would it take to
exit the graph to step out to survive

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in a small single person spacecraft the
spacey

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in this vacuum of space june third
nineteen sixty-five

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on a launch pad in Florida and white
game James McDivitt

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suited up to find out at 2:46 p.m.

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Eastern Time and white stepped out of
Germany four

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becoming the first american to exit the
spacecraft in orbit

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and walk in space and the first human to
control his own movement the a

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pressurized air

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saffron I to the new bill that the
battery on a problem I have is I'm

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I'm not Hill be was spacious for you I
think from an engine mcdevitt everyone

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on a ground in michigan troll everybody
I'm a spectacular

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the Gemini program was a brilliant
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with its purpose bean that a proving
ground

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that would take humankind to the moon
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on January 27th 1967

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at that now named Kennedy Space Center
astronauts Ed White

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Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee climbed
aboard an apollo capsule for pre-flight

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testing

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tragedy struck taking the lives of these
three brave men

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the nation mourned its heroes and
continues to remember Edward white

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and the other members of the astronaut
corps who have lost their lives

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in the service to the cause with

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each successful push up the boundaries
of human exploration

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ed White's memory and legacy is Potter

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with his space walk white a shoot in a
dominant serve american space technology

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that has continued beyond that first job

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to the moon to Skylab

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the shuttle program servicing hubbell
building the international space station

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today station much like the Gemini
program at the nineteen sixties

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stands as part a proving ground for the
next giant leap

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as we journey to Mars and white

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is a name that will for ever ring in
human history

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and it was scared that said thunder

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I'm

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ladies and gentlemen our first speaker
this afternoon currently serves as the

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director

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for safety and mission assurance Johnson
Space Center

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National Aeronautics and Space
Administration he is a West Point

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graduate who began his career with nasa

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in 1987 as a space shuttle

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vehicle test engineer and became an
astronaut a few years later

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he is a veteran of four space flights
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224 days in space ladies and gentlemen
please welcome

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retired Army Colonel William macarthur
thanks arts para

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this bear joke as want

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Carl borman honored guests

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the ambassador of exploration award
recognizes a sacrifice and dedication

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up the Apollo Gemini and mercury
astronauts

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each astronaut or their surviving
families

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were presented a lunar sample to be
publicly displayed

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in their name to help inspire a new
generation of explorers

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and whites award is part of the 842
pounds of moon rocks and

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and soil return during the six lunar
expeditions

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from 1969 to 1972

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and for this award specifically on
Apollo 15

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as a first American to walk in space

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had idiots 21-minute EVA inspire those
who followed in his footsteps

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simply stated fifty years ago today

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he proved that human beings can operate
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weightless environment of space a
capability a sensual if we'll

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aspire to explore work in live beyond
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of our planet more than that he proved
that the capability of men and women

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to meet and conquer daunting challenges
is boundless

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says at historic event fifty years ago

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the history of the US space flight
includes 231

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additional EVA's extra vehicular
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and counting on and counting

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building from its first spacewalk we now
have an international space station

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that is our springboard to the rest to
the solar system construction of the

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International Space Station has required
astronauts to spend more than 900 hours

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on a 140 spacewalks outside the station

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assembling the most complex
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and engineering project in human history
and the largest structure

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that humans have ever put into space
before my first spacewalk my daughters

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asked

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day and are you scared I said no tears

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how can I be scared when I can stand on
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and it was a consummate

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astronaut so skilled and confident that
his main concern

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was at his time outside was too short
here mark at the end of the space walk

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I'm coming back in and that's the
saddest moment of my life

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it's fitting that it whites in Bastrop
expression Ward

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recognizing the sacrifices and
dedication at the Apollo Gemini and

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Mercury astronauts

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should reside here at West Point an
institution dedicated to the highest

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ideals of our nation and bastard
exploration

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a title so appropriate for astronaut
Edward H white

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West Point class a 52 thank you

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we will now hear from the 59th
superintendent at the United States

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Military Academy

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please welcome lieutenant-general robert
l Caslon junior

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and very much larger

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or good afternoon walk in the West Point
it's a pleasure to have you all here

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today as we on one of our graduates

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and a great american for his historic
achievements

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person like to thank all bill mcarthur
for those great remarks

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no thank you very much in our interview
with us here today but also like to

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extend a special welcome to some
distinguished guests that we have here

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today

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will find more min West Point class in
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51 the original nine project gemini
astronauts who

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was compiled for Germany 7 commander
apollo eight sir great to have you with

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miss bunny bear NY storm am

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wonderful to have you with us as well
half-century ago space

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was the new frontier we look skyward and
dreamed of flying a rocket ship to the

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stars

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remember president kennedy's challenge
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that we would land a man on the moon
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we were fascinated by the adventures a
science fiction characters like

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Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in the
starship crew they would

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boldly go where no man has gone before
every kid's dream to being an astronaut

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they were our childhood heroes they were
the new pioneers

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the democrat-led why was one of those
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in this new frontier and it was fifty
years ago today

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he became the first American to do what
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to walk among the stars grew up in a

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with a level flight in fact one could
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line was in his blood if bob his father
was a West Point graduate the class in

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rose to the rank of major general in the
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pioneer in

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aeronautics he started his career as a
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pilot various models appear crack during
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flying model airplanes

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it was flying actual airplanes edge dad
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trainer and let 'em

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take control take take control the
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was say that it felt like the most
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they would learn to more than how to fly
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he also learned the dyes have
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a persistence and single-minded
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perhaps the greatest lesson he learned
from his parents was this

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to set a goal believe in your heart and
soul that you can achieve it

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and then work to accomplish these
lessons would go a long way in earning

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an appointment to West Point

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and following in his father's as I was
put steps as a military family because a

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and and white moved around so often

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they didn't have the a permanent
residents and most didn't have a

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congressman to appoint at West Point but
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so he and his words call when up and
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all the doors

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his persistence paid off in your new
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as an at large pointy well that was
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it starred as a half back on the soccer
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on the track team setting a West Point
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he would even compete for a spot in the
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missing making the team by one tenth of
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here also meet his future wife Patricia
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it headed to Germany for duty as a pilot
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in the new f-100 super SES say Burton
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during that time after reading an
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become an astronaut

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remember roaming lessons is pierced
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he set a goal believed you could do it
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afters assignment in germany and earn a
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engineering

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Air Force Base in Ohio as an
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selected for the United States first
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were in training and as a test pilot at

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lewd large cargo planes used to provide
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for these astronauts in training to
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in that the slain in 1962

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nasa select the second group Avaaz not
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which was project gemini nine new
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more than two hundred applicants

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and among these nine national not firm
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Neil Armstrong and Frank Borman jim
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in at one after months of training

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it was selected as a pilot project many
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McDivitt as the command power their
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plan was designed to show that it was
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for extended periods of time

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up to that point along this American man
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was gordon cooper's 34 hour mark reply

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may have 1963 McDivitt in whites mission
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four days about three months before
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Russian cosmonaut became the first man
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so Nassau or revise the mission plan is
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then be slated to perform an extra
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using a newly developed sue and special
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him to propel himself while performing
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this equipment was so new it was still
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regional flight plan was introduced

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it wasn't certified for use in space
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before launch but it was determined

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he set a goal to be the first man to
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not just simply flow in space and he
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in a pressure chamber preparing himself
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why in McDivitt border Germany for lift
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less than five hours later as Jimmy for
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and white left the confines of the
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and took his first step on the historic
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for the next 20 minutes millions of
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and radios listening to white McDivitt
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it would describe feeling very little
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or cessation up speed even though
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it uses handheld proportion I unity a

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on his walk until it ran out of fuel and
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to maneuver himself all the while
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earth on this camera soon the flight
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while back into the space craft and
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why commented I'm coming back in

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and this is the saddest moment of my
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when it set out to do he became the
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with the space walk lasting twice as
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as russians first EVA four days

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sixty six orbits and more than 1.6
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miles later wider McDivitt splashed down
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mission to a successful completion

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after the Gemini poor mission it was
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flight nasa's new Apollo program

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joining astronauts Gus Grissom in Roger
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and tragically however on January 27
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and altering the screamin were killed a
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there are two memorial plaques one
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astra per hospital which means a row

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rough rough road leads

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to the stars every road to a new
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in space is no exception but that road
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personal character the courage the soap
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and attributes and we try to instill
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the early pioneers pioneers like Dwight

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and Frank Borman whose achievements are
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along that road and it's fitting that
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love this historic achievement in space
that we honor and white

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his legacy serves as a reminder when you
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you can accomplish anything even step
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in closing I would like to thank Nassau
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colonel white with the ambassador of
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in the white family for graciously
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at the West Point museum to serve as a
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his personal character in achievement
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set up

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and plan a new marker along the road to
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thank you very much

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ladies and gentlemen please welcome the
daughter lieutenant-colonel way

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miss bunny bear I am delighted and proud
to be here today

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honoring my father Edward Higgins right
this second I would like to thank

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superintendent Lieutenant General Robert
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for green writing this very special day
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Brian maker

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Jesse Hernandez Norma normandy nor
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Cyndi Steele and Chris Brown and also
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for planning organizing and making this
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I so appreciate and thank colonel
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as about fellow space walker and West
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my father and his accomplishments

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I'm also explain extremely pleased to
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a very close family friend to share in
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thank you to my dads West Point
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my family and friends who have traveled
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since hearing about the ambassador space
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has been the hope that my brother at
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able to display them in rock

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dedicated to my father here at West
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generation West Point graduate from the
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and a huge patriot the important sad

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duty honor country and other West Point
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father's like as general mcpeak Douglas
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famously quoted these ideals would
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what you can be and what you will be as
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stressed the importance of setting a
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believing in your heart and soul that
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accomplishment

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company shit a father had a great lad
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and in fact had planned to return back
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astronaut program

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he understood the huge impact attending

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a school like West Point can have on a
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leader and to have his life

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be an inspiration to others as water

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walter cronkite stated the conquest of
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our country's finest am proudest
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the journey and ultimate success at the
space rent's

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will be talked about Penske's me and
celebrated for many years to come

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%um today Thursday June 3rd could not be
more perfect day

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as this marks the fiftieth anniversary
of my father's famous

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spacewalk he was the first American to
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maneuver using the South preparing can
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progress taken on his historic spacewalk

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some the most banks you ever taken
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I recently watched footage at the gym
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what nasa

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and Jim McDevitt in my father were able
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and Apollo flights were an important
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final government land a man on the main

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it's for help have my brother and I

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hit by displaying grim our fathers men
rock here at West Point it will get

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inspiration to all who view it

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to dream big to reach for the stars and
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the nasa

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ambassador exploration award recognizes
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dedication at the Apollo Gemini and
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each astronaut or their surviving
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part at the 842 pounds

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a moon rock and soil returned during sex
lunar expeditions

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from 1969 to 1972 an inscription
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ass a symbol up the Unity

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up human endeavor and mankind's hope for
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apiece and harmony at this time

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general Casslyn and missus bear will
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colonel whites ambassador exploration
award

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which the white family has graciously
loaned to the West Point museum