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NASA Remembers Al Worden 1932 - 2020

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We worked like crazy, but it was all GOOD work.

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You know, we didn't have anything boring.

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We studied geology.

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The first six months we studied spacecraft
systems.

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We learned all the electronics and the navigations
and the radios and all that kind of stuff.

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Apollo 15, the flight that I was on, as a
command module pilot, was the fourth manned

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lunar landing mission.

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We were quite different from anything that
have flown before because we carried the first

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lunar rover and we carried a fairly complicated
scientific package into lunar orbit.

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On Aug. 5, 1971, Al Worden became the first human to carry out a deep space spacewalk.

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Put my feet in some foot restraints and stood
up on the outside of the spacecraft and just

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looked around.

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I spent a few minutes out there just standing
and looking and low and behold I can see both

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the Earth and the Moon at the same time.

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Uncanny.

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Unbelievable place to be.

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[music]

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I think the impact of the Apollo program,
and not just this country, but on the world,

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was to tell people we can do whatever we want
to do if we put our minds to it.

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There is nothing that's impossible to do.

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Al Worden because Senior Aerospace Scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center.

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From 1973 to 1975, he was chief of the Systems Study Division at Ames.