We are happy to be back here at symphony space. Welcome to all of our regulars. Anyone who is a first timer, this is an event series and we bring scientists of all discipline out of their labs and onto the public stages. Here they can be part of the cultural life of new york city and people like you and me can come and be informed, energized and engaged by scientific ideas and discoveries. And interact directly also with some of the scientists. Secret science club regular hangout in brooklyn in the gowanus part of brooklyn but secret science club north we are back here tonight in manhattan as part of our fifth miniseries here at symphony space. We like to thank all the people at symphony space, the staff, particularly kathy landau, johanna thompson, rebecca white, mary mead, james lutz on zach and ricky for helping us to expand our university and we hope yours also. [applause] a very big special thank you to the park dahlia, we have the bar to the back and left if you havent visited ye
Can you hear us out there . There we are. Welcome, im Dorian Devens and. By margaret mandelbaum. We are happy to be back here at symphony space. Welcome to all of our regulars. Anyone who is a first timer, this is an event series and we bring scientists of all discipline out of their labs and onto the public stages. Here they can be part of the cultural life of new york city and people like you and me can come and be informed, energized and engaged by scientific ideas and discoveries. And interact directly also with some of the scientists. Secret science club regular hangout in brooklyn in the gowanus part of brooklyn but secret science club north we are back here tonight in manhattan as part of our fifth miniseries here at symphony space. We like to thank all the people at symphony space, the staff, particularly kathy landau, johanna thompson, rebecca white, mary mead, james lutz on zach and ricky for helping us to expand our university and we hope yours also. [applause] a very big sp
Explosion on board. The interview is from the Oral History Program at the Johnson Space center. This is the Johnson Space Center Original history project, may 25th, 1999, at the Johnson Space center. When you were a little kid, you saw a rocket go off and you said i want to do that . Is it that simple or that complex . You know, i was interested in rockets and astronomy long before the glenns and the shepherds of the world could spell rocket. I was interested in it way back in high school. I went to try and build some rockets. I wanted to be a rocket engineer, as a matter of fact. I wrote to the American Rocket Society at that time which is now the aaia or Something Like that, and i said i want to be a rocket engineer, and they wrote back and said you need to go to i. T. Or cal tech, and i couldnt afford either so i got an rotc appointment to wisconsin and then from there i went to the Navel Academy and then i got the flight training. I became a naval aviator, and low and behold in 195
The ground launch sequencer would not hand off to the orbiters computers to complete the count because the liquid oxygen was showing off when it should be on. T minus 10. Go for main engine start. Were go for main engine start. T minus six, five, four, three, two, one, liftoff of Space Shuttle discovery with the hubble space telescope. Our window on the universe. Dr. Kathryn sullivan, youve written a book about the hubble and were going to talk a lot about it today. Watching that video all these years later what was it like for you , knowing you are on board . It was one of my favorite moments. You just saw the skill, professionalism and calm of that Exceptional Team on full display. We all sat in the cockpit. We had no role in this at all. It was the guys on the screen but we just sat and listened, not to the commentator but to the technical communications, followed the discussion through. It was just a marvel. I had the Launch Control center get me the audiotape of the technical cont
Standing by now for a go for auto sequence start. T minus 33. Hold at t minus 31 seconds. The ground launch sequencer would not hand off to the orbiters computers to complete the count because the liquid oxygen was showing off when it should be on. T minus 10. Go for main engine start. Were go for main engine start. T minus six, five, four, three, two, one, liftoff of Space Shuttle discovery with the hubble space telescope. Our window on the universe. Susan dr. Kathryn sullivan, youve written a book about the hubble and were going to talk a lot about it today. Watching that video all these years later what was it like for you, knowing you are on board . Dr. Sullivan it was one of my favorite moments. You just saw the skill, professionalism and calm of that Exceptional Team on full display. We all sat in the cockpit. We had no role in this at all. It was the guys on the screen but we just sat and listened, not to the commentator but to the technical communications, followed the discussi