of the space program explain why the famed mercury 7 astronauts went into space but not any of the 13 so-called first lady astronaut trainees. this oral history from 1999 is from the nasa johnson space center history collection. .. this is carol butler and i m doing an oral history for the nasa history office with wally funk, retired ntsb investigator, senior flight instructor, chief pilot, wonderful woman of aerospace. thank you for joining us today. thank you very much for having me. to begin, if we could talk briefly about your early career and your interest in aviation developing and how you moved forward and to the aerospace career as a woman. well, aerospace was not really a name in my young life. flying airplanes was. i had got my first try at flying, just pure flying, by flying my superman cape off my daddy s foreign when i was about five years old. and i was allowed to make airplanes out a blocks of balsam wouldn t hang them from my ceiling when i went on the c
this is carol butler and i m doing an oral history for the nasa history office with wally funk, retired ntsb investigator, senior flight instructor, chief pilot, wonderful woman of aerospace. thank you for joining us today. thank you very much for having me. to begin, if we could talk briefly about your early career and your interest in aviation developing and how you moved forward and to the aerospace career as a woman. well, aerospace was not really a name in my young life. flying airplanes was. i had got my first try at flying, just pure flying, by flying my superman cape off my daddy s foreign when i was about five years old. and i was allowed to make airplanes out a blocks of balsam wouldn t hang them from my ceiling when i went on the college. i, was allowed to take flying as my mother had dearly love flying, and her father wouldn t allow her to. so, they encourage me then to go on into my aviation career. i was at a girls school for two years, got my private ther
Smithsonian national air and Space Museum Live this evening beginning at 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3s American History tv. Next on American History tv, nasas earliest days with wally funk. One of 13 women selected to be the first lady astronaut trainees or f. L. A. T. S, this is sometimes called the mercury 13, as they underwent some of the same physiological tests as their male counterparts, the mercury 7 astronauts. Unlike the mercury 7, these women never flew a nasa mission. Funk was interviewed as part of the Nasa Johnson Space Center oral history collection. This is about 50 minutes. This is carol butler and im doing an oral history for the Nasa History Office with wally funk. Retired ntsb investigator, senior Flight Instructor, chief pilot. Wonderful woman of aerospace. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you very much for having me. To begin if we could talk briefly about your early career and your interest in aviation developing and how you, how you moved forward into the a
At some point later tonight we will do better with that. In fact, the temperatures expected to rise overnight above freezing. By early in the morning the metro area and points south and east will be above freezing. Even the northwestern suburbs should be better by then. The future cast, the patches in purple and the different colors of the freezing rain and sleet. That is the story through late tonight and overnight as well. The freezing line, the coldest air will start to shrink. Its about this wide now but overnight it will shrink and lift out of here. Warmer winds will start to melt things. The next problem is tomorrow morning. The rain will get heavy. We are under flood watch for the area area with rain of an inch to inch and a half could cause localized flooding and ponding of water. That is the local. Well have more. Steve rudin is in the weather center. Well be back in a couple of minutes. Jonathan thank you. One part of maryland in the jackpot for snow was Southern Maryland and
Dispatcher, in fact, just about 1015 minutes ago, and we are seeing issues in the weaverville area right now. A tree is down upper flat creek road near calloway road and the salem church road area near the mars hill highway. So issues reported there. So far, no accidents reported in the asheville area here. But, again, you you want to take it slow on your morning commute. Standing water is an issue on many of these, especially floodprone areas. We are seeing the wind picking up here a little bit in asheville, but we are seeing Even Stronger winds leading to some Power Outages in cherokee and macon county. Duke Energy Reporting more than 1300 customers in each of the counties are without power right now. So, we are seeing issues across our area as a result of the weather. Now, lets check in with jack Jaclyn Deaugustino for a look at the other issues. Jaclyn thanks, lauren, we are getting reports of debris in the roadway all over Haywood County. There is not one specific area, this is ac