Write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Exactly. A dropped pass. I was a wide receiver on a rung team, and that mean i block a lot versus catching passes. We were at our homecoming game. I was run downing the sideline their ball was perfectly thrown any hand and i dropped the touchdown pass in my hands. And the thing is, a scout was there from the university of richmond looking to see if could i play football for the team. He walked out of stadium, my coach, jimmy green, believed in me, he said get back out there spring same play. This time i caught the ball. That one catch resulted in 180,000 scholarship to the university of richmond because the coach said he didnt give up. He consistent going. That was the grit the persevere and a second chan. Host high dud you get from playing for the university of richmond spiders to two Space Shuttle missions. Guest i think the turning a season from 010 around to 38, to 85 and playoffs, brought the College Scout the pro scouts down, and t
Actually been in space and that is astronaut Leland Melvin and, mr. Melvin, you write that your book is called chasing space and you write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Yeah, exactly. A dropped path, i pass. I block a lot and we were at a homecoming game. The ball was perfectly thrown in the game and i dropped a touchdown pass in my hands and the thing is a scout was there from the university of richmond looking to see if i could play football for the team. He walked out of the stadium, my coach green believed in me, this time i caught the ball, that one catch resulted in 180,000dollar scholarship to the university of richmond because the coach said he didnt give up, he kept going. That was the grits and the first and the second chance. How did you get from playing from the university of richmond spiders to Space Shuttle missions . I think the turning of season from 010 around to 38 in playoffs brought the College Scout and then all of the hard work and dedication and disc
And no one saw it. I started writing the book and i asked my question again. Why are you requesting that question . And answer became clear to me, for two reasons, the first happened just last year. I think 2016 was the year when we started living 51 of our lives in cyberspace. Thats where we went to get a news, buy a book, buy a car, meet with our friends, find a date, find a spouse, we are now living in the developed world at least 51 of our lives in cyberspace. My definition of cyberspace its a realm where we are all connected and no one is in charge. Its the ultimate god free realm, no stoplights, no police, no ethics code, no 1800please stop putin from hacking my elections. We are living our lives in a realm thats ethics and godfree. And at the same time because of these accelerated powers ive written about, we are now standing at a moral intersections we have never stood at before as human species. One country could kill all of us post hiroshima, im glad it was mind. I believe we
And that is astronaut Leland Melvin. And, mr. Melvin, you write that your book is called chasing space, and you write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Guest exactly. A dropped pass. So i was a wide receiver on a running team, and that means that i block a lot versus catching passes. We were at a homecoming game, i was running down the sideline, the ball was perfectly thrown io my hand, and i drop a touchdown pass in my hands. And the thing is, a scout wasro there from the university of richmond looking to see if i could play football for the team. He walked out of the stadium. My coach, jimmy green, believed in me. Get back out there, run the same play. That one catch resulted in a 180,000 scholarship to the university of richmond becauseep the coach said he didnt give up, he kept going. So that was the grit and the perseverance and the second chance. Host how did you get from playing for the university of retch monday spiders to richmond spiders to two Space Shuttle missions
Assistant manager of the children and teenager department welcome to our yvette this evening the official web site for our guest says it all the only person drafted to the nfl and then to fly in space a career in a vast body of experience is taking him from the gridiron as the administrator and beyond i mean to read a 50 miles above the earth beyond born in virginia before he went to university of virginia on a scholarship earning his bachelors degree in chemistry ennead a hamstring injury but in 1991 he received his masters degree from the university of virginia and in working to create optical fiber sensors resulting in publications of numerous scientific journals as well as the Health Monitoring team and was selected to be an astronaut 1998 and has logged more than 565 hours in space including two missions to the International Space station as a Mission Specialist since then appointed the head of nasa education serving with the cochair with Science Technology Engineering Mathematics