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Although there were problems on every mission we flew during the apollo program. If you could look at the entire report, it is a book about that thick. It is in the archives so you could get it through freedom of information. And as an appendix it lists the problems, we call them anomalies, some people call them funnies, that happened on the flights. And they listed them museum air cally by flight auditor and you ignore apollo 7 and 8, they only have one spacecraft, they didnt fly a landing aircraft. Apollo 13 had the second least number of problems of all of the flights. We almost aborted apollo 14 and apollo 16. They had pretty Serious Problems they were able to work around and allowed them to land. So that was the nature of the business. And as i said, the very theme of this movie that carried very well was the story of somebody in problem, with problems, with a challenge, challenges really to face. And showed a group of people, a team in this case of Mission Control and ourselves.
His grandparents, by his mothers parents. He was very close to his grandparents. Very close to his grandmother. This was the day before the president ial election in 2008 when she died. President obama took time that day to grieve on his own, then that night he came to North Carolina just hours before the polls were due to open across the country. President obama did one last rally. A huge one. 25,000 people in the rain at the university of North Carolina in charlotte. He talked about his grandmother that night. He said, shes gone home. She died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. He said, im not going to talk about her too long, because it is hard for me to talk about. So with hours to go until election day, president ial candidate barack obama, that night before the election in 2008, he stood in the rain in charlotte and he cried during his speech. And he gave liz Closing Argument for why he should be president of the United States. And it was a very powerful moment b
Carolina just hours before the polls were due to open across the country. President obama did one last rally. A huge one. 25,000 people in the rain at the university of North Carolina in charlotte. He talked about his grandmother that night. He said, shes gone home. She died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. He said, im not going to talk about her too long, because it is hard for me to talk about. So with hours to go until election day, president ial candidate barack obama, that night before the election in 2008, he stood in the rain in charlotte and he cried during his speech. And he gave liz Closing Argument for why he should be president of the United States. And it was a very powerful moment because of that raw, human emotion, but it was also a powerful political moment because here it was the night before a president ial election and it is a big deal that the democratic president ial candidate is making his Closing Argument to the nation from the south. And he co
Day to grieve on his own, then that night he came to North Carolina just hours before the polls were due to open across the country. President obama did one last rally. A huge one. 25,000 people in the rain at the university of North Carolina in charlotte. He talked about his grandmother that night. He said, shes gone home. She died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. He said, im not going to talk about her too long, because it is hard for me to talk about. So with hours to go until election day, president ial candidate barack obama, that night before the election in 2008, he stood in the rain in charlotte and he cried during his speech. And he gave liz Closing Argument for why he should be president of the United States. And it was a very powerful moment because of that raw, human emotion, but it was also a powerful political moment because here it was the night before a president ial election and it is a big deal that the democratic president ial candidate is making h