Which could not have been endessful if it did not successfully. The panel we have today is the panel on command module landing and recovery operations. They always say the job is not over until the paperwork is finished. The job is not over until the spacecraft is floating in the Pacific Ocean and the astronauts are successfully retrieved. We have with us four heroes of that era, people i looked up to and admired as a 14yearold watching on television back in 1969, and i wished i could be with them in the Pacific Ocean helping to retrieve those astronauts. Left,e on the panel to my heflin, melmily heflin, melmilton richmond, and terry watson. I will open it up to questions from the audience. It us started. Tell us a little bit about who you are, how you got to be involved in this business, what you did for apollo. I got here in june of 1967 after graduating in tennessee, just outside the appalachian poverty zone. I could not wait to get here because i needed to make some money. [laughte
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