Outside of the georgia, hardly anyone recognized his name. I want to know who he is. Jimmy carter. It looks to me like he is all right. You know what i mean . He is a peoples man. He is sexy. Wait what do you mean by that . I never thought of jimmy carter as sexy. I would say more that gerald ford was sexy because he was a football player. Carter sexy . I just think he is a very neat man. I think he has a nice smile. How do you do. I heard he was a peanut farmer. I dont think it makes any difference if he is a peanut farmer or not. Nothing wrong with peanuts as far as im concerned. I picture him like one of us, a working person. It gives me a great deal of pleasure to present to you the next president of the united states, jimmy carter. Sometimes introductions are hard to follow, and i republican about five years ago when i was running for governor and the young man that introduced me did a great job on my background and he said we have senator jimmy carter from planes georgia. He stud
There i got into flight training. I became a naval aviator, and low and behold in 1958 nasa was formed and they were looking for astronauts. So i was one of the original 110 people selected to go for interviews. Lets go back to your Naval Academy days, you almost didnt go, is that right . That is right. I had two years at wisconsin. I informs a Naval Aviation program after world war ii. Have been the most important project in this century. I became the first alternate that usually doesnt make it, are and i got orders for the physical to be inducted into the academy if you so desired. And then i said should i go to the academy, they said dont do that, you two years of college, you have Naval Aviation, if you go back you have to start all over again, you might not get back in aviation, but there was an old captain there and he said if you want to make the navy your career, get yourself to the academy, that is what hatppened. I term paper, my first term paper, i wrote on the development o
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
South philadelphia that was the shower that past on city avenue. Some damp roads in new jersey for folks heading to the shore. Temperatures are mild, 75 in philadelphia. 71 in allentown. Cool in the poconos, 58. With a westerly wind, the shore not bad there lower 70s. Heading to the phillies game or anywhere this evening there will be clearing coming in from the north and west after the clouds and showers pass through, first pitch temperature 72 degrees. By the 9th inning in the ladder part of the evening in the 60s. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows a complex near chicago that will rotating south and east and pivot threw the memorial day. Umbrellas will be on standby the entire weekend, again, it is not completely dry and not a washout. Temperatures below normal and sunday looking to be the dryest of the three weekend days. Well chat about those the city, the shore the poconos well break it down for you coming up in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Reporter im very ex
Being with a light jacket and running around, very brisk walking, im nice and warm but if youre standing still, if youre not too active this morning, yeah, youll want the jacket. So dress in layers this weekend, something you can take off if you get too warm and for the day, days, you will want your sunglasses and hats because its bright. The veterans day forecast, a great forecast, some of the best weather in the nation today. Average, about 83 degrees, so were live here at the nascar sprint cup series, one of the final races on the stop for the nascar season, a big race, big points scored and determined who will win the whole season. Well tell you more coming up in the sevenday forecast. Well talk to a current navy with nascar in town were talking about drivers in the poll question today. Who drives better . Would it be women . Men . Or jimmy . Who is in the lead, matt . My eyes are bothering me. Let me help you out. 42 . Jim minute is actually going up at 19 . Its really easy for yo