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
Seen this movie and i was a little worried about them making this. There were some things i might have done different out of some hidden language that gave it its pg13 rain but the one thing i thought carried very well and ron howard did a great job was to tell the basic story of people that were in trouble and we certainly were in trouble although, there were problems on every mission we flew during the program and if we can look at the entire Apollo Program report its a book about that dick, its in the archives if you can get it through information. There is an appendix that lists the problems or we call them anomalies and some people call them funnys that happened on the flights and they listed them numerically by fight order and you ignore apollo seven and eight who only had one spacecraft. Apollo 13 at the second least number of problems of all the flights. We almost aborted apollo 14 an apollo 16 in response that theyre it will to work around and had them land. That was the natur
[inaudible conversations] all day here at the library of Congress National book festival we are recognizing and celebrating the importance of reading and authors and books. The library of congress mix it seem easy to do this each year but the truth is the National Book festival is a huge undertaking. Its a huge financial undertaking. And it has been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see who they are in the programs and video monitors around the Convention Center but they ca tend to take for granted that this will continue to exist. So id ask you to consider making the contribution right now using your cell phone and you can send a text to make a onetime gift that will be added to your mobile phone bill. The details are on the screen and on the back of your program. Once you are to please silence your cell phone. Onto the main event id like to introduce the cochair of the National Book festival, david rubenstein. [applause] we are very honored today to have on
Wound. With updates about travel restrictions and how to protect yourself. Special coverage. You are in the Stream Health care workers around the world in the bronx at the corona Virus Outbreak but many are not getting the support you one of them. Or stream. Take a look at some of the social media plays the hashtags covert 19 Health Care Heroes flatten the curve these are from Health Care Workers from around the world and they have been asking asked. To appreciate their work as they stand on the front lines of the Coronavirus Fight get me p. P. A. Thats personal protective equipment fact in the curve i said it work for you please stay at home for us in countries hard hit by covert 19 doctors nurses and other medical staff have been among the most likely to become infected with a quite a virus and they are constantly in contact with infected patients but often lack protective equipment and theyre exhausted after working long shifts with few breaks from Critical Care nurse or just poachi
Gloves medical masks but a spirit of google has face shoots guns and prisons the richer has worn the lack of Vital Equipment is work ute in iran the mouse where irans Supreme Leader has told us citizens to pray for the end of the outbreak which is known to have killed 77. 00 people there although its thought this could be an underestimate visors of the Supreme Leader is among the dead in the cluster which is one of the biggest outside china schools have shot and major events have been suspended the iranian government has decided to call on the armed forces to help fight the outbreak so mr avi has more from tehran. This is very much a message to the public that the government is doing something ever since this outbreak began and the government has been criticized for not responding seriously enough and not responding quickly enough so certainly here the Supreme Leader trying to show that all branches of the government are moving forward but really it has to be said that the military has