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
Science and precision is starting precisely at 2 30 and zero seconds. That is an auspicious way to begin this discussion. Earlier this year, on one of the hottest nights of the summer, nearly a half Million People crowded onto the national mall. They werent there for a protest or to celebrate a national holiday. And they werent there for a concert or to watch a fireworks show. No, instead a half Million People went there, drenched in sweat, to watch the story of the apollo 11 mission as it was projected onto the Washington Monument, commemorating the moment 50 years ago when Neil Armstrong and buzz aldrin took that giant leap for mankind. As everyone in d. C. Knows, if there are a half Million People on the mall and it aint a protest, Something Big is going on. And landing the first humans on the moon and returning them safely to earth marks as one of the epochal moments in the history of mankind. As we look out over our space landscape today, what we see is very different from the lan
We will take on this case, it will be an honest detective story. Our broadcast will continue with alexander rogatkins documentary, the heaviness of zero gravity, on the international and soviet Intercosmos Program. How they selected cosmonauts for the First International corps, what the requirements were for the candidates and how their fate turned out after the flight to the mir orbital station, watch about it right now. The flight into space was preceded by months of training together with a backup. And now the vast experience accumulated by star city instructors in all climatic zones country is transmitted by the future syrian astronaut. The analysis will come later, but the divers have already assessed the actions of munir habib and muhammad faris. And they presented these lydias, do such flowers grow in your homeland . Unfortunately, we dont have such training, do we need such training or not . Of course, as your proverb will say, seeing once is better than hearing 100 times, such
Our broadcast will continue with a special report by Alexander Rogatkin the severity of weightlessness, you will learn about the soviet Intercosmos Program. Dear comrades, today the soviet spacecraft soyuz tm3 departs. Joint flights with representatives of socialist countries had almost ended, but it was necessary to politically support the government of the Syrian Arab Republic. A delegation from the soviet union arrived and selected four people from the best syrian pilots. I was one of them. Then we flew to the soviet union and there, already during training, they chose two of them, and i flew alone. The flight into space was preceded by months of training together with the understudy. And now the vast experience accumulated by the star city instructors in all climatic zones of the country is being passed on to future syrian cosmonauts. The analysis will come later, but the divers have already assessed the actions of munir habib and Muhammad Faris and presented these lilies. Do these