Here with you to do this oral history. Its a pleasure, sir. Lets begin kind of not at the beginning because there is a beginning before this but april, 1959. It was one of the happiest days of my life. That was a day that was congregated officially as the u. S. First Astronaut Group and previous that is the day we first showed up officially as the first astronauts in the United States at Langley Field, virginia. It had become nasa in a hurried turnaround as you recall and astronaut selection and training basically was run by the people that work from langley. We all reported under washington and that is where the initiation and the introduction, the preselection, all that sort of routine went on and then as you know, we had a physicals elsewhere in the country. But once the selection was made, of course we reported to those people at Langley Field which was kind of neat for me because i was already stationed in norfork in a job in which i didnt like in the first place. So it was an eas