Those are nasa engineers over there and this was the world that was normal to them and that the wives tried very hard to keep normal and grounded. You kind of alluded to how much the wives seem to change after the Apollo Program and i was wondering if you could share some of the astronauts of the wives thoughts on what was it like when that ended and did they feel like it should continue and almost is there almost is there a sense of ptsd among the families . Yeah, i think everyone is pretty sad when nixon ended the Apollo Program and these wives kyc today and i think in history they will continue to be seen. Ive told this to them as sort of our pioneer space women. They were the pioneers. Their husbands were doing something we had never done before. You know, just the surreal moments of going out in your backyard as jane conrad remember to me when her husband was up there on apollo 12 Walking Around the moon and a house that just cleared out. She had all the wives over for a party. It
Basically grew out of the Space Program. Prosthetic limbs. There are a whole range of medical inventions, devices that have come as a direct result of having made vibrant Space Program. People say, well, they are very expensive, the cost of those spinoffs has now been worth it. I guess it is a value judgment. It depends how you measure the value to you get for the los. Offer me Airline Safety is worth a great deal. I am sure for you it is as well, peter. Host what kind of money do we spend annually on the International Space station . Is there a return on that investment . Guest well, squeeze been a decreasing amount of our Gross Domestic Product on a. It is not like it was in the 60s when we were in the space race, if you will, where we spent up to of 4 percent of gdp. Now we are well below 1 . And actually, that has decreased even further. We have no Delivery System for u. S. Astronauts right now. We are using the russian spacecraft to send our people. It will be several years before
Of the afternoon before sally was her picture was on every magazine cover, the most famous person on the planet. Every reporter at the Kennedy Space center wanted to see her command of your. Astronauts are put in quarantine for a couple of days before they fly so that we dont give them any stray germs that could really screw up the mission. Sally was in quarantine. Everyone wanted to know how she was. There was just a lid on the whole thing. I am sitting in our abc news workspace which was a trailer. The day before working on my script. The phone rings. Someone picks it up and says its for you. This low voice of the other and says hi. What are you doing in five minutes. I dont know. What am i doing. Walk outside your trailer, turn left, it down the gravel path and stop. I did that, and there was sally in costa my tshirt, flipflops planning against a car 25 yards away and waving at me. When she was doing was saying she was number one pushing the envelope a little bit because of royals w
Has had an enormous level of play drive, just a natural drive to chase and capture things when theyre waved in front of his face, throwing the ball and has to have an enormous amount of hunt drive, if i tease him by ball, throw the ball in the thick brush and let him go he will spend minutes using his nose, not his eyes but his nose to find the ball, he cant see it, he will sit there and you can watch, like nose on legs snaking backandforth and he will do that ended distractions if there is hot and water nearby or other dogs who have marked in the area, if theres traffic or somebody gunfire going of which are all things we may simulate to test dedication of the hunt drive for that dog and i want to make sure under all those circumstances he is still going to hunt which mimics a combat environment. If i take a dog who is distracted by food or a female or gunfire while asking him to search, when i send the dog over to and austere environment where he will be used to save peoples lives an
Facebook. Com booktv. Booktv is live from savannah, ga. Home to the annual savannah book festival we will bring you several authors including mike redmond, lily cobble, scott bird, john rizzo and debra solomon. We kickoff live coverage of the savannah book festival with gabriel asherman, author of the loudest voice in the room. Good morning, everyone. My name is alex gold and i am happy to welcome you to the seventh annual savannah book festival presented by Georgia Power. Into our new venue of the Lutheran Church of ascension which is made possible by the generosity of fred and john kane. Many of you have already attended our terrific special events with our opening and keynote addresses. Today your work is cut out for you as you choose which authors to visit during this day that offers dozens of announce writers to established astounding books in the last year. We would like to extend special thanks to our presenting foster, Georgia Power, individual donors who make Saturdays Free ev