On our when on our way. Stage two. The air was fair at cape kennedy. Ey clausen warm august spy sky as gemini five took off. In outer space there is no weather at all. The only problem was a leaky fuel cell. Out in the atlantic Something Else was brewing. A rising bunch of winds soon to be known as betsy. Dawn, august 27. A florida bases, navy, Weather Bureau, air force planes are warming up. 180 miles overhead, astronauts are still alone in space. But not quite alone. From the first day on they have been scouring the sky, circling, clicking their pictures backandforth. On the 27th they make a discovery. Tropical depression at 13 Degrees North latitude. The astronauts see it first. Do you have any kind of report on that possible threat . Ahmed tropical depression . We passed right over it. It is a rather large storm with heavy activity. We can see air to ground lightning. Even in the daytime. It doesnt have an eye. Name of that is betsy, in case you have not been told. A hurricane is b
[indiscernible] betterknownar the. Own of why more weimar interviewer what was your childhood like . Wasgruen my childhood very, very pleasant. My father was the principal of a school. My mother my father had a devoted marriage. I had one brother older than i. In that village. Went to Primary School there. And did all the things that ,mall children, little boys do including using a roller skate on a steep hill and scaring my mother out of her skull with my derringdo. [laughter] . Nterviewer was it mountainous rollerskating on a steep hill . No, this was a hill in the village. On top of the hill there was a church. The countryside was hilly, not mountainous. But a very beautiful region where my family and i did a good deal of hiking on weekends. It was a very, very pleasant countryside. At that time. Interviewer how did you happen to wind up in the United States and the Manhattan Project . In the Manhattan Project . Mr. Gruen well, you ask a very interesting question. Answer is that i w
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition. Lift off. Say again . Stage two. The air was fair at cape kennedy. There is noce weather at all. The only problem was a leaky fuel cell. Out in the atlantic Something Else was brewing. Dawn, august 27. A florida bases, navy, Weather Bureau, air force planes are warming up. Astronautsverhead, are still alone in space. But not quite alone. From the first day on they have been scouring the sky, circling, clicking their pictures backandforth. On the 27th they make a discovery. Tropical depression at 13 Degrees North latitude. The astronauts see it first. Do you have any kind of report on that possible threat . Stormis a rather large with heavy activity. We can see air to ground lightning. It doesnt have an eye. Name of that is betsy, in case you have not been told. A hurricane is born and christened betsy. In two places the news travels. The National Hurricane center in ismi, where gordon done checking reports. And in houston they are scheduled to splashdown rig
This hour 20 minutes of oral history is from the voices of the Manhattan Project, created by the Heritage Foundation and los alamos historical society. Mr. Gruen i was born on november 21, 1922 in waldorf, germany. Interviewer where is that . Mr. Gruen waldorf is a small village near the town of [indiscernible] which is near the betterknown weimar. Town of weimar. That is just south. Interviewer what was your childhood like . Mr. Gruen my childhood was very, very pleasant. My father was the principal of a school. My mother and my father had a devoted marriage. I had one brother older than i. And i grew up in that village. Went to Primary School there. And and did all the things that small children, little boys do, including using a roller skate on a steep hill and scaring my mother out of her skull with my derringdo. [laughter] interviewer was it mountainous . Rollerskating on a steep hill . Mr. Gruen no, this was a hill in the village. On top of the hill there was a church. The countr