More and they will go next to the international. Well welcome to visionaries im. Mark states 50th anniversary of the 1st manned landing on the moon and ive spoken to someone who actually. Take place. Rusty shrank arent. Great to have you with us today so going to start with couple questions about a polar 9 this serious anniversary of the mission that was devoted to preparations the flight to the moon but compared to a poll 8 which was all about checked. Arion testing to detect jury you guys had to do the real stuff test equipment you know how the moguls were working with the docking of the models between each other and and it wouldnt last support for your suit saying the real stuff when you were taking off to that mission how did you estimate the danger i mean basically its like testing new vehicle only in space. Well the main danger if you will i mean we didnt see it as dangerous we had done simulations and for you know for a year or so youre ready for anything that can happens or at
Mean so that was not new returning to earth from earth orbit but getting back to the command and Service Module when the lunar module which had never been used before we had to get back 100 miles to a successful rendezvous and docking as if we had come up from the moon so we were basically testing what later flights would have to do coming up off the moon and that was the 1st time that i had ever been done so that was new but also myself when i went outside that was new to i was the 1st one to use the new apollo suit had never been used before so it was a test flight of that new suit which worked beautifully and it was also a test flight of the backpack that i used which people used on the moon when youre in space testing that amazing stuff and basically. The foundation for man to go to the moon. How much depends on you or not in your skills and how much depends on the genies of the person who equipped designed the equipment and the technology that actually brought you there. Well let
There are thought of it that way. Is it true that youre feeling a bit sick when you were up there oh i know its i was a feeling a bit sick i barfed twice i got sick i may sound like a naive question but who and what am i going to ask about feeling sick in space what is it like when you think they can say well it feels subjectively if eales the same as if youre if you get seasick or if youre susceptible to motion sickness in a car motion sickness is motion sickness so it feels very much the same way now its quite different however because of space with no gravity things dont go things dont go down. So you end up with you know something here you have to carry things off so its not as. Physically comfortable as it is on the ground. Simply because gravity doesnt work with you and separating you know sticky things like when you barf from your mouth so its unpleasant now after you do it find you feel better and of course after one day a problem then i had adapted entirely and there was no pr
Before we had to get back 100 miles to a successful rendezvous and docking as if we had come up from the moon so we were basically. Testing what later flights would have to do coming up off the moon and that was the 1st time that that had ever been done so that was new but also my so when i went outside that was new to i was the 1st one to use the new apollo suit had never been used before so it was a test flight of that new suit which worked beautifully and it was also a test flight of the backpack that i used which people use on the moon when youre in space testing all that amazing self and basically laying out the foundation for man to go to the moon. How much depends on you not on your skills and how much depends on the genies of the person who equipped designed the equipment and the technology that actually brought you there. What it will only say that if im performing a concert. A list concerto in Carnegie Hall certainly a lot of the audience enjoyment will be the list compositio
But you know for us it wasnt scary we were clearly going to get back you know is your heart racing when you were about to die on earth no oh well thats a different issue that thats after successful you know docking and Everything Else in the end of the mission then we would return. You know through the atmosphere to earth and thats always exciting but that had happened on other flights as well i mean so that was not new returning to earth from earth orbit but getting back to the command and Service Module when the lunar module which had never been used before we had to get back 100 miles to a successful rendezvous and docking as if we had come up from the moon so we were basically testing what later flights would have to do coming up off the moon and that was the 1st time that that had ever been done so. That was new but also my so when i went outside that was new to i was the 1st one to use the new apollo suit had never been used before so it was a test flight of that new suit which w