17 called the cost of it. But ive never been able to picture him in action so this is really interesting because this is actually inside of a b. 17 this picture here and its really i like it because its. The 1st chance ive had to understand what it would have looked like inside one so wheres that was the pilot on his back yeah ok. This is where their tears were looking from the back here in the front what kind temperatures would have actually been inside the aircraft to mean that youd have to weigh what jacket. More this is where they. Hung on jackets because the American Bombing was done from going to harms that was the on duty dad asks ralph if theres any recollect of when grandpa was shot down in 19033 and 6 this is going 1st i have a money and your money find your dad in here. And matthew i wrote ski page to raise you know like. A member 21st lieutenant goodwin churns out for 3 casa de andreotta were knocked out of formation when 2 rounds of flying get into the nose with it once you fall back on a formation youre an easy target we had a fall back out of formation because they had hit an engine and when they hit an engine it was an inboard engine and it hit me when doing 1st lieutenant matthew arrive radnofsky the navigator and if you are. Very are the tail gonna bailed out everybody bailed all enlisted men bailed out. The pilot and the copilot stayed holding the plane plane level. I was hit in the plane. And these same explosions also set the number 2 engine on fire sever the throttle linkage to number one. The a plane lost 2 engines. Ultimately and the 3rd engine. Finally i got a great big. Piece of flak that went into my back. Right through. The armored suit that i was wearing i had 2 of it suits one that i laid on the floor. And another one that was what i was sitting and wearing but i went right through it didnt make any difference then another verse to the right side of this for 23rd plane and 2nd lieutenant marvin the traveler copilot was badly wounded in his right leg. While they were having a very bad day. And laid me out flat i was laying there and it and it opened my parachute and paris to lay and they are in the inside. So the bomb a dia. Gave me his parachute. And tach me to a static line right next to me. And threw me out. And other members of the crew who bailed out were 1st lieutenant Douglas Mcknight who was received a. Medal for saving my saving my dad get him out he was the bombardier and sam took me a ball turkoman he came down from a very High Altitude because it it deployed very quickly and took a long time to get down its but it was wonderful it was so quiet and then i heard a dog barking and i heard a bell ringing from a church. And then i landed in the trees and it was for wonderful man you could ever get i landed in a parachute kind of landed over the top of the trees and i plunged down and never hit the ground just a couple feet from the ground hanging there at a British Parachute on which was. You just turn turn or thing and hit it and you fall out of it and i was pretty much paralyzed. Due to my wounds i was good parent lee machine gun bullets just well as in the year because i got 3 machine and bullets in addition in me when i when i parachute in my boots fell off my. Vest fell off my skate fit kit fell off everything the only they worked was it was the parachute thank god but nothing worked thats how i became interested in working with Safety Equipment nothing worked. Well. You know its terrific to get this morning. Makes me feel humble. When i was when i was 19 years old i wasnt doing anything like this. In the United States the. Calling sound ation has offered me the chance to put myself in grandpas boot and take my own ride in a b. 17 despite my fear of heights its an unmissable offer to take. Climbing up into the b. 17 im surprised how cramped it is a little cold its really. Made of composing from the outside but its actually crowded and very functional on the inside. The 1st time i get to see what the painting in the museum is like a real life i can see the bone that is position and the navigators table where my grandfather would have sat and where he was injured. Im sitting here with a Radio Operator would have sat. There you go where the pilot was and the current pilots would appear and. Make great as you can actually this is open up here and it goes at i think over a 100 miles an hour so here we go there we go there. Now ok lets. Let me hear oh no big deal. It. Leg. Length its a windy day and off to the flight im told this is made our trip im usually similar laughter and that would lead. To really. Like a lot of. Just what it was. Grandpas experience of being shot down in spite of his passion for safety clothing and ultimately led to a career at nasa. Well toby the force 957 russia successfully launched sputnik one the worlds 1st artificial satellite. This act marked the start of the space race a battle for supremacy of space between the u. S. And russia. America responds with the mercury project making alan shepard the 1st American Space in 1961 followed by john glenn less than a year later. In 1962 president john f. Kennedy declared the country would go one step further by putting them out on the moon not going out and returning him safely and all by the end of the decade we didnt go to the mall and just came and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are god because god. Well sheriff joe organize and measure the best of our energies and skills because that jalen just one that were willing to accept one we are on willing to post bold and one we intend to live the other still. Kennedys famous rallying call to beat russia to the moon galvanized thousands of American Engineers into bella ping new technologies including the space suit. The Smithsonians National air and space museum in washington d. C. Is the Perfect Place to get the Bigger Picture of how the space suit was developed these basic space suits the ones they could garra england war basically have the same function they were there to keep erin in case of emergency to keep particles out and to protect against any sort of radiation that those high levels of altitude spacesuits are not very comfortable things to wear their their heavy their all cord their bulky their constraining. Getting knows everything right for the astronaut is very important so so youve heard of my grandfather yes yes ive seen his signature on. Documents and materials yes these things very well that i think for me its hard sometimes to understand exactly how he fits into everything but the process of designing the suit is enormously iter to me it starts with proposed suit designs and prototype suits that come from private corporations as a bid for a contract with nasa and they work with with nasa and the Crew Systems Division and the astronauts to decide whats good whats bad what has to be fixed and what has to be modified so there is an ongoing discussion they have to have a suit that doesnt cost them an enormous amount of money. That satisfies the astronauts because theyre going to be the ones working in it and that also meets the requirements to fit in the spacecraft to work on that operationally and fits the requirements of nasa and the Crew Systems Division so it sounds like also grandpa would have been actually known a lot of different people if he was mediating between the astronauts and nasa itself within the contract yes the contractor hes known among the astronauts hes known among contractors and certainly had nasa hes very famous and he has a signature im signing off on materials and designed. Incredible to hear someone say he was famous. I cant believe that its just yeah wow so everything your parents told you was true. One story they did tell me you know its national its engine is on contract is and i discussed could have ended the entire Space Program. On january 27th 1967 the crew of apollo one. Roger chaffee gus grissom and ed white were carrying out a routine test with the plugs out test a kind of dress rehearsal for launch when it went disastrously wrong. Her and her. Everything was going to. When suddenly the control room had one of the crew shouting over the intercom there was a fire in the capsule. Some wire had sparks and in a pure oxygen environment of course the fire. The 3 astronauts were dead within 90 seconds while succumbing how lunar module pilots were close 7 was also a member of the backup crew for apollo one he had been in the same spacecraft just the night before taking past a similar task to the prime crew was a real shock because we had done the test before almost same test and we were awaiting the next day for roger to forment with the plugs haskells. So we were all going to fly back together and by Late Afternoon they had been so many delays and little problems. In the space craft that we found beside them about 5 oclock we were going to take off we flew back by ourselves wally donna. The shot we had was when we landed back here in Ellington Air force base and used to just walk in change or. Leave our helmets and drive home but there was the. Operations officer was there reading as we know theres something wrong when inside and he told us about fire and the crew had died. So it was a shock to us and so we really started trying to find out what had happened and of course. Going by seeing the surviving spouses doing what you do after somebody a friend gets killed like. Gus grissom and Roger Chaffee were buried at Arlington National cemetery the resting place of the nations heroes. At whites family buried him at west Point Military academy in new york. I think its very moving to come face to face with the real graves because it makes them more real obviously. To see their names and just to see them along all the other graves of military man these men died for that country in a way that i think they never expected to die and i think thats whats also so hard. On the ground on a daily test but no one expected to be fatal and i think thats probably what was hard for the families is that they died in the in the development stages they didnt die in space it was just considered to be among. In friday. The Space Program was suspended for 18 months while a Major Investigation looked into just what had gone wrong and advised changes to be made among them the hatch of the capsule was redesigned to make emergency escape much easier and the air inside it was changed to a less flammable mix of nitrogen and oxygen the new challenge for grandpa and the crew systems team would be to make the whole command module fireproof and crucially the space suit was specifically redesigned to be made from non flammable material the fire was a timing point in the Space Program it brought about the realisation that not just the most obviously dangerous scenarios needed caution even a routine test on the launch pad could be fatal after the investigation into the fire closed all eyes were on what new fire proof suit the apollo astronauts would wear and who created. 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Say they will take no further action after being called to the home of Boris Johnson the leading candidate for Prime Minister and his partner that there had been reports of a domestic incident johnson will become the next british Prime Minister if he wins a runoff vote against foreign secretary jeremy hunt next month he would replace to resume a who resigned after failing to deliver briggss. A deal acceptable to parliament theres the headlines ill be back with a new sound a little over 25 minutes for the lets get you back to aljazeera correspondent. My grandfather Matthew Radnofsky was well known for working with the contractors who competed for the chance to design and build the new apollo space suit one company. Went to Great Lengths with a publicist a stunt that showed destitute playing american football and winning the nasa contract by a touchdown. Show has extensively researched the development of the seats in his spacesuit fashioning apollo he tells me that in the early sixtys ill see dover was a comparatively Small Company best known for making womens underwear under the brand name playtex even at the time people in nasa called playtex partially as a cult like we call it. By their nickname partly as a kind of like can you believe were dealing. Despite the companys lack of experience making protective clothing the flexible and highly intricate design made to clear winner and incredibly after they won the nasa contract skilled seamstresses whod previously been sewing bras and girdles were moved to the painstaking job of assembling the apollo space because the suit ended up being put together out of 21. 00 layers of fabric and like 21. 00 layers of proper just cut out like a like a sandwich and some together but actually 21 different suits put one inside of the other like a russian ball and then. To a 643 inches tolerance without any pins because the pins high puncture the pressure layer this was a kind of. Hercules nor olympic feat of sewing and to find people who could do it they looked to the so as they were called that they already employed her of course girdle side even though it was like 2 sides of the same warehouse and then these women who are the ones who are. Put the seats together and i actually figured it out and there were no drawings all of the scenes and they were just kind of schematic drawing that told you how to put to put it together the knowledge is really only in the fingertips of these women. And theyre going to says that during the research for his book my grandfathers name came up. Health and is that does that come up is it something that was it was it something that that seemed to be very frustrating because in fact the particular role that mind reading of all these documents is that you know there are 2 people kind of people in any organization theyre the people who follow the rules and the people who get things done and allow the rules to be mostly followed and i think that your grandfather seems to me to be definitely in the latter camp i mean he was in this conflict and the egos around this were. I mean planetary scale you had the most public geo political event of the late 1960 miles and you had all of national prestige. On the line nobody want to be the person to screw it up very well my impression is that he was an absolute pain in the ass when he needed to be that he was charming when he needed to be in a they say in in these situations you need these ringmaster figures who are able to channel and shepherd the energies of organizations to produce productive results and your grandfather definitely seems like one of the most important ones when it came to all the things which actually kept astronauts alive which in many ways were the most important principle. Many of my heroes from the Apollo Program and no longer with us so fin