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science is the fact that these navy and civilian divers put their lives on the line for the benefit of new science and for at that time national security just as surely as the heroic spacemen do, but nobody cares a whit about these men. nobody even notices what they do. >> well, perhaps the navy should do oral histories as nasa's doing with space flight. since we are dealing with space flight, though, let's deal with other astronauts of the "mercury 7" group. if so -- once the telephone stops ringing, we'll pick up again. >> i was asking, let's get back on a space track. this is prim...

so we went up to the naval air development center at johnsville where they had a 50-foot human centrifuge up there. they could mount the capsule, mount a similar thing with a cockpit on it at the end of this 50-foot arm. if you went out there and you were out at that 50-foot arm at the end of it and you're lying down like this in the bottom of this thing and it's going to turn and go around like this, as it went around then, it turned up like that so that your body was taking the gs out here and we got up, we rode that thing at lower levels first, but finally got up to 16 gs, and tha...

american flag in this winter's olympic games. as annie mentioned, we at ohio state are blessed to be the home of the john glenn instituted for public service, public john gle. the distinguished director is with us this evening, debra merit. debra, would you please stand? thank you. inspired by john glenn's career and his vision, the institute is having a major impact on our students, faculty and programs. just ask the students from tins tut's washington internship program who are here this evening. we gather this evening on the 40th anniversary of senator glenn's historic flight to h...

that, and that we would do is start the machine, you'd be going around, you would get your high gs out here as you went around. and then as you went around, they would in three seconds, you would reverse this capsule out on the end so that your gs went from in to out to on the straps. and so, we started this out low at about 2 gs and worked it up slowly. most of the tests we did all through the whole program were not ones where the doctors did them ahead of us, but on that one, for some reason, whether bill augerson, one of the doctors, was working ahead of us on that and we went up ...

Worms. iran is not giving details except that it will come back to earth, and officials in iran implying that the animals survived. observers think it is more about prestige and rocket researchp saying there is little other value to such a mission. u.s. launched monkeys and a dog into space. an important advance came two years later when the u.s. launched a monkey named sam. he experienced three minutes of weightlessness before he parachuted successfully to earth. and a chimp name was in space before al shepard late their year. let's go to jack cafferty. do you remember those incidents? >> tho...