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NASA astronaut Michael 'Rich' Clifford died late on Tuesday at the age of 69. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1994, but kept the disease a secret to finish out his career as an astronaut.
You had more time to sit there and wait before the launch, but these 15 minutes or so, 16, 15 minutes, i would imagine those are going to feel kind of long. >> there's two things going on. one is you've got stuff to do. that's getting all of the things configured right, getting the straps that will hold you securely, getting those done right. getting all your gear in the right place, all the stuff that they rehearsed for, that they trained for. but then suddenly, there's nothing to do. and now all you really have to do is think and imagine about what's going to happen and listen to your heart ...
But those that never let failure stop them and it's important not to give up on it especially the first couple of tries. you have to keep at it. >> you have a ph.d and eye surgery. >> not surgery, training. >> the third time i was rejected it was because i couldn't read the eye chart well enough and this was over 20 years ago before they had lasik and these other ways. so i had to train my eyes to see better. i don't want to scare the flight surgeons back in nasa. i didn't do anything to my eyes. i want to make sure -- yeah. no, i did a little training to help my eyesight. >> that's amazing. o...
You know pilots shop around good flight surgeons to take their medicals from, and pilot unions historically have had very tough relationships with management and they are rightfully fearful that if they self-report on issues like fatigue, on alcohol abuse, on drug abuse, on mental health issues they are terrified that their careers are going to be hurt. and, frankly, companies have the right to say, listen if this guy's drinking i don't want him in the cockpit. it is a very tough issue, but the first thing we have to do is start to have some real candor on everybody's part to examine it so tha...