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32 went to loveless clinic, and i was the only guy to flunk. >> reporter: how come you didn't pass the mercury physicals? >> i had what was known as a high bilirubin, which is pink in your blood. >> reporter: and you said when were you a boy, you would be into dinosaurs or rockets. >> when i didn't get into the mercury program, the original selection, i said, i was interested in rockets before those guys could spell it. now he? . >> it began with the goals of putting a human in orbit and doing so before the soviets did. on the second count, they failed. three and a half years after the sputnik...

32 went to loveless clinic, and i was the only guy to flunk. >> reporter: how come you didn't pass the mercury physicals? >> i had what was known as a high bilirubin, which is pink in your blood. >> reporter: and you said when were you a boy, you would be into dinosaurs or rockets. >> when i didn't get into the mercury program, the original selection, i said, i was interested in rockets before those guys could spell it. now he? . >> it began with the goals of putting a human in orbit and doing so before the soviets did. on the second count, they failed. three and a half years after the sputnik...

Dominance. but in a world where americans dug bombshelters and worried about missal gaps, science spelled national security. >> the cold war had been prolonged. it was going on. nobody could really see an end to it.n there were all of the under lying risks of nuclear confrontation at the time. >> the next step in that race, manned launches that required a few good men, seven to start. >> there was 110 originally people selected by the air force and the navy to become astronauts. it widdled down to 32 after the interviews and things like that, 32 that went to the clinic. i was the only guy to f...

Spelled "national security." >> the cold war was prolonged, it was going on and no one could see an end to it, and there were underlying risks of nuclear confrontation. >> the next step in the race was manned launches that required a few good men, seven to start. >> there were 110 originally selected to become astronauts by the air force and navy and it became a list of 326789 i was the only guy to flunk. i had what was known as pink pigment in the blood and they said, well, you know, you are out. >> you said at time when you were a boy you were not into dinosaurs. >>guest: when i did not get ...

32 went to loveless clinic, and i was the only guy to flunk. >> reporter: how come you didn't pass the mercury physicals? >> i had what was known as a high bilirubin, which is pink in your blood. >> reporter: and you said when were you a boy, you would be into dinosaurs or rockets. >> when i didn't get into the mercury program, the original selection, i said, i was interested in rockets before those guys could spell it. now he? . >> it began with the goals of putting a human in orbit and doing so before the soviets did. on the second count, they failed. three and a half years after the sputnik...