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In the times. >> man wants it that required a few good men 7 to start with. >> there was 110 selected by the air force and navy. it whittled down to 32 after the interviews. 32 of us went to the clinic and i was the only guy to fly. oo i i had a high belly reuben which was a pigment in your blood. based on that they said well you are out. >> at the time your little boy was into dinosaurs and rockettes. you were not into dinosaurs. >> when i didn't get into the mercury program i was interested in rockettes before the guys could spell. >> project mercury began in 1958 with the goal to put a huma...

of whitney houston. today. [ applause ] . >> opening the service, joe carter pastor of the new hope baptist church in newark, new jersey, the church that houston grew up. the four horse that fold were mournful, reverent and ultimately joyous. >> there was a grace that carried. a grace that carried her from heaven down through mr. houston, a grace that brought her up from speaking. from what i understand she wasn't supposed to speak let alone sing. there was a grace that carried her through. the same grease led her all the way to the top of the charts. sold all of these albums and jus...

Least the fans are acting like they're drinking already. >> and it's only 011:19 on the east coast. the darren was pointing out they use recycled paper nowadays. in 1951 world war ii military hero and icon general douglas mcarthur and march 1st, 1962, the mercury program,s john glenn, celebrating his moon orbit. these are images that you can't get out of your mind and then in 1990 future south african president nelson is mandela newly freed after 27 years in captivity. indelible images. some are asking for similar parades to honor veterans of the iraq war, heroes, but with soldiers still ser...

Astronauts. we knew that the russians had cosmonauts that would follow like the dog. i think we expected that the mercury program would set the pace and would lead toward the apollo program but we were smart enough to fill the gap with the gemini program and that gave me through being in the right place at the right time an opportunity to fly on gemini 12. so i think, we, sort of lagged behind but it was gemini 10, 11 and 12 that caught up. but then of course we were set behind again he about the apollo 1 fire that took my good friend ed white and we celebrate now with the three tragedies of a...

Generation of engineers, a new generation of scientists, which led to the mercury program, the apollo program, a man walking on the moon and the internet. can we make that type of, again, long-term investment? the reason i didn't like the stimulus bill, had you come to me with a $2 trillion stimulus bill and said we're going to build lightrail across the country, focused on next generation of energy development, okay, that sounds like an investment. but those type of bills are impossible to pass in america today, aren't they? forget the deficit and the debt aside. >> you've got to understand, ...