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In your book, you talk about one of the episodes on one of the lunar landings where the camera didnt work and there was virtually sort of a coverup because they didnt want to show that. I wonder if you could go into that. One of the most exciting things, of course, about walking on the moon, being on the moon for the guys and everybody watching back at home, that was what was so incredible about the Apollo Program. Even for someone like me who is one of the wives once asked me when i went to interview her, where were you when we landed on the moon . How old were you . I said jo, i think i was moon dust. I wasnt born yet. Whenever you become fascinated with this subject, you can go there with the guys. All you have to do is look at the youtube footage, television footage they filmed. The incident you were just talking about was apollo 12, the Second Mission to the moon. Alan b ....
Marge said this is ridiculous. You are going into space. I cant go to the cape. What is going on out there . She tells him that hed better drive her out there and he hides her under some blankets in the back of his car and they go past military guards and she gets out there and pops up her hat and it is sort of a lonely beach jetties and scrub brush and what not. The whole country is dying for a cigarette. This is the kind of spunk and irreverence that these women brought to this brave new world of being an astronaut wife. You have seven women, all different walks of life, allen sheppards wife louise was very highbred. I think of her as the sabrina and audrey have removed character. She drew up as the gardeners daughter at longwould gardens and stayed on the east coast so when she met Jackie Kennedy she almost treated jackie like she was an old friend, they were two private school girls almost, getting to know each other. You have ....
Has had an enormous level of play drive, just a natural drive to chase and capture things when theyre waved in front of his face, throwing the ball and has to have an enormous amount of hunt drive, if i tease him by ball, throw the ball in the thick brush and let him go he will spend minutes using his nose, not his eyes but his nose to find the ball, he cant see it, he will sit there and you can watch, like nose on legs snaking backandforth and he will do that ended distractions if there is hot and water nearby or other dogs who have marked in the area, if theres traffic or somebody gunfire going of which are all things we may simulate to test dedication of the hunt drive for that dog and i want to make sure under all those circumstances he is still going to hunt which mimics a combat environment. If i take a dog who is distracted by food or a female or gunfire while asking him to search, when i send the dog over to and austere environment where he will be used to save peoples lives an ....
Facebook. Com booktv. Booktv is live from savannah, ga. Home to the annual savannah book festival we will bring you several authors including mike redmond, lily cobble, scott bird, john rizzo and debra solomon. We kickoff live coverage of the savannah book festival with gabriel asherman, author of the loudest voice in the room. Good morning, everyone. My name is alex gold and i am happy to welcome you to the seventh annual savannah book festival presented by Georgia Power. Into our new venue of the Lutheran Church of ascension which is made possible by the generosity of fred and john kane. Many of you have already attended our terrific special events with our opening and keynote addresses. Today your work is cut out for you as you choose which authors to visit during this day that offers dozens of announce writers to established astounding books in the last year. We would lik ....
From the 7th annual savannah book festival, the Astronaut Wives Club is discussed. Good morning. It is nice to be here. I heard there was a rumor i didnt make it out of new york city because of the weather so i am glad the volunteers believe this is me and i am here sharing the story with you this morning. I loved Great American stories and i love bee hives and a combination of those two things, as you will learn, led me tell this amazing, but looked over american story of our original asastronauts. We are going become to 1959 and the country is waiting for the announcement of the mercury 7th astronaut. It is the height of the cold war and we are looking to these seven men as our cold war care warriors. These silver suited space men who are taking us to the star and beyond. So you have these matcho test pilots on the stage and the reporters are raising their hands and i ....