Rogers Commission News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Presented. When she came back she shared her story with a world which is what you have to do when you were an astronaut. As part of a Public Relations thing. She most loved talking to children. She most loved the questions that children that asks first first because the pills were too embarrassed in the question eyes was how do you go to the bathroom in space . Sand lake cooked up a very simple explanation. Easy she said, its just like sitting on a vacuum cleaner. [laughter] sally also talked endlessly about what she had seen from space but the most important thing she saw was what she eyes de...

Metropolitan guy and he could not believe people could live on the farm with cows and neal couldnt believe living in a city like new york where you rub elbows all of the time. Host it was great talking to you. Guest and people should know you as cureerator for the smithsonian. Thank you for interviewing me. That was booktvs Signature Program in which authors are interviewed by people familiar with their material. It airs at 10 p. M. At saturday and 10 and 9 on sunday. You can watch it online as well. Go to booktv. Org and click on the upper right part of the page under topics. On the next wash...

I also took my mother to a launch. My mother was pushing 80 and loved it. Afterward she said it was perfect. She said i saw the horse and buggy. I saw the airplane and now this. I felt really good. When they landed a week later at Edwards Air Force base in california president reagan telephoned his congratulations and said to sally somebody said sometimes the best man for the job as a woman. You were there because you were the best person for the job which i think its absolutely true. Millions of people around the world agree particularly women particularly young women. They translated herbold...

Of the afternoon before sally was her picture was on every magazine cover, the most famous person on the planet. Every reporter at the Kennedy Space center wanted to see her command of your. Astronauts are put in quarantine for a couple of days before they fly so that we dont give them any stray germs that could really screw up the mission. Sally was in quarantine. Everyone wanted to know how she was. There was just a lid on the whole thing. I am sitting in our abc news workspace which was a trailer. The day before working on my script. The phone rings. Someone picks it up and says its for you...

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...