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That was a test. My father had told me stories from sky lab about he had always seen the fires in the amazon and people were clearcutting it. I hadnt thought about it for 35 years. I remember when i was a kid, there were a lot of tv things about it about save the rainforest, shockingly you dont see much these day. Boy, is it still burning and so was big areas of the green belt through central africa, but for me, the great epiphany came on this day. This was probably day eightish. It was the first time i had after having that information about the earth pour into your mind, i finally saw a plac...

And checkout, of which i was the capcom, we just sort of moved over to apollo 11 for that same phase. And the only additional thing was going to be the landing. Apollo 10 went through the descent, didnt land. Came back up, aborted. Then rendezvoused. Well, were gonna do the whole thing. And so ive got to give Mission Control credit during this descent. And all of the troubles and problems that they had on apollo 11 on the descent. Mission control actually saved the day on just about every mission. Those 1201, 1202 warnings that could have aborted . Not really. We thought so. I thought so. This...

Period of time. An incredible amount of progress was made during that decade. What is interesting about that 50 years ago, still just over 500 people after 50 years have left the earth. That is not that many. We have been stuck in low orbit for a while. One thing apollo did do was, it was the opening bell if not responsible for the tech boom. It accomplish a great deal towards inspiring our generation to get it did inspire our generation to get into the tech industry. I am a game developer. Like so many people of my generation inspired by this, a lot of them turned back to space. Were way past...

When he was up there, he was thinking about the other side. He made several contacts from the space station. He can talk about that a little. His father, owen garriott, was the first ham operator to communicate from space to earth. I had richard and his father here a year ago and they are amazing. Richard has gone up to the space station, he trained in russia based several setbacks, he was not a nasa astronaut originally because of his eyesight but he found a way around it. Lets give it up for richard garriott. Thank you. It is always a joy to be up to her at the explorers club. You will see w...

Johnson wrote lectures for him for free. What he did was write his way to the stability of the truth. He just tried to describe accurately the world he tethered himself to that. Many of his effort is hims contain that stability, realism, intense honest realism. One is that a man of genius is seldom ruined by himself. It was an impressive struggle. That is the final thing we would say about solitude, i mean come about character. The people who have character are not the people who climb an external climb. If you see this dr. Seuss book it is about the external climb to success. The eulogy virtu...