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There i got into flight training. I became a naval aviator, and low and behold in 1958 nasa was formed and they were looking for astronauts. So i was one of the original 110 people selected to go for interviews. Lets go back to your Naval Academy days, you almost didnt go, is that right . That is right. I had two years at wisconsin. I informs a Naval Aviation program after world war ii. Have been the most important project in this century. I became the first alternate that usually doesnt make it, are and i got orders for the physical to be inducted into the academy if you so desired. And then ...

Explosion on board. The interview is from the Oral History Program at the Johnson Space center. This is the Johnson Space Center Original history project, may 25th, 1999, at the Johnson Space center. When you were a little kid, you saw a rocket go off and you said i want to do that . Is it that simple or that complex . You know, i was interested in rockets and astronomy long before the glenns and the shepherds of the world could spell rocket. I was interested in it way back in high school. I went to try and build some rockets. I wanted to be a rocket engineer, as a matter of fact. I wrote to t...

Science and precision is starting precisely at 2 30 and zero seconds. That is an auspicious way to begin this discussion. Earlier this year, on one of the hottest nights of the summer, nearly a half Million People crowded onto the national mall. They werent there for a protest or to celebrate a national holiday. And they werent there for a concert or to watch a fireworks show. No, instead a half Million People went there, drenched in sweat, to watch the story of the apollo 11 mission as it was projected onto the Washington Monument, commemorating the moment 50 years ago when Neil Armstrong and...

We will take on this case, it will be an honest detective story. Our broadcast will continue with alexander rogatkins documentary, the heaviness of zero gravity, on the international and soviet Intercosmos Program. How they selected cosmonauts for the First International corps, what the requirements were for the candidates and how their fate turned out after the flight to the mir orbital station, watch about it right now. The flight into space was preceded by months of training together with a backup. And now the vast experience accumulated by star city instructors in all climatic zones countr...

Our broadcast will continue with a special report by Alexander Rogatkin the severity of weightlessness, you will learn about the soviet Intercosmos Program. Dear comrades, today the soviet spacecraft soyuz tm3 departs. Joint flights with representatives of socialist countries had almost ended, but it was necessary to politically support the government of the Syrian Arab Republic. A delegation from the soviet union arrived and selected four people from the best syrian pilots. I was one of them. Then we flew to the soviet union and there, already during training, they chose two of them, and i fl...