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... to go up. I wanted to stay a while. Long drawn-out answer to a short question. '''Wright:''' Very good answer, thank you. You knew when you launched that it would be ... outstanding engineering schools in the country. I don't have an answer for that one. I don't have an answer for the naval aviator one either. But I'm proud of ... there, what it really felt like, what it really looked like, answering the same questions that I tried to answer in the book. Were you scared? On and on and on. People ...

... of questions that to the reporters were eminently reasonable, but, of course, you can't answer that kind of question at this point. Finally the phone stopped ringing, and a couple ... out. '''Butler:''' As you were going through, you mentioned, of course, the media was wanting answers right away, but as the people you were working with at NASA or with the ... some reservations? '''Covert:''' I think it depends on the person and on the situation. The answer is yes, there were reservations, particularly—I had a very vigorous argument with Mr. Rogers ...

... , for printed materials, fact sheets, photographs of astronauts. Kids would write questions, and we’d answer their questions. During the Apollo 8 mission we were receiving literally thousands of letters commenting ... . But it was an exciting mission. '''Wright:''' Did you write the answers to those, from you, or was that a formulated answer? '''Biggs:''' No, we developed on the computer—by now computers ... ? We developed one on that, put it on the shelf. So, many of these answers could be answered then with one or more fact sheets. But many of them were tailored, were ...

... the American focus shifted to reusable spacecraft? '''Cohen:''' Well, I really think that the ultimate answer for reducing the cost of a pound of payload to orbit is by you doing ... much like the question was asked about solids versus liquids. There's almost no right answer, because history said we always went unmanned prior to manned. The real issue that swayed ... first. That's a very, very good question. It's a very hard question to answer. '''Bergen:''' You've had an amazing career, and we appreciate you sharing the highlights of ...

... read about in all the training manuals and all the stuff you've gotten in answers from other people. Maybe you ought to ask that differently. What are you driving at ... :''' I don't know. That's an interesting question, but I don't know the answer. Well, let me see. In the first place, everything worked on Apollo 11 so extraordinarily ... the biggest challenges you encountered in your career were. '''Collins:''' I don't know the answer to that either. The biggest challenge. I don't know. Again, going back to this ...

... found out that the scoring system was based, not only on getting the right answer or the wrong answer, but how long it took to make your choice . So, you’re cumulative ... which I learned in college that if you have an essay answer to write and you don’t know the answer just start mumbling because most of the professors are bored and ... DNA or something?’ It’s amazing how many astronauts will answer those question s and think they really do know the answer s . … A lso it was clear that many of the ...

... there was one particular question they asked me that I knew when I answered it, I didn't answer it very clearly, and that was, "Have you ever done anything for which ... it? Fortunately, by having experienced the actual hardware in the testing, we were able to answer those questions as it went, and allowed the mission to continue. We did power down ... they drive the system by their activity, and the interrelationship, I guess, is the right answer. Well, John Young one time was complaining his eyes were burning and we thought it ...

... . Then the end of the blackout comes and we call them, there's no answer. There's no answer. We're all saying, "Oh, no." I mean, "No, no, no, not after ... can find some resources there that we need here, but I think there's an answer somewhere in there. The Earth's population keeps getting larger and larger, and regardless of ... , "Well, what are you going to do about it?" And I don't have that answer, unfortunately, that's what's frustrating. I hate to complain without having some proposed solution ...

... -shovel work as those guys came on over from Gemini. Don’t know if that answers your question or not. '''Wright:''' It does. And we were talking then about the unmanned ... leave it on? Do you turn the platform off? All those questions had to be answered. MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts , who was responsible for the on-board software ... did you take away from STS-1? '''Deiterich:''' Well, that’s kind of hard to answer. '''Wright:''' Were there a lot of modifications for the next few flights? '''Deiterich:''' No. I ...

... some kind of understanding of what they were doing there. Your next question? Did I answer that adequately? '''Rusnak:''' Sure. Well, it just seems that the Mission Control Center, no matter ... flight director asks you a question, and Rod says basically, he’d pause before he answered him and thought about it. Perhaps you may notice it, I do a little of ... kind of developed, it was unwittingly, but when I call somebody on phone and they answer it, they said they always knew it was me if when they said, “Hello,” nobody ...

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