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... in the area, and we’d moved then from Boston down to Newport News. I had an aunt and uncle that worked there. He was vice president at Newport News Shipyard for ... Concord, Massachusetts. I remember, for some reason, part of the debate about forming NASA and President Dwight D. Eisenhower deciding to do it and it starting, but even then I didn’t know that ... , flying Apollo-Soyuz, and having it be successful. For whatever the political reasons, going from President Richard M. Nixon to Gerald R. Ford to James E. Carter, after Apollo-Soyuz’s ...

... thing… These atmospheric electricity guys… were eleated over that. "Oh, look, they triggered lightning." They'd been studying trigger lightning… and here’s an actual case. It was a big deal ... here and went to Rockwell, told them what I wanted to do, and the president, fortunately the president wanted to do that. In fact, I went and talked in front of the ... 't know exactly what the deal was. In fact, there was a vice president, one of the vice presidents who worked for Pan American was a Chinese guy that was involved with ...

... be hungry for information. The TV systems used on Apollo were not without controversy. When President Kennedy issued the challenge to successfully land men on the moon and return them safely ...

... . That was the foregone conclusion, that they were building this new Space Center outside Washington, D.C., and this group was just temporarily housed at Langley to eventually move there. I ... —in fact, going back a step, actually, right after Alan B. Shepard's Jr. mission, President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to land on the moon by the end of ... a few miles up, really, comparatively a few miles up, and all at once the President is saying that we're going to go to the moon, with men, and bring ...

... being conducted for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Sandra Johnson is the interviewer and is assisted by Rebecca Wright. I want to ... much do they need to know about the systems? And so on. '''Johnson:''' In 1984, President Ronald W. Reagan announced the Space Station. How was that received by the astronauts? Was ... his announcement, but it was kind of like the same feeling we get when the President comes out and gives our “new vision” speech just last month. Wow, you know. It ...

... active Junior ROTC Reserve Officer’s Training Corps program in the high schools in Washington, D.C. The program was mandatory for tenth graders and voluntary for eleventh and twelfth graders ... there, traveling in and around the capital city. I was a special guest of the President, Didier Ratsiraka. My wife, though I spent all of my time at the right hand of the President, my wife was escorted by the Prime Minister. During that time, we visited what was ...

... = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Charles D. Walker header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Aug 29 1948 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 ... May 1986, Mr. Walker was appointed Special Assistant to the President of McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company, working in Washington, D.C Mr. Walker has been an industry member of the NASA ... served as the volunteer chairman of the board of directors of Spacecause, and is past president and a current board director of the National Space Society. He is also currently a ...

... ; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Kathryn D. Sullivan header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Oct 3 1951 header4 = label4 = Birth Place ... satellites and marine biodiversity. From 1996 to 2006, Dr. Sullivan served as President and CEO of COSI (Center of Science & Industry) in Columbus, Ohio. Under her ...

... -before mission being planned? '''Brand:''' Well, the agreement to have the mission was made between President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin of the Soviet Union in 1971 ... and fulfill before that docking could actually take place. '''Brand:''' Well, I was, I’d guess you’d say, command and service module specialist. Deke was docking module specialist. Tom was boss ...

... : ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = James D. A. Van Hoften header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Jun 11 1944 header4 = label4 = ... and construction business for the defense and space markets. He is currently Senior Vice President and a partner in Bechtel and is presently located in Hong Kong as ...

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