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... their counterparts over there. But I also worked with the flight crews and the nine guys, which were working somewhat independently. Sometimes we had joint meetings. So I'd go to ... Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Yet nobody knows who they are. You could send three guys, four guys, seven guys or gals to Space Station and you could go to State Street in Chicago ... ever really know yet. “Jim, God, you got to tell us about Apollo 13.” These guys experienced -- they all experienced the same thing in some degree or another, a product of ...

... , chemistry, mathematics, electronics, that type of thing. Went back to the University of Tulsa, those guys were nowhere near as academically famous, but they had all been long practitioners in the ... 8 and talk to these wonderful, wonderful NASA machinists. We have since fired all those guys, unfortunately, terrible, terrible error, in my view. But these were civil service machinists. Many of ... we do about that? So all the SR&QA Safety, Reliability, and Quality Assurance guys and the program guys and everything were all concerned. Henry said, “Norm, what do you think?” and ...

... to California, like in a week, they started a background investigation on me, so a guy from the Office of Personnel Management showed up and started. I said, “Well, I’m ... , “You know, you really should be blue. You really don’t belong with those red guys.” laughs '''Wright:''' The International Microgravity Laboratory IML , this was the second time it had flown ... have many—they still don’t have many astronauts. He was a young guy, and a good-looking guy, and he had just gotten married, just before we flew, to Steffi Stefanie ...

... strain the travel budget." They were sarcastic things, but the more sarcastic, the better the guys liked it. '''Butler:''' It certainly was a unique environment. '''Pavelka:''' It was different. And there ... whoever. The trench is certainly known for its colorful characters. We've heard about you guys from many different flight controllers and flight directors we've talked to. So I wondered ...

... , flashcards, all these sorts of things, to try to teach the pilots the good guys from the bad guys. Then I applied for a job at Shepard Air Force Base, Texas . They ... technical utility for it, the Center director looked down to my boss and said, “You guys need to develop some procedures to make sure that this occurs.” Otherwise, you know how ... used in the painting depicting the Earth in the lobby of Space Center Houston. The guy really carried too heavy of a load. '''Wright:''' You also, though, were doing double duty ...

... arm. They took it really seriously; these are very competitive people. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' The old guys broke their arm and ankle? '''Coats:''' I can't remember who broke what, but I remember we were playing touch football ; remember the old guys were 29 guys, and of course we were 35, but six of them were women, so we ... , and time passed pretty quickly. But it turns out the time evaporated. Most of the guys that left the office finally, the reason they left the Astronaut Office and quit flying ...

... study of planetary science with a heavy overlay of Flash Gordon and whoever the other guy was. '''Kelly:''' Can I ask you a little bit about your astronaut selection process and ... that followed, and the training that was done for those was done primarily by the guys involved specifically addressing the particular equipment they had and the particular objectives of their EVA ... us and our three wives, some people from NASA Headquarters, Julian Scheer, the public affairs guy, and some others. It was a small and friendly and compatible group. We got to ...

... did all that pioneering work. Have you talked to Joseph G. “Guy” Thibodaux yet? Great guy. Memory like a hawk. That guy has got an incredible memory, a fabulous memory. Names and details ... blatant favoritism that led to the selection of Rockwell to build the Apollo spacecraft. Those guys didn’t know crap about ballistic vehicles. They were great airplane builders. The only reason ... time? '''Jackson:''' I was in the Experimental Program Office with Bob Robert O. Piland. Great guy. That’s where I developed a lot of my management style. He was that way ...

... , in his German accent, "Obviously a malfunction." That answered the question. Laughter We had a guy on the committee that was a Republican from Pittsburgh named Jim Fulton. Jim was an ... of some other projects and built it. He was an operator, and a very interesting guy. He made a tremendous contribution to the American Space Program. He was innovative. Today he ... were flying in the Confederate Air Force. They really cracked down on them, because these guys were all AAA personalities. I mean, they were not potted plants. And they loved to ...

... drive out there. I’m going out there, too.” About halfway through Cocoa Beach, the guy introduced himself, “Hey, by the way, I’m Gordo L. Gordon Cooper Jr. .” This was ... had procedures that we had developed for integrated troubleshooting procedures for the configuration when these guys were parked. So this was this entire process of growing up and learning in Flight ... of simulated time making these procedures right, but they still had flaws in them. My guys studied the systems from the ground up. We built the schematics. We’d write the ...

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