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... selected astronauts for ten years. The last group, I believe and I might not be exactly right about the date, but I think the last group came in in 19 ’68, ’69. It ... be in almost any job title reporting mostly anyplace, if they’re the right people and doing the right job. What we tried to do was streamline it and make it so ... , as part of that program, because it was so important to have the right engineering work done, the right operations work done, and then to have a science input. Scientists, we always ...

... the training group, if you please, … they would farm you out to the different groups. Like the first job I had was out to the powerplant group, and so the powerplant group give me ... 're going to take it anyway." So they decided they would form a project group. Now, the project group, it consists of the people that was going to design it and the ... was kind of a technical assistant to the group president, and we were over the Rocketdyne people, too. So they blew up one engine right after the other. They had instigated the ...

... responders to the study contract, and that kept a lot of people at Space Task Group busy reviewing what they had submitted. And then, of course, this simulation I mentioned for ... Skylab, you went to McDonnell-Douglas Corp. to oversee the orbital workshop. '''Ewart:''' That's right. '''Bergen:''' As you mentioned earlier. How was this experience different than working with North American ...

... if they were ill or not. '''Wright:''' Do you feel you were in the right place at the right time? '''O'Hara:''' Oh, yes, there's no question. People have said, well ... always surprised me, at least particularly during the Mercury Program. Asked to speak to various groups all over the United States, and I hated it with a passion. I absolutely hated ... and it wasn’t earth-shattering if such-and-such didn’t get done right, right as scheduled or right at ten o’clock. It took me a long time to learn to ...

... starting, and we would do everything, testing all kind of hardware, trying to get the right size and shape and everything for the capsule. They would use smaller planes that they ... to Langley because I had officially been assigned to the Space Task Group. He had said, "The Space Task Group will never survive in the long run. It will fade out. They ... the dirt road, using their searchlights, checking to see if all personnel was in their right positions. Now, we all knew what crawled through those bushes at night: large ants, lizards ...

... , and he said, "Yes, yes, yes, but we did get the alarm, right?" Yes. "So that was an error, right?" "No, George " Laughter "The alarm was merely telling you that the computer ... know…we started to reorganize, and instead of an Apollo group, they talked about a NASA group and somebody to run the NASA group. There was a brief instant there whe n I ... Somehow or other they divided everybody who was in the Apollo Program…into seven groups. …Each group would go out to lunch with a particular astronaut, and one of the astronauts didn ...

... to develop more of my right-brain capabilities that I began to see how different the group is here and the group of artists I know who are mostly right-brained. You know, they ... not catching on to the left-brain part; they're catching on to the right-brain part. The right-brain part makes perfect sense to them, but the left-brain part doesn ... right—looking back, that isn't—if I could have recognized that everyone was searching and that to take more of a position—also, they look to astronauts as leaders of groups ...

... USGS U.S. Geological Survey or Bellcom Inc. ? '''Bennett:''' USGS was some of the scientist groups and everything and, like I said, they had their strong opinions about where they wanted ... chief? '''Bennett:''' Just coordinate all the guys together and be sure we had the right people on the right jobs there. I wasn’t the technical expert in those. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Is ... term negative margin. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' I understand that you retired from NASA in 1982. '''Bennett:''' Right. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Can you tell us why you decided to retire at that point? '''Bennett ...

... Dick Richard B. Ferguson, who was a Branch Chief in the new group down here, the Space Task Group that had moved down, and they offered me about the same amount of ... career. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Yes, you’ve been all over. '''Chaffee:''' Been all over the place, right. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' When President Kennedy came down, did you get to meet him? '''Chaffee:''' No ... problem that we had; that we didn’t have the filters in the right place and with the right capacity . Well, that came a long at a time where we were able ...

... . But I wonder, at that time, your impressions of the rest of the Mercury group. '''Cooper:''' One of the things that impressed was I realized immediately that the Navy ... correct. '''Neal:''' And Leonov eventually wound up being commander during Apollo-Soyuz. '''Cooper:''' That’s right. '''Neal:''' Alexei. How about Belyayev? '''Cooper:''' Belyayev died about 3 years later of pneumonia. ''' ...

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