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... Beautiful Mind, about John Nash, they mention even seeing a rather young teenager at the wonderful mathematics teas, sitting at a go board... that was me, playing with Daniel Cohen.) There ... 's privacy.) In the final summer after Lawrenceville, before coming to Harvard, I had a wonderful summer intern job under a Dr. Karreman at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia. He had me ... today? Wells (who also write The Time Machine) wrote a story about that, called "In the Nation of the Blind." (I wonder why Disney never made a movie of that. They should ...

... were involved with this world tour. '''Barnes:''' Yes. '''Swanson:''' I was wondering if you could share some more insights and stories about that rather ambitious tour. '''Barnes:''' Well, it was the first ... , I have a copy of that. '''Swanson:''' In fact, he had some problems afterwards. I wonder how much this affected him, if there was any sign at the time of what ... to Jack R. Lousma, who is from Grand Rapids Michigan . '''Barnes:''' Oh, he's a wonderful guy. I went to Michigan twice with him. We went once to Lansing, he spoke ...

... here and gotten a new experience, found out that they liked the desert, the good, wonderful climate, the lower cost. And they, of course, were under higher wage here because they ... the smaller RCS engines, to get away from that. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' That’s an interesting story. '''Beckett:''' Well, it was interesting to meet those guys. And then later on, to have ... the test facility, you worked under a number of different NASA managers, and I was wondering if you could comment about their management styles and working with them during the Apollo ...

... to do it. '''Rusnak:''' You mentioned the DoD payloads and you told us an interesting story about—it related to that earlier, but can you talk about any of those with ... the vehicle looked the same as far as our engineering went. '''Rusnak:''' I was also wondering, how had you become involved with this whole area after having worked in Crew Systems ... some of the involvement you had with the investigation on the Challenger accident. I was wondering if you could elaborate a little bit on that. '''Bell:''' Yes, when that happened, of ...

... for Apollo, but everybody who was involved has their version of the story. Doc Charles S. Draper had his story . He personally knew Jim James E. Webb. Jim Webb was the NASA ... like going to your own funeral." You go to a funeral, everybody says all these wonderful things about you that you can't hear. So to hear people talking, extolling your ... 's going to look like when I see it in print. Laughter '''Wright:''' Just as wonderful as I heard it. Laughter '''Battin:''' It's funny, the other time I was interviewed ...

... very, very narrow. '''Wright:''' Your wife, I’m sure, takes partial credit for all these wonderful decisions. '''Gregory:''' Well, one day I will give her credit for that. Laughter '''Wright:''' There ... went to the same school that they went to. So it was a wonderful place. It was a wonderful place. Now, the heat and humidity was something that we had not been ... the 1820s, and this was the ancestor. So we got a different story over there that was the same story. The Queen’s Palace, by the way, burnt down, unfortunately, after 1990 ...

... nice compliment. '''Blaha:''' He’s really a nice man. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Any other anecdotes or stories you recall from training? '''Blaha:''' No, not really. I mean, we did our normal study ... a huge time compression. It just went by like that. Snaps fingers. And you almost wondered, “What did I see? What was this instrument reading at this time?” And I could ... remember time compression, significant time compression. Then at the end of the flight, I was wondering if I was going to have any problems. For whatever reason, it was like going ...

... in this vast universe. '''Wright:''' I believe Alfred M. Worden talked about being in that wonderful position of being able to see the Earth and the Moon, which you could not ... can you project this. He said, “Anywhere you want. I would say five stories high by eight stories wide you can project this thing, and it will still be sharp.” We were ... and I hired at the Smithsonian. Sure. '''Wright:''' That must be very rewarding. '''El-Baz:''' Wonderful to see the students of your students doing something tangible. Sure. '''Wright:''' Well, we’ve ...

... system and, ultimately, into the great Milky Way. Since the beginning of time, humans have wondered about the stars and the “wanderers” in the sky called planets. Ancient cultures built temples ... applied to building a permanent human culture. Imagine a gigantic building that is 10,000 stories (some 32 kilometers) high, representing 5 million years of hominoid evolution that has developed since ...

... , she couldn’t say that today, but at that time she said it, and I wondered to myself, “Now, why would I be interested in space food?” It was really odd ... , and came up, and after all that, and he thanked everybody and just gave a wonderful speech. I couldn’t believe that anybody that had been through all that could walk ... zero-G plane testing the package. There’s a lot of different side stories. An interesting side story up there is when you open this wine—I don’t know if you ...

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