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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Nov 07, 2020

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

Long
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Nov 07, 2020

It's been a long way, but we're here.

Business
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Nov 07, 2020

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Feeling
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Nov 07, 2020

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

History
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Nov 07, 2020

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Nov 07, 2020

And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

Duty
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Nov 07, 2020

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

Nov 07, 2020

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Discipline
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Nov 07, 2020

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Getting
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Nov 07, 2020

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

Clean Up
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Nov 07, 2020

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Becoming
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Nov 07, 2020

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

How
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Nov 07, 2020

Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

Nov 07, 2020

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.

First
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Nov 07, 2020

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

Attitude
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Nov 07, 2020

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

Nov 07, 2020

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.

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