- 3 months ago
- #onceupon
- #realityinsighthub
Once Upon a Time in Space Season 1 Episode 1
#OnceUpon
#RealityInsightHub
🎞 Please subscribe to our official channel to watch the full movie for free, as soon as possible. ❤️Reality Insight Hub❤️
👉 Official Channel: https://www.dailymotion.com/TrailerBolt
👉 THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
#OnceUpon
#RealityInsightHub
🎞 Please subscribe to our official channel to watch the full movie for free, as soon as possible. ❤️Reality Insight Hub❤️
👉 Official Channel: https://www.dailymotion.com/TrailerBolt
👉 THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Category
😹
FunTranscript
00:00:00Kristen, where are the rockets?
00:00:08The rockets.
00:00:12I grew up five minutes away from the Johnson Space Center in Clear Lake, Texas.
00:00:24It's a really sort of middle class neighborhood. Nothing too fancy about Clear Lake.
00:00:34But literally everybody's parents there worked for NASA in some way.
00:00:41You know, my first word was jet. Other than mama and dada, it was jet.
00:00:49What are these? Oh, a bunch of jets, huh?
00:00:53My mom used to wake my sister and I up every time there was a launch.
00:01:03And she does this ridiculous, like, woohoo, Godspeed, go, go, go. And she's like screaming.
00:01:15It was just something that was very normal, natural.
00:01:25It was all very routine.
00:01:29Some might say boring even.
00:01:37Give daddy a kiss.
00:01:39It wasn't until I went away to college that I realized how special and unique my childhood had been.
00:01:49And I remember the moment.
00:01:51It was first few weeks of my freshman year of college.
00:01:55And I'm in my dorm room.
00:01:57And I decided to take some psychedelics for the very first time.
00:02:03Magic mushrooms, to be specific.
00:02:05And I had this moment, like, a full psychedelic moment where I was like, holy shit, my parents are astronauts.
00:02:15I call my dad, it's like midnight.
00:02:19And I'm like, dad, oh my God, you went to space.
00:02:25You did a space walk.
00:02:27What was that like?
00:02:32And he kind of laughed and he was like, Kristen, go to bed.
00:02:37Call me in the morning and we'll talk about it.
00:02:39But that night completely changed how I view space and space flight and my parents.
00:02:50There's this whole universe out there and I don't know what my place in it is.
00:02:59But I want to find out what all of humanity is doing here and how far we can go.
00:03:04T-minus ten.
00:03:18Nine.
00:03:19Eight.
00:03:20Seven.
00:03:21Six.
00:03:22Six.
00:03:23Five.
00:03:24Six.
00:03:25Six.
00:03:26Six.
00:03:27Six.
00:03:28Six.
00:03:29Six.
00:03:30Six.
00:03:31Six.
00:03:32Six.
00:03:34Six.
00:03:35Four.
00:03:36Six.
00:03:37Four.
00:03:38Six.
00:03:39Eight.
00:03:40Two.
00:03:41Three.
00:03:42That's the right.
00:03:43Eight.
00:03:44Eight.
00:03:45Eight.
00:03:46Two.
00:03:47The public the 사람.
00:03:48People use the term.
00:03:51Is space becoming a warfighting domain?
00:03:55And my answer to that is the first time a human being went into space.
00:03:58It became a warfighting domain.
00:04:00Human beings don't know how to behave.
00:04:01don't know how to behave I think history will judge us pretty nicely they'll say
00:04:15those people had courage and they got us to the point where we can now take off
00:04:21and become space-faring nations in the cosmos all the people are equal they are earthians
00:04:51in Albuquerque New Mexico back in early 1960s just a short drive from my house you were out in the
00:05:13middle of the desert this is a homemade rocket that I built back when I was a teenager I would
00:05:26have walked out or maybe a couple hundred feet I would find a spot that was level and clear to set
00:05:35up my rocket bang and you'd see this thin trace of smoke as this thing headed up
00:05:46what would happen if you if you lit that now besides getting arrested by homeland security
00:05:54it's literally a pipe bomb you know this is the type of stuff people plant to blow up things and
00:06:00this one just happened to have fins on it
00:06:05we had a rocket club in high school where the chemistry teacher and this is remarkable when
00:06:11you think it would told us how to make some solid propellant rocket fuel which was wicked it was
00:06:17dangerous it's explosive but yet as a teenage boy you don't have a brain in your head and it never
00:06:22crossed my mind that I could get killed or maimed or injured doing it I just ran faster after I lit the
00:06:28fuse my parents were complicit in this they were helping me you know I'd mix up some propellant that
00:06:38had to be baked in the oven my mom was helping me do that where did this fascination with rockets come
00:06:46from where did it begin for you from my dimmest memories I was always interested in the sky
00:06:51everything associated with the sky my dad he was a world war ii aviator and Hollywood turned out
00:06:58a lot of movies about you know the heroics of our airmen
00:07:05going in low and fast is that the way you want to crash
00:07:11so here I was five six years old
00:07:14and I had visions of my father you know shooting down Japanese airplanes in his bomber
00:07:19and I wanted to be one of those pilots I wanted to be a fighter pilot
00:07:29and then October 4th 1957 was when Sputnik launched and I was reborn then I was reborn as a child of the
00:07:38space race Soviet scientists had made a major breakthrough a man-made celestial body for the
00:07:45first time in history flew into space after jettisoning the nose fairing the Sputnik started circling the
00:07:53earth in a pre-calculated orbit
00:08:00my dad was reading the paper mad as hell
00:08:05he had no idea what a satellite was he had no idea what that newspaper was talking about
00:08:11but all he knew is the Russians did it and we didn't and he was so angry at Eisenhower for being
00:08:17asleep at the switch for not having done it first you know whatever it was
00:08:24this is in the deepest darkest days of the cold war and Russia was our dreaded enemy and now
00:08:31here they had launched this satellite and it could have a bomb in it and everybody is fearful about that
00:08:36what happened sir what do you think about this achievement of the Russia it's frightening
00:08:43we should find out what they're doing that we're not doing
00:08:48at seven minutes past one this morning a man went around the world the spaceship
00:08:55was built in Russia the name of the man Yuri Alexievich Gagarin
00:09:00Russia greeted the hero saying now let the capitalist countries try to catch up
00:09:09we were embarrassed by them on world stage
00:09:13because our failures were so public they were running away with it they were running away with it
00:09:20the world's first woman astronaut valentina tereshkova
00:09:24the american public were clamoring you know you've got to beat the russians
00:09:37the exploration of space will go ahead whether we join in it or not and no nation
00:09:45which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space
00:09:55we mean to be a part of it we mean to lead it
00:10:00liftoff we have a liftoff 32 minutes past the hour liftoff on apollo 11
00:10:12as a kid i soaked up this patriotism you know we wanted nothing but evil to befall communism and we
00:10:20wanted america to be first
00:10:26still amazing when you think about it 12 years after sputnik we had men on the moon
00:10:40it is said that 500 million people gathered at tv sets around the world to wait for the first
00:10:46earthling to set foot on the moon never before had so many people been attuned to one event
00:10:52at one time you're a go for landing over i do understand go for landing
00:11:00picking up some dust three feet two and a half down four forward four forward
00:11:07dripped into the right a little
00:11:16i believe they're setting up the flag now you can see the stars and stripes on the limit
00:11:21coming out beautiful just beautiful uh neil and buzz uh the president of the united states would
00:11:30like to say a few words to you rover that would be an honor for every american this has to be the
00:11:39proudest thing of our lives but one priceless moment in the whole history of man all the people
00:11:48on this earth are truly one
00:12:02the world
00:12:14there was no black people doing that
00:12:18so that wasn't our world
00:12:23but we knew that we had friends
00:12:25who were going to vietnam and they didn't come back we understood war
00:12:39not only that in 69 we're still segregated out here
00:12:48lake city was a typical small town in south carolina
00:12:51we knew our place as black people
00:12:57growing up during the 60s it felt normal because that's the way it was
00:13:06we had our own black schools by law
00:13:14you had white water fountains and you had colored water fountains
00:13:21and we thought there were always something special about the white water fountain because
00:13:26why do we have two is that water better than our water
00:13:30some of us got the courage i was one of them i would look around and
00:13:35i'm going to take a sip it was just water
00:13:41the house that we lived in for most of our
00:13:44young lives it was quite dilapidated
00:13:46and ron and i lived in the same bedroom slept in the same bed
00:13:51my brother eric slept in the same bedroom on a fold-down couch
00:13:57we fought like dogs all the time like brothers would
00:14:01that's well that's ron and that's my dad and that's me and i still got that body in here somewhere
00:14:10the only connection we had with space was star trek that was it
00:14:13we saw ourselves there there was one person in particular
00:14:19lieutenant uhura take over navigation
00:14:22from the first time that we saw her on screen we were absolutely smitten
00:14:29oh she's she just took our hearts
00:14:32we've never seen a black woman on television that not only was a black woman but she was an officer
00:14:40but what i understand fourth in command of a starship
00:14:45so that told us that there is a possibility for us to have a future
00:14:50in space and i think ron and i both saw that though ron took it a little more serious a lot more serious
00:14:56than many of us flying in space was a fantasy that everybody had most kids wanted to see themselves
00:15:03floating around the moon and doing the type of things you saw on tv and so did i but it was only a
00:15:09fantasy he went to mit to earn a phd in physics and he did that by the time he was 26
00:15:23however there were some challenges between him and space how's he gonna get there
00:15:29first of all most astronauts were military they're all pilots the old were white men
00:15:40just a minor detail the probability of him becoming an astronaut that it wasn't there it wasn't there
00:15:48now you don't really have to be an astronaut have a billion dollars they'll get you in space somehow
00:15:52right right right so that was not an option
00:16:04is the orbiter ready to be rolled out yes sir the orbiter is ready
00:16:09as we witness today the rollout of the space shuttle we are on the verge of a new era
00:16:24not only in space flight but in the lives of men and women and children all across this earth
00:16:39the space shuttle is designed to carry satellites and scientists into and out of orbit for the
00:16:44next several decades it's as large as a medium-sized airliner and designed to be used over and over again
00:16:52like an airliner the key word is reusability to lower the cost of space flight the space agency has begun
00:17:00accepting applications for would-be astronauts who want to take part in the space shuttle program
00:17:05and the agency says it is committed to give women and members of minority groups a chance to participate
00:17:11each candidate will undergo a week of interviews psychological tests and medical exams 20 will
00:17:17be selected as pilots 20 will be chosen as mission specialists crew members who perform
00:17:22scientific and medical experiments in space
00:17:27this was the first selection that they didn't require you to be a pilot
00:17:30now they were going to take scientists because space shuttle was going to be a vehicle to do science
00:17:36with i was also told the plan at that time was to go to mars and they needed physicians on board
00:17:42what better physician an emergency physician come on we're the guys um we were so stoked i mean
00:17:51that's all we could think about from that moment tell me about meeting bill
00:17:56um so i was a third year medical student uh he was a year ahead of me we became interested in each
00:18:06other and then um we lived together got engaged and got married what was it that you liked about bill
00:18:13well one of the first things we talked about was space he'd wanted to be an astronaut since he was six
00:18:20years old this is from um i think it's october 1952 and the teacher says when we can keep billy down
00:18:31to earth and not let his mind wander to the clouds and rockets he is so much more willing to do his best
00:18:39so my mother writes back we have the same problem at home he is still extremely rocket conscious
00:18:47yeah i was very rocket conscious you bet and uh still am rocket conscious that's the way to be
00:18:56you know it was neat i just felt incredibly lucky that i met someone who felt the same way i did about
00:19:02everything i really believe that space exploration is man's ultimate destiny and i think the next new
00:19:11frontier is space and i want to be part of that pioneering effort
00:19:14it basically at the time i was growing up your options were to be a nurse a teacher or a secretary
00:19:25and none of those interested me
00:19:42it was really alan shepard's flight that motivated me he was the first american to go into space
00:19:50so at that moment i decided i wanted to be an astronaut but i never told anybody because i was
00:20:06afraid people would laugh at me here medicine seemed to me like the best potential option
00:20:14because in the back of my mind i thought and maybe if i don't get to be an astronaut i could be
00:20:20a doctor on a space station but that build concrete's hard harder than my head is
00:20:29ron gave me a call one day and he said hey man i don't know if i i should tell you this
00:20:37but i'm gonna be an astronaut so i'm looking at the phone i said you're gonna be a what what makes you
00:20:46think you're gonna be an astronaut and he said because i applied i said well how many people applied
00:20:54he said i don't know nine ten thousand i said well how many astronauts are they looking for
00:21:01they're looking for 35. at this time i knew my brother had lost it i'm thinking well i'm gonna be the pope
00:21:10so i mean i mean so we can we can we can play this all day you know the national aeronautics and space
00:21:20administration the day chose the 35 persons who arrived the space shuttle into orbit and back in the
00:21:261980s among the women selected four are single two are married one with three children i'm just hoping
00:21:33that i can do a good job and repay the confidence that nasa and all of these other people have in me
00:21:40another of the new astronauts is dr ronald mcnair it wasn't until recently that i saw a break to make
00:21:46a dream you know come true i rushed through the phone i said congratulations man you did it
00:21:52he actually did it i mean could this be happening he's about to take his own starship enterprise
00:22:03into space one of the six women chosen as astronauts is a medical doctor anna fisher learned of her
00:22:10appointment when a nasa official called to ask if she was still interested in the job oh you know i am
00:22:16i can't believe it i don't know what to say except thanks so much dr fisher's husband also was
00:22:31considered for the job of astronaut but william fisher was not chosen instead he'll move to houston with his
00:22:38wife you know i wasn't feeling bad at all i was happy for her i thought she was perfect for
00:22:46the job there wasn't one iota of resentment or of disappointment you know it was just yes for her
00:22:54no for me the 35 candidates begin two years of unisex interracial training at the johnson space center
00:23:02those who pass will become astronauts my friends said what you know like shy studious anna is going to be
00:23:12an astronaut nobody still quite believed it and i have to say that i almost didn't believe it myself
00:23:19still it just seemed so surreal and i realized it was you know historically significant shannon lucid
00:23:28she's a postdoctoral fellow oklahoma medical research foundation in oklahoma city but i didn't
00:23:34spend a lot of time thinking about it judith resnick product development with the xerox corporation other
00:23:41than being very happy that women were now being given the chance next is sally ride and thinking to
00:23:49myself now don't screw up who got to make sure that all of us succeed so that the women that come after
00:23:57us will have the same opportunities katherine sullivan ronald mcnair a mission specialist captain richard
00:24:07malign oh god look how young oh my god look like a child okay one thing i learned rapidly there the
00:24:17white males were invisible to the press i could have walked naked across that stage at that point nobody
00:24:22would have seen it because they were all focused on those women and african-american astronauts and mostly
00:24:28the women i certainly harbored my suspicions about the civilians and the women because i had never
00:24:37worked with civilians or women so i was suspicious of of them whether they were going to be able to
00:24:44really fill the role of an astronaut for 20 years in this country the word astronaut automatically meant
00:24:51a man but that's changed what happens when you meet a man and you say i'm an astronaut does he say
00:24:58yeah you're too cute to be an astronaut come on little lady you can't be an astronaut i just tell
00:25:03him i'm an engineer you don't tell me you're an astronaut not unless he asks i had been in combat
00:25:10and these people had done nothing but studied and been in laboratories and stuff like that
00:25:19i was in vietnam in 69 and 30 of my classmates out of the army academy died over there so it was a grim time
00:25:33this was a war against communism which we had all been taught was the greatest evil that existed
00:25:38so i wanted to be there i wanted to go do what i saw those heroic airmen doing in world war ii fight
00:25:44the enemy
00:25:51there's no way that a civilian i don't care who they are male female that a civilian
00:25:57is going to be able to equal that flying experience
00:26:03on the edge of a mangrove swamp south of miami
00:26:06where six women who want to be america's first female astronauts began their training survival
00:26:12training excellent a few had difficulty muscling themselves into life rafts but so did some of the
00:26:20men the only special consideration for the women was protection from photographers which they needed
00:26:28it was such a sense of belonging and such a sense of finally being where i wanted to be
00:26:34i guess because i studied so hard it was like the first time ever in my life i was ever able to just
00:26:40like really have fun as a little girl did you mostly want to grow up and be an astronaut a doctor or a wife
00:26:47and mother all of the above you know it was hard because you know i wanted to be real excited but i
00:26:54didn't want to you know uh make bill feel bad
00:27:09what was the motivation that kept you going because that must be tough well you know the answer to that
00:27:14they hadn't told me no they hadn't told me no they said go ahead and get another degree get more
00:27:20experience and come back when we have our next selection the space agency today selected 19 new
00:27:26candidates to be astronauts this is the second group of pilots and scientists to be selected
00:27:31specifically for the space shuttle program nasa's space shuttle program does not lift off until next year
00:27:37but it is getting a little pre-flight publicity with the announcement of a husband and wife astronaut team
00:27:43they are bill and anna fisher did it change things between you both no it was much easier after that
00:27:50because i didn't feel guilty about being selected and him not being selected and besides i had seniority
00:27:59my fellow citizens of this great nation i accept your nomination for the presidency of the united states
00:28:19for those who've abandoned hopes we'll restore hope and we'll welcome them into a great national
00:28:25crusade to make america great again
00:28:33t minus 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 we've gone for main engine start we have main engine start the very first
00:28:43shuttle launch was a very very big deal not just in nasa but to all us new astronauts because we didn't
00:28:49know we had a career yet to that point it was theoretical america's first space shuttle
00:29:00you see everybody getting a bigger bigger smile as we got further and further into the launch and then
00:29:05finally when we heard main engine cutoff meaning now you're safely in orbit we all just jumped up and
00:29:10cheered it was like oh my god this thing is working yeah it was like it is gonna work it's nearly six
00:29:17years since the americans had a man in space and in that time the russians have had dozens so on
00:29:22florida's space coast where the flight began there is a feeling expressed here with more gusto than
00:29:27grammar of an overdue triumph and of having got one back this put america firmly in the lead in space
00:29:36one of those moments where you just said proud to be an american you know we were able to pull this off
00:29:40today many people found themselves glued to tv sets so they could share a piece of history in the making
00:29:53the re-entry and landing were seen on television throughout virtually all of western europe
00:29:59the popular notion is that america needed a success columbia was seen to be it you said you do it and you
00:30:07beat the russians you beat everyone you spent a lot of money and you got troubles in your country you
00:30:11deserve success once again the soviets made only brief reference and as they have since the mission
00:30:18began concentrated on the shuttle's military potential and many people are concerned that the arms race will
00:30:25be extended to space the military was a big partner in fact the military drove some of the specifications
00:30:32for the size of the cargo bay you know they said hey we need a vehicle that can carry this type of weight
00:30:36into orbit so the military had a lot to say about the design of the shuttle and when you say military
00:30:43what does that we carry secret satellites you know and can you say what those payloads were
00:30:49no i can't talk about those that's still oh yeah still classified yeah right yeah you know these are
00:30:55you know national secrets you know you're sworn to secrecy on these things you don't talk about them
00:31:00the space program in general the shuttle program in particular going a long way to help our country
00:31:10recapture its spirit of vitality and confidence we must never forget that as long as there are frontiers
00:31:18to be explored and conquered americans will lead the way
00:31:26jet magazine yeah have a look yeah i i have this this is the epitome of rockstar right here
00:31:34i got this thing blowing up like this at my house to this day there's my brother there's my brother
00:31:42three black men in a space suit that was special that got me i was i was impressed
00:31:51i'm a one this is cm um i would say we're ready to go into the spin
00:32:00i was at the navy's test pilot school you're flying an airplane a place it's never been flown either
00:32:06you're flying a speed it's never been flown an altitude it's never been flown
00:32:09so you're just trying to make sure that it didn't tumble or do something bad
00:32:18every once in a while they come apart you lose the airplane
00:32:22and the guy flying it ends up bailing out
00:32:32and this was something you enjoyed doing mm-hmm loved it
00:32:39we had gotten word that there were three or four nasa t-38s coming in
00:32:44and so i went out to the flight line like a lot of us to greet them
00:32:47and then i saw this black guy get out and i went wow uh so i rushed out to meet him and introduce
00:32:54myself and when we had an opportunity i took him home to meet jackie meet my wife and kids
00:32:59i was mesmerized talking to him and as he left to go back to houston he asked me if i was going to
00:33:04apply for the space program i said not on your life and he looked at me real strange he said why
00:33:09not i said they never picked me and he paused for a moment and then he said that is the dumbest thing
00:33:15i ever heard how do you how do you know if you don't ask and i felt like that'd be
00:33:20great i said holy jeez that's why i say ron mcnair uh is my idol and my role model because he
00:33:31painfully reminded me that i had forgotten what my mom and dad taught me growing up
00:33:37that i could do anything i wanted to do
00:33:38but anyway i ended up being selected in the second group of spaceships last month
00:34:01just kidding that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard and he was right
00:34:05dr ron mcnair is 33 and becomes the second black american in space
00:34:11he's considered an authority in some types of laser physics
00:34:15but he's also an accomplished musician and an award-winning black belt karate instructor
00:34:27when room was selected for his first flight how did your mom and dad react
00:34:31well my mother got real nervous about that i mean her baby's going to go into space
00:34:38but my dad he's ready to pass out cigars i mean my board astronaut i mean it's different for guys
00:34:45we got down to about four seconds prior to liftoff when the main engines began to throttle up to 100
00:34:53all of a sudden the vibration set in like i've never seen before the countdown continued three two one
00:35:00that t minus zero i got a boop like i've never felt and that 404 million pound vehicle literally
00:35:09leaped off of the launch pan and we're on our way
00:35:13leaped off of the launch pan and we're on our way
00:35:22so
00:35:23go and throttle up
00:35:25Ron McNair may be in space, but his father's in heaven, thrilled to death that his son
00:35:45is aboard the shuttle.
00:35:46Oh, wow.
00:35:46Carl McNair has been monitoring the flight in the office of his auto body shop in Harlem.
00:35:52Ron was just a model kid.
00:35:54He was just perfect.
00:35:57And when Ron McNair comes back to Earth, it's a safe bet his father will still be on cloud
00:36:02nine.
00:36:03I just wish every father could have a son like I have.
00:36:08I need that.
00:36:10I've never seen that.
00:36:14Wow.
00:36:15That's an incredible piece because I haven't heard him say that much about it.
00:36:24Yeah, give me a moment.
00:36:30Okay.
00:36:35You okay?
00:36:35Yeah.
00:36:36I was thinking of my dad.
00:36:42I can't imagine what went through his head as an eighth grade dropout.
00:37:05Being the father of one of the first African American astronauts, I cannot imagine what he
00:37:17must have felt like.
00:37:18An astronaut at that time, the only thing that could be greater than that is perhaps to be
00:37:30the president of the United States.
00:37:32How about us giving a standing ovation to this wonderful crew?
00:37:47Thank you very much.
00:37:49Would all my family members please stand?
00:37:50Let me see who's here.
00:37:51All of them.
00:37:52I want to see who's here.
00:37:54All right.
00:37:56Great, great, great, great, great, great, great.
00:37:58It's incredible from slavery to space in four generations.
00:38:09Thanks a lot.
00:38:15NASA officials hope that today's successful launch will get them back on schedule for what
00:38:20should be a very busy year, critical to the space agency's future.
00:38:28The shuttle was not going to make any economic sense if it wasn't flying and flying often.
00:38:33In fact, the plan was 24 missions a year, a mission every two weeks.
00:38:38And so that translated into pressure on the agency to rapidly expand the shuttle flight rate.
00:38:47I remember sitting in meetings where some issue was being discussed.
00:38:52And one of the first things out of my mouth or other astronauts that might be in a meeting
00:38:58would be, what's this going to do to the schedule?
00:39:02In other words, how many weeks are we going to slip to fix this problem?
00:39:06So in a way, we were projecting the same sense of urgency.
00:39:11Hey, we got to get going.
00:39:12We wanted to fly and we wanted to fly often.
00:39:16And that trumped everything else.
00:39:18Every so often, I would just have to pinch myself and say, I'm just so lucky to be here.
00:39:34But of course, you're not a real astronaut until you've flown in space.
00:39:39Anna was pregnant, and there was some concern to how that would affect her flight status.
00:39:47No one else had gotten pregnant as an astronaut before.
00:39:52I am told, Anna, that you gave birth on Friday, then you were back to work on Monday.
00:39:58Is that so?
00:39:59And if so, how did you do that?
00:40:01I just was very fortunate, had an easy delivery and a very good baby.
00:40:05And I was feeling fine and very excited.
00:40:08I love my baby and I love work, and I wanted to go back.
00:40:12At pilot's meeting early, before the first shuttle flight, they told us, we expect to lose one in 25 shuttle flights.
00:40:21Four percent.
00:40:22John Young stood up.
00:40:25The astronaut who was chief of the office, he said, now I want to say something to you.
00:40:28If that four percent bothers you, if you're concerned, he said, leave, because there's a thousand people waiting behind you to take your place.
00:40:37The point was, you don't belong here, if that's a concern.
00:40:41You know, occasionally I would think, is it really going to be worth the risk?
00:40:54You know, something could go wrong, and this might be all the time that I ever am going to get with Kristen.
00:41:00So, since I knew that she would not actually remember me, we just took lots of videos.
00:41:12Who's that?
00:41:14Tell us who that is.
00:41:16Thumbs up.
00:41:17Who's that?
00:41:18I know there were some people who thought that what I was doing was wrong.
00:41:24Anna Fisher is a good astronaut.
00:41:26She's a good doctor.
00:41:27She's a good citizen.
00:41:28But is she a good mother?
00:41:30That will be the question on millions of minds when the first astronaut mother goes up, leaving a year-old daughter behind.
00:41:41I would say it was probably two-thirds like this and one-third supportive, you know.
00:41:51It probably wasn't 50-50.
00:41:54What's that?
00:41:55What's that?
00:41:56What's that?
00:41:57No.
00:41:57Oh, that's a space shuttle.
00:42:01Space shuttle discovery.
00:42:03Mommy's going to find a discovery in six weeks.
00:42:07I mean, I mean, I watched that and I think, thank God I wasn't older.
00:42:16Thank God I couldn't understand what was going on.
00:42:19I would have been so scared and so upset.
00:42:24I mean, it was a blessing that I was as little as I was.
00:42:27Kristen's too little to know it, but this is going to be my last night long, and I want to have a few minutes before she gets tired.
00:42:37Bye, guys.
00:42:38Bye.
00:42:40Bye.
00:42:40Bye.
00:42:40Bye.
00:42:41Bye.
00:42:45Bye.
00:42:46Bye.
00:42:46Bye.
00:42:47Oh, bye, Kai.
00:42:53I'm so torn on it, actually.
00:42:56Like, even as I sit here now, part of me is like, fuck yeah, go.
00:43:02Like, go to space, achieve your dream.
00:43:05It's incredible.
00:43:08And then there is another part that's like, oh, man, like, don't go.
00:43:13Don't go.
00:43:17But I look at those videos and it was such a sweet year.
00:43:25And I think in some ways it made her, you know, really treasure and savor those moments all the more
00:43:32because you know there's a chance that you're going to die.
00:43:36At T-minus 2 hours, 28 minutes, 6 seconds and counting, 51A crew is on their way.
00:43:50Even when you're going to war, you know there's a good chance that you might die.
00:44:00But how many other professions have an actual countdown clock to the moment when you might perish?
00:44:05Like, literally to the second.
00:44:0711, 10, we're go for main engine start.
00:44:147, 6, we have main engine start.
00:44:173, 2, 1, and liftoff.
00:44:22Liftoff of Discovery, so the shuttle has cleared the tower.
00:44:25She was the first mother in space.
00:44:34She was the first person who ever had to deal with this kind of scrutiny and decision.
00:44:39I mean, that took such discipline and strength to be able to do because I know she...
00:44:56I know how much she loved me.
00:45:09Is this Rick?
00:45:16Yes, sir. How are you doing, Mr. President?
00:45:18Well, just fine. And you? It's good to hear your voice.
00:45:22Anna, I couldn't help but wonder if you'd recommend a career as an astronaut to your daughter, Kristen.
00:45:29Oh, then I would, Mr. President.
00:45:31It's a truly incredible experience, and I'm going to recommend it to her highly.
00:45:37Oh, that's wonderful.
00:45:38Oh, all right. Bye-bye.
00:45:48People have asked me, do you think your mom was selfish for going to space?
00:45:55It's a fair question, but it's also a question that people aren't asking the men.
00:46:03We are not there.
00:46:04You could ask any astronaut that question.
00:46:09I'd venture to say a lot of them were being a bit selfish.
00:46:19Maybe my mom was, too.
00:46:22Hey, Kristen. Look at my caterpillar.
00:46:25This is grandma's one.
00:46:26Any time you're on a crew, you're together for so long,
00:46:55probably the better part of two years, it's like a combat team almost.
00:47:00You know, the enemy of space out there, ready to exploit any mistake you might make.
00:47:05A good astronaut is a very difficult thing to...
00:47:09And I didn't realize it until years later, the history I was surrounded with.
00:47:13Here was Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.
00:47:17I flew with Judy, second American woman in space.
00:47:20I was going to parties and palling around with, you know, Ron McNair and the other African-American astronauts who were making history.
00:47:27Looking back on it, I can see the ridiculousness of me thinking, you know, that I'm better than them just because I had had this flying experience.
00:47:38They were incredibly smart people, very talented.
00:47:41And I feel privileged that I was around people like that.
00:47:48I was arrogant.
00:47:50That's the word.
00:47:51I was arrogant.
00:47:54I look back on it, and I've got this sense of shame.
00:47:59How could I have ever, ever had that attitude?
00:48:04You know, and, at any rate, yeah, I'm glad I changed.
00:48:08We were young.
00:48:18We were brash.
00:48:21You know, we were eager to get into space.
00:48:26We had the right stuff, I guess.
00:48:34And it appeared that we were doing exactly what had been planned.
00:48:38We were going to be operating a spacecraft at airline levels of reliability and safety, and, hey, we've done it.
00:48:46You know, there was a feeling that we really had gotten there.
00:48:48And the garden of dreams was in full blossom.
00:48:54That's what it was, that feeling.
00:48:58Exciting, exciting times.
00:48:59The countdown clock is ticking for the space shuttle Challenger.
00:49:07The flight's seven-member crew arrived at the Kennedy Space Center late this afternoon, and, if all goes well,
00:49:12Krista McAuliffe will become the first school teacher in space.
00:49:16Also making this journey into space aboard the Challenger will be Lake City, South Carolina native Ron McNair.
00:49:21Ron came to my apartment, and he had this VHS cassette tape, part of the footage that he'd taken in space.
00:49:32But he only was interested in one specific part of the tape.
00:49:44He was always fascinated with the launch itself.
00:49:48And he played that up until it entered orbit, then he rewinded, and he started over again.
00:50:01I had to buy new speakers on, and he kept turning the volume up, blew out one of my speakers and all,
00:50:08because the roar he felt, he wanted to feel it.
00:50:11The same kind of power, the sensation that he felt when he was lifting off the launch pad.
00:50:18Because that's all he played, just that part, over and over again.
00:50:33He shared with me that he was planning to leave the space program.
00:50:36He had gotten an offer to become a professor at the University of South Carolina.
00:50:44One of the schools that would not have allowed us in there back when we graduated.
00:50:50So he was planning on leaving NASA?
00:50:52That's right.
00:50:53He wanted one more flight.
00:50:55One more flight.
00:50:56And that was going to be it.
00:51:06One more flight.
00:51:19Well, look at this.
00:51:21God, no.
00:51:23Anybody see the shuttle?
00:51:31My controller's here looking very carefully at the situation.
00:51:34Obviously a major malfunction
00:51:37Reports from the flight dynamics officer indicate that the vehicle apparently exploded
00:51:51Tonight on Nightline there is only one story today the death of the space shuttle Challenger and of seven American pioneers
00:52:06There are no firm answers this morning to the question of why the space shuttle Challenger blew up little more than a minute after it was launched from Cape Canaveral
00:52:12NASA has created an interim review board to investigate this morning's catastrophic explosion
00:52:17In the meantime, all future shuttle flights have been temporarily placed on call
00:52:21I woke up that morning
00:52:23To turn on the television
00:52:25One teacher, seven heroes
00:52:27And I can't tell you everything that the newscaster was saying
00:52:33All I know is that they just kept playing it over and over again
00:52:37NASA says nothing seemed to be wrong right up to the time the explosion
00:52:41It was all over every news station
00:52:44Over and over and over again
00:52:52And then the fireball began
00:52:55My brother dying
00:52:59My first thought was, um, geez, please, you know, find a way to make this come out right
00:53:20You know, you were hoping against hope that some miracle would take place
00:53:30And, um, it was personal to almost everybody in the office
00:53:37For some reason, I just really wanted to see Kristen
00:53:47You know, probably realizing how, um, how that could have been, you know, me
00:53:58And I wouldn't be coming back to her
00:54:01Suddenly, the things that we had all worried about
00:54:08But not really talked about
00:54:10Were, were real
00:54:12These are my friends
00:54:24Judy, I flew with her
00:54:26Yeah, that, that really is very, very painful
00:54:31And will be forever
00:54:33For probably more than a year
00:54:44I thought maybe they'll find a maroon on an island someplace, you know
00:54:48But, uh, I knew
00:54:54Really, I was just
00:54:56Trying to
00:54:57Keep hope
00:55:02Just keep hope
00:55:04Even if it didn't make sense
00:55:08Right after his first flight
00:55:21We threw a couple of parties
00:55:24For Ron
00:55:24The best, by far, is in one of my hometown
00:55:30He was in a convertible with his son
00:55:33That same day, they named the main boulevard after him
00:55:39Never thought I would see that in my life
00:55:45Not the fact that he was an astronaut
00:55:49But there was as many white people
00:55:53As there were black people
00:55:56And they were celebrating their hometown hero
00:55:59I don't think it's ever been that way since
00:56:03We never had another astronaut
00:56:05So, you know, that was amazing
00:56:09Absolutely amazing
00:56:11How did Challenger leave
00:56:18Master in the immediate aftermath?
00:56:20Ooh
00:56:20Devastated, demoralized
00:56:23Where do we go from here?
00:56:25What are we going to do next?
00:56:27We didn't even have any clue
00:56:28As to where we were going to pick up
00:56:30How we were going to pick up
00:56:31The first thing they did
00:56:33Was cancel the rest of the schedule
00:56:34Shuttle was grounded
00:56:36For nearly three years
00:56:37We predicted one out of 25 will get lost
00:56:49Then one in 25 gets lost
00:56:52That's it
00:56:54It's done
00:56:55No
00:56:56You honor their death by fixing the problem
00:56:59And proceeding
00:57:01I was so disappointed
00:57:03With the way that was handled
00:57:05I just loathe quitting and giving up
00:57:10And I still don't understand to this day
00:57:14It's like Rocky got knocked down
00:57:19And didn't get up for three years
00:57:20Instead of showing you got fight in you
00:57:23And you're going to fix it
00:57:24Rocky Balboa trying to stay in the middle of the ring
00:57:29Against the big Russian
00:57:30He's caught and he's bleeding
00:57:31But he's on his feet
00:57:32While our space program remains on hold
00:57:38The Russians are moving theirs into high gear
00:57:40Today the Soviets launched a sophisticated space station
00:57:44They said that it will serve as a permanently manned base
00:57:46In the years to come
00:57:47The Americans too are planning a space station
00:57:50But theirs won't be ready until the mid-90s
00:57:52If you want to look at the космическую гонку
00:57:57Россия и США
00:57:59Then let's put a chronological цепь событий
00:58:04First ship who launched?
00:58:07First ship who launched?
00:58:08Российская сторона
00:58:09First ship
00:58:11First ship
00:58:12Person
00:58:13In cosmos
00:58:14Российская сторона
00:58:16Юрий Гагарин
00:58:17First ship
00:58:18First ship
00:58:19Российская
00:58:20First ship
00:58:21First ship
00:58:22First ship
00:58:23Who made?
00:58:24Who made?
00:58:24The Leon
00:58:25The Leon
00:58:25The Americans
00:58:33made the main focus on the many-carous ships
00:58:34On the many-carous ships
00:58:36The Russian side
00:58:40made the main focus on the long-time orbital station
00:58:44And we built the world station
00:58:45It's our, in principle, cosmic ship
00:58:49while we were looking at shuttle for low-earth orbit operations the Soviets really weren't
00:59:01interested in that they kind of said okay you guys have fun doing whatever you're doing and
00:59:09so they turned their attention to long duration spaceflight how do we prepare to send somebody to
00:59:14Mars how do we prepare to send somebody to the moon for a long period of time I thought it was a
00:59:22masterful switch in strategy so again the Russians were years ahead of us
00:59:30is
00:59:44and of the siren and I just heard a little bit of a
00:59:48little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a new news that today on the board of the станции
00:59:52The Open University has produced an interactive flipbook
01:00:16offering extraordinary insights into the human exploration of space.
01:00:20To discover more, scan the QR code or visit connect.open.ac.uk forward slash once upon a time in space.
01:00:50That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Comments
1