alan shepard has this really snazzy white corvette. they are getting 1 dollar a night hotel rooms at the holiday inn. this is all down in cocoa beach which is bay city and just lit up with all sorts of neon signs of moons and stars and intergalactic fanfare. the women actually come down to cocoa beach for a sort of ladies weekend and one of the original mercury seven astronauts remembered walking into the lobby of the holiday inn and two women, these astronaut groupies who had come with the adorable name of cape cookies fall to their knees in front of her astronaut, her husband. what is going on? so you have throughout the space race having to maintain this semblance of everything is fine at home. oh of course, my husband i am sure just goes home to the holiday as soon as he finishes work. meanwhile course there are all sorts of tabloid headlines coming out and everything. she moves to houston in 1962 and i had a lot of fun learning about this whole area known as together spilled. this is what makes nonfiction writing so tantalizing. t

this is alan shepard's flight taking off. this is betty grissom who was married to gus, of course, and this is really a story filled with highs and lows. betty had a very difficult time and sort of is a window into just the enormous amount of strain that was under -- that was upon these women. this is a picture of her after gus' flight, he's the second american into space, and the hatch on his liberty belsen capsule -- bell seven capsule blows and it sinks, and betty doesn't get to go to the white house and doesn't get to meet jackie kennedy which was one of huge perks for the women. and it's just, you know, here in sort of a raw, emotional moment she's just gone through, you know, a whole day of watching gus' flight on the television, and then there's this huge disappointment because it's not the heroic feat that she thought it was going to be. but her story doesn't really end there. her husband, gus, of course, was one of the three crew members killed during nasa's really largest full-scale tragedy, the apollo 1 fire, when

alan shepard it seems safe for now fourteen years mr has. in his resignation statement today mark the commons that he was standing down as garda commissioner because recent developments were proving to be a distraction from the work of the guard dee commissioner commented been widely criticized in recent weeks for his comments on the garb of whistleblowers who revealed abuses. i'm not administration of the penalty points system. a twenty two ten this morning just six hours before the government statement. hard to come in and told his colleagues spirit of the headquarters he was resigning his commission with immediate effect. the seats for the announcement was sold just over two months ago today when he appeared before the accounts committee that has to be forced to forward these costs are making extraordinary. they are serious allegations. and there is no whisper an address to my mil but none of the dutch harbor. the focus corruption is not practice and all of those things that are leveled against their fellow officers but try to get into wh

there was a glorious themselves go to every minister shares alan shepard's play opinion of mark and tell them that was a senior from where the minister was quoted an old name for this service he said. i'd say criticizing the commissioners propensity to get into scraps with these critics try to roll with it eats up with the pc and know that some growers themselves in the side and pulled me over the weekend said the guy that said growers needed more protection though the charter of the other was from defender martin he refused to be taken to calling on the commissioner to a crawl but disgusting remarks when speaking in the dough in a recent date. moreover that he told tv set or the other said ago that had been found to be reporting private conversations as mars the cave was close to be quiet if you're already know i'm told that you were out to watch his comments to date to be seen for me the context of road safety for which of course he's responsible been told to it that day he found that parents are to the cape a credible witness as he is head of the recorded that the evidence he produced

alan shepard gets this really snazzy white corvette.ey're getting $1-a-night hotel rooms at the holiday inn. this is all down in cocoa beach which is, you know, space city and just, you know, lit up with all sorts of neon signs of moons and stars and intergalactic fanfare. the women actually come town to coe -- come down to cocoa beach for a sort of ladies' weekend, and jo shira remembered walking into the lobby of the holiday inn and two women, these astronaut groupies who come with the adorable name of cape cookies fall to their knees in front of her astronaut her husband, you know? what is going on? and so you have, you know throughout the space race having to maintain, you know, this semblance of everything's fine at home. oh, of course. my husband, you know, i'm sure just goes home to the holiday inn as soon as he finishes work. meanwhile, you know, of course there are all sorts of tabloid headlines coming out and everything. the space program moves to houston in 1962, and i had a lot of fun learning about this whole area known as

alan shepard get the snazzy white corvette. they're getting $1 a night hotel rooms at the holiday inn. this is down in cocoa beach which is space city, lit up with all sorts of neon signs, moons and stars and intergalactic fanfare. the women actually come down to cocoa beach for a lady's weekend and jo schirra remembered walking into the lobby of the holiday inn and two women, the astronaut crew piece who come with the adorable name of cape cookies, fall to their knees in front of her astro not, her husband. what is going on here? so you have throughout the space race, having to maintain this semblance of everything is fine at home, of course my husband, i am sure this goes home for the holiday, as soon as he finishes work. meanwhile of course there are all sorts of tabloid headlines coming out and everything. the space program moved to houston in 1962. i had a lot of fun learning about this whole area known as togethersville. this makes nonfiction writing so tantalizing. this was the space verbs' where all the astronauts and w

alan diehl is an investigator for the safety board. nice to see you. >> good afternoon, shepard. >> i don't know what you want to make of this flight simulator angle, does it sound like a big deal to you? >> no. shepard, airline pilots know they're flying these very automated aircraft now. too pilots and the flight management systems fly the airplane. they go buy a light aircraft to hone their stick and ruddle skills. i'll see what they come up with, but right now i wouldn't get excited about him having a simulator. >> the only thing that could be in there if he was in his mind i'm going to go to this place, let's see what it looks like, then he deleted it later, that might give them a place to search. >> he certainly knows how to fly an airplane and how to land it. but i'll wait to see what the fbi says. >> after 18,000 hours in the 777, he ought to know. i want to run another thing by you that i've been reading. this comes from a respected aircraft expert. his name is ian black. he has some bona fides, fighter weapons instructor for the malaysian air force, the author of two h