and astronaut alan b. shepard, lieutenant commander united states navy enters the mercury space capsule that he hopes to ride into space with the hopes of america riding with him." "they close the door and they go -clam, you know and they lock her up and from then on the tension starts rising and rising. it's just palatable. you could cut it with a knife." "the countdown was so long we wondered if it was ever going to get going ... he was up on the spacecraft for something like five hours." "i don't think anybody could breathe. there was no talking. there was nothing." "we had a guy that couldn't sit down at his console there. he just couldn't get it so they had to hold him and take him off and somebody else took his place in the last 30 minutes. the tension just got to him." "roger, ready to resume the count - s-t-e, i'm going to turn it over to stoney - ok stoney take it over." "five, four, three, two, one, zero." "five, four, three, two, one, zero." "roger, lift off and the clock has started." "fuel is go, four

i remember sitting in my last listening to alan shepard when he went up into space on that launch. i remember being with the rest of the country enthralled when we landed on the moon and those were unifying factors for the country and they were premised on this idea that we need to make sure everybody understands what nasa is is doing and is excited about that and particularly when it comes to kids that they have the educational opportunities to be able to participate in growing the technology of this company and this country and nasa. so i want -- i know you have spent 28 years growing 52 space grant consortium sent 850 billion nationwide and that has been critical to continuing keeping kids engaged in what is happening at nassau and inspace and s.t.e.m. so how are you going to keep that network together if you eliminate the education program? >> as i said earlier one of the things we were working on before the budget came out with a better execution arm of our education process so we are looking at that in general and that's when we so we have connection with her outreach program

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