"when gagarin, when he went up there ... that was a low point." "that's when we went on the 18 hours days, seven day weeks." "when you were testing and you had a problem you didn't leave until that problem was solved or you had a method of solving it." "one time, i went to work monday morning and came home two weeks later." "things that looked like they were gonna work on paper, once we put them in those vacuum chambers and started testing, we had to go back and re-design." "these were difficult, really difficult." "we had young families and the wives had to raise the kids. that's just what it amounted to and they'd get tired and i can see why they would. you know you just had time to come home, get a meal, go to bed, get up and go back to work." "the wives were struggling with the little kids, we all had small children. and they never saw us. we had to leave before the kids get up in the morning and sometimes we wouldn't be home." "that was probably one of the biggest challenges down there and it costs a lot of divorces." "they calculated that of