he was doing radiowave propagation, bouncing radio waves off the upper atmosphere. when sputnik flew, he was one of the few who could listen to it and analyze it. that what made him apply to be an astronaut. he was accepted into the third group of astronaut scientists. what is interesting about that first decade before we went to the moon, that was a very personal decade.

he was doing radiowave propagation, bouncing radio waves off the upper atmosphere. when sputnik flew, he was one of the few who could listen to it and analyze it. that what made them apply to be an astronaut. he was accepted into the third group of astronaut scientists. what is interesting about that first decade before we went to the moon, that was a very personal decade. a lot of people grew up in that period of time. an incredible amount of progress was made during that decade. what is interesting about that, 50 years ago, still just over 500 people after 50 years have left the earth. that is not that many. we have been stuck in low orbit for a wild. -- a while. one thing apollo did do was, it was the opening bell if not responsible for the tech boom. it didn't count bush a great deal towards inspiring our generation to get -- it did inspire our generation to get into the tech industry. i am a game developer. like so many people of my generation inspired by this, a lot of them went -- or interested in space. we're way past 2001 and we are way short of having a --