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So NASA put out a request
for a third group of astronauts in early '63,
and of course everybody
in my test pilot class put their application in
because it was another opportunity
for a new challenge.
It certainly sounded very challenging
and something that if...
a part of this
and this was a noble national effort,
why, I wanted to be a part of it.
Now how would you feel,
Mrs. Armstrong,
If it turned out...
Of course, nobody knows;
But if it turns out that your son
is first man to land on the Moon,
What... How would you feel?
Well, I guess I'd just say God bless him
and I wish him the best of all good luck.
[Applause]
I'll bet you.
[Music playing]
Collins:
That group of astronautswas far and away the best group
I had ever been associated with.
There weren't any really weak sisters
in the bunch.
They were just an amazingly competent,
hardworking,
really good bunch of people.
One day... you're just Gene Cernan,
young naval aviator, whatever,
and the next day,
you're an American hero.
Literally.
And you have done nothing.
When Tom Wolfe
wrote "The Right Stuff",
I thought,
"Boy! That sounds good.
People are going to think
I have the right stuff!
I'm the same guy I always was,
but now, I've got the right stuff!"
It's sort of an unshakeable belief
in your own infallibility.
That's what the right stuff is.
That you're immortal,
that you can do anything
that is thrown at you.
Scott:
Nobody knew reallyhow to go to the Moon,
there was a lot on paper.
And we didn't know how to do things
and we didn't know how things would work.
It was just a matter of
putting them together,
making them work
and then correcting deficiencies.
And as pilots, astronauts,
why, we participated
in all of these things,
along with management
and the engineers.
Collins:
What we did in the early days
was take the overall spacecraft
and divide it up like a pie.
We sliced that pie up
into 10 or 15 different pieces
and we handed each slice
to one of the astronauts
and said, "This is yours,
we want you to learn that slice."
Kennedy:
We shall send to the Moon,
a giant rocket
more than 300 feet tall,
made of new metal alloys,
some of which have
not yet been invented,
fitted together with a precision
better than the finest watch,
on an untried mission
and then return it safely to Earth,
re-entering the atmosphere
at speeds of over
causing heat about half that
of the temperature of the Sun,
Almost as hot as it is here today.
And do all this...
And do all this
and do it right and do it first,
before this decade is out,
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