In the Shadow of the Moon Page #6
And I felt kind of bad that he wasn't going to have
the opportunity of being to...
Being able to be in a Lunar Lander
and make a landing,
but that was a decision that...
[Clears throat]
certainly was way over my head.
One guy had to stay
in the command module
and the other two were
going to go to the Moon
and I was... Pigeonholed,
if that's the right word,
and so that...
I lost my chance of...
of walking on the Moon
but in return for that,
A:
Fly to the Moonand perhaps be a member
of the first crew to land on the Moon.
Bean:
he's one of these guys
that's a lot smarter than most of us.
He had a nickname,
Dr. Rendezvous.
He loves to talk
about technical stuff,
particularly rendezvous.
I mean, he'll get this
orbit going this way
and that orbit
going the other way
and he really grooved
on those things.
You didn't want to sit
near him in a party
because he would start
talking about rendezvous.
And you would want to be talking
about that good-looking
girl across the room.
He could care less,
he wanted to talk about rendezvous.
And he'd been talking
to you about it all... all week long.
That's right, that was what
I was really interested in.
Duke:
I always respectedNeil Armstrong highly.
He was probably
of anyone that I had
ever had the privilege of flying with.
[Engines power up]
He was just Mr. Coolstone,
if you will.
One of the oddities
in Neil's training
was this thing we lovingly called
"the flying bedstead".
It was an ungainly-
looking contraption
and it was meant
to imitate the L.M., the Lunar Module.
Neil, he and I were
in adjoining offices, same secretary.
I remember one day I came in
in the morning,
I run into a couple of guys, they say,
"Do you know that Neil bailed
out of the LLTV this morning? "
Bean:
I said, "no way."He said, whoever it was,
Two or three guys said, "Yeah!"
I said, "Okay, I'm going
in there and ask him."
So I go in there and Neil...
Neil's fooling around,
nothing going on.
I said, "those guys
out in the office
Said you bailed out of
the LLTV this morning."
He said, "Yeah."
That was all he said, "Yeah."
I mean this guy had been
a second and a half
from being killed
and that was it.
He didn't say,
"l nearly got killed",
"l nearly, you know..."
I don't know what we...
"Yeah." that was it, that was it!
I mean, what was he
supposed to do?
I mean, maybe
he could have gone out
and gotten roaring
drunk or something
but that's not Neil, you know?
He went back and shuffled paper.
That's what you had to do.
You know, the program goes on!
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