The first American into space is not going to be a chimpanzee. I want test pilots!
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Dwight D. Eisenhower:
The first American into space is not going to be a chimpanzee. I want test pilots!
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The first American in space
is not going to be a chimpanzee.
Who would you put into space,
Mr. President?
We have film of some people
we think are strong candidates.
We'd like to run it
and stimulate some thinking.
- May we?
- Okay.
These are people we felt would
be excellent in the splashdown.
Clip duration: 23 seconds
Views: 272
Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 00s
Uploaded: 12 December, 2020
Genres: adventure, biography, drama
Summary: The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers prefe
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