I Was Sold On Flying As Soon

This Is A Day We Have Managed To Avoid For A Quarter Of A Century. We've Talked About It Before And Speculated About It, And It Finally Has Occurred. We Hoped We Could Push This Day Back Forever.

There Had Been A Number Of Failures But We Weren't Going Out To Ride A Failure. And We Felt They'd Corrected All The Difficulties With The Boosters Before That Time And The Launch Problems. And So We Had A Lot Of Confidence That There Was Going To Be A Successful Mission. We Weren't Off On Some Suicide Effort, Certainly.

I Was Sold On Flying As Soon As I Had A Taste For It.

That Was A Real Fireball.

Most Of Our Competitor Nations Around The World Have A National Education System And America Is The Only Major Nation In The World That Operates Off Of Local School Boards. They Receive Very Little Direction From State Boards Of Education Or From The Nation. So Local School Boards Direct Basically What Happens And Too Often They're Not Willing To Track Or To Do The Supervision Of The Education System That Will Make It World Competitive.