So I applied a third time, and this time I got an interview, so they got to know who I was. They sent me back pretty much the same letter. So I waited a couple of years, and I sent in another application. I filled out my application, and I received a letter that said they weren’t quite interested. While I was at MIT, I applied to NASA to become an astronaut. So I was lucky enough to get accepted to MIT. I wanted to be part of an organisation like that.Īnd it rekindled a boyhood dream that had become dormant over the years. And secondly, the camaraderie among the original seven astronauts depicted in that movie – how they were good friends, how they stuck up for one another, how they would never let one another down.
The first was the view out the window of John Glenn’s spaceship – the view of Earth, how beautiful it was on the big screen. And a couple of things really struck me in that movie. In 1984, I went to see the movie The Right Stuff.
