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No one is forced to do anything in the Air Force. Everyone volunteers.

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How many dive-harses would you need to make before going up to Earth to the planet?

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I don't know exactly the number. It will depend on the amount of hours we get in.

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In other words, we need so many hours of indoctrination, so many landings.

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16 hours, Colonel Simon says. 16 hours. Yes.

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Where will they be made from?

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From here. Is that right? From here? Yes.

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Probably below 10,000. 10 to 12,000. 10 to 12.

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But not often when they're open ground.

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I want to get underway. You're not sweating it out at all.

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Well, right now I'm sweating it out through the lights, but I'm not sweating if that's what you mean.

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I don't think so.

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Gentlemen speak of a hostile environment. Where do you expect the biggest sweat to work during your 24-hour instinct?

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After we reach ceiling altitude, the sweat really begins as I see it.

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Any particular menaces to your health and well-being aside from radiation?

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There's always a chance of a decompression, an explosive decompression due to the capsule being punctured by one thing or another.

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Or the areostat may burst, and I'll have to depend upon the parachute to get me down to a safe altitude,

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at which time I can either bail out or ride the capsule parachute down.

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Or we could have a malfunction in the oxygen system, which would necessitate terminating the flight sooner than we plan.

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Or just a minor mechanical dysfunction that go on in anything like this.

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Do you expect any difficulty in getting through the jet stream that punctured two balloons last week?

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As I understand it, with this balloon, which is a thicker balloon, 1.5 mil, we should have no trouble.

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Colonel Simons and Captain Kittinger went through with the same type of balloon, so I've seen the reason why I couldn't, unless three is the unlucky number.

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What do you imagine she is?

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Well, she's taking it at home, unfortunately.

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Quite well. My wife is a remarkable woman in many ways.

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There's always a woman behind the man, and I'm fortunate enough to have someone who is...

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Whatever I do is okay with her, and this is what it amounts to, really.

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My three daughters are the ones that are raising the hell, as the story goes.

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Captain Schock, what was the most unusual thing you noticed during your tests in the simulated flight?

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The most unusual thing was just sitting still for that length of time. I mean, relatively still.

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I like to think of myself as an active person, and I didn't know really whether I could sit still that long in one spot.

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How long was it?

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I think we had around...

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Thirty-four hours.

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Captain, Colonel Simons took a lot of him a good luck piece from his family. Are you superstitious, Matt? Anything like that going up with you?

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I'm not superstitious, although someone stole my silver dollar, which I've carried for a number of years.

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Or I misplaced it, let's put it that way.

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Orbiting, Captain.

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If I were qualified, I think I would like to do it.

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Are you qualified, Mr. Simons?

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I don't know. Am I qualified?

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That is one of the purposes of this whole program. In fact, that's an aspect I should have pointed out.

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We are in the process of working toward gaining the knowledge necessary to decide what qualifications are the ones that will best suit a man for this type of mission.

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And it's so different from an air transmission that there are going to be later differences in qualifications. This is becoming clear already.

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Captain, didn't we have a report from University of Iowa scientists who were studying data from Explorer 4 that there was an almost impenetrable cosmic ray barrier?

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I remember back in 1903, someone said that the Wright Brothers' little plane would never fly very far either.

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I don't know, maybe they were pessimistic. Of course, they have more data than I.

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I always like to think of what Hillary said when she was asked why he climbed Mount Everest.

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It's there, and I'll climb it. And I think the man is the same way about this. I don't think that this is going to stop him and make him delay him a while, but I don't think it will really stop him.

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The data from Explorer 4 about cosmic rays does not deter you or worry you then?

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No, because I have a good example to fall back on. Every time I look at Colonel Simons, he doesn't look any grayer or any more decrepit than he did when I knew him a year ago.

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And that sounds funny, but I don't mean it that way.

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I don't think that's going to stop him.

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