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True pioneer
Felipe 2022-05-21 12:26:48
Regardless of the performance and content of historical films, the story itself is a series of great deeds of humans breaking through the limits. Whether it is the sound barrier pioneer Yege or the astronaut Glenn Shepard Cooper, they are the pioneers of American astronauts. The interesting thing is that the first A Chuck Yege who broke through the sound barrier also appeared in the film. The old man in his 80s appeared as an old bartender teasing himself because he was not selected as an astronaut because of his academic qualifications.
Extended Reading
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Lyndon Johnson: And as I was sayin', whoever controls the high ground of space controls the world. The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads. Later, the British Empire was dominant because they had ships. In the Air Stage, we were powerful because we had the airplane. And now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space. Pretty soon they'll have damned space platforms so they can drop nuclear bombs on us, like rocks from a highway overpass. Now HOW IN THE HELL did they ever get ahead of us?
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Chuck Yeager: Monkeys? You think a monkey knows he's sittin' on top of a rocket that might explode? These astronaut boys they know that, see? Well, I'll tell you something, it takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially one that's on TV. Ol' Gus, he did all right.