Brian Collard Interviews Alan Shepard — Transcript

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1. 0:00And there are some of the moon walkers
2. 0:01right there. That's an esteemed crowd
3. 0:02that you're part of here, Alan. Not bad.
4. 0:04Of course, all those are all younger
5. 0:06guys. You You probably don't remember
6. 0:09this, but I have the distinction of not
7. 0:12only being the first American in space,
8. 0:14but the oldest man who has ever walked
9. 0:16on the moon. Is that right? Yeah. And
10. 0:18the young guys, this to give you another
11. 0:20little inside deal. Uh on the first
12. 0:22three missions, we didn't have as much
13. 0:24fuel in the lunar module and we had it
14. 0:27was a lighter weight and so on. So we
15. 0:28didn't have uh the the fancy little
16. 0:31buggy. Uh we had a golf cart that we
17. 0:34sort of dragged appropriate for you with
18. 0:36our tool. So even today even today the
19. 0:38young guys that flew after I said,
20. 0:40"Well, you were 47 years old when you're
21. 0:42up there on the lunar surface." And uh I
22. 0:44said, "Yeah, but don't don't forget I
23. 0:47was up there before you had
24. 0:48automobiles." That's exactly right. So
25. 0:50we had to walk.