25 years

And, uh, over the next 25 years, that grew and grew and grew until I couldn't leave the house without going back five times.

And when she said that, 25 years later after the event, it all came flooding back.

it was 25 years before that.

for 25 years.

So you work 25 years on something, you finally get it to the moon and it works.

After 25 years, it's a lot of sunk cost, a lot of time and effort and energy.

At the time, we were conducting launches deemed by the National Reconnaissance Office as the most important in 25 years.

And as you said, the importance of your operation was highly important because they said it's the most important in 25 years, the research that you were conducting.

really occurred. And as you said, the importance of, of your operation was highly important because, um, they said it's the most important in 25 years.

for 25 years on,