Dr. Gregory Rogers, a recently retired chief flight surgeon for NASA and the U.S. Air Force
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So it took me a year and a half to get NASA to switch to the green chem lights.
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Well, you know, people think of NASA as the smartest, greatest thing.
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Some of the NASA managers wanted to make spacesuits, and they did not want to involve the Air Force or the rescue forces.
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So even if you go back to, like, the first few launches, STS-1234, they had to go to Beale Air Force Base and borrow the yellow spacesuits that the U-2 and SR-71 guys fly because you couldn't fly with the NASA ones.
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This is so interesting because I just met with a former NASA engineer out here.
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Do you, you know, what I've found just anecdotally is when I meet people inside the government or who've worked at, you know, NASA or the Air Force, you expect them to be less conspiratorial than people on the outside in the civilian world, right?
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Are there any other things outside of the core experience that we're going to get into in 1992 that you experienced in a sort of government context, you know, Air Force or NASA, that really kind of widened your worldview?
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