Chapter 1 | Part 1 | Chasing the Moon | American Experience | PBS 

Please help settle an interpretation dispute over the speaker of a critical phrase -- "do not speak to him do not socialize with him do not drink with him to not invite him over to your house" -- was it Frank Borman or Ed Dwight? Part 1 of the PBS special ‘Chasing the Moon’ has several clips from Frank Borman which have been quoted in the NY Times as verifying Ed Dwight’s account of a racist directive from Chuck Yeager to shun Dwight while he was at the Aerospace Research Pilot School in 1963. This appears to be based on a [presumably] innocent editing misstep. www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chasing-moon/#part01 beginning at 1:17:46 Borman: “…It was extremely important to get to the moon ahead of the Russians - beat the Russians” 1:17:46 Immediate cut to Dwight’s voice [similar to Borman’s and NOT identified in subtitle]. “But Yeager, Yeager - he’s a piece of work. Yeager had called in the entire instructor staff, and he announced that white [mem?] were trying to cram an N-word down our throats. If’n Kennedy is using this to make racial equality so do not speak to him do not socialize with him do not drink with him to not invite him over to your house, ah, and in six months he’ll be gone. [1 18 16] [etc]… to 1:18:16 [switch back to Borman voice] Yeager said, now wait a minute, Dwight’s not doing so well…. [etc]

Politics! Political correctness WingNuts on all sides... See: Hidden Figures... My other comments, here... J.C.

It actually captures.. A moment.

The reality of man... Or women. Come on??

So glad you feel that way!

7:50 is where it hits

Anan Wantana you mean to say the war criminal Wernher von Braun ?

State your fact , what war crime did he commit ?

Heil Von Braun.

@@mikshin9825 "He used force labor..." No, he didn't do that. He was the chief rocket designer, not the Fuehrer. He was not even in charge of the production of the rockets or the construction of the test facilities. "....V-2 killed between ....[blah, blah, blah]..." And, yet, do we blame the designers of the tanks, rifles, machine guns, and aircraft for the deaths inflicted with the weapons they designed? ....No. Name me ONE German, Japanese, Italian weapons designer prosecuted for his work. "He never showed any guilt for his actions." Thank you. That's because he was not guilty of any crime. (I think what you meant to say was "remorse". But, the fact is, we NEVER prosecute enemy weapons designers.)

Dont know if he was a war criminal, but a NASA Superstar with lots of praise :) Even Saturn 5 father nazi Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph was loved. But he did get kicked out.

Yes well done on so much, not something YT wants you to see.... but there is one with a few shills hanging around.

smb12321 Eloquently put. 👍🏻

I agree that space exploration is a worthy endeavor and that we were misguided to cut funding for NASA. However, I like that they also explored at least one facet of the controversy about funding since at the time, many people felt that the money would be better spent funding programs to boost education and help people out of poverty.

smb12321 ... I agree with all you say, but also great news today from the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison currently on a goodwill visit with President Trump in Washington, the Australian Federal Government is committing $150 Million to NASA for the continued exploration of the Moon and Mars, and speaking as an Australian taxpayer I'm very happy about that, especially after the Australian Space Agency was just established in July 2018, it's time that Australia got involved with the new Space Race!

@@alanrandall49 Hooray!!! We live in incredible times - wealth, clean air, lots of food and water, low violence, leisure time, free entertainment, instant contract, A/C, et In the US it seems Dems emphasize R&D and Republicans manned flights. Not sure why (if true) but I'm convinced that a global mission to Mars would united us far more than any "ism" out there. I've noticed the scary trend of a rise of anti-science views by the Left / post-moderns who were once supporters of fact-based conclusions.

@@smb123211 ... The one big worry that we do have is Global Warming and Climate Change, which seems to be getting worse at an accelerating rate, a good example is the earlier onset of wild-fires in California over the last couple of months and the current extensive bush-fires and drought in Sydney and Queensland Australia!

Dogs or apes? Most Human beings seek better richer lands. You live in the desert? Where have we altered conditions towards life? Star Trek regeneration??

@@narajuna There are literally hundreds of examples but let me give you a personal one. One hundred years ago the centre of Africa was a steaming jungle full of tsetse fly. Then David Livingstone came along and started the movement of colonists seeking their fortunes, and soon farmers ploughed the land for cash crops and in the process the vegetation changed to Savannah, much more suitable for human habitation. The same can be said for most other countries but at different dates.

"We altered conditions to suit life." Kids Definition of life · 1 : the state characterized by the ability to get and use energy, reproduce, grow, and respond to change : the quality that plants and animals ... There is no LIFE on moon. A FLY IS LIFE - ANIMAL AND HUMANS DID NOT EVOLVE FROM ROCKS Everywhere on earth is suited for LIFE.

M83 - Wait

The band is called M83- the song is called Wait and the song that they play on episode 3 during the finale is by the same band, called Outro.

M83 - wait

Wait - M83

It’s a song by M83 - wait. Great music

Truth! We had terrible backward deep south type schools in rural Tampa FLA 1956 Sputnik got us NEW SCHOOLS! USF at an abandoned WWII AAF primary training airbase New classrooms at my Mango Elementary.... Horace Man Jr. Hi.... ( WE boomers were on double sessions!!) Then a new Tampa Bay Tech! For 1970.... Thank you IVAN! Spacebo! J.C.

Your iq is less than one. Get with the program, kiddo.

@@TX_BoomSlang Yeah, folks looking for the truth always say, "Get with the program"

It's featured in the series man.

@@0zblox -- The program editing gives the false impression that Frank Borman was verifying Dwight's claim about Yeager's alleged order for the other students to shun him, but that audio clip was by Dwight himself, not by Borman. Where was NASA ever involved, anyway? I still don't see it.

Big bang

Chuck Yaeger's racist comments and the way he was used by NASA.

​@@shellius == OK, what way was he 'used; by NASA, for what purpose? I'm still not following you. And what comments do you think he made, based on what witnesses?

@@shellius -- What would it hurt you to spell his name correctly?

The answer, of course, is nothing unless one subscribes to the idea that money for increasing knowledge and exploration should be handed out to folks based on skin color. Space exploration and its contributions - computers, cell phones, materials, etc - have done more to create wealth than all the welfare programs combined.

@@shellius -- I'm presuming you deleted your comment about NASA people saying they heard Yeager say it, in episode 1, because you double-checked and found you had misremembered it, good for you. It happens to all of us.

You sound resentful that the Yanks won the moon race over your team?

"...you have some seriously motivated reasoning. [retarded emoji]." I'm not sure what "seriously motivated reasoning" quite means. Motivated by ...?!? ....A commitment to factual evidence (which is what a commitment to reason demands)? To leftards like yourself, the very fact that Ed Dwight was winnowed out from the process (like the VAST MAJORITY of the candidates trying to become astronauts) is sufficient evidence to declare, "It was because of racial prejudice that he was passed over!". ....So, the explanation for all of his other colleagues who were also winnowed out is what, exactly?

Moron

Nincompoop

Fake moon mission ?

Amazing. How you can watch so much detailed film, & listen to the stories of the monumental people that made this incredible event happen - listen to all their tragedy, heartbreak & victories - & Still.deny it is something that I find pitiful.

@@paulward4268 They have the 'mind set ' of some sort of cult.