NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Adelbert "Del" O. Tischler, Director of the Chemical Propulsion Division at NASA, and Director of the Shuttle Technology Office, part 2 of 2

the earth. Now, it's a matter of physics here. Newton's law prevails. And you can do that with a much lighter system than taking the whole system directly to the surface. Good. Good. Right. Where you roll out? Good. Let's switch banks. We'll change the slate. Very good. I know that even though it wasn't upon bronze decision to go, he had a lot of influence. He pushed you on. Why did he do that? To be truthful, I'm a bit rusty on that. I never accepted that idea anyhow. I mean, what I don't accept, I reject that. Now, Fun Brown had many discussions with many ideas. He was a pretty persnickety guy. He did want to have his way substantially. He wanted to propose the ideas, have them identified with himself and his team, and so on. But earth or a brandy who was not a good idea. But that was his idea. Well, he pushed it wasn't his idea.

You know, in this business, many ideas are not really original with anybody. Some of them stem back to a guy named Chalkoski. Chalkoski? Yes. It was Russian. I hope these ideas in the 19th century. You're already. We're through a whole magazine here already. That system will never last. I make a prediction, you'll be digital before three, maybe before seven years go by. Digital

electronic. You got to go with that, mate.