Dr. Tracy Scott

We all moved there together, and that was life.

So as a three-year-old, my dad was an astronaut from as soon as I could remember, and I never thought anything about it.

All my best friend's dads were astronauts, and everybody that lived in the neighborhood worked at NASA, or they knew we were astronauts.

They didn't make a big deal about it, and I just thought it was ordinary.

You know, that's an interesting question, Flora.

I'm not sure that I would characterize it like that.

I think that for many people, the daily life would seem ordinary.

But one of the wives I interviewed had a great way of saying it.

She said, we lived in a bubble.

meaning that the whole area and the community and everybody there was focused on this goal of getting a man on the moon by the end of the decade, which is JFK's words.

So there was a focus and a real communal aspect to life.

And in some ways that became so ordinary, especially for kids.

At the same time, I think we knew it was extraordinary because the media presence was there.

So every time one of the men went on a mission, you had the photographers and the media camped out in the front lawn of your house.

So we knew that was kind of different, but it was just like, okay, it's my turn.

You know, in two months, it'll be Diane Gordon's turn for this.

And so it was this extraordinary thing that was ordinary, right?

It was just a weird time.

No, I don't know.

You know, that's a good question.