Dr. Tracy Scott

Okay, so let me tell you a story then about my dad's Apollo 15 launch.

So we, as a family, went down to Cape Canaveral to watch the launch along with the Irwin family.

And Jill Irwin, the daughter of Jim Irwin, she and I were the same age.

And we went to the viewing area where families got to view the launch that was a private area.

And we drove out there in cars.

And I can remember she and I were sitting in the backseat of the station wagon reading our books.

And I can remember one of our moms came and said, okay, you have to get out of the car now to come watch the launch.

Right.

And it was spectacular.

But it was – again, it was this thing that was like, okay, we're going to watch another one of these.

It is spectacular and it's sort of overwhelming and hard to describe.

Yet until it got to that point, we were going to sit there and read our books because that was really interesting.

No.

I remember when I was probably before Apollo 15, when there was a reporter that asked me, are you afraid?

And I said, of what?

As a child growing up, what your dad does is ordinary.

And you don't think about it as scary.

You know, my dad had been a test pilot, which was far more dangerous than being an astronaut.

Now, again, we had friends whose dads had died.

And I know we knew about that.