KTLA News: "African American aerospace workers visit school classroom" (1971)

is the air the now people program Endeavors to encourage and Inspire minority students by providing positive images of community people who have achieved success in their chosen Fields this face-to-face communication with people who have succeeded is the best way of showing opportunities exist three schools are currently participating in the project at the Manhattan Poli School industry representatives from such companies as IBM Hughes aircraft North American Rockwell the phone company and McDonald Douglas met with the children in their classrooms and demonstrated some of the projects in which they were involved Aerospace physicist Timothy Henderson and Aerospace behavioral psychologist and engineer Herbert swanigan discussed the McDonald Douglas Skylab project with the students the reason we have to put this on is because there's no air about us one reason was to breathe but now that there's also no air we also have to use a radio why is it necessary to use a radio because without air we can't breath hear in addition to not being able to breathe in order to hear you have to have air because as I talk I cause the air to vibrate between my mouth and your eardrum as the air vibrates it causes your eardrum to vibrate and you experience what we call hearing at least your head tells you you're hearing the now people program is designed to show the boys and girls how important it is that they learn their lessons every day in order that they can become the engineers the businessmen the teachers of Tomorrow Stan Chambers Action News Manhattan play school this is food let's take a look it says it says instant rice says add 75 M of boiling water SP wait five minutes what are the side of the laboratory well there's two zippers no he doesn't believe it we got to disbelieve it well it is right and the reason it is is we're here on Earth and above us there is air stacked up for many miles okay and this air has weight and it's pressing down and it's keeping our bodies in and our bodies are pressing out at the same time second we remove this air our bodies will swell and many things will happen our blood to our blood vessels and things like this have to all the time in space a few things here put this [Music] on now look at the glove you'll notice something about this glove any air out there is the first question no and if we don't have air we cannot maintain life for two reasons first of all we can't we can't breathe we can't breathe and the second thing is we have to have air pressing on our bodies does anybody Do You Believe air is pressing on you now that's a question no no you don't have to wear all the time in the spaceship what would you wear just normal cloes just normal shirt sleeve is the word isn't it that's correct sh sleeve environment we call it do you wear the suit or do you just um stay inside the sky you he wants to know when you are coming back re-entering do you wear the space you're in the Command Module then right you're in the Command Module and at that time when you go up to the Command Module you Dawn your space suit and you close your hatch to the air loock and then you you restart your re-entry and at that time you're fully pressurized and you require your suit for re-entry entry due to the Heat and whatnot okay how long does it take to get how long is it to get some anybody remember about a week 4 to three days how long was it a week was it round trip was about a week was it I don't remember developmental suit and I don't know the ex exact time it took to make so it's a long period of time to make the the first suit the first developmental suit because you have to experiment with it to find out how it works um and then go back to the drawing board in some cases where you have something wrong with it that is those are fingernails and what do you need the finger nails for for picking things up that's right like little dimes like small rocks for things you couldn't pick up otherwise you have to have those long fingernails do you have to have those longer fingernails I guess it's just a convenient size are the spits heavy no how much suit we this try we take it over to the yeah this is a this is a valve for uh air intake you have to have air you have a air on the pack in your back or connected to a console of some sort there's no air out you're a good air lock and an air lock means you lock the air in so it doesn't escape who made the suit well let's give it credit it says right here man orbiting laboratory United States Air Force to give them credit yes sir yes it's connected to the top here it's screwed on and this thing is loost so we have to have a regular type of uni on the now people program is designed to show the boys and girls how important it is that they learn their lessons every day in order that they can be the engineers the businessmen the teachers of Tomorrow Stan Chambers Action News Manhattan play school 2 the now people program is designed to show the boys and girls how important it is that they learn their lessons