Al Worden: Good morning Alan. Thank you. Eustace : In a matter of fact I'll sell mine for 55 dollars right now and it will be worth every penny. No, no. As I was telling him, I sent a note around.I grew up with the space program. My dad and I moved and my mom from Baltimore, Maryland down to Orlando, Florida so he could work at Martin Marietta as a mechanical engineer
Worden: Thank you Alan. Eustace : In that program. So you guys are going to ask most of the questions. I just want you to know that. So if any of you just sitting there waiting for everyone aroundto ask all the question or even worse waiting for me to ask all the questions. You guys are going to have to start thinking right away. But I do have a few here just to get
for all the stuff we asked that computer to do, it had a programmable memory of 75K. Eustace : So you should also tell them what program was left out of the hard code.Worden: Well- Eustace : That you had to- Worden: Right- Eustace : Load later just in case you might need it.
We were going in backwards. So we never saw it. So it was nice we had confidence they had this thing calculated well. Yeah. Eustace : Well that's great. One of the things I thought was unusual about your book is you told it from the perspective of the command module pilot. And I think that's oneof the least understood roles in all the Apollo launches. So why don't you talk about the different roles of the different people.
Dave Scott actually was in command during the first 12 minutes of the flight. That's till we got into orbit. Then it's my job. Eustace : Tell 'em what Dave Scott's role was in all- Worden: Dave Scott's role on launch was basically to put his hand on the abort handleand be ready to twist it. And my job on the launch was to hold his hand and make sure he didn't. It didn't really make a whole heck of a lot of difference
canceled the program out on us so we never got the chance. Eustace : So good. So one of the things that, you know, comes up a lot is what's it like in space? What was your life like?Worden: We were, we were in a vehicle that was about the size of a Volkswagen beetle.
So, you learn to do things. I learn to ignore the other two guys. Basically that was my survival mode. It was just kind of ignore them. Eustace : Well in your book you said when they left for the Moon, you just kind of relaxed.It's like finally some time alone.
What do you suppose we did? Eustace : I know, I read the book.Worden: Agh! Very simple solution, got a towel wrapped it around it and absorbed it.
We had plastic bags. Now, I'm telling you this now. This is the way it is, right? If you don't want to know the way it is, then please leave. But we had plastic. Eustace : This is where technology comes in handy.Worden: We didn't have that. Anyway. Plastic bags. In these plastic bags were about this long, about that big around. And on the open end, they had an inch and a half flange that
Moon. Once we got out in lunar orbit it's not so bad because we're only seeing the sun for half a route. And here's another thing. Eustace : Oh go ahead. And you guys should come up to the microphones. So if you have a question, please.Worden: Okay. Let me explain something. You Google people particularly know the difference between the backside and the dark side. You would not believe how many people do not
period. They're wondering are the parachutes going to come out? What do you guys talk about during that time? You've got a few minutes. You're just kind of. Eustace : And also you did have a parachute problem.Worden: Yeah, we were oohing and aahing about what we were looking at on the ground because I could see all of the North American continent: Alaska, Siberia, Japan all the
that thing. And the Mercury was pretty much, as you probably are aware and many of you studied all this stuff was that Scott Carpenter had a lot of problems on his flight because Eustace : We just talked about that at lunch, you know. It's controversial. It's great.
that thing. And the Mercury was pretty much, as you probably are aware and many of you studied all this stuff was that Scott Carpenter had a lot of problems on his flight because Eustace : You kept pretty busy up there too.
that thing. And the Mercury was pretty much, as you probably are aware and many of you studied all this stuff was that Scott Carpenter had a lot of problems on his flight because Eustace : You, you- Worden: The whole point is, we as people as a thinking species, we don't have a clue.
that thing. And the Mercury was pretty much, as you probably are aware and many of you studied all this stuff was that Scott Carpenter had a lot of problems on his flight because Eustace : Okay. With that I'd like to thank.
Alan Eustace : So hello, everybody. And welcome. I have the amazingly great pleasure of introducing Al Worden here. Here's his book Falling To Earth. Which you should all run out and buy then you should tell all your friends to buy. How's that.
the organization and she she decided that it would not come out of their budget the next year so but Alan and Alan Eustace and ORS felt that it was it might have been worth doing but we didn't let us let it stop after that first year so talk about the Google Voice to you you said recently that one of your proudest accomplishments helping
Alan Eustace : It's nice to see so many kids in the audience because this is your planet. And if we don't take care of it then it's not gonna be good for you and if you don't take care of it then your kids are not gonna have a great planet to live on.
So right now we're in this narrow margin. Of course you would wanna be born right now. Alan Eustace : So do we, we have plenty of time for questions. If--if some of you wanna get up and leave, please feel free to do that just try to be quiet, but I'm sure there are
So right now we're in this narrow margin. Of course you would wanna be born right now. Alan Eustace : Here you go. Here's a question right here. Do you wanna stand up and ask your question?
So right now we're in this narrow margin. Of course you would wanna be born right now. Alan Eustace : Here you go.
So right now we're in this narrow margin. Of course you would wanna be born right now. Alan Eustace : Wanna make a guess?
So right now we're in this narrow margin. Of course you would wanna be born right now. Alan Eustace : Any other questions?
So right now we're in this narrow margin. Of course you would wanna be born right now. Alan Eustace : One more question maybe before -- Sanjayan: Right next to you.
Eustace : So you should also tell them what program was left out of the hard code.Worden: Well- Eustace : That you had to- Worden: Right- Eustace : Load later just in case you might need it. Worden: Yeah, they didn't have enough computer capacity to put all the programs in that we needed to go to the Moon and come back. So they left one out and it was the called the
out how to invite us and who to invite. And then Alan Eustace , thank you so much for the introduction. I'm gonna just start by playing you a one minute video and if you get bored with my talk then you just take the video and that's all you need to do, right?
part of my job at the public was to bring in artists and propose projects that might be right for our season so I said to my boss Oscar Eustace my friend that we should bring in my pal Lynn who had told me that he had this Hamilton idea he had performed one song at the White House and then no one had heard anything about it for two years let's
We also have the Second Harvest Food Bank with us today, which has been a partner of Google for a very, very long time. Many of you know Alan Eustace , our Senior Vice President of Knowledge. He works very closely, annually, with the food bank to do a very fun extravaganza at Costco in Mountain View.
Worden: We didn't have that. Anyway. Plastic bags. In these plastic bags were about this long, about that big around. And on the open end, they had an inch and a half flange that was adhesive. Eustace : Is this a demonstration? Worden: Need I explain that anymore? I tell you what. It was, it's kind of interesting
that thing. And the Mercury was pretty much, as you probably are aware and many of you studied all this stuff was that Scott Carpenter had a lot of problems on his flight because Worden: Well, I had- Eustace : Your schedule in that command module is grueling.
So hello everyone, I'm Alan Eustace , and I have the great pleasure of introducing Arlene Blum, who will talk about her new book "Breaking Trail." You know, it's a big pleasure for me.
And then we make a gift on your behalf. Or to volunteer in their local communities, kind of culminating next week with Alan Eustace 's huge food drive here on the Mountain View campus. So thank you all for being a part of the Hunger Relief campaign, and for being Googlers.
Because very often, especially when there's an issue that people have a lot of strong opinions and passions around, some of the interpersonal conflict Yeah, and I learned that, actually, from something Alan Eustace used to do when he was engineering leader at Google.
Matt Cutts >>Stephen Levy: Whoa. And then, and then because that person wasn't high executive and I'm not giving anything away to people because these were people in the room from Google when this is happening. I said 'This is something I really have to follow up on' and I did track it down and managed to get Alan Eustace on the record about it. >>Matt Cutts: Um hmm.