... This interview with Charlie Dumis is being conducted in Houston, Texas, for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. ... Rusnak: I?d like to start with actually building on something you had mentioned last time. ... Rusnak: Did you feel any impact of the budget reductions or the reduction in force [RIF] other than, as you mentioned, just these few people that you lost? ... Rusnak: With the first Shuttle flight, I think you had said last time that you worked the ascent phase of that. ...

... The first of our family to visit the cape were French sailors on ships run by the French East India company, stopping at the Cape to resupply en route between France and Mauritius (see Mauritius section). ... Two years later, the British sent out of governor. ... She was the first of our ancestors to spend any substantial time in South Africa. ... In later years he acquired the nickname "Matebili Thompson" but I will use it throughout to distinguish him from his father. ... He stayed for two minutes...