 this as our goal and they may well ask as mountain why 35 years ago fly the Atlantic why does rice play Texas we choose to go to the moon other things not because they are easy but because they are hard our energies and skills because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept one we are willing to postpone and one we intend to win and the others to welcome welcome David we think it's a little different this time that way David we wanted to show some space speech from Kennedy and I say some it's probably his most famous speeches in his whole collection talking about going to the moon it's kind of interesting when you think about it because around that time frame it was race it was it was a true it is so everybody what we're gonna do today is we're gonna talk a little bit about the astronaut project that we have on wiki tree and we brought this specifically to bingo tonight for a couple reasons this is Memorial Day weekend here in the United States so guess what we have a something called the Space Force and it's new to our military system so we thought we'd bring in the astronauts sub project here to talk about it and to do that we need David to come in because David is with the Notables project at the end towards the end of this presentation we're gonna talk to you a little bit about how to create your own sub project out there so if you've got an interest a hobby something that you really want to focus on that you enjoy and you want to bring to wiki tree David's gonna talk to us a little bit about that but first let's talk a little bit about the astronaut programs so let me show you the page David was so kind we have our own official wiki tree astronaut project page and I love this graphic on there it just makes you smile when you see it it's like yes please let me help out what's funny about you know I yeah go ahead I I love having the graphics on there because our pages all start to look the same when they when they just have the wiki tree logo so when you log on here and you see that you immediately know you're on the astronaut page you really do you know what I just realized too you're gonna have to create a sticker where I was with an astronaut on it the the other thing that David has broken down here are them the different types I guess of astronauts or the programs that they went yes categories it's it's a little bit arbitrary we have the mercury astronauts which were the first the first astronauts selected by NASA for the astronaut program I believe there were there were seven of them there were seven and the mercury program was followed by the Gemini program and then by the Apollo program which is one most of us are probably most familiar with because those are the ones that that went to the moon the reason I don't have the Gemini program there though is because all of the Gemini astronauts were either with the mercury program or with the Apollo program so it would just been a duplication but I've got the Apollo program were divided into two sections first the moonwalkers and then the others that belong the program that didn't make it onto the moon one of the things I imagine that most of our members are old enough to remember the Apollo program to some degree or another in the moonwalkers but I always thought it was a little sad that they always sent three men up in the on the missions but only two got to actually go to the moon one had to stay in the spaceship and make sure everything stayed it stayed okay there and not be able to land was you train much and the moon is like the goal when especially back then it was the moon the moon the moon and I'm sure all of you remember the movie with mr. Hanks in it that kind of talk that's it I was thinking about that too David when I was looking over your page earlier today I was like there are a lot of movies and documentaries and other things about astronauts a lot of people you might sit there and say oh Sandy's gonna do astronaut bingo that doesn't sound so thrilling to me but I bet you watch those movies they were pretty good movies too well and if and if if you're around my age the astronauts were our heroes when we were kids it's become much more common place now so I don't think younger people are as intrigued by it maybe as we were when we were young but it was a big deal when I can remember even as a as a little kid my dad keeping me up at night to watch the moon landing I don't think I really fully understood what it was and in fact I remember when what I grew up in outside of Pasadena California and that's where JPL is and Caltech is there as well and it was kind of the space industry we were almost a company town in that regard a lot of people that my parents knew um or the adults in the community worked in one way or another with bassa or JPL and um one of my teachers was friends with an astronaut a gentleman who had been to the moon and invited him to the school to talk to us and he came and we got to to meet him and it was really exciting I still remember it but I was such a small kid um I have no idea who it was so I actually met a moonwalker but I don't know which of the moonwalkers I met yeah so I've always regretted that I met one I met one yeah I tried to find some old newspapers to see if it was covered but I couldn't find anything but it was a big astronauts were a big deal when when I was a kid and um I was always just you know very intrigued with these with these individuals that had gone to space and and you know another thing that I think is a little bit sad is I've many of them have passed away in just the recent years and sometimes they hardly get a blurb in the newspaper um they've kind of been forgotten many of them there's some big names Neil Armstrong and John Glenn those that we you know we um you know I'll remember but um there's there's several that um you know made it up there and did some pretty great things and now they're just kind of forgotten old men I think we get to the world of um celebrity in a different way now than we did then it's funny when you mentioned that they were your heroes I know that my two brothers they they adored astronauts you know anything that had to do with astronauts in space they were really big into it when my son was you know a little bit older in middle school in Huntsville Alabama is space camp and they also have a partner now with space camp called aviation challenge and I remember my two brothers begging my son to go to space camp please we didn't get to go please go to space camp so you know my son looked into to it as a camp and he said oh no I'm going to aviation challenge so it reminds me of how you say that astronauts are kind of you know not thought of of the same anymore because my brothers would have absolutely went to space camp but my kid of a whole many other generations later was like no I want to fly the navy fighters at aviation challenge but I will say this if you do have kids or interested if they're remotely interested in space or anything like that that is one fantastic camp yeah no that was something I never got to do but um you know I think space travel has become more commonplace now and kids and safe much safer and kids today kids meaning anyone under 40 um maybe don't realize the dangers that they had that they face back they're still dangerous but um you know we had some catastrophes along the way and and it was um being being a an astronaut was heroic in the sense that they were doing this for the nation but also as you mentioned there was the space race so this wasn't just about going to the moon but it was also there was a big part of it that was political um beating Russia we were in the middle of the cold war and um you know one of the things I think we'll talk about today a little bit is um Russia beta beat us to a lot of the first we um you know in America I say we I don't know if everybody's from America on our on our chat room today I we do tend to forget that we have a global audience but um as far as the United States goes um we were um we were being bested by the Russians time after time and so when we did have our successes and our accomplishments um again that was a big deal and and we didn't have the technology I mean this was the 1960s yeah we didn't it also we didn't mind that we did not know what other countries were going to do specifically Russia even though it was a race to space what were they gonna do if they got into space you know the technology in in our imagination also got the best of this are they going to put up all kinds of weapons up in space the target straight down at us and things like that and was it going to be instant we got to get up there we we have in that speech from Kennedy if anybody is interested it should be also in the description but it's um just look up the Kennedy space speech on YouTube he talks about that he talks specifically about why he felt that this was important that he brought the space program and to get Congress to fund it and as you know now we do we have a space force and I know everybody thinks that the uniform and logo looks a lot like Star Trek ish but it is a space force and it is there for a purpose and a reason so it's you mentioned something a few minutes ago and I want to bring up Joe who is it in the audience and I'd be curious to see the experience Joe who had about astronauts because this is from a completely different country this from the Netherlands and we can pretty much guess you know what we in the United States and even England in in you know the UK area as well as Russia but I'd be curious to see what Joe who brings in with the astronauts from the Netherlands let's bring up a quick presentation to that I want to show you guys real quick and David and I will kind of exit the screen a little bit so you can see it the astronaut program is pretty robust you have to come from a STEM type of bachelor's degree for it and they train for at least two years before they're even allowed into space or even think about space so you've seen the movies the right stuff is a good one to mention too that really shows all the different things that they had to go through at that time they had to be very fit but they put them through so many tests and so much information and experience it was crazy the first astronaut is David Benchin was Yuri Gargagin I think I said that right he's the first person to travel to space I think he also orbited the earth about three weeks or a month prior to the United States even getting to space so there's that as well I'm going to drop his link on the chat from wiki tree so if you guys want to bring it up after the show at their bingo you can see it we're not going to David and I are not going to talk about the animals in space that one's you know that's beyond I think my realm of knowledge well I do that I think we do have a couple on one of the bingo cards so I'm like those are beyond on my my capability of speaking to beyond my knowledge I should say but I thought this was interesting so astronauts grow up to two inches taller when they're in space and I never really thought about how the gravity would affect them that way and then they have to exercise two hours every day so they can keep their bones and their muscles going in space I don't know what they do to exercise but I thought that was really interesting as well the first spacewalk was done by a Russian in 1965 and I like how they say that we call them spacewalks but they call them EVAs and I think we all know that they wear a special uniform I mean what kid didn't go down the Halloween aisle at the drug store and see that they had a astronaut as a costume and this is kind of a little bit of a duplicate but I wanted to bring this up as well the longest time spent in space by an astronaut was 437 days I can't even imagine spending anywhere that is I mean when they came back they must have had to stay in the system for a while to get their walking back just the walking and their muscles and everything back and then I thought this was an interesting fact returning to earth is the most dangerous part of space mission because the reentry has that intense heat and pressure and the g-forces and again if you guys saw the Tom Hanks movie then you know exactly what this means and then the astronaut project is officially part of wiki tree which is really really cool so if you have an interest keep in mind that when we talk about the astronaut project we're talking about worldwide we're not just talking about the United States we're talking about worldwide and we're also talking about connecting because I'm sure there's a lot of them needs still connected needed a lot of their ancestors or descendants added as well as we go through now I know it's thank you Joku for answering my question and well and one of the things that Joku mentioned was his parents waking him up at I think he said 6 a.m. to watch the moon landing and again I remember that as a kid but you know people that weren't around at that time need to remember that technology across the board was not what it was today a television wasn't what a television is today we didn't have a big screen TV on our I had to get up and change the channel or do the rapid using the pliers to change the channel we had um you know a television was a big piece of furniture with a tiny tiny screen and it was all black and white and um we didn't have internet access we didn't have all the technology so we saw you know um one feed and everybody in America or around the world saw that same feed at the same time we didn't have um we couldn't record it you couldn't you know wait till you woke up in the morning and then watch the rerun it was it was an event um and also along those lines prior to you know we're talking about the astronauts and the man the manned space flights today for the most part but just a couple years prior to this in the late 50s it was a race just to get a satellite up we didn't have satellites and so you um Sandy mentioned not knowing what the other side was doing the Russians yeah um we didn't have satellites to spy on each other that the Russians were the first to get their satellite up and um that was a big deal when they had the only satellite up there and we didn't have one and that was a big part of um you know it was a national security issue so um you know there was a lot more the cold war and I'm telling you guys with the cold war during that time imaginations were amazing only extreme you know so if we didn't have the satellites like you said we didn't have the technology anything of that we were just desperate to win the race yeah so you're you're right when you put all that together yeah so it wasn't just about oh it would be cool to go to the moon um and it wasn't just about even the science projects that we're doing now up there in space it was really a national security thing and as you said now we've got the space forces up there um but you know this was all it's all a kind of a continuum and um you know in the 80s we had the um the Star Wars program named after the movie but the Star Wars program was supposed to put um I don't know if they were lasers or what they were but they were going to be up and outer space so that we could shoot down Russian missiles if they came over to you know the launch towards us um which was our big thing that there I'm sure you remember having to do the the duck and cover drills in school where you had to get under your desk in case a nuclear bomb landed um and these were real things these were even in school this wasn't like oh this is fun this was a real fear yeah um so it was it really was a big deal and um and a lot of people you know this is something we didn't have where I was but I know around the country a lot of people had um fallout shelters under their under their houses or in their yards in case a nuclear bomb did did drop that they could stay down there and survive for a period of time I was thinking about that too a real thing as well yeah it's so when you think about how the astronaut program came into be you have to add in all these things David's talking about as well and again it was something super cool just to know that we could put a man in the space or put in I'm sorry but it was a was a man that we were putting in the space I'm not trying to leave out women or put a man on the moon I this these things were like really we can do this this is something obtainable and then when if you were here at the beginning we showed a speech from Kennedy and he was yes this is what we're doing we are going to the moon he gave this confidence to particularly Americans but it did go global even Joe who said that they they focused on the US space program because at that time there was so much fear we didn't know what what was going on there's fear we just we had to beat the Russians to space they beat us but we got there three weeks later so this is by well this is interesting too so Shelly had a fallout shelter as a kid so that's it's interesting I'd be interested to know what part of the country Shelly's in I know and did did the fallout shelters it's still there that it survived you probably moved since then but okay you guys ready for the first bingo card if you get your bingo cards up we'll go ahead and bring that to the screen as well let me tell you guys the rules for bingo oh excuse me there we go the rules for bingo are that you can do horizontal vertical or diagonal to get bingo I believe I have a cartoon in the free space so if you see a graphic or a cartoon go ahead and click that now that's a free space in the first person that gets bingo and says it in the chat is the person who wins the prize and I'll talk to you about the prize after the bingo the other thing I want to mention is do not close down your bingo card till we know we have a winner because a lot of people will call bingo but say keep playing and mostly that's because they've either won previously and they're not eligible yet to win or they just want to be kind and give the prize to somebody else so don't close down your bingo card if you see somebody you say bingo let's get it confirmed before we go forward and I think that's all about it oh well speaking of you won previously if you have won bingo a prize you cannot get a second prize or win again yet next month we roll over with our six months okay guys if you guys are ready let's go ahead these are some really easy words the second bingo I'm gonna rely on David to to help me explain I included a couple different things with the astronaut program so Dorothy Vaughn if you've seen the movie hidden figures then you will know Dorothy Vaughn and Gordon Cooper he was one of the originals I believe it was he's one of the mercury yes and I will put up Dorothy's link there and these guys will go through this one pretty quick because the second bingo has a lot more information and then the NASA Johnson Space Center and Carol made it Carol it's good to see you comet chunks that's a really official term too don't you think David I don't know they're chunks of comments but a lot when I saw it I was like yeah I think that's official government or space or stem word this shuttle challenge and and this goes back to why these were heroes because you know for those that don't know the shuttle challenger exploded on takeoff most people I'm sure are familiar with that but um that was right at the time that we were beginning to feel that space travel was finally safe yeah and they decided it was safe enough to send up a civilian Kristen McCullough the teacher and then it exploded so just as we as just as we were getting to feel that this was just kind of a routine thing to send people off into space we realized how how dangerous it was I remember watching it and I saw it and I remember they were showing her parents as well and her parents were still looking not realizing what happened and I remember I was there with my brother as a matter of fact my oldest brother and he he was explaining what happened I said no that's just the thing that happens before they go and he goes no it's not so and I agree I agree with Carol I mean that's the best word I've got I was speechless I was I to this day I have no words to explain the emotion I had at that moment I just know that I was glued to the TV for most of the day thinking please tell me I'm wrong please tell me this didn't happen and then I was all her students were watching I was just going to say because they had the teacher there was a school teacher going into space with the with the astronauts and she was going to do lessons from outer space so this was something that schools all over the country were focused on they had a lesson plan that was going to follow this and I forget the exact number but there was literally millions of school children were watching it live from their classrooms when when it exploded so that was a that was a big deal and it goes to the what you said too that we finally got to a point where we felt it was safe there is no way that live feed would have happened to all those children and they were young children up to high school children up to colleges as well there's no way that feed would have happened if we even had an inkling that it wasn't safe yeah John Glenn Space Center Houston um famous famous words come from there yeah I just visited there actually probably two years ago now but um that's got a real cool display you can see some of the the spacecraft there when you see how small some of the capsules were is it free as that we asked yeah I'm not sure but it wasn't expensive because I don't go expensive places um so it's um but they have you know if you've ever seen the any of the like um landing modules that they were in there they're literally the size of a um cat house maybe a smart car oh my gosh yeah it's and it just at that point they just fell into into the atmosphere with a parachute landed in the ocean um Neil Armstrong first man on first man on the moon probably the most famous of of the astronauts captain johnson's another one from hidden figures who helped um Glenn it was with his tractor or tractor I believe Apollo 8 I can't believe no one's one bingo or even close yet yeah all the way it was the movie and Mary Jackson as well I know there it was really interesting like I said how many space movies I've seen I would have thought you know I like like astronauts in space I will read about them I'll be entertaining about but I don't think I know much about them and then I started looking over some of your notes as well for the bingo and I was like I do from the movies in the movies were pretty good Sputnik I've been talking about Russia yeah so Sputnik was the first um Russian satellite that they got off and um that's what started really started the space race because they were now the Russians were now in space and we worked mercury seven are the seven first seven astronauts chosen by um by um NASA and I think I have the list of and keep in mind that if you've seen the movie the right stuff this is what we're talking about with the mercury seven the mercury seven was Scott Carpenter Gordon Cooper John Glenn Desgrissom Wally Shira Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton first seven young young men at the time probably all in their 20s and I think there go Deke Slayton I think uh this is um Deke Slayton Donald Deke Slayton I want to say that he also uh became in charge of the Houston Space Center oh we had a bingo congratulations Tara so let me bring down the screen real quick Tara that's awesome congratulations what work was it that got bingo was it was it deke or was it one of the other it's no count bingo okay Tara let me tell you what you're going to do you are going to email Aowyn at this email address and just let her know that you want bingo with the astronauts bingo she will send you a link and in that link is the store of all wiki tree branded items so for example you know I didn't have it the first time around so there's the bingo mug and by the way if you want this bingo mug make sure to say the all black one otherwise there's a white one I think with a white handle but the bingo mug is the most popular item that's there there's there's hats there's shirts long sleeve short sleeve there's tote bags a whole bunch of different things oh yeah I like the genealogy one too hey that mug is coming all different all different colors yep that mug is up there and I think that is also on a t-shirt yes as well so you have lots lots of different options oh the deke want the deke got it so congratulations that's awesome make sure to um after the show email Aowyn and she will get the information too if you know already what you want if for example david's mother my bug you can just email or tell her which one if you want to look around the store you can do that as well okay let me show you guys just a couple let me remove some things here let me show you a couple different profiles that we have on wiki tree let me bring it up up because I'm really really kind of impressed with what everybody's been doing and this is the first man in space and this is why you know the russians got there before us and this is also the power of wiki tree do you guys see the projects that are here so it's the notables project but the russian roots project as well that's here so we're connecting different main level projects into this astronaut sub project if that makes sense is that the way to explain it would you say david yeah yeah um and that's a that's a big push that the notables is is working on right now is doing a lot more collaboration um rather than this is your project this is ours or this is your profile this is ours um really getting in and doing some activities together and um because we're all we're all there for the same goal and I think that's really important to mention too because I think sometimes when we see oh no the notables we can't we can't even think about it we can't touch it we can't do anything but you guys like help with your notables because I don't even venture to guess how many profiles notable I can tell you it's it's around 60 000 notables on wiki tree and there's two of us that are in charge of overseeing those 60 000 projects profiles um so it's a lot and that's something well and I'll go I've only been doing um working on the notables for the since officially since january so prior to that it was one individual that was running the whole thing um we don't do a lot of um creating profiles we do as individuals but not as a project primarily because we don't have time but we do a lot of um supervision the notables draw more attention obviously than you know my great-grandmothers does um and we get people that come in and change things maybe not always appropriately um you'd be amazed at how many of Tina Turner's cousins have contacted us in the last of three or four days running access to her profile um you know it's there's a funny size story about that too um apparently within an hour there were over a hundred finer graves for her as well so I it's interesting you mentioned that because I don't think we think about notables enough about what you do behind the scenes so to have all these uh cousins come up and say hey I want to own this profile that's something that you to guard as well to protect the profile in the tree yeah I mean we really are more our our primary task is probably more about security than it is anything else and you know and resolving disputes that kind of thing helping members out if they need help um but just making sure that you know it's especially with our living notables because those are living people and we've got privacy um rules and legalities over it so if you're going to go in and um you know work on the profile of a living individual that is not related to you there's um and we have something like 20 plus 20 000 plus living notables on wiki tree so um that's a big time consumer for us is just making sure they don't um people don't put you know pretty good when you get um we were just dealing with some political stuff I was um tasked with going in and writing a neutral profile for Donald Trump and his family and it's not easy to be neutral which I reside you fall on with Donald Trump being neutral is not easy um but all of them DeSantis and those that are running now um you think you're just being straightforward but somebody is a big supporter or a big opposer and they don't like what you wrote and we get all kinds of commentary on that so what we do is we really try to just focus on family when were they born when were they married a little bit terms of office those kinds of things that are just not disputable and stay away from you know whether they did a good job a bad job what their poll numbers are all that kind of stuff so and you know but this is a good point because eventually you're going to have to open this profile completely up when a notable dies and you're still going to have to probably manage some of these notables will always be a part of your project I can see where some you might say okay they are no longer living this other project let them manage it they would manage it better for whatever reason but I can see notables is going to have to own certain profiles just to protect it yeah we do have a very very very small number of long deceased individuals whose profiles are still they're open for viewing but not for editing the one that I know offhand is Hitler we don't we don't let people modify that one um I I think Elvis um you know some of those others that are just really subject to people you know the ones that have conspiracy theory yeah that around them they're still alive Michael Jackson those kinds I can't say for sure whether those are open or not but those would be the kinds that we may have to make a decision to just um you know keep like I said they're they're viewable and you couldn't you can read them and you can work on family members but um they're just not open for any would be traitor to go in and put in information that they want to do and by the way if you do come across that if you do come across a notables that is locked from editing also um you know pre-1700 in the 1500s this is a good policy as well that Ricky tree has leave a comment if you have some type of fact or some type of information or source that you think is valuable to that profile you can always leave a comment on the profile and the project that manages that particular profile will circle back to it and this is Jim Lovell this is also the the movie that we're talking about to follow it with uh Tom Hanks as well and this was one of those things that he trained to go to the moon this was the goal can you imagine this was your life goal to get here and you had to look at it from the window and pass it by poll 13 I think it said eight my five of those apologies and then I'm going to bring up one other before you move on can you scroll to the start of his bio right here just a little below here okay so so one thing I want to say about this bio because I've noticed this on a lot of them I I'm guessing you know wiki tree's been around 15 years and and people like the astronauts their profiles have been up a long time but if you read through this profile as beautiful as it is and as well done as it is there's almost nothing in there about his family life about his childhood the genealogical information is is missing from a lot of these profiles and I think people look at them and again they're really beautiful works but they're missing a lot of material that that could be added so there's still that work to be done on some of these you know even if they look like they're you know they're really really well done it doesn't mean there isn't more that can be added to them but I was noticing that I was going through them yesterday that a good number of them they don't mention anything outside of their astronaut careers so which is what they did have a life outside of it they said yeah and this is the kind of stuff that you know you can get on on wikipedia but on wiki tree we well it does look like he has a little bit here you know he was born there names of his parents and where he went to high school that's one paragraph um so yeah we want to know what he did um you know just like any other ancestor we want to know um who he was beyond just his career highlights and we talk about that a lot went in real life if you ever knows people will say a common phrase I'm more than my career I am more than what I did so it's kind of bring that to wiki trees as well what what more and then I brought up again Katherine Johnson from the movie hidden figures and the reason why I showcase this one is even though we're talking about astronauts there is a subgroup of astronauts too a whole support group that worked for say NASA or whatever space program they might have worked for so I wanted to bring this up because I know that everybody's familiar with the movie and probably familiar with her and also this is another way where the notables looks like they have said okay this is a case where the usbh project would do a great job of managing this notable and here you go you know it it's a power of wiki tree collaboration as well not just from the wiki tree members but also the projects among themselves so I wanted to just bring that up quickly to show this this is just a well done profile this one is really really good and this one does kind of go to your point it explains a little bit about her life as well as her career yeah it's just so well it's it's really with with a lot of beyond the astronauts program with the notables profiles there are a lot of profiles that that are really well done and they're and they're beautiful profiles people put a lot of time but there's no family history there's no genealogical information on the site and yeah we got it we got to remember to do that because that's what wiki tree is for you can get the you can get the the the career information a lot of sites but what makes wiki tree unique is that you can really get into the depth of who the person was beyond beyond their careers and you can still pull in their career we do it all well the career needs to be there yeah yeah we do it all we do the career we do their life well who is this individual as a person as well and their sources and their families so we kind of do it all now this was the last profile is going to show you guys before we bring up the second bingo card in the second bingo card has a lot of more details so if you want to bring it up we will go ahead and get started because david gave us a lot of facts with us what let me make sure i've got the right one idea okay and we're going to stay we're going to start right off the bat with something that might be controversial so everybody get ready remember for bingo you've got horizontal vertical diagonal i believe this one has an astronaut in the middle for the free space so if that's the case go ahead and click on that now because that's going to be a free space in whoever gets bingo first and types it in the chat wins and i will remind you because this last one we had two or three people that said keep playing so do not close down your bingo card until we have somebody confirmed okay so i'm going to let david explain these choices for us okay well this is actually should be at the end rather than the beginning but um they're random these those muskin branson and what's i i selected these um just to show where we're at now as opposed to what we've been talking about in the late fifties and early sixties and um seventies we're at now at a point where individuals with lots of money are um creating their own space race the um the last two years or so i'm not sure when they started but um sending a private um spaceships um carrying people like william shatter and um private individuals who have a lot of money to to buy when i when i was a kid um there was a book it was a children's book probably for third fourth graders or so and i i owned it and it was called um you will go to the moon and it was about how someday um we would be able to take tourists would be able to take a trip to the moon and we'd have a there'd be a space station up there that we could stay on like a hotel and there's just a really cool kind of fantasy idea um but it's getting close to that point um where people can um buy a ticket and you know right now we don't have anything on the moon but we got a space station up there you can stay at for a for a week or so just a little vacation yeah so so we're there um so this is um sandi mentioned the animals um albert ham and enus albert there were actually two alberts albert one and albert two were the first primates in space um they were monkeys and they were sent up to um um you know prior to sending human beings up we wanted to see what was going to happen unfortunately things didn't go well for either albert um i think the first one died um in space and then the second one died during the landing process um and then ham and enus were the first two chimpanzees that went up into space now in between um alan shepherd um an american astronaut went up in orbit of the earth so ham went up first then alan shepherd and then they sent enus up for more um experiments um eileen collins i believe she is the first um i want to make sure i get this right i think she's the first woman to command a yeah to to pilot the space shuttle um so we'd had other women in space but she was the first one to actually serve as a commander 628 space travelers that is how many human beings have been into space as of today that's amazing that's amazing yes um it was um 624 when i created this bingo card and he just created it not long ago which is like last week um last week i just happened to come across an article i wasn't aware but they sent four more people up so we had to change the number okay the 1947 fruit flies the 1947 fruit flies were the first earthlings in outer space um in 1947 they sent a ship up with earth with fruit flies in it um just to experiment and see what happened they literally yeah so they they did live um can't get rid of them everywhere yeah so the first earthlings in space were um were fruit flies and i often think that's interesting that we assume that if um aliens came down that they would um make contact with humans um i don't know that they would know a fruit fly from a human um or any other creature under us so that's a great trivia question to stump somebody this weekend now okay so this is kind of my shameless plug here for my other project um and i wish i'd written down their first names but i won't try but um these three astronauts were all featured in our 15 nations global tour um the 15 nations global tour for those that are familiar um every three weeks we visit another underrepresented country and we um try to connect 15 notables from that country um uh chala was an astronaut um an american astronaut but she was of indian origin and she was killed on the space shuttle challenger which was the second um space shuttle disaster um kednyak i believe his name is was a um a um he he was a soviet cosmonaut but he was from ukraine so we profiled him in our ukraine project and shukor was a of um malaysian descent he had an interesting thing because um russia wanted to buy some arms from malaysia and malaysia said we will sell we will give you these arms if you let one of our astronauts go up into space with you so he traveled up into space with the cosmonauts went up to the space space station um but that was malaysia's gift in exchange for these arms that they gave to the russians and i want to say that all three of those were were profiled in in our 15 nations tour and to talk about the 15 for nations tour i know a lot of people have expressed why i don't know how to research in malaysia i don't know how to trust me join the 15 nations tour david is a great tour guide it you will be amazed at what you find and it's fascinating learning a different culture as well don't be shy don't be nervous jump on yeah don't don't be concerned about not knowing what you're doing because that's the whole point is none of us i don't know what i'm doing when we start each time we start these new countries we have zero idea what we're doing and we figure it out that's the fun part um and we've accomplished some amazing thing we've we've done i think we're on our eighth country and we've created almost 2000 new profiles um from those from those countries we've connected um numerous i don't know several dozen um notables from those countries we don't know what we're doing when we start by the time we're done it's amazing what we figure down and learn um together and the the knowledge we gain of these countries is just it's it's fascinating it might as well be taking a trip to these countries so jumping guys definitely yeah we can always use assistance these three okay so in america because we are very american centric as we we we know um we think of sally ride often you know she was the first woman in space but she wasn't she was the first american woman in space this the soviets had women in well they're first woman in space way back in the sixties and i get i don't know the first names but um tershkova she's still living as far as i'm aware um was sent into space back in the 1960s sally ride did not go until i believe it was 1980 that she um went to to space so it's almost um 15 20 years after the soviets um i'm gonna try to say her name sabotskaya um she was the second soviet woman in space she was um just a year or two before sally ride but um when we look at this from an american centric standpoint again we all know sally ride but um when you look at it from a global standpoint uh there's a whole lot more that was going on than just american space program and the space shuttle um um that lasted i think you know something like 30 years it really when they retired the space shuttle it made me feel really old because i was still excited that they were starting the space shuttle and suddenly it's 30 years later and it's over with it it it did it kind of just over to me it there there was a little bit of fanfare but it really wasn't much it was just over the thing the thing that was special about the or unique or new about the space shuttle was that um the same ship that would blast it off into outer space was able to land back on earth like an airplane so instead of having to have a return module um they were able to re-land on the on this you know at the same spaceship michael collins is one of those that i said made me sad he was the first man to almost land on the moon he got all the way up there with neil armstrong and um buzz aldrin but he was not allowed to leave the ship so i went to the moon it wasn't allowed to get out 76 miles now this is a little bit debatable depending on whose numbers you use but that's the distance um to outer space um that's nasa's definition i believe um different agencies measure it differently um levois don la luna um was the first movie about going to the moon about landing on the moon that was 1902 so um movies were basically new at that point um but that was i just found that interesting that it was that early christa mccullough we already talked about she was the teacher in space um helen shaman she is the first british person and i put her out a first british woman i believe no she was actually the first british person um and the first western european woman so again going beyond the american um story um there are a number of nations that have said women or have said people up into outer space helen shaman's the first british this now there's a lot of attention to this is how many people know this 14 people is the number of people that are in outer space right now as we're speaking i had no idea this is how commonplace it is you know um we like we said at the beginning our parents used to got us up to watch it on tv because they were sending someone in outer space and it didn't matter that it was five or six in the morning um and now there's 14 people up there as we're speaking and i would venture to guess um one out of a hundred or more would would not know that i i'd that might even be high yeah i mean i would and i will tell you as well that david when he created this card gave me one number and that's how fast it changed that's what i said i think i told you 10 people and then they told me oh they blasted off another four and you know when you told me 10 i instantly was looking over the sky going wow 10 people are above me right now and then you came back before more and i was just like flabbergasted i was like this is amazing they are above us right now yeah and i didn't put this one on but there's 16 was the most ever in space together so that's a high number 44 nations that's how many nations have sent astronauts into outer space um they they don't have their own programs but they um you know they send them up with other um you know usually with the russians or the the americans um are not a little tremendous was the first cuban citizen in space and um the first um um he's he's um of african descent so um he was the first person of african descent to go into outer space the gemini program we already talked about that so when they get a little obscured between mercury and obolo um because the astronauts overlap um that i don't know if i pronounce this right the tyconauts we have astronauts we have cosmonauts and now we have tyconauts which are chinese astronauts that's a word i had not heard it until recently i hadn't either i had not heard it either so we're starting to see some bingos but keep going the reason why these people are saying keep going in chat is because they have one already so let's keep going and we talked about urie already as well urie gagarin he was first first man in space that new word the tyconauts or however you pronounce it my apologies that seems to be the bingo word of the day so artemis is the current um or the new space program we talked about mercury gemini um apollo space shuttle now we've got artemis um they are looking at very soon having people back on the moon including the first woman um to go to the moon and um i'm not real familiar with all of their goals but i know mercury is in there somewhere as well the moonwalkers we talked about i there were 12 um there have been 12 moonwalkers 12 people have actually landed on the moon denis tito um denis tito was the first space tourist he's the first non-astronaut to go into space i like that space tourist and let me tell you that cost a pretty penny i bet he spent a lot of money got to spend some time up on the space station the mercury seven we talked about the first seven astronauts the skylab um skylab was our first space station and um i don't know if you would call this but do you remember skylab falling back to earth oh yeah yeah yeah that's what i remember about it is that it got old and unusable and um it crash landed back to earth and it was it broke up into pieces and we had no idea where it was going to land so they just warned us um watch out for they landed in the ocean somewhere which is um and the sputnik crisis that we again we talked about that was sputnik was the first soviet satellite once they lost launch that it was a crisis for america we needed to we needed to get there and compete that's what started the space race now i will say one other thing with the word crisis we have a crisis we are at the end of our words and nobody has said bingo but we have a full card full cards so i'm wondering if one of two things that um somebody who hasn't won before is not here or maybe carol says she's won away did we miss did carol miss a word yeah she's won away how could she be won away if we got away so let's uh what word is carol missing she's won carol's won oh carol's won okay is is one that hasn't won yet so we have a small little crisis going on in ourselves here so i think nancy if you're still here let us know if or what word if you have it won because nancy had back three spaces left i don't know if somebody must have missed a word or something that's what i think okay so i think somebody must have missed a word so we'll give you guys a little bit uh gemini program we did have gemini we had gemini oh nancy's won all right so maybe what we so shelly shelly maybe a winner though we do shelly have you won before i should know this shelly steven that's why we we appreciate wiki tree bingo this is a first for me too let's see if shelly went so well we'll we'll give a few seconds for shelly to let me know yeah that's why i thought shelly had won already i think we might not have a winner this go around but i will tell you that you guys have been fun because as we were going through all the words i keep seeing you guys go double bingo triple bingo so but i but i do want to also say that i appreciate you guys coming back and playing along with us too even though you've won the next bingo on june 9th starts fresh again and i think don't hold me to it steven we'll have to look at the bingo page but i think when it starts over either the june first june bingo the second june bingo steven's eligible to win again because it'll have been six months so i but again i appreciate you guys here with us and i have to agree with carol everybody's a winner today we're just not all going to email anyone to tell her winner today well i want to also encourage everybody as we wrap this up i appreciate everybody joining us as we wrap this up if you have a particular interest in a topic you know something that is relatable to others that you can create a sub project around reach out to david and let him know he's those fantastic pages and he can help you he you can either give them advice or help them set up their own page and get them on their way and i also want to go ahead yeah i'll just say the notables is is kind of shifting our focus a little bit we want to start getting more mini projects up so if you have an idea even if you're not comfortable doing it on your own let me know we can we can help you set it up we can we might even just run it for you if you're not comfortable doing doing any of it but we want to know what people are interested in the astronauts program is a is a is a good example and that's why i was happy to bring this on today it's one that's been sitting kind of dormant there but we need people to kind of you know give us a sense of direction as to where you want to go so if you're interested we'll spend the energy it takes to get it going if people aren't interested then we'll we'll focus on something else but there's there's such a realm of topics we're looking at sports topics entertainment topics science topics literature music there's there's any number of ways we can go but again we don't want to spend a lot of energy on topics that people aren't interested in you got to let us know what what what you'd like to do and if you're willing to participate as a coordinator it doesn't take a lot of energy it really doesn't we just kind of doing some it's more cheerleading than anything else but you also kind of get to set the path as to as to where you want to go if you're doing the astronauts are we going to do cosmonauts are we just going to do astronauts are we going to do just the original Apollo and Mercury Gemini are we going to do all the current astronauts you get you get to kind of decide that if you're if you're a coordinator and to take your astronaut the cool thing is too is that there might be somebody who just wants to focus on the cosmonauts then they can join the astronaut and just focus on that group and that really is kind of like a subset of project yeah so there's so many different avenues you can go with a project and if you just have an idea it could be just a tiny tiny idea reach out to David I am serious this is what makes wiki tree kind of grand and special and awesome I have been spending the past month going through wiki tree categories and digging deep into their sub projects to find interesting sub projects to bring to bingo and I'm fascinated by what I see that I spend time reading profiles and I'm interested so I would love that you guys reach out to David tell us what you're interested in and bring it to life and a lot of times all you have to do is once you bring that page to life advertise it on g2g and you'll be surprised there's a lot of people that would have the same interest as you so I think we've got a couple people they're asking some specifics I don't know if we have a Salem witch trial we do we do we just follow a few days ago but just because it's there does not mean it's complete connected or does it whether anybody's even working on it yeah people set them up and then they go away and they just kind of sit there and then the other one um if the auntie asking if she's interested is there a way to find out um you can go up to and um um you could search for for projects but that only tends to give you the um the top level projects but just drop me an email or ask on the notable g2g site and we can we can do a search and and find out for you if there's you know what I do a lot of times if I'm in a profile I will look at the categories if I'm editing a profile look at the categories and if there's a category then I'll I'll kind of dig around that category to get to the sub project I'll also just do a general wiki tree search you know and put in for example Salem witch trials I did I actually got the Salem witch trials June this is really interesting somehow I was looking at the railroad project that we're going to bring on to wiki tree bingo and somehow I got sub project the sub project the sub project toy landed at the Salem witch trials and the category that is above the Salem witch trials I can't remember the name of it right now is another fascinating group of sub projects so as David said there are so many out there that are thrilling and really interesting and people want help I mean if you have a sub project people generally will not deny the help we want it and a lot of people are just waiting for someone else to take the lead um and and they'll jump jump in and join you um and and we mentioned earlier I've got 60 000 notables that we need to categorize so there's lots of topics that can be covered there I mean it doesn't have to all be an American we we're we're going to be starting some some very specific um um non-american um projects going um and so that's something that will be announcing down the road but um kind of turning our 15 nations project into a permanent project but so there's there's a lot of stuff that that we can do and that thing is to obscure um because the idea is to build profiles and it doesn't matter where you want to start and who you want to start with um you know they all all of these notables are connected to regular everyday families and um the more we get those profiles up the more people can you know start making connections and it's more fun to work on something that you have an interest with you know if you already had that spark or that interest then it's like you sharing that spark of interest with everybody else on wiki tree so definitely think about it over the weekend contact david and he is an excellent mentor for this you can ask for a better mentor and I do want to also um mention one last time do not be afraid to jump into that 15 nations tour jump on in yeah I'm telling you will love it you will be fascinated by what you learn it's it's history it's the most fun I've had in a long long time we have we do not have a lot of members but the members we have are just um thoroughly invested and um and and you don't have to make a great commitment um when you're bored and you have a few extra minutes or hours you jump in and you start working on some profiles you can just do um editing you can do proofreading and you don't have to do right now we're in we're in egypt you don't have to do egyptian research um but we we just connected on war saba yesterday um the um you know we had we had a malaysian tribal leader whose um daughter married an attorney um and he moved to to england and they had a kid who married somebody from oklahoma and we found this family in oklahoma that was connected and so this connect this oklahoma family um connected this entire native tribe in malaysia so it was and probably had no idea they were connected but it's just a fascinating trail you know and so and there we are doing oklahoma research you know you don't have to know malaysian research we're doing oklahoma census records um so it's um it's a great way really to jump in on a project if you you're nervous we get a lot of people i think sometimes that are nervous to jump in on other people's work other people's projects other people's sub projects but this one is a good way if you haven't before to jump in because the group is so mentoring and it's a good way to learn as well okay well guys i think this is wraps it up her bingo friday as carol if she's if she's an astin clinton bald one she's mentioning her bald ones there i have astin clinton bald ones from primingland in my dream she's uh she's got a nice little tangle when i think i i see some homework coming my way with with some of them as well i would like to wish everybody that is in the states a happy memorial day weekend and for those of you that are not i'd like to wish you a happy weekend as well if you're seeing this live thank you so much for joining us and if you are rewatching this i thank you too because you help us know what we are going to bring next so if anybody has any suggestions head on over to the friday night bingo page and drop us a suggestion we have a lot of interesting projects and some projects coming up you can take a look in advance there as well so i guess that's it i'll say goodbye and thanks so much again david for joining us okay thank you i appreciate it was fun