... Neal: Let?s begin, if we can, by getting a little of George Jeffs? background: education, how you got into the whole field of space engineering. ... Jeffs: I tried to see if I could get into the astronaut slots after I was working on Apollo. But, George [M.] Low was not convinced that I wouldn?t do more for the program where I was than trying to aspire to be an astronaut. ... Jeffs: I don?t think there?s too much of an association with winged spacecraft. ... Return to JSC Oral History Website . ...