I was lucky to have gotten to know Jim McDivitt a little when I was a kid because he had business dealings with my grandfather.. I was awestruck.
He was an early rocket jock who commanded both the Gemini 4 first space walk mission and the Apollo 9 flight in which the Lunar Module was tested for the first time in earth orbit.
He pushed me down in a chair in his office to show me what a launch was like.
Nice!