Free cspan radio app. The eagle has landed. Ill step off the land now. Thats one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. On this 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing, todays washington journal in conjunction with cspans American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern space flight. For the next three hour, we are live from the national air and space museum here in washington, d. C. , where we will talk about apollo 11 historians and michael collins. You want to talk about that day, your impressions of it, 2027488000 and for all others, 2027488001. You can post cspanwj your thoughts and impressions of the 50th anniversary. You can do the same at our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Our show will be based to hear from the national air and space museum. A couple of facts of the apollo 11 mission. It was astronauts Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins, the team for that day and the launch, youll remember took place july 16,
History and future of human spaceflight. My name is deeann. I am an engineer. I have never been to space. [laughter] in brevard county, florida, and have watched many of you launched into space. It has been an inspiration and one reason i chose to pursue engineering. Im and engineering tv host nowadays, founder and ceo of future engineers. We have a challenge where students can name the next mars rover. It is until november 1. If you have kids or grandkids who want to be a part of space history, i encourage them to go online and submit their names. I am going to tell you about our panelists. Isir placement tier onstage not a coincidence. We have a chronology here, from apollo onto thinking about going to mars. Tomy left we have General Stafford, former nasa astronaut with the gemini and Apollo Programs. Crippen,aptain bob shuttle astronaut, joined in 69, the apollo days. We have dr. Sandy magness, former shuttle astronaut to spent four and a half months on the International Space stati
Africa. Has been earths Constant Companion for 4 and a half 1000000000 years. Now its finally back in the focus of science almost 50 years after man lost set foot on the moon. As more people are the percent of the total people on the surface that were not alive when that we had a lesson or landing in that wall and we havent done the next thing and some people say been there done that but what we havent done is we just touched the ground planted a flag and left it right we havent really lived we havent explored surely if you want to commit the money to it like we did over apollo you could do it in probably to the years easy we did it great years. 2 words. Now scientists are concentrating on ways to grow food produce energy and make sure theyre. All over the world researchers are working on a return to the moon and the chance to be able to stay there longer. We have to use the moon operationally understand. How to live and work on the planet if you live there are many ideas but actually
In history. So, theyre going into archives, into museums, into libraries and theyre sifting through primary sources, secondary sources. And then theyre thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history as related to an annual theme. This year the theme is triumph and tragedy in history. And then they present their findings in different formats. Of course, one of the categories you see right behind me, and thats the exhibit category. And then theres also a paper category and dramatic performance, documentary, or website. So, history day gives kids an opportunity to be creative in the way in which they present their information. So, for performance category, first they have to do their research. Good, Solid Research into primary and secondary sources. Going into the museums. Lets say its a civil rights topic and theyre going to find someone to do an interview with. Basically the research that historical quality, the information and the evidence. Thats everyone h
One giant leap for mankind. On this 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landings, chase washington journal along with cspan American History tv, will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern spaceflight. For the next three hours we are live at the national air and space musician museum in washington, where well talk about apollo 11 with historians, the module pilot collins, and you. You can let us know you impression of the moon landing, and you want to talk about that day, you impressions of, it tool to 7000, two or two seven assions of the 50th 202 7488000. For all will be based here from the national air and space museum. A couple of facts about the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission. It was Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin, and Michael Collins the team for that day. The launch took place july 16, 1969. The moon landing on july 20, 1969. The first step by Neil Armstrong at about 10 4 56 p. M. On july 20. At about 10 56 p. M. On july 20. Astronauts returning to e