To survey those medical aspects and we want to have an Automated System that have made space travel possible. I wanted to try to fold all of this in not just hit the astronauts themselves and neil armstrong. The interesting thing about this book. That is it expands it from 1783 to the present and i know a couple of you are probably saying 1783 what is that relate to space exploration. Im going to sing in on here for my. Three definitions of space. And that is really where im going to begin as a definitions of space. Has back before we had rockets and et cetera space was anything off the ground. And in fact back in 1783 the French Brothers were able to build the first hot air balloon they lofted two meant for the very first time in 1783 off of the service. For them space therefore was off the ground. I would have a hard time doing that on my first flight. The early explorers and i take that from 1783 to about 1920 to 1930. They were very simply those people were writing and thats not mu
You teach. I teach coreses enslaverry and courses on womens holiday and interracial dynamics. Hang how youve been at ucla. For 26 years. How has it changed. Changed tremendously. Has grown in student population, grown in the kind students we have. Its grown the kinds of faculty we have and the kinds of things we focus on, particularly in history department, which is of course where my heart and is my mind is as well. Its been a wonderful time here, though, just seeing the change and being part of it. Host you came the year before the l. A. Riots. Guest i did come the year before the l. A. Riots. It was quite a shock to move from texas, where i was, having been born and raised in virginia, and coming here and being part of that. Host have you written about that . Guest yes i have. I was so impacted wrote a book, about the l. A. Riots of 1992. I wrote a book that was published at the University Press in 2013. Host who was latasha harlan. Guest a 15yearold girl who walked into a liquor ma