Take three months to start back in the old days. Even took two or three days when we first started doing it by air because they flew by day and then took the train at night and flew by day and took the train. So the range speed pay load and the capabilities and safety, safety is a really major portion of this entire program. Youre going to keep it for a few more minutes and then show our audience some of the artifacts and exhibits here at the museum but let me get a call joining us from oregon. Youre on the air. Oh, awesome. Its very nice to meet you, general. My question for you is actually a twopart question. One, how many exhibits are actually on display . And what is your favorite exhibit . We have 22 galleries. And the, probably, im not going to give you a number but its, ill say its more than 160 actual artifacts. Im talking about large artifacts. If we count the metals and the patches and some of the other smaller things, it gets into the thousands, actually. So, and i mentioned
For the lanning ding in the moo july of 1969, it had a companion spacecraft. The command module l aand the lr module carried kneel armstrong and Michael Colins and buzz aldrin to the moon. This lunar module is a module that never flew in space. It is a lunar model two thats intended to be used in the test flight. The test was cancelled and as unnecessary. It consists of two parts, the base which has the legs and, the rocket engine in it and then the oddly shaped top which is the crew cabin and the modular. This was attached to the command module from earth to lunar orbit. Once in lunar orbit. The two crew members would descend service where armstrong and colins it began to set down to surface. Forward, forward. Back lights. Andrew, stop. We are copying it down. Go ahead and land it. This was a thrilling moment in history. And, almost every body who was alive at that moment remember where they were. Whether they were watching it on television or their own house or if they were standing
Starts to pump and for once in my life, i go, if i had a damn cell phone. I could call someone. So after that event i broke down and joined the cell phone generation. Patient spaceshipone, that was pressure. I had not found the vehicle loan the vehicle and 10 months. My flight the second x2 flight would be on a monday morning. The night before sunday night was the first airing of the Discovery Channel plus program called the black sky and there was two parts to that. The first part was the race to space which was focused mainly on all the effort it took to get the first fight back in june. That was being played out on national tv and when it broke between segments instead of going to commercial, the reporter he would interview birds and say the first question was who is the pilot tomorrow . And he would answer that question so miles pushed further and said how do you think it is going to go . I do not know if you know bert but if you have an audience, a crowd, he knows how to work it a
Shrub. You know why am talking who i am talking about. George w. Bush the w stands for where the hell is it. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some get it as a graduation gift. [applause] i just want to ask the secret service, is it true that his secret Service Codename is gilligan . Is that really true . Gilligan is on the move, little buddy. I hate to see him in the debate keep asking if he could use his lifeline. You cannot call your dad. Not going to do it. Cant do it. Good, good boy. Not the brightest bulb on the tree. Just go. So frightening. I cannot want to see him in charge of the economy. It is like giving oj a benihana. No. No. More of Robin Williams comedy and poet maya angelou tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time. The Un Security Council failed to adopt a resolution yesterday calling for israel to withdraw from palestinian territories. Russia, china, and france voted for the resolution. The u. S. Opposed it, and five countries abstained. Next, remarks includin
I caught up to peter in new york. On the 10th anniversary of the Xprize Foundation, a board i sit on. People will know about that because of the contest to get the spaceship into space that actually spurn spurred this. Tell me about it. My passion has been to get people into space, i gave up on nasa as being the mechanism to call me there. Back in the 1990s, i read a book called the spirit of st. Louis. I found out in 1927 when lindburg played that flight, he didnt do it on a whim, he did it to win a 25,000 prize. I thought that innovation could be spurred by applies. This 10 million prize for the first person to build a spaceship privately that could carry three people into space. The point is we announced it in 96. It was won in 2004, ten years ago. We had 26 teams around the world that spent 100 million to build up this 10 million prize. And burt rutan, backed by bill gates. Built it. That became being spaceship 1. And Richard Branson built virgin galactic. Ive got a mold of spacesh