All week. A greater percentage of efforts population followed their flight than any other event in human history. After their flights the astronauts toured. President nixon proclaimed them the best possible am baz dors america could have on the earth. Today were looking back and asking what was the political and Foreign Relations significance of the apollo program, and what is its enduring legacy. Were going to look forward questioning how apollo era space diplomacy should inform Foreign Relations today. Very shortly ill give you Historical Context on the role of project apollo in u. S. Foreign relations and its followed by a one on one conversation between me and Major General Michael Collins. Then well have a larger Panel Discussion that looks at apollo and then also how it can inform the future of space diplomacy. But first, i would like to say thank you for coming to recognize special guests we have here today. The Collins Family and friends. Thank you for joining us. And i would l
Were going to get started because we have a hard cue at 8 48. Please raise for the presentation of the colors and the singing of the National Anthem by tim kepler. Clr o say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . [ applause ]. Please be seated. We have a lot to do and a lot of special guests to thank before we get going tonight. Youll hear in a couple of moments from Rhonda Johnson who is the president of at t california. At t is the cosponsor with the Nixon Foundation at todays events which have been going on since the 5k race for space this morning right up to this moment celebrating 50 years ago. I
The Smithsonian National air and space museum shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration from the moon to mar mars. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and Historic Sites around the country. Up next we visit the Smithsonian National air and space museum located on the National Mall in washington, d. C. Our tour guide is valerie neal, head of the Space History Department at the museum who shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration from the moon to mars. Im valerie neal. Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum and this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976 almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary spaceflight and it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during thi
Explores what it would take to send humans to mars. Im going to start over. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the next session to Research Director of the Heartland Institute and cato and heritage in other places and we are having this discussion july 20, 2019 this is the 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. I was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center i sat there and watched the launch and splash down in the control room. This is the flight plan from the first moon landing. Everyone had one of these and i kept mine. I could sell one of these on ebay but im not going to do that. I still have my little badge and you know how strict security is these days but this was a little Plastic Thing and for a High School Kid that was enough to get me into the space flight center. A little bit of things coming around so to speak. I got buzz aldrin to do a first chapter in my book the first human being to
And welcome to the next session that i will be speaking about mars and the future of space. When will we celebrate the first human on mars . I am edward hudgins, by the way. Research director of heartland institute. Words that kato and heritage and other places. We are having this discussion on a very auspicious day. This is july 20, 2019. The 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. To give you more of my background, i was at nasa center. In maryland i was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center. I kept i could probably sell them on ebay but im not going to do that. So i got my id badge. You know how strict security is these days. For a high school kid, that was enough to get me into space flight center. At the cato institute, i did a space policy forum and ive got a book on space, the free market frontier. And i managed to get buzz aldrin to do a chapter in my book. The first human being to land on the moon. Im