It is truly a trillion to see Space Diplomacy a topic, near and dear to me, draw so much of a crowd. Thank you for joining us. Im the historian of Science And Technology and a curator at the smithsonian national Air And Space museum for the apollo spacecraft collection. 50 years ago this week, the apollo 11 crew fulfilled president kennedys call to land humans on the moon within a decade and return them safely back to earth. And i hope youve been celebrating all week. A greater percentage of Earths Population followed their flight than any previous event in history. Atheir flight they toured 20 countries on every continent. President nixon declared them best Ambassadors America could have on this 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 also going to look forward, questioning how Apollo Air and Space Diplomacy should inform Foreign Relations today. So very shortly,
American History Tv continues now. Watch more online any time at cspan. Org history. Well, welcome. It is truly a trillion to see Space Diplomacy a topic, near and dear to me, draw so much of a crowd. Thank you for joining us. Im the historian of Science And Technology and a curator at the smithsonian national Air And Space museum for the apollo spacecraft collection. 50 years ago this week, the apollo 11 crew fulfilled president kennedys call to land humans on the moon within a decade and return them safely back to earth. And i hope youve been celebrating all week. A greater percentage of Earths Population followed their flight than any previous event in history. Atheir flight they toured 20 countries on every continent. President nixon declared them best Ambassadors America could have on this 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 also going to look forward, que
It was an amazing trip. Wherever we went, i thought people would say, you americans finally did it. Instead of that, people said, we did it, we humans, humanity finally left this little Planet And Set foot elsewhere. I had the feeling that was genuine. It wasnt contrived. You could see an upwelling. The more they thought about it, the more they got into it. Neil armstrong was our spokesperson. He was amazingly good at that job. Neil did not want to be in the spotlight. If you put him in the spotlight, when it got on him, he knew where he was and what he was doing and he knew exactly what to say. He had done his homework. Well, to back up just a tad, he was not just an astronaut. He had a breadth of knowledge and interests way off from one corner to the other. He was an amateur historian. Primarily, the history of science, but not entirely. When he got to a particular capital, he had done his homework about that place. He knew some of the local problems. Had a feeling for the local kind
You have workers who were able to stay longer. Manufacturing because of automati were going to leave the last few minutes of this record it. You can finish watching g it ourwebsitecspan. Org. We go now to hear from joint chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman general John Hyten. He and others will discuss Defense Technology at an event hosted by the emerging Technology Institute. Live coverage here on cspan2. Chapters, 30ndi chapters. 20 women in defense chapters, our 27 divisions, 1,600 corporate companies that are members spread across some 3,500 facilities across our nation, as well as our considerable expertise in promoting constructive dialog between government and the private sector to create and support the emerging Technologies Institute. As an independent affiliate of ndia, will promote the technological advances most essential to our countrys economic and competitor needs and success and these same tech followings will be fundamental to any future conflict, both from a deterrence, as
by the previous administration. we have fox team coverage. bill melugin in southern texas where authorities who are already overwhelmed by the surge are bracing for a new onslaught. we begin with griff jenkins in panama. good evening. good evening. we are the first tv journalists to come here to the migrant camp in southern panama. it opened in may of 2020. it s the same way point that most of those 15,000 haitians passed through on their way to that bridge in del rio three weeks ago. we came here to see where the border crisis begins long before it reaches the u.s. a pipeline of haitian migrant streaming toward to the begin south of the american southern border. panama s foreign minister says there are currently 60,000 migrants passing through her country with another 20,000 waiting to cross from colombia. the crossing if through some of the most treacherous train on earth. it s a lawless jungle accessible by road, ruled by drug traffickers, smugglers who prey on the migra