[applause] good evening, im delighted to be in houston, always delighted to be in houston and its almost always a good space so i want to take you back to sunday afternoon, july 20 1969. It was about 2 15 central time. Neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship, they were in the lunar module. They were getting ready to fly lunar orbit, from an orbiter on the moon to Tranquility Base. And that last leg of the 240,000 mile journey takes just 13 minutes from the thousand feet to the surface of the moon. The first three minutes of the 13 minute went perfectly normally. The last 10 minutes were a cascade of problems and you might not have even noticed problems if you were listening live because thats the way after not adMission Control work. The first problem was that as armstrong and aldrin down to the moon they were looking out the window. Armstrong discovered the place they were intending to land was strewn with boulders between 10 and 20 feet. They were boulders as big as ho
Buy the book at the book sale shop. Politics and prose, a local shop in washington d. C. Is selling the books and we want to find out what youre reading. Amare, in california, youre on book tv. What are you reading . Whats on your list . Good morning, how are you doing this morning . Im reading please, go ahead. Im writing the gettysburg address by Martin Johnson how the gettysburg they wrote the gettysburg address over and over again. Its pretty fun and i enjoy it. Who is the author again . Martin p. Johnson. Thank you, sir for calling in. Ray in glendale, arizona. Hi, peter. I just happened to switch over from washington journal. What im reading right now is a book called troubled refuge, struggles for newly freed folks in the civil war and i just finished master, slave, husband, wife, and excellent book on the same subject. Right, which we covered on book tv. Can you tell me, ray, how often you read books . How many you have going at once and you get through a book a week or what .
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