The Senate Returns today and they vote later on a house passed resolution disapproving a new federal rule revising oversight oflow income banking services. Later in the week , a vote on a gop backed coronavirus Economic Relief bill. They will also take up the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. Live now to the senate floor on cspan2. In the law and the prophets. We praise you for this profound maxim to guide our ethical conduct. May it provide our lawmakers with wisdom to make sound decisions and strength to walk in the way of justice and freedom for all. We pray in your wonderful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the president pro tempore. Mr. Grassley one minute for morning business, please. Th
Live from the national air and space museum from washington, d. C. Knowan call us and let us your impressions of apollo 11 if you watched the moon landing. 202 7488000 for all others 202 7488001. Panwj yourst cs thoughts and impressions. You can do the same on facebook. Com cspan. Based here from the national air and space museum. A couple of facts about the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission. It was Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin, and Michael Collins the team for that day. The launch took place july 16, 1969. 20,moon landing on july 1969. Step by Neil Armstrong at about 10 4 56 p. M. On july 20. About 10 56 p. M. On july 20. Astronauts returning to earth on july 24, 1969. We will talk more about the historical significance and what it means for spaceflight today. O. Will hear from you to if you watched the moon landing, 202 7488000. 202 7488001 for all others this morning. Let you know that this program is being done in conjunction with our colleagues at American History tv. Cspan
There is a great deal of contrast in it, currently it is upside down on the monitor but we can make out a fair amount of detail. Will you verify the position of the opening of the camera . There is, a foot coming down the steps. You coming can see down the ladder now. Ok, i checked. It is adequate to get back up, it is a smooth the jump. There is a foot on the moon. Stepping on the moon. He must be stepping down on the moon at this point. This is houston. Shadow photography on the camera. Im at the foot of the latter. Ladder. Is only depressed into the surface a few inches. The surface is very finegrained , almost like a powder. Very fine. Walter look at those pictures. A little shadowy, but they expected that in the shadow of the lunar module. Armstrong is on the moon. Neil armstrong, standing on the service of the moon. This july 20, 1969. Neil that is one small step for mankind. Giant leap for i think that was neils quote. One small step for man, but i did not get a second phrase. T
He didnt want a biography. He wanted a story of his life of flight. He failed anything that he did any of the astronauts could have done so he wanted them to get equal credit. He was that type of a guy. He never thought of himself as being anything special but he wanted the story of flight told him we were going to do it and when he passed away we had already worked one chapter out and i decided to go ahead because and do the flight because people suddenly they made sense. I looked around mike and all the people from a poll of practically all of them are gone. We have to realize that over half the people on the planet werent even here when he walked on the moon. The other asked it not said jay if you dont do it who else is going to do a quicks jim calls it a great book and adds to neils legacy. We did our level best to try to get this done for the history. We have had a heavy Library Event sale so thats great. We were trying to get neils story in a library for history and hopefully we
Those are nasa engineers over there and this was the world that was normal to them and that the wives tried very hard to keep normal and grounded. You kind of alluded to how much the wives seem to change after the Apollo Program and i was wondering if you could share some of the astronauts of the wives thoughts on what was it like when that ended and did they feel like it should continue and almost is there almost is there a sense of ptsd among the families . Yeah, i think everyone is pretty sad when nixon ended the Apollo Program and these wives kyc today and i think in history they will continue to be seen. Ive told this to them as sort of our pioneer space women. They were the pioneers. Their husbands were doing something we had never done before. You know, just the surreal moments of going out in your backyard as jane conrad remember to me when her husband was up there on apollo 12 Walking Around the moon and a house that just cleared out. She had all the wives over for a party. It