now president biden is about to make a speech at the j.f.k. library museum billed as his own cancer moon shot. can this president at this time and with this day amid this acrimony do anything close? we re all over it with molly line in boston where the president is about to speak. former george w. bush speechwriter, bill mcgurn whether this president is about to make a big mistake. and walter cunningham on why a president aiming for the stars is very different from a president aiming for something else. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. on this historic day, a president trying to make history himself. let s go to molly line in boston with how he intends to do that. molly? good afternoon, president biden making his first stop here in boston at logan airport. stopping by terminal e where a infrastructure project is underway. that is also where he teased his far more high profile event today. talking about my commitment to defeating cancer. this is a in 62, the moon sho
Only at full speed. Always shining. Luck but always on the move. Played mostly today and in the future. Drive it on t w. The people of the world for information they provide the opinions they want to express t. W. On facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us. Canaveral florida july 1990. 3 men set off on one of the greatest adventures in Human History their goal to move. Back the back of the global hundreds of thousands were there to watch. Big. League. The cold war was in full swing and the competition between the u. S. And the soviet Union Extended even to space. On july 20th 1069. 00 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the 1st human to set foot on earth spoke only permanent satellite. Live log file. This event would bring armstrong fame that he had
never sought and it would also change his life forever. Strong became a Living Legend in the history of space travel like a 20th century christopher columbus. But at the height of his popularity he voluntarily withdrew from publi
and roger chaffee. during a launch test in january 1967 a fire broke out in the capsules cabin and spread quickly all 3 astronauts were killed. nasa blamed the fire on deficiencies in capsule design workmanship and quality control. the agency made improvements to the spacecraft and to operational procedures. meanwhile nasa continued to experiment with using parachutes to return apollo capsule safely to earth. a more difficult challenge was the design and construction of the vehicle that would actually land the astronauts on the surface of the mood. armstrong took part in flight tests of early versions of the lunar module. armstrong took part in flight tests over earlier versions of the lunar module.
or without sacrifice. to this day americans grieve the loss of three brave astronauts of apollo 1 who were lost in a fire on the launchpad in january 1967. we think of them and their families even today. the risks for apollo 11 were so great, the odds were so long, that many fear that even if our astronauts made it to the moon they might not make it back. in fact, history records that president nixon prepared a speech in the event of tragedy, where he would explain to the nation that the vision had failed. but of course the mission didn t fail. after all, with 400,000 men, women behind the mission at nasa and with the hearts and prayers of the american people, how could it fail?
challenge is still there. there s still other nations on this planet that wish to dominate not only the planet but space. we have to accept that challenge just like president kennedy, president eisenhower accepted it in the 1960s. the timeline on our getting to the moon, harrison, you reminded me in prior conversations, you think about it. when we had the apollo 1 fire in january 1967 and lost the three astronauts, a little more than 2 1/2 years later, we made it to the moon. how did we do that? well, you did it because you had 400,000 americans that were still in their 20s that believes that they could work the 16 hour days, eight day weeks north to make it happen. they had the courage and the stamina and the patriotism to believe it should be done and they made it happen.