On the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing todays washington journal in conjunction with American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern spaceflight. For the next three hours we are live from the national air and space museum where we will talk about apollo 11 with historian command michael and you. You can let us know our impressions if you watched the mainline. If you want to talk about the day 2027488000 and for all others, 2027488001. You can post your thoughts and impressions of the anniversary and do the same on our Facebook Page facebook. Com cspan. Our show will be based hear from the national air and space museum. A couple of facts of the anniversary of the apollo 11 mission. It was near limestone, buzz aldrin and michael the team for that day. For lunch for lunch took pl. , july 16th at 9 32 in the morning. The moon landing on july 20 july 1969 4 17 in the afternoon. The first step at about 10 50 6 pm on july 20, buzz aldrin would
He leads the open by four shots, on the final day at royal portrush. Englands dreams of netball world cup gold are over after defeat to new zealand. Thats one small step for mild, one giant leap for mankind. Thats one small step for mild, one giant leap for mankind. 50 years on, the world remembers as events are held to mark the anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing. Good morning. Its a fine, warm sunday for many of us, but for many of us expected to turn wetter during the day. I have the forecast for that, and the heat, thats what its all about for the week ahead. Join me later on. Its sunday, zistjuly. Our top story British Airways has cancelled all flights to and from the egyptian capital, cairo, for seven days. The airline has described the move as a safety precaution. The german carrier lufthansa also announced it was suspending flights, but later confirmed its scheduled services will resume today. Our correspondent andy moore is at heathrow for us with the latest. There is no
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im randi kaye. Tens of thousands of nasa employees worked on apollo 11 to put the first man on the moon. You got to meet some of them tonight. One unique individual came to our attention as the film was being researched. Turns out there was only one woman allowed in the control room during the launch. Her remarkable story has been mostly hidden all these years. She played a critical role, and as we learned, spending time with her, she remembers it well. Heres her story. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard. The Space Program in the early 60s was dominated by men. But during the historic launch of apollo 11 on july 16th, 1969 one woman stood out in a sea of men in the control room. 28yearold joann morgan. I was the Instrumentation Controller. The Instrumentation Controller needs to know is there a problem . If so, i need to tell the right people in the test team. So how did you end up the on
Put the first man on the moon. You got to meet some of them tonight. One unique individual came to our attention as the film was being researched. Turns out there was only one woman allowed in the control room during the launch. Her remarkable story has been mostly hidden all these years. She played a critical role, and as we learned, spending time with her, she remembers it well. Heres her story. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard. The Space Program in the early 60s was dominated by men. But during the historic launch of apollo 11 on july 16th, 1969 one woman stood out in a sea of men in the control room. 28yearold Joanne Morgan. I was the instrumentation controller. The instrumentation controller needs to know is there a problem . If so, i need to tell the right people in the test team. So how did you end up the only woman in the firing room during the launch of apollo 11 . My director of Information
Abby, the president speaking to nbc tonight and seemingly simultaneously promising the possibility of military action but also saying he wants to talk. Well, jim, the tough talk from President Trump is back from President Trump in this interview with nbc news. Even as he explains his decision to hold off on that attack on iran that was expected last night, the president is also saying that he wants to talk and if iran doesnt want to talk and wants to threaten the United States instead, that there could be consequences. Listen. Im not looking for war and if there is there will be obliteration like youve never seen before. You cant have a nuclear weapon. You want to talk, good. Otherwise youll have a bad economy for the next three years. Any preconditions . Not as far as im concerned. The president is using a similar strategy with iran he has tried to use in other parts of the world, notably north korea. So far it doesnt seem iran has any interest in talking to President Trump at the mom