This is 50 minutes. There we go. Im going to start over. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the next session. Im going to be speaking about mars and the future of space. When will we celebrate the first human on mars. And Research Director at the Heartland Institute and worked at cato and heritage and other places. We are having this discussion on a very auspicious date. July 20, 2019. This is the 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. One of the great human achievements. To give you more of my background during the summe december 1969 i put the High School Intern at the space center out in maryland, so i was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center i sat and watched the launch in the control room. This is the flight plan from the first moon landing. Everybody had one and i kept mine. I still have my little badge and you know how strict security is these days but it was just a little Plastic Thing f
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the next session. Im going to be speaking about mars and the future of space. When will we celebrate the first human on mars. And Research Director at the Heartland Institute and worked at cato and heritage and other places. We are having this discussion on a very auspicious date. July 20, 2019. This is the 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. One of the great human achievements. To give you more of my background during the summe december 1969 i put the High School Intern at the space center out in maryland, so i was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center i sat and watched the launch in the control room. This is the flight plan from the first moon landing. Everybody had one and i kept mine. I still have my little badge and you know how strict security is these days but it was just a little Plastic Thing for a High School Kid that was enough to get me into the s
Effect situation i think it caused that because because of this, the situation at top and with this dangers of the working area, it led to all of these labor laws and safety act that protect us now. So without this, and these women standing up for themselves and improving all those people wrong, we went have the safety act and laws we have today. Thank you all very much. Thank you. We are featuring American History tv programs as a preview of whats available every weekend on cspan3, lectures and history, american artifacts, real america , the civil war, oral histories, the presidency, and a special event coverage about our nations history. Enjoy American History tv now, and every weekend on cspan3. Coming up next, moonwalk one, 1970 featurelength documentary about the july 1959 69 Apollo Mission to the moon. After that Vice President mike pence on marks talks about Neil Armstrongs apollo 11 space suit when it went on display for the first time, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apoll
Channel basin, where the spacecraft is brought from the manufacturer in huntsville, alabama. And here, there is an interesting sight, too. Byond our press site, over the Vehicle Assembly building, there are scores of workers out, permitted for the first time to bring binoculars and cameras of their own to the base. Theres a holiday atmosphere. While normally during these launches work goes on the cape buteep things on schedule, indeed, in the Vehicle Assembly building, they have already erected apollo 12. It is ready to be rolled out as soon as apollo 11 is on its way for a launch. [beeping] it will be rolled out to launch within two months to me still try to meet president kennedys goal of landing on the moon in this decade. If apollo 11 goes as well as planned, they will take an extra couple of months to get a good reading on the rocks and so forth that are brought back. And then send apollo 12. We have an announcement coming up from Launch Control. This is apollo seven Launch Contro
Bring binoculars and cameras of their own to the base. And there is a holiday atmosphere. While normally during these launches, work goes on on the cape to keep things on schedule, but indeed, in the Vehicle Assembly building, they have already erected apollo 12. It is ready to be rolled out as soon as apollo 11 is on its way for a launch. [beeping] mr. Crum it will be rolled out to launch within two months to me still try to meet president kennedys goal of landing on the moon in this decade. If apollo 11 goes as well as planned, they will take an extra couple of months to get a good reading on the rocks and so forth that are brought back. And then send apollo 12. We have an announcement coming from Launch Control, and jack king. This is apollo seven Launch Control. We are now less than 16 minutes away from the planned liftoff of the apollo 11 space vehicle. All is going well with the countdown at this time. The astronauts aboard the spacecraft have had a little chance to rest over the