Hello to the audience watching at home. Im the president and ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation. Its my honor to welcome you to our east room. We would like to begin as we always do. Please rise for the presentation of the colors and the singing of the National Anthem. Present arms. Oh, say, can you see, by the dawns early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . [applause] please, be seated. We have a lot to do and a lot of special guests to thank before we get going tonight. You will hear in a couple of moments from Rhonda Johnson, the president of at t california. At t is the cosponsor of todays events, which have been going on sin
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
You also took part in the whole thing. Lets go back over apollo 11, what a thing to go back over, big project. There were many things that stand out, the person says, where were you when . I head sure had an awful lot of great rakes in my life. I mean, whether they were in college, flying airplanes, or a lot of the ones i remember related to apollo 11 in a direct fashion for the day that i got the assignment and cliff was the lead flight director. One of their responsibilitys of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. And, moving in there, this is the First Mission where, in apollo now were lonnie, charlesworth and myself and we had been flight directors on gemini, were actually coming back together again. So, you had probably the three most experienced people at the consul and, it was a question of who was going to get to do what. And, lonnie had been to them in a couple times, charlesworth has launched saturn and i h
The apollo 11 moon landingle were deeply honored to have Vice President pence as we unveil Neil Armstrongs recently conserved apollo 11 space suit. Also with us is jim seamstresses who handmade the spacesuit that we are unveiling this morning. It took another large team to conserve the suit so that we can once again share it with the world after 13 years off exhibit. That Team Included our spacesuit historians, conservators, and collections experts, but their work is only possible thanks to the thousands of individuals who contributed to our kickstarter campaign. Thank you to all of those people who did their part to preserve this vital piece of space history. The complexity of the suit in short it could support human life in the harshest environments. Extreme heat and cold, radiation and the threat of cuts from sharp rocks had to be taken into consideration. As our curators note, these spacesuits were Single Person spacecraft. While they were designed to enjoy the punishments of a lun
The National Anthem by tim kettler. Oh, say, can you see, by the oh, say, can you see, by the dawns early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . [applause] please, be seated. Have a lot to do and a lot of special guests to think before we get going tonight. You will hear in a couple of moments from Rhonda Johnson, the president of at t california. Of todays cosponsor events, which have been going on since the 5k race for space this morning. I have heard the National Anthem a lot of times but i have never reflected on the home of the brave being so perfectly armstronged when neil , Michael Collins and buzz all strong buzz aldrin to