Speaker. As chairwoman of the committee on science, space, and technology, its an honor to stand before you today to celebrate the 50th anniversary of apollo 11. The morning of july 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and buzz aldrin lifted ff from nasas cape kennedy. That day, millions watched in 11 s nasa launched Apollo Saturn 9 rocket to accomplish the goals set by president kennedy less than 10 years earlier, to land the man on the moon before the end of the decade. As president kennedy said in his speech at Rice University in september, 1962, 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. There is no better explanation that captures the american spirit. We choose to take joint leaps. We choose to know the unknown. We choose to lead into the future. On july 20, 1960, just four days after the launch, the world listened and watched as the first steps were taken on the moon. Again, hundreds of millions of
We choose to go to the moon and these other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Emily and we mark the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. I speak with the captain for moonshot on nasas legacy and why we should not be going to mars. First, to our top story, what else but big tech earnings . Shares of microsoft jumping after strong fourthquarter results thursday. The tech giant has benefited from ongoing strength in the Cloud Computing as your business. And microsoft has extended its lead over amazon, apple, and alphabet for the title of worlds most valuable company. Joining us to discuss, ross gerber, and bloomberg opinions shira ovide. Ross, what is your take . Ross what great numbers. Talk about a Mature Company showing it is still a growth company, and how great the Management Change has been, from ballmer to know della. It has been an amazing shift to the positive for microsoft, and we are seeing it across the board, all their businesses, pretty much
Hello and welcome. Theres anticipation building as President Trump and chinas xijinping are due to meet shortly at the 620 summit injapan. The two countries are of course currently locked in a bitter trade war which is threatening to escalate. All eyes are on whether this meeting can break the deadlock or at least offer Global Markets some relief. Ourjapan correspondent, Rupert Wingfield hayes is at the summit in osaka. How likely is it that the two sides will reach any sort of agreement . I dont think we will see this trade dispute dissolved resolved during this very brief meeting, between xi jinping and donald trump, but there is some hope that perhaps a truce can be called and concessions will be made by either side that will allow their trade teams to get back to the table, where they have not been for the last month or so. As they work out the details of any bilateral trade agreement. This is really important because since the end of last year the us and china have imposed swingei
Hello and welcome. Theres anticipation building as President Trump and chinas xijinping are meeting at the 620 summit injapan. The two countries are of course currently locked in a bitter trade war which is threatening to escalate. All eyes are on whether this meeting can break the deadlock or at least offer Global Markets some relief. Ourjapan correspondent, Rupert Wingfield hayes is at the summit in osaka. Are we expecting any sort of resolution to come out of this meeting . I dont think we will see a complete resolution to the trade dispute, this is too short a meeting with too many issues at stake for a short face to face between the two leaders to make that sort of breakthrough. However the mood music going into this meeting is positive, we saw the two lea d e rs this meeting is positive, we saw the two leaders shake hands quarterly, President Trump as he met with President Trump as he met with president xi said that he had a close relationship, that had slipped recently but was g
Hello and welcome. President trump and chinas xi jinping are in a highly anticipated meeting at the 620 summit injapan to discuss the bitter trade war between the two countries. The chinese president has appealed to the us president for dialogue rather than confrontation. All eyes are on whether this meeting can break the deadlock or make some progress towards a truce. Ourjapan correspondent, Rupert Wingfield hayes is at the summit in osaka. What can we expect to come out of this meeting . Here in osaka the meeting between xi jinping and china and donald trump, president of the United States is still going on, it is the meeting eve ryo ne still going on, it is the meeting everyone is watching to see whether the trade or between these two economic giants can at least be put on hold and some sort of truth be called so they can get back to negotiations. Going into that meeting just before lunchtime, both leaders well, i would say, upbeat, the mood was positive. Resident trump saying it wo