Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum. And this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976, almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary space flight. And it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during this heroic age of Space Exploration when humans first ventured off the planet into space and all the way to the moon, when the United States and the soviet union began sending craft out to explore the nearby planets. All of this was exciting, thrilling, and people just flocked in to the museum to see it. In the 40 years since this building opened, we have continued to acquire treasures of space history. We have now about 17,000 artifacts related to space history. We have just over a thousand of them on display in our two locations
Book signing. A couple of things i wanted to mention before i introduce to you will introduce miss johnson. Our hope here at the museum is that each time you come here, you learn something. That we are educating, informing and hopefully encouraging you to act in some way. Were not going to tell you what to do but we will encourage you to do something. Every one of us has an us, the exact same thing of the people we chronicle on the walls of the civil rights museum. None of them have anything different than what we have. The difference simply is that they activated it. We hope when you leave here this evening, you will have learned something. You will have gathered new information. And that you will be encouraged to act in some way. Last year in 2018, we commemorated the assassination of doctor kang. And we seemed it, where do we go from here. Which is the title of his last book. So we continue to ask the question, where do we go from here . We commissioned a study on poverty in Shelby
The Smithsonian National air and space museum shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration from the moon to mar mars. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and Historic Sites around the country. Up next we visit the Smithsonian National air and space museum located on the National Mall in washington, d. C. Our tour guide is valerie neal, head of the Space History Department at the museum who shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration from the moon to mars. Im valerie neal. Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum and this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976 almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary spaceflight and it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during thi
The tv this weekend and every weekend on cspan2. Good evening everyone. Thank you for being here with us and im certain this will be a riveting conversation and easier to say that word than it is to spell it because i couldnt figure out to spell it. And president of the National Museum i welcome you here this evening for this book talk on ms. Alice Marie Johnsons book. I hope you had an opportunity to get it and if not, i believe we are selling it and she will be doing a book signing a couple things i wanted to mention for i introduce to you [inaudible] who will introduce ms. Johnson. You know, our hope here at the museum is that each time you come here you learn something. That will educate and inform and hopefully we are encouraging you to act in some way. I will not tell you what to do but we want to encourage you to do something. Every one of us has enough the exact same thing but all the people that we chronicle on the walls of the National Civil Rights Museum have and none of tho
In the boeing milestones flight all at the center of the museum and this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transformed the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july 1976, almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary spaceflight and it was for most people, their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during this heroic age of space exploration, when humans first ventured off the planet into space and all the way to the moon, when the United States and the soviet union began sending craft out to explore the nearby planets. All of this was exciting, thrilling, and people just flocked into the museum to see it. In the 40 years since the building opened, we have continued to acquire treasures of space history. We have now about 17,000 artifacts related to space history. We have just over 1000 of them on display in two locations here in the washington