It back over to ms. I to. But why . Some say the moon . Why choose this as our goal . And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain. 535 years ago fly the atlantic why does race play texas . We choose to go to the moon we choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon. And this decade and do the other things not they are easy, but because they are hard because that goal well served to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills because that challenge is one that were willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win, and the others to. In early 1960s, president john kennedy said, we want galvanize our country to, do something very bold. And it the space race. So we wanted to do something bold to beat the russians. Lets beat the russians by sending humans to the moon and returning them safely before the end of the 1960s as the country to think about going to the moon. One of the questions we had was, you know, how do you know where y
It back over to ms. I to. But why . Some say the moon . Why choose this as our goal . And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain. 535 years ago fly the atlantic why does race play texas . We choose to go to the moon we choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon. And this decade and do the other things not they are easy, but because they are hard because that goal well served to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills because that challenge is one that were willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win, and the others to. In early 1960s, president john kennedy said, we want galvanize our country to, do something very bold. And it the space race. So we wanted to do something bold to beat the russians. Lets beat the russians by sending humans to the moon and returning them safely before the end of the 1960s as the country to think about going to the moon. One of the questions we had was, you know, how do you know where y
Complexity and diversity is just going to be amazing. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the world woke up today to the news of an agreement aimed at curbing Irans Nuclear weapons program. It was the fruit of marathon talks between iran and a group of world powers the United States and other permanent members of the u. N. Security council, plus germany. The weary Foreign Ministers gathered after 18 long days and nights of talks in vienna. Today is an historic day. Its a great honor for us to announce that we have reached an agreement on the Iranian Nuclear issue. Woodruff within minutes
Complexity and diversity is just going to be amazing. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the world woke up today to the news of an agreement aimed at curbing Irans Nuclear weapons program. It was the fruit of marathon talks between iran and a group of world powers the United States and other permanent members of the u. N. Security council, plus germany. The weary Foreign Ministers gathered after 18 long days and nights of talks in vienna. Today is an historic day. Its a great honor for us to announce that we have reached an agreement on the Iranian Nuclear issue. Woodruff within minutes
Former langley historian. He spent some time year before we set him to jpl, and then our last panelist, glenn bugos, currently with ames. And with that, lets go to dr. Bill barry. Hes going to moderate our panel and begin give us the beginnings of some great stories. Thanks, bill. [applause] bill thanks, walt. Good afternoon, everybody. This is a great opportunity, what happened 40 years ago today and tomorrow. I would imagine that 40 years ago today, the 19th of july, 1976, there was a lot of nailbiting and concerned going on around here. For good reason. Getting to mars is hard to do. No one had done it before successfully. Not that people had tried. The soviets had made at least six attempts to land something on mars until that point. None of them had been successful. They did get something on the surface but it lasted for about 40 seconds of data transmission. So mars 3 not a great success. Folks here were understandably nervous. The spaceage have been going on for since 1957. Gett