It is an honor to welcome the National Space council back to the museum to continue the work of mapping the future of American Space expiration. Surrounded here by icons of our nations highest, proudest achievements. The council is ensuring our future achievements are fully empowered by past achievement. The things you will be discussing today will one day be enshrined in this museum. Dont forget about us. We need hardware. Last month at our museum in washington the apollo 11 space suit, Vice President pens spoke about this generations renewed commitment to American Leadership. Here at the national air and space museum we see evidence of that commitment every day. Helpless children have stood in this very spot and marveled up at the Space Shuttle discovery and then turn to the parents, grandparents or teachers to ask how something so big could fly so high. Our museum is where the country comes to understand its heritage of adventure and discovery and to pass that torch on to new genera
Archivist of the United States and a pleasure to welcome you here to the william g. Mcgowan theater at the National Iraq ives. Whether in the room or participating through facebook or youtuben a special welcome to our cspan audience. Im pleased you could join us for tonights Program Small steps pan giant leaps how apollo 11 shaped our understanding of earth and beyond. Tonights program is presented in partnership with the American Geophysical union, swrating its 100th anniversary this year and made possible in part by the National Archives foundation through the generous support of the boeing company. We thank them for support. Starting tonight a and the next four days we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic flight of apollo 11 and the first moon landing. Tomorrow night, july 18th well screen the recently recent celebrated documentary, apollo 11, crafted from newly discovered video and audio recording here at the National Archives. Following the film, the nasa chief histori
Common rubric so what are those commonalities . That so many people have simultaneously lost their minds . [laughter] and i am here today in part because i hear a great deal of the art of not losing your mind and asking questions about how do we return to a more sane place in politics . And for two main locations in that environment and the other social media. What do these have in common . So my answers are as follows. First the de tocqueville effect is a wellknown phenomenon in Political Science where a society takes to reform itself is often precisely the way in which those conditions make it even more intolerable that somehow things end up seeming worse. And there have been a number of social positive changes in recent years. People have met with social acceptance and the quality. We have had a great deal in our past and very much evidence nowadays but yet somehow we are angrier than ever before and we have seen a resurgence perhaps some degree of racism but also in that is puzzlin
Its great to have you with us on the show. Its changing and the new report from the un details the deepening crisis. Thats not made in africa but its already hits in the continental my colleague kamandi sends us this report from nairobi. Its a widely held belief here in africa that Climate Change is a problem for the rich its also a prize and the fridays for future protests badly gained any traction on the continent just about 10 countries participated in the events that tended to be fairly small the irony of course is that its poor an ordinary africans will most affected by the impact of Climate Change here in kenya had who are running away from up assistant drought having to bring their livestock all of the way up just to keep them alive and in nigeria more and more people are being forced into the cities. As desertification puts pressure on their land the african governments however say that they are trying and you can see that they are wind and solar farms such as this one sproutin
Juneau its great to have you with us on the show. Its changing and the new report from the un details the deepening crisis its a catastrophe thats not made in africa but its already hits in the continental michael kamandi sends us this report from nairobi. Its a widely held belief here in africa about Climate Change is a problem for the rich its also a prize in the fridays for future protests barely gained any traction on the continent just about 10 countries participating in the events that tended to be fairly small the irony of course is that its poor an ordinary africans were most affected by the impact of Climate Change here in kenya had a running away from up assistant drought having to bring their livestock all of the way up just to keep them alive and in nigeria more and more people are being forced into the cities as. Desertification puts pressure on their land the african governments however say that they are trying and you can see that they are wind and solar farms such as th