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Howdy. Jfk emphasized the importance of the space race during a time of fear in the u. S. Incredible men and women took this challenge head on. Nessa became a beacon of hope for the nation. I am honored to introduce one of those legends. The man who pioneered apollo 11 and apollo 13. If you have ever heard the phrase houston, Tranquility Base is here, the eagle has landed. With great honor i am here to introduce houston. Mr. Gene kranz. [applause] mr. Kranz thank you. It is a real privilege. I have a couple aggies in the family. To be introduced by an aggie. They told me i had three hours will have to be speaking through lunch here. But jared said no, he will give me a call when i have five minutes. So he is going to stand up and give me sort of a heads up. , i have a three minute video of the actual Lunar Landing. And i think that will put this year, this decade of the 50th anniversary, firm in context of what is happening. I used this at the smithsonian. If you look at the smithsonia
Apollo 11 in a very direct fashion was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charles worth was the lead flight director. One of the responsibilities 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 was the First Mission where in apollo now, where we had been flight directors on gemini, we were coming back together again. So you had probably the three most experienced people at the koi council, and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Lonnie had been to the moon a couple times. Cha charl charlesworth had launched saturns. I had lunar experience. You had no driver that said this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. I was division chief at that time and kraft had been really on top of us to nail down who is going to do what until finally after the apollo 9 mission we all managed to get together, and charlesworth as lead had to make the calls. I
Earths environment. You can find all of the results atluding the attitudes cspan. Org. Talks chief historian, to to us about tomorrow. Marks the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing. Tell us what the 50 year mark means to you. Old whenwas 11 years that happened. I was part down in front of our blackandwhite tv in massachusetts. I thought i was in the middle of enjoying the greatest adventure that ever happened. And i was. 50 years later, i am enjoying the greatest adventure ever happened replayed, and doing it as nasas chief historian. What a ride. Host how did you get to this position . What do you do . Guest the quick answers do not do what i did if you want to be chief historian. I did eight when he to career in air force and did a lot of graduate work on the history of the soviet space program. When i retired from the air force, the then chief historian said why not apply for a job here at nasa . Applied, got the job, and ended up being the chief historian. It was right p