Lunar moon landing, a hearing on past and future exploration by nasa and its astronauts. This is 90 minutes. [pounding] hearing is called to ovrd. 50 years ago, exactly one week from today, at 9 30 a. M. , three astronauts sitting atop a rocket destroyer, a navy of ing 7 1 2 Million Pounds thrust took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. A Million People had gathered on the ground to watch event, including half of the United States congress. Three astronauts, as one at the ewspapers put it time, carried with them the hopes of the world. Was 1969. Born. Before i was the astronauts were Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin and collins, and the mission was apollo 11. Would go ond aldrin to make history a little more than a hundred hours later. With more than a third of or listening hing live, they became the first on the o ever set foot moon. The apollo 11 mission would go history again. A little less than a hundred hours of that, as the first not only to put men on home on but to bring them