Next, a look at the legacy of the Apollo Space Missions in the future of Space Exploration. The discussion was held at the National Academy of engineering. [applause] welcome, everyone, to the National Academy of engineerings for him on human spaceflight, apollo, 50 years on. Im going on stage today by six incredible individuals, each of whom helped shape the history and the future of human spaceflight. A little introduction about myself. My name is deeann. Much like many of our panelists today, i am an engineer. Unlike most of our panelists i have never been to space which gives you an idea of the impressiveness. I did grow up in brevard county, florida, Cape Canaveral and many of you launched into space, it has been an inspiration in my life and one of the reasons i chose to pursue engineering. I have gone on to have an atypical career. I am an endearing tv host nowadays and founder and ceo of future engineers. We have current talent launched with nasa where students can name the nex
Good afternoon to welcome to the seventh annual san antonio book festival. How many have been here all day . Great festival so far. Absolutely. Heres the good news, we saved the best for last. Welcome with Douglas Brinkley one of the authors who was closest to us because he and his family that are here drove down i. 35 from where they live for todays event. Hes a distinguished professor in humanities at history at Rice University but for the purpose of the conversation today, hes one of the great historians in our country and if you are an armchair historian like im, he is a must read, and ive been reading douglas for years, but i, american moonshot is the best work youve done if i can say so. A really terrific book. There are some younger people in the audience, but i am a cold war baby and catholic at that and i can remember them a interrupting school in second gd drafting school in second grade to announce that the commies have launched sputnik and a month later there was a second a
Absolutely. Heres the good news, we saved the best for last. Welcome with Douglas Brinkley one of the authors who was closest to us because he and his family that are here drove down i. 35 from where they live for todays event. Hes a distinguished professor in humanities at history at Rice University but for the purpose of the conversation today, hes one of the great historians in our country and if you are an armchair historian like im, he is a must read, and ive been reading douglas for years, but i, american moonshot is the best work youve done if i can say so. A really terrific book. There are some younger people in the audience, but i am a cold war baby and catholic at that and i can remember them a interrupting school in second gd drafting school in second grade to announce that the commies have launched sputnik and a month later there was a second announcement that they had launched sputnik 2 and this was a prelude to them coming into the mission classroom and taking over and th
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
Good afternoon to welcome to the seventh annual san antonio book festival. How many have been here all day . Great festival so far. Absolutely. Heres the good news, we saved the best for last. Welcome with Douglas Brinkley one of the authors who was closest to us because he and his family that are here drove down i. 35 from where they live for todays event. Hes a distinguished professor in humanities at history at Rice University but for the purpose of the conversation today, hes one of the great historians in our country and if you are an armchair historian like im, he is a must read, and ive been reading douglas for years, but i, american moonshot is the best work youve done if i can say so. A really terrific book. There are some younger people in the audience, but i am a cold war baby and catholic at that and i can remember them a interrupting school in second gd drafting school in second grade to announce that the commies have launched sputnik and a month later there was a second a