50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, 2 astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. That included half of the u. S. Congress. These 3 astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The u. S. 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were now im strong, but, and michael collins. And the mission was apollo 11. Armstrong and aldrin went on to make history a little more than 100 hours later. When with more than one third of the earths the earth watching, word listening live. They became the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. The apollo 11 mission would go on to make history again. A little less than 100 hours after that, as the First Mission not only to put men on the moon, but to bring them home safely
This hearing is called to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, two astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. Including half of the United States congress. These three astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The year was 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael collins. And the mission was apollo 11. Armstrong and aldrin went on to make history a little more than 100 hours later. When, with more than one third of the earths the earth watching or listening live, they became the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. The apollo 11 mission would go on to make history again. A little less than 100 hours after that, as the First Mission
[gavel pounding] this hearing is call to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, 2 astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. That included half of the u. S. Congress. These 3 astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The u. S. 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were now im strong, but, and michael collins. And the mission was apollo 11. Armstrong and aldrin went on to make history a little more than 100 hours later. When with more than one third of the earths the earth watching, word listening live. They became the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. The apollo 11 mission would go on to make history again. A little less than 100 hours after that, as the First Mission not o
Neil thanks for propelling the nasdaq in and out of record territory. All over the map today. Started higher, dropped about 10 points, about 15 but we should also point out with todays 2 run on top of the 50 run yesterday in and out of 800, the nasdaq, we are still on the same ride with a i writing the markets and any beneficiaries, the latest from kelly ogrady following this and the markets themselves. Reporter the markets looking to end the week on a high note. Investors hoping for records from all three major indices and i want to start with the nasdaq looking for an alltime high the we havent hit since november of 20 one, 60,202. We are above 16,000, we need fifteen. 80 gain, to break that, we are down a little bit but certainly a few hours things could swing. I want to look at the dow, if we could bring up the dow, is roughly, let me see it on the screen, it is up one hundred 38 points, s p 500 also up, 9 points, any gain on either of those indices will see record closes. We also
Neil thanks for propelling the nasdaq in and out of record territory. All over the map today. Started higher, dropped about 10 points, about 15 but we should also point out with todays 2 run on top of the 50 run yesterday in and out of 800, the nasdaq, we are still on the same ride with a i writing the markets and any beneficiaries, the latest from kelly ogrady following this and the markets themselves. Reporter the markets looking to end the week on a high note. Investors hoping for records from all three major indices and i want to start with the nasdaq looking for an alltime high the we havent hit since november of 20 one, 60,202. We are above 16,000, we need fifteen. 80 gain, to break that, we are down a little bit but certainly a few hours things could swing. I want to look at the dow, if we could bring up the dow, is roughly, let me see it on the screen, it is up one hundred 38 points, s p 500 also up, 9 points, any gain on either of those indices will see record closes. We also