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
Hello and welcome to nasas jet repulsion laboratory in pasadena. A hot afternoon and for our monthly Public Lecture series, im preston dyches. 50 years ago three human beings set out on a journey across a quarter of 1 million miles of space to the moon. Two of them sat down on a fragile Landing Craft and one stepped into history uttering a phrase we know by heart. For that one human being to make the one small step to the efforts of hundreds of thousands of people over the course of a decade. In industry, universities, and government. Didnt play the leading roles but for all who contributed to play a small role in the Space Program today, something that mattered. The primary role is to help lead the robotic explanation of the road of the system developing Communication Technologies that contributed to apollo. Used for communicating to all spacecraft. It was used to receive the astronauts tv transmissions from the moon and was also a Vital Communications backup especially during the ten
Much doing a lot of but if fantastic work in the sense that television is a great excuse to write about everything, and it reflects whatever people are are interested in or best with, so i wrote about reality tv, i wrote about the news, ive, you know, could write about this. [laughter] if, you know, the circumstances were right, so a pretty vast field. How much time dow do you spend now with the networks as opposed to netflix, amazon, hulu, et cetera, et et cetera . Theres vast drop now in content ocean. You know, it used to be, you know, every fall, the big three or four networks would release the content, the shows they were going to premier for the coming season, that was what you were going to be concerned with all year and now Television Among many, you know, so much on netflix, so much on amazon, hbo, showtime, basic cable, premium cable, so what we used to think of as tv, its a tinny amount of what is television now, television that i write about is not on what we call televisio
On the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing todays washington journal in conjunction with American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern spaceflight. For the next three hours we are live from the national air and space museum where we will talk about apollo 11 with historian command michael and you. You can let us know our impressions if you watched the mainline. If you want to talk about the day 2027488000 and for all others, 2027488001. You can post your thoughts and impressions of the anniversary and do the same on our Facebook Page facebook. Com cspan. Our show will be based hear from the national air and space museum. A couple of facts of the anniversary of the apollo 11 mission. It was near limestone, buzz aldrin and michael the team for that day. For lunch for lunch took pl. , july 16th at 9 32 in the morning. The moon landing on july 20 july 1969 4 17 in the afternoon. The first step at about 10 50 6 pm on july 20, buzz aldrin would
Weekend. This weekend on American History up to the 50th anniversary of the apollo moon landing, wash nasas apollo 11 prelaunch interviews, saturday el astronautse charles armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins. Operation of the lunar module systems and control of the vehicle during descent and ascent. We will go through the planned, twoman excursion on the surface with neil exiting the spacecraft first. As he goes down the ladder, i will be taking pictures of him with a 16mm camera through the window. A Television Camera will also be recording his activities. And should difficulties arise, my job is to rescue the lem, and then i find myself the active partner in charge of a complex vehicle with a complex job. Chair this weekend Woodrow Wilson drops in a president ial survey from sixth to 11th license bill clinton rises from 21st two the 15th spot. Where does your favorite president rank . Learn that and more about the lives and leadership skills of the 45 chief executives in cspan