By anyone, and who often serve for decades. Announcer sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Based here from the national air and space museum. A couple of facts about the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission. It was Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin, and Michael Collins the team for that day. The launch took place july 16, 1969. 20,moon landing on july 1969. Step by Neil Armstrong at about 10 4 56 p. M. On july 20. About 10 56 p. M. On july 20. Astronauts returning to earth on july 24, 1969. We will talk more about the historical significance and what it means for spaceflight today. O. Will hear from you to if you watched the moon landing, 202 7488000. 202 7488001 for all others this morning. Let you know that this program is being done in conjunction with our colleagues at American History tv. Cspan3 on the weekends turns into that channel with historical programming from interviews, and lectures. Programming, interviews, and lectures. You can talk about the apollo 11 mission, pa
Todays washington journal in conjunction with American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern life. For the next three hours, where live from the national air and space museum from washington, d. C. Knowan call us and let us your impressions of apollo 11 if you watched the moon landing. 202 7488000 for all others 202 7488001. Panwj yourst cs thoughts and impressions. You can do the same on facebook. Com cspan. Based here from the national air and space museum. A couple of facts about the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission. It was Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin, and Michael Collins the team for that day. The launch took place july 16, 1969. 20,moon landing on july 1969. Step by Neil Armstrong at about 10 4 56 p. M. On july 20. About 10 56 p. M. On july 20. Astronauts returning to earth on july 24, 1969. We will talk more about the historical significance and what it means for spaceflight today. O. Will hear from you to if you watched the moon landin
Mothers at what is still considered the largest dinners ever held at the white house. As president nixon said, it rained all day and much of the evening, and the south long was south lawn was soggy when the guests started arriving for dinner. Many of the womens long dresses got splattered with mud, but nothing would dampen the spirits of that night. In the first year of his presidency, nixon met with the wives and mothers of the pows during the christmas season. He wrote that the women spoke respectfully and passionately about the need to get their husbands and sons returned home to american soil. From that time on, each pow was an individual to me, obtaining their release became a burning cause. Our distinguished speaker on this memorial day will tell this important story. Her name is heath hardage lee. She is a historian, writer, and museum curator, and holds a ba in history with honors from davidson college, and an ma from the university of virginia. A 2017 robert j curatorial fello
The lunar module, the Lunar Landing craft, in earth orbit once. Before we would commit man to a Lunar Landing, there were still a number of things to be worked out. This was the mission of apollo 10. In the words of its commander, tom stafford, to sort out all the unknowns and pave the way for a Lunar Landing. It was a veteran crew. Spacecraft commander tom stafford had flown on gemini six and nine. Learner module pilot eugene cernan, the lunar module pilot, had flown with stafford on gemini nine. John young had been on gemini three and gemini 10. They would face problems on apollo 10, problems that would be solved for apollo 11. Most will be minor. But they would be solved. Stafford, young, cernan. They brought to their mission enthusiasm, dedication, responsibility, even amazement. And through the means of Color Television, they took us with them as they played their part in mans greatest adventure. We are go for a mission to the moon at this time. Tom stafford reports they are go. C
You can also watch on the cspan now video app or online at cspan. Org. Nass administrator bill nelson talked about the upcoming artemis ii motion around the moon during a press conference at the Kennedy Space center in florida. During a Panel Discussion with the crew of artemis ii, speakers addressed the possibility the new space race with china and Lessons Learned from the first mission. This is about 45 minutes. Minut. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us at space Kennedy Space center. I am the nasa press secretary and we are joined for an artemis ii update and our crew. We got a first look at the spacecraft that took them to the moon, we only have 45 minutes to for the briefing so we will keep it short. Joining us is nasa administrator bill nelson, pam melroy, bob cabana, jim free, artemis ii commander reese wiseman, Mission Specialist christina cook, and Mission Specialist jeremy hendrick. First i will handed over to the administrator for a quick update. Bill nelson thank yo