The First Mission where in apollo now, where we had been flight directors on gemini, we were coming back together again. So you had probably the three most experienced people at the counsel, and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Lonnie had been to the moon a couple times. Charlesworth had launched saturns. I had the lunar module experience. You had no driver that said this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. I was division chief at that time and kraft had been really on top of us to nail down who is going to do what until finally after the apollo 9 mission we all managed to get together, and charlesworth as lead had to make the calls. I called him and said cliff, we got to make a decision on which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. This is probably the most anticlimactic meeting ive ever had in my life. He looked me straight in the face, and he said, well, im going to launch it, and im going to do the eva. So that only leav
Were deeply honored to have Vice President pence with us this morning as we unveil Neil Armstrongs recently conserved apollo 11 spacesuit. Also with us is Jim Bridenstine who leads nasa, the organization whose achievements we celebrate. Im so happy that Rick Armstrong could join us to represent the family, along with his family, of the inspiring American Hero who took humanitys first steps on the moon. Thank you for being here, rick. [ applause ] during our yearlong celebration, weve highlighted the team that made apollo possible. It took 400,000 americans doing every conceivable job to make it happen. That included the engineers, the material experts, the medical experts, and the amazing seamstresses who handmade the spacesuit that we are unveiling this morning. It took another large team to conserve the suit so we could once again share it with the world after 13 years off exhibit. That Team Included our space suit historians, conservators and collections and exhibits experts but the
Stand out. Where were you when . I had an awful lot of great brakes related to apollo 11. It was the day i got the assignment to do the landing phase. One of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. Im moving in their, we would have been flight directors on gemini and are actually coming back together again. You had probably the three most experienced people at the consult and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Had been to the moon a couple of times. I had the lunar module experience. So you had no particular driver that says this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. The division chief at the time had been really on top of us to nail down who is going to do what, until finally after the apollo 9 mission we all managed to get together and charles had to make the calls. I called him and said cliff, weve got to make a decision on which flight directors going to cove
Apollo 11 in a very direct fashion was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charles worth was the lead flight director. One of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. And moving in there, this was the First Mission where in apollo now, where we had been flight directors on gemini, we were coming back together again. So you had probably the three most experienced people at the koi council, and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Lonnie had been to the moon a couple times. Cha charl charlesworth had launched saturns. I had lunar experience. You had no driver that said this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. I was division chief at that time and kraft had been really on top of us to nail down who is going to do what until finally after the apollo 9 mission we all managed to get together, and charlesworth as lead had to make the calls. I
24yearold daughter in a 737max crash testified with pictures of Crash Victims on display. Boeings apologies to cameras have not been apologies to the families. I do personally apologize to the families. Reporter boeing c. E. O. Dennis mull enberg made that tv apology exclusively to nor a odonnell in may. We feel terrible about these accidents and we apologized for what happened. Reporter today boeing announced it would give 50 million to the families of those killed, part of a fund it created earlier this month. Some families called that a p. R. Stunt. Paul thinks instead boeing executives, including the c. E. O. , should face criminal charges. And the 737max should be scrapped entirely. I would like to see the plane not fly again. Kris joins us now. Kris, do you think that 737max is ever going to fly again . Reporter norah, the 737max is almost seen as too big to fail. It is too important to boeings bottom line and thus the larger u. S. Economy, and too important to several of the wor