, united states would go to the moon by the end of the decade and a great bipartisan effort. the word moonshot enters our culture in earnest. it costs about $25 billion to go to the moon. that would be $185 billion today. we did it to beat the russians. jack kennedy always said americans had to be first. that the new frontier was one of outer space. he would call it the new ocean. he became an incredible salesman as president. i trace early jack kennedy s evolution on aviation, and as it matures into the space age, and also the birth of rockets and our cold war rivalry with the soviet union. it is a global story about american supremacy in the aerospace field. brian: i want you to look at a still photograph. if you walk into the aerospace museum, you will see this display. you have same as on top below oboee spirit of st. louis nash above the lunar module. when you look at that, what do you think? doug: i think, give the curator of the museum a big raise, because that is a sm
meant saving for retirement. , livewashington journal at 7:00 a.m. join the discussion. brian: doug brinkley, your new book american moonshot, what is it about? doug: it is really about how john f. kennedy put all of his political chips on this idea of going to the moon. in 1961, john kennedy gave an afternoon joint speech to the joint session of congress, and pledged that the united states would go to the moon by the end of the decade, and it became a great bipartisan effort. enters ourmoonshot vocabulary. but we did it to beat the russians, and jack kennedy always said american had to be first, that the new frontier was one of outerspace. he would call it the new ocean. and that we had to win. he became an incredible salesman as president. so i traced early jack kennedy s evolution on aviation as it matures into the space-age, but also on the birth of it is a global story about american supremacy in the aerospace field. brian: i want you to look at a still photograph
all this month on c-span, we will feature the winners of the studentcam documentary. our second place winners are 11th and 12th graders at rich land northeast high school in columbia, south carolina, where c-span is available through spectrum. freewinning title is speech in america. we immediately thought about the constitution and the bill of rights, especially freedom of speech does that is ingrained in the american identity. throughout the process, it is surprising how important free speech is to everything and how people interpret free speech directly. i was grateful for the hard work we put into it. it paid off. i am glad i got to work with my great peers. i was really grateful. america, land of the free. being america needs different things means different things to different people. having the right to bear arms or freedoms. at the heart of all these things, light like the first amendment, it is one of the many things our country was built on. it continue
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announcer: please welcome our master of ceremonies, the head of communications for bloomberg, linda douglass. linda: hello and welcome to the global climate action summit. i am honored and humbled to be here in san francisco with such extraordinary leaders from around the world. these are leaders from every sector, every industry, business, government, technology, philanthropy, entrepreneurs and artists, inventors, investors, scientists and students all united by a common goal. the goal of protecting the people who live on our planet by confronting the existential threat of climate change. we are off to an auspicious start. on saturday, tens of thousands of citizens around the world marched to demand greater climate action to fulfill the promises made three years ago in paris. our task becomes more urgent every day. this summer, temperatures reached record highs. people are dying as wildfires burn their houses to the ground. they are starving as droughts destroy their crops