Witness to the enormity of history, the power of people and events to shape our world and capture our attention as the calendar closed out on july, we relive, remember and relate to the accomplishments, the controversies, the iconic debuts and morethat all happened through the decades we begin with the weekend road trip. Its been an American Institution since henry ford first started cranking out model ts. But on a summer saturday in 1971, two americans went for a joyride of a different kind. Dale scott and jim irwin hopped behind the wheel of the first lunar rover and drove on the surface of the moon on july 31. 1098 ignition sequence on engines on. 54321. All engines running. Liftoff. We have liftoff at 9 34 am, Eastern Daylight Time when nasa launched apollo 15 into the morning sky, it was on its way to becoming the fifth moonlanding mission in barely over two years. But if blasting rockets towards another planet had started to become old hat, what apollo 15 was carrying with it awa
Day after day here we play witness to the enormity of history, the power of people and events to shape our world and capture our attention as the calendar closed out on july, we relive, remember and the controversies, the iconic debuts and morethat decades we begin with the weekend road trip. Its been an American Institution since henry ford first started cranking out model ts. But on a summer saturday in 1971, two americans went for a joyride of a different kind. Dale scott and jim irwin hopped behind the wheel of the first lunar rover and drove on the surface of the moon on july 31. 1098 ignition sequence on engines on. 54321. All engines running. Liftoff. We have liftoff at 9 34 am, Eastern Daylight Time when nasa launched apollo 15 into the morning sky, it was on its way to becoming the fifth moonlanding mission in barely over two years. But if blasting rockets towards another planet had started to become old hat, what apollo 15 was carrying with it away from earth would help creat