we are honored today to have a group of engineers, heroes, i tried to get her to follow in your footsteps as quickly as i could since 1959. we will have a panel talking about lunar module lending operations today and if you want to know what that is they will tell you about it. as we go around we have the panel here jack knight to the immediate left, bob nance, bill reeves and hal loden, i will have them identify themselves briefly and say a little about what they did and then open it a little for questions and since i didn t introduce myself, my name is john charles and i m a scientist here is the center, houston. i would like to turn the microphone over to mr. knight to talk about what you did to apollo 11 and what brought you here in the first place in your recognition of that important day . okay. i was the son of an air force family and we were in various places around the world and i went to georgia institute of technology and came directly here to the space flight
neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship in the lunar module and they were getting ready to fly from the lunar orbit around the moon to tranquility base to the surface. that last leg of the 240,000-mile journey would take just 13 minutes from 50,000 feet to the surface of the moon. the first three minutes of the 13 minutes went perfectly normally. the last ten minutes were a cascade of problems. you might not have even noticed the problems if you were listening live because that is the bait astronauts and mission control word. the first problem is that as armstrong and aldrin swooped down towards the moon, they were looking out the window and armstrong discovered the place they were intending to land was strewn with boulders between ten and 20 feet, as big as honda accord and toyota camry s. so, the module had been flying on autopilot. the computer had been flying and at that point the armstrong took control and had to look for a different place to land. that le
the impossible mission to the moon. it s written by charles fishman titles the curious mind, the wal-mart effect into the big thirst. he s a winner of the most prestigious prize in the latest to be in houston and it s almost always because of space, so tonight is a nice night. sunday afternoon july 20, 1969 it was about 215 central time. neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship in the lunar module and they were getting ready to fly from the lunar orbit around the moon to tranquility base to the surface. that last leg of the 240,000-mile journey would take just 13 minutes from 50,000 feet to the surface of the moon. the first three minutes of the 13 minutes went perfectly normally. the last ten minutes were a cascade of problems. you might not have even noticed the problems if you were listening live because that is the bait astronauts and mission control word. the first problem is that as armstrong and aldrin swooped down towards the moon, they were looking out
[applause] good evening, i m delighted to be in houston, always delighted to be in houston and it s almost always a good space so i want to take you back to sunday afternoon, july 20 1969 . it was about 2:15 central time. neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship, they were in the lunar module . they were getting ready to fly lunar orbit, from an orbiter on the moon to tranquility base. and that last leg of the 240,000 mile journey takes just 13 minutes from the thousand feet to the surface of the moon. the first three minutes of the 13 minute went perfectly normally. the last 10 minutes were a cascade of problems and you might not have even noticed problems if you were listening live because that s the way after not admission control work. the first problem was that as armstrong and aldrin down to the moon they were looking out the window. armstrong discovered the place they were intending to land was strewn with boulders between 10 and 20 feet. they were boul
if we over turned the appeal what would your process be. i m sorry to uphold the appeal. overturn the, sir certification all correct. we would act according to whatever the finding the board of supervisors made as to the specific deficiency the eir and take whatever steps would be necessary to bring the internal revenue back through certification and bring the project approvals back for reconsideration okay i m going to more often and talk about the economic feasibility one of the things we ve heard consistently this evening and in many neighborhoods merging and i d like for you to discuss the planning department roll in reviewing the economic feasibility analysis provided by the consultant firm. this is the analysis on the alternatives that are analyzed. thank you so i ll start in responding this economic feasibility analysis was prepared by the project sponsor not at the behest of the planning department the feasibility was not the basis for decisions about the