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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. it s been an american institution since henry ford first started cranking out model t s. 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. 10-9-8- ignition sequence on - engines on. 5-4-3-2-1. 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 moon-landing mission in barely over two years. but if blasting rockets towards another planet had started to become old hat, what ....
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. it s been an american institution since henry ford first started cranking out model t s. 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. 10-9-8- ignition sequence on - engines on. 5-4-3-2-1. 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 moon-landing 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 ....
the tomb guard badge, which is depicted on our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge in the united states military with the exception of the astronaut a astronaut badge. today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man and now in the brotherhood of fellowship of tomb guards. we have a society, we are 501-c3 organization and part of the by-laws is is we do community outreach to educate the public about the tomb. i find that your generation, this, sort of a sweeping generation here, that your generation knows about the tomb. i talk to school groups, and it s appalling to me how little they know. it s not their fault. we have allowed all this teaching and teaching to the test and we have not put history on the test. and i will get off my soap box. just think of that. i do speak to a lot of school groups pro-bono, this is my 81st speech this year. in 2015. i will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is over. i m speaking pretty much ....
and checkout, of which i was the capcom, we just sort of moved over to apollo 11 for that same phase. and the only additional thing was going to be the landing. apollo 10 went through the descent, didn t land. came back up, aborted. then rendezvoused. well, we re gonna do the whole thing. and so i ve got to give mission control credit during this descent. and all of the troubles and problems that they had on apollo 11 on the descent. mission control actually saved the day on just about every mission. those 1201, 1202 warnings that could have aborted? not really. we thought so. i thought so. this was abort. oh no, computers frozen up or something, so it was a computer overload alarm that i didn t recognize. but the gnn guys did. and they said we re going, that alarm. the apollo computer had a set compute cycle. and it cued up the jobs. and if it had too much to do in that milliseconds or whatever it was, it just dropped off the last jobs, told you it was overlo ....
johnson wrote lectures for him for free. what he did was write his way to the stability of the truth. he just tried to describe accurately the world he tethered himself to that. many of his effort is him s contain that stability, realism, intense honest realism. one is that a man of genius is seldom ruined by himself. it was an impressive struggle. that is the final thing we would say about solitude, i mean come about character. the people who have character are not the people who climb an external climb. if you see this dr. seuss book it is about the external climb to success. the eulogy virtues is not about an external struggle, but the internal struggle about the things you fear about yourself. johnson took all the things he feared about himself, his sloth, his envy, and he wrote about them head-on and named them and grab them and they went away. whether it is lover suffering or self defeat, it is that same shape that is falling down and coming up. i think the people ....