It is truly a trillion to see Space Diplomacy a topic, near and dear to me, draw so much of a crowd. Thank you for joining us. Im the historian of Science And Technology and a curator at the smithsonian national Air And Space museum for the apollo spacecraft collection. 50 years ago this week, the apollo 11 crew fulfilled president kennedys call to land humans on the moon within a decade and return them safely back to earth. And i hope youve been celebrating all week. A greater percentage of Earths Population followed their flight than any previous event in history. Atheir flight they toured 20 countries on every continent. President nixon declared them best Ambassadors America could have on this earth. Today were looking back and asking what was the political and foreign Relations Significance of the Apollo Program . And what is its enduring legacy . Were also going to look forward, questioning how Apollo Air and Space Diplomacy should inform Foreign Relations today. So very shortly,
American History Tv continues now. Watch more online any time at cspan. Org history. Well, welcome. It is truly a trillion to see Space Diplomacy a topic, near and dear to me, draw so much of a crowd. Thank you for joining us. Im the historian of Science And Technology and a curator at the smithsonian national Air And Space museum for the apollo spacecraft collection. 50 years ago this week, the apollo 11 crew fulfilled president kennedys call to land humans on the moon within a decade and return them safely back to earth. And i hope youve been celebrating all week. A greater percentage of Earths Population followed their flight than any previous event in history. Atheir flight they toured 20 countries on every continent. President nixon declared them best Ambassadors America could have on this earth. Today were looking back and asking what was the political and foreign Relations Significance of the Apollo Program . And what is its enduring legacy . Were also going to look forward, que
more than 5,000 athletes from 72 nations and territories will compete over the next 11 days. and the return of the tiger, why nepal kept its promise to double numbers in the last decade. it s 8am in singapore, and eight in the evening in washington, where presidentjoe biden has spent more than two hours on the phone with his chinese counterpart, xijinping. taiwan emerged once again as a key point of tension between the two leaders, this time sparked by a possible visit there by the us house speaker, nancy pelosi. although the visit hasn t yet been confirmed, mr biden told xijinping, that washington strongly opposed any unilateral moves that would change the island s status, or undermine stability across the taiwan straits. president xi said: those who play with fire will only get burnt. joe biden responded to that with on taiwan the us policy has not changed. so where does that leave diplomatic relations? well, with an assessment of that phone call, here s the bbc s barba
and the return of the tiger why nepal kept its promise to double numbers in the last decade. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 7 in the evening in washington where president joe biden spent more than 2 hours on the phone with his chinese counterpart, xijinping. the two leaders warned each other over taiwan which again emerged as a key point of tension. this time the tensions started because of a possible visit there by the us house speaker nancy pelosi. although the visit hasn t yet been confirmed mr biden told xijinping, that washington strongly opposed any unilateral moves that would change the island s status or undermine stability across the taiwan straits. president xi said: those who play with fire will only get burnt. joe biden responded to that with on taiwan. the us policy has not changed. so where does that leave us? well, with an assessment of that phone call here s the bbc s barbara plett usher i
over the next 11 days. and the return of the tiger how nepal has kept its promise to double its population of the wild animals in the last decade. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, ”pm in london and six in the evening in washington where presidentjoe biden spent more than two hours on the phone with his chinese counterpart, xijinping. the two leaders warned each other over taiwan which again emerged as a key point of tension. this time the tensions started because of a possible visit there by the us house speaker nancy pelosi. although the visit hasn t yet been confirmed mr biden told xijinping, that washington strongly opposed any unilateral moves that would change the island s status or undermine stability across the taiwan straits. president xi said: those who play with fire will only get burnt. joe biden responded that on taiwan, the us policy has not changed. so where does that leave us? well, with an ass