On the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing todays washington journal in conjunction with American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern spaceflight. For the next three hours we are live from the national air and space museum where we will talk about apollo 11 with historian command michael and you. You can let us know our impressions if you watched the mainline. If you want to talk about the day 2027488000 and for all others, 2027488001. You can post your thoughts and impressions of the anniversary and do the same on our Facebook Page facebook. Com cspan. Our show will be based hear from the national air and space museum. A couple of facts of the anniversary of the apollo 11 mission. It was near limestone, buzz aldrin and michael the team for that day. For lunch for lunch took pl. , july 16th at 9 32 in the morning. The moon landing on july 20 july 1969 4 17 in the afternoon. The first step at about 10 50 6 pm on july 20, buzz aldrin would
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Natural museum and has 145 objects. I say that objects whatever but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last frontiers in preserving preserving those objects in museums and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth so the records have collect and over the years brizard by research scientists. Last year over 400 were described by scientists working the building. At the same time we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next years a different 6 million so wanted to 80 may get as many as 60 people in the building. We live in Interesting Times when human population is growing. There are so many things happening on the planet where humans and her face in the Natural World and where it seems like pandemics can emerge. Just a couple of examples. If we were to go to the other side the building into the sixth or you would walk into a collection that is 640,000 birds skins collected over the last years all around the