Documentary for the History Channel and Discovery Communications including the widely praised modern marvels, apollo 11. Has been a professor at a university and lecturer with Johnson Space center. He presents Amazing Stories of the space age which features 20 of his favorite films from the golden age of Space Exploration. Join me in welcoming rod pyle. [applause] thank you very much. Normally i kind of dance around a bit while im performing these things but because theyre taping tonight and we have kind of a weird microphone setup, i will sort of stay with the podium. I will go back to my professorring days at university of laverne. I know it is rough getting here on week night. I used to drive to ucla when i was 18 years old in 30 minutes to pasadena. Last time i did that drive it was 2 1 2 hours. I appreciate yall going through what you went through. Let me go back Amazing Stories of the space age has kind of a long story behind it. I wont bore you with the whole thing but ive been