The freemarket frontier explores what it would take to send humans to mars. Im going to start now i will start over. Good afternoon i will be speaking about mars in the future of space. When will we celebrate the first humans on mars . Research director at Heartland Institute and cato and heritage and other p places in very auspicious july 20th, 2019 with the human beings landing on the moon during that summer i was a internet Goddard Space Flight Center in maryland like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space this is the flight i still have my id badge i know how strict security was and that was enough to get me into the Space Flight Center and things coming around so to speak but then working at the Cato Institute that the space policy for him and then i got a book on space the freemarket frontier. Uzz buzz aldrin did a chapter in my book so i am a space geek from way back. So i asked the question why havent we landed on mars yet. I have five
Absolutely. Heres the good news, we saved the best for last. Welcome with Douglas Brinkley one of the authors who was closest to us because he and his family that are here drove down i. 35 from where they live for todays event. Hes a distinguished professor in humanities at history at Rice University but for the purpose of the conversation today, hes one of the great historians in our country and if you are an armchair historian like im, he is a must read, and ive been reading douglas for years, but i, american moonshot is the best work youve done if i can say so. A really terrific book. There are some younger people in the audience, but i am a cold war baby and catholic at that and i can remember them a interrupting school in second gd drafting school in second grade to announce that the commies have launched sputnik and a month later there was a second announcement that they had launched sputnik 2 and this was a prelude to them coming into the mission classroom and taking over and th
Good afternoon to welcome to the seventh annual san antonio book festival. How many have been here all day . Great festival so far. Absolutely. Heres the good news, we saved the best for last. Welcome with Douglas Brinkley one of the authors who was closest to us because he and his family that are here drove down i. 35 from where they live for todays event. Hes a distinguished professor in humanities at history at Rice University but for the purpose of the conversation today, hes one of the great historians in our country and if you are an armchair historian like im, he is a must read, and ive been reading douglas for years, but i, american moonshot is the best work youve done if i can say so. A really terrific book. There are some younger people in the audience, but i am a cold war baby and catholic at that and i can remember them a interrupting school in second gd drafting school in second grade to announce that the commies have launched sputnik and a month later there was a second a
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the next session to Research Director of the Heartland Institute and cato and heritage in other places and we are having this discussion july 20, 2019 this is the 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. I was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center i sat there and watched the launch and splash down in the control room. This is the flight plan from the first moon landing. Everyone had one of these and i kept mine. I could sell one of these on ebay but im not going to do that. I still have my little badge and you know how strict security is these days but this was a little Plastic Thing and for a High School Kid that was enough to get me into the space flight center. A little bit of things coming around so to speak. I got buzz aldrin to do a first chapter in my book the first human being to land on the moon and has a chapter here in my book. I am a space geek from
Your own mind. Brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. A million mornings, forgotten by the mind of man. Dawn remembers again the magic circle, stonehenge. Magic circle, observatory, temple aligned with the rising of the sun and the turning of the heavens. Stones from afar brought by man to this place where no stones were before more than 3,000 years ago. Apollo 11, 15 july, 1969, cape kennedy, florida. The night before the great day. Were going to the moon together pack your bags and jump into the car going to take a trip to tell you where you are goodbye mother so long mother so long mother goodbye mother so long mother so long mother so long mother goodbye mother goodbye mother earth six Million Pounds of machine. 36 stories tall. Nearly ten years worth of half a Million People. Through the night it was checklisted, doublechecked, electronically monitored, computerized, televised, dehumanized of human error. While the night of celebration was ending,