Senators,kennedy scientists, distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen. I appreciate your president having made me a visiting honorary professor, and i assure you my first lecture will be very brief. I am delighted to be here, and i am particularly delighted to be here on this occasion. We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress in a state noted for strength. And we stand in need of all three. But we meet in an hour of change and challenge, and in a decade of hope and fear. In an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this nations own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the fast vast stretches of the unknown, and the unanswered, and the unfinished, stil
Speaker. As chairwoman of the committee on science, space, and technology, its an honor to stand before you today to celebrate the 50th anniversary of apollo 11. The morning of july 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and buzz aldrin lifted ff from nasas cape kennedy. That day, millions watched in 11 s nasa launched Apollo Saturn 9 rocket to accomplish the goals set by president kennedy less than 10 years earlier, to land the man on the moon before the end of the decade. As president kennedy said in his speech at Rice University in september, 1962, we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. There is no better explanation that captures the american spirit. We choose to take joint leaps. We choose to know the unknown. We choose to lead into the future. On july 20, 1960, just four days after the launch, the world listened and watched as the first steps were taken on the moon. Again, hundreds of millions of
Leading usbased efforts. You can find all of the results including the findings on american attitude toward space force. You can find that at cspan. Org. Six, five, four, three, two, one, 0. Lift off, we have a liftoff. 32 minutes past the hour. Liftoff on apollo 11. 50 years ago this morning at 8 32 a. M. Eastern time apollo 11 launched from pat a 39 at the Kennedy Space center important. It began its journey to the moon, four days later Neil Armstrong will be the first man to walk on the lunar surface. The remainder of the program we will hear from you about the legacy of theil apollo 11 missin and talk to you as members of congress of space and Technology Committee about amicus priority for space expiration in the future of nasa. Heres how you can get in touch with us. Share your thoughts with our phone linesur by region if youe the eastern or central time zone its two at 27,488,000 phone back or mounds or pacific, 202 7488001. As we take you up to Capitol Hill Office building we ar
It was also determined the capsule door design made rescue difficult. And that crew escape had not been adequately considered. Announcer this is a cbs news special report. Mike wallace this is mike wallace at the cbs newsroom in new york. Americas first three apollo astronauts were trapped and killed by a flash fire early tonight during a launchpad test at cape kennedy in florida. Virgil gus griffin, 40 years old, one of the original mercury astronaut. The First American astronaut to go twice into space. Edward white, 36 years old. The First American to walk in space. And rookie astronaut roger chaffee, 31 years old, training for his first spaceflight apollo one scheduled february 21. These three astronauts were aboard for 10 minutes before off imulated lift for a simulated lift off when the fire hit at about 6 30 tonight. They were inside the spaceship, pressurized, buttoned up inside their spacesuits with a fire hit. A closed Circuit Television camera with relaying pictures of the as
It was also determined the capsule door design made rescue difficult. And that crew escape had not been adequately considered. Announcer this is a cbs news special report. Mike wallace this is mike wallace at the cbs newsroom in new york. Americas first three apollo astronauts were trapped and killed by a flash fire early tonight during a launchpad test at cape kennedy in florida. Virgil gus griffin, 40 years old, one of the original mercury astronaut. The First American astronaut to go twice into space. Edward white, 36 years old. The First American to walk in space. And rookie astronaut roger chaffee, 31 years old, training for his first spaceflight apollo one scheduled february 21. These three astronauts were aboard for 10 minutes before off imulated lift for a simulated lift off when the fire hit at about 6 30 tonight. They were inside the spaceship, pressurized, buttoned up inside their spacesuits with a fire hit. A closed Circuit Television camera with relaying pictures of the as