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Began to be enamored with the black male physique, so much so that it caused them to engage these black men, warriors, several types of warriors and chiefs into various types of sport headbutting, cockfighting, and what is familiar to many as mandingo warrior fighting. Many of the black males did not want to engage in this, so their first opportunity to show disdain or revolt or rebellion against treatment was through a mechanism that was thrust upon them, which was sports. So that started the e...

Landing. We will hear from two former president ial aides who were in the oval office when president nixon spoke to Neil Armstrong and buzz aldrin when they were on the moon. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. As people continue to wander in, were going to get started because we have a hard cue at 8 48. Hello to our audience watching at home as well. My name is hugh hewitt, im the president and ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation, it is my honor to well you here tonight to our east room. Please...

Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum. And this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976, almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary space flight. And it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during this heroic age of Space Exploration ...

Events are strictly nonpartisan, they are not intended to offer any kind of policy recommendations or agendas. They are simply meant to give greater insight into how we got to where we are, which we believe helps us to understand how we can solve problems. So a few thanks, and then i will turn it over to alan. First of all, the Mellon Foundation funds this program. We are very grateful to them. Secondly, the room has been booked for us by congressman jerry connollys office, and we are grateful t...

Inclusion and take that on as a special badge of honor that our staff has had special training to work with people with any type of learning disabilities, challenges or anything like that. If you see theres a need were not meeting, please let us know, because we always want to improve. Welcome today for our first panel discussion. [ cheers and applause ] i spent over 20 years of my life with nasa and industry, and ill tell you, ive been around a lot of folks, been around Flight Controllers, dire...

Charged. Its a special day, an auspicious day. Were honored to have with us a panel of four important engineers, my personal heros when i was growing up. I was only 14 when you did the miracle back in 1969. I tried very hard to get here and follow in your footsteps as quickly as i could. We have a panel thats going to talk about lunar module landing operations today. If you want to know what that is, theyll tell you about it as we go around. The panel is jack knight, bob nance, harold loden, and...

Welcoming billin dinges. [applause] doctor dinges ok, thank you. Good evening, everyone. , anddelighted to be here im delighted you are here on muggy, welcome, to washington, d. C. In august evening. I am going to start this with this image. Up anoriginally conjured image of rough water everson. Ralph waldo emerson. I doctored it with long hair and beads and a headband. I looked at it a while and came to the conclusion this would probably verge on sacrilege. Thisad, i am starting with particular...

All week. A greater percentage of efforts population followed their flight than any other event in human history. After their flights the astronauts toured. President nixon proclaimed them the best possible am baz dors america could have on the 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 going to look forward questioning how apollo era space diplomacy should inform Foreign Relatio...

Were going to get started because we have a hard cue at 8 48. Please raise for the presentation of the colors and the singing of the National Anthem by tim kepler. Clr o say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still th...

The Smithsonian National air and space museum shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration from the moon to mar mars. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and Historic Sites around the country. Up next we visit the Smithsonian National air and space museum located on the National Mall in washington, d. C. Our tour guide is valerie neal, head of the Space History Department at the museum who shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration fr...