Now on bbc news, its witness history 7 a look back at one of the highlights of the series. Razia iqbal has five stories from the history of Space Exploration to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing in july 1969. Hello, and welcome to a special edition of witness history with me, razia iqbal. To mark the anniversary of the moon landings, i am here at the Science Museum in london to bring you five first person accounts of extraordinary moments in the exploration of space. Coming up, we hearfrom the commander of the mission that took the most famous photograph ever of our planet, we get a moving account of the challenger Space Shuttle disaster, and we find out more about laika, the soviet dog who became the first living creature in space. But we begin injuly 1969, when the world stopped in its tracks to watch the americans put a man on the moon for the first time. A Television Audience in the hundreds of millions held its breath as Neil Armstrong clambered out of apollo 11 and to
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Now its time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. Hello. We have got some pretty hot midsummers weather in the cards for you through the coming week. Its not going to be dry everywhere, but the heat and humidity are increasing, so lots of warm sunshine around. Some rain across the north west of the uk, and some wind as well over the next 2a hours or so. Middle of the week sees thundery downpours with all that heat and humidity around. Now, through the rest of this evening and overnight, we have got a bit of rain across Northern Ireland, scotland as well. A few showers possible for north west england into north wales, too. But further south and east, you should stay dry overnight, and temperatures staying in the mid teens. Monday morning starts off on a bit of a grey note, but it will be an improving day, the rain clearing out of Northern Ireland and northern england, but still sitting across the west of scotland, where it could be quite heavy at times. In the developing su
The eagles are preparing for the big game, sean . Ladies, everybody is hyped. The whole city and the players, too, i know youve seen the videos going around on social media of the players dancing, and having fun, and thats huge. The guys are staying loose before the biggest game of some of their lives because they cant be tight going into a game like this, it took the last regime four tries to the superbowl hopefully only takes this one once. Coach Doug Pederson has come a long way. People at one point wanted them fired now hes their guy. He has to be your guy. Now everyone has his back, peterson spoke about the john fry day one, to now. I just think im wiser, smarter, learn from past experience, i think im better swear allman injury in the games, and, you know, preparing the team, and my messaging with the team, i just think you learn and grow. I dont walk around the building sort of, you know, beating my chess or anything like, that im going to be me, you know, ive always tried to ex
[inaudible conversations]tival tv is live coverage of the National Book festival continues. Thomas friedman will be down here later on our site taking your calls. Up that is coming up in an hour or so, two hours. You can go to booktv. Org to get the full schedule. Easier than listening to mr. Friedman, colin when we have that segment. Coming up next, you will hear from author Michael Lewis emma but in the meantime, we are pleased to be joined by one of 362 americans who has actually been in space and that is astronaut Leland Melvin. S calle mr. Melvin, you write that your book is called chasing space and you write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Exactly. A dropped pass. I was a wide receiver on a running team and that means that they block a lot versus catching passes. We were at our homecoming game. I was running down the sideline. It was perfectly thrown in by hand and i dropped a pass in mym hands. The thing is, a scout is there for the university of richmond looking to s