Early Missions News Today

Morehead building, home of the morehead planetarium, which is now the morehead planetarium and science center. John morehead iii is from a famous North Carolina family. His grandfather was governor of North Carolina. John motely morehead iii attended carolina as an undergraduate in the school of chemistry, made an accidental discovery in a Chemistry Lab as an undergraduate that ultimately led to the founding of union carbide, and he became an extremely wealthy man. In the 1930s, when he conceive...

At morehead, we still talk about the role we played on the front lines of the cold war, because the space race was a major, Major Initiative within the cold war. T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. Ignition. We are in the campus of the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. I am standing in front of the morehead building, home of the morehead planetarium, which is now the morehead planetarium and science center. John morehead iii is from a famous North Carolina family. His grandfathe...

American mayor. The first african mayor elected in a majority white southern city. Then in about 30 minutes, the history of uncs basketball program. As we tore the North Carolina basketball museum. We will also speak with author jay smith on the academic scandal that involve the universities athletic department. Our special with local lawyer rufus edmonton talking about delivering a subpoena to president nixon in 1973. His other experiences as a deputy chief counsel on the Senate Watergate commi...

[silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] crew suit checks are now complete. [silence] d three hours 43 minutes. The dragon hatch is now open. [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence]...

Jean kranz had a prolific career as a nasa flight and Missions Operation director. He was acting flight director when the apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon, and as lead flight director of the apollo 13 mission, he had a significant role in guiding three astronauts back to earth after an explosion on the spacecraft. This is part one of a oral history interview landing flight director, werent you. You were in charge of that. You took part in the whole thing. lets go over apollo n unidentifie...

The First Mission where in apollo now, where we had been flight directors on gemini, we were coming back together again. So you had probably the three most experienced people at the counsel, and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Lonnie had been to the moon a couple times. Charlesworth had launched saturns. I had the lunar module experience. You had no driver that said this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. I was division chief at that time and kraft had been...

11, and what a thing to go back over, thats a big project. The theres many things that stand out, a person says, where were you when . I had sure had an awful lot of great breaks in my life, i mean, whether they be in college, whether they be in flying airplanes, but one of the ones that i remember that is related to apollo 11, in a very direct fashion was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charlesworth was the lead flight director and one of the responsibilities of...

Visit ncicap. Org] the house will be in order. For 40 years, cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the Supreme Court and Public Policy event from washington, d. C. And around the country so you can make up your own mind, created by cable in 1979. Cspan has brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of overnment. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story as we take book tv and American History tv o...

I am jon fortt, mike santoli, Carl Quintanilla has the morning off, and Morgan Brennan is live from cape canaveral, florida early this morning, boeing starline had complications with delivery post launch morgan reporter yes, thats right, jon. Complications that are continuing to be assessed, addressed, and shape what is going to happen, the next steps for the boeing starliner spacecraft this was the first test, first flight of starliner, uncruewed, no people on board, failing to make the trip to...

Apollo 11 in a very direct fashion was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charles worth was the lead flight director. One of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. And moving in there, this was the First Mission where in apollo now, where we had been flight directors on gemini, we were coming back together again. So you had probably the three most experienced people at the k...