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Constellation. Mmhmm. And now you guys call it all cancellation. Unfortunately. They had been counting on a new Space Program in Brevard County, florida, for years, but it didnt happen. And liftoff. The final liftoff of atlantis. And after the last Space Shuttle mission touched down. This is a matter of national pride. Things around the Kennedy Space center changed in a way that may surprise you. [ticking] inside, you feel like a part of you has been ripped out from losing a job. 1 3 of the unem...

Figured i can bend the rules as long as no one gets hurt. In fact no one knew the story fully until i have told that in the book. The state department now is finding out about it. Other questions . Everyone wants to get their book signed. Thats great. Thank you all for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] i knew there was a risk in the bohemian lifestyle and they say did to take it because whether its an illusion or not i dont think it is, it helps my concentration. It stopped me from be...

Associate director at the air and space museum. This week veteran space correspondent jay barbree and his latest book Neil Armstrong a life in flight. And at the nbc news man and a bestselling author examined the life of the first man to walk on the moon on the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. The program is about an hour im a curator at the museum here to talk to the author of Neil Armstrongs life in flight a new biography of Neil Armstrong. Im very familiar because he was a voice on the r...

That was a relationship you established earlier on. At least after the 1964. He was flying and the slowest person ever to answer you. We have a great chapter in the book that involves neal and tom stafford. They were stand offish to the nine like you have to earn your way to the club. They said you need to throw a dinner for them and make it black tie and show them respect. He said i will put it together. The first words from staffords mouth was who is paying for this . Tom went to the naval aca...

Innovation that could solve some of these issues i just saw a statistic last week that is striking this will be more People Killed by guns this year and buy cars. At what level that is a lot of people with the terrifying statistic a lot of that is suicide but that is a lot of people obviously but what about cars . That used to killed many more people but they made them safer they did not confiscate the cars or take away peoples right to travel or drive they changed the drinking age your required...

Basically grew out of the Space Program. Prosthetic limbs. There are a whole range of medical inventions, devices that have come as a direct result of having made vibrant Space Program. People say, well, they are very expensive, the cost of those spinoffs has now been worth it. I guess it is a value judgment. It depends how you measure the value to you get for the los. Offer me Airline Safety is worth a great deal. I am sure for you it is as well, peter. Host what kind of money do we spend annua...

Marge said this is ridiculous. You are going into space. I cant go to the cape. What is going on out there . She tells him that hed better drive her out there and he hides her under some blankets in the back of his car and they go past military guards and she gets out there and pops up her hat and it is sort of a lonely beach jetties and scrub brush and what not. The whole country is dying for a cigarette. This is the kind of spunk and irreverence that these women brought to this brave new world...

Forces. Um, and that was sort of my goal, my goal with the book. As far as the consumer thing, i just think, yeah, its very pervasive in our chul you cultu, and one of the counterarguments to the book has always been like, well, convenience. Amazon is convenient, and convenience is a consumer value, and i think we need to push back on that as something that, you know, underpins a lot of our choices and our activities. Right. And, frank foer, ill let you get the last word in on that. Right. We ha...

Tonight, thank you. You are watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see your online at booktv. Org. National geographic, mars up close has been written by marc kaufman. What is your background to write about Space Exploration . My background is as a journalist long time and not as a science journalist. I was a Foreign Correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the washington post. What i learned was being in Foreign Countries is a good way of learning ...

Actually have very, very stringent and effective rules in that regard. For example, under one particular provision of fisa, were not allowed to target either United States persons or persons within the United States. Sometimes it happens that we think somebody is not a u. S. Person and then we discover, oh, my gosh, this person has a green card. We didnt know that before. And the rules are at that point, you have to go and purge the collection you have to report it to the fisa court. You have to...