least the fans are acting like they re drinking already. and it s only 011:19 on the east coast. the darren was pointing out they use recycled paper nowadays. in 1951 world war ii military hero and icon general douglas mcarthur and march 1st, 1962, the mercury program,s john glenn, celebrating his moon orbit. these are images that you can t get out of your mind and then in 1990 future south african president nelson is mandela newly freed after 27 years in captivity. indelible images. some are asking for similar parades to honor veterans of the iraq war, heroes, but with soldiers still serving overseas in afghanistan, the pentagon says it doesn t feel that s appropriate right now and on sunday s meet the press mayor mike bloomberg said he agrees
president kennedy knew what kind of inspiration and pride he unleashed when he made this promise back in 1961. i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. later that year allan shepherd was the first american to go into space on a 15-minute flight aboard freedom 7. one year later john glenn climbed into friendship 7 and became the first american to orbit the earth circling three times as part of nasa s mercury program and then followed by the gemini program, and the first to establish it was at least possible to get to the moon. but the dawn of the apollo program brought tragedy when gus grissom, and ed white and one
layoffs here, high paying jobs, and there s a big wave of 3200 layoffs happening first thing in the morning, bulk of those are in this area around orlando, coco beach but what they really want to start doing, cape canaveral has always been a launching location, rocket launches and space shuttle launches, mercury program, apollo program. but they want to transition, try to get these production facilities here so you get all of those jobs as they re building manufacturing. building these private commercialized space taxi, if you will, programs to get those all here as well. that s something they re trying to do. here s my worry. since they get rid of the apollo mission but they have the shuttle mission that s in development. what are all these scientists and these high level engineers going to do in the interim? what makes you think they re going to stay in the space business when we don t have a blueprint for them? that s exactly the worry that nasa and, and i think the countr
launches and space shuttle launches, mercury program, apollo program. but they want to transition, try to get these production facilities here so you get all of those jobs as they re building manufacturing. building these private commercialized space taxi, if you will, programs to get those all here as well. that s something they re trying to do. here s my worry. since they get rid of the apollo mission but they have the shuttle mission that s in development. what are all these scientists and these high level engineers going to do in the interim? what makes you think they re going to stay in the space business when we don t have a blueprint for them? that s exactly the worry that nasa and, and i think the country should face. that s this brain trust is going to be dissipated over the next five years. there s nothing to allow nasa to transition these people into the next program because that deadline has kept slipping out, 2015 or 2017 for the new spacecraft called the multipu
the nose near touchdown and having fired the imagination of a generation and a ship like no other its place in history secured, the space shuttle pulls into port for the last time. we can only wonder if president kennedy knew what kind of inspiration and pride he unleashed when he made this promise back in 1961. i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. later that year allan shepherd was the first american to go into space on a 15-minute flight aboard freedom 7. one year later john glenn climbed into friendship 7 and became the first american to orbit the earth circling three times as part of nasa s mercury program and then followed by the