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Geophysical association cohosted this event. Good evening. Im david ferriero. Its a thrill to welcome you here. Whether youre here in the room with us or participating through facebook or youtube. And a special welcome to our cspan audience. Im pleased you could join us for tonights Program Small steps and giant leaps how apollo 11 shaped our understanding of earth and beyond. Tonights program is presented in parer inship with the American Geophysical union. Its made possible in part by the Nati...

Archivist of the United States and a pleasure to welcome you here to the william g. Mcgowan theater at the National Iraq ives. Whether in the room or participating through facebook or youtuben a special welcome to our cspan audience. Im pleased you could join us for tonights Program Small steps pan giant leaps how apollo 11 shaped our understanding of earth and beyond. Tonights program is presented in partnership with the American Geophysical union, swrating its 100th anniversary this year and m...

Problem of feeding astronauts in weightlessness and on the anticipated longduration missions of the apollo program. Announcer when john glenn got hungry during his flight, he simply opened the visor on his helmet and popped a pill from into his mouth. This was more than he actually needed for the 4. 5 hours in orbit. The purpose of the meal was to find out whether a man could eat in a weightless condition. Since 1961, food scientists have been hard at work studying and developing space foods and...

Beginning on monday, july 18th. Each week American History tvs reel america gives you archival films that provide context for todays Public Affairs issues. This marks the 40th anniversary of the air and space museum on july 1st, 1976. Leading up to the celebration, reel america will be showing a series of nasa films, up next, science reporter, food for space travelers. A half hour 1966 nasa tv program, one of 13 produced in cooperation with m. I. T. And wgbh boston. This episode examines the pro...

We could test on the ground. With that we had the greatest Carbon Dioxide removal system in the world. We get it on orbit, we find out that all of the dust clouds everything up. On the water system, the tubing is permeable to Carbon Dioxide. Carbon dioxide goes into the water system and creates a nutrient rich environment for bacteria. We tested on the ground and we saw none of those problems. Station can give you that chance to really dry run and test the equipment on orbit. You do not use stat...

People an opportunity to play around with this fancy software that you use. It made me think about is the pipeline of young talent like you there . What should we do to enhance it . If it is not, what should be . Great question. I think for me, the key to making more people like me well, actually, i do that not cloning, but my wife and i have a whole Program Based on that. [laughter] im sure my wife is just loving that right now. Over sharing, right . I think the most important thing that we can...

Man, one giant leap for mankind. 45 years ago this year, and american walked on them and and inspired not just our nation, but the world. For me, it has been an inspiration in my life. I still have the ritual newspaper. Going into space is a big deal. The moon is literally walking on the moon. Congratulations to the entire apollo 11 crew for your daring, historic, spent 45 years ago. Accomplishment 45 years ago. Host buzz aldrin will be our guest on sundays washington journal. Did you have the o...

Debris and bodies are still being recovered. It is friday morning, july 18, detailsill learn more about what happened, reaction, your calls, and comments. Our phone lines are open, and if you are watching or listening outside the United States, the number is 202 5853883. Otherwise for democrats, 202 5853880, and for republicans, 202 5853881. We also have a line for independents. You can join us on twitter or facebook, you can also send us an email, journal cspan. Org. Good friday morning to you ...

Need to get this. Again, if we talk about it with the breakthroughs. What we know now today, just expand it. We have life support on the station. We need to push it to where its reliable and doesnt require so much maintenance. We need to look at the parks to do repair. We are doing that on board. I dont consider those big breakthroughs. I have to get comfortable. Its the maturity level that we use for the nation they positively have to work. Thats the way i look at the challenges. The operation ...

Hearing on efforts to improve education on science, technology, engineering and math. The Mars Exploration summit began with opening remarks from nasa administrator charles bolden, he spoke about the importance of humans becoming a multiplanet species and nasas goal of putting humans on mars in the next two decades. This is 30 minutes. Thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for allowing me to be with you this morning and it kind of kick us off, i hope. I also want to thank explore mars as...