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For the lanning ding in the moo july of 1969, it had a companion spacecraft. The command module l aand the lr module carried kneel armstrong and Michael Colins and buzz aldrin to the moon. This lunar module is a module that never flew in space. It is a lunar model two thats intended to be used in the test flight. The test was cancelled and as unnecessary. It consists of two parts, the base which has the legs and, the rocket engine in it and then the oddly shaped top which is the crew cabin and t...

Of control. And chop stick champions young and old prove their dexterity with the asian utensil. We begin in iraq where the Kurdish Regional president says fighters have taken control of the town of sinjaar. It was captured by isil last year and the group killed thousands of minority yazidis. Its a major supply route between the city of mosul and iraq. Theyve been arriving here since thursday hoping to go home to sinjaar town. This is one of the routes into sinjaar and an important supply line. ...

Welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. And im dell walters and a drone strike targeting i. S. I. L. s most recognizable figures the man known as jihad john sgln it was his covered face that appeared in multiple videos showing the killings of american and other western hostages, in august 2014 he was shown in a video be heading journalists james foley and seen later killing journalist sotlof and peter kasik and promised to track him down. Born in kuwait and grew up in london where Of...

Boxes from the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight 17. An investigation by al jazeera sheds light on an fbi programme that some say lures people into chitting crimes. Committing crimes. Thanks for being with us. We begin with a developing story in gaza. Today is the deadliest day since israel launched its offensive. At 9 30 eastern time, the United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency session. Meanwhile israel confirmed that 13 soldiers have been killed in an overnight operation. Tod...

Landing in kazakhstan, i was back in my dormitory in star city. Every 15 minutes, someone would come in and job a needle or give me a cap to fill. My a cup to fill. My mission went well. My capsule is now on display, along with the shuttle. You can see some good stuff there. The shuttle and concorde, that is back when we were taking some risks. I feel it is unfortunate we are not taking those kind of risks to advance not just space, but aviation in general. It reminds you help will and innovativ...

That was a test. My father had told me stories from sky lab about he had always seen the fires in the amazon and people were clearcutting it. I hadnt thought about it for 35 years. I remember when i was a kid, there were a lot of tv things about it about save the rainforest, shockingly you dont see much these day. Boy, is it still burning and so was big areas of the green belt through central africa, but for me, the great epiphany came on this day. This was probably day eightish. It was the firs...

And checkout, of which i was the capcom, we just sort of moved over to apollo 11 for that same phase. And the only additional thing was going to be the landing. Apollo 10 went through the descent, didnt land. Came back up, aborted. Then rendezvoused. Well, were gonna do the whole thing. And so ive got to give Mission Control credit during this descent. And all of the troubles and problems that they had on apollo 11 on the descent. Mission control actually saved the day on just about every missio...

Period of time. An incredible amount of progress was made during that decade. What is interesting about that 50 years ago, still just over 500 people after 50 years have left the earth. That is not that many. We have been stuck in low orbit for a while. One thing apollo did do was, it was the opening bell if not responsible for the tech boom. It accomplish a great deal towards inspiring our generation to get it did inspire our generation to get into the tech industry. I am a game developer. Like...

When he was up there, he was thinking about the other side. He made several contacts from the space station. He can talk about that a little. His father, owen garriott, was the first ham operator to communicate from space to earth. I had richard and his father here a year ago and they are amazing. Richard has gone up to the space station, he trained in russia based several setbacks, he was not a nasa astronaut originally because of his eyesight but he found a way around it. Lets give it up for r...

Johnson wrote lectures for him for free. What he did was write his way to the stability of the truth. He just tried to describe accurately the world he tethered himself to that. Many of his effort is hims contain that stability, realism, intense honest realism. One is that a man of genius is seldom ruined by himself. It was an impressive struggle. That is the final thing we would say about solitude, i mean come about character. The people who have character are not the people who climb an extern...