The apollo lunar module. Heres a preview. When children look at this spacecraft they often say that doesnt look like a spaceship because we tend to think that spacecraft are stream lined and maybe they look like rokts more than anything else, but this spacecraft has an interesting design and in many ways its fairly primitive given the job that it had to do. It didnt need to be streamlined on the outside because it was not going to operate in the atmosphere. It would only operate in the vacuum of space and it would not be subject to strong gravitational field on the moon so its actually fairly flimsy in some areas. The legs are obviously strong. The mount for the rocket engine is strong. But the craft itself and particularly the crew module, the crew cab, was fairly spartan. It had two windows. Neil armstrong had command of the craft during the final decent to landing. Both of them were standing. They were fully suited in their space suit and they pretty much filled that interior volume in that position with the space suits on. It really wasnt designed for comfort. It was designed for the purpose of landing, giving the crew an exit so they could spend a couple of hours on the surface of the moon, and then launching again along with their precious cargo of lunar soil and rocks to bring back home to demonstrate that they had been there and to have those materials for scientists to begin analyzing to better understand the moon. Its also amazing to think that the Computing Power required in that day to send these craft to the moon and to program them for the decent and the launch was done with fairly primitive computer programs and memory was minuscule compared to the memory we have now. Its often said that the Computing Power we hold in our hands every day with our smartphones is vastly more than it took to send people to the moon and back. It gives you a sense of the inagai inbegin knewty to get people to the moon and back safely. Watch the entire Program Monday at 8 00 a. M. And 8 00 p. M. Eastern. This is American History tv only on cspan 3. On march 5, 1946 Winston Churchill gave a speech in missouri. The speech later became known as the iron kucurtain speech. This program is an hour