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Absolutely. Heres the good news, we saved the best for last. Welcome with Douglas Brinkley one of the authors who was closest to us because he and his family that are here drove down i. 35 from where they live for todays event. Hes a distinguished professor in humanities at history at Rice University but for the purpose of the conversation today, hes one of the great historians in our country and if you are an armchair historian like im, he is a must read, and ive been reading douglas for years, but i, american moonshot is the best work youve done if i can say so. A really terrific book. There...

The Impossible Mission to the moon. Its written by Charles Fishman titles the curious mind, the walmart effect into the big thirst. Hes a winner of the most prestigious prize in the latest to be in houston and its almost always because of space, so tonight is a nice night. Sunday afternoon july 20, 1969 it was about 215 central time. Neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship in the lunar module and they were getting ready to fly from the lunar orbit around the moon to Tranquility Base to the surface. That last leg of the 240,000mile journey would take just 13 minutes from 50,000 f...

Good afternoon to welcome to the seventh annual san antonio book festival. How many have been here all day . Great festival so far. Absolutely. Heres the good news, we saved the best for last. Welcome with Douglas Brinkley one of the authors who was closest to us because he and his family that are here drove down i. 35 from where they live for todays event. Hes a distinguished professor in humanities at history at Rice University but for the purpose of the conversation today, hes one of the great historians in our country and if you are an armchair historian like im, he is a must read, and ive...

Mister donovan, before we get to july 1969, started 1957, what was the effect of sputnik on this country . Guest the first artificial satellite created a sensation in this country. We went crazy. Somehow they out science us. Started wondering what was next . Bombs coming down . Nuclear bombs . Space stations with Nuclear Missiles . And of course it created nasa a year later. Had to respond somehow at the height of the cold war. A lot of people now dont understand how tense everything was. A lot of people thought world war iii was starting. Host did the fact that sputnik happened, did we have a...

And our adler members here tonight. And for those of you who would like to check out the planetarium, theres a free admission pass at our front desk, so stop by and grab one of those on the way out if you have not been. We are thrilled to be working with the adlers to present tonights program. If you dont have a book yet, you can pick one with up from our bookseller partner at seminary coop there in the back. Were here tonight to welcome sarah parcak and lucianne wall wits to talk about walkowicz. The story of the extraordinary new world of space archaeology is a story of how we see ourselves....