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Stand out to you. When a person says, where were you when . An awful lot of great breaks in my life. But the ones related to apollo 11 was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charlesworth was the lead flight director. Responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. And im moving in. This was the First Mission where, in apollo, where charlesworth and myself were actually coming back together again. You had probably the three most experienced people at the consul. It was a question of who is going to get to do what . He had been to the moon a couple times. And i had the lunar module experience. You had no particular driver that says this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. I was division chief at that time. Really on top of this, but nailed down who was going to do what. Think theres any question. Everybody wan ....
This interview is from nasas oral history program. Apollo 11. You were the Lunar Landing flight director. You were in charge of that. But you also took part in the whole thing, didnt you . Yes. Lets go back over apollo 11. What a thing to go over. That is a big project. There are many things that stand out to you. When a person says, where were you when . I had sure had an awful lot of great breaks in my life. Whether they be in college, whether they be in flying airplanes. But one of the ones i remember that was related to apollo 11 in a very direct fashion was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charlesworth was the lead flight director. And one of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. And im moving in. This was the First Mission where, in apollo, where c ....
Per hour. Back in ten minutes with more on the metro issue. Thanks. As melissa just mentioned happening right now, metro having some problems as it tries to roll out the newest 7000 rail car at the greenbelt metro station. We want to get to Meagan Fitzgerald with more on what happened before the rail cars get there. Whats the issue . Reporter well, a lot of folks are frustrated because theres an issue with the train that stalled on the tracks. Its monday morning, they were excited to ride on a brandnew 7000 series train. But if you take a look here, youll see thats not happening any time soon. Metro officials tell us that some sort of an issue with this train here. Not able to function properly so passengers had to get off and theyre certainly not happy about it. Now, it was around 5 35 when we noticed that the train was stalled. Passengers waited inside for a few minutes before metro employees told them they had to get off the ....
After another political assassination. Woodruff the Fukushima Nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami two years ago is leaking contaminated water into the sea. We get a rare glimpse inside the still radioactive area. The regalia in which im now standing including this, a dose meter, which will give my accumulated radiation dose across the time were inside the exclusion zone. Brown plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. A ....
Assassination. Woodruff the Fukushima Nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami two years ago is leaking contaminated water into the sea. We get a rare glimpse inside the still radioactive area. The regalia in which im now standing including this, a dose meter, which will give my accumulated radiation dose across the time were inside the exclusion zone. Brown plus, marshields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour ....