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Michalski and associate director of the leon leave the city of biography which is supported by a generous grant from shelby white and the leon leavy foundation. The writing of biography is the famously arduous and lengthy process and each year we award for fellowships of a 72000 each to overworking biographers to help them across the finish line. Over the past 11 years we have given out 44 of these grants and our fellows have produced 21 biographies to date. Thanks to a grant from the Sloan Foundation when we added a fifth fellowship also for 72000 which will support biographies about figures ...

Im here by myself, but at any rate, i know buzz and neil would enjoy joining into this sort of a conversation as much as im looking forward to it. So did you find it different coming out from apollo 11 compared to the gemini 10 mission . I think the flights were quite different in one way. Of course, we road up on a rocket, so that part was very similar, but the Gemini Program got a lot of publicity. Some of it worldwide. Nonetheless, it was it had more of a local character. It was almost like a celebri celebrity secelebratory sortf event whereas apollo 11, on the other hand, was serious busin...

Apollo 11 in a very direct fashion was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charles worth was the lead flight director. 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 moving in there, this was the First Mission where in apollo now, where we had been flight directors on gemini, we were coming back together again. So you had probably the three most experienced people at the koi council, and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Lonnie had been to the moon a ...

They find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history. So theyre going into archives, into museums, into libraries and theyre sifting through primary sources, secondary sources and theyre thinking critically about that and why their traffic was important in history as related to the annual theme and this year is triumph and tragedy and them they present their findings in different formats and one of the categories that you see behind me and theres also paper category and dramatic performance, documentary or website. So history da...

Thats one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. On this 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing, todays washington journal in conjunction with cspans American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern space flight. For the next three hour, we are live from the national air and space museum here in washington, d. C. , where we will talk about apollo 11 historians and michael collins. You want to talk about that day, your impressions of it, 2027488000 and for all others, 2027488001. You can post cspanwj your thoughts and impressions of the 50th ann...