CSPAN2 Charles Fishman One Giant Leap July 14, 2024
Journalism please please help me giving a warm welcome to charles fishman. [applause] good evening. Im delighted to be in houston. I am always delighted to be in houston. Tonight is a nice night. I want to take you back to sunday afternoon, july 20, 1969. It was about 2 15 central time. Neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship, in the lunar module. They were getting ready to fly from lunar orbit, down to the moon to Tranquility Base and that last leg of the 240,000 mile journey would take just 13 minutes, from 50,000 feet to the surface of the moon. The first three minutes of the...