edwin buzz aldrin, lunar module pilot. michael collins, command module pilot. >>>[ indiscernible ] >>it can take them early 90s, it can take them 39 days. >>>far across the indian river, 12 miles away, the rocket. at 6:30 2 am, three hours before lunch, on pad 39 a, armstrong and aldrin walked on the surface of the earth, their next steps would be on the moon. spectators rolled in by the thousands. campers, trailers, cars, and pickups in the campsites and beaches. the highways, lined the parkways, nose to tail gate, cape canaveral to titusville. >> it's very satisfactory for launch this morning. within cloud cover, temperature of launch expected to be 82 degrees. one hour and 29 minute. and counting. >> propeller load pressure and temperature, digital worldwide tracking, stabilization indictments and radiofrequency and voice communications. signal condition integration, spacecraft electrical power. flight control, as part b per- person state monitoring, as one seem proportion stage, every important valve, gauge and circuit

edwin "buzz" aldrin, lunar module pilot.gn language ] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> far across the indian river 12 miles away, the rocket. at 6:32 a.m., three hours before launch, on pad 39a, armstrong and aldrin walked on the surface of the earth. their next steps would be on the moon. spectators rolled in by the thousands. campers, trailers, cars and pickups filled the campsites and the beaches, lined the highways, lined the parkways, nose to tailgate, cape canaveral to titusville. ♪ >> temperature at launch time, expected to be about 85 degrees. t-minus 1 hour, 29 minutes, 30 seconds and counting. propellent load pressure and temperature, digital transmission worldwide tracking, stabilization and guidance, radio frequency telemetry and voice communications, signal integration, spacecraft electrical power, flight control, s-4b propulsion stage monitoring, s-1c, s-2 propulsion stage. every important valve, gauge and circuit was continually monitored at launch control center throughout the 28-hour count down. >> countdown still going well. t-min

, and the evidence that humanity's potential is limitless. 0 years ago this week, armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins hurtled through the blackness of space, aiming at the moon, not an admission of conquest, but a mission of peace. their success expanded humanity's understanding of our elestial neighbor and most importantly, it taught us something about ourselves, that together, we can accomplish any goal and overcome any difficulty. among armstrong's personal effects aboard apollo 11 were pieces of the wright brothers flyer, the wooden and fabric aircraft that succeeded in making humanity's first powered flight some 66 years earlier. in paying homage to this other set of pioneers, armstrong demonstrated a profound truth, that we must continue to remember even today, he nderstood that humanities rise from the ground to the sky, to space and on to the moon was not by chance. t was in fact by choice. choice to boldly push the limit of science and technology, a choice to further discover the almighty's creation and use our newfound knowledge to elevate the human condition. ultimately

the evidence that humanity's potential is limitless. 50 years ago this week armstrong, you about aldrin and michael collins hurdled through the unforgiving blackness of space aiming at the moon not on a mission of conquest but a mission of peace. it taught us something about ourselves. together question accomplish any goal and overcome any difficulty. among armstrong's personal effects aboard apollo 11 were pie pieces of the wright brothers flyer. they succeeded in making humanity's first powered flight some 66 years earlier. in paying hommage to this other set of pioneers, armstrong demonstrate aid pro found truth that we must continue to remember even today. he understood that humanities meet orric rise from the ground to the sky to space and on to the moon was not by chance. it was, in fact, by choice. a choice to boldly push the limits of science and technology, a choice to further discover the almighty's creations and use our nound knowledge to elevate the human condition. he knew it was a matter of choosing greatness. the 1960s had leaders in the white house whose vision enabled h

it wouldn't be as much as we saw buzz aldrin. i will end with this. this is the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and i have argued for some years you have earth day we should have a human achievement day. >> i'm curious why they haven't visited the moon for 50 years. >> that is part of my talk because of politics and the cost. so i will finish we should have a human achievement day juh would be a good day for that because celebrating one of the greatest human achievements in history of going to the moon. i would love to see students but imagine i would love to see every student trying to understand everything that went into going to the moon and if you are interested the best book is charles murray apollo, the race to the moon and i encourage all of you who are interested as individuals to read that book. it would be great to have a human achievement day where we celebrate this and ask how did we do it? and watching on tv we are in las vegas right now it is 110 degrees outside. i'm very comfortable here because of air conditioning. where did

by the time he sat down to what we all know to be tranquility base, armstrong and aldrin had 17 seconds of fuel left remaining. incredible. so today we remember the service and the accomplishments of "apollo 11" and of its commander, neil armstrong, but we also do well to remember his courage. in that steely professionalism that saw him through an entire career of incredible accomplishment and saw that mission to a safe landing and return home. the debt this nation owes to our "apollo" astronauts including the man who wore the suit that we unveil today, we can never fully repay, but today is an installment. the american people have expressed their gratitude by preserving this symbol of courage and i'm told when the smithsonian institution launched the kick starter campaign to help preserve this invaluable piece of american history, they raised a half million dollars in five days to do it. and i also understand for those looking on that because the success of this initiative, the reboot the suit campaign set an additional goal and now has raised more than three quarters of a million doll

i mean, and there's buzz aldrin, getting a kick out of it too. >> we will have dr.th the richard nixon greatest come back award ever on tuesday night in the east room. from here the president goes on to guam. why is that? what is the purpose of going to guam? had the ambassador of germany to talk about the address he gave that day, but why then onto guam? >> guam because we are in the process here of adjusting body clocks and getting ready for a launch from guam into manilla. first stop was manilla, and in fact this is the motorcade lead leaving the airport in manilla, see the landing on the moon. this is along the way. all of the kids with the flags, and there we are. there are the astronauts on the moon. this is the start, the first stop on the goodwill trip that the president did after the moon landing. and the goodwill trip, you can see here, the philippines, indonesia, thailand, india, vietnam, pakistan, romania, great britain. huge, huge crowds everywhere we went. and of course, this had all been timed to be immediately after the moon walk. and had been done w

presidential aides who were in the office when president nixon placed a call to both neil armstrong and buzz aldrin, who were on the moon. the richard nixon foundation cohosted this event for the moon landing's 50th anniversary. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. as people continue to wander in , we are going to get started because we have a hard queue at 8:48. hello to the audience watching at home. i'm the president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. it's my honor to welcome you to our east room. we would like to begin as we always do. please rise for the presentation of the colors and the singing of the national anthem. >> present arms. >> ♪ oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight' o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? ♪ [applaus

and i managed to get buzz aldrin to do a chapter in my book.the first human being to land on the moon. i'm a space geek from way back. so i too ask the question, when are we going to land on mars and frankly, why haven't we landed on mars yet? what i'm going to do in this talk. i have five points. first of all, i want to say a few things about what made apollo possible. because we're talking about why we haven't gone to mars yet. you understand how we were able to actually go to the moon. first of all, technology had developed at that - - to a point where we could seriously think about it. if you look at the science fiction writers, hg wells. a century before, the technology really wasn't there. by that time, thanks to robert goddard - - was working for the germans. we reached the point where we could technologically to that. the new york times published this stuff about how this not ball - - nutball says we can go to the moon. ha ha. in march i believe, then your time writes, ha ha, it only went 44 feet. what a crackpot. by the way, when apoll

it was neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael collins the team for that day. the launch took place july 16, 1969. 20,moon landing on july 1969. step by neil armstrong at about 10 4:56 p.m. on july 20. about 10:56 p.m. on july 20. astronauts returning to earth on july 24, 1969. we will talk more about the historical significance and what it means for spaceflight today. o. will hear from you to if you watched the moon landing, (202) 748-8000. (202) 748-8001 for all others this morning. let you know that this program is being done in conjunction with our colleagues at american history tv. c-span3 on the weekends turns into that channel with historical programming from interviews, and lectures. programming, interviews, and lectures. you can talk about the apollo 11 mission, participate on twitter. there is a poll there. ahtv all weekend long will give you programming specifically related to apollo 11. you can watch that on c-span3. go to our website. if you go to their website page, you can find all the programming they have planned and information for you specifi

presidential aides who were in the oval office when president nixon speak to neil armstrong and buzz aldrin while they were on the moon. >>> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. as people continue to wander in, we're going to get started because we have a hard cue at 8:48. please raise for the presentation of the colors and the singing of the national anthem by tim kepler. clr ♪ o say, can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? ♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ and the home of the brave? ♪ [ applause ] . >> please be seated. we have a lot to do and a lot of special guests to thank before we get going tonight. you'll hear in a couple of moments from rhonda johnson who is the president of at&t california. at&t is the cosponsor with the nix

as neil armstrong and buzz aldrin took steps on the moon, power companies throughout the world log the record-breaking energy consumption brought on by the number of televisions and radios tuned to the broadcaster. as i mentioned, more people follow the moon landing then any previous event in history, over half the world population listen to the radio coverage, the television broadcast or read about it in the newspaper following the flight. the nations such as japan upward of 90% of the population watch coverage of the mission that truly captured the attention of the world at that moment. >> here are a few examples of people following the flight. so, when the apollo 11 cruise splashdown in the pacific ocean, nixon was there to meet them and from the aircraft carrier he then departed on his moonglow tour giving him the opportunity to meet with leaders throughout southeast asia as well as the romanian president to discuss u.s. foreign policy and also gave the opportunity to start improving relations with china and north vietnam. then, when he was done with the tour, he asked the crew to

armstrong and aldrin were backup to apollo 8. collins had neck surgery but was restored to flight status. when it came to 11 they were by normal rotation the prime crew. it was not at all given that apollo 11 would be first. it would be the first attempt but there were lots of things that could happen to make it not successful. and then i think nasa management recognized that the piloting skill and the personality of neil armstrong made him an ideal person to be first. >> what is it about the personality that strikes you most? >> steady, calm, solid. exuding confidence, not calling attention to himself. a true leader of the team. the kind of personality that neil demonstrated after the mission and was not portrayed in the first manned movie. that was not an accurate portrayal with the neil armstrong i knew. >> from orlando, florida, richard go ahead. >> good morning america. i had the pleasure of visiting the kennedy space center twice. once when i was 4. back then you were allowed into the vehicle assembly building. and when i f

were in the oval office when president nixon placed a call to astronauts neil armstrong and buzz aldrin, who were on the moon. nixon foundation cohosted this event for the moon landing's 50th anniversary. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. as people continue to wander in, we are going to get started because we have a hard queue at 8:48.

one to you as well. [ applause ] >> so thank you. >>> so you trained with neil armstrong and buzz aldrin for a number of years and you travelled to the moon with them. was there anything you learned about your crewmates on the diplomatic tour that surprised you or seemed new or did you already know them so well? >> well, on our around the world trip, buzz was good. he was okay. i was all right. neil was really, really good. as i say, neil is very intelligent. he had the ability to see a situation, to understand not the american point of view, but the ga guatemalan point of view. he was our spokesperson, and he would make a short speech and just have the locals saying, as we found everywhere, we did it. we, humans, finally left this planet, not you, americans, did it. >> and what is the significance of that sense of "we" or that sense around the world that it was something that human kind did in terms of u.s. foreign relations or the relationship between the united states and the world? >> well, i think the united states has to be a power in the world, but a very friendly power. and not a

apollo eight flew to the moon in december 1968, and neil armstrong and buzz aldrin took the first steps on the moon in 1969, july. all those astronauts and everyone who walked on the moon, everyone who traveled to the moon, trained here in flagstaff. they learned geology, tested instruments, learned about reading maps. that was something that was important and done here at the observatory with this telescope. the critical things lowell was involved with was preparing to go to the moon. otherwell was involved in ways. in 1962, the second group of astronauts were named. you had the mercury seven that flew up and did the mercury flight, just showing we could get up into space. alan shepard was the first american in space and rode for 15 minutes, came back down. in 1962, this second group came along. when they came on, gene , hemaker here in flagstaff talked to nasa and some other scientists and said, if we are going to plan to send people to the moon, we should do more than just plan the flight and come back. we should do science. what better way to learn about the origins of our planet an

presidential aides who were in the office when president nixon placed a call to both neil armstrong and buzz aldrin, who were on the moon. the richard nixon foundation cohosted this event for the moon landing's 50th anniversary. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. as people continue to wander in , we are going to get started because we have a hard queue at 8:48. hello to the audience watching at home. i'm the president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. it's my honor to welcome you to our east room. we would like to begin as we always do. please rise for the presentation of the colors and the singing of the national anthem.

buzz aldrin would follow along about 20 minutes later from that.t mission, when the astronauts left the moon july the 21st of 1969 and returning to earth july 24, 1969. we'll talk about the historical significance. we'll talk about what it means for space flight today and also as we hear from historian, astronauts and the like we'll hear from you, too, and you can call and let us know the impressions, 202-748-8000 and 202-748-8001. this program is being done today in conjunction with our colleagues with american history tv and if you don't know, c-span3 on the weekends turns into that channel with historical programming, lectures and the like and also they have a way of talking to you about the 50th anniversary. you can -- if you want to share your impressions on their specific facebook and that's c-span history at facebook.dom. you can participate on twitter. there is a poll there atc-span history is how you do that and ahtv will give you programming specifically related to apollo 11 and watch that on c-span3. if you go to their website page you c

the service module in the lunar module together carried three astronauts, neil armstrong and buzz aldrin and michael collins to the moon. the command module, very significantly also brought them back safely. this and lunar module is an actual lunar module that never flew in space. it's a lunar module number two and was intended to be used in an earth orbital test flight but the test was canceled as unnecessary, so nasa transferred the lunar module to the national air and space museum. it consists of two parts, the base, which has the legs and the rocket engine in it and then, the oddly shaped top, which is the crew module or crew cabin. and, this was attached to the command module for the flight from earth to lunar orbit. once in lunar orbit, the two crewmembers who would descend to the surface, armstrong and aldrin, climbed into the lunar module it is separated from the command module where michael collins stayed to orbit the moon , in it began its descent down to the surface. fall forward, fall forward drifting to the right a little. >> now back right, engine stopped, we copy it down,

i want to turn and ask neil a question and maybe tell buzz aldrin something. and of course i'm here by myself. but at any rate, i know they would enjoy joining into this sort of a conversation as much as i'm looking forward to it. >> so did you find it different coming out for apollo 11 compared to the gem nigh 10 mission. >> i think the flights of gemini 10 and apollo 11 were different in one way. of course we rode on the rocket. that was similar. the but the gemini program had worldwide publicity. but had more of a local character, almost like a celebrity -- celebratory event like perhaps an athletic contest. whereas apollo 11 on the other hand was serious business. we crew felt the weight of the world on our shoulders. we knew that everyone would be looking at us, friend or foe. and we wanted to do the best we could, put our best foot forward. and that required a great deal of work on our part. but not too much time left over for any of the things we might have more enjoyed. >> so having the weight of the world on your shoulders. i know you went threw exten

i can still remember to this day hearing the count from buzz aldrin, hearing what was going on, so much move so far, and the complete silence. when "the eagle has landed" you could hear the sigh in the complete room, you could hear people take a breath. tranquillity base here. the eagle has landed are words that every schoolboy of the coming generation are going to have to learn and pass on to succeeding generations. the whole moon programme itself was all a part of politics. you know? what are we going to do to get away from this disaster in cuba and what are we going to do about all this integration activity and what are we going to do about the furore over there? we need something different for people to latch onto. well, let's go to the moon. mission control: oh, it's beautiful mike. it really is. we came from all over the world, literally, you know, into this environment and we worked our tails off for as many years. to get to the moon in the decade, you know, it required a lot of personal sacrifice. john tribes says the astronauts knew they were going to be in the public eye, but

they show neil armstrong's first step on the moon and buzz aldrin planting the american flag there. >ding? he paid almost $2 million for something he could have watched on youtube. for that money, you could buy the studio where they faked the moon landing. ( laughter ) also these tapes have been sitting in a box for 50 years. someone must have taped over them by now. whoever bought them will be so pissed when they're just old episodes of full house. ( laughter ) i get the tapes are vawcialtion but there better be a man in a sexy toga feeding me the tapes. so that's the world of stupid auctions that are really stupid. any questions. >> trevor: i have a question. >> sold! >>> trevor: ronny chieng, everybody. we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ give extra, get extra with new extra refreshers gum. i'm on the pill.ill. i'm on the pill. i'm on the pill, too. but it's not birth control. it's truvada for prep®, a once-daily prescription medicine for adults that, when taken every day along with using safer sex practices, can help lower my chances of getting hiv through sex. i use co

sometimes mathematics, like buzz aldrin. these astronauts went through thousands of hours of geological training, to help them understand how to talk to the scientists and understand what they were seeing on the surface of the moon. of themankly, some loved it and some of them hated credit ofwant to give the very best people on the surface of the moon, from the scientific perspective were jack schmidt, a professional geologist on apology -- apollo 17. he is still active today, talking about leader research. the second one i want to mention is john young, who is more famous for being the super astronaut space shuttle pilot, apollo pilot, a legend on the astronaut corps. he was a really good student of geology. the scientists who sent them to the apollo 16 site told him to look for a certain kind of rock there. that is what they wanted. he got there and said those kinds of rocks are not here. there is another kind of rock. they said shut up, and pick up the rocks we want. astronauts collected the sample and when all the way ba

we had an anomaly on board the spacecraft where buzz aldrin calls down and is not seeing what he expects to see from the standpoint of-- indications. again, this is very critical. a critical measurement and the controllers looked at it and said it's looking good. by this time our guidance officer has some tracking information and the spacecraft is not where it should be. it's that straightforward. he didn't know whether the data he was getting was bad or just bad navigation, or we had some kind of problem with targeting but the problem was that he really got my attention. he said we are out on the radio velocity and are halfway to our abort limit. when you haven't even started down to the moon and some guy says we are halfway to the abort limit it sure gets your attention. but it continued and he said i'll keep watching. all of a sudden you have communications, minor electrical problems, and you are still trying to struggle to meet these windows for making your decisions as you are now saying we are ready to ignite the engine. we got down for the go no go about 4 minutes prior to the lan

certification process and in late april we began work to remove the arms in neil armstrong and buzz aldrin's prime suits and replace them with the new arm configuration. this was accomplished by the first week of june '69, a few weeks before the apollo mission. we would constantly get suits after checks and put new zippers in them. this was quite a turn around to take the prime suits for the missions and rip the arms off and put new arms on with the new design and we just certified weeks before. so you could see what our troops were going through at the time. quite a bit. in 1976, our company had downsized by that time like 25 people. because we put all our eggs in one basket. we didn't have fwhig left us in. we ran out of gas. there is no other contracts for apollo. so we were down 25 people. we knew if we held on we can win the shuttle contract. we did. and we knew at the time again that we didn't have the resources to do this on our own. so at that point hamilton came us to and we came to them. i didn't know all the specific details. waits agreed, hamilton said, look, you establish yourse

we then have an anomaly on board the spacecraft where buzz aldrin calls down. he's not seeing what he expects to see on the ac electrical. this is a critical measurement. and again the controllers said okay, it's looking good. by this time my guidance officer, staeve bails has tracking information and the spacecraft isn't where it should be. it's that straightforward. now, he didn't know whether the data he was getting was bad, whether it was just bad navigation or we had a problem with targeting in the spacecr t spacecraft, but the problem was he really got my attention. he says flight, we're out on the radio velocity which is the vertical velocity, and we're halfway to our abort limit. well, boy, when you haven't even started down to the moon and some guy comes and says we're halfway to the abort limit, it gets your attention. he continued and said i'll keep watching it. so all of a sudden now you've got communications problem. minor electric problem, a navigation problem and you're trying to struggle into meet all the windows for making your decisions as you

the oval office when president nixon placed a call to apollo 11 astronauts neil armstrong and buzz aldrin, who were on the moon. here is a preview. >> in the oval office that night, you had the network television cameras and you also had some of the print press there and still photographers came in later. was fascinating because the media folks, like the rest of us, were very subdued. there was an extraordinary mood in the room after we settled down in the moment and came near. >> this is a completely thing.entious there is no one going on questioning why this is happening or why we are spending money here. suspense 101. what is going to happen next? is it going to go against plan? >> walter cronkite was very pro-administration then. >> talk what it was like when they landed on the moon. >> i will simply say a roar went cabinet, a group scream that was probably echoed in living rooms and bars and railroad stations all over the world. it was a moment of absolute excitement. >> i would agree with that completely. it was amazing to me. a hushed calm after the roar. transfixed onst the whole

aides or in the oval office when president nixon placed a call to astronauts neil armstrong and buzz aldrin, who were on the news. the richard nixon foundation cohosted this event for the moon landings 50th anniversary. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. as people continue to wander in we will get started because we have a hard queue at 8:48. hello to our audience. the president and ceo of the richard nixon foundation. it is my honor to welcome you to the east room. please rise foe

. >> this is an image i think captures a lot of what apollo 11 astronauts armstrong and aldrin were doing when they were on the surface. so in the foreground we see -- that's actually the seismometer that sean was talking about that was solar powered even back in 1969. and they were able to install quite quickly whereas the ones that came on later missions took them longer and also lasted a lot lurng on the top of it you see the white stick that's actually the antennae that allowed us to get data back from the moon to the earth. behind that you can see sort of where that white stick is you can see sort of like a triangle. this is an experiment still operating today from apollo on the surface of the moon. it's a lunar laser retroreflector and its purpose is to do a better job of reflecting lays are light back from the surface of the poon. and this was an ingenious experiment because it required no power. it just had to sit there. and then all of the technological advances happened here on earth. as our laser got bettor, our telescopes got bettor. and we use this -- scientists use this to m

. >> reporter: their first date, the night armstrong and aldrin walked on the moon. >> i said to my roommaterough the enchanted forest, wade and ann beheld the multitude >> oh, wade, look at it. this was -- and then it was just full of people. >> there were 400,000 people. >> reporter: all of those people, longing for peace and lured by the music. ♪ and it is one, two, three ♪ what are we fighting for ♪ don't ask me ♪ the next stop is vietnam >> i have often thought it was remarkable for us, this experience, but it had to be equally as remarkable for the entertainers >> reporter: among them, steven stills of crosby, stills, nash and young. >> we got in a helicopter and we fly in, and there's this -- it was that big, the crowd. i said, oh, my god, normandy >> reporter: an invasion a half million strong, equipped with marijuana and the occasional hallucinogen. >> people been saying some of the acid is poison it is not poison, it is just bad acid. >> most of the people there were from greenwich village or from hippie land, and we had military haircuts and we were -- >> military. >> it was never

mission to the moon, apollo 8 flew to the moon in december 1968, and that neil armstrong and buzz aldrinfirst steps on the moon in 1969 in july. all of those astronauts, plus every other one who walked on the moon, every other one who travel to the moon, all trained in flagstaff. they learned geology. they tested instruments. they also learned about reading maps. that was something that was important and that here at the observatory with the telescope. it is the critical things involved with going to the room, but then lowell and his telescope were involved in another way. in 1962, the second group of astronauts were named. you had the mercury seven, and they flew up and did the mercury flights, just showing we could it up into space. alan shepard was the first american in space. he rode for 15 minutes and came down. in 19 62, the second roop came along -- a 1962, the second group came along. when they came along, they specifically prepared for the by talking to nasa and other scientists and said, if we are going to plan to send people to the moon, we should do more than time the flight

. >> i'd like to enter aldrin in an oatmeal eating contest next time.n his 19th bowl. >> roger. >> back here in houston the mayor promises the lifting of law and order and restrictions if the rains continue. the big news around houston today concerns the astros. in the sports world the houston astros rallied in the ninth inning to dump the reds. your three wives and children got together for lunch yesterday at buzz's house. it turned out to be a gab fest. president nixon is planning to use his executive power to streamline the inter stays commerce commission. >> he was later in the week enthusiastically welcomed at the jackie gleason golf watch in miami, florida. >> as air pollution reached critical levels the senate unanimously backed a national environmental policy act to make the safe guarding of the physical environment -- >> astronauts are not the only explorers in the news. san diego awaits the arrival of mrs. sharon adams on her solo crossing of the pacific, seen her leaving -- >> the company says they plan to marry at the precise moment -- >> in

country informed and then engaged and inspired to do the kind of stuff that -- you know, to be a buzz aldrin or a mike collins or a neil armstrong, or an ellen stofan. >> well, you know, i would just add -- [ applause ] >> i just add, you know, when i traveled a lot around the world when i was at nasa and what really struck me was inspiring kids in countries around the world to go into stem fields is going to help those countries in the long run, it's going to help them build their economies, to be more resilient to climate change and stronger countries around the world make it easier for the united states. so to me it's a win-win. >> mike, as you've looked back -- [ applause ] >> -- back at apollo 11 in 50 years, what do you think was the biggest international legacy of the mission? >> well, i would guess that it's somewhere in the world of vision. i usually say that you want to get away from earth some distance, i don't know, the moon is, i think, 236,000 miles away. i don't think you have to get -- maybe 100,000 and that would be all right. is that okay? if you could get the political lea