. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> apollo 11, 15 july 1969, cape kennedy, florida.e the great day. ♪ we're going to the moon together ♪ ♪ pack your bags and jump into the car ♪ ♪ we're gonna take a trip to tell you where you are ♪ ♪ good-bye, mother ♪ so long mother ♪ good-bye mother, so long, mother ♪ ♪ so long mother earth ♪ ♪ ♪♪ >> 6 million pounds of machine, 36 stories tall, nearly ten years' work of half a million people. daun through the night it was checklisted, double-checked, electronically monitored, computerized, televised. dehumanized of human error. while the night of celebration was ending, the day began for the astronauts. breakfast, medical examination, suiting up. neil armstrong, commander apollo 11. edwin buzz aldrin, lunar module pilot. michael collins, command module pilot. [ speaking foreign language ] >> to take them to pad 39-a, slayton said everything is going smoothly. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> far across the indian river, 12 miles away, the rocket. at 6:32 a.m., three hours before launch, on pad 39-a, armstrong and aldrin walked on the surface of the earth

this new program was then checked out in a simulator at cape kennedy.they came into contact with earth again the instructions were sent up to the crew. >> nice job down there. >> that was beautiful. >> less than 10 miles above the lunar surface shepard and mitchell swept across the landing site. >> and houston, you're go. >> a beautiful day. >> then another problem. the landing radar, which would tell them their altitude above the lunar surface. >> houston, would like you to recycle the landing breaker. okay. we'd like to accept the radar. >> bridging through. >> okay. monitor descent. >> ten seconds to go. >> okay. there it is. right on the money. beautiful. right out the window. >> outstanding. >> here is houston. you're a go for landing. >> cone crater, a major objective of this mission, a hole blasted in the moon's surface eons ago that could provide a scientific clue for the history of the moon, the earth, and the solar system. >> right on schedule. >> right on schedule. the crater right outside to my right. >> we think the area was formed from mat

this new program was checked out in a simulator at cape kennedy.antares came into contact with earth again, the instructions were sent up to the crew. >> houston, the computer is years. -- yours. >> thank you. narrator: less than 10 miles above the lunar surface, shepard and mitchell swept across the landing site. >> it's a go from us. >> it's a beautiful day in the land of fra mauro. narrator: then another problem, the landing radar, which would tell them their altitude above the lunar surface. >> abort radar a. >> houston. >> ok. >> we would like you to cycle the landing radar. >> ok. it's cycled. >> ok. except the radar. >> ok. monitor decent. >> starting the camera. >> 10 seconds to go. >> ok. switch over. >> and there it is. >> right on the money. >> it looks beautiful. >> right out the window. >> houston here, go for landing. narrator: a major objective of this mission to fra mauro, a hole blasted in the moon's surface eons ago that can provide a scientific clue for the history of the moon, the earth, and the solar system. >> right on schedul

he has been to nasa, he has been to cape kennedy. you told us about the french involvement in this. what do you think is at stake going forward? i suppose it all depends on what is in the samples and how soon they can be brought back. >> absolutely. this is basically the core of the mission. we will not know for sure if there is life on mars until we get the samples. it is going to collect samples about this big. they will be placed in less containers and placed in specific locations on the surface of mars. the idea is to pick them up in another spacecraft -- nobody knows how that will happen for now -- and bring them back to earth by 2031. the european space agency could very well be the ones piloting that operation. in any case, this is indeed a big question mark. there are a lot of challenges. one of them is to build a lab on earth where you can safely take a look at these samples because nobody knows what actually might be in them. is it dangerous? what will you do? we have no idea. there are other questions there as well. so, yes, this is going to be obviously very big. when it

cape kennedy, florida, before the big day. ♪ we're going to the moon together.ur bags and jump into the car ♪ going to take a trip to tell you where you are. goodbye mother. >> so long mother. >> goodbye mother. so long mother, so long, mother earth ♪ ♪ goodbye mother earth ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ >> six million pounds of machine. 36 storiesal. nearly ten years work of half a million people. through the night it was checklisted, double-checked, electronically monitored, computerized, televised. dehumanized of human error. while the night of celebration was ending, the day began for the astronauts. breakfast, medical examination, suiting up. neil armstrong. edwin buzz aldrin, lunar module pilot. michael collins, command module [ speaking foreign language ] >> far across the indian river, 12 miles away, the rocket. >> three hours before launch, armstrong and aldrin walked the earth, their next steps would be on the moon. people filled the camp sites, the beaches, the highways, the parkways, nose to tailgate. cape canaveral to titusville. >> time is t-minus 39 seconds and counting

kennedys. a lot of people said they know they vacations on cape cod, but did they ever spend time on martha's vineyard? that was a great question. president kennedy as most of you possibly know is an avid sailer. he came at least twice to sail in the annual rigata. once he was in office the first family did come aboard the yacht in one summer sunday in 1961. it was unannounced. the locals didn't know anything was up until boats loaded with coast guard crewmen and plain closed police officers started to swarm. and they were enjoying a swim off of the back of the boat and they have flagged down a passing motor boes and she asked if she could have a ride. mrs. kennedy also brought property at the west end of the item after -- long after she left the white house and came there during the summer. it has since been since been so, but they do have a history as well. >> referee: can you talk about the security challenges that they have had at each of your respective presidential sites that they had to deal with? the question is about security? how presidents dealt with security when they were away from the wh

the cape god national seashore, the vision of then senator john f. kennedy, it continues to be a success. working together, making sure that this model of cooperation between the federal government and local governments in this time of necessary cooperation with governmental interaction is more important than ever as well. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i thank them for including this in our bill. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentleman from arkansas is recognized. mr. wester: -- mr. westerman: i would like to take a moment to spend time on wilderness areas. i have enjoyed my time in wilderness areas. forestry and wilderness areas are very important to me. mr. speaker, i've got a degree in forestry and been lost in the practice of forestry, taking exams to do that. i can tell you republicans, democrats, independents alike we all can appreciate a healthy forest because we know that it provides clean air, clean water, it provides wildlife habitat. and it also provides gre