surface.he ut it out on a tripod and it recorded all of he and buzz aldrin's vari during that first e.v.a the data was sent back to earth via microwaves and captured with satellites in australia and california. and then that data was sent to johnson space center. >> sreenivasan: nasa says it did lose track of some tapes of the apollo 11 mission either because it recorded over them or because of damage from heat and humidity. the two inch tapes auctioned today do not contain any material that has not been preserved at nasa. but for collectors, who also bid on hundreds of other items this weekend, this was a space treasure worth having. >> sreenivasan: that's all for this special edition of pbs newshour weekend from johnson space center in houston, texas. i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh. access.worg >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. sue and edgar wachenheim iii. the cheryl and philip milstein family. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope

we are seeing side e.v.a.'s she was 1700. looking still we got a read of it on the good. outside journalists awaiting them mainly from the local media they're interested in mathias moua the astronauts. had a good look at the yes that you've been able he recently tweeted life isn't always fair my 2 good friends did all the hard work and only i got the attention which after all the commotion my own returns to the desolate landscape. when he gets here when i'm walking on the surface of. i feel a bit as if i'm on the moon the moon on. i'm really getting to get there 1st one after that some more laws about but i can tell from the technology that it's still a long way off we've still got to learn a lot improve a lot from our it is 49 he was born a year after the 1st moon landing some of these scoops stayed back to the apollo mission they are being tested here to see if they can be improved on the new agreement that. it's been decades since astronauts have practiced a lunar landing. it had gone out of fashion for a time but now interest has revived all over the world the astrona

the start of ourselves mass killing campaign in iraq it is estimated that between 3 and 5000 years e.v.a.'s were murdered because of their religious belief many more are still missing some of the survivors are women who were sold into slavery gupta has the story. shunts the colors she's surrounded by she will only wear black until her missing husband carol returns. she's one of the estimated more than 6000 you see the girls and women who are kidnapped and sold into slavery by isis fighters. she makes dresses to sell for a few dollars in a can for the internally displaced people in northwestern iraq where my chest started that is she any if i was sitting here with one hand on top of the other be constantly thinking about what i saw did to me while my husband isn't here with my 2 kids are going about my 9 relatives still in ice was hands. isis fighters invaded the city of sin jar in 24 teams and killed thousands of you see these u.n. investigators describe the attack as genocide saying there you see these were systematically targeted for their religious beliefs it took 15 months for kurdis

guest: they had a full two and a the extraplan for vehicular activity, the e.v.a. they set up a number of different experiments. there were some commemorative activities. what is surprising for me, when i look back at it, the commemorative activity plan did not really start until the spring of 1969, about march. a nasa administration is what are we doing to commemorate things on the moon? the engineers were so busy engineering the mission that they had not thought about it. plaque and came to an agreement about it. then there was discussion about should they put up a flag? should it be an international flag, a lot of flags? congress gave their opinion and said you should put up the american flag, if you put up any. that had to figure how to put a there is no wind on the moon, so you will just the a pole. so the engineers in houston figured out how to build a flagpole with a bar for the flag to pop up and put in place so it would look like the flag is blowing in the wind. then they had to figure out where you put this flag. flagpole, it will not fit through the door

the e.v.a. is progressing beautifully.etting up the flag now. >> great. >> i guess you're about the only person around that doesn't have tv coverage of the scene. >> how is the quality of the tv? >> it's beautiful, mike. it really is. they've got the flag up now. you can see the stars and stripes on the lunar surface. >> beautiful, just beautiful. >>> neil and buzz, the president of the united states is in his office now and would like to say a few words to you. over. >> that would be an honor. >> go ahead, mr. president. this is houston out. >> hello, neil and buzz. i'm talking to you by telephone from the oval room at the white house. and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made from the white house. i just can't tell you how proud we all are of what you have done. for every american, this has to be the proudest day of our lives and for people all over the world, because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. and as you talk to us from the sea of tranquility, it i

guest: they had a full two and a the extraplan for vehicular activity, the e.v.a.set up a number of different experiments. there were some commemorative activities. what is surprising for me, when i look back at it, the commemorative activity plan did not really start until the spring of 1969, about march. a nasa administration is what are we doing to commemorate things on the moon? the engineers were so busy engineering the mission that they had not thought about it. plaque and came to an agreement about it. then there was discussion about should they put up a flag? should it be an international flag, a lot of flags? congress gave their opinion and said you should put up the american flag, if you put up any. that had to figure how to put a there is no wind on the moon, so you will just the a pole. so the engineers in houston figured out how to build a flagpole with a bar for the flag to pop up and put in place so it would look like the flag is blowing in the wind. then they had to figure out where you put this flag. flagpole, it will not fit through the door of th