we will talk to kevin stirling, director and producer of "mooned beach," a documentary that looks at the apollo 11 -- "moon beat," a documentary that looks at the apollo 11 landing. >> when i heard the alarms, when they were descending, i felt sure that the mission was going wrong. i could not believe that they would be able to make the landing on the first landing mission. the lunar module, this weird spider thing, was such an unpromising a vehicle. i was sure it would tip over when they landed. i was expecting that mission to be aborted, and if it was not aborted, i felt the odds are that it would not get back. >> we are now in the approach phase. everything looking good. all two, 4200. you are a go for landing. -- all to 2, 4200. you are a go for landing. all two, 1600. 1400 feet, still looking good. 1201 alarm. >> the touch and go of that, when you think of it, as they were coming down and there were ready to abort, to get a wonderful guy in the control center who kept on coming back to jean and saying, "is ok." alarms were coming on and everything else but he kept on coming back

host: kevin stirling attended the wharton school of business at the university of pennsylvania has an st. joseph's school of business. how does a guy with the business background put together a documentary about this? guest: wharton is an interesting school and teach a lot of things. one of them is how to adapt to a certain circumstances coul. businesses, and go. -- businesses, and go. you have to take your skill set and find new opportunities to succeed advance. wharton was the incubator where you could go and find out how to do these things, where the opportunities are that you would not have thought of. host: you are also a business reporter for "the philadelphia inquirer." guest: not on staff. i have done some pieces from them since the 1980's. host: where did this come come from? -- this film come from? guest: i believe that the reporters at a particular, their perspective on where this program was and where it was going, it was an important voice to be heard. i thought that viewers would be interested to hear, particularly in this environment, where the space program is going. w

host: kevin stirling attended the wharton school of business at the university of pennsylvania has an st. joseph's school of business. how does a guy with the business background put together a documentary about this? guest: wharton is an interesting school and teach a lot of things. one of them is how to adapt to a certain circumstances coul. businesses, and go. -- businesses, and go. you have to take your skill set and find new opportunities to succeed advance. wharton was the incubator where you could go and find out how to do these things, where the opportunities are that you would not have thought of. host: you are also a business reporter for "the philadelphia inquirer." guest: not on staff. i have done some pieces from them since the 1980's. host: where did this come come from? -- this film come from? guest: i believe that the reporters at a particular, their perspective on where this program was and where it was going, it was an important voice to be heard. i thought that viewers would be interested to hear, particularly in this environment, where the space program is going. w

host: kevin stirling -- the movie is "moon beat" -- thank you for being on the program this morning. thank you to everyone who has turned in to "washington journal." we have live coverage of the senate armed services committee, c-span3 today, talking with the secretary of state, secretary of defense, and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. we will go live to the house of representatives. see you tomorrow morning. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] cycle, the ordinary manufacturing routine, the busy swirl of business, economic freefall or the data of any computer is the unimaginable picture of global security. so impossible to communicate. no wonder we are not sure what steps to take if we do not have a picture in mind. how do we pray? except to lay the words themselves before you, o lord, as if it were your problem or of your making or so now in need of your healing power. to which part of the world's prayer for global security is any of us willing to say amen, lord? yet, deep down we know, you know we n