and sitting there that night mesmerized with this little, grainy, black and white tv watching neil armstrong now. - [technician] neil armstrong's been on the lunar surface now almost 45 minutes. - whew! boy. (chuckles) - [operator] we're gonna be busy for a minute. (operator speaking) (radio beeps) - it almost seemed like it was a tv show, you know. like you're seeing these ghostly images of what's happening on the moon. and then i remember going outside and getting out on the front lawn and looking up and seeing the moon and realizing there's people up there. the world is forever changed. and even as a little kid, i thought to myself this is the most important thing that has ever happened in at least 500 years. and this is gonna be the most significant thing that's ever gonna happen for another 500 years. - [pres. nixon] 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. - [narrator] neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael collins. at that moment in 1969, those guys were bigge

. >>> 55 years after neil armstrong's trip to space, scientists are still learning more about the moon69 and 1977. a study published this year reanalyzed the decades old data and found thousands of moon quakes. our brian hackney on what we've learned about these lunar shakers. >> i read a book a long time ago called "man in the moon." i was absolutely obsessed with it. i was just hooked from then on, yeah. >> reporter: dr. carrie nunn is over the moon about the moon. >> sometimes i think oh, i'm studying that, yeah. >> reporter: a lunar seismologist at jpl in pasadena, she was especially engaged by buzz aldrin's one small jump for mankind after the apollo 11 touchdown. >> they asked him to jump. >> reporter: they asked him to jump? >> voice says get up a little jump that you were planning on doing at one time. >> a jump? >> roger. >> reporter: aldrin was testing this, the first seismometer deployed on another world. >> then they ask him to check it and he jumps. >> a jump? >> roger. >> one of the first signals every recorded on the moon was aldrin jumping. >> reporter: each apollo miss

buzz aldrin and neil armstrong and michael collins addressed a joint session of congress following their moon landing. and they received this medal in 97. the state of colorado gave us the statue of jack swagger for his as an astronaut on apollo 13. and as a staff director of, the house committee on science and technology. and now, in 2024, we the honor and the and have the honor to bring honor that is due to the giants on whose shoulders all of those astronauts actually at a time when america. that's right. and that's an applause line. at a time in america when our nation was divided by color and often by gender, these women dared to step into the fields where they had previously been unwelcomed. they excel old in science and math and made ground breaking contributions in aeronautics. but these women didn't just crunch numbers and solve equations for the space program. they actually laid the very foundation upon which our launched and our astronauts flew and our nation soared. and although we call them figures, we shouldn't think of them merely as supporting characters. the american sto

give them cocaine, whether or not they are more promiscuous, to study what did armstrong say, neil armstrong say when he landed on the moon. in the end, $750,000 later, they could not decide. >> let's bring in senator paul. we want to ask him about ukraine as well. thank you for joining me. i want to play this quick sound bite and get your thoughts on it. >> we expect certain agencies to be deleted, mass reductions in force in areas that are bloated, massive cut from federal contractors. we expect all of the above and people will be surprised by how quickly we are able to move. >> you know better than the vic ramaswamy does in terms of what happens on the hill and how difficult it is to cut through these agencies. are you optimistic this can be accomplished? >> i feel like i am at a revival meeting and can say amen. we have forwarded them twopages of waste. i am all in and will do anything i can to help them. we have never had a president and a team who have this degree of momentum, indecisiveness and energy and drive to do it. it is a monster, a leviathan. can you cut? you can cut through a

the heavens not as much these days maybe because it's been so long since we had john glenn or neil armstrong or sally ride. we think of it they're going up research and learn stuff. what do we need to learn? what's the point of nasa right now? >> is deafening outside my field. the work going on now i just do not knowsw enough about it. did we need a space shuttle then? >> we did not need a space shuttle then. it was created essentially to keep nasa in the business of manned space flight much more complex program that congress made very clear from the beginning that they cannot afford to pay for. are there questions? thank you. we can since he's been to art every saturday in american history tv documents america story. on sunday book tv punctur the latest nonfiction books and authors. what is great internet? at spark low we know connection goes way beyond technology. everything in between best

. >> jesse: famous words of neil armstrong, the first man on the moon.realize watching tv together, the full magnitude of our potential. manifest destiny is not limited to god's green earth. adventuring into space is the natural evolution of the american push into the wilderness. space exploration withered under barack obama but like many things in america, it is making a comeback. trump and musk flew to south texas today. a lawn giving 47 a little aerodynamics 101. the goal has been set. colonize mars. but before that we have to make sure that if we get men to mars, we can get them back. so this test was about working out the kinks and they let it rip. >> five -- eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. [cheering and applause] [cheering and applause] >> jesse: the mission was a success. spacex fulfilled three of the four goals. preignition, splashdown, vertical reentry. they just weren't able to catch the booster and the chopsticks. should have used a fork. a manned mission to mars is not far off and it's coming at a time when americans cultural

. >>> if you think landing on the moon felt like yesterday, it has been 55 years after neil armstrong'snge. scientists are still learning more about the moon. really this is incredible. seismic data collected by the apollo mission between 1969 and 1977. last flight was in '72, but they still had instruments on the moon. they have reanalyzed the decades old data, and they found in that seismometer data put on moon thousands of moon quakes. and we've got more on what we've learned by heading down to the jet propulsion lab. >> i read a book a long time ago called man in the moon, and i was absolutely obsessed with it. and i was just hooked from then on, yeah. >> reporter: dr. carey nunn is over the moon about the moon. >> sometimes i think, oh, i'm studying that, yeah. >> reporter: a lunar seismologist, she was especially engaged by buzz aldrin's one small jump for mankind after the apollo 11 touchdown. >> they ask him to jump. >> they ask him to jump? >> give us a little jump, which he was planning on doing at one time a jump. roger. >> . >> reporter: aldrin was testing this. >> they ask

i think not as much these days, maybe because it's been so since we had a, you know, glenn or neil armstrong know, or sally ride. we think of it as, you know, they're up to do research and learn stuff. hmm. you know, what do we what we need to learn? you know what? what's what's point of nasa's right now that is definitely outside my field of space is ask me anything you like about the eighties but what's going now? i just don't know enough about it to give an educated answer. did or then? then this is a related question. did we need a space shuttle? then. we did not really need a shuttle then. i mean, it was it was it was created essentially to keep nasser in the business of manned flight and was the rump of a much more complex program that the congress made very clear from the beginning that they couldn't afford to pay for. so the question. i think this is a great book. we've got to go with it. you all so much. thank you, ♪♪ weekends are c-span2 or an intellectual piece every saturday american history tv documents americans worries. on facebook tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books

broke the speed soun barrier fought in world war two keand helped out in vietnam or someone like neil armstrong, who was a great korean war pilot, navy test pilot, and of course the first man to walk on the moon. but i want to make the case for john glenn is the greatest aviator all time in world war two. he flew 57 combat missions two distinguished flying cross seven air medals during his two years in the air islands, just during his time with marines in the korean war, he had received four distinguished flying crosses, air medals, led many missions during his time there at the end of the korean, he went on temporary assignment with the air force, which is really a dream for any marine corps pilot to flysomething called th f-86 saber jet, which was much superior to f9's panther. he waslying with the marines and was in june of 1953. the war at the end of july. he really start flying missions until late june. 53. and in a ten day spanish shutdown, three soviet migs. you need five to become an ace. he have been just the second marine corps ace during the korean war the minute the war ended and he

over $700,000 was spent to figure out if neil armstrong said one small step for man or one small step for a man when he walked on the moon and they didn't even figure it out. $120,000 to study why prisoners want to get out of jail. that's right, 120 grand for that. and 1.5 million went to encourage people in new york to play more video games. but democrats have decided this is the hill. they're going to die on. it doesn't seem like you're a fan of his department that he's organizing. why is government efficiency a bad thing? look, he's talking about doing $2 trillion cuts, financing it with things like taking away people's social security in order to be able to do more giveaways for billionaires. the numbers that vivek ramaswamy and elon musk have thrown out, that they might be able to cut $2 trillion out of government spending, there's no way to achieve that kind of savings without cutting into critical functions. so how is this battle of the government bulge going to play out? prime time has the inside scoop with new york post financial correspondent lydia moynihan. all right. so wh

people used to say that about neil armstrong's landing on the moon, it didn't really happen.in hollywood in burbank. i do wonder, so this deeply held, okay, great what about the 63 federal court cases that said there's no widespread vote or widespread fraud. what about the supreme court decision on pennsylvania where even the two most conservative members of the court say elections die. taking the case will not change the outcome. trump's own people saying it was the safest ever. i could go down the list, but, yeah, they think this, and i'm sorry. let me just say, so what? so what that they are believing lies and reading epic times and reading chinese cult conspiracy websites? tell me, how exactly are you supposed to reason with that when they are ignoring the facts and making up their own? >> well this is what a lot of election administrators on the other side, and there's far more of them, i assure you, say. they are constantly answering the questions, and it takes up a lot of resources. >> by the way, when you say on the other side, you're saying people who agree to the fa

neil. give him yours. yes. so this is for miss armstrong. was the youth program director at the potrero hill neighborhood house. also the mayor, summer youth and afterschool employment and training programs, gang prevention program, and the founder of the french girls club, the community pride cleanup program, black history and summer youth expression talent show coordinator and president of the board of directors. during the span of 30 years, she was brought over to the sfha in 1997 to be part of an elite group of public housing residents, training to be property managers. she soared to the rank of acting property manager, property manager, resident employment specialist, resident services and management analyst before retiring from sfha in 2010. she is the president of the dwellings resident council and the president of the sfha public housing tenant association. she is an activist, advocate and fierce in her fight for economic justice and equal rights for everyone. the honorable mayor ed lee appointed her to the hunters point shipyard cit

. - [neil armstrong] the eagle has landed. - overshadowed by the boomers and the generation that came after the millennials. - it had been made very clear to us that the great music, the great everything, had already happened. you know, if you were at a big music concert, "well, it's no woodstock." - there's that boomer arrogance that everything they did was the coolest. it wasn't. i mean, who'd wanna be a hippie? ugh, oh my god. - we were the first generation to really adopt technology in ways that changed the very fabric of our nation. - hav-a-tude, wiener dude. - the idea of a mcjob, something that you're probably overqualified for. - there were all of these girls who worked at a coffee shop. they worked at a sandwich shop, i worked in a pizza restaurant at the mall. - the narrative about generation x was that we were lazy, entitled, directionless, slackers. - it was the last generation of just anti-commercialism. - marketing seemed gross. selling out was a huge thing. we hated labels and we hated names. we didn't wanna be put under one umbrella. - gen x to me is just fucking meani