well, nicole has said just made the comment that the cosmosphere. this is astronaut neil armstrong command pilot for the apollo 11 moon landing mission. what is the purpose of the apollo 11 mission apollo 11? is man's first attempt? and straight the ability. you go to the moon. land there and to return to earth what are your responsibilities as commander of apollo 11? well in in general the responsibilities the commit

well, nicole has said just made the comment that the cosmosphere. here with you to do this oral history. >> it's a pleasure, sir. >> let's begin kind of not at the beginning because there is a beginning before this but april, 1959. >> it was one of the happiest days of my life. that was a day that was congregated officially as the

so, we operated division of the cosmosphere called space works. space works produces exhibitry, not only for ourselves but for entities all over the world. we do restoration of artifacts, and we fabricate replicas. so, some of our restoration projects, we restored the apollo 13 command module odyssey. obviously the liberty bell seven. seven or eight years ago, jeff bezos with bezos expeditions funded an expedition to recover the f-one rocket engines from the saturn five. he contracted with us to do the conservation. we did the mission control councils down at nasa johnson space center, a historic missions operations control. some of our fabrication projects, we did most of the set props and hardware for the movie apollo 13. we worked on from the earth to the moon. we have worked on multiple productions for tom hanks, such as magnificent desolation, from the earth to the moon. we did first man. we have done exhibit tree workers all over the world. we built a ufo, of all things, for a museum in taiwan. our team just traveled to d. c. last week to bui

um, i mean, i'm all for anything space because if space is is in the public eye or cosmosphere. specifically to the exploration of space, you know hundreds of thousands of products we use daily in our lives come directly from space exploration. i i think it's important that we continue to explore this world was was developed based on exploration. by nature we are explorers. i'm less about the tourism side of it. maybe i'm more of a traditionalist or a purist but i think just because you ride an automate it rocket and spacecraft. asked a certain point in space you get your your astronaut wings. those individuals really didn't do anything related to what what a traditional astronaut or cosmonaut does those individuals aren't necessarily contributing to exploration or advances in technology. they're they're basically purchasing a seat. on a booster in a spacecraft much like we do when when we are flying an airplane just because i flew in you know, an airplane from point a to point b, i don't automatically get my pilot's wings these people get their astronaut wings. and so while it's

[interpreter] i'm president and ceo here at the cosmosphere. i have been in the museum industry since 1997, started out as executive director of -- in pennsylvania. a sight that preserved horse drawn vehicle manufacturing facility. then in 2000, i moved here to the cosmosphere. i'm from hutchinson. i became curator. i've been at the cosmosphere for 17 and a half years. i was named ceo in 2018. i did not have one bit of understanding of space exploration when i started here. early on, i read everything i could. today, i really enjoy early man's space exploration. for those of you who haven't been to the cosmosphere, we house the largest collection of u.s. artifacts outside of the smithsonian, and the largest collection of soviet artifacts outside of moscow, which puts us in the definitive position to tell a story of the space race. we do that with quick counter points basis. yesterday we had a big anniversary celebration, our own liberty bell seven spacecraft, that mission was 60 years old, yesterday. a big celebration. here today to talk about e

well, nicole has said just made the comment that the cosmosphere. this is astronaut neil armstrong command pilot for the apo11

well, nicole has said just made the comment that the cosmosphere. this is astronaut neil armstrong command pilot for the apollo 11 moon landing mission. what is the purpose of the apollo 11 mission apollo 11? is man's first attempt? and straight the ability. you go to the moon. land there and to return to earth what are your responsibilities as commander of apollo 11? well in in general the responsibilities the commit the onboard decisions whenever they're required and to oversee the performance of the duties of all the crew including himself you know in this particular case. i participate in this procedures on board the spacecraft as well as oversee. those of my fellow crew members and the specific tasks that i'm charged with the performance of include the monitoring of the launch board procedure. should they be required manual flying of the booster? should that be required? and taking my turn at on. watch in a normal monitoring of spacecraft. systems and in the command module in the lunar module charged almost nearly equally with the lunar module p

of the cosmosphere center. jim remar president ceo here i'm president and ceo here at the cosmosphere. i have been in the museum industry since 1997, started out as executive director of -- in pennsylvania. a sight that preserved horse drawn vehicle manufacturing facility. then in 2000, i moved here to the cosmosphere. i'm from hutchinson. i became curar.

of the cosmosphere center. jim remar president ceo here here at the cosmosphere cente site

jim remar president ceo here here at the cosmosphere cente site that preserved horse-drawn vehicle manufacturing facility then in 2000 moved

of the cosmosphere center. jim remar president ceo here