571 Pluto; One Giant Leap; Astronaut's View
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Space journalist Charles Fishman tells us how the Apollo 11 moonwalk became reality. Then Alan Stern, the head of NASA's New Horizons mission, tells us about their probe's fly-by of Pluto earlier this year. And astronaut Chris Hadfield describes the views of Earth from the International Space Station.
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| 0:00.0 | How did the Moon Landing change life on Earth? |
| 0:04.0 | The race to the moon, Apollo, that achievement, was sort of America at its best, really hard work. |
| 0:10.3 | We were told something was impossible, and then we simply dug in and did it. |
| 0:15.0 | Charles Fishman reminds us what going to the moon did for a nation in turmoil 50 years ago. |
| 0:20.0 | The latest unmanned space mission is exploring the edge of our solar system. |
| 0:25.0 | Alan Stern is the director of the New Horizons mission to Pluto. |
| 0:28.0 | Its geology and its atmosphere and its system of moons is as complex as the Earth or Mars. |
| 0:35.5 | So sometimes great things come in small packages. |
| 0:38.7 | And hear how astronaut Chris Hadfield photographs the Earth from space. |
| 0:42.4 | And you wait for just the right angle between Africa and the spaceship and the sun, and suddenly the sun glints off to water as if some great lighting engineer just gave you the best picture possible. |
| 0:54.6 | Explore the universe in the hour ahead, |
| 0:56.2 | its travel with Rick Steve's. |
| 1:00.7 | The first time my parents dragged me to Europe, I was a gockey 14-year-old who couldn't see the value of taking precious summer vacation time to meet relatives in the old country. |
| 1:10.0 | But as we gathered at my cousin's house in Norway to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing, my perspective |
| 1:16.5 | started to open up. |
| 1:18.5 | When they translated Neil Armstrong's words into Norwegian, I saw that the Moon landing wasn't just something staged to boost American |
| 1:26.1 | pride. |
| 1:27.1 | It was an event for the entire world to celebrate, as a human being took his first steps on the moon. |
| 1:34.1 | Coming up on travel with Rick Steeves, |
| 1:36.0 | we're celebrating that first moon landing |
| 1:38.0 | with journalist Charles Fishman. |
| 1:40.2 | He tells us about the human energy |
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