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🗓️ 26 July 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | Houston, we have a podcast. |
0:02.0 | Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center. |
0:06.0 | This is episode 102, The Next First Steps. |
0:10.0 | I'm Pat Ryan. |
0:11.0 | On this podcast, we talk with scientists, engineers, astronauts, and other folks |
0:16.0 | about their part in America's Space Exploration Program. And today, that means getting their |
0:21.6 | thoughts on space exploration of the past as well as of the future. |
0:27.3 | We hope you've heard NASA has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. |
0:33.2 | Big Parties. |
0:34.5 | Two weeks ago, Gary talked with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein about the significance |
0:39.5 | of the anniversary and the agency's current plans to return astronauts to the moon in the next few years. |
0:46.6 | Last week, he and JSC historian Jennifer Ross Nizel hit on some of the lesser known stories |
0:52.1 | of Apollo 11. |
0:53.6 | And we heard a few Apollo veterans share their memories of when they made history. |
0:59.1 | The thing about that history is the |
1:05.0 | history of the 65% of the population of the United States today is under the age of 50. |
1:10.0 | That means for roughly two out of every three people you meet, the first |
1:16.2 | landing of human beings on the moon is a topic from history for them. It's not |
1:21.4 | something they experienced. Well, I do remember 1969, and believe me, it was a huge deal. |
1:28.0 | The fact of NASA meeting President Kennedy's goal of landing men on the moon in the 1960s was |
1:34.8 | mind-boggling for those of a certain age who never even conceived of such a thing in |
1:40.6 | all their natural born days. |
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