Moon Landing Documentary Airs Today
Posted: July 20, 2016 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Apollo program, Buzz Aldrin, Canadian Space Agency, Cydonia (region of Mars), John F. Kennedy, Kennedy Space Center, Mars, Moon, NASA, Space Shuttle program Leave a comment
A TV documentary set to premier today (July 20) will tell the incredible story of the first moon landing, which took place 47 years ago today.
The documentary, called “Go: The Great Race,” will air four times today on the Decades TV Network, as a special episode of the show “Through the Decades.” A trailer for the documentary leads off with footage from President John F. Kennedy delivering his famous 1961 speech that called for the U.S. to put a man on the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade.
“He had no reason to believe that we could even come close to doing something like that,” says one of the documentary’s interviewees (supposedly someone who worked on the Apollo, referring to Kennedy’s challenge. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] REWIND Apollo 11: Walter Cronkite Anchors First Moonwalk, CBS, July 1969
Posted: July 20, 2016 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Apollo 11, Apollo program, Buzz Aldrin, Canadian Space Agency, Cydonia (region of Mars), Mars, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Phobos (moon), Space Shuttle program Leave a comment
CBS INFO: On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off on a mission to put man on the moon. That dream came true on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong took “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Forty-five years after Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins made history, CBS News is celebrating their achievement.
Each day through July 20, CBSNews.com will post videos showcasing archival footage of the coverage of the monumental mission and interviews with the astronauts and others reflecting on their great accomplishment.
Above, watch CBS News legend Walter Cronkite anchor coverage of Apollo 11’s dramatic blastoff from Cape Kennedy in Florida and the dramatic days that followed, culminating in the moon landing.
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Cronkite marveled at how throngs of people stopped in their tracks to watch the liftoff.
“It seemed that the whole world stopped as man set out on the adventure to escape from his own planet and to set foot on a distant one,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »
Music in Space: Texas Music Students to Perform Live with Space Station Astronaut
Posted: April 30, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Education, Global, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Canadian Space Agency, Chris Hadfield, Houston, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Johnson Space Center, Koichi Wakata, NASA 1 Comment
Expedition 39 commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, currently aboard the International Space Station will make space-to-Earth musical connections with students in Texas this week to share and explore the relationship between the arts and space exploration.
Students from Pearl Hall Elementary in Pasadena, Texas, will perform songs with NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, Houston Symphony violinist Sergei Galperin and violinist Kenji Williams at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
When gagaku was first introduced in Japan, it was music of the imperial court during the Nara (645-710) and Heian (794-1185) periods that was performed by musicians who belonged to hereditary guilds. Later, it became music of the aristocracy, and today it is still performed; modern composers even continue to write for gagaku ensembles.
From the space station, Wakata will perform a piece of the ancient Gagaku music with a Japanese reed instrument called a sho.
Japanese Gagaku. Gagaku (the two Chinese characters mean “elegant music”) is a type of orchestral music utilizing winds, strings, and percussion that has been performed in Japan for centuries. It is the oldest form of Japanese classical music.
Violinist Sergei Galperin
The live “Music in Space” program will be broadcast on NASA Television and webcasted on the DLiNfo Channel at 12:30 p.m. EDT Friday, May 2.
*The event time is subject change due to communication with the space station. Please go to http://dln.nasa.gov for current information.
On Friday, click here for the LIVE Stream.
This is the second “Music in Space” event. The first featured astronaut Chris Hadfield formerly of the Canadian Space Agency in March 2013. This event is a part of the Building Cultural Bridges program, which links Pearl Hall Elementary with Johnson Space Center and several arts organizations, providing opportunities for students to discover that they are an integral part of society at the local, state, national and international levels. Read the rest of this entry »
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