"The People, the Politics, and the Promise that Launched America into the Space Age" Companion book to the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary series.
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Jane Pauley looks back at Newton Minow, a one-time chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, whose many accomplishments were overshadowed by the withering criticism he laid at the feet of commercial television in 1961. cbsn.ws/3RKPGf0
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“Is Utopia Really Possible?” touches off a Soviet science fiction mania. By one count, 250 articles are published in Russian in the next decade on space flight, far more than in the U.S. A 1924 Soviet film “Aelita: Sunset of Mars” (1st tweet) imagines a trip to the planet. 2/2
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Oct. 2, 1923: An article titled “Is Utopia Really Possible?” appears in Russian newspaper Izvestia, promoting space travel to expand humanity’s horizons. The piece notes that U.S. scientist Robert Goddard’s rocket experiments provide a possible means to escape Earth’s orbit. 1/2
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Members of former President Lyndon B. Johnson's family, including former US First Lady Lady Bird Johnson and NASA Administrator James E Webb pose with a bust of Johnson during a ceremony naming the Center in the honor of the former President in Houston, Texas.
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Here it is - the first photograph taken from the south pole region of the Moon!
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Ancient and modern, an afternoon reading @ChasingMoonBk in the shadow of a Neolithic standing stone
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Newton Minow and the Public Interest scheerpost.com/2023/05/11/ne… via @scheer_post
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CBS News Special Report on Apollo 1 Disaster broadcast the evening of January 27, 1967.
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January 27, 1967: Dan Rather speaks to Wernher von Braun at the International Club in Washington DC, before the news of the Apollo fire goes public. Although under orders from NASA’s James Webb not to speak to the press, von Braun talks to Rather, who then appears on the air.
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January 27, 1967: After the signing of the Outer Space Treaty, President Johnson attends a White House reception in honor of Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor.
Newly found photos at the LBJ Library website capture the moment the news of the Apollo fire was heard. 🧵 1/8
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January 27, 1967: After NASA public affairs officer Paul Haney makes a brief statement, the three television networks break into prime time programming. ABC’s Jules Bergman is audibly out of breath as he rushes before the camera. Special reports follow later in the evening.
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January 27, 1967: During a party in honor of his retiring secretary of commerce, President Lyndon Johnson is given this small note. Upon reading it, Johnson said, “The shock hit me like a physical blow.” He then read it aloud.
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January 27, 1967: Minutes after learning of the Apollo 1 fire, NASA’s Robert Seamans is on the phone with Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara, when an operator breaks in. NBC’s Peter Hackes tells him, “Word is out! The country is almost in a panic! You’ve got to go on TV!”
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January 27, 1967: NASA holds the news of Apollo 1 fire and makes no public statement until the astronauts’ widows are informed. Bill Anders gets a call while mowing the lawn and heads over to Pat Whites’ house; Michael Collins goes to speak to Martha Chaffee.
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January 27, 1967: At the White House reception following the signing of the Outer Space Treaty, President Lyndon Johnson greets Neil Armstrong in the receiving line. 1/5
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January 27, 1967: At the White House the early evening signing of the Outer Space Treaty. Present are NASA administrator James Webb, Wernher von Braun, and astronauts Neil Armstrong, Dick Gordon, Jim Lovell, Gordon Cooper and Scott Carpenter.
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January 27, 1971: Norman Mailer jokes that no one could prove [the moon landing] had not been an event staged in a TV studio. In a radio interview he says, “In another couple of years there will be people arguing in bars about whether anyone even went to the Moon.”
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January 27, 1980: PBS premieres the BBC series The Voyage of Charles Darwin, hosted by Neil Armstrong. The Christian Science Monitor calls this “his slightly hesitant small step into television.” (Note: It was thought necessary to ID Armstrong in the PBS advertising.)
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January 17, 1949: LIFE magazine publishes “Rocket to the Moon,” an illustrated article describing a trip that it suggests might happen in 25 years.
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January 17, 1961: President Eisenhower delivers his famous Farewell Address, in which he warns that public policy could “become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” (He mentions no names, but later admitted he had Edward Teller and Wernher von Braun in mind.)
