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https://content.streamhoster.com/file/osom/osom/Joel-Banow_LegacyOfApollo8_50YearsOn_2019-01-12_OSOM.m4a?dl=1 Click on Image for The Presidential Briefing Trailer: https://youtu.be/G7rLvWy8Ih0 What would the world look like … act like … be like– If we had never gone to the Moon? My guest tonight, Joel Banow, and I are going to explore this fascinating question … from the perspective of two old friends who, fifty years ago (!), shared a series of extraordinary “out-of-this-world” adventures, together, at CBS News; Joel, as the CBS Television News Director of Special Events covering Apollo … and I, a young kid “tapped on the shoulder by fate” and Walter Cronkite– To help CBS, Walter and Joel “go to the Moon” …. How did Apollo change our world … a world before “the Internet,” before “Google,” before “social media” … and CNN. A world, we will try to demonstrate, totally transformed by those three brave men launched on an unprecedented “Christmas […]
Click on Image for The Presidential Briefing Trailer: https://youtu.be/G7rLvWy8Ih0 Why — after the spectacular series of American Apollo lunar landings in 1969, 1970 and 1971 — has NASA NEVER returned to the surface of the Moon … in over fifty years?– Either with human crews … or … even with an instrumented robot? And why, after that intervening half-century, is China the one nation on Earth which has not only soft landed unmanned spacecraft on the lunar surface — now, TWICE — but– On the forever invisible from Earth “Farside of the Moon?!” Join me, and my guest tonight — Chinese cultural expert Robert Morningstar — and find out. Richard C. Hoagland Show Items CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE Richard’s Items: 1- http://www.enterprisemissions.com/china/Chinese%20Lunar%20Landing.htm 2- Chinese rover powers up devices in pioneering moon mission 3- China plans to grow flowers and silkworms […]