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Matt Ginnow Matthew Ginnow July 1969. It's a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy's challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out. Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong working at an equipment storage area on the lunar module. This is one of the few photos that show Armstrong during the moonwalk. Click image to enlarge. Credits: NASA Smoke and flames signal the opening of a historic journey as the Saturn V clears the launch pad. Click image to enlarge. Credits: NASA Buzz Aldrin climbs down the Eagle's ladder to the surface. Click image to enlarge. Credits: NASA Crater 308 stands out in sharp relief in this photo from lunar orbit. Click image to enlarge. Credits: NASA It is only seven months since NASA's made a bold decision to send Apollo 8 all the way to the moon on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket. Now, on the

REMARKS FOR ADMINISTRATOR BOLDEN EULOGY FOR JOHN GLENN Dec. 17, 2016 This week our nation has been mourning the loss of one of its greatest heroes, John Glenn. His passing has affected me deeply, but in the spirit of optimism that he always radiated, I’d also like us to remember his many achievements and the pioneering spirit that he exemplified. I also want to thank Annie and the entire Glenn family for sharing their husband, father and grandfather with the world. Every one of us on planet Earth benefited from having him on our team. Annie, you and John exemplified what it means to be united as a couple. Your love and friendship over 73 years is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. I’m glad and incredibly blessed that I was able to witness your devotion. I hope that Jackie and I can emulate your lifetime of love.I was so moved and humored when I called John and Annie earlier this year to congratulate them on their 73rd wedding anniversary.When John put Annie on the phone, she said, “You kn

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On a plaque that we left on the Moon are the following words: ‘We Came in Peace for all of Mankind.’ I truly believe this. And there's no time like the present, to reaffirm that vow. Our return to the Moon will be the ultimate homecoming.

Matt Ginnow Matthew Ginnow Ladies and gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger. We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. This is truly a national loss. Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But we've never lost an astronaut in flight; we've never had a tragedy like this. And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle; but they, the Challenger Seven, were aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. We mourn seven heroes: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe. We mourn their loss as a nation together. For the families of t

Matt Ginnow Matthew Ginnow “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, h

Matt Ginnow Matthew Ginnow President Pitzer, Mr. Vice President, Governor, Congressman Thomas, Senator Wiley, and Congressman Miller, Mr. Webb, Mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen: I appreciate your president having made me an honorary visiting professor, and I will assure you that my first lecture will be very brief. I am delighted to be here, and I’m particularly delighted to be here on this occasion. We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a State noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation¹s own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years