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Can a girl go into space?
Broadcast Date: July 21, 1969
"Would you like to go to the moon?" CBC reporter Walt Lacosta asks a young girl. "Yes," she responds without hesitation. When questioned if she thinks she'll ever make it there, the young girl smiles and responds with a simple "no." "Why not?" Lacosta asks. "Because I'm not a boy," she says says shyly but definitively.
Do you know who this little girl is? On the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, CBC would love to find her. How have her perceptions about what the future held for boys and girls changed and evolved? Where is she now? Read the CBCNews.ca Your View feature and send them a comment if you have any leads.
Can a girl go into space?
• "It was simply a night of magic. Inside the CBC Television studio, I was anchoring the network coverage of the most dramatic moment in the space age — the first human being to walk on the moon. It was the biggest audience CBC news had ever had. Canadians, along with 600 million people around the world, were watching transfixed as Neil Armstrong set foot on a kind of thin sand on the moon." — CBC anchor Knowlton Nash• Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins were promised that if they failed to land successfully on this mission, they would get the opportunity to try again on future missions until they were successful.
• Aldrin and Armstrong spent 21 hours on the lunar surface. They captured many photographs, planted the American flag and returned with 20.9 kilograms of lunar rocks.
• At a press conference celebrating the 30th anniversary of the moon landing, Armstrong addressed a longstanding question about his famous moonwalk quotation, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." There was some debate as to whether he said simply "man" or "a man" with the "a" being cut off in transmission. He recalled that the "a" was certainly intended but couldn't remember if he actually said it.
Also on July 20:
• 1871: British Columbia enters Confederation as Canada's sixth province.
• 1998: Two of Canada's biggest entertainment companies, Alliance Communications and Atlantis Communications, merge to form Alliance-Atlantis. The same day, Southam Communications, led by Conrad Black, trades for the Financial Post newspaper from Sun Media, who gain the Hamilton Spectator and three other dailies.
Can a girl go into space?
Medium: Television
Program: CBC Television News
Broadcast Date: July 21, 1969
Reporter: Walt Lacosta
Duration: 1:42
Last updated:
July 21, 2009
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Great clip! Love the little girl with the "green cheese" revelation. I was just watching The Right Stuff a couple of nights ago and marveling at all the investment in the space race, which was just a large-scale pissing contest between the U.S. and Russia.
Submitted by: Harry Gagarin
Hoax. A complete hoax. They should dust off the old equipment they said they sent to the moon in the 1960s instead of using the stuff they have now. No thermal tiles falling off 40 years ago. They should just fake it again. It's easier.
Submitted by: Gord