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Nobody has what Tuff shed has make this the year of your backyard. Give us a call stop in or design online@tuffshed.com dream design and build with Tuff shed. I'm Jane Boulet and this is Sunday morning, Sunday morning. It turns out tropical storm Barry continues to drench much of the Gulf Coast and New York City is waking up after a blackout that stopped the Big Apple in its tracks will have the latest on both in just a few minutes and then we look forward to this coming Saturday, the 50th anniversary of the day America went to the moon will be celebrating that momentous achievement in a number of ways, Tracy Smith as a preview half a century after mankind's greatest adventure we look back at the man who made history is thrilled to be appreciable. The women who helped make it happen. I went home on Monday night and cried because I knew I couldn't do it. Why do you think that because I was scared on person's life. This depended on and the legendary CBS News man who brought America along for the ride to the moon and back later on Sunday morning for anyone planning a long day of travel into space or otherwise the words. Breakfast is served are welcomed. Indeed, Susan Spencer will provide a buffer options from bacon and eggs to cereal and milk. Odds are your first meal of the day is also your favorite maybe after waking up your grateful to be alive another day's how would you describe the average American's relationship to serial serial is a very personal choice for people were serving up breakfast.

I had on Sunday morning say Hartman has the story of a most unusual pet project will take the measure of the tape measure and more coming up when our Sunday morning podcast continues, before sounding off on our promised trip to the moon. Breakfast is served. There's a lot on the menu as our Susan Spencer and Thomas Fulton admits that as a kid cereal just pulled him over, so did you have a favorite what you try is a big one cinnamon toast crunch a lot of race crispies all the varieties Coker is crispies rice crispy treats some 20 years later Fulton is writing for the website through a list where his childhood passion launched a wild article Xi was basically to eat nothing but cereal for an entire week, and sure enough and so was born a serial serial leader for 21 consecutive meals breakfast lunch and dinner nothing but cereal. I ate 82 bowls over the course of this holy God.

72 bowls back.I started seeing this lark as a social experiment to answer an existential question what is serial place in my life and the life of people our age. Cereal is a little bit like reminding yourself with your child, even though your parents are not bear I'm having Chocolate tonight right right but even if cereals not on the menu. Yale University food historian Paul Friedman says the first meal of the day is also the best flight. Maybe after waking up your grateful to be alive another day, I'm still here I'm here and I'm hungry for hundreds of years. Breakfast was pretty standard fare. Some kind of porridge, some vegetables from last night. Bacon definitely good. Everyone can relate to that early 1900s, a man named WK Kellogg yes that Kellogg revolutionized morning meetings is the first cereal we ever launched Kellogg's competitor Minneapolis based General Mills introduced Wheaties in the 1920s. Cereal is such a big deal here because credit has its own president dream job Dana McNabb. You're definitely enthusiastic about cereal. I had only about breakfast. I am but around the country. Serial fatigue may be setting in. Instead eggs are on a roll with breakfast sandwich sales up 10% while cereal, though still an $8 billion industry has dropped a billion over the past nine years, so McNabb's team got to work on reenergizing some old favorites. What is really energizing me bringing excitement back to people's relationship with serial excitement often seems to involve sugar. As with the new chocolate peanut butter on tasteless Cheerios breakfast, dessert is the world a better place for having chocolate hundred Cheerios I would have to say definitely yes, McNabb says another brilliant stroke shaping the marshmallows and Lucky charms into tiny unicorns. Okay, has boosted sales by double digits that made a big difference. If you change the shape of the marshmallows at a meeting on several has shut and like the most nutritious toys not Wendy Lopez is a registered dietitian and the perfect person to ask the big question when you eat for breakfast actually have a smoothie usually output some kind of yoga and output vegetables and there to know it sounds a little crazy and sounds horrible to me something like miniature cucumber and then I balance it with a combination newcomer no.

Is there anything that you just absolutely cannot be your worst nightmare. Imagine eating for breakfast, pumpkin spice stuffed pumpkin spice bacon, eggs know durable one of drawing the line is, what will Fulton probably wishes he done after two consecutive bowls of cereal he didn't quite feel himself. Go figure. This made me lethargic and confused horse and fairness.

Nobody suggests that anybody Lucky charms exclusively know this is only a totally brought myself all my life. People of said breakfast is the most important meal is a true eating breakfast really helps set the tone for what you can be eating for the rest of the day if I could eat my favorite breakfast every day. It would just be bacon and eggs do you have any favorite vegetable for you and try not to go with bacon and eggs in this movie. So whatever you choose. Before you leave the house today. Well you know what to do by now. Thanks from our Sunday morning almanac July 14, 1868, 101 years ago to the day Alvin Fallows of New Haven is useful in spring measuring tape, though not the first Fallows design is widely regarded as the forerunner of the device used to this day countless instructional videos demonstrate tape measure use some less obvious I got a few simple tricks divide anyway and have, for example, watch Tom Silva of the PBS show this old house divide 37 and 5 inch board and have without doing the math just by arbitrarily measuring a 40 inch diagonal now half a 40 is 20 when I marked 20 on the diagonal.

That board is divided exactly yes it really works. While the 1964 movie Mary Poppins starring Julie Andrews found more use. Just as I thought extremely stubborn and suspicious back in the real world, the national Institute of standards and technology certifies tape measure accuracy with 6 foot tapes required to be correct to within 1/32 of an inch by five and so on this day Sam actually celebrated national we pose this question comes to using Alvin Fallows, Ted Hanley honestly say measure three State Department is here to tell us how one couples project became a flowering business vascular surgeon Mark Warner and his wife Marty overseeing them over here and see Hamlet in addition to him with the pigs Greg and Greg, the donkey, they care for about 40 other marks is the love he has for his natural river is nothing compared to the attachment he is for his orchids. You will absolutely you get close to them over the years.

It's not okay, so regular, normal guy just got an orchid and so about another one and again I'm promise you I'm a normal guy says of the most he thinks Hamlet's father.test too much because he knows what I'm about to tell you may sound crazy, but in his defense is not the only one who sends his points to a kind of finishing school is all belong to different people. Almost all of them enough art.

Chadwick owns Chadwick and son orchids, new Richmond, Virginia. His business used to just sell orchids but now he mostly boards which I can take her my work another special morning as well. I guess I could not go to place the sunlight plans to camp. Why don't people just throw them away. There are people with I know why doesn't everybody do it well. You sort of feel guilty about throwing my living plan we are dog started falling off. If I could barely see somebody bother bringing you that will show some emotional attachment to this it's it's almost like family and like family can be hard to say goodbye. I have one of your orchids. Here it hasn't bloomed in six years you had to tell this woman will likely never blue.

While she suggested. How to take it well shows there was silence initially and then she realized there's not much you could do to get one. Fortunately, most orchids survive through the suite. After you pay your monthly two dollar per plant boarding fees.

I recognize some of this you get your babies back and again Mark is not about their borders. In most states now, but normal. You man on the moon 50 years on here again is Jane Fawley 50 years ago next weekend and eventually out of this world. We sent Americans to the moon where spending much of the rest of our Sunday morning remembering those remarkable days with some help from time magazine editor at large Jeffrey Kluger, co-author of the book Apollo 13 who remembers it all, as if it were yesterday. I've covered space for much of my career. I fell in love with it when I was just a kid during the summer of 1969 I was at summer camp. It was a camp cold in fact, and I watch the Apollo 11 mission on a black and white TV along with 200 other kids hanging onto every word from Walter Cronkite good morning, three hours and two minutes begins the greatest adventure in the sisterhood on July 16, 1969, three men sent down to a breakfast of steak and eggs chipper then set off to meet the challenge laid down by Pres. John F. Kennedy, seven years before all not because they Neil Armstrong was the mission commander Edwin Bowes Aldrin was the lunar module pilot light is Paul probably anyone ever knowing your lot and Michael Collins was the command module pilot.

How did your very distinct personalities complement one another and do they clash whenever clashed I got along very well with the nail and buzz hark back almost daily to John F. Kennedy. I felt that fulfilling successful his mandate to this drill to be a priest is whole thing remained looking good through the 239,000 mile trip into orbit around the moon through the moment when the men split up Collins staying in lunar orbit in the command module, Armstrong and Aldrin heading to the moon surface in the lunar module known as when it came time to land. They had to improvise her autopilot was taken to an area that wasn't a good area for lab Armstrong died seven years ago gave a rare interview to Ed Bradley of 60 minutes in 2005 was a very large crater about the size of a football stadium with steep slopes on the corridor covered with very large rocks about size of automobiles. That was not the kind of place I want to try to make the first half a worldwide television audience is watching the simulation following the original flight plan which showed when the module was supposed to touch down what is the critical moment came, it hadn't actually landed yet. So what did you do that, we took over manually without further to the west.

About another half a mile lunar surface was much smoother than found my spot.

You don't have a lot of fuel. We were running low on fuel. The world held its breath got school with. Nobody knows exactly how much some estimates of 27 then the moment everyone was waiting for humanity's first walk on the moon. But who would take that historic first step spacewalk protocol on earlier flights called for the junior officer to go outside. First, while the commander remained on board the commander in this case was Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin was the junior man on the moon. The problem was that among those people who were writing the procedures they knew that this was a hot potato. Now 89 years old and making few public appearances.

Aldrin also talked with 60 minutes in 2005 I went into Neil's office. I said nail. There is not a decision being made. This and obviously I feel that I have to represent a position that I feel that you have to, but we do need a decision on this so that we can move on. He said I understand the historical significance of what's happening and I'm not going to rule myself out so he won't clearly did. Yes, was it important that you be the first one to step out of the vehicle, not to me for my point of view a book to arrive there at the same time, Armstrong said that in the end it came down to this because of where you were sitting in where the hatch was certainly the direction that the hatch was hinged was significant part of that determination. Armstrong is on the move Armstrong's first word now immortal words at the time a bit confusing. Walter Cronkite and former astronaut Wally Sharon were perplexed once. Drop a small step for man was a Boston transmission well you listen to me now for a while here and you drop a lot of syllables like can't say that I drop one there was Aldrin's turned down the ladder. I asked him in an interview for time magazine two years ago about his first words deficit desolation. You couldn't call that beautiful it was a shabby bunch of dust that hadn't changed in thousands hundred thousand years.

You couldn't find any place on earth as Baron lifeless Armstrong and Aldrin said about raising an American flag. It turned out to be easier said than done, going about four minutes seem like just sitting rock so we were pounding on it. Finally we got it to the upright is for Michael Collins. He remained in orbit checking in with NASA and is called encircled the far side of the moon, he would be completely out of touch even when he was flying over his fellow astronauts he couldn't see what the rest of the world was watching you all regret not having close that final 60 miles left Collins Prince on the moon know I'm a wire full of flashing had the best seen on Apollo 11, I felt that I was an important part of it when I was behind the moon later discovered as being described as a lonely lonely lonely. I was happy back there I had my own little domain actually going down and touching them that was not the not high on my list is Armstrong and Aldrin carried out through scientific experiments.

They seem to be having fun have a lot more motion to suppress romping around right slope will after two hours and 31 minutes walking on the moon.

It was time to go on the left was the first person to leave and then the first man on the moon became the second to leave only the lunar module blasted all the three crew members were reunited. You open your friends well absolutely no way delighted to about the kiss Buzz Aldrin beforehand and I decided maybe not the history books like that was a wonderful instant in time it took just under three days to return to earth and splashdown in the Pacific. I think best was saying those three beautiful parachutes open knowing we were blocked, but successfully. A successful astronauts went straight to weeks of still there mission wasn't great public affairs guy is what we got something for you to Thursdays round the world trip and you don't have to go if you don't want Mike, how can anyone say that around the world 615 million people had watched every step of their journey. Now the world wanted to see in person. The first man on the moon.

I was flabbergasted. I thought that when we went someplace and say well congratulations you Americans fun indented and instead of that, unanimously, the reaction was we didn't we humans finally left this planet. We did it now indelible lumbered along and survive. July 20, 1969, the day man reached walked on the phone rating.

The Apollo 11 anniversary the skies the limit.

Here's just a small sampling of the places you can go visitors to the exploratory I'm in San Francisco can look at the moon close every note and crater in Houston. We don't have a problem, not with the newly restored Mission control room open to the public at the Johnson space Center in Houston and the Corning Museum of Glass in New York see space exploration.

Different lands and you might even spark their own man to the moon you need more than booster rockets, among other things, Tracy Smith tells us you need the skills of people working out of the spotlight, but uniquely suited to the job right now after seeing it happen, knowing that it happened, still seems like a dream, even for the people who actually did it.

The idea of walking on the moon is still a little hard to comprehend anytime he felt a little bit homesick. Just look up and see the earth hanging over the South massif so it was really a spectacular place to be back to Mark about looking up and seeing the earth is only 250,000 miles away. That's home in 1972 Harrison Jack Schmidt Apollo 17 became the last man to set foot on the moon, one of 12 people ever posted on the can you get your head around that. Not really honored and privileged to be part of the Apollo program. But like everyone else who was part of the Apollo program. We happened to be at the right place right time, with an extraordinarily strong motivation to succeed about to come out and they were motivated from the astronauts waving goodbye on their way to the history books to the chain-smoking guys in mission control, but back in places where the TV cameras didn't always go a small army of women was working just as hard at jobs that were just as important. We all know this image of Buzz Aldrin in his spacesuit, but how that suit was made is a story in itself. Man could take a giant leap to solve a few giant problems without the right space and astronaut could blow up like a balloon when needed and new Moon suit big government contractors like Litton Industries and Hamilton standard made stiff bulky spacesuit prototypes that often look like a cross between Sir Galahad and Buzz light year what NASA needed was something more flexible and they found out that no one knew flexible like the people who made these pretty face that all of men drift bones difference before and after you change to plaintext living online bra.

Yeah Playtex, formerly known as the international Playtex Corporation, ILC Dover, Delaware. The girdle company wasn't nearly as big as the other suit makers. They had some pretty radical idea in 1967, ILC came up with a softer, more flexible space made almost entirely of fabric and then shot at a local high school suit through its paces in the end, the company won the contract for the Apollo suit and gave some of their bra making seamstresses a brand-new assignment. Did they tell you. Initially you're going to be selling space down at the brought me up so from bras and girls to spaces that are paces like this that make pizzas like manner, Ruth Anna Rutledge, Billy Elliot and JoAnn Thompson were four of the women who made the suits that went to the moon women. It turns out the perfect touch. According to ILC project manager Homer Ream. The people that showed the church were all one is that because agility and it took plenty of agility. Each suit was 21 layers of gossamer thin fabric sewn to a precise tolerance of 1/64 of an inch on a sewing machine.

Your grandmother might've used so our sewing shop didn't go like commercial showing shops at Rick because we were interested in other words, there was no room for any mistakes. I went home on Monday night and cried because I knew I couldn't do it. Why do you think that because I was scared I was scared on person's life depended on.

In fact, they never forgot that there were could be the difference between victory and tragedy. They took this job very seriously, that they may have had the most important job of all. Frankly, basil hero is the author of the mission of a lifetime.

As Neil Armstrong saidsuits were many spacecraft. You were one pinprick away from death.

If those suits failed.

That was it were done so the women put their hearts into it. Lily Elliott cut the patterns as you or sewing.

Did you have in your minds where this was going the responsibility of that. I think right at the first now, but later on when you have all these inspections going on it, I clicked on your hat okay and I got to do this right. This is a CBS news special report and then the job got even tougher.

America's first three Apollo astronauts were trapped and killed by a flash fire that swept their moon ship early tonight at Cape Kennedy in Florida. It happened during the test.

When a spark in the capsules pure oxygen atmosphere triggered an inferno from which there was no escape. This is a time for great national sadness is also time for courage. That sounds trite, change the words to got in the months that followed NASA engineers their grief aside and made the spacecraft safer made ILC also revamped the suits to take out anything that could burn any inspections there could be brutal if one of the women left so much as a straight pin in the finish suit, there'd be hell to pay. So if you had a pen in your space and what happened you got stuck. I guess you learn your lesson that way. I got a resume the astronauts themselves were familiar faces. Is there suits were made, both in person for fittings and on the sign face cards that hung from every suit, a reminder that the astronauts were indeed betting their lives on the skilled hands that ILC we would have asked not to come in and thank us and that was a real boost made a connection there that you didn't forget.

And on July 20, 1969 when the big moment finally arrived.

The winning of international Playtex held their breath once they started down the ladder and he put his foot on the moon that that was a pinnacle of watching something that you do. Where was your heart in that moment in my throat and I am curious, is there an inner dialogue going on a voice in your head home. I'll wonder if that's going to hold my wonder if this going to be all right hope that stitched in pop watching from mission control. Homer Ream just wanted to be over, especially when Buzz Aldrin turned a moonwalk into a moon Sprint Corel dog walking up the ladder to access successor go inside. He wanted Buzz Aldrin to start running around going to stop on the ballot in fact none of the spacesuits failed. Not once.

On the first moon mission or the last really listen to all of the audio mission song lapsing this. I think that's pretty cool really, really did as a whole time Jack Schmidt turned 84 this month and he still loves sharing his experience.

I like to go back in there, but in some of the ladies who sold his suit would like back into. We enjoyed every bit of it every step out do it all over again if I could still like to be doing it. Yes I love it well. I'm still amazed, but it was it was great. They're all retired now, but ILC is still making spacesuits and who knows and ILC suit might one day go to Mars.

But it all began with Apollo 11, when a small group of dedicated women back on earth help bring us all just a little closer to the heavens first anyone old enough to remember the day man landed on the moon probably also remembers the reporting of one man in particular Walter Cronkite and appreciation now. From Martha Tyson.

Okay, you're looking at an estimated 125 to 150 million Americans watched the Apollo 11 moon nearly half of the country's 57 million TVs were tuned to CVS to Walter Cronkite 50 minutes from now well within the hour. The moon is due to have visitors from another planet.

Former astronaut Wally should arrive his side man on the moon that moment without Walter inconceivable for Wallace's but nothing could have spoken louder than his small spontaneous gesture is all far more powerful than today's HD histrionics in hand jive dream fulfilled age has begun.

This was the most trusted man in America a tough, skeptical reporters, reporter who would stare down at death covering World War II suddenly overwhelmed by what had just happened. A stand-in for you for me how easy these words are rolling off our lips and land on the moon walk on the moon to say the words and stop just a moment to think about them still send a shiver up and down the old spine.

The American flag on the moon. It had to be understood in the context of the Cold War as our delayed answer to the Russians sending a satellite into space, first in 1969 we were as delighted as we are now over the Vietnam war over civil rights the moon landing. We could all celebrate now indelible and survive. I look at the old coverage now and see such innocence. Such optimism where did it go this technology moved so quickly, and 50 years that we forgotten the immensity of the achievement.

Walter Cronkite never did.

He was an unapologetic booster of the space program that's Walter showing off a device designed to teach astronauts how to walk on the moon in 1985.

His was one of four names CBS submitted when NASA plan to send a journalist into space. Mine was to hear later after the crash of the space shuttle Challenger. The project was canceled. By then Walter had made it to the finals at the age of 70. I have no doubt that if that mission had gone forward one way or another. Walter Cronkite would have written it to the sky. I'm Jane Pauley.

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