Mondo Cult Presents Walter Cronkite Apollo 11 Interview with Robert A. Heinlein & Arthur C. Clarke

This video is part of the "Mondo Heinlein" celebration of Mondo Cult Magazine Online: http://www.MondoCult.com http://www.mondocult.com/articles/Hei... On July 20, 1969, CBS anchor Walter Cronkite interviewed the two most famous science-fiction authors whose work had inspired a generation of scientists and engineers to attempt the moon landing. Robert A. Heinlein wrote the 1947 novel Rocket Ship Galileo that Heinlein participated in the adaptation and filming into the 1950 George Pal movie Destination Moon. Arthur C. Clarke had described communication satellites in a 1945 article so precisely that if he had applied for a patent it most likely would have been granted. The year before the Apollo 11 moon landing the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Clarke had co-written with director Stanley Kubrick, described a future in which humans had established a moon base. Walter Cronkite in addition to being CBS's signature face of news was a genuine space enthusiast. Walter Cronkite sits in CBS's New York City studio with Arthur C. Clarke, Bill Stout begins the Heinlein interview sitting in front of TV cameras at North American Rockwell in Downey, California. Note when Heinlein says, "We are about to make that one step from Tranquility Base in a matter of minutes now." Heinlein says this on CBS before Neil Armstrong says from the moon, "One small step."