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We? >> we do. at that time when it started, of course, that was the mode of the country at that time. im glad its all changed. you know, gene and i are probably only the two astronauts that we both have ties to chicago. at one time we were going to go over to the czech republic. i did it in 2000 and gene did in it 2002. >> neil: i was amazed when we talked about apollo 13. i dont know how you kept your cool it there. we watched it hundreds of thousands of miles away. you were surmising your chan...

Lucked into a long time ago. all i can say is god bless america. this is not supposed to happen to a white boy from oakland, but it did. ill take it. >> well deserved. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. the emotion in that room by people like tom hanks, ellen degeneres was crying and i was watching the gates family and they got emotional about karim adbul jabbar and an extraordinary day in the east room as the president honored 21 exceptional americans who have really made a mark on all of us. ...

World to me and i cant fathom subjectively or objectively what my contribution is to all of this. i know the cinematic arts are important. i think i have done that. she told me that on apollo 13, they have to work off and all i could say is why didnt we know that. >> the president said this was personal to him and the staff told me he was involved in these selections from start to finish. these were people he admired and should be honored. what does it mean to you?

It could be an oxygen bottle explosion. most americans will be aware that that happened on apollo 13. you can get explosions where theres no malicious intent. what actually happened will be known. they have both black boxes. they have access to the crash site and all the debris there and i feel fairly certain that in due course well find out what happened. >> and i think its important in the course of reporting, paul, to move people away from things that are much less obvious, terrorism is a ver...

Landing. he was able to walk off the plane. >> reporter: we reached the trapped employee. he tells us hes in good health back on the job and said this morning, hes still feeling a bit tired. >> i hope he hits the coffee. thank you for that report. still ahead on "way too early," the nfl paves the way for adrian peterson to return to the league. and later, let it go senator. one lawmakers ring tone lightens things up on a capitol hill day. those stories and a check on the weather when "way too ea...

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Anniversary of "apollo 13" a mission that became to be known as nasas most successful failure. >> roger. roger. >> start. >> roger. >> okay. >> looks good here. >> an oxygen tank explosion ripped through the spacecraft prompting commander jim lovelle to utter, quote, houston, weve had a problem. and shifting "apollo 13s" mission from moon landing to survival. these three brave astronauts along with dozens of flight controllers worked for days to solve multiple challenges and eventually landed sa...

Missing. >> i like cast away and apollo 13. >> ill pick one. the one i did not like was big. the one i liked very much was toy story 2. >> the reason i know it is isabella sale when she was a baby right after 9/11 i lived with my friend and desiree had to work late because she worked at the white house. i was helpful at home. isabella wanted to watch toy story 2 over and over again. it didnt matter we had 25 movies to watch. i feel like i can recite that movie by heart. >> memorable moment. >> y...

Just six months ahead of the deadline jfk had set at the beginning of the decade. it was left to another president to congratulate the astronauts. >> one priceless moment in the whole history of man all the people on this earth are truly one. >> reporter: armstrong aldrin and collins splashed down. the space race was over. the stars and stripes were on the moon. coming up, in the 1960s, there was a hit tv show "lost in space" and a movie "marooned." as long as humans explored the heavens, they s...

Powering that up after the long cold sleep was one of mission controls greatest achievements. light controllers generated the necessary procedures to do this in three days. something like that would normally take three months. >> we got smarter and smarter and smarter. then it became, lets dont make a mistake. >> reporter: people across the globe hoped for a miracle. they got one. the crew of apollo 13 splashed down safely in the south pacific ocean on april 17th. >> it was a failure in the init...