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It was nicknamed the blue marble and it was taken by one of the astronaut astronauts on board, apollo 17. apollo 17 launched 40 years ago today, december 17, 1972. it was a night launch, aiming for littoral valley. gene certain non, harrison jack schmidt and ron evans aboard. apollo 17 launched at night, and when they landed three days later, the sun was behind them. and so that particular launch trajectory put a fully formed beautifully lit earth in the window of the command module at a time wh...

Astronauts on board, apollo 17. apollo 17 launched 40 years ago today, december 7, 1972. it was a night launch, aiming for the littoral valley. gene cernan, harrison jack schmitt and ron evans aboard. apollo 17 launched at night, and when they landed three days later, the sun was behind them. and so that particular launch trajectory put a fully formed beautifully lit earth in the window of the command module at a time when the astronauts really should have been too busy to look at it. here is ho...

Is probably 50 percent and, yes, you are right, we are still not fixing the problem or coming to a solution. one thing, remember, when we had the problem with the debt downgrade and the different talks a year ago? there were the scare tactics from washington about what would happen to interest rates, and what would happen to social security, and interest rates went down, people got their checks and everything was fine. >>neil: i am reminded of the words of the apollo 13 command other, can you no...

Michigan and everyone is worried about the future because of the scare tactics that are coming from washington. >>neil: amazing. thank you very were. a footnote on the 40th anniversary, more than half of americans alive today were not even born at that time. on the 40th anniversary of the apollo launch the last guy to washington on the moon is talking to us. >> americas challenge of today, forging mans destiny, up a pile. >>neil: you look at the moon. you were the last human being to touch that ...

>> our colleagues who could have been the first human being to step foot on the moon and done it well, but there is nobody, nobody, nobody that i know of who could have accepted that challenge and a responsibility that goes with having been that man with greater dignity than neil armstrong. >>reporter: that was gene cernan, the last man to walk on the noon. we are getting pictures from the private memorial ceremony, now, and the pictures scroll you can see the commander of apollo 13, and john gl...

Give me a go, -go for launch. booster. >> go. >> guidance. >> guidance go. >> surgeon. >> go flight. >> ecom? >> were go. >> gnc? >> were going. >> control? >> go flight. >> procedures. >> go. >> inko. >> go. >> fao? >> we are go. >> network. >> go. >> recovery. >> go. >> hepcom. >> were go, flight. >> launch control, this is houston. we are go for launch. >> seriously, if that does not give you goose bumps i dont know whats wrong with you. that was ed harris playing nasas famous flight director...

Necessarily reflect those of the average citizens. >> this is an important point. i think where sam and i have agreed, is that when people a lot of times hear arguments for coming together, for finding the center of the road, a common sense solution, its i guegnori the fact that some wanting to go this way, some that way. if you want to row this way and i that way, its not a question of we need to coordinate better. we have different ideas. >> but at the end of the day, once you get through an a...

Much difference between become bm and romney other than he says youre a manipulator and doesnt do anything about it. romney says he want to fix dodd/frank, but he doesnt tell us what the fixes are. im thinking this is a much advertised play with no plot, no storyline. >> i agree. so let us go to the apollo 13 framing, hopefully not to that degree, which is jared, how do we fly the ship that we currently have so we can sit here forever and talk about what the ship can do -- >> im glad you asked m...

>> 50s and 60s across much of the land and one more map shows you todays daytime highs and then they are -- its going to be 104 already in phoenix, arizona. >> ouch! >> no kidding. youre living in california, right? >> yeah. >> beautiful day out there. i need a bigger viking thing -->> i got some duct tape i can loan you. >> did you? did you use it that day? >> wish i had some. >> we all do. they used it on apollo 13 i heard. >> sully will come inside with me and well talk about his new book in ...

The house is on three sides and county road is on suicides. we started laying gravel for the foundation, we were nearly done with this when we were blindsided by the u.s. environmental protection agency. three officials showed up out of the blue and ordered us to stop work. >> reporter: the epa says this should have been handled administratively, it never should have gone to court. here is part of what they argued in their brief to the supreme court. they say, quote to treat a compliance order a...