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You cant really see the whole thing at once. only a couple dozen earthlings have ever been far enough from the earth to see the whole thing. like the crew of apollo 8, who took this picture commonly known as "earth rise" from the window of the craft as they orbited the moon in 1968. unfortunately, nearly half the earth was in shadow. an unmanned soviet spacecraft called zond 7 got this shot during a lunar fly-by. i guess you would call that a gibbous earth. fully lit by the sun. it is probably a...

Cool image. a nighttime view of the earth from space. nasa was able to show us this image, thanks to a new satellite equipped with something called visible infrared imaging radiometer suite. but this image of the globe from space is not what you might think it is. we do not have a camera far enough away from earth to get a great picture of the whole thing. its a composite knitted together from data taken by the satellite as it made several passes around the earth. lots of the cool pictures you s...

Overseas, risking their lives to protect our freedom. civilian heroes who do things. but i think neil will go down in history as probably an exceptional -- >> reporter: the first pictures from this private memorial are coming out. you can see buzz aldrin and michael collins paying their respects. in 2010, something that drew neil armstrong out into the public eye what his dissatisfaction with cuts in the budget that impacted nasa and space exploration. his colleague from apollo 8 said its time f...

this "american morning." good morning. >> zogood morning alina. >> its early. >> it is early. >> not so early for you. >> always great to have you here. >> carol is off, christine is off. >> thats right. >> weve got you back, which is fantastic. >> weve got a really serious situation going on in texas. >> its -- it seems to be getting worse although in some parts getting a little more control over it. these raging wildfires were telling you about sweeping across the country right now...

Nitrogen tapg. problem is not putting the astronauts in dame, but if it isnt fixed in the next few days, nasa could be forced to turn off some of the stations electronics. jon: the first man to walk on the moon slamming the obama administrations plans for the future of nasa just one day before the president visits florida to deliver a space policy speech. neil armstrong and fellow astronauts signing an open letter criticizing the decision to scrap nasas program that would have sent americans bac...

Jon: obviously, you were part of americas successful moon program, apollo, back in the 60s and 70s, part of that apollo 13 crew that had that enormous problem in space and was able to the overcome it and get back to earth safely. you know the feeling among some americans. weve been there to the moon, been there, done that. maybe, they say, this is a program that could go by the boards. >> well, i dont think they understand the real value of the, of the program and the sort of the other aspects. ...

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That anywhere hadnt been done before. >> the apollo astronauts were american heroes. >> thats what were being asked to do. ours is not the reason why. it was to do or die. >> we choose to go to the moon and do the other things. not because they are easy but because they are hard. >> did you actually ever think you might die? >> we thought our chances were about 50/50. >> did you really? >> today spending on nasa and the globe privatizes. >> the eagle has landed. >> we are reminded what it was li...

Astronaut, not a cosmonaut, would be the first to fly around the moon. >> it was one of the big gambles that nasa at the direction of the president took in order to establish that america was better than the soviet union. >> a big gamble indeed. and for all, it was less than two years before that apollo 1 demonstrated just how complex every mission was. nobody knew that better than frank hormen, the point man in the apollo investigation. nasa tapped him to man the latest mission. >> i was called...

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