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It is all part of nasas ambitious plan to return the moon. artemis ii, as its known, will launch as early as november 2024. it will be the first crewed mission to the moon since the final apollo flight in 1972. and here is the crew. american christina koch who set a record for the longest single spaceflight in history by a woman. jeremy hansen, the canadian, a formerfighter pilot who will make his first journey into space. victor glover, who tested aircraft for the navy, will be the man in the h...

>> continuously increasing in a left roll. >> did he say he could not turn the agena off? >> he said he had separated from the agena and he did a roll and couldnt stop it. >> the only way to get out was for him to fire his thruster. >> stop the spinning spacecraft before it spun so much that they passed out. >> we got down alive and neil said, i think well both have another chance, and we did. >> the week in space. cbs news coverage of astronaut james cernans gemini 9. 2 1/2-hour walk in space. ...

I recognize that there is some risk, people might look at our work as being perhaps dangerous, but we just try to take as much as that out as we can during pretesting to make sure the systems are good. i think we train in it and work in it so much and understand it well enough that we dont look at it from this viewpoint. >> how far i want to go, i want to go as far as nasa goes and during my useful time as a pilot for them. id like to go on a moon flightflight, and if we go to mars i want to go ...

Than just the business theryou came for.more whether thats taking in every moment, or capturing a moment worth bringing back. thats room for possibility. ♪ 3. 2. 1. 0. we have commit. we have lift-off. clear the tower. >> theres a rumble in our building. looks like a good flight. the building is shaking under us. the camera platform is shaking. but what a beautiful flight.

And jim an ders had been training to fly the first flight around the moon. >> we kind of feel this flight has set the pace to begin in ernest our lunar landing apollo program. >> the count down to lift-off for apollo 8 is t-minus 50 mince and counting. this will be the first manned flight of the saturn 5, the largest rocketman has ever built. and it has the explosive potential in its fuel of 2 1/2 million tons of tnt. >> broadcasting the launch of the saturn 5, i never got over it. >> we have ig...

Two vehicles together to get them close in such a way that it was easy to dock them. it took a fair bit of work. >> flying nose to nose, very clearly see the rising scanners up there. >> roger. >> that was the moment when we pulled ahead in the space race. that was something the russians hadnt even come close to doing and wouldnt accomplish for a couple more years. >> it was an unknown as to how we were going to do that when we first started. but we got good at it and we mastered it on neil arms...

All this was beside the point. mrs. alan shepard heard the news with relief. what are your thoughts? >> i dont have to tell you, do i? im so happy. >> the flight was a ten, al shepards flight was a one or two, okay, in terms of the capability that it demonstrated. so russians clearly were ahead of us so the attitude is we would like to do something really big but small enough to accomplish it. >> i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of l...