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Realtime. now hes spearheading a clean energy effort called the global apollo program. moon landing and giant leads, you get the picture as i did when we sat down earlier today to discuss the future of our planets. >> sir david attenborough, welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> you are associated with our planet. do you believe our planet is in good hands, safe hands? do you think the summit is going to save us? >> well, its almost the last chance. and the longer it goes on, the measure its ...

Do you find the timing interesting? >> nasa is on a roll right now. i think it wants to take advantage of that. a few weeks ago discovered liquid water on mars. this is really big. perhaps we will be able to dig and have wells. can you imagine that? wells on mars taking out water that can be used for drinking purposes. so i think nasa wants to take advantage of this. the movie, discovery of liquid water. >> this is a plan not just to send somebody there and come home but to actually stay for som...

To mars i say no. there is the mars jinx. that is roughly one-third of our robotic missions never reach the red planet. you have to be tough like a former air force pilot to be able to volunteer for a potentially dangerous mission like this. >> you are not going to mars but there are other things you learn from this. anything in particular stands out to you? >> think of the apollo space program. we have weather satellites, internet, gps. we cannot communicate and function as a society without th...

Mission that -- then we had the apollo one fire that could have changed the apollo program but almost as if a greater force was guiding you was guiding all the others who would later go on followup missions and ultimately reach that goal. >> you know as i said a minute ago, fate played a major role for just the reasons youre talking about. but having been to the moon twice, the first time i came back and i came back with a quote its just too beautiful to have happened by accident. went back to t...

Here on earth to power the electrical grid? >> to power everything. if you think about it the we are a solar-powered planet. we get all our energy basically from the sun the plants animals, we everything takes sunlight and uses that energy. so the idea is if thats the ultimate source of energy why not try to create a star on earth. the process that you use is essentially nuclear fusion. but the question is can you make it work can you sustain the action? nuclear fusion is a very tough reaction t...

Dont listen to the naysayer. take the comcast business speed test. get faster speeds or more savings, or well give you $150. comcast business. built for business. welcome back everyone there was a time not long ago when american ingenuity reached for the stars and landed on the moon. but its been four decades since the original moon shot the apollo program ended. and the shuttle program is now on the shelf as well. what could be the next big innovation to have all of us marveling with our fami...

>> ill try a sand shot here. >> i fantasized about landing on the moon what i was going to do, how i was going to act on the moon. >> reporter: but lovell would never get the chance to go back. >> so close, and yet so far. >> apollo 15 launched july 26th, 1971. apollo 16 launched april 16th, 1972 carrying john young, mattingly and charles duke. they were the first missions to use the lunar roving vehicle. but the apollo missions were winding down. would man ever return to the moon. the astronaut...

Could just tell by the look on her face that she knew something was wrong. >> reporter: the three were given heros funerals. and in their honor, mission af-204 was redesignated apollo i. it could well have been the last apollo. >> that put the apollo program on hold. frank gorman became very instrumental in reviewing the hold issue. >> nasa, especially investigators themselves, that kept the outside without the slightest idea was going on. that was one of the hallmarks of the confidence that the...

45 years ago today, we were all transfixed by this. >> one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: todays a very special day here at the kennedy space centers apollo center 5 building which is basically a museum of the apollo program. the enormous rocket hanging from the ceiling, thats what powered the apollo all the way to the moon. >> 30 seconds. tranquility base here, the eagle

Couple of our colleagues, werent sure whether or not we were burying the entire apollo program, but i think its a tribute that we lost apollo 1 on the 27th of january 1967 and we were back in the air with almost an entirely rebuilt spacecraft in october of 1968. the rest is history. >> we still got on the moon before the decade was out and you wrapped it up for news apollo 17. we came close to seeing that budget hacked away after that incident, and you were somehow able to convince those in powe...