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Miles deep and pulled up to the surface. back in the early 60s and 70s they propelled our space capsules into space falling to aert 360 miles east of cape canaveral. they used remotely operated vehicles equipped with cameras, lights and fiber finding these needles in a haystack. jeff basos, a huge space enthusiast was on board for the historic find and blogged, quote weve found so much weve seen an underwater wonderland, a garden of twisted f-one engines that tell the story of a fiery and violen...

Affairs, on detente, dealing with the apollo program, he comes off as quite wise and shrewd. so youre spot on. >> he would never talk like that with bill clinton, reagan even. >> bill safire once described negatives as a layer cake, eight, nine layers there is the realist, the conservative person, the progressive, but also a loner, a realist overseas, a hater at some level, and also really good poker player. so he was a much, much more complicated piece of work than your average president, and m...

Were? did he just go like reid shaken by the wind? is he like a jewish friend with lane garment or arthur burns or kissenger? did he speak one way and then talk differently to him? and thats pretty pathetic. thats my reading of the guy. >> youre spot on with it, chris. exactly. and theres a guy named luke nichter, texas a&m whos meticulously transcribed all of these tapes. you can see that the devil was brought out of nixon by h.r. holdaman. whenever theyre there, the dark side of nixon comes ou...

By the wind? is he like a jewish friend with lane garment or arthur burns or kissenger? did he speak one way and then talk differently to him? and thats pretty pathetic. thats my reading of the guy. >> youre spot on with it, chris. exactly. and theres a guy named luke nichter, texas a&m whos meticulously transcribed all of these tapes. you can see that the devil was brought out of nixon by h.r. holdaman. whenever theyre there, the dark side of nixon comes out. when you see other parts of the tap...

Passed them when apollo eight orbited but no man had set foot on moon and when president nixon he was not to let the soviets get there first. the next leg of the space race was a series of sprints. >> we launched saturn every two months, just remarkable. >> that got them closer, with apollo 9, in march of 1969. it was the first to test the module in space. apollo ten in may of 1969, that was from 50,000 feet of the moon surface. that what a dress rehearsal for the landing of apollo 11

To, to be proud of. my grandmother on a farm in michigan has a ring telephone, no electricity, and outhouse and walked the first man walk on moon. >> i would like to see the next generation leave footprints on the moon the i hope that were hads. >>neil: it has been 40 years since we left the moon, and most of the astronauts thought we would go back or reach for more distant goals. that is the very nature of civilization, to continually build on our great accomplishment. yes, the space program ha...

Back we can learn anew the lessons that apollo showed up, if we americans set our sight on a goal and some have the will to achieve it, even the sky isnt the limit. i am neil cavuto. thanks for watching. .. [ male announcer ] when was the last time something made your jaw drop?

Did see changes in the body but it was nothing that could not be overcome. >> that was significant because it meant we could go to the moon, that we could chance a mission of that duration, if not longer. that changed peoples perspective? >> the moon flights were thought to be only a max of two-week flight. >> 14 day mission has shown us that man, indeed, adapts to the space environment and the additional data allows us to permit man to a lunar mission. >> apollo program got us to the moon but i...

Nasa tapped him. >> i was called back, will you volunteer to take apollo eight to the moon and i said we would be happy. we found out we would be going to the moon in august of 1968. >> it was the last minute, several months, really, before we were scheduled to lunch and we were asked to do that, ours was not to reason why but to "do or die". >> this was 1968, if it ended with a space disaster it could end americas quest for good. >> if it want successful, it could be americas failure. >> decemb...

>> do you think -- how would you describe these past 40 years. we have made great strides. would you have liked to have seen us go back more often? >> i have mixed feelings about that. im not sure that we would really accomplish a lot more by going back to the moon. there are other thing we need to do. but i think people have to understand that the space program is a very, very long-term program. we are talking hundreds and thousands of years to get where we need to go. and the apollo program wa...