Apollo Viii News Today

Engineering but sometimes comes down to the delicacy of the human eye guiding it in. right now they are establishing the fluid lines, electric lines to the test this backup pump later today. jenna: it is so remarkable theyre doing this on christmas eve when so many of us are doing a lot less i guess. phil, what about christmas day though? i know there was a scheduled walk but then it wasnt entirely on. where are we now having to do additional spacewalks? >> reporter: these two astronauts accompl...

Astronauts. we knew that the russians had cosmonauts that would follow like the dog. i think we expected that the mercury program would set the pace and would lead toward the apollo program but we were smart enough to fill the gap with the gemini program and that gave me through being in the right place at the right time an opportunity to fly on gemini 12. so i think, we, sort of lagged behind but it was gemini 10, 11 and 12 that caught up. but then of course we were set behind again he about th...