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>> we have broken into space. >> as the world watched ground control in houston faced a formidable task. think of a way for the crew to fix their space ship, test it and then write out step by step procedures for the astronauts to follow just to get home. >> we immediately went to the simulators to try to do in the simulators what they had to do in the damaged apolo 13 spacecraft to get them home. >> we are trying to come up with some good ideas for you. >> one was to shutdown the command module...

Earth schmidt snappedt this photo, now known as "the blue marble picture." >> wehe had our view of a nearly full earth.ur i too took that from about 34,000 miles away. nasa tells me it is still the most requested photograph from theaw apolo archives. >> apolo 17 arrived to the moon on december 11th. and during the dissent to the surface, they learned that being in command while an honor is also a heavy burden. >> you had to change some things at the last second. >> thats right. but you cant push...

Imagine if i told you that next week or next month or next year americans would be landing on the moon. how huge would that be? so it is hard to believe that after apolo 11 the idea of going to the moon became almost old hat. after apolo 12 returned to the moon in november of 1969 some people were actually feeling that these trips were getting routine. then the world was reminded starkly they were anything but. >> an analogy i use, the first time youut flew across the atlantic it created a lot o...

President kennedy set the goal to land a man on the moon before the 60s ended. under president lyndon johnson the merchs caught up with the soviets and then passed them out right when apolo 8 orbited the moon, but no man had yet set foot on the lieu that are surface. lunar surface. and when president nixon went into office the soviets were not about to get their first. the next leg of the space race was a series of sprints. >> we launched a saturn 5 every two months, a remarkable achievement. >>...

To use the lunar roving vehicle. but the apolo missions were winding down. would maner ever return to the moon? the astronauts of apolo 17 certainly hoped so. their amazing and what would turn out to be final mission after the break.

Weightlessness. >> this is the crew i of apolo 13. >> nine minutes later, oxygen tank number two blew up causing the number one tank to also fail. >> houston, we have a problem. >> houston, we have a problem. words that would be forever linked to commander jim level. >> when the explosion occurred , i thought to myself, why me? for a little while i couldnt believe what was happening. then all of a sudden i said, well, it is me and it is now. so whats next? >> the command modules normal supply of...

I guess i was all charged up. >> they were sick, freezing and tired. but they were safe for now. mission controls next task was to get the broken down craft out of the lunar landing course and back on a free return to earths trajectory. engineers in houston figured the crew could do this by executing two separate burns or accelerations made from the limping command module. towering that up after the long, cold fleet with one of missions controls greatest achievements. w flat controllers generate...

Multi color blues and the oceans and the clouds and not tumbling through space, but with purpose and an order and turned on an axis and started up the ladder. i was looking for that perverbial freeze button because i wanted to keep this moment going. >> americas challenged of today has forged mans destiny of tomorrow. >> you were the last human being to touch that surface. how does that make you feel? >> humble. >> we leave what we came and god willing that we shall return. with hope for all man...

>> it was a failure in its initial mission, but in reality it was a try triumph in the ability of people to overcome adversity. >> that triumph likely gave allen shepherd, the man lovell switched flights with to walk on the moon nine months later. shepherd made the moon his low gravity driving range launching two golf balls with a 6 iron he smuggled aboard apolo 14. >> i fantasized about landing on the moon, what i was going to do and how i would act on the lunar surface. >> but lovell would nev...

It is kind of hard to see taxpayers spending much on space flight anytime soon. but maybe, maybe by spending a little time looking back, we can at least learn a new the lesson that apolo showed us. if we americans set our sights on a goal and summon the collective will to achieve it, even the sky isnt the limit. im neil cavuto. thanks for watching. ..