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Short lived. eventually well command our own destiny. but we still by and large are hitching rides into space. how long you think that will be? >> thats a good question, neil. i dont know. depends on how quickly we can build the rockets to do that and also the space craft. i dont know if theres a definite time. whether the international space station will still be up there by the time were ready to send astronauts up there. its going to be kind of interesting in the future as to what really happ...

I think even charlie would admit you cant hold a candle to this guy a guy that left this planet. gene cernan, the last man to walk on the moon. where did the time go? ♪"all you need is love" plays my friends know me so well. they can tell what im thinking, just by looking in my eyes. they can tell when im really excited and thrilled. and they know when im not so excited and thrilled. but what they didnt know was that i had dry, itchy eyes. but i knew. so i finally decided to show my eyes some ...

>> neil: its hard to believe looking at it at the at the time that that would be the last man to walk on the moon. he was. gene cernan telling me that was the magic of the moment. i asked him what happened to that moment when we did our own space special all those years later. >> neil: you look up at the moon. your kids look up, your grandkids look up at the moon. you were the last human being to touch that surface. how does that make you feel? >> humble. i dont often -- i dont look up at the ma...

Harrison schmitt, thanks very much. were in the middle of a world full of controversies. like congressmen skipping out on the inauguration and the president-elect with nasty tweets. some say who the heck cares? back to a time and a moment that was bigger than politics on the left or the right that just showed our endless enthusiasm to do things that were bigger than us, bigger than parties, bigger than anything that seemed terrestrial. lets look back at gene cernan. >> golly time goes fast. >> n...

The moon itself. your story was a heroic story in its own right. many had given up on you and your crew mates and didnt think you would ever get back. but you did. it spoke of a time where great things are possible. i dont want to, you know, be debby downer and say were not up to that task anymore but we seem to have forgotten it. >> we have. its been 47 years since weve been to the moon. i think neil and gene and i were vocal and trying to persuade nasa at that time to have a more active progra...

One or two fergusons in the country we dont know about. the reason we know about this one because of media attention. that forced justice departments hands to investigate what was going on. niger, absolutely right the police department was forced to be tax collectors for municipal government but it is more than that there were systemic findings of dogs being sicced on 14-year-old black boys. consistently only happened to african-americans and not others in ferguson. there is more than just the f...

His likely journey to become the last man that walked on the moon. casey stiegel live from austin texas, with this story for us. hey, casey. >> reporter: martha, good to see you. captain gene cernan, a lot of people dont know, was one of the very first nasa astronauts. the former u.s. navy fighter pilot was hand-selected by the space agency in 1966. it even submitted an application and, well, the rest is history of the his rise to fame and everything that came along with it, showcased in this ne...

Appreciate your teenage comments, but i have 40 and 50 year old young men and women coming up and saying captain cernan thank you. im a scientist, im an engineer, im a schoolteacher, im flying air force jets because of what you did. its because of what we were doing as a nation, committed to something that had never been done before. kennedy challenged us to go to the moon. i wasnt even in the space program. and i was one of those young people where, hes asking us to do the impossible. hes askin...

Income tax return saying would you give 10 cents to americas space program, i think you would be astounded with how many boxes would get xd. i get people your age, coming to me, 30, 40, 50-year-old young men and women saying captain cernan, thank you. for what? im an engineer. im an air force pilot. im a teacher, im an astronomer because of what you inspired me to do. it wasnt what i inspired them to do, its what the nation inspired them to do and become. how much of is that worth? half a penny ...