i don't look up at the moon and say, what a great guy you are, the last one to the moon. i do it when you ask me. >> we leave as we came and god willing as we shall return. with faith and hope for all manki mankind. neil: december 1972, the last time man walked on the moon, gene cernan was the last man to walk on this farout satellite of earth for what we're capable after. our next guest, based on a mission of a lifetime, where he recounts that time and the lessons from there about you it more comes from the heart, his
president in decades. and the list expanding of those boycotting the inaugurati inauguration. the trump transition team now depending health and human services nominee, tom price, after house records raised ethical records, and they show the georgia lawmaker invested in a company and introduced a bill days later that would have directly benefited the firm. and then the search for flight mh 370 has been suspended. sad news. astronaut, the commander of the last mission to the moon in december 1972, has passed away. cernan's family confirmed the
difference standing and being on the moon? reporter: 43 years since that happened in december 1972. he has been asked the question thousands of times. clearly he still struggles to really convey with accuracy what it is like to be on the moon in absolute stunning silence, looking back at the earth to all of us earth links could can not grasp it. >> what did it all mean? i wanted to come back with something. i wanted to reach out to bring the earth back. it is so magnificently overwhelming and beautiful. it is just something, and put it in here and say, here is what it feels like. reporter: he adds it was like being in science fiction but for him, it was real. it wasn't fiction. incidentally, bill, hopes he is not the last person to leave footprints on the moon. bill: hope he is right. phil keating in florida. martha: new developments in the
about the projects, the future of nasa and what they're doing? >> well, you know, this is nasa's future. nasa was put together by congress of the united states when we were beat be into space by the first russians with the first satellite to explore space. well, they've gotten completely away from that. s say, in the last 42 years. you have to remember, there hasn't been an american astronaut or american astronaut out of earth orbit for 42 years since apollo 17 cape back in december 1972. so here we are trying to get back to space, to do it by increments, to go to the moon. they've got to learn how to live in space. they've got to learn how to get to mars? now, why would we do that? a lot of people say, well, i don't know why we're doing that. we're doing it to save the human race. because we're living on a planet that is finite. we're going to lose it one day. we don't know how. are we going to lose it to some
reaching 65 years old and he was 64. just one month earlier in december 1972, johnson had gathered civil rights leaders at his newly opened presidential library in austin e, texas, to commemorate the legacy he wanted. with which he completed the legislative work begun under his predecessor, john f. kennedy. during the commemoration, suffering severe heart pain, and startling the audience by popping a nitroglycerin capsule into his mouth, johnson lamented he hadn't done enough to advance equal rights. and repeated his famous 1965 speech to congress, we will overcome. democrats are rethinking the johnson legacy. so stap stained by the war effo from michael dukakis, to john kerry, to bill clinton.
billion for sandy relief is a good start. rick? >> thanks very much. peter doosey in cash -- in washington. >> december 1972, and a hope to return. a private company is picking up the mission and planing to make lunar travel affordable to anyone with an extra $1.5 billion. doug mcelway has the story. >> we realize it is the stuff
>>neil: for those who do not know you the first man to sing on the moon and this is from december 1972, we are bringing this old time back. ♪ going to the moon one day, in the merry month of may ♪ >> you have to enjoy it. we got a lot done. we are there to do a job. and be modern day explorers but if you don't enjoy it you look back and you wish, why didn't i? >> hate to correct anybody but i was the one singing on the moon. >> they said you never get to the moon, and this was a sham, a show, and i know your colleague buzz dealt with that issue, but does it bug you what the guys on the 35th are saying on this very day, that was a conspiracy?