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
neil: as a 10-year old kid, i am looking at you watching this place, what was it like? guest: well, you used the same word i did, but i used magnificent because of humanity reaching outward and accomplishing something that people thought was impossible. neil: it made it to the moon six months ahead of the deadline john f. kennedy had set as the beginning of the decade. it was left to another president to congratulate the astronauts. for a priceless moment in the history of man, all the people on this earth are truly one. neil: he planned two different speeches, one if you succeeded and one if you didn t. fate ordained the men who went to the moon, to rest in peace
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not heard i could tell by the look on her face she knew something was wrong. frank other man was instrumental in reviewing the issue. nasa investigate it had self that left the outside people without the slightest idea of wh i think that was one of the hallmarks of the program. neil: there would always be risks and nasa could learn from the mistakes and the program should go ahead. the launch pad disaster may have allowed nasa to get to the moon faster than scheduled because of
fly me to the moon in september they bid well to a modern day columbus. neil armstrong was a testament to all americans of what can be achieved through vision and dedication. neil: the eulogy for the first man on the moon delivered by the last to leave it captures the spirit of all those who made that journey. let me see what spring is like on jupiter and mars neil: american heroes whose final mission ended 40 years ago. i am neil cavuto reporting from the kennedy space center in florida. it is hard for people my age to believe that most americans were not alive the last time a man walked on the moon, apollo 17 astronaut on december 14, 1972, a number of the explorers who made the trip passed away and the rest are in their late 70 s and some 80 but the story sounds