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>> continuously increasing in a left roll. >> did he say he could not turn the agena off? >> he said he had separated from the agena and he did a roll and couldnt stop it. >> the only way to get out was for him to fire his thruster. >> stop the spinning spacecraft before it spun so much that they passed out. >> we got down alive and neil said, i think well both have another chance, and we did. >> the week in space. cbs news coverage of astronaut james cernans gemini 9. 2 1/2-hour walk in space. ...

It was such an exciting time and kennedy and the new frontier and beating the soviets? it had to be very difficult. >> how did we what? >> it had to be difficult to go back in time and remember all of that again. >> well it -- it took a while, neil. but its amazing how many of those somewhat insignificant but important things come back to you. su know part, a piece of this movie we go back to arlington. and i look at those grave stones of roger and gus and charlie bassett. >> the astronauts. >> ...

But just to be there. you dont come there but once in a life. to realize you are standing in a valley -- a valley surrounded by mountains on three side higher than the grand canyon is deep and you are seeing what hasser in been seen with human eyes. you are standing where no human being has been before. i always said going to the moon is a technological and technical and spiritual space program orbiting the earth. it truly is. it was for me anyway. martha: people look back at these mission and t...

Gemini 9. his next was 1979 as lunar module pilot. he came within eight miles of the lunar surface. >> we found some problems that if they werent corrected, neil would have landed. i told neil i painted the white line in the sky so we wouldnt get lost. >> december 6, 1972, he went back making history of the commander of the final flight to the moon, apollo 17. he and jack schmidt spent more than three days on the moon, exploring and collecting data. of any missions, theirs brought back the large...