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That we brought back a record 240 pounds of lunar samples. the descriptions and documentation photographs that go to them. those are still being used by scientists throughout the world, as a matter of fact, to try to better understand our own earth and to, of course, better understand the moon. >> neil: harrison, you think well get back there? some have talked about going to the moon again as a jumping board for other ventures. what do you think? >> i think ultimately we will. somebody will. i h...

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...

students killed in pakistans massacre. and talks about the hardened heart in affluent nations. now we can go to dan springer who is traveling with the president. >> reporter: merry christmas to you, doug. president obama his thoughts with the troops around the world, especially those still deployed in afghanistan. theyre in afghanistan. we see the troops in their waning days in their deployment there. and those troops, of course, thinking of their families back home. >> pretty import...

president was crowing about. she says a lot of them are in for a serious case of premium sticker shock. >> thats right. >> explain. >> well, first of all, let me point out that way back in 2009 and 2010, when the obama administration sold their health plan by claiming that health expenditures were skyrocketing and spiraling, those were lies idea to sell it. in fact, just like the other lies. at that point in 2008, 2009, and 2010, health expenditures were increasing at their slowest pac...

im neil cavuto reporting from the kennedy space center visitor complex in florida. it is hard for people my age to believe that most americans werent even alive the last time a man walked on the moon. apollo 17 astronaut gene cernan on december 14th, 1972. a number of the explorers who made the trip have passed away. the rest are now in their late 70s, some 80s, but the story they tell still sounds like something out of the future, not the past. its a story about how america, with a co...

im neil cavuto reporting from the kennedy space center visitor complex in florida. it is hard for people my age to believe that most americans werent even alive the last time a man walked on the moon. apollo 17 astronaut gene cernan on december 14th, 1972. a number of the explorers who made the trip have passed away. the rest are now in their late 70s, some 80s, but the story they tell still sounds like something out of the future, not the past. its a story about how america, with a co...

im neil cavuto reporting from the kennedy space center visitor complex in florida. it is hard for people my age to believe that most americans werent even alive the last time a man walked on the moon. apollo 17 astronaut gene cernan on december 14th, 1972. a number of the explorers who made the trip have passed away. the rest are now in their late 70s, some 80s, but the story they tell still sounds like something out of the future, not the past. its a story about how america, with a co...

As we could so that the people would have some idea of what to do to correct for future flights. >> you guys are doing real good work. >> so are you guys, jack. >> you sounded so calm, but you in particular, captain, sounded so at ease. if that were me i would be barney t fife. i am 200,000 miles from home. my space ship blew up, and m why not feeling optimistic. what went through your mind? >> a lot of people said you didnt understand the situation. >> another crisis. carbon dioxide levels were...

Of course, it ruins your day. >> yeah. >> and you press the button and boom. then you feel positive gravity. the first thing i remember is looking out at this mountainous valley and realize that i am now where no human being haous ever been before. >> thats beautiful. it has to be one of the most proud moments of my life, i guarantee you.an >> the total time we were outside thtae spacecraft was 22 hours. thats the longest of any crew outside the spacecraft. >> you wanted to be out there on the m...

andy the magellans of our time. last september they bid farewell to a modern day columbus. >> it was a test meant to all-americans of what can be achieved through vision and dedication. >>ca but that 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 ♪ >> american heros whose final missions ended 40 years ago. im neil cavudo reporting from the visitor space center in flor...