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>> each one bringing the astronauts closer to the goal. apollo 9 was the first to test the lunar module in space. apollo 10 launched in may 1969 had young and cernan flying within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface. that would be a dress rehearsal for the lunar landing of apollo 11, commanded by neil armstrong. >> what will your plans be in the extremely unlikely event that the lunar module does not come up off the lunar surface? >> thats an unpleasant thing to think about. weve chosen not to thin...

To turn blue. were breathing a again. thanks a lot. >> the lunar module landed on july 20th, 3:13 p.m. eastern time, 6 hours, 37 minutes later, neil armstrong took humanitys first step on the moon. what he said might be the most famous words of the 20th century, or any century. >> thats one step for man. one giant leap for mankind. >> mike and i asked him, i said, mike, have you thought about what youre going to say, when you get down on -- >> well, i dont know. when we land, ill start thinking ...

And the other people said, no, we should send one more time, just to make sure. >> the cia began getting signals that maybe the soviets were going to try a circum-lunar flight, a big figure eight around the moon, which would have massively undercut the p.r. potential of a lunar landing or even, you know, a lunar orbital flight. >> to make matters worse for nasa, the lunar module wasnt ready to go into space. it was months behind schedule. but instead of falling further behind the soviets, nasa o...

>> each one bringing the astronauts closer to the goal. apollo 9 was the first to test the lunar module in space. apollo 10 launched in may 1969 had young and cernan flying within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface. that would be a dress rehearsal for the lunar landing of apollo 11, commanded by neil armstrong. >> what will your plans be in the extremely unlikely event that the lunar module does not come up off the lunar surface? >> thats an unpleasant thing to think about. weve chosen not to thin...

Reserved for shuttling two members of the crew to and from the moon, as a sort of lifeboat. >> we knew we had the lunar module, and it had, you know, power, and the batteries, and it had oxygen. >> not enough. >> no. but if we could use it to get us back home again, we were -- but if not, we were going to transmit as long as we could, so that the people would have some idea of what -- of what to do to correct for the future flights. >> we want to say you guys are doing real good work. >> so are ...

>> each one bringing the astronauts closer to the goal. apollo 9 was the first to test the lunar module in space. apollo 10 launched in may 1969 had young and cernan flying within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface. that would be a dress rehearsal for the lunar landing of apollo 11, commanded by neil armstrong. >> what will your plans be in the extremely unlikely event that the lunar module does not come up off the lunar surface? >> thats an unpleasant thing to think about. weve chosen not to thin...

And the other people said, no, we should send one more time, just to make sure. >> the cia began getting signals that maybe the soviets were going to try a circum-lunar flight, a big figure eight around the moon, which would have massively undercut the p.r. potential of a lunar landing or even, you know, a lunar orbital flight. >> to make matters worse for nasa, the lunar module wasnt ready to go into space. it was months behind schedule. but instead of falling further behind the soviets, nasa o...

And when guys have girls -- >> you should tell the tea party that. >> van, what do you make conservative outlook a balanced outlook? you see the president and theyre saying hes for women and republicans have this war on women. youre saying if you have daughters youre going to be a republican. >> i dont know. theres something called correlation not causation that we might want to talk about right now. but i will say that if the republicans and being conservative is a balanced outlook i hope someb...

Outlook i hope somebody sends that memo to the tea party. because as far as i can tell they didnt get the memo yet about balance. >> the one thing, erin, that generally the more children you have the more likely you are to be a republican. and that again is correlation, not necessarily cause eggly caa tion. china set to launch its first lunar module. are the passing america in the space race? and probesident obama has bn working desperately to get america on board with the iran deal. tonight...

Awarded him the game ball. but navidads thoughts are elsewhere, with the woman whose life he hopes he saved. >> i would ask her why? why did you do it. >> reporter: for outfront, dan simon, cnn, stockton, california. >> its an amazing story. when you look at his forearms and think and he held her? i mean, incredible. still to come, obama care heading back to the supreme court. heres the question. could this be the blow? can the affordable care act survive the contraception debate? an outfront ...