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Tenacity. you lived it. you are proof that it pays off to really go after that dream and never give up. you tried three times and were rejected before you were accepted by nasa. >> thats right. on the fourth try is when i got accepted. yeah. i think kind of the important thing for me was to just try. and it was when i was really honest with myself about that dream i had. i was a little boy when that dream was formed. kind of forgot it when i was growing up and it wasnt until after graduating col...

Im randi kaye. tens of thousands of nasa employees worked on apollo 11 to put the first man on the moon. you got to meet some of them tonight. one unique individual came to our attention as the film was being researched. turns out there was only one woman allowed in the control room during the launch. her remarkable story has been mostly hidden all these years. she played a critical role, and as we learned, spending time with her, she remembers it well. heres her story. >> we choose to go to the...

Work to get to that tv. >> well, i had forgiving parents, understanding parents who knew how enthusiastic i was about the space program. connell: i want to talk about the program, if we can, for a few minutes. i thought that the vice president in his remarks earlier today made some news in talking about the future. so lets listen to what he had to say, and then i want to get your thoughts on it. heres vice president pence. >> it is americas destiny to be the leader amongst nations on our adventu...

When we come back, what may be next for the space program? whatever happened to infinity and beyond? when we come back. my body is truly powerful. i have the power to lower my blood sugar and a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it like its supposed to. trulicity is for people with type 2 diabetes. its not insulin. i take it once a week. it starts acting in my body from the first dose. trulicity isnt for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ...

We were way behind. so be it. a lot of our rockets were not fully leaving the launchpad. what kind of pressure was that for guys like you and to deliver the goods? >> we were really struggling in the early days. at the time present kennedy made a speech, itd been orbiting over the nation for four years. basically, greg arian had flown and when we launched it was the first real what i would say victory. in the early space program. basically, were able to get him up into a ballistic mission but we...

>> thank you. >> you are the true testament to the never give up slogan, tenacity. >> yeah. >> you lived it. you are proof that it pays off to really go after that dream and never give up. you tried three times and were rejected before you were accepted by nasa, right? >> yeah. on the fourth try is when i got accepted and, yeah, i think on eye think, an a the important thing for me was to just try, and it was when i was really honest with myself about the dream i had. when i was a little boy and...

Contractors altogether trying to make this happen. it was a lot of folks. a national effort. of course president kennedy had the vision, made sure the funding was there so it could happen. >> lets talk about the 12 astronauts you interviewed who have been to the moon. you talked to them about their courage to go on their missions, especially so early on in the space program. how did they find the courage to strap in and go do that? >> well, it was a couple of things. they all believed in somethi...

And i believe that we should always be ready for alternatives and the space program will call them backup procedures. you should have a backup to your primary. and what we decided to do was to make the primary do the backup. the same thing. so that if you had to not do the primary, the backup was right there ready to come in and take over. reporter: buzz aldrin, it is an absolute honor to be with you today. 50 years ago today you are walking on the moon. thank you so much for all that you did fo...

Management as possible between the engineers on the front lines and people up at the top. so that if you had a very good idea, it would surface quickly. but also if there were mistakes being made, they wanted those surfaced in realtime. mistakes, of course, could wind up in the death of the astronauts. and they had something called the triple nines, 99.99% reliability rate. that meant if 0.1% went wrong, 5,600 parts on the apollo spacecraft and saturn rocket could go wrong, where they had 5.6 mi...

Control is, i think, a key mark and the milestones in space program because it is now a device, method and organ by which we can bring our young people in here and say, people made great things but they made decisions but this is the leadership laboratory. you can learn from just sitting in this room and observing and then going forward and cutting your own path. reporter: i have to tell you seeing him standing there at his old desk was absolutely remarkable. they are called consoles and you can...