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Stories making news around the world at least one person is dead and dozens more injured after a series of explosions tore through a munitions depot in southern kazakhstan officials have evacuated the nearby town of aris in the countrys turkistan region as it stands defense ministry says a fire triggered the blasts. mexicos army chief says some 15000 troops have been deployed to the countries in your going to border to detain migrants trying to cross illegally into the u.s. mexico is under in un...

Mission and the first time humans set foot on the moon. >> we take you inside one of the greatest humanity feats. >> the mission was run mostly by white men but there was one woman in launch control during takeoff. >> her name is joann morgan. shes been sharing her memories with our randi kaye. >> we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thing. not because they are easy, but because they are hard. ♪ >> reporter: the space program in the early 60s was dominated by men. but du...

Unattainable, a mystery. but after apollo 11, the moon is mysterious no longer. >> all of human experience will be divided into two eras. before man walked on the moon and after man walked on the moon. >> the whole world was together at that particular moment. it was an example that in spite of all thats going on down here, in spite of all that were going through, there is hope. >> my generation is the generation that changed the moon from an object to a place. and that will never happen again. ...

That affected american proudness, that we are ahead of everybody. now it was first sputnik satellite and now first man in space was russian. and you can understand that this was really in the middle of the cold war, there was competition of the great superpowers. >> president, could you give us your view, sir, of the soviet achievement of putting a man in orbit and what it would mean to our space program as such? >> well, it is a most impressive scientific accomplishment. i have already sent con...

Debuts this weekend with never-before-seen footage of that remarkable mission. next month marks the 50th anniversary of the monumental flight to the moon and the first two people to set foot on the moons surface. nearly everyone involved were male and white. heres 360s randy kaye again tonight with the only other woman at launch control at liftoff. >> we choose to go to the moon not because they are easy but because they are hard. ♪ >> reporter: the space program in the early 60s was dominated...

Never-before-seen footage of that remarkable mission. next week marks the anniversary of the flight to the moon and the first two people to set foot on the moons surface. nearly everyone involved were male and white. heres 360s randy cay again tonight. the only woman at launch control, at liftoff. >> we choose to go to the moon not because they are easy but because they are hard. ♪ >> reporter: the space program in the early 60s was dominated by men. but one woman stood out in a sea of men in ...

Ne"apollo 11" takes you to never before seen seats from the most celebrated mission. the success of apollo 11 was a victory for all of humanity, but the mission was run mostly by white men. the only woman in launch control during takeoff was joann morgan, she shared memories of her groundbreaking nasa career with cnns randi kaye. >> we choose to go to the moon in this and do the other thing, not because theyre easy but because they are hard. >> the space program in the early 60s was dominated by...

Was id be a liar and fool to say i had the best of three seats? do you still feel that way in. >> yeah, sure. but please add to that i thought that the seat that i had was magnificent. john f. kennedys mandate we were fulfilling, that id gotten a one third size chunk suited me just fine. i was their meal ticket home. >> absolutely. finally, the legacy and the future. >> well, i think its an interesting time now and that not only are the american taxpayers paying for our space program but theres ...

Looking up into the sky, and that was -- i found sometimes looking up in the sky and seeing things up there airplanes with two wings, one on top and one on bottom and things like that fascinated me. and one thing led to another and blah, blah, blah ended up in the space program. >> you were on the command moderal, and ive heard you say you were as alone as anyones ever been in the history of man kind. for 47 minutes when neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were on the moon, when itd orbit the moon, y...

Research organization or israel has ever undertaken. this is the craft india hopes will underline its commitment to exploring space its made up of an orbiter a land and a rover evil goes to plan the craft will touch down on the moon southern pole in september thats an area thats never been explored before once on the moon surface the rover will be used to gabaa scientific data what. are. we looking for are rock far human like when you made this image you know there are elements such as magnesium...