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Different this time? we won't see another 9/11 because, well it's different time. or another meltdown in stocks because that was a unique set of events at that time. or another market bubble because, well, we learned from the last market bubble even though we didn't. even though history shows we tend to repeat history, the folks that insisted 150 years ago that we would never leave a u.s. president so exposed. even though three more times we did. or those who insisted after world war i that it wasn't the war to end all wars after all. or that a stock market crash, like the one in 1929 couldn't...

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Mission that -- then we had the apollo one fire that could have changed the apollo program but almost as if a greater force was guiding you was guiding all the others who would later go on followup missions and ultimately reach that goal. >> you know as i said a minute ago, fate played a major role for just the reasons you're talking about. but having been to the moon twice, the first time i came back and i came back with a quote it's just too beautiful to have happened by accident. went back to the moon on apollo 17 and i challenged my thoughts, and i wanted to bring something home to show yo...

Funds, but at that time, i wasn't yet working at nasa when the apollo one accident happened. i was hired to work on the staff of dr. george miller, the manned space flight administrator. nasa needed to have a total review of the deficiencies that the 204 review board raised and take corrective actions. to do that i attended daily meetings led by the apollo program director also, together with the house and senate oversight committee members, we melt with the apollo contractors, including north american, grumman, and chrysler, and houston management. throughout all those activity, which took in...

Couple of our colleagues, weren't sure whether or not we were burying the entire apollo program, but i think it's a tribute that we lost apollo 1 on the 27th of january 1967 and we were back in the air with almost an entirely rebuilt spacecraft in october of 1968. the rest is history. >> we still got on the moon before the decade was out and you wrapped it up for news apollo 17. we came close to seeing that budget hacked away after that incident, and you were somehow able to convince those in power that this was well worth going forward, the safety issues had been addressed. but nasa was not a...