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Awhile. >> you know, it's a hell of a movie. it really is. >> great movie to be in. ron howard did such a fantastic directing that movie. >> is it true you had your choice of roles of the two astronauts that go up with hanks on "apollo 13" or this role and you chose this role? >> i had my choice which one i want to audition for. i picked ken mattingly. i thought his story was so interesting that he gets -- you know, he's so much a part of the mission getting ready and gets pulled from the mission and he becomes vital to this solution at the end and i just like there story quite a bit. >> a few...

To be part of the story that i share with these wounded veterans and it certainly played a great significant part in my career changing things. i hadn't done that many movies before that but much greater role in my life as a wounded veteran and connecting me to the military and the vietnam veteran community and the wounded that we have and we have so many real life lieutenant dans now that, you know, if i can share something positive from the movie with them and it helps them, then i'm all too eager to do that. >> next year you were in another movie with tom hanks. you played ken mattingly in ...

Campos, Helga, and Zohar have finally exited Orion and are now en route to their respective labs.

>> tech: that's service the way you need it. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ >> neil: call >> neil: i'm talkt gary sinise, apollo 13 and he played a convincing george wallace and on and on. but he's never forgot to honor those who served. nl family is broken by those who lost their lives. he makes it a cause not only to help the kids get them to disney to have fun, to see light going on man intends to catch up with

Astronauts to the moon before. why can't we go back sooner? why is all of this necessary? >> there are a lot of reasons to send humans back to the moon. if we're going to go to mars, the moon is a perfect place to develop your hardware, make sure everything is going to work before we send it on to mars and a great place to train your astronauts. so the reason the moon is a great place to do that is because it's a similarly harsh environment with reduced atmosphere, reduced gravity, a lot of dust. but it's only three days away. if you have an issue with your crew, you can get them back in three...