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I recognize that there is some risk, people might look at our work as being perhaps dangerous, but we just try to take as much as that out as we can during pretesting to make sure the systems are good. i think we train in it and work in it so much and understand it well enough that we don't look at it from this viewpoint. >> how far i want to go, i want to go as far as nasa goes and during my useful time as a pilot for them. i'd like to go on a moon flightflight, and if we go to mars i want to go on that. >> nasa is looking ahead to the first manned apollo flight. now, this is an early version...

Than just the business theryou came for.more whether that's taking in every moment, or capturing a moment worth bringing back. that's room for possibility. ♪ 3. 2. 1. 0. we have commit. we have lift-off. clear the tower. >> there's a rumble in our building. looks like a good flight. the building is shaking under us. the camera platform is shaking. but what a beautiful flight.

And jim an ders had been training to fly the first flight around the moon. >> we kind of feel this flight has set the pace to begin in ernest our lunar landing apollo program. >> the count down to lift-off for apollo 8 is t-minus 50 mince and counting. this will be the first manned flight of the saturn 5, the largest rocketman has ever built. and it has the explosive potential in its fuel of 2 1/2 million tons of tnt. >> broadcasting the launch of the saturn 5, i never got over it. >> we have ignition sequence time. >> and i was supposed to be talking all through this. >> the engines are on. >...

Two vehicles together to get them close in such a way that it was easy to dock them. it took a fair bit of work. >> flying nose to nose, very clearly see the rising scanners up there. >> roger. >> that was the moment when we pulled ahead in the space race. that was something the russians hadn't even come close to doing and wouldn't accomplish for a couple more years. >> it was an unknown as to how we were going to do that when we first started. but we got good at it and we mastered it on neil armstrong's flight, gemini 8. >> houston, this is gemini 8. we're keeping it at about 150 feet. >> way...

All this was beside the point. mrs. alan shepard heard the news with relief. what are your thoughts? >> i don't have to tell you, do i? i'm so happy. >> the flight was a ten, al shepard's flight was a one or two, okay, in terms of the capability that it demonstrated. so russians clearly were ahead of us so the attitude is we would like to do something really big but small enough to accomplish it. >> i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. no single space project in this p...