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He ended up covering the early mercury missions and he just became an encyclopedia on it. >> what are the hazards and what are scientists doing to ensure man survival in outer space? that is our story. first man on the moon as a prudential insurance company of america presents the 20th century. >> this is marine lieutenant colonial john h. glenn jr. who will be the first american to fly in orbit around the world. >> we're embarking in a new field, space science and i'm happy and proud i can maybe contribute in my own way in this new field. >> john glenn came along next and flew the first orbit...

Three, two, one, zero. we have liftoff. clear the tower. >> there is the rumble in the building. it looks good. this building is shaking under us. a camera platform is shaking but what a beautiful flight. we interrupt this program to present another in a series of unborn television transmissions from the space capsule brought to you by tang, the breakfast drink. apollo 8, 175,450 miles from earth and about to be pulled in by the moon's gravity. the astronauts have now truly left the earth and its gravity. for this second telecast, turned apollo 8 so it faces the earth. here is communications c...

Other. with the spacecraft on the top with three guys on it. and you knew that that sucker was going someplace. it had a purpose in mind and it was going someplace. >> you get to december of 1968 and frank and bill anders have been training to fly the first flight around the moon. >> we kind of feel that this flight set the pace to begin the lunar landing apollo program. >> the countdown to liftoff for apollo eight is t minus 50 minutes and counting. this will be the first manned flight of the saturn five, the largest rocket man has ever built and it has the explosive potential in its fuel of ...

Program is based on the philosophy that we don't want to pull a stunt and risk a man's life. for this reason, there are certain intermediate steps planned before we put a man in orbit. if this is successful, then and only then will we orbit. >> the project was the first real response to the sputnik and to yuri gregarin's flight and it was a big deal for us, i'll tell you because all of a sudden we had seven guys and they are fighter pilot types, very alpha male guys, fun to be around. it was like being with rock stars. >> it's a great day in houston as citizens turn out by the tens of thousand...

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 view point. >> 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 want to go on a moon flight and if we go to mars, i want to go on that. >> nasa is looking ahead to the first manned apollo flight. they had a lot of problems with this...