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But politically, there is a vacuum. the lebanese parliament has failed to elect a new president, not once not twice, but 26 times since last spring. as many have reported. the government has long been wrought with political and sectarian divisions, and these tensions have been ek acerbated by the war in neighboring syria. this week the environment minister did announce an agreement to clean up the trash had been reached. though the details are murky. many lebanese see the garbage crisis as indicative of their country's woes. that the government failures fill their lives with rubbish. the corre...

>> i'll try a sand shot here. >> i fantasized about landing on the moon what i was going to do, how i was going to act on the moon. >> reporter: but lovell would never get the chance to go back. >> so close, and yet so far. >> apollo 15 launched july 26th, 1971. apollo 16 launched april 16th, 1972 carrying john young, mattingly and charles duke. they were the first missions to use the lunar roving vehicle. but the apollo missions were winding down. would man ever return to the moon. the astronauts of apollo 17 certainly hoped so. their amazeing and what would turn out to be their final mission...

There would be apollo 17 or he would be on it yet he was given the final flight in the program. >> this is the last of the moon landings but not the least because this has got to be the best, right? >> yes, sir. that's the way we feel about it. >> his crew ron evans and the first nonmilitary trained astronaut geelg jack smith that launched america's first ever at night took place on december 7th, 1972. the flight went smoothly while looking back at the earth, schmidt snapped this photo now known as the blue marble picture. >> we had our view of a fully full earth. i took that at about 34,000 m...

A man walked on the moon. apollo xvii astronauts in 1972. a number of the explorers who made that trip passed away. the rest of now in their late 70s, some 80ings, but the story they tell sounds like something out of the future, not the past. it's a story about how america with a combination of vision high-tech know-how, and good old-fashioned courage answered the challenge and achieved what is almost as unbelievable today as it was a half century ago. it was 1957 at the height of the cold war that the soviets launched a satellite named sputnik which orbited the earth at just over an hour and ...