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Weightlessness. >> this is the crew i of apolo 13. >> nine minutes later, oxygen tank number two blew up causing the number one tank to also fail. >> houston, we have a problem. >> houston, we have a problem. words that would be forever linked to commander jim level. >> when the explosion occurred , i thought to myself, why me? for a little while i couldn't believe what was happening. then all of a sudden i said, well, it is me and it is now. so what's next? >> the command module's normal supply of electricity, light and water all lost. there was no heat source. they were 200,000 miles from ea...

I guess i was all charged up. >> they were sick, freezing and tired. but they were safe for now. mission control's next task was to get the broken down craft out of the lunar landing course and back on a free return to earth's trajectory. engineers in houston figured the crew could do this by executing two separate burns or accelerations made from the limping command module. towering that up after the long, cold fleet with one of mission's control's greatest achievements. w flat controllers generated the necessary procedure to do this in three days. something t like that would normally take th...

Multi color blues and the oceans and the clouds and not tumbling through space, but with purpose and an order and turned on an axis and started up the ladder. i was looking for that perverbial freeze button because i wanted to keep this moment going. >> america's challenged of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. >> you were the last human being to touch that surface. how does that make you feel? >> humble. >> we leave what we came and god willing that we shall return. with hope for all mankind. god speed to the crew of apolo 17. >> i am convinced that the

>> it was a failure in its initial mission, but in reality it was a try triumph in the ability of people to overcome adversity. >> that triumph likely gave allen shepherd, the man lovell switched flights with to walk on the moon nine months later. shepherd made the moon his low gravity driving range launching two golf balls with a 6 iron he smuggled aboard apolo 14. >> i fantasized about landing on the moon, what i was going to do and how i would act on the lunar surface. >> but lovell would never get the chance to go back. >> so close and yet so far. >> apolo 15 launched july 26th, 1971 with ...

It is kind of hard to see taxpayers spending much on space flight anytime soon. but maybe, maybe by spending a little time looking back, we can at least learn a new the lesson that apolo showed us. if we americans set our sights on a goal and summon the collective will to achieve it, even the sky isn't the limit. i'm neil cavuto. thanks for watching. ..