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>> have i been asked a million times how does it feel to make that first step on the moon? i knew when i made that first step it was mine. nobody could take it away from me. >> yet he almost gave up that chance. he had done almost everything an astronaut could do and even buzzing the moon in apolo 10, except he never set foot on the lunar surface. he turned down serving as apolo 16 hoping to command a flight of his own. there was no guarantee there would be an apolo 17 or he would be on in it. >> this is the last of the moon landings, buts not the least. it has to be the best. >> that's the wa...

Location, location, location. >> as a 10-year-old kid i am looking at you looking at that desolate place, and what was it like? >> well, you used the same word i did, but i prefaced desolate with magnificent because of humanity's reaching outward and accomplishing something that people thought was impossible. >> apolo 11 made it it to the moon six months ahead of the deadline jfk had set at the beginning of the decade. it was left to another president to congratulate the astronauts. >> one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all the people on this earth are truly one. >> president ni...

Deal. when i stopped in front of the house she saw me coming, and even though she had not heard, i could just tell by the look on her face that she knew something was wrong. >> the three were given heros' funerals, and in their honor mission as204 was redesignated apolo 1. it could with el have been the last uh poll -- well have been the last apolo. >> that put the apolo program on hold. frank boreman was instrumental in reviewing the whole issue. >> nasa essentially investigated itself. that kept the outside people who had not the slightest idea what was going on at bay. ite think that was on...

Live in zero gravity for too long. of course we went up there for two weeks, and we did see some changes in the body, but it was nothing that couldn't be overcome. >> that was significant, right? that meant that we could go to the moon, that we could chance a mission of that duration, if not longer. that changed people's perspective. >> the moon flights at max would be a two-week flat and we had to make sure -- flight and we had to make sure people could function in that respect. >> the 14-day mission has shown us that man indeed adapts to the space flight environment. th te additional data al...

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