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Is hot and cold on it. what is the allure there? >> the allure is this, it only takes three days to get there, so the ability to build a lunar base and to do scientific exploration there, is logistically an easy, feasible thing. if you think about mars, which bill anders told me who took the famous earth rise photo which really changed the world and changed all of us, he was a nuclear engineer and he said look, what we have not solved yet is the problem of radiation, deep space radiation. so on a nine month trip to mars you have to solve that problem and then you only have a two year window to...

>> we've got it. we've got it. apollo 8 now in lunar orbit. there is a cheer in the room. >> it's a pretty nice view of the moon. it is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. >> when they were coming around from the far side of the moon, bill anders looked through his side window and saw the earth rising. >> oh, my god. look at that picture over there. there's the earth coming up. wow, isn't that pretty? >> and he snapped a picture. >> when the pictures started coming back of the earth from that distance, the sense of american achievement, the sense of how gr...

Apollo 8 now in lunar orbit. there is a cheer in the room. >> it is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. >> when they were coming around from the far side of the moon, bill anders looked through his side window and saw the earth rising. he snapped the picture. >> when the pictures started coming back of the earth from that distance, the sense of american achievement, the sense of how great the cosmos, how small we are, how fragile the earth is, all of those things began to pounce around like electricity in your brain and touch a very special part in the hea...

>> go ahead. >> we've got it. we've got it. apollo 8 now in lunar orbit. there is a cheer in the room. >> it is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. >> when they were coming around from the far side of the moon, bill anders looked through his side window and saw the earth rising. he snapped the picture. >> when the pictures started coming back of the earth from that distance, the sense of american achievement, the sense of how great the cosmos, how small we are, how fragile the earth is, all of those things began to pounce around like electricity in your br...

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 ...