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The moon itself. your story was a heroic story in its own right. many had given up on you and your crew mates and didn't think you would ever get back. but you did. it spoke of a time where great things are possible. i don't want to, you know, be debby downer and say we're not up to that task anymore but we seem to have forgotten it. >> we have. it's been 47 years since we've been to the moon. i think neil and gene and i were vocal and trying to persuade nasa at that time to have a more active program that would go and explore the moon sometime earlier than we are now looking at. >> neil: you ...

One or two fergusons in the country we don't know about. the reason we know about this one because of media attention. that forced justice department's hands to investigate what was going on. niger, absolutely right the police department was forced to be tax collectors for municipal government but it is more than that there were systemic findings of dogs being sicced on 14-year-old black boys. consistently only happened to african-americans and not others in ferguson. there is more than just the fact they were tax collectors although that is abhorrent. i shudder to think about the fact there i...

His likely journey to become the last man that walked on the moon. casey stiegel live from austin texas, with this story for us. hey, casey. >> reporter: martha, good to see you. captain gene cernan, a lot of people don't know, was one of the very first nasa astronauts. the former u.s. navy fighter pilot was hand-selected by the space agency in 1966. it even submitted an application and, well, the rest is history of the his rise to fame and everything that came along with it, showcased in this new documentty. and tonight is the north american premier of, "last man on the moon" at the south by ...

Appreciate your teenage comments, but i have 40 and 50 year old young men and women coming up and saying captain cernan thank you. i'm a scientist, i'm an engineer, i'm a schoolteacher, i'm flying air force jets because of what you did. it's because of what we were doing as a nation, committed to something that had never been done before. kennedy challenged us to go to the moon. i wasn't even in the space program. and i was one of those young people where, he's asking us to do the impossible. he's asking us to do what can't be done. and the rest is history. and the inspiration that the program...

Income tax return saying would you give 10 cents to america's space program, i think you would be astounded with how many boxes would get x'd. i get people your age, coming to me, 30, 40, 50-year-old young men and women saying captain cernan, thank you. for what? i'm an engineer. i'm an air force pilot. i'm a teacher, i'm an astronomer because of what you inspired me to do. it wasn't what i inspired them to do, it's what the nation inspired them to do and become. how much of is that worth? half a penny of every one of your tax dollars? i'll let you answer that. >> they said you showed signs as...