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Alex in philadelphia, i want to show my friends to prove you're a quality guy, weird looking but a quality guy. put it up so i can shut 'em up. okay, your wish is my command. as if i'm not busy enough on the super hear, help us on the cliff thing. an encore presentation will commemorate today when the final moon walk began. this day, four decades ago when gene cernan made history. >> as a kid watching it, on the moon, that last journey that was 40 years ago now. and we have as yet to return. other countries are looking at returning, india, china, maybe russia, not us. how do you feel about in ...

Don't have a commitment, we still don't have a goal. and, you know, we've got a lot -- there's a lot of gibberish out there on how wonderful the future's going to be, but without a real plan, that future's never going to come about. martha: interesting. thank you, captain cernan. always good to have you with us on this program. and i want to bring in mr. hughes now and talk a little bit about space x which is the program that you have very much involved in which does have something called the dragon spacecraft which you hope will be the future of our space program. tell us about that. >> hi, m...

Able to carry american astronauts to the space station around 2015. and i think it bears noting, martha, that right now the u.s. is wholly dependent on the russians for astronaut carriage to the space station, so we're hoping to be the domestic alternative there and provide the u.s. with an all-american company carrying u.s. astronauts to the space station at a price point that is significantly less than what the russians charge. martha: mr. hughes, thank you. very interesting to talk to you, and our thanks to cap chin gene c -- captain gene cernan, and that's the enterprise that we see there....

>> eugene andrews cernan was borne in 1934 in chicago. his dream of being a naval aviator was sown at an early age. he signed up for the naval rotc program at purdue university and accepted into the u.s. navy a short time graduation. the newly formed nasa announced their seven pioneer astronauts. cernan was fascinated. a new dream was born. he wanted to ride a rocket shop into space. in 1963, nasa selected him for project gemini and apollo. cernan jumped at the chance. >> when i watch those guys go up, they were any heros. all of a sudden, i found myself walking a hall. they called me gene. >>...

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