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>> that was mike collins reporting the crew was excellent. >> astronaut is in the net. on his way up. command module. >> i have three astronauts aboard. switching power frequency. power frequency. >> hornet, understand. completed the decontamination in the command module. [ applause ] >> the elevator will take recovery one down to the hangar deck and where the crew will enter the mobile quarantine facility. this control center becoming jammed with people. i've never seen this many people in the control center at one time before.

Rockwell logo on the command module. it was private companies stitched together. >> that's right, yeah, lots of them. now it's a slightly different model. as opposed to nasa paying the bill, the taxpayers paying for everything, what we have now is the private contractors have a little more skin in the game. nasa is going to be flying astronauts very soon, hopefully by the end of the year with bowing and space x and those spaceships are made by those companies. they have a little more skin in the game than the previous contract model. so nasa is still paying for a lot of it, but those companies...

Where basically it all began. reporter: hi there, eric. it is an extra ordinary anniversary for something humans for centuries and centuries had only fantasized about doing. going to the moon. on this day in 1969, apollo 11 did just that. the first of six apollo missions to land on the lunar surface. all done and accomplished in a short time span of just 3 and a half years. the first man on the moon of course mission commander neil armstrong. he can see in the helmet buzz aldrin. and then apollo 15 landed, up but was asked not al worden commanding the command module. piloting a rather piece is...

>> so many of us remember our first trip to air and space and how it inspired people in aviation, the astronaut corps and so many other things, questions in terms of what the future of american spaceflight looks like. you have been talking about this and we talked about it with one of the two men from the apollo 11 crew who are still with us. we will check in with buzz aldrin later but first michael collins, once called the loneliest man in the world as he circled the moon in the command module while his crewmates descended to the lunar surface. 50 years later, and during lessons. >> the space...

Of the apollo 11 astronauts about that day. then a rear chat with the second man that walked on the moon, buzz aldrin, what was going through his head that day. >> small step for neil, giant leap for everyone else. for me it was a magnificent tribute. through all of humanity.>> you also hear from his crewmates circling above them. the command module michael collins. then the men who guided their mission safely back to earth, jean krantz. then the niece of president john f. kennedy, kathleen kennedy on her uncles dream that was realized that day. but first, cape canaveral where it all started. ...