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After down the ladder. >> hello there. >> hello there. >> the most unusual position a cameraman has ever had, hanging by his toes from a tunnel and taking a picture upside down. >> we will take all the data back into the command module. >> roger. >> we are going to turn our tv monitor off now while we have other work to do. apollo 11 signing off. >> houston, as the sun sinks in the west, the white team bids you good night. >> you earned your pay today. >> good night all.

>> hornet, understand. completed the decontamination in the command module. >> the elevator will take recovery one down to the hangar deck and where the crew will enter the mobile quarantine facility. this becoming jammed with people. i've never seen this many people in the control center at one time before. apollo 11 plastic has been hung in the mission control center. a replica of the crew patch. [ applause ]

Was going on, i was asked after the flight, weren't you terribly lonely? the loneliest man in this whole lonely mission in the lonely history of this lonely planet? weren't you lonely? i said no, not at all. i was happy. i had hot coffee. i could turn the thermostat up to 72 degrees. i loved my surroundings the apollo 11 command module, columbia, it was a happy home for me. far from being lonely i felt being part of what was going on. >> hearing you describe those years, it makes me wish there were an equivalent project today in america. >> well, i think there is. i call it mars. i used to jok...

>> you look beautiful. >> i feel like a million dollars. >> there was absolutely no sensation of falling. there was very little sensation of speed, other than the same type of sensation that we had in the capsule. i think as i stepped out i thought the biggest thing was a feeling of accomplishment of one of the goals of the gem ni 4 mission. >> the next major breakthrough will be the bringing together of two orbiting craft. the russians have made one test in their program and presumably have learned something. we have not yet made our first test. so we must be considered behind. >> ignition. >...

>> the primary goal of project gemini was to perform space rendezvous. without that, no moon mission. >> with lunar orbit rendezvous technique, where the lunar module flew back up, rendezvoused with the command module, you have to bring these two vehicles together and get them close in such a way that it was easy to dock them. took a fair bit of work. >> flying nose to nose, we can very clearly see the rising scanners up there. >> roger. >> that was the moment when we pulled ahead in the space race. that was something that the russians hadn't even clom close to doing and wouldn't accomplish fo...