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>> continuously increasing in a left roll. >> did he say he could not turn the agena off? >> he said he had separated from the agena and he did a roll and couldn't stop it. >> the only way to get out was for him to fire his thruster. >> stop the spinning spacecraft before it spun so much that they passed out. >> we got down alive and neil said, i think we'll both have another chance, and we did. >> the week in space. cbs news coverage of astronaut james cernan's gemini 9. 2 1/2-hour walk in space. reporting from the cbs news space center, correspondent walter cronkite. >> the spacewalk is over...

Buzz brought in the idea of training in the water tank. >> i was a scuba diver from 1957, so i knew a bit about dealing with currents and moving around and spacewalking, it was very delicate moving and you balance so you don't exert yourself. so i started training underwater. >> buzz put all that together and the final e.v.a. was done very much by the book. it was a big success. >> so i was standing up in the hatch and looking around and took a couple pictures of texas and the astrodome and took a -- and i decided let me just turn around and take a picture. nothing unusual about that. but that...

All this was beside the point. mrs. alan shepard heard the news with relief. what are your thoughts? >> i don't have to tell you, do i? i'm so happy. >> the flight was a ten, al shepard's flight was a one or two, okay, in terms of the capability that it demonstrated. so russians clearly were ahead of us so the attitude is we would like to do something really big but small enough to accomplish it. >> i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. no single space project in this p...

Picture, nothing unusual about that. but that was the first selfie in space. >> gemini 12. >> when gemini was over, the team of people, planners, astronauts, and people in the control center were complete synched and we came out with confidence in ourselves. let us have this apollo stuff. we'll take it to the moon as fast as we possibly can. android smartphones, like the samsung galaxy s6. only till december 27th.

Again. safely back in the spacecraft. it was a disappointing space walk in a true sense. >> the only thing we did not do well was e.v.a., extra-vehicular activity. for the last flight gemini 12 buzz brought in the idea of training in the water tank. >> i was a scuba diver from 1957, so i knew a bit about dealing with currents and moving around and spacewalking. it was very delicate moving and you balance so you don't exert yourself. so i started training underwater. >> buzz put all that together and the final eva was done very much by the book. it was a big success. >> so i was standing up in ...