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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...

It was such an exciting time and kennedy and the new frontier and beating the soviets? it had to be very difficult. >> how did we what? >> it had to be difficult to go back in time and remember all of that again. >> well it -- it took a while, neil. but it's amazing how many of those somewhat insignificant but important things come back to you. su know part, a piece of this movie we go back to arlington. and i look at those grave stones of roger and gus and charlie bassett. >> the astronauts. >> and you know, the reason i flew gemini 9 is because charlie bassett got killed. fate played such a ...

But just to be there. you don't come there but once in a life. to realize you are standing in a valley -- a valley surrounded by mountains on three side higher than the grand canyon is deep and you are seeing what hasser in been seen with human eyes. you are standing where no human being has been before. i always said going to the moon is a technological and technical and spiritual space program orbiting the earth. it truly is. it was for me anyway. martha: people look back at these mission and they look at them with awe. but they also look at them with the hindsight of knowing you all got the...

Gemini 9. his next was 1979 as lunar module pilot. he came within eight miles of the lunar surface. >> we found some problems that if they weren't corrected, neil would have landed. i told neil i painted the white line in the sky so we wouldn't get lost. >> december 6, 1972, he went back making history of the commander of the final flight to the moon, apollo 17. he and jack schmidt spent more than three days on the moon, exploring and collecting data. of any missions, theirs brought back the largest amount of moon rocks. >> i wish we could take everybody back with me and look back at earth. if...