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my gut feeling -- and that's all i got -- says don't use the main engine and don't jettison the lunar module. that's all i got is a gut feeling. it's based -- i don't know -- in the flight control business, the flight director business, you develop some street smarts, and i think every controller has felt this at some time or another and i talk briefly to lenny and he's got this same feeling. meantime my trajectory people are scared out of their wits that we're going to execute this abort, direct abort, because it's very late in the trajectory to make this kind of a computation and s...

immediate needs kind of overcome that, overtake that knowledge? >> well, first of all, you got to keep in mind -- okay, as i said the report is submitted to the captain jechbl pgeneral of vice royalty of mexico. so it is those high officials, then it circulates and trickles down to the various independent governors. by the time it gets to the independent governors, they are already besieged and beleaguered. they don't have enough men, they don't have enough money, they don't have enough supplies and now you're telling me i got to worry about these americans pouring in. well, hell, i ...

orange telemetry records were scattered all over. one of the very difficult problems that we faced was that there was no instantaneous data retrieval in those days. it was literally hours from the time we would request a print-out of the telemetry data until we would see them. so the only records that we had to work with were the ones that were in the recorders themselves and a few of the hard copies we could take and make a copy of the television display, a controller was looking at. so we had these pieces of paper and these controllers had been watching the life's blood drain out o...

along the east coast torrential rains. republican candidates prepare take to off the gloves a new poll governor rick perry with a decisive lead over the pack. we will look ahead to that debate where perry and romney go head-to-head for the first time "early" this wednesday morning, september 7th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs a foggy morning in new york city. good morning. i'm erica hill. >> i'm chris wragge. >> rub thing e fog out of your . police don't know why a man opened fire in ihop restaurant in carson city. five people died and the gunman who is described as mentally i...

we're making calls and if we get someone on the line, we'll have it live on cnn. i want to move to texas where firefighters are struggling to control dozens of wildfires burning all across that state. two people have been killed, 700 homes destroyed and thousands of acres scorched since last week. this is the worst fire season in all of texas history. although wind speeds, they are down today, that should help somewhat. the firefighters battle gain the upper hand over all these different planes. i wanted to take a look at this picture. this is a picture, obviously the fires from sp...