Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180721:03:58:00
The pictures were. imagine half a billion people down here on earth able to watch live television from the surface of the moon in the summer of '69. we marvelled at what our nation had accomplished and at the bravery of that crew, remember, no one had ever landed on the moon or anywhere that wasn't named earth. and they landed with no guarantee that the rockets would fire and get them back up to the third man, michael collins, patiently orbiting the moon inside their ride home. we went to the moon because we could because jfk said we should. but people forget we went to moon because of the rus...