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There would be apollo 17 or he would be on it yet he was given the final flight in the program. >> this is the last of the moon landings but not the least because this has got to be the best, right? >> yes, sir. that's the way we feel about it. >> his crew ron evans and the first nonmilitary trained astronaut geelg jack smith that launched america's first ever at night took place on december 7th, 1972. the flight went smoothly while looking back at the earth, schmidt snapped this photo now known as the blue marble picture. >> we had our view of a fully full earth. i took that at about 34,000 m...

students killed in pakistan's massacre. and talks about the hardened heart in affluent nations. now we can go to dan springer who is traveling with the president. >> reporter: merry christmas to you, doug. president obama his thoughts with the troops around the world, especially those still deployed in afghanistan. they're in afghanistan. we see the troops in their waning days in their deployment there. and those troops, of course, thinking of their families back home. >> pretty important mission here. it's an honor to be a part of that. at the same time it's a little bit difficult...

>> total time we were outside the spacecraft was 22 hours. that's the longest that any crew has been outside the spacecraft. >> you wanted to be out there on the moon all the time. >> jack schmitt and ron evans had never been out there. i said enjoy. and they did. i did. we bounced around. but it was a natural response to our environment. >> hip ety hop ety. >> you put yourself in a new environment of risk. people say you had a lot of guts. i didn't have a lot of guts. i didn't go to the moon not to come back. >> blooming with color, atmosphere and light in a cold, black sky. profoundly affect...

22 horz. that's the longest crew any crew has been outside the spacecraft. >> you wanted to be out there on the moon all the time. >> ron evans had never flown before, and i said, listen, guys, you all will only come this way once. >> i was strolling on the moon one day. >> enjoyed it, and they did, and i did. they bounced around. >> it was a natural response to our environment. >> when you leave the evert, you put yourself in a new environment of risk. people say, well, you have a lot of the guts. i didn't have guts. i knew what i was doing. didn't go to the moon not to come back. >> soon eno...

0 say thank you. because those sounds are not the sounds of annoyance. those are the sounds of freedom. and i never tire of hearing them. [cheers and applause] those sounlds mean that the most motivated and highly trained men and women in the history of the military are on the job to provide a safety net of security for my family. i'd much rather prefer to have the windows rattle from the sounds of a fighter jet flying low over high house in a training mission than the sound of a bomb in my front yard put there by america's enemies. [ applause ] well i know in fact i feel that way. i tell you ...