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>> an analogy that i used, the first time you flew across the atlantic, it created a lot of news, but now, we got hundreds of flights across the atlantic and nobody cares. but we never lost our enthusiasm, our excitement, because we knew what we were doing was very, very important scientifically. >> of course, plenty of astronauts still wanted their shot to walk on the moon. one was allen shepard, the first american in space, who'd not been in space since the flight in 1969. >> he had been grounded for, i don't know, about nine years. wiser management had said, wait a second, shepard doesn't h...

>> an analogy that i used, the first time you flew across the atlantic, it created a lot of news, but now, we got hundreds of flights across the atlantic and nobody cares. but we never lost our enthusiasm, our excitement, because we knew what we were doing was very, very important scientifically. >> of course, plenty of astronauts still wanted their shot to walk on the moon. one was allen shepard, the first american in space, who'd not been in space since the flight in 1969. >> he had been grounded for, i don't know, about nine years. wiser management had said, wait a second, shepard doesn't h...