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One of three private astronauts on the Galactic 04 crew, bought his ticket to space about 13 years ago.

Own but there's one former astronaut of a four-man crew, so have they all been prepped over in case there is an emergency? >> well, pamela, i want to point out though these are quote, unquote private astronauts, space tourists, they did go through months of training to prepare for this journey they have embarked on. in fact the journey and the stay on board the station was supposed to be eight days but they got a few extra days because this splashdown that we are waiting for, this undocking that we're waiting for, it was pushed by five days so these private astronauts, they got a few extra day...

Achievement and accomplishment and he represented at a time such a hopeful and optimistic era in our country. >> well, it was a can-doer are in our country when the president just a year before pledged we would go to the moon by 1970 and back, when we were well behind the soviet union, had 30 minutes of space flight experience when john glenn crawled aboard that capsule and he single-handedly with that orbital flight five hours long put america back into the space race, into a competitive position and he did that at great personal risk. that was a fact. he did it with a model of humility and g...

'60s. the country was enveloped in campus unrest civil strife and the beginning of a very unpopular war in which 16 minutes of space flight experience johnny glenn had not even gotten into orbit, a young president, john f. kennedy challenged this country to do what most people thought was impossible most people thought couldn't be done. so the other half of this movie is reminding people of what american exceptionalism is all about. because when neil armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon i don't think anything else in recent history has matched it for what we can do if we really want to...

Will be more difficult or expensive to accomplish. >> we were challenged to do something that we thought we could do, by kennedy. we were challenged to do the impossible. how about this for vision, guts, dreamer, whatever you want to call him. three weeks later, the president of the united states -- talk about a gel -- 60 minutes of space flight experience, he says, we're ready to go to the moon. i don't know that people believed itself was possible. >> we choose to go to the moon, we choose to go to the moon, we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they...