possible that some day there can be a woman in the white house. the communists seem to be putting on the defense on a number of fronts. >> we're behind and i'm sure they are making a concentrated effort to stay ahead. >> we may get beaten more. there are no cheap or easy victories in the game. >> we are aware of the international implications of the project but we're not in this for the race aspects. >> rockets for a lunar trip are being built. >> the first strides towards the stars were not without setbacks. >> you're aware of the risk. >> we accept the risk. what risks there are. >> we choose to go to the moon and do the other thing, not

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>> we have a good many talented scientists but we didn't make an effort for many years and we're behind and paying the price of having the soviet union exploit the propaganda advantage of sputnik. >> i have marvin cal. cbs news correspondent in moscow. marvin, is there any doubt this happened, the russians put a man in space? >> i'm almost certain the russians did fire a man into the outer space. he's 27. it's a great historic scientific feat. >> at that time, we didn't know whether a human could survive in space and here, boom, the soviets send this guy into space and he survived. >> he was something that

affected american proudness. now it was first sputnik and now first man in space was russian and you can understand that this was really in the middle of the cold war, there was competition of the great super powers. >> president, could you give us your view, sir, of the soviet achievement of putting a man in orbit and what it would mean to our space program? >> it's the most impressive scientific accomplishment. i already sent congratulations to the man who was involved. >> the space race wasn't just about space. it was about our own sense of security. it was this new cold war battle ground and so it wasn't very hard to realize that if they could put a man in orbit, they could put an atomic bomb in orbit. suddenly the sky was medicine. >> we need to start working hard to catch up.

>> i think it's about time america woke up and did something about it. >> i believe it's very impressive for propaganda purposes but i think if we put our minds to it, this country can top that in six months. >> from my perspective as a kid, we were in a race against the russians and the russians were the bad guys and they were winning this race and that meant they were superior to us and yet, they were the bad guys. >> 1960 we had astronauts, we hadn't had anybody in space yet but we were knocking on the door, getting ready to go. we wanted to catch up and be the leaders. >> do we have the stuff to do it? what would you say to match it or better it? >> the united states space program is based on the philosophy that we don't want to pull a stunt and risk a man's life. for this reason, there are certain intermediate steps

planned before we put a man in orbit. if this is successful, then and only then will we orbit. >> the project was the first real response to the sputnik and to gary and it was a big deal for us, i'll tell you because all of a sudden we had seven guys and they are fighter pilot types, very alpha male guys, fun to be around. it was like being with rock stars. ♪ >> it's a great day in houston as citizens turn out by the tens of thousands to give a texas-sized welcome to the u.s. space team. >> they were heroes even before the public knew their names. they became warriors against our most feared enemy, the soviet union. >> what they were hiring these guys for was mindset. they wanted experience test pilots who could observe and report during a very violent and dangerous activity.

>> as we develop the spacecraft, almost everything we do deals with the risky side of the business. we recognize we can get killed flying spacecraft or t-33 or t-38s or driving my corvette. that's just a fact of life for everyone. we have a job that's fascinating and worth the risk. >> al shepard was a natural leader. he got the first ride into space. >> the shirley temple program usually seen at this time will not be presented to bring you the following special broadcast. >> within the next few days, the first american will be launched into space. he will not go into orbit but he will ride his spacecraft and hang weightless for about five minutes until gravity pulls him back through the atmosphere to the sea nearly 300 miles down range. >> astronaut shepard making his way to the elevator.

now astronaut shepard sends the plane in a few moments he'll be placed in the capsule. >> ten minus ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero, ignition. lift off. lift off. >> lift off and the clock is turning. all systems are go. >> some lawmakers want to award the medal of honor, ready to spend more money on the space effort, all agreed russia is ahead. all this was beside the point. mrs. alan shepard of virginia

beach, virginia heard the news with relief. what are your thoughts? >> i don't have to tell you, do i? i'm so happy. it was beautiful, i thought. >> the flight was a ten, al shepard's flight was a one or two, okay, in terms of the capability that it demonstrated. so russians clearly were ahead of us so the attitude is we would like to do something really big but small enough to accomplish it. >> i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. no single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important for the long-range exploration of space. >> i don't know how he decided we could do that because when we heard about it, we thought they, you know, lost their mind.

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this is walter cronkite reporting in dayton, ohio. 131 over the air force base, dayton, ohio. this aircraft is executing a maneuver to make it and everyone temporarily weightless. this weightless condition is one of many that man must learn to tolerate or overcome to survive a first trip to the moon. >> cronkite was the perfect person for space because he was a space junky. he ended up covering the early mercury missions and he just became an encyclopedia on it. >> what are the hazards and what are scientists doing to ensure man survival in outer space? that is our story.

first man on the moon as a prudential insurance company of america presents the 20th century. >> this is marine lieutenant colonial john h. glenn jr. who within a few days, listen the first american to fly in orbit around the world. >> we're embarking in a new field, space science and i'm happy and proud i can maybe contribute in my own way in this new field. >> john glenn came along next and flew the first orbital flight for an american. to us, that was a huge deal because now we had an american hero who could at least stand up. >> god speed, john glenn. >> three, two, one. ♪

>> this is mercury control. the spacecraft is committed to the third orbit. >> looks good. we'll see you back. >> all right, boy. >> shortly before he is supposed to reenter the atmosphere, the word comes there is a possibility that glenn's heat shield has detached from the base of the capsule. >> go ahead. >> we have decided to reenter with the tank on. >> what is the reason for this? do you have any reason, over? >> the only thing holding the heat shield on are three straps, which are attached to the retro rockets. >> we feel it's safer to reenter with the retro package on, over? >> roger. understand. >> so normally, the plan is you fire the retro rockets and let them go but now it becomes clear that if glenn does that, he

might be burned alive. >> he went through this period of intense ion buildup where you lose contact with him. >> this is cape, do you read, over? this is cape, do you read over? >> mercury recovery, this is friendship seven, do you read me? >> read you loud and clear, how are you doing? >> that was a real fire ball, boy. >> i express the great happiness and thanksgiving all of us that glen completed the trip. i know this was particularly felt by mrs. glenn and his two children. >> quite a day, you see four beautiful sunsets in one day but it was pretty interesting. >> now we know russia need not and will not have monopoly on manned space flight.

a new spirit has arisen out of the growing pains of project mercury, a host of new projects will be born. >> you could have gone ahead faster if you had more money earlier, is that right? >> well, this is true. although, there are some limitations. there is an old saying, it takes nine months to have a baby. [ laughter ] >> rockets, too. >> he was perfectly placed to get us off the planet. he was a german rocket scientist that we were pretty lucky to get after the war. >> he was a futurist and a visionary as much as anything else. he built the team that became america's brain trust for rocketry. >> i have come to texas today to solute an outstanding group of pioneers. headlines may be made by others in other places. history is being made every day by the men and women of the aerospace medical center without

whom there could be no history. >> when he was assassinated, that was a personal blow. that was a personal blow to us because he was the guy to get us on this track. >> when president johnson came in, you know, he was going to continue to implement what president kennedy had done. those two men together led us to where we ended up at the end of the decade. >> visiting cape canaveral are the new astronauts. the men that will join the original seven and ride the gemini and the apollo spacecraft. they are the new pioneers of space. >> we were very fortunate in that our country seemed to have the right person ready when the right person was needed. i give you neil armstrong. >> neil armstrong was unflappable. he was a natural aviator and armstrong just seemed never to be ruffled. >> neil is a cool guy, as we all

know. in fact, all of the guys i was working with at the time are all exceptional pilots so it's great to be on a team like that where they are all winners. >> gemini is the space agency's bridge to the future. with it we'll learn man's true capabilities and draw backs in space and on the last five gemini flights we'll practice several different forms of rendezvous, the skill needed to supply spacecraft to change crews and ability to operate in a medium that is fantastically rewarding and terrifyingly dangerous. gemini is a rehearsal for apollo. the three-man spacecraft to get us to the moon. >> the russians surprise with another first with the first man, they say, to walk around in space. >> when he went outside the spacecraft, they said no, he count have done that but the soviets went outside and came back was a shocker. the soviet union pushed americans back.

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it was a perfect launch and scorpio six is on its way to make space history. >> look. >> they see it!

>> s-o-l. >> no, not sol, sol. >> the astronauts became part of the fabric of the country. it was finding its way into the popular culture. if you grew up in the '50s you were watching science fiction, if you were growing up in the '60s, you were watching it actually happen. >> i don't want to fire the gun yet. >> when ed white went out on the first e.v.a., people were holding their breath. >> there was a real push to get a spacewalk as soon as possible. that turned out to be gemini four and ed white's space walk was just a magnificent thing. >> i'm rolling to the right now under my own influence. like a thermal brush. >> it is. >> he went out and had this little nitrogen bottle to fire this thruster that pushed this

way and that way so he could rotate himself around and so on and it gave the appearance of being a piece of cake. >> okay, i'm turning over. >> you look beautiful. >> i feel like a million dollars. >> there was absolutely no sensation of falling. there was very little sensation of speed, other than the same type of sensation that we had in the capsule. as i stepped out, i thought the biggest thing was a feeling of accomplishment of a goal of the formation. >> the next major breakthrough will be the bringing together of two orbiting craft. the russians have made one test on their program and presumably have learned something. we have not yet made the first test so we must be considered behind. >> ignition. >> the primary goal of project gemini was to perform space rendezvous. without that, no moon mission.

>> with the lunar technique with the lunar module with the command module, you have to bring the two vehicles together and to get them close in such a way, it was easy to dock them. took a fair bit of work. >> flying nose to nose, very clearly see the rising scanners up there. >> roger. >> that was the moment when we pulled ahead to the space race. that was something the russians hadn't even come close to doing and wouldn't accomplish for a couple more years. >> it was an unknown as to how we would do that when we first started but we got good at it and mastered it on neil armstrong's gemini eight. >> houston, this is gemini eight, we're keeping it at about 150 feet. >> way to go, partner. >> you've done it, boy. >> that's great. >> man, that is really slick. >> okay, gemini eight, looking

good on the ground. go ahead and dock. >> they found another object in space and they docked them together to make one big spacecraft or rocket on the nose of the gemini. that was amazing. >> so it's nighttime. power down. have dinner and get ready for the next day and i happened to look over at neil's panel and i saw his eight ball, his attitude bang and i said we're in a bank. >> we've got serious problems here. >> they got up to one revolution a second so we decided to undock, which we suspected was a problem and the gemini started spinning very rapidly and we figured out, oh, it's the gemini.

>> what seems to be the problem? >> it's rolling and we can't turn anything off. >> did he say he could not turn the agena off. >> he said he separated and did a roll and can't stop it. >> the only way to get out was for him to fire the thruster. >> stop the spinning spacecraft before it spun so much they passed out. >> we got down alive and neil said, i think we'll both have another chance and we did. >> the leak in space, cbs news coverage of astronaut gemini nine, two and a half hour walk in space, reporting from the cbs news space center, walter cronkite. >> the spacewalk is over. the hatch is locked closed again, safely back in the spacecraft. a disappointing spacewalk in a true sense. >> the only thing we did not do

well was e.v.a., extra vehicular activity. for the last flight gemini 12 he brought in the idea of training in the water tank. >> i was a scuba diver from 1957 so i knew a bit about dealing with currents and moving around and spacewalking, it was very delicate moving and you balance so you don't exert yourself. so i started training under water. >> buzz put all that together and the final eva was done very much by the book. it was a big success. >> so i was standing up in the hatch and looking around and took a couple pictures of texas and the astrodome and took a picture, nothing unusual about that. but that was the first selfie in space. >> gemini 12.

gemini 12. >> when gemini was over, the team of people, planners, astronauts, and people in the control center were complete synched and we came out with confidence in ourselves. it was like let us have this apollo stuff. we'll take it to the moon as fast as we possibly can. ♪ in the nation, the safest feature in your car is you.

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i recognize that there is some risk, people might look at our work as being perhaps dangerous, but we just try to take as much as that out as we can during pretesting to make sure the systems are good. i think we train in it and work in it so much and understand it well enough that we don't look at it from this view point. >> how far i want to go, i want to go as far as nasa goes and during my useful time as a pilot for them. i want to go on a moon flight and if we go to mars, i want to go on that. >> nasa is looking ahead to the first manned apollo flight. now, this is an early version for test flight and orbit. they had a lot of problems with this spacecraft but figure when they develop new spacecraft, you're going to have bugs.

>> i didn't read the stuff at all. i can't read it. you want to try the phone? >> we got to get to the moon but we can't get through three buildings. >> the regularly scheduled program will not be seen to bring you this special program. >> it was all over in one stunned horrifying second. at t minus ten seconds, an electrical spark apparently shot out and ignited the 100% oxygen in the cabin. on closed circuit tv screens, engineers watched the flames. they heard their last words of shock and surprise. the flames took over apollo one, the crew men never had a chance. news of the tragedy reached the white house shortly after formal signing of a 60-nation space treaty.

president johnson immediately sent condolences. and said three young men have given their lives and service to the nation. we mourn the great loss and our hearts go out to their families. >> the apollo fire was a shock to those of us in the program. it was a real shock. it was devastating. how could we put these guys in there? how could we not see how dangerous it was? how could we do that? ♪ >> there is reason to believe establishing a deadline of 1970 for the moon flight contributed to their deaths. nasa acknowledged success had dulled the earlier apprehensions but determined not to let it paralyze the future efforts and that seems the proper attitude. >> your option to stop or to keep going. in some ways it is almost insulting to their memories to stop. you want to fix the problem and

keep going and achieve the goal. that's what those guys would have wanted. >> any endeavor will meet with tragedy and failure. that's how humankind progressed. the complete reorganization of the apollo space program without a doubt, happened because of the fire. >> at the langley center and accomplished acrobat gave basic training in moon walking to this reporter. >> i feel like peter pan. >> he was like a big kid in a candy store. when you do on tv and you want to talk about something happening, the best way to do it, go out and do it yourself. walter enjoyed it. >> what happens if i fall over on my face? >> nothing at all. very simple, very soft. slow motion in fact. just -- >> so i fall over on my face to see? >> right, dust yourself off. >> really? >> right. >> okay. here i go. >> nothing to it.

>> why don't you try jumping a little bit? >> here i go. this is just really for fun and games. what do you do for a living? >> what do you see in the way of the vehicle in which we travel in space in the next 35 years, already in the last 15 years, we built up this system of rockets to the point that your model doesn't even fit in the room any longer. are we going far beyond saturn five? >> i think there will be a continued need for some such a workhorse and rather arbitrary how big it will be as long as it's big. >> the sadder five is like the mythic monument to human audacity. this was a mind ower. >> saturn five is three big rockets stacked on top of each other. with the spacecraft on the top with three guys on it. and you knew that that sucker

was going someplace. it had a purpose in mind and it was going someplace. >> you get to december of 1968 and frank and bill anders have been training to fly the first flight around the moon. >> we kind of feel that this flight set the pace to begin the lunar landing apollo program. >> the countdown to liftoff for apollo eight is t minus 50 minutes and counting. this will be the first manned flight of the saturn five, the largest rocket man has ever built and it has the explosive potential in its fuel of 2.5 million tons of tnt. >> broadcasting the launch of the saturn five, i never got over it. >> we have ignition sequence. >> and i'm supposed to be talking all through this. >> the engine arrived. >> it's hard to talk when you're holding your breath. >> three, two, one, zero.

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three, two, one, zero. we have liftoff. clear the tower.

>> there is the rumble in the building. it looks good. this building is shaking under us. a camera platform is shaking but what a beautiful flight. we interrupt this program to present another in a series of unborn television transmissions from the space capsule brought to you by tang, the breakfast drink chosen before gemini and apollo astronauts. apollo 8, 175,450 miles from earth and about to be pulled in by the moon's gravity. the astronauts have now truly left the earth and its gravity. for this second telecast, we have fixed the television turned apollo 8 so it faces the earth. here is communications coming

through. >> you're seeing the atmosphere, i can see the southwestern part of the united states and it appears now that the east coast is cloudy. >> apollo 8 around christmas 1968 showed us the creators of the moon, then showed us the earth at the same time. they spoke to us and read the book of genesis. >> the waters under the heavens be together in one place and let the dry land appear in of itself and god called the dry land earth and gathering together of the waters calling, god saw that it was good. and from the crew of apollo 8 merry christmas and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. >> the far side of the moon and the earth rise for the first time seen by human eyes and the television broadcast from orbit of the moon on christmas eve, holy smokes, who wrote that? who is the genius that wrote that script? pretty good.

>> 1968 was a tough year for the country, assassinations, bad stuff happening in vietnam but a great way to end it with people going around the moon for the first time. nobody has been able to do it since, except for the united states. >> then apollo 9 goes up a few months later, does everything it needs to do in earth orbit, then you have apollo 10 that does the same thing as nine does, but they fly all the way to the moon to do it lunar. that works fine. they come back, nobody paid attention to apollo ten. it's a forgotten thing, oh, yeah, they did that, too, what a shame they didn't get to land on the moon and a few months later, it came down to apollo 11. >> what kind of physical sensation do you expect at actual touchdown?

>> i hope it will be relatively mild. there is no intention to make a smooth touchdown we would prefer to come in several feet per second so we will collapse. that bottom step on the ladder is close enough to get down to the moon and more important. close enough to get back up. >> this is cbs coverage of man on the moon. >> it almost was like this enormous fly weal of momentum was gathering speed and the level of public attention on those three astronauts, especially on neil armstrong because by that time we all knew that neil was going to be the first one to put his foot on the moon. >> aldrin will follow 20 minutes

later, armstrong will take that first step in more ways than one. here they are as they left the space center about 6:30 this morning. there the van backs up through the cage elevator and takes them up a couple floors to the second level and then out of that cage through a large hatch across the structure. >> the countdown going well, 28 minutes and counting. >> a picture there of former president johnson and mrs. johnson as they arrive in the vip viewing area. >> our transfer is complete. internal power with the launch vehicle at this time. t minus 15 seconds away from the apollo 11 liftoff and guidance

is internal, ten, nine, ignition sequence starts, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero. ♪ ♪

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back here at our cbs news space headquarters, we're watching the countdown to the landing on the moon and waiting for the spacecraft to come around on this side of the moon again so we can get confirmation that all is still going well. >> 11, you got a pretty big audience that is live in the u.s., that is going live to japan, western europe, and much of south america. appreciate the great show. >> they weren't just going on a pleasure cruise here. they had a lot of work to do. >> they needed to be on the top of their game working together as a crew and with the control center. so they were probably in the zone. i would have been in the zone big-time. >> everything had been tried on the missions leading up to that point except the landing itself.

and there was a good reason for that. the landing was the most complex part of the entire apollo mission. it was essentially a controlled fall. >> go for landing, 3,000 feet. >> we're go. we're go. >> two and a half. >> neil armstrong took over manually during the descent because they were coming down in an area that was the planned area to land, but there were some boulders and other kinds of stuff. so he had to maneuver the lunar lander away from where it was headed to land. which also caused everybody to start worrying, because they had a finite amount of fuel. so for him to do what he did caused everybody on the ground to get really nervous. >> forward, drifting to the right a little. >> contact right. the eagle has landed. >> copy, tranquility. you have a bunch of guys about

to turn blue. >> armstrong is on the moon. neil armstrong, 38-year-old american, standing on the surface of the moon on this july 20th, 1969. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> it was a moment when it seemed like the whole country and even most of the world kind of stopped in their tracks and just took all this in with a sense of wonder and almost disbelief. my god, can this really be happening? >> oh, that looks beautiful. >> it looks different, but it's very pretty out here. >> okay, ready for me to come out? >> okay, i'm on the top step. >> you have got three more steps and then a long one. there you go. we'll raise the flag on the landing gear.

from the planet earth first step foot upon the moon, july 1969. we came in peace for all mankind. >> the real moment of truth is next. they still have to get off the surface of the moon. they push the button on the computer, and then bang. they see the moon receding from them. and then some minutes later, they're back in lunar orbit, and they're on their way to rendezvous with mike collins. >> although the entire world could watch the apollo 11 astronauts take man's first steps on the moon, the predawn darkness of the mid pacific obscured their return to earth. so it was already daylight when the carrier hornet approached and found columbia in the ocean swells. >> i want you to know that i think i'm the luckiest man in the world because i have the privilege of speaking for so many in welcoming you back to earth.

>> it was such a huge event in our country's history. i grew up in new york. this is bigger than the mets winning the world series in 1969. i remember as a little boy looking up to them thinking these guys are even cooler than the beatles. these guys were the epitome of cool. >> there was another one of these suckers scheduled for november. so the people who did it were so busy getting ready for the next one, they didn't have time to celebrate the first one. >> apollo 12, houston? >> hello, houston. yankee clipper with intrepid has arrived on time. >> we didn't actually spend much time asking ourselves about the greater meaning of this. we weren't aware of what was going on around the world in

terms of the reaction of people. we just pressed right on. >> i think i see my crater. there it is, there it is! son of a gun, right down the middle of the road. >> outstanding, 42 degrees. >> it wasn't until afterwards that we began to realize the depth of the significance of it. >> until apollo 11, the moon was an unobtainable mystery. but after apollo 11, the moon is mysterious no longer. >> all of human experience will be divided into two eras. before man walked on the moon and after man walked on the moon. >> the whole world was together at that particular moment. it was an example that in spite of all this going on down here, in spite of all that we're going through, there is hope. >> my generation is the generation that changed the moon from an object to a place. and that will never happen again. there can only be one first time. >> the space program in the 1960s, it set the standard of what we could do. we even say today we can land a

man on the moon, but we can't do this. when we think within the space program, go to mars? yeah, we can go to mars. we went to the moon in 1969. we can do anything. >> to all those americans who built those spacecraft and put their heart and all their abilities into those crafts, to those people, tonight we give a special thank you. to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, god bless you. good night from apollo 11.

>> the enemy of freedom has chosen to make this year the decisive one. >> something's going to happen. the change is on the way. >> we can change america. we can change the world. >> what we need now is a reconciliation in this land. >> there's not anything wrong with you that a good hair cut wouldn't cure. >> rest assured we democrats will stir it up. >> this election year of 1968 has touched emotions. >> i think we have too much violence in this country. >> we go up together, or we go down together. >> and we have that understanding for our fellow citizens, we will have a new america, and i need your help. ♪