♪ she loves you yeah yeah yeah ♪ she loves you yeah yeah yeah ♪ love is all you need the communists seem to be putting us on the defensive on a number of fronts. >> we are behind and i'm sure they're making a concentrated effort to stay ahead. >> we may get beaten more. there are no quick, cheap or easy victories in this game. >> we are aware of the international implications of the project but we're not in this for the race aspects. >> rockets for the lunar trip that will make this one seem puny already are being built. >> the first strides towards the stars were not without tragic setbacks. >> you're aware of the risks. >> we accept the risks.

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we have a good many very talented scientists, but we did not make a major effort in this area for many years. and we're now 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 on the phone now. 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 outer space. he's 27. it's a great historic scientific feat. >> at that time, we didn't really know whether a human could survive in space. and here, boom, the soviets send this guy into space. and he survived. >> yuri gigiden was something

that affected american prowess. that we are ahead of everybody. 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. >> mr. president, could you give us your view, sir, about the soviet achievement of putting a man in orbit, and what it would mean to our space program? >> it is the most impressive scientific accomplishment. i already sent congratulations to khrushchev and to the man that was involved. >> the space race wasn't just about space. it was about our own sense of security. it was this new cold war battleground. and so it wasn't very hard to realize that if they could put a man into orbit, they could also put an atomic bomb in orbit. suddenly the sky was menacing. >> it means they're getting ahead of us and we certainly 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 very impressive for propaganda purposes. but i think if we put our minds to it that 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. >> in 1960, we had astronauts, we hasn't had anybody in space yet, but we were knocking on the door. getting ready to go. we're a little bit behind. we want to catch up, we want to be the leaders. >> there's another question, doctor. that is, do we have the stuff to do it? what would you say we must do to match this 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 an orbital attempt be made. >> the mercury project was our first real response to the sputnik and to yuri gagarin's flight, and it was a big deal for us, i tell you. because all of a sudden we had seven guys, and they were fighter pilot types, very alpha male guys, fun to be around, you know. it was like being with rock stars. ♪ >> it's a gala day in houston as its 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 on behalf of the united states against our most feared enemy, the soviet union. >> what they were hiring these guys for was for mindset. they wanted experienced 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, like we can get killed flying t-33s or t-38s or driving my corvette. we have a job that's fascinating and it's 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 in order that we may bring you the following special broadcast. >> within the next few days, from this guarded wasteland, the first american will be launched into space. he will not go into orbit as yuri gagarin did, but he will ride his spacecraft 116 miles up. and there he will 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. there is some applause from the 120 or so people. and now astronaut shepard descends the gantry 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. liftoff. liftoff. at 34 hours 30 minutes. >> liftoff and the clock is started. all systems are go. >> some lawmakers want to award the medal of honor to shepard, all today appeared ready to spend more money on our space effort, all agreed russia is still ahead. but all this was beside the point for the wife of the first american straud. mrs. alan shepard at virginia

beach, virginia, heard the news with relief. >> if there is shepard, can you tell us what are your feelings on this occasion? >> i don't have to tell you, do i? i'm so happy. it was beautiful, i thought. >> the gagarin flight was a 10. al shepard's flight was a 1 or a 2, 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 so that we could 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

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this is walter cronkite reporting from the capital. 131 over patterson air force base in dayton, ohio. this aircraft is executing a maneuver to make it and everyone in it 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 encyclopedic on it. >> what are the hazards and what are our scientists doing to ensure man's survival in the hostile environment of outer space? that is our story. first man on the moon as a prudential insurance company of america presents the 20th century.t prudential insurance company of america presents the 20th centurh prudential insurance company of america presents the 20th centure prudential insurance company of america presents the 20th centur prudential insurance company of america presents the 20th century. >> this is marine lieutenant colonial john h. glenn jr. who within a few days will be the first american to fly in orbit around the world. >> we're embarking in a completely new field here, space science. and i'm happy and proud i can maybe contribute a little bit 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 to yuri gagarin. >> godspeed, john glenn. three, two, one.

>> this is mercury control. "friendship 7" spacecraft is now committed to its third orbit. >> looks good. we'll see you back. >> all right, boy. >> shortly before he's supposed to re-enter the atmosphere, the word comes that there is a possibility that glenn's heat shield has detached from the base of the capsule. >> go ahead, spaceflight, go ahead. >> we have decided to re-enter with the tank on. >> this is "friendship 7." 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 far safer to

re-enter with the retro rockets on, over. >> roger. understand. >> so normally, the plan is you fire the retro rockets and let them go. but now it becomes clear if glenn does that, he might be burned alive. >> he went through this period of intense ion buildup where you lose contact with him. >> 7, this is cape, do you read, over? "friendship 7," this is cape, do you read, over? >> hello, mercury recovery, this is "friendship 7," do you read me if. >> roger, read you loud and clear, how are you doing? >> that was a real fireball, boy. >> i express the great happiness and thanksgiving all of us that colonel glenn has completed his trip, and i know that this is particularly felt by mrs. glenn and his two children. >> it was quite a day. i don't know what you can say about a day in which you see four beautiful sunsets in one

day but it's pretty interesting. >> now we know that russia need not and will not have any monopoly on manned spaceflight. a new spirit has arisen in u.s. missilemen and our capital. 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 ] with rockets too. >> von brawn 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. >> von braun 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 salute an outstanding group of pioneers.

though 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. it was a personal blow to us because he was the guy that got 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 who 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 always 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's 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're all winners. >> gemini is the space agency's bridge to the future. with it we'll learn man's true capabilities and drawbacks 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 the ability to operate in a new medium that is both fantastically rewarding and terrifyingly dangerous. gemini, moreover, is a rehearsal for apollo, the three-man spacecraft that will get us to the moon. >> the russians surprise with another first in the person of alexi lionoff, who they say became the first man to walk

around in space. >> when he went outside the spacecraft, they said no, he couldn't have done that but the soviets went outside successfully and came back was a shocker. >> the soviet union pushed americans back. was part of the game at the time. >> i would say for most of the '60s, we had a sense of being behind. (receptionist) gunderman group. gunderman group is growing. getting in a groove. growth is gratifying. goal is to grow. gotta get greater growth. i just talked to ups. they got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. like smart pick ups. they'll only show up when you print a label and it's automatic. we save time and money. time? money? time and money. awesome.

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scorpio 6 is on its way to make space history. >> sol, look. >> they see it! >> s-o-l. >> no, no, it's not sol. sos, sos! >> it was 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. but if you grew 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 eva, people were holding their breath. >> there was a real push to get a spacewalk as soon as possible. that turned out to be gemini 4 and ed white's spacewalk was just a magnificent thing. >> okay, i've rolled out and i'm rolling to the right now under my own influence.

there goes a -- looks like a thermal brush. >> it is, ed. >> all right. >> he went out and had this little nitrogen bottle to fire this little thruster that pushed this way, that way. so he could rotate himself around, you know, and so on. and it gave the appearance of being a piece of cake. >> i'm turning over. >> ed, 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. i think as i stepped out, i thought the biggest thing was a feeling of accomplishment of one of the goals of the gemini 4 mission. >> the next major breakthrough will be the bringing together of two orbiting craft. the russians have made one test in their program and presumably have learned something. we have not yet made our 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 lunar orbit rendezvous technique, where the lunar module flew back up, rendezvoused with the command module, you have to bring these two vehicles together and get them close in such a way that it was easy to dock them. took a fair bit of work. >> flying nose to nose, we can very clearly see the rising scanners up there. >> roger. >> that was the moment when we pulled ahead in the space race. that was something that the russians hadn't even clom close to doing and wouldn't accomplish for a couple more years. >> it was an unknown as to how we were going to do that when we first started, but we got good at it, and we mastered it on neil armstrong's sled, gemini 8. >> houston, this is gemini 8. >> houston, we're keeping it at about 150 feet. >> way to go, partner. >> you've done it, boy. you've done it.

good job. >> man, that's great. >> man, that is really slick. >> okay, gemini 8, 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 gyro, in a bank. i said, neil, we're in a bank. >> we've got serious problems here. >> they got up to one revolution a second so we decided to

undock from the aegena, which we suspected was the problem. then the gemini started spinning very rapidly. and then we figured out, oh, it's the gemini. >> what seems to be the problem? >> we're rolling up and we can't turn anything off. >> did he say he could not turn the aegena off? >> no, he said he had separated from the aegena, and he did a roll, and they can't stop it. >> the only way they were able to get out of this thing was for him to fire his 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 gemini 9, 2 1/2 hour walk in space, reporting from the cbs news space center, correspondent walter cronkite. >> the spacewalk is over. the hatch has been locked closed again.

safely back in the spacecraft. it was a disappointing space walk 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 buzz 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 underwater. >> 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 i decided, well, let me just

turn around and take 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 -- the planners, the astronauts, and the people in the control center -- were completely synced and we came out with confidence in ourselves. it was like, let us have this apollo stuff. we're going to take it to the moon as fast as we possibly can.

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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 of that out as we can during the 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 viewpoint. >> and as to how far i want to go, i want to go as far as nasa goes during my useful time as a pilot to them. i'd like to go on a moon flight, and if we go to mars, i'd like to go to that. >> nasa is looking ahead to the first manned apollo flight. this is an early version that was intended only for test

flights in earth orbit. they've had a lot of problems with this spacecraft, but they figure when you develop any new spacecraft, you're going to have bugs. >> no, i didn't read you, chuck, at all. i can't read you, chuck. you want to try the phone? >> how are we going to get to the moon if we can't talk between three buildings? >> i can't hear a thing you're saying. >> jesus christ. >> the regularly scheduled will not be seen at this time in order to bring you this special program. >> it was all over in one stunned, horrifying second. at t-minus ten minutes in a countdown, an electrical spark apparently shot out and ignited the 100% oxygen in the cabin. on closed tv screens, engineers watched flames envelop. they heard their last words of shock and surprise.

the flames enveloped apollo 1. the crew never had a chance. >> news of the tragedy reached the white house shortly after the formal signing of a 60-nation space treaty. president johnson immediately sent condolences to the families of the astronauts, then he issued this statement. three valiant young men have given their lives in service to the nation are 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? [ taps playing ] >> there's reason to believe establishing a deadline of 1970 for the moon flight contributed to their deaths. nasa has acknowledged that success had dulled its earlier apprehensions. but it's determined not to let

it revive fears paralyze the future efforts. and that seems the proper attitude. >> your option to stop or to keep going. in some ways it's 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 is going to meet with tragedy and failure. that's the way humankind has progressed. the complete reorganization of the apollo space program without a doubt happened because of the fire. >> at the langley center an 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're doing tv and you want to talk about something happening, the best way to do it is to go out and do it yourself. and walter enjoyed it. >> what happens if i fall over on my face? >> nothing at all. very simple, very soft. slow motion, in fact. just --

>> she fall over on my face to see? >> right, dust yourself off. >> really? >> right. >> okay. here i go. oh! nothing to it. >> why don't you try jumping a little bit? >> here i go. whoo! 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 5? >> 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 is big. >> the saturn 5 is like the mythic monument to human audacity. no matter how you look at it, this thing was just a mind-blower.

>> saturn 5 was actually three big rockets stacked on top of each other with a spacecraft on the very top with three guys in 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 borman and jim lovell and bill anders have actually been training to fly the first flight around the moon. >> we kind of feel that this flight set the pace to begin the in earnest our lunar landing apollo program. >> the countdown to liftoff for apollo 8 is now t-minus 15 minutes and counting. minutes and countin5 minutes and countin0 minutes and counting. this will be the first manned flight of the saturn 5, 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 5, i never got over it. >> we have ignition sequence. >> and i'm supposed to be talking all through this.

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three, two, one, zero. we have commenced -- we have liftoff. we have cleared the tower. >> oh, there's the rumble in our building. it looks good. it looks like a good flight. this building is shaking under us. our camera platform is shaking. but what a beautiful flight. >> we interrupt this program to present another in a series of onboard television transmissions from the space cap you will brought to you by tang, the breakfast drink of champions. >> 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, frank borman has fixed the tv camera on a bracket below his window

and has turned apollo 8 so it faces the earth. here is communications coming through from the apollo. >> 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 of 1968 showed us the craters of the moon and then showed us the earth at the same time. and spoke to us. they read the book of genesis. >> god said let the waters of the heaven be gathered together into one place. and let the dry land appear. and it was so. and god called the dry land earth. and the gathering together of the waters called he seas. god saw that it was good. and from the crew of apollo 8, meshry christmas and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. >> the far side of the moon and the earthrise for the first time seen by human eyes as well as the television broadcast from

orbit of the moon, i'm sorry, on christmas eve? holy smokes, who wrote that? who is the genius that wrote that script? pretty dang good. >> 1968 was a tough year for the country. assassinations, bad stuff happening in vietnam, people were kind of down. but it was a great way to end it with people going around the moon for the first time. no one's been able to do it since, besides 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 that apollo 9 does but except they fly all the way to the moon to do it in lunar orbit. lunar module goes down to within a few miles of the lunar surface. that works fine. they come back. no one has paid attention to apollo 10. apollo 10 risked death like everybody, and it's just this forgotten thing. oh, yeah, they did that too, what a shame they didn't get to

land on the man. and just a few months later it came down to apollo 11. >> what kind of a physical sensation do you expect at actual touchdown? >> i hope it will be relatively mild. there's no intention to make a smooth touchdown. we were prefer to come in several feet per second so that we will collapse the struts, so that that bottom step on the ladder is close enough to get down to the moon, and even more important, close enough to get back up. >> this is cbs news coverage of man on the moon. >> it was almost like this enormous flywheel of momentum was gathering speed. and the level of public attention on those three astronauts, and especially on neil arm stock. 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 manned space center at about 6:30 this morning. there the van backs up through this cage elevator and takes them up a couple of floors to the second level. then out of that cage and across a few feet through a large hatch in the permanent launch structure. >> the countdown going well, 28 minutes and counting. >> that's a picture there of former president johnson and mrs. johnson as they arrive in that vvvip viewing area.

>> power transfer is complete. we're on 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's live in the u.s. it's 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. hang tight. we're a 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 boulders and some other kind 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. and so for him to do what he did caused everybody on the ground to get really nervous. >> pull forward. drifting to the right a little. >> contact right. the eagle has landed.

>> copy, tranquility. we copy on the ground. we have a bunch of guys that are 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's different but it's very pretty out here. >> okay, ready for me to come out? >> all set. >> okay. i'm on the top step. >> you've got three more steps and then a long one. there you go.

we'll raise the flag that's on the front landing gear. first man from the planet earth set foot on 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. >> neil, buzz and mike, 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 was bigger than the mets winning the world series in '69. i remember as a little boy looking up to them thinking these guys are even cooler than the beatles. these guys are 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 in

tow 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. hey, 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 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 that's going on down here, in spite of all that we're going through, there's 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 we're like, 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.

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