right now, frankly, where they're sort of recalculating and they're trying to sort of gauge our intent. >> reporter: this latest incident came ten days after british royal marines seized an iranian tanker that was about to enter the mediterranean in what officials believe was an attempt to smuggle oil to syria. iran vowed to retaliate and last week attempted to seize a british tanker in the strait of hormuz, but a british warship intervened and warned the iranians away. >> that's the gulf out there, norah. about 50 tankers pass by here every day going in and out of the persian gulf and every one of them is a potential target for iran. >> all right. incredible reporting, david martin, from oman. thank you. more than a few politicians have promised us the moon, but john f. kennedy delivered. and though he did not live to see the success of apollo 11, this launch complex here in florida is named in his honor.

mark strassmann tells us the future of space includes possibly as early as 2024, on the way to mars. >> reporter: this is the orrion. neil armstrong wouldn't recognize what's inside. >> come on down into the step. >> reporter: nasa's orion program manager showed us there's room for four not three. >> three identical displays you can put any display on any one of the panels. >> reporter: nasa wants an sls rocket, the most powerful ever, to launch orion to the moon. but orion and sls are years behind schedule and billions over budget. michael collins rode to the moon

on apollo 11. >> we should now be planning for a visit to mars, a trip to mars makes apollo look lik habitat s long-term living on the red planet. for example, every communication is delayed 20 minutes to reflect the time lag communicating between mars and earth. a moon landing would only be a stepping stone. >> this time when we go, though, we're going to stay. >> reporter: nasa administrator says sustainability is paramount, harvesting the moon's resources including its water ice. >> we're going to improve technology and capability and then we're going to take that technology and capability on to mars. >> reporter: on to mars, but nasa has never laid out a plan of how they're going to get there. the costs would be astronomical, clearly out of this world. but norah, first, they have to find a way to get back to the moon. >> all right. mark strassmann, thank you. still ahead on the "cbs evening news" from the kennedy

space center, our exclusive interview with amazon ceo and space entrepreneur jeff bezos. he may play a critical role in the plan to go back to the moon. while you should heed warnings about the dangers hit about to hit much of the country. and a newly released video may release new clues into a fiery plane crash. s

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nasa has plans to put the first woman on the moon in the next decade and bezos hopes his moon lander will be on that mission. >> jeff, do you imagine that blue origin will be the first company that returns us to the moon? >> we're going to be, i hope, an instrumental part of it in cooperation with dozens of companies and governments. >> reporter: it's all part of a big push to return to the moon. >> what do you think happened since we haven't landed someone on the moon since 1972? did we stop caring? did we stop dreaming? >> my own feeling was that that was such an audacious project that when it was finished the resources to sustain it just weren't available. >> reporter: it was the early 1960s in the height of the cold war. the soviets were the first in space. >> this nation should commit itself. >> reporter: but president kennedy was determined to beat them to the moon. >> landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. >> he saw it as a way to mobilize our country that would

advance freedom and humanity. >> i guarantee there were a lot of people at nasa that day gulping, we're gonna what? >> how important is presidential leadership? >> i guess it depends on what president and where they're leading us. >> reporter: the trump administration's goal is to get us back to the moon in the next five years. >> rich guys seem to like rockets. >> reporter: but the relationship between president trump and bezos at times can seem light years apart. >> jeff, do you need the support of the president? >> to go back to the moon in the timeframe that the administration wants to do it, we absolutely need the support of the government. >> caroline, is it time for a woman to set foot on the surface of the moon? >> of course it is. it's past time. >> reporter: time may be running out on planet earth, which is why bezos says space exploration is critical to our survival. >> we are in the process of destroying this planet. >> reporter: he envisions a day when all pollution-causing industry is moved to the moon. >> eventually it will be much

cheaper and simpler to make really complicated things in space and then send those objects back down to earth. >> how soon can that happen? >> i would think, you know, kind of timeframe of hundreds of years. >> caroline, is that imaginable to you? >> well, if i keep hearing jeff say it then i am beginning to be able to imagine it. >> reporter: blue origin and the other space companies are ramping up operations on the florida space coast. right here where history was made 50 years ago. >> lift-off on apollo 11. >> the only reason that we can do the things that we can do today is because we are, in fact, standing on the shoulders of giants. >> they've got the flag up now. >> all those things that came before are what make it possible to go do these amazing things. >> beautiful. just beautiful. >> let's hope so. next, newly released video could hold clues into the cause of an air disaster. the easiest decision ever.

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will be sweltering in dangerous heatwave over the next two days. it starts tomorrow in the central u.s. then moves east. in many places it will feel well over 100 degrees. extreme heat which scientists link to climate change kills more than 600 americans a year, making it deadlier than all other severe weather events combined. we caution you now, you may find this hard to watch. newly released video shows the horrific crash of a private plane last month at addison airport near dallas. all ten people on board were killed moments after they took off for st. petersburg, florida. as you can see, the plane tilted to the left before crashing into a hangar. investigators say the crew reported a problem with the left engine seconds before the crash. in a moment, we'll take you on a trip back to time to show you what virtually everyone in america was watching on tv on this day a half century ago.

tonight, something extraordinary, the moon has orbited the earth 66 the times since the apollo 11 mission in july of 1969. an astounding 94% of americans with their tvs on watched the coverage. most of the sets were black and white. only a third of u.s. households had color, and most were turned to cbs and walter cronkite. >> this is cbs news color coverage of man on the moon.

>> we are counting down toward the launch of the apollo 11. >> reporter: to cover the mission to the moon, cbs circled the earth. >> peter in paris. >> from seattle. >> in amsterdam. >> reporter:e 3,00 reporters assigned here. >> reporter: cbs news space correspondent david schoumacher was there. >> you know, i was just another tourist down there. >> we have a lift-off. >> when the launch went, everybody stood up and walter had devised his little catch phrase "go, baby, go." and the whole crowd of 500 vips was shouting "go, baby, go." >> reporter: with the astronauts on their way, the coverage would shift to cbs space headquarters in new york. >> we're learning at the same time we're also broadcasting. >> reporter: joel was the director. his job, explaining each stage of that very complicated eight-day mission. >> this shows the docking probe. >> reporter: with space age graphic simulations that

rivalled reality. >> this is the evil genius behind the cbs coverage. >> the place is the lunar surface. >> today there are still people going around swearing that we never went to the moon, that it was all joel that did it all in the studio. >> the eagle has landed. >> reporter: but the actual moon mission stole the show. >> 30 seconds. >> reporter: four days after the launch, more than half a billion people around the earth looked toward the heavens. >> base here. the eagle has landed. >> there it is. >> there was a great fear in the studio. >> i couldn't do that. >> yeah. >> i was calling my shots. and then suddenly i see wally moving his hand and i cut to him. he had a tear in his eye. i see walter, so i grabbed that shot. walter is just rubbing his hands. >> wally, say something. i'm speechless. >> and that's the way it was 50 years ago today. i'm norah o'donnell at the kennedy space center in florida. have a good evening.

this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." all this week we've been marking the 50th anniversary of the apollo mission that landed the first men on the moon's surface. at this moment half a century about three astronauts were about halfway on their way to the moon. the golden anniversary of neil armstrong's historic moon walk is saturday saturday. mark strassmann has the story from the kennedy space center in florida. >> reporter: orion looks like apollo from the outside, but neil armstrong wouldn't recognize what's inside. >> come on down into the step. >> reporter: mark, nasa's orion

program manager, showed us there is room for four astronauts, not three. >> we're going to do what the astronauts will do on launch day. >> reporter: a half century of technological advances. guidance in navigation centers and this control panel. >> three identical displays you can put any display on any one of the panels. >> reporter: nasa wants an sls rocket, the most powerful ever, to launch orion to the moon. but orion and sls are years behind schedule and billions over budget. michael collins rode to the moon on apollo 11. >> we should now be planning for a visit to mars. a trip to mars makes apollo look like child's play. >> reporter: mars is nasa's ultimate goal. this hawaiian habitat simulates long-term living on the red planet. for example, every communication is delayed 20 minutes to reflect the time lag communicating between mars and earth. a moon landing would only be a stepping stone. >> this time when we go, though,

we're going to stay. >> reporter: nasa administrator jim says sustainability is paramount, harvesting the moon's resources including water ice. >> we're going to improve technology and capability and then we're going to take that technology and capability on to mars. the u.s. house of representatives voted to condemn president trump's racist tweets aimed at four first-term congresswomen whom he told to go back to where they came from. the vote was largely along party lines and just the latest chapter in the war of words between the president and his opponents. nancy cordes reports. >> reporter: tension on the house floor today as democrats tried to convince their gop colleagues to condemn the president with immigrant lawmakers taking the lead. >> i came to this country from ba ae 11.

>> i was born in ecuador. >> i igrimd i'toe anmerican. >> reporter: their resolution takes aim at mr. trump's claim that four women of color should go back to where they came from, even though three of them were born here. >> if i was white, people would not tell me to go back to china. >> reporter: the four-page resolution "strongly condemns president donald trump's racist comments that have legitimatized and increased fear and hatred of new americans and people of color." on twitter today, the president insisted, "i don't have a racist >> it's about time we lowered the temperature all across the board. >> reporter: the senate's top republican tried to steer the conversation back to safer waters. >> do you think that the president would be more likely to tone down his rhetoric if republican leaders like yourself spoke out more forcefully against it? >> well, i think i've just said, i think everybody ought to tone down their rhetoric. >> but you've stopped short of calling his comments racist. >> well, the president is not a racist. >> reporter: but none of it dissuaded president trump who

lashed out at the four freshmen lawmakers for the third straight day. >> it's my opinion they hate our country. >> reporter: he hammered what he called their filthy, vile, hateful and disgusting lies, without going into specifics. >> but i have a list of things here said by the congresswomen that is so bad, so horrible that i almost don't want to read it. >> "cbs this morning's" gayle king sat down with members of the so-called squad to get their views on the controversy. >> what did you think when you read the tweet. >> i'm dealing with the biggest bully i've ever had to deal with in my lifetime and trying to push back on that and trying to do all the job that we've all been sent here to do, which is centered around the people at home. this is a distraction. >> do you feel enough republicans have spoken up against the president? >> absolutely not. we just held a vote today and not a single republican could bring themselves, no matter what their public statement or what their public gesture or public

discomfort, they could not bring themselves to have the basic human decency to vote against the statement that the president made on the floor. >> what message does that send? >> the normalization of it. the fact that it's against our core american values, that they're choosing him over country. >> there is both outrage and relief in new york city. the department of justice decided not to bring civil rights charges against the nypd officer involved in the infamous chokehold death on eric garner. garner's family is outraged. the officer's supporters are relieved. jeff pegues reports. >> he was killed in the streets. >> reporter: moments after hearing the decision, eric garner's daughter stormed out of the federal courthouse. >> federal cops don't want to

prosecute. nobody wants to hold nobody accountable. >> reporter: five years ago tomorrow, nypd police officers confronted eric garner over allegations he was illegally selling cigarettes in staten island. >> don't touch me. >> reporter: the arrest was captured by a cell phone camera. within seconds officer daniel pantaleo had wrapped his arms around garner's neck. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> reporter: garner's cries of "i can't breathe" 11 times are among the last words he spoke before his death. today federal prosecutors said the videotape alone was not enough to prove the officers had committed a federal crime. >> the evidence here does not support charging police officer daniel pantaleo or any other officer with a federal criminal civil rights violation. >> there is more trouble in the persian gulf. the iranian navy has apparently seized a foreign oil tanker. the top u.s. military commander for the middle east is on his way to the region and david martin is traveling with him. >> reporter: general frank mckenzie boarded his plane for a

trip to the persian gulf just as news was breaking that iran had seized an oil tanker. the ship called the "riah" is reportedly owned by the united arab emirates and was seen being escorted by iranian naval vessels. at last report it was at anchor off an iranian island. >> i've got nothing more than just initial reports on that. obviously we would take that very seriously. >> reporter: mckenzie stopped today in oman, whose territorial waters extend into the strait of hormuz. he's counting on shows of force from the aircraft carry "lincoln" and b-52 bombers to keep iran from attempting to close the strait. >> our ability to bring forces into the theater has acted to deter them, and i think we're in a period right now, frankly, where they're sort of recalculating and they're trying to sort of gauge our intent. >> reporter: this latest incident came ten days after british royal marines seized an iranian tanker that was about to enter the mediterranean in what officials believe was an attempt to smuggle oil to syria.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome back to the "overnight news." 50 years ago today, three astronauts were preparing to make history. michael collins, buzz aldrin and neil armstrong were in the apollo 11 shuttle speeding through space on their way to the moon in a rendezvous with destiny. armstrong and aldrin would become the first humans to step foot on another planet. >> the actual moon walk, by the way, happened 50 years ago this coming saturday. half a century later, historians tend to agree, it stands as humanity's greatest achievement to date. >> houston, base here.

the eagle has landed. >> reporter: before any steps could be taken here -- >> that's one small step for man -- >> reporter: one giant leap had to be made on earth. >> it's going to be a journey, certainly, for the history books. >> reporter: and it all started with a push. russia launched the first person into space in 1961, inspiring america to reach further. >> we choose to go to the moon. >> reporter: and to get there what we needed is one of these, the saturn five rocket, which was and is the most powerful rocket ever built. here at the apollo saturn five center, you get a sense of its sheer size, 6 million pounds of fuel upon lift-off, enough power to drive the average car around the world 800 times. >> reporter: it commanded the world's attention. more than a million people reportedly travelled to see it. >> this is cbs news color

coverage of man on the moon. >> reporter: millions more tuned in. >> the epic journey of apollo 11. >> >> reporter: as neil armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins headed out for another world. >> so it is now before they go on their gleaming vehicle that is poised and peaceful behind me on pad 39-a that there is time, if only briefly in this busy morning to think of those three men and the burdens and hopes that they carry on behalf of all man kind. >> reporter: and at 9:32 a.m. -- >> ignition sequence start. >> reporter: the sky, it seemed, was no longer the limit. >> lift-off. we have a lift-off. 32 minutes past the hour. lift-off on apollo 11. >> by the time the apollo program wrapped up in 1972, 12 astronauts had been to the moon, collecting rocks, hitting golf balls and driving in the lunar rover, a high-tech dune buggy, but since then, nothing. now nasa has a new goal, to get

americans back on the moon by 2024. mark strassmann has the details. >> this is one of the old apollo capsules. this actually belonged to apollo 14. inside it, three men flew 1/4 million miles to the earth and returned safely. i want to show you now how nasa plans to go back too to the moon. it's been called apollo on steroids. >> reporter: this is orion, nasa's first design of a space ship crew capsule since apollo. what nasa has been testing all the way to splash down we got to see up close at the johnson space center. >> we put these on to make sure when we're getting in and out since we are not astronauts we don't hurt ourselves. >> reporter: from the outside orion looks similar to apollo's capsule. >> come on down into the step. >> reporter: but climb inside. mark oversees nasa's orion program. the capsule is 50% bigger than apollo's, roomy enough for fou

astronauts. >> so you'll be the pilot today, i'll be the commander. >> reporter: at eye level, a 21st century space dashboard. just one example of how this moon shot will be different. >> when we went last time the goal was land a person on the moon and return them safely to earth. and we did that. this time it's a little different. it's about a sustainable, long-term human space exploration program. >> reporter: orion would launch on top an sls rocket designed to be more powerful than the apollo era saturn five. e orion's crew would dock there and take a lunar lander down to the earth's surface. a handful of companies are now proposing designs for gateway. >> watch your head. >> reporter: frank showed us ,his rop grumman's mockup. would be open for the crew to go back and forth. >> reporter: up to four h

that's a berth that a crew member would go in when it's time to go to sleep. >> the apollo astronauts were basically living out of their car to and from the moon. this is more of a home. >> it's a place they can cook their food, gather and socialized but really do their work. >> reporter: but the orion and sls rocket are years behind schedule and billions over budget. in march the trump administration, fed up, ordered nasa to put americans back on the moon by 2024. >> if nasa's not currently capable of landing american astronauts on the moon in five years, we need to change the organization, not the mission. >> reporter: nasa did just that last week. ousting the top two managers of the artemis program. >> it was entirely my decision, but at the end of the day, we need to be very clear that nasa is committed to cost and schedule. >> reporter: nasa administrator

jim says it could take $20 billion additional over five years to meet that new deadline. >> my next step is to get the support from the united states congress. >> how realistic is it we're going to have people on the moon by 2024? >> i think it's realistic if the congress follows what we have put forward, we will have the first woman and the next man on the moon in 2024. >> when this hatch closes imagine three astronauts squeezed inside for eight days for the round trip to the moon. now, without additional billions, nasa has no chance of going back to the moon b ♪

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from the pros in digestive health. . for many americans the 350th anniversary of apollo inc. is an out of this world occasion, and go of those americans are in space right now aboard the international space station. tony dokoupil spoke with them to get their thoughts on the anniversary. >> good morning, guys. >> good morning, tony. it's a pleasure to be with you. >> it looks like you've been having some fun this morning. i've been watching flips and turns. a lot of fun in anti-gravity. i guess my first question is, here we are 50 years from the apollo 11 mission. as you twirl and orbit in space, what does it mean to you? >> i think what it means to us is a great inspirational moment to think back to what the teams were able to accomplish when they really put their minds to something and they took on the challenge that was so huge that they knew it would alter the

course of history. we feel connected to that event because we're so honored to be a part of the space program today and to continue their legacy. we're in a period now where we're able to explore the frontiers of science and uncover and unlock amazing secrets that help to benefit life on earth. so feeling that connection and that inspiration is really what it means to us today. >> nick, you've had the experience of a pretty hairy near abort after launch in a rocket. in fact, it was a full abort. with that in mind, can you help us understand what the apollo 11 astronauts must have been thinking as they prepared for launch 50 years ago this morning? >> you know, i think that every person that's strapped themselves into a rocket thinks the same things. you've spent many years training for that moment to try to do everything perfect and to, you know, if something doesn't work

right with the system, to figure out how to work around it, and that's what we train for. there is a massive team on the ground that prepares you for that. so that's what gives you the confidence going in, knowing that this -- that you've got this gigantic team of 100,000 or hundreds of thousands of people that are supporting you and making it all possible and that they're as committed to making it a successful mission as you are. and so the second time i got into the rocket, i was just as confident as the first time i got into the rocket, and it's because of that team. >> hey, christina, you've said that being in space and seeing the perspective of the earth from above the so-called overview effect has reminded you that we are one on this planet. can you talk a bit about how one's perspective changes being in space and what it might mean if everybody got that perspective? >> you're exactly right. the perspective of looking down on the earth from here is a big reminder that as humans we share the most fundamental aspects of who we are, and that we're way

more alike than we are different, and that those differences are just as exciting and they often arise from just the amazing geographical differences of where we're from on this wonderful planet. i think that the apollo astronauts had an even more amazing perspective of earth. the photograph, the famous photograph of earth rise, earth taken from the moon, really showed us that we are on one planet and that that planet is what sustains us all and what we have in common. and i think that -- if everyone had the opportunity to see that, we would certainly know that deep down we are all the same and we can accomplish the best things and the greatest things when we work together as humans. >> well, nick haig is expected to return to earth in the fall. meanwhile, christina koch will remain in orbit until february 2020, by which time she'll have set the record for the longest single space flight by a woman. back to apollo, tony

dokoupil got a behind the scenes tour of the kennedy space center by somebody who knows his way around, f th of tm walked 6th, 1969 at 4: a.m., the astronauts would have woken up here at astronaut crew quarters. they would have been in a bedroom just down this hallway to the right and made their way to the dining room where on the menu anything they wanted, but what they happened to choose was scrambled eggs, steak, toast, orange juice and coffee. >> how are they thinking about that flight to come? >> i think they're thinking, you've practiced for it so you know what to expect. >> 4:15 a.m. wake up, breakfast, then they show up here in the -- >> suit room. so you got your suit on and sat down in that seat and they hook you up to these panels to make sure everything was working correctly before you headed out. >> so all suited up now the three apollo 11 astronauts walked down this hallway? >> right. with the team supporting them.

standing at the door cheering and clapping. get over here and get on the elevator to get on the astro van to go down to the pad. >> once you go out those doors and you see the cameras and you see the people, i got to imagine these guys realize the whole world is watching. >> you walk out and everybody's cheering and clapping and it makes you feel proud. >> we were just in the crew quarters where the crew gets dressed. >> right. >> correct me if i'm wrong, where the rocket gets dressed. >> the saturn five is still the biggest rocket ever made. to put that thing together, you had to build what it is biggest buildings ever made? >> absolutely. >> these ceilings are 500-plus feet. >> i think it's 535 when you're on the roof. >> we're on our way to the roof. >> we're at the 34 level now and we're going to get on a different elevator that goes all the way to the top. >> 50 years ago the caller transporter would pick up the mobile launcher with the rocket on it. go less than a mile an hour and head out that 3 1/2 mile trek to

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do you think you have work ethic? well, steve hartman found a guy who can teach us all a thing or two. >> reporter: when you reach a certain age, just getting down to the driveway can feel like a full day's work, but for 97-year-old bennie facido of perth amboy, new jersey, overcoming those stairs is just the beginning of his work day. two days a week he clocks in for a four-hour shift. >> there it is. >> his job? bag boy at the local stop & shop. >> see that? see how nice i do it? >> reporter: bennie used to be a warehouse supervisor for a cosmetics company. he supposedly retired back in the '80s but he's been doing odd jobs ever since because he says

he loves a hard day's work and always has. >> what was your first job you ever had? >> who me? >> yeah. >> a shoe shiner. we had a shoe shine shop when i was young. >> at what age? >> 7 or so. >> so you'd shine shoes and then what did you do? >> then i'd go home. >> no, what was your next job. >> i went to barber school and then i went to the army. >> he was a gunnar on a b-25 mitchell bomber flying mostly over northern africa and italy. today his italian casualties are far less consequential. but he still approaches his job with that same tireless warrior-like determination. for example, bennie says he'd sooner stack a honey dew on white bread than loaf around the job. >> i don't take no breaks. >> no breaks? >> no breaks. >> bennie will never take a break. >> never? >> never. >> mike moss is the assistant

manager. >> what if you went up to him right now and said, bennie, it's break time? >> he'll yell at me. >> i learned that the hard way. >> i don't want it. >> take a break. take a load off. >> i don't want to stop. don't tell me how to work. see the light on? that's where i'm going. >> when i pressed bennie on this, he said something really interesting. he said, why would i take a break when i only get to work four hours? he actually put it that way. i only get to work four hours, as if bagging groceries was some kind of privilege bestowed upon him. >> i get a feeling that i did something good. >> mmm-hmm. >> you can't just s like an idiot. you have to have a reason to keep alive. >> you're welcome, sir. >> reporter: for bennie, that reason is to go out and earn, not just a paycheck but a purpose. he says you need to contribute at all times and avoid breaks at all costs. >> you go sit down. >> no, i don't want to sit down. >> there is no slowing him down.

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