i didn't use a long lens so i gets the credit when it's the earth rise mean to you. well i'm proud to have been lucky enough to take the picture that maybe define. the start of the environmental movement i mean of the bigger stars. it really and has influence well beyond my imagination a lot of people not only is the earth fragile and and beautiful but it's very small and i think that last message is just beginning to creep in to people that we're not the center of the universe as people would like to think and i think that picture along with the hubble telescope deep space view you know where the even looking through a tiny little hole in the universe there's millions of go axes and so though we have still i think a lot of people think we're the center of the universe or it's clear that that's not true and i think the earth rise picture has helped people start thinking in

a more expansive way but you guys all three of you you're pretty religious you had religious convictions yet faith when you see for the first time how the earth right does that somehow change your perception of god based religion. if people everybody's free to believe what they want and of course if you go back you know sooner or later you have to wonder in the creation of the universe who was it or what was it that divided by zero and we get all this but i must say it did affect my religious views they became much more much broader than my narrow catholic upbringing and john graham said that compliment was for all humanity did you feel that at that time we felt that well particularly i felt it as a air force fighter pilot fighting the cold war. that we were there to prove not just. to ourselves and the american people but prove to the whole world

that america wasn't second rate when certainly the soviets are now the russians with sputnik and guard gerund the missile gap were making america look really bad when you think of that garrett want us to symbolize to me. i don't think this the russians have gotten the full credit for sputnik. i mean i know he's a hero of the soviet union but you know me he just had to be at the right place at the right time but to be the first human to. get away from the earth we were the first to get really away from the earth but he was the first to get up there i think. that makes him and that the russia and soviet union something they could really be proud of now you've said if it hadn't been for the russians wouldn't have had public support for the taxes that were required to beat

the commies as an air force pilot how did the cold war motivate you well i was chasing him and i say dirty commies i well i'd probably bet it but. i was chasing russian bombers soviet bombers around iceland and carrying nuclear rockets to shoot them down if they attacked our country and there would not be the political support for john f. kennedy's sort of crazy statement of what we're going to go to the moon had it not been for american paranoia over the russians over the soviets and that was particularly made clear even to the farmers in iowa who pay taxes by sputnik and that space budgets right now are being cut. defense budgets are still secure yet we know that you know to say it's in a financial trouble as a former defense industry top man which should be the top priority right now well. that's a long i. a somewhat different than most of my colleagues do i think the our space

program has been on the wrong track ever since the end of apollo with the space shuttle well i think the space shuttle is spectacular it is a dead end program and that certainly brought the point by it being terminated and now we have to hitch rides with our prior competitors who must be laughing up their sleeves that the americans who got to the moon first now have to ride on russian rockets. the space shuttle was supposed to cost one tenth per pound orbit in the saturn five modified modified it cost ten times now in retrospect that's a hundred fold so the space shuttle is spectacular as it is a nasa hollow from the inside out so it's too bad in my view that we went down this path right it did a lot of wonderful things but it streamlined high cost not the least of which is

basically to. marginalize nasa now the other question which should be i mean i think every nation needs to make sure that its defenses are strong enough to defend its country and maybe do a little more i think united states is trying to be the policeman around the world i frankly think that's a mistake. that's our peace loving president obama is doing that. do you find that the world is less fascinated now with the space exploration that it was the nineteenth it seemed to feel like the public interest shifted to a different sphere. first of all the apollo program was not an exploration program it was a political program to demonstrate to the soviets the rest the world that the united states was not second rate we barely were able to do that did you feel that it was a political mission when you're flying. they were our job was to put the american flag on the moon. and and if we had any time to pick up rocks well ok but don't

don't cause and you don't have any accidents. fortunately the rest of the world and american public are also fascinated by the exploratory aspects they're not willing to pay for that they're only willing to pay to beat the russians are. they being evil well i mean that's the way america felt and i'm sure that the people of my age in the soviet union felt the same way moves mutually assured destruction you know you can't get too cooperative over that but how important is the aspect of exploration right now for you well it's important but we don't have the public to pay for their won't they won't pay the cost of going to mars ok they'll they'll pay to my amazement they'll pay to go into afghanistan and you think learned from the soviets that that was a big mistake. but they all seem to pay for that they will bamma is finding out

that maybe they won't but. exploration everybody can rhapsodize over the whole bowl but they're not willing to pay the taxes for unfortunately if my words are ok if i were premier i'd say we're going to go back to the moon. i'm not not. not not premier when you think about the average age of a team on the ground in twenty four and looking back at it do you feel safe to trust a bunch of twenty year olds now trust them more than the old guys. well that was in a period when we had some very good elderly leadership. but that leadership was smart enough to leave a lot of the technological and quick decisions up to the young people it was very they had a lot of screening and they were tested time and time again but there was a. they the management listened to the younger people.

and i'm not sure i could say the same about the soviet for thank you very much for this interview nice to be with yourself or. just so.

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fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help fund the rebels. are those are the headlines here on our dive headfirst into the latest in the world of sports. it's all going down in the world of great aria and this week it certainly is you know the n.f.l. should i finish strong means it's like a treasure hunt at the moment there's free agents being plucked here right everywhere what about a regular football we have a battle of your approaching right that said yeah the regular season is in europe so it's all pre-season football at the minute but there is a big game approaching as you say versus byron munich should be a good one we have more not just the second. have you with us this is sports today i'm you know these are some of our stories in the. final count on barcelona on fire in munich make uproots of the decider of the

star studded cup tournaments. three hundred sixty five days uncontained today marks the one year to go mark until the london olympic games kick off with several venues on sale for the very first time. on take your pick the russian premier league restarted last weekend up for a three week summer break each and every strike that found the net in our goals good work. let's get going pitch side were. moved to within ninety minutes of their first trophy of the new season shootout winners over international in the only cup semi finals brazilian i fit international previously met barcelona in the world club cup five years ago beating them the bookies pep guardiola his men for being better this time around the i go putting the cattle on giants ahead with a quarter of an hour gone but internationale ten minutes after the break right back

nine making it. the teams exchange more goals in the second half with jonathan doing the necessary to give the spanish european champions a two one lead before the under a level for the south americans five minutes from time however the same man would miss is penalty kick and the ensuing should force a benchley taking it to. meet byron munich in the side or after the local favorites and start milan in the game this one also decided on penalties after regulation finished up one one there's lots of it show playing the italians a commentary on. netting up in just five minutes but tell me tied to savings half an hour later firing home from the edge of the area around alberta then missed his kick in the ensuing should all it's well converted all four of their efforts to progress into the final. weight i. knew were in the world

football challenge tournaments you ventas soft mexico club america despite being tied to ten men in the last fifteen minutes christian past what's with the winner in the forty second minute surprising sistas think being up the mexican for so far she did all of their players by the seventy five minutes but it didn't affect the fun. thing with football where month chester city looks set to confirm one of their biggest ever signings this week the big spenders agreeing a fee for sergio aguero sixty two million us dollars is the asking price by that equipment trade meaning a girl will become the most expensive signing ever for the sky the twenty three year old is currently in time for a medical with a deal not thought to be a formality grows netted seventy four goals in auburn seventy five games for example who has played for since two thousand and six he also helped his national side argentina win gold at the two thoughts in the beijing olympics scoring

thirteen goals and thirty three and says so far internationally. tev is looking set to be staying up to eastlands monitor cheney should not have an all argentine strike force at his disposal next. so mayor michael phelps has finally had his hands on a gold medal at the aquatic world championships the american winning the two hundred meter butterfly which of pounds to keep a close second the american leading the halfway stage but then watched his advantage disappear fifty meters from the finish the twenty six year old showing some world class bursts to touch the wall for paying of china out of the bronze medal for the hosts. a ways away from his own world record finishing just under two seconds off his one minute fifty one point five second more. news twenty ten winter olympics silver medalist in freestyle skiing pietersen has committed suicide a twenty nine year old known speedy was found in utah with

a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head police also found a suicide note but refused to reveal wanted said the american call nine one one right before shooting himself peterson had battled alcohol issues on the side for driving under the influence on friday he will be remembered as one of the most colorful high risk personalities in professional school. twenty twelve olympic games are today exactly are your away london using the occasion to show off some new arenas for the first time organizers hoping the new aquatic center. swimming pool the biggest such venue in the world will cause us last globally the pool area will be able to see it up to seventeen and a half thousand people lots three times more than the one used in beijing in two thousand and eight olympic chief steve england where the rest of the venues are close to completion will be ready well in. now it's an incredibly hectic time

for all those involved in american football free agents are being snapped up on plenty of players will have a new home as the n.f.l. gets back to business after ending a lockout lasting over four months similar scenes to this all across the country with he faces getting used to new surroundings like some francisco forty nine ers rookie quarterback colin kaepernick all players were bouncing from facility since march but will miss only one pre-season game that on august seventh the regular season then begins on september the. i think there's a virtue and. you know we know how to make me go for last and you know so we're here to do you know we've chosen our coaches and we believe in ourselves and we were really very pleased in football the computer room national football league and finally we've now reached game week seventeen in the longest ever russian premier league football season not a single score last game last weekend with twenty one strikes in all finding their

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with the minds of many a percent a close look at the. news live from moscow city. the infamous private security firm once known as blackwater is back in court this time though it's not over alleged killings in iraq and afghanistan but billed washington to much for its services to former employees accuse it of more than one hundred million dollars in bogus expenses the company which is now. provides a more mercenaries for the us in afghanistan than anybody else and has been implicated in a number of scandals as contractors who were accused of gunning down seventeen unarmed civilians in back in two thousand and seven for which no one has been

punished the company is due an even bigger role in afghanistan and the u.s. about to double its private army to replace departing troops meanwhile the un wants tighter control over most injuries to protect human rights but as artie's garniture can reports it's more convenient for the u.s. to use hired her hands and hired guns since their actions slip under the radar. this iraqi men son nine year old allie khilnani was shot dead by private american war contractors four years ago his brain felt something ground between my feet and on the same day dozens of other innocent iraqis were shot by trigger happy us professional killers like they were trying to everyone they could see no one at blackwater the firm for whom the hired guns work has been punished for the massacre two other private american security companies were contracted to carry out interrogations at the notorious abu ghraib prison in iraq a name synonymous now with horrific human rights violation.