forever linked to commander jim lovell. >> when the explosion occurred why not apollo 12414?uld not believe what was happening. then i said it is me. it is now. what i n

forever linked to commander jim lovell. >> when the explosion occurred why not apollo 12414?d it is me. it is now.

they said, 13 would be fine >>neil: it would give lovell who went to space three times and orbited thehance to walk on the surface that much sooner. apollo 13 launched at 13:13 and would enter orbit on april 13 but the crew were having nothing but good luck, 56 hours into the flight they finished a broadcast showing how comfortably they lived and worked in weightlessness. >> the crew of apollo 13. >> nine minutes later oxygen tank number two blow up causing the number one tank to also fail. >> houston, we have a problem. words that would be forever linked to the commander. >> when the explosion occurred, i thought, why me? why not another one? i could not believe what was happening and then i said, well, it is me, it is now, so what's next? >> the normal supply of electricity, light and water, all lost, with no heat source, they were 200,000 miles from earth and going in the wrong direction. >> did you think you might die? >> well, we thought our chances were 50/50. we realize of a we saw the oxygen escaping it could be really bad. >> as the world wanted, ground control in houston face

had a collapse the soviet union collapsed the economy collapsed down to less than half its former lovelle order broke down the belief system broke down on everything that there are many things that people contribute to happy to stand by. all at once practically everything went wrong for russia and what had been the great superpower with the us became part of the soviet union that had broken away and was no longer a superpower it was a time of economic social collapse and the happiness level would wait here i am glad to be able to say since nine hundred ninety nine it's begun coming up and by two thousand and five it was almost it was about halfway back to where it had been and by two thousand and eleven who needed a most recent study it would be to me in the communist times no no no no no. ok the world under the what i mean by sort of the norm the place where i would expect it to be in terms of its economic level i see i would expect russia to be happier than nigeria because it's much richer yet so it actually has fallen way below it you know which is really dreadful and i could see the s

. >>> going to the close of a gain of 80 points and our old friend from "power lunch" days, chuck lovelle ringing the closing pebble and much more now from washington with maria bartiromo on the "closing bell." >> it's 4:00 on wall street. do you know where your money is? hi, everybody. welcome back to "closing bell." i'm maria bartiromo coming to you live from the white house. stocks rallying and closing off the best levels of the session after senate majority leader harry reid warned it will be tough to reach a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff before christmas. we all note deadline, december 31. take a look at how we're finishing the day. the dow jones industrial average up about 80 points today. it was higher, much higher than 100 points earlier today, up two-thirds of 1%. volume on the light side this afternoon. nasdaq composite picked it up. technology up better than 1%. s&p 500 also on the upswing. markets maintaining steady gains all day long. david kudlow and bob pisani and barbara from the street. welcome to all of you. what about coming off the best levels? >> hitting search-week

came through the historical progression of circumnavigation and how that ends up with our concept of lovell that we have today? >> i actually am not so interested in global because i think that's very well studied. everyone kind of understand. global is social. it looks at human relations that exist through different -- around the globe. planetary is physical or natural and that is really what i'm interested in doing, it's how people's ideas about not just the physical planet in the abstract but then how each individual human body or human technology can kind of measure it to determine something in relation to that. i think there was an accumulating form of knowledge through each of the three periods that i defined so it was very well understood by commanders of the early americans of the navigation that were going to do something incredibly dangerous. that was what you did. by the 19th century, the idea was to stay alive and everyone thought that was a brand-new goal. it actually did work. interestingly, another gold would be not to harm anyone along the way which is certainly not been cha

jon: jim lovell, one of my all-time heroes.ou can catch the entire documentary, fox news reporting, fly me to the moon, airing this sunday 9:00 p.m. eastern time right here on fox news channel. heather: i will definitely tune in for that. that is a good one. you heard of pacemakers for the heart but how about one for the brain? a promises new break through offering hope to alzheimer's patients. >>> plus how do you like your cup of joe? these elephants help make one of the world's most exotic coffees. 50 bucks a serving. the coffee beans, that's a whole different story. stay tuned. ligations, but oblig. ligations, but oblig. i need to rethink the core of my portfolio. what i really need is sleep. introducing the ishares core, building blocks for the heart of your portfolio. find out why 9 out of 10 large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. call 1-800-ishares for a prospectus which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. read and consider it carefully before investing.

say we get rid of alone and have a rational set of limits on the student loans based on the degree lovell that will specify what the likely in come as going to be. the annual limits of will be proportional. i think that we need to do more on the back end. bankruptcy discharge available. we need to restore a statute of limitations. i see many examples in which the loan records are computer printouts and there is no copy of the promissory note. the lender denies it, and records from 30 years ago are often hard to come by. i had a senior citizen approach me that said i could not borrow those loans because i was incarcerated. proving that he doesn't own the loans, he has to, not only under the rules, he has to state that someone else forged the signature, but he has to have been caught and prosecuted for him to get one of these false certifications. that is almost impossible to do. we need to attack this from every angle. >> in the province -- in the public good model, the government funded most of it. 73% of the operating budget came from the state. we have to find other ways to generate rev

say we get rid of alone and have a rational set of limits on the student loans based on the degree lovellhat will specify what the likely in come as going to be. the annual limits of will be proportional. i think that we need to do more on the back end. we'd have a bankruptcy discharge available. we need to restore a statute of limitations. i see many examples in which the loan records are computer printouts and there is no copy of the promissory note. the lender denies it, and records from 30 years ago are often hard to come by. i had a senior citizen approach me that said i could not borrow those loans because i was incarcerated. proving that he doesn't own the loans, he has to, not only under the rules, he has to state that someone else forged the signature, but he has to have been caught and prosecuted for him to get one of these false certifications. that is almost impossible to do. we need to attack this from every angle. >> in the province -- in the public good model, the government funded most of it. 73% of the operating budget came from the state. we have to find other ways to ge

this is a situation where we really do need to do as much as we can on the state lovell and on the federal level. stepping back and saying, can we give grants directly to business owners? we can make sure that they stay in business. i live in the flood zone, i walked every day to work down first street and business after business is boarded up. it is a major concern what that impact is going to be. certainly, extending the deadline would be helpful, but really looking at the -- >> lowering the rate, having expressed grants -- >> those businesses that are teetering, the grant will make the difference between them staying in business and providing jobs and improving the quality of life are literally going out of business. these next two months are crucial for some many businesses. it is a challenge, but i think there are many businesses at that state. the grant program to help make sure that businesses stay in business ultimately will help the economy. otherwise, as all of you know, it is a spiraling impact. >> let me reconcile some numbers. you referred to 100,000 businesses. my records sho

say we get rid of alone and have a rational set of limits on the student loans based on the degree lovell that will specify what the likely in come as going to be. the annual limits of will be proportional. i think that we need to do more on the back end. we'd have a bankruptcy discharge available. we need to restore a statute of limitations. i see many examples in which the loan records are computer printouts and there is no copy of the promissory note. the lender denies it, and records from 30 years ago are often hard to come by. i had a senior citizen approach me that said i could not borrow those loans because i was incarcerated. proving that he doesn't own the loans, he has to, not only under the rules, he has to state that someone else forged the signature, but he has to have been caught and prosecuted for him to get one of these false certifications. that is almost impossible to do. we need to attack this from every angle. >> in the province -- in the public good model, the government funded most of it. 73% of the operating budget came from the state. we have to find other ways to

this is a situation where we really do need to do as much as we can on the state lovell and on the federal level. stepping back and saying, can we give grants directly to business owners? we can make sure that they stay in business. i live in the flood zone, i walked every day to work down first street and business after business is boarded up. it is a major concern what that impact is going to be. certainly, extending the deadline would be helpful, but really looking at the -- >> lowering the rate, having expressed grants -- >> those businesses that are teetering, the grant will make the difference between them staying in business and providing jobs and improving the quality of life are literally going out of business. these next two months are crucial for some many businesses. it is a challenge, but i think there are many businesses at that state. the grant program to help make sure that businesses stay in business ultimately will help the economy. otherwise, as all of you know, it is a spiraling impact. >> let me reconcile some numbers. you referred to 100,000 businesses. my records sho