and then mike collins, who orbit over the moon while the two men descended is really, you know -- if you want a guy to back you up, that's the guy. he did every part of his job perfectly. he wrote a fantastic memoir called carrying the fire. if you haven't read it you got to read it. it's one of the finest books written by anyone at nasa. and he ended up becoming the first head of the air and space museum and he paints watercolor. and there's buzz aldrin who's no longer eugene who officially changed his name to buzz. and buzz was actually a very interesting person because he did everything he possibly could to become an astronaut. he went for an air force career because he wanted to be an astronaut. he studied rendezvous and rocking at mit because he wanted to be an astronaut and when he actually became an astronaut he was so aggressive in pursuing his career that he sort of alienated most of the executives there. and to the point where even though nasa follows the navy in a lot of ways, the original agency was born under the navy and a lot of people from the navy are working at navy

what do you suppose mike collins is doing right now as we're 52 minutes away from liftoff?> well, as you know that mike collins is sitting over on the right-hand side of the command module. he'll be monitoring all the systems during the launch. but neal armstrong is sitting over in the seat that i'm sitting in now. >> thank you very much, bob. we'll be back to you many times during the flight. we have a mock up of lunar module which is built by the grumman aircraft corporation. we have dick and terry, both of grumman standing by there. gentlemen, your big moment comes a few days from now. dick, where are you? you're standing in the armstrong position? >> right here, frank. >> reporter: you're standing right in front of the window he will look out actually for the last 500 feet or so as he comes down to make that visual sighting, right? >> that's correct. >> reporter: and, terry, you are standing where buzz aldren will be standing. he will be calling out nulls and altitudes and various other information. >> that's right. this is the lmp side of the cockpit. >> reporter: do y

mike collins, 1930. we came along at exactly the right time. that pendulum stopped for us in the middle. we had survived hazardous careers and then successful in them. but in my own case, it involved 10% shrewd planning and 90% blind luck. lucky -- that is how, limited to one word, i would describe my life. lucky to have had loving parents, lucky to have found packed -- lucky to have found pat. children. so that i can spend my time doing things i like. what more can i ask? i split my time between southern florida and new england. i have a small paddle boat with which i fit -- with a wish by fish. i get a good exercise along the way. i do some watercolor painting. i'm not a pro, but i'm trying to get better. i read a lot, cook, do one triathlon a year, worry about the stock market, keep looking for a good bottle of cabernet under $10. [laughter] i am moderately busy and happy. so, put lucky on my tombstone, but not too soon. [laughter] [applause] >> thank you, general collins. our final speaker this evening is apollo 11 commander neil armstrong.

command module pilot mike collins, ninety nine.command module pilot buzz aldrin, 88. >> heart rates for such an incredible moment, and well down from the test flights the astronauts had taken, showing just how effective the training was. we are also seeing today the video from the apollo 11 mission, including this -- the moment the stars and stripes was planted on the surface of the moon. the original tapes of the mission were apparently destroyed when nasa began erasing old magnetic tapes to reuse them. thankfully, though, we still have all this broadcast footage, now made even clearer thanks to a broad -- modern technologies. shepard: thanks. as we near the anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing. tomorrow night, we will have a special, another fox news reporting documentary. this one -- "apollo 11: one small step to our future," 10:00 eastern, 9:00 central. if you cannot be around, recorded. you will be glad. he said director speaking out -- the cia director speaking about his proposal to send hit teams after al qaeda leaders.

. >> -- greta: mike collins came up through the ranks. he was the creator of the famous mission patch for apollo 11. >> he is clear to command. greta: it is virtually impossible to imagine any nasa operations in space without the men of mission control. >> they came from rural background. the had a spectacular work ethic. the key thing was that they were all young, optimistic. they basically look at themselves as bulletproof. greta: nasa suffered its first tragedy on january 27, 1967. the apollo 1 crew died on the launch pad due to a fire in the capsule. >> i cannot accept the fact that we lost three of our friends, three of our colleagues before we ever got an apollo space ship off the ground. >> we recognize that it was our failure that resulted in the death of our crew. >> when you talk about risk, we did not take risk for granted. greta: risk always lingered. neil armstrong was nearly killed when he was training in a lunar lander test vehicle. >> the space craft started to pitch and gyrate. it looked like it was almost vertical. greta

he'll be meeting with astronauts, mike collins, neal armstrong, buzz al drinks some of us remember where we were on that day, having our parents force us to watch this historic event. very sketchy memory. smiles all around. >> some memories less sketchy than others. mike, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> okay. >>> there's a new poll that shows what americans think the health care fix will mean for them. we'll have those results for you in just a couple minutes. >>> 65 high school students on a trip to china are under quarantine this morning after one of them was hospitalized with swine flu. the students from st. mary's school in medford, oregon, are being held in a beijing hotel until wednesday. the teams left home earlier this week for a language and culture camp sponsored by the chinese government. >>> new questions today for san francisco transit authorities over what caused two trains that crashed. a train ran into the bam of a stopped train that was unloading passengers. 47 people were injured including the conductor of one of the trains. >> -- asleep or passed out. he was no

a short time thereafter, the apollo 11 astronaut, neil armstrong, mike collins and buzz aldrin, settled in to the spacecraft and we continued to count. >> we got a nice picture on the screen right now. i want to jump forward to the call that you got from walter cronkite as we remember him today. what do you remember about that phone call? what was that conversation like? >> of course, i worked professionally with walter for more than 15 years and it was always a pleasure. the big thing i admired was the tact of his objectivity. when walter said that's the way it is, that's the way it was. he also touched my life personally on several occasions. the first one was from the first man launch i did. i got home that night and of all people, walter cronkite called me to congratulate me. when walter congratulated me, i thought i did pretty well. the same thing occurred after apollo 11. but personally, i had dinner with my late wife, evelyn, and myself had dinner with walter and betsy, about three days before launch, we found a quiet restaurant in the south part of cocoa beach and walter was the

do some repair work while this afternoon the men of apollo 11, neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, and mike collinsident obama. mr. obama called the trio genuine american heroes and expressed gratitude for what they achieved that historic day. our correspondent is tom costello. >> two and a half. >> reporter: even today, 40 years later, we seem to hold our breath when we see it. >> the eagle has landed. >> reporter: through a miracle of 1969 technology, nasa had defied the odds and landed two men on the moon. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: 600 million people around the world watched live as neil armstrong and then buzz aldrin took those first steps. only 12 men ever walked on the moon, the last in 1972. the u.s. had won a key battle in the cold war. today the apollo 11 command module sits at the air and space museum in washington. >> by winning that space race we demonstrated to our allies and potential allies and indeed the whole world that the united states was second to none when it came to science and technology. >> nbc's jay bashary has covered every

a fascinating glimpse of what was on the minds of astronauts neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, and mike collins as they headed into space and into history. there is a lot of technical talk, obviously, but there is also talk about the view from space and looking down on earth's weather. >> most of the united states was clear and it looked like a front stretching from the center of the country up across north of the great lakes and into new foundland. >> roger, do you copy? >> i don't know what i was looking at, but i shyra did like it. >> i guess the view must be pretty good from up there. >> nasa has also released newly enhanced video of the moon landing, those magical moments when neil armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> and when the stars and stripes was proudly planted on the moon, a potent symbol of american power, ingenuity, and determination. the culmination of a mission that, as president nixon told the astronauts, changed everything. >> because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. >>

commander neil armstrong, buzz aldren and mike collins. armstrong and collins have already entered their command module and buzz aldren will be entering to join them in a few moments to begin this epic journey and we shall all see it. jules bergman is at the cape. there has been a minor difficulty developed there at the cape. let's get a report now on just what is being done. >> reporter: good morning. we're at t minus 2:28. the astronauts were awakeened at 4:15 a.m. this morning, just about three hours ago after having gone to bed about 9:20 last night and immediately after a quick medicalthe traditional astronaut breakfast of steak and eggs. spacecraft commander arm strong will be 39 just a few days from now having his breakfast. you can see the clouds over the ocean. they haven't yet truly developed over the land area and if it stays this way, everyone in the country and millions of people gathered around central florida will get a spectacular eyewitness news of apollo 11 lifting off. >> here we are on the 16th day of july about to seas

mike collins was the third person on the original crew of apollo 8 at that time.ime, or maybe it was 9 at the time, i forget. and then mike had a medical problem, so i replaced him. so i was sort of the "oddball" guy out. but when the decision was made to go to the moon, personally i was elated. because i was not looking forward to another earth orbital flight with frank borman. [laughter] you see, i spent 14 days with this gentleman. [laughter] >> they came back engaged. [laughter] that's ok today, but -- >> the way things are now, we could get married. [laughter] >> where do i go from here? [laughter] >> don't ask. >> what they're referring to, the gemini flights were the preoccursors to apollo. they were very small, half the size of a volkswagen. and they flew -- it was a 14-day mission, right? >> yeah. >> and all of those gemini flights were, again, a steppingstone to apollo and mostly it was involved in developing rendezvous techniques, because we knew at that point that there was going to have to be rendezvous -- at that point there had been a decision to do

mike collins, 30. we came along at exactly the right time.t pendulum stuck for us in the middle. we had survived hazardous careers and been successful in them. but in my own case, at least, it involved 10% shrewed planning and 90% blind luck. lucky that is how glenn did the one word i would describe my life. lucky to have found -- lucky to have had loving parents, lucky to have found pat. lucky to have two great daughters and seven great grandchildren. lucky not to be rich. i think most rich people develop problems. but they're not poor either. so that i can spend my time doing things that i like. what more could i ask? the things that i like, i split my time between southern florida and new england. i have a small paddle boat with which i fish, stripe bass in the north and snook in the south. geing good exercise along the way. i do some water color painting. i'm not a pro like my friend al bean. but i'm trying to get better. i read a lot, cook, do one triathlon a year, look at the stock market, keep looking for a really good cabernet under $

six for the record are max baucus of montana, kent conrad of north dakota, jeff bingman, susan collins, mikesley. any time there is a contentious issue in the senate that requires some kind of vote, there's a gang that forms. we've seen gangs of 14, gangs of eight. this is the gang of six. the switchblades are out. shepard: gangs are a problem coast to coast. thank you so much. new accusations that two high-profile senators knew exactly that they were getting sweetheart deals from one of the country's biggest mortgage lenders. a company that was at the very center of the subprime meltdown that helped kick start the recession. according to an interview now made public by republican oversight investigators, a former executive at countrywide financial has testified secretly before the senate ethics committee. and in that testimony, we have learned the executive claims, the connecticut senator chris dodd and the north dakota senator, kent conrad, were well aware that they were getting or i should say arranging their personal mortgages below market value. now, both democrats have previously denie

. >>> and 40 years ago today, astronauts neil armstrong, buzz aldrin and mike collins began their tripw nasa is celebrating the "apollo 11" mission. >>> here's the latest from "hln news and views." i'm richelle carey. thank you for your time. we have new details in the shooting deaths of florida couple byrd and melanie billings who adopted at least a dozen children with special needs. in a news conference today, the state attorney, bill eddins, said an eighth suspect, that woman there, that is pamela long wiggins, has been arrested and charged with being an accessory after the fact. she is now free on bond. the couple was killed last week. and investigators believe it was a home invasion robbery. eddins also said investigators have found some key evidence in this crime. >> you have located evidence, valuable evidence. we have located the safe. the safe is being processed at this time. we have located several guns in various locations, one of which we belief is the murder weapon, we believe. it has not been processed yet. >> escambia county sheriff david morgan says he is accepting help

apollo won't be replicated because you can't replicate neil armstrong, buzz aldrin and mike collins. they've become icons in american culture exhibting those uniquely traits, boldness, courageousness and excellence. those individuals were the finest in their field. but as a crew and as an extension of the nasa family that made apollo such a success and as representatives of this great nation that sent them forward through the havens they became heroes worthy of a praise that will be offered over the next few days. may the example they set as individuals drive us personally. may the success of the lessons of the apollo program guide us collectively and may the knowledge of what they achieve as a nation inspire us to do bold things going forward. i yield back my time. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new mexico. mr. lujan: mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas. mr. hall: mr. speaker, i yield to the congressman from georgia, dr. broun, the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore

mike has seen just about everything. he has been a principal in the d.c. area. and he recently retired. as pat collinsrsa has a final lesson every parent should hear. >> reporter: for the final time, mike dersa walks the halls of springbrook high school. he retired just a few days ago. dersa has s. a district native, a product of private schools. st. john's high school and then catholic university. >> it's really been a great ride. i have been extraordinarily fortunate. i always say i was presented with a good education whether i received it or not, the jury is probably out. >> reporter: but it was in public schools that dersa earned a reputation as a tough, fair, and effective principal. he's been at it for more than 30 years and three jurisdictions. including seven years at wilson high school in the district, seven years at yorktown high school in arlington and for the last 13 years, the principal at springbrook in montgomery county. in all of that time, in all of those schools, mike dersa has learned a lot of things and he speaks about them candidly. drugs -- >> i think today's students are probabl

that's why the discussions i mentioned between max back us, chuck grassley and olympia snowe, susan collins, mike hatch may be amenability to a compromise. the question is, can they strike the deal before democrats run out of the patience and say, you know what? we have this reconciliation procedure pro, we can pass it with only democrat votes, let's try to do that. but even that won't be easy. if you turn away from the republicans and do a democrats-only deal, watch some of the conservative democrats to say, wait a minute, let's put the brakes on this train. >> jack, considering all the tax breaks and what it will cost for small business, we're looking at a rally. we've had a tremendous week. does the market not think this is going to happen? or they're not worried about it? >> it seems like the market is not even paying attention to this right now. i think we've made a run at this before. remember '94 health care stocks got completely decimated only to recover in 1995 i think investors are skeptical and will take a wait-and-see perspective on this. >>> we have breaking news after the break. the

. >> reporter: i am pat collins, news4, montgomery county. >> right now mike is serving on the montgomeryy sool board. >>> right now, we have an interesting day developing. not quite as nice as yesterday, but not as hot and steamy. >> yeah, not hot and steamy but not a washout, but somewhere in between. with all the clouds in place we will see rain showers move across the area. north of town, the chances of rain are not as good as south of town, basically. the storm system is well south of us, and from the beltway southward, i think that's where we will have the best chance of seeing off and on rain showers in the day. and i think you will stay drier north of town than the rest of us. and here is what it looks like outside. it's cloudy out there this morning, and cool. temperatures in the 60s. we are headed to the mid and upper 70s. and we have a northerly flow. and the dew point is 52, so it's comfortable out there. and we are sitting at 69 degrees. there is warmer weather from dallas through new orleans. and then the batch of weather will push up towards the area. can you see their dew

i am mike hellgren with that, and why the outbreak which had slowed in recent months is expected to get much worse. human testing on a vaccine. >>> i'm suzanne collins at the juvenile justice center the police commissioner speaks out about whether his officers should have handcuffed and locked up three elementary aged boys. >>> governor o'malley forces to cut health care. eye witness news at 6:00 starts right now. >>> target, 2005 the university of maryland school of medicine playing a key role in a vaccine. >>> effort to protect you before h1n1 rebounds this fall. i'm denise koch. >> i'm vic carter. here is what people are talking apout tonight. maryland on the front lines in the fight against swine flu, vaccines tested on people at the university school of medicine. mike mike hall is live. >> reporter: h1n1 is expected to spread significantly by the fall. so the race is on to get the vaccine ready by mid october. university of maryland school of medicine is one of only 8 centers nationwide testing a vaccine for h1n1 or swine flu. and the