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man on the way to the moon. it seemed that the whole world stopped as man set out on the adventure to escape from his own planet and to set foot on a distant one. >> hello there. >> hello there. >> houston, if f that's not the earth, we're in trouble. >> the lunar module cutting itself free from the command module. beginning the maneuver which is should place it on the surface of the moon. >> eagle has docked. >> roger, how does it looked? >> the eagle has wings. >> you're a go for landing, over. two and a half down. we're drifting to the right a little. >> 30 seconds. >> oh, geez. >> tranquility base, the eagle has landed. >> man on the moon! boy! >> i'm going to be dizzy for a minute. >> there he is. there's the foot coming down the steps. >> i'm at the foot of the ladder. >> armstrong is on the moon, neil armstrong, 38-year-old american standing on the surface of the moon. on this july 20, 1969. >> that's one small step for man one giant leap for mankind. >> well, for thousands of years now it's been man's dre

host: more of the moments as buzz aldrin stepped on the moon. >> then the first man on the moon, reada plaque on the wings of an eagle, that was thought of earlier as impractible. >> this has the signature of the president of the united states. host: your thoughts about neil's words and your words? guest: very appropriate, i think the entire apollo-11 mission unfolded in an incredibly accurate way. it's a tribute, i think, to our reaction to the tragedy of apollo-1 fire so soon after my flight in gemini-12. this was with ed white, and he was a close friend of mine. we were together at westpoint on the track team and the squadron training, and when he told me he was applying for astronaut program. and i thought, ed, i can do that, and i wasn't selected and he was. he was my role model, and without that tragedy he would have been one of the first people on the surface of the moon. host: and in near tragedy averted on apollo-13, and the movie with tom hanks. and where it was said that failure is not an option. guest: yeah, i know, that's a beautiful phrase from gene grant. and once you h

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caller: how did it feel being on the moon? guest: i tell you, they did not enter into the picture all that much. it was clear there was a race going on, and our one-man mercury program followed filling the gap with the two-man gemini program resulting in sort of a surging ahead in many achievements by the u.s. in that the four things we needed to know to proceed with apollo. we needed computer guidance, we needed long duration flight. we needed space walking. and we needed rendevous. and we did all of those four things between mercury and apollo. it filled a gap. we were flex yifpblet -- flexible. now, after apollo, what happened? we sat on the ground for almost six years after using skylab to put a wonderful space station up there. we didn't put the second space station up there that we could have, and we flew to it several times. we did a joint mission with the russians where we did all the complicated things, and then we still had a gap of almost six years. what were the russians doing? catching up, getting ahead of us with

kennedy focused on the moon. getting back to the apollo and its significance, historians tell us it is much too early to judge. but just suppose we could fly out into space a whole bunch of light years and look around. what would we see? with the right instruments, i think we could detect many start-planet combinations as suitable for sustaining life as our own sun-earth combination. i have to stop here and tell every story. years ago, i was writing about what might be kept in the way a far distant planets and used the word "detectable." i right in long hand, so i send it to the typist. when it came out, detectable at morton to delectable. i thought that was wonderful. what a great promotion for a planet. [laughter] how would we judge says detectable collectibles? what categories when we put them in? -- how would we judge the those detectable delectable? we would have to see if they were wanderers and could wander away from their own planet. ours is a bit over four billion years old. in cosmic terms, not much happ

the shot of being halfway to the moon. you have to ask yourself if it flew across the atlantic in 1927 would it be 50 years before any one of any nation on earth flew across the atlantic in an airplane. we are so easy to go to the moon 40 years ago there would be bases there by now united states, germany, china. >> you are saying and it is an argument that has some rez thens if the machine landing was possible 40 years ago why haven't we replicated it? often from the initial landings between 69 and 72 is that your basic point? >> that's one of the points. first of all we saw never before footage of the faking part of the photography which is on a funny thing happened on the way to the moon that can be viewed on youtube. >> there's no star sz in the original video, couldn't that be a function of the fact that the video was not enhanced not digitally remastered even the quality we can see loss of quality sometimes with satellite transmissions? >> well, their excuse there are no pictures of the stars was the iris was closed is

armstrong on the moon. the only pictures he took of him were these big panoramas where armstrong is this little tiny figure. this is one of the few pictures of armstrong on the moon. it's taken from a data camera that's on the top of the lunar module. and here's a beautiful picture of the flag at the foot of eagle. and here is mr. aldrin walking away with one of his scientific experts. and here he is setting it up. this is a fantastic thing that they had devised which is an array of reflectors and when a laser is pointed from the earth and it bounces back off these reflectors it tells you exactly how far away the moon is from the earth. and it was made with this fantastic robot that would deploy. and here is the earth rising over eagle. so that night after finishing all of their chores, they said later the worst chore was planting the flag. they didn't know what the lunar surface was going to be like and there were a number of scientists thought it would be this giant pile of dust that would swallow up anyth

a return to the moon? a mission to mars maybe? or should we skip the heavens to focus or more earthly matters? >>> oh, do you believe it's monday already? where did the time go? i'm christi paul. thank you for sharing some of your time with us. let's get you caught up on the story of this u.s. soldier who vanished in afghanistan. this video is being shown with him held captive. it's bowe bergdahl. he was stationed on a base along the afghanistan/pakistan border. two u.s. officials explained he just walked off with three afghans after his shift, but a few days later the taliban claimed he'd been captured. in this 28-minute video, bergdahl says he fears he'll never see his family or his girlfriend again. >> my girlfriend, who i was hoping to marry. i have my grandma and grandpas. i have a very, very good family that i love back home in america. and i miss them every day that i'm gone. i miss them, and i'm afraid that i might never see them again and that i'll never be able to tell them that i love them again. i'll never be able to hu

we can help and explore the moon and develop the moon. ould go boldly where man has not gone before. fly by the comets, visit the asteroids, visit the moon of mars. there a monolith, a structure on this potato-shaped object that goes around mars. when people find out about that, they will say, who put that there? well, the universe put it there. if you choose, god put it there. host: is there photographs to indicate? guest: no, it's the other one on the other page. host: let's go back to july, 1969, i want to share the conversation you had then with president richard nixon. >> hello neil, and buzz, i am talking with you by telephone from the white house. and this is the most historic telephone call made. because of what you have done, the heavens are a part of man's world. as you talk to us from the sea of tranquillity, it inspires us to double our efforts to bring peace and tranquillity to earth. for one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all the people on this earth are truly one. one in their pride in which you have done. and

mission and the last manned mission to the moon. he's joining us now. thanks very much, mr. schmitt, for coming in. >> it's great to be here. i hope i'm the most recent. >> you were the last person to walk on the moon. you and eugene sernin. were you the last person or was he? >> i was the last to step on the moon and he was the last to get off, so you can figure it out from there. >> we'll give you both a lot of credit. looking back 40 years, almost 0 yea ye 40 years, what was it like? how scared were you? >> well, there's no fear involved in these kinds of missions that you train for for so long. i trained as a backup crewman for appaollo 15. i was deeply involved in all the training, particularly the lunar ser surface training. fear and being scared is not part of it. you can't afford that. if you're going to be scared, you shouldn't be in the program. >> did you ever think i might not be coming back? this is unchartered territory? >> no. it certainly in our case it was not unchartered. five other missions had landed on the moon p

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i was on the moon. but rather that a first step for me, it was the last step that i remember most. >> i looked down at my footsteps, looked over my shoulder, and there was the earth in all its beauty and all its splendor, i kept thinking, here i am. the earth was dynamic for three days. you could hardly take your eyes off of it. it moved through purpose and beauty beyond your comprehension. you can look from pole to pole, from ocean to ocean, and it was unlike this picture. it was three-dimensional. the only color anywhere. >> the last sight i saw, how lucky can you be. you have just been sitting on god's front porch looking back home. >> you can follow the lunar mission online as if it were happening realtime. the nasa website is called wechoosethemoon.org. it has or kooifl and video and modern twists as well. for example, nasa is sending out messages like they were from mission control. the mission light is charred brown that took quite a beating during the launch. other tweeting is neil standing on hi

man on the way to the moon. he 20th century, mankind's first steps on the moon. >> tranquillity base here. the eagle has landed. >> it was the stuff dreams are made of, and neil armstrong's words said as much. >> it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >>> good morning, everybody. i'm harry smith along with maggie rodriguez. julie chen is in los angeles. good morning, julie. >> good morning, guys. >> dave's here too. >> thank you. nice to see you all. >> so much coming up as we remember the historic lunar landing 40 years ago today. we have three men who have walked on the moon, buzz aldrin, alan bean, and charles duke to tell us what that was like. and we'll be speaking with neil armstrong's family at this hour. >> russ mitchell standing by at the news desk. >>> u.s. military says a taliban video showing the captured american soldier is exploitation that violates international law. the internet video turned up on saturday. 23-year-old private bowe bergdahl was captured nearly three weeks ago in

it was the 202nd space walk since apollo blasted off for the moon. >>> well, now you can explore the moon right from your desktop. ahead, we'll tell you about a new program that is out of this world. >>> and topper. >> a few showers have pushed into the immediate metro area. we'll take you out with the almanac. good break in terms of temperature. go to our website wusa9.com you can access this. 84 and 70. average is 79 and 71. record high, 106. that's one of the highest readings ever set back in 1930. record low, 53. we'll come back, look at live doppler 9000 and a little bit of heat that is going to roll in here ever so slowly. stay tuned. >>> and back to school without a sales tax holiday for one area. we'll telyoeuorju mn i 6stb@ 5conds. . >>> no sales tax holiday this year. not in the district. this past years shoppers had several days during the summer to stock up on back-to-school clothes and other items, minus the sales tax. but with times so tough the district needs every spare dollar. the repeal of the sales tax holiday will bring in 640,000 bucks. >>> that's a drop in the bu

on the moon. astronauts showing off their fancy foot work with a spacewalk. "endeavour's" crew is hooking up at the observatory. it's the second spacewalk in three days. another tricky issue, a broken toilet. not like you can call mr. plumber but the station has another one for the six astronauts on the outpost and they are doing their business in the shuttle flue. soon the shuttle program will follow in its footsteps. nasa is offering the program late next year. what's next? >> three, two, one. booster ignition and liftoff of quts endeavor. 30 years of flying astronauts in a reusable space plane, now a chapter in history books. >> it makes me want to cry to think this is the ends of it. >> reporter: it leaves a gaping hole behind. because of nasa budget cuts, the next generation vehicle, the rocket and orion capsule, key components of the program won'ting ready to fly astronauts until 2015. until then they have to car pool with the russians to get to space. thousands of shuttle workers not needed

should we forget the moon and focus on mars? s the likelihood of seeing a mission to mars in the near future? >> the real way to frame it is that mars should be the long-term goal we want to achieve. it is a long reachout and presents all sorts of technological challenges but it's not to say it can't be done. the way i would put it is that if we make mars the long-term goal what we end up with is a lot of technological development that has to happen between now and then. that would probably include returning to the moon just so we can build up our chops for doing the space exploration out on other planets. it was 40 years ago that we last had people on the moon, so what's the possibility that this is going to happen? well, a lot depends on what the national commissions that advised the president tell him we should set as a goal. then from there it's a question of whether or not the funding is provided to make that happen. >> today astronauts from other apollo missions referred to the international space station as a white elephan

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one person was born on the day we landed on the moon. >> mars is too far away. we need to build other out posts the, permanent on the moon, and then go the mars. >> and you support spending however much money it would cost to do that? >> i do, absolutely. >> there was no commitment today from president obama to adhere to president bush's goal stated five years ago of sending astronauts back to the moon by the year 2020. the obama administration instead will wait for a recommendation from an independent study group before deciding nasa's future. and that clip there was buzz aldrin, who was the second man on the moon today. >> we appreciate the correction, we know him well, thank you. >>> another metro operator caught in the act with his hands off the wheel. this time a bus driver was talked to about the situation maureen umeh has more. >> reporter: and it happened again, many asking if the punishment fits the violation. the bus driver had about 20 passengers on board. the man who took the photo says it was during rush hour traffic off it was raining. it happened o

we're on the moon. that is pretty cool. >> as far as our weather goes, a couple of showers just to the south of our area and we'll keep our eyes on them to see if we can get a little bit of rain in here. not going to be much. let me show you hd radar. t.me start with t we'll owyosh u rwh ee ee thprec e is as we speak. and it is again sotheuth. i keep mentioning fredericksburg because i expect fredericksburg to get a little bit of this shower activity shortly. so we'll keep our eyes on that. you can see it is not a big area of shower activity well off to the west and to the east. you see more significant rain but that is nowhere near here. regional temperatures across the mid-atlantic look like this. here in tease, 70 degrees. 56 in pittsburgh. here is a look at the satelli- radar for e region. nd what we can see here is the southerly flow. those wind coming up from the south, bringing that precipitation northward and bringing clouds into the region as well. so we have mostly howdy skies here in the washi

that's when neil armstrong walked on the moon. drew levinson reports. >> reporter: 40 years ago the dream became a reality. >> that's one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: astronaut neil armstrong leaped in the history books the first man on the moon. buzz aldrin was right behind him. >> certainly a high point in my life. >> while armstrong shuns the spotlight, aldrin is basking in it. to him it seems like a blip of time has passed. >> president kennedy declared america would go to the moon. eight years later, aldrin, and armstrong and collins were blasting through space. the eagle has landed. in all just 12 men walked on the moon, the last two. back in december of 1972. soon after that the apollo project was abandoned for the space shuttle program. with the shuttle set to retire, america is building a new ship to go back to the moon by 2020. aldrin feels we should have never abandoned the moon and is pleased nasa ising its sights farther in to space. >> we certainly should be to mars somewhere in the ear

like mailer we were to be the author of our own moon landing. he tauscher the making of his own a neil ball hitting on correspondent frank mcgee interview knew the end of the day on july 5th. in the interview he referred to his story in like a magazine like building hamlin in which armstrong told that a recurring boyhood dream in which he hovered above the ground. he had read the story when it was there but dismissed as important until he heard armstrong after a day filled with neil's engineer spake corroborates that, indeed, is a boy he had had such dreams. mailer was taken with the beauty of the dream. it was beautiful because it might soon prove to be prophetic. beautiful because it was profound and mysterious. a beautiful because it was appropriate to a man who would land on the moon. for mailer it was the type of epiphany. won by which he could construct the psychology of astronauts and interpret the entire space-age. the idea that such a non whimsical man as armstrong as a young boy dreamed of flight intoxicated mailer. it dramatizes how mu

they've now sent probes to the moon as have japan and india. so there's some sort of an asian kind of presence now in deep space exploration and china of course is the third nation after america, russia to have a man space program so they're really playing the big leagues now. japan and india, also have lunar space exploration plans. india has recently announced that they're going to have a man program, too. so and japan's considering it. europe also is considering it. so they're really pushing into frontiers that were only the providence of united states and russia. >> how serious, do you think, china is to putting a person on the moon? >> well, that's right, a good question. analysts debate this very seriously because the chinese have been sort of ambiguous about this. but they do have plans to send robots to the moon, little rovers and things like that. and they've talked about having humans on the moon, certainly by the 2020. so we can expect, perhaps, realistically a chinese on the moon, maybe in about 15 years. and the joke is of course th

i think back to the moon. whichever way we do it, it will just be a stepping stone out into the distance and i hope that i'm around to see those first footprints on mars. and i think that the technology that we develop for that as a capital expenditure for our country will reap great dividends for us and we'll have a great return on our investment. >> and i agree with you. i hope i'm around to see it. how old are you? no, i'm not going to ask you.; before we get to you we have standing by a question for buzz who as we say might be getting out of here pretty soon. this is from the museum of science in boston, buzz. this question is coming to you from 8-year-old marcus from massachusetts. take it easy on him, marcus. >> hi, buzz. my name is marcus. i am 8 years old. i would like to go to mars one day and engineer in sciences. what should i study in school. what hobbies are good for an  >> when i was at mit i lived in north too far from where you are. coming from. you need patience. you need to communicate with o

on the moon, he is the last man to sing there. >> i went strolling on the moon one day. ♪ rick: he isly one of 12 americans to have ever done a real moon walk. some of us in on a shower. you got to sing on the moon. >> even when you work hard, you can find time to sing. bouncing around is a good term, because it is like being on a trampoline. if you are young enough to remember trampolines, you can know that i am talking about a travelling with no edges. it is really great. in addition, you can run like you're a cross-country skier. not only can you work hard, you can have a lot of fun. rick: these are dangerous, but watching you, you look downright giddy. >> it looks dangerous to those who have not trained, and you gain a lot of confidence. not only what you can do, but what the thousands of people who support you can do back on earth. you should have confidence in most people. they can work things out that seemed impossible at any given time. rick: getting set to celebrate the monday after the noon anniversary of the apollo mission, one member of the mission was quoted in the "washi

on the moon, where 40 years ago today the crew of apollo 11 accomplished the long-held dream. neil armstrong took one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind in a few hours. heat and bonds -- buzz aldrin and michael collins will be at the white house. they are already calling for nasa to be more ambitious. they think we should be aiming to send a man did mission to mars by 2035. >> i'm going to step off right now. >> perhaps the most famous lending in history, the culmination of the space race. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> the journey had begun four days earlier at the kennedy space center. with blastoff of saturn 5, rocketing neil armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins to the moon. billions had been spent. many scientific advances made. but in the and, with their fuel running low, two men in a tiny lunar module that had to guide their lander down by hand. >> the eagle has landed. >> tranquillity, we copy you on the ground. you have a bunch of guys about to turn bluebeard we are breathing again. thanks a lot. >> we knew it was dan

after four days of travel, all four astronauts would land on the moon. r a week they would try to learn whether it's possible to live off the land in space. for instance, the moon's poles may contain ice, a possible source of water, oxygen, and hydrogen. their spacesuits attach to the exterior of the lunar rover. from inside astronauts could step in or step out of their suits. jeff hanley leads nasa's new system of spacecraft called "constellation." >> we're trying to go anywhere. we're trying to stay twice as long with twice as many people. >> reporter: but critics-- including the second man on the moon-- say nasa must go to places people have never gone before. >> it's a little bit different than neil and buzz kicking up dust on the moon. i think we owe them something more than that. >> reporter: ultimately, america has to make hard choices about how much risk to take and how much we're willing to spend. just a trip to the moon would cost an estimated $100 billion as once again nasa makes the case for space and the next giant leap for man. mark strassma

nasa plans to return to the moon by 2020. sa also hard at work with space shuttle endeavor with the first of five space walks outside today. they are dealing with plumbing problems. one o. station's two commodes broke down. there are currently 13 people living there. >> and one bathroom. that's a lot. >> somethings don't change. >> the essentials remain the essentials. >>> les look at the weather conditions across the region. we start with radar and show you that we have precipitation here to the south. if you're drivg 95down toward fredericksburg, once you get past dale city you'll encounter rain showers. finally some rain. this is light rain falling, nothing significant. perhaps we'll get it along 95 and we'll see it in alexandra yeah before it dissipates. we remain at 70 degrees. we'll get those in just a moment. in the suburbs, our temperatures are in the 60s. let's go to max 2. we can show you the pretty much around the region. there you go. 70 in toshingin,ng67 baltimore, 67 dulles airport. satellite picture looks like t

glenn: why are we are going to the moon? ecause it looked as though when we got to a fork in the road caused by the columbia accident, which left us with only three orbiters, we had to make a change. before that accident, we were going to fly to 20, 2025, but immediately after that, it is going to change. we only have three, so the name of the game is to retire the orbiter as soon as possible, finish the space station. that's our commitment, and then see how rapidly we can transition. glenn: is there a staging area to go to, like, mars? >> it is space exploration. it is lower orbit, which we have been doing for a long time. glenn: but you think we should go to mars. >> yes. glenn: why? >> because the pathway to the moon that we have chartered out has caused me and a number of other people to think that maybe the implementation that we have right now and the cost of doing that with two boosters, not one, and a big lander, it puts us in a position of very expensive resource consuming activity of developing these -- quite new. t

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by the end of the decade, getting apollo 11 to the moon wasn't cheap. nasa had a workforce of more than 400,000 people. more than $20 billion was went on the apollo 11 mission and the missions leading up to it. that would be the equivalent of more than $150 billion today. 40 years later getting men to the moon and safely home stands unequaled by any other nation. and was one of those rare moments that pulled people together across the globe. author andrew chakin remembers. we caught up with him during celebrations at the national air and space museum this past week. he was there for a signing of his book "voices from the moon" >> it showed us what we are capable of accomplishing when we work together. it was probably the most profound group achievement in human history. it was absolutely spectacular, 4 --,000 people working -- 400,000 people working for the better part of a decade to accomplish something that seemed like science fiction. >> suarez: after they returned, the crew of apollo 11 were welcomed home about ticker tape parades and went on a world

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glenn: why are we are going to the moon? well, because it looked as though when we got to a fork in the road caused by the columbia accident, which left us with only three orbiters, we had to make a change. before that accident, we were going to fly to 20, 2025, but immediately after that, it is going to change. we only have three, so the name of the game is to retire the orbiter as soon as possible, finish the space station. that's our commitment, and then see how rapidly we can transition. glenn: is there a staging area to go to, like, mars? >> it is space exploration. it is lower orbit, which we have been doing for a long time. glenn: but you think we should go to mars. >> yes. glenn: why? >> because the pathway to the moon that we have chartered out has caused me and a number of other people to think that maybe the implementation that we have right now and the cost of doing that with two boosters, not one, and a big lander, it puts us in a position of very expensive resource consuming activity of developing these -- quit

the first astronaut to land on the moon is urging president obama to look for the future. their plans for the bold mission. >>> a burning boat off the coast of a popular beach. see the dramatic rescue. join us for these stories and all the day's breaking news at 4:00 after dr. phil. stay with us. the five-day forecast with >>> welcome back, everybody. five-day forecast. thunderstorms late today into tonight and all that passes through tomorrow. it is out of here wednesday and a slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm but the chances increase once again on thursday as a new storm moves our way. and it will be cool tomorrow but we warm it up toward the end of the week. >> all right. the first "csi" night of the week. tonight at 10:00, don't miss csi miami to be immediately followed by eyewitness news at 11:00. finally this noon it has been three weeks since the death of michael jackson, and in peru, a group of fans are paying tribute by creating the famous thriller. it is being accompanied by a jackson impersonator who performed with them. >>> thank you for watching, i am

onto the dust of the moon, a levee in the heartland, the marble steps of a dream. you may ask yourself: "where is my moon, my levee, my dream?" well, it's here... >>> i would like to thank the media that the sheriff has released. sheriff and i both believe that >> this community and the media for posting information t-shirt has released. the sheriff and i w both believe appreciate that. >> did you hear that? a rare moment of praise from a public official. in this case a florida state attorney talking about the murders of byrd and melanie billings. couple known for adopting children with special needs, shot to death in their luxury home. that is a pretty rare moment in journalism where they thank the media. did they deserve it here? >> it's the good ole days. yes, i think they helped and it was a good old-fashioned crime story, one which is the media played the normal role which it was dig up facts. in this case there is a still a lot we don't know. i think they did very well. i'm glad to hear a good word said about us. >> they got the story out there which helped re

a three-day journey to the moon and a short hair-raising ride on the eagle lunar module to the moon's surface, a ride in which the astronauts almost ran out of fuel. >> there was a time when the low-level light came on and we were still 100 feet off the ground and charlie says 60 seconds. i was beginning to wonder. charlie duke remembers there was dead silence in mission control. >> literally, we were holding our breath when we heard contact, engines stopped. >> the eagle has landed. >> nasa has released new enhanced images of armstrong climbing down the ladder and into the history books. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> it was a triumph of technology and a moment of national pride. >> they got the flag up now and you can see see the stars and stripes. >> beautiful. just beautiful. >> it's been 37 years since the saturn 5 rocket last boosted an apollo mission to the moon. now there are plans to return and eventually to go further -- to mars. >> neil armstrong wrote a check the morning he took off for the moon 40 years ago. thatheck with his signature wa

what neil, buzz, and michael collins have to say about going to the moon again, and maybe even mars. ll have confidence and we all have doubt. but when the moment comes... what's going to win? here's to confidence. gillette helps you look, feel, be your best. gillette. the best a man can get. >>> 40 years ago tonight, three men made history far from home. neil armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins, the astronauts of apollo 11, reached out and touched the moon. today they're in washington, d.c. to celebrate that anniversary. abc's ned potter reports that 40 years have not dimmed their vision of the future. >> reporter: they have aged gracefully. today the three men of apollo 11, all in their late 70s, were at the white house, mostly trying to talk about future space exploration, but still admired by those who remember the history they made. >> touchstone for excellence is in exploration and discovery. it's always going to be represented by the men of apollo 11. >> reporter: the video from apollo 11 has been digitally improved, but it still looks ghostly. one has to remind one's se

the proof is out there on the moon. now, we are beginning to see some of that. in other words, down to even the tracks of the rover, the flags that were planted there -- they are not going anywhere. >> i put my daughter is initials in the sand before love, and someone asked how long they would be there. -- i put my daughter's initials in the sand before we left. if you can conceive how long forever is, it is a mind- boggling thing. neil: you were part of the right stuff that tom wolfe wrote about comedy real hero sort of generation of astronauts. -- the right stuff that tom wolfe wrote about, the real hero sort of generation of astronauts. charlie, for you, does it bother you that there is a whole generation out there that does not remember, does not know, and really does not care? >> it does not. the does not care part does worry me, that they do not remember is a different matter. we spent a lot of time going around trying to motivate this young generation, and i want to be a good role model for them, to encourage them. when i was a kid, world war ii soldiers

oh, to reach the moon, and they were wrong. me share with you where i think america must go in space during the next half century. come travel with me on a journey of the imagination. it begins in earth's orbit where american space entrepreneurs have opened up the space wades into adventure travel. -- space waves. it builds upon the great international space station, which has become an orbiting research center and laboratory for all nations. and including india, china, south korea, and all other nations that aspired to explores space. we traveled to earth's orbit, aboard a new, reusable space deck. a magnificent space shuttle fleet. multi-purpose, international, and commercial ships. capable of runaway landings and a variety of other missions. we test wolong duration light support, exploration modules. -- we test long duration light fe support. the cycle back and forth between the earth and the moon and then station in the murder vicinity to act as communication relays -- and then station in the lunar intended and to serve as r