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We accept the risk. We choose to go to the moon and do the other thing, not because they are easy but because they are hard. We have a good many talented scientists but we didnt make an effort for many yores and were behind and paying the price of having the soviet union and mode the propaganda advantage of sputnik. I have marvin caul. Marvin, is there any doubt this happened, the russians put a man in space . Im almost certain the russians did fire a man into the United States. Hes 27. Its a great historic sicientifc state. At that time, we didnt know whether a human could survive in space and here, boom, the soviets send this guy into space and he survived. He was something to the effect american proudness. Now it was first sputnik and now first man in space was russian and you can understand that this was really in the middle of the cold war, there was competition of the great super powers. President , could you give us your view sir of the soviet achievement of putting a man in or bit and what it would mean to our Space Program . Its the most impressive scientific accomplishment. I already sent congratulations to the man who was involved. The space race wasnt just about space. It was about our own sense of security. It was this new cold war Battle Ground and so it wasnt very hard to realize that if they could put a man in orbit, they could put an atom make bomb in orbit. We need to start working hard to catch up. I think its about time america woke up and did something about it. I believe its very impressive for propaganda purposes but i think if we put our minds to it, this country can top that in six months. From my perspective as a kid, we were in a race against the russians and the russians were the bad guys and they were winning this race and that meant they were superior to us and yet, they were the bad guys. 1960 we had astronauts, we hadnt had anybody in space yet but we were knocking on the door. We wanted to catch up and be the leaders. Do we have the stuff to do it . Would you say . The United States Space Program is based on the philosophy that we dont want to pull a stunt and risk a mans life. For this reason, there are certain steps planned before we put a man in or bit. If this is successful, then and only then will an arbit let them remain. The project was the first real response to the sputnik and to gary and it was a big deal for us, ill tell you because all of a sudden we had seven guys and they are Fighter Pilot types, very alpha male guys, fun to be around. It was like being with rock stars. Its a great day in houston as citizens turn out by the tens of thousands to give a texassized welcome to the u. S. Space team. They were here us bump the public knew their names. They became warriors against our most feared enemy, the soviet union. What they were hiring these guys for was mind set. They wanted experience test pilots who could observe and report during a very violent and dangerous activity. As we develop the spacecraft, almost everything we do deals with the risky side of the business. We recognize we can get killed flying spacecraft or t 33 or t38s. We have a job thats fascinating and worth the risk. Al sheppard was a natural leader. He got the first ride into space. The Sherry Temple program usually seen at this time will not be presented to bring you the following special broadcast. Within the next few kdays, te First American will be lunched in space. He will not go into orbit but he will ride his spacecraft and hang weightless for about five minutes until gravity pulls him back through the atmosphere to the sea nearly 300 miles down range. Astronaut sheppard pamaking s way to the elevator. Now astronaut sheppard sends the plane in a few moments hell be spaced in the capsule. Ten minus ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero, ignition. Lift off. Lift off. Lift off and the clock is turning. All systems are go. Some lawmakers want to award the medal of honor, ready to spend more money on the space effort, all akbrgreed russia is ahead. Mrs. Alan shephard heard the news with relief. What are your thoughts . I dont have to tell you, do i . Im so happy. The flight was a ten, al sheppards flight was a one or two, okay, in terms of the capability that it demonstrated. So russians clearly were ahead of us so the attitude is we would like to do something really big but small enough to accomplish it. I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to man kind or more important for the longrange exploration of space. I dont know how he decided we could do that because when we heard about it, we thought they, you know, lost their mind. Spokesperson you can get a 1,000 turbocharged reward card with a new volkswagen turbo. So why are we so obsessed with turbo . Because theres nothing more exhilarating than a powerful ride. And you can get that in places you might not expect. Like the passat. And also in the funtodrive jetta. In fact, volkswagen has sold more turbos than any other brand over the last ten years. That is a lot of turbo. Vo hurry in and you can get a 1,000 turbocharged reward card when you lease a new 2014 passat s for 219 a month. Sweet, sweet, st. Thomas nice so nice, so nice st. Croix full of pure vibes so nice, so nice st. John a real paradise so nice, so nice proud to be from the Virgin Islands and the whole place nice [ female announcer ] to experience your Virgin Islands nice, book one of our summer packages today. This is Walter Cronkite reporting in dayton, ohio. This aircraft is executing a ma never to make it and everyone in it temporary weightless. This weightless condition is one of many that man must learn to tolerate or overcome to survive a first trip to the moon. Cronkite was the perfect person for space because he was a space junky. He ended up covering the early Mercury Missions and he just became an encyclopedia on it. What are hazards and what are scientists doing to ensure man survival in outer space . That is our story. First man on the moon as a p Prudential Insurance company of america. This is marine lieutenant colonial john h glen jr. Who will be the First American to fly in orbit around the world. Were embarking in a new field, Space Science and im happy and proud i can maybe contribute in my own way in this new field. John glenn came along next and flue the first orbital flight for an american. To us, that was a huge deal because now we had an American Hero who could at least stand up. Three, two, one. This is mercury control. The spacecraft is committed to the third orbit. Looks good. Well see you back. All right, boy. Shortly before he is supposed to reenter the atmosphere, the word comes there is a possibility that glens heat shield has detached from the base of the capsule. Go ahead. We have decided to reenter with the tank on. What is the reason for this . Do you have any reason, over . The only Thing Holding the heat shield on are three straps, which are attached to the retro rockets. We feel its safer to reenter with the retro package on, over . Roger. Understand. So normally, the plan is you fire the retro rockets and let them go but now it becomes clear that if glen does that, he might be burned alive. He went through this period of intense ion buildup where you lose contact with him. This is cape, do you read, over . This is cape, do you read over . Mercury recovery, this is friendship seven, do you read me . Read you loud and clear, how are you doing . That was a real fire ball, boy. I express the great happiness and thanksgiving all of us that glen completed the trip. I know this is felt about glen and his children. Quite a day, you see four beautiful sunsets in one day but it was pretty interesting. Now we know russia need not and will not have monopoly on man space flight. A u. S. Missile man and the capitol, out of the growing pains of project mercury, a host of new projects will be born. You could have gone ahead faster if you had more money earlier, is that right . Well, this is true. Although, there are some limitations. There is an old saying, it takes nine months to have a baby. [ laughter ] rockets, too. He was perfectly placed to get us off the planet. He was a german rocket scientists that we were pretty lucky to get after the war. He was a futurest and a visionary as much as anything else. He built the team that became americas trust for rocketry. I have come to texas today to solute an Outstanding Group of pioneers. Headlines may be made by others in other places. History is being made every day by the men and women of the Aerospace Medical center without whom there could be no history. When he was assassinated, that was a personal blow. That was a personal blow to us because he was the guy to get us on this track. When president johnson came in, you know, he was going to continue to implement what president kennedy had done. Those two men together led us to where we ended up at the end of the decade. Visiting cape ka nav real are the men that will join the original seven and ride the apollo space aircraft. They are in the pioneers of space. We were very fortunate in that our country seemed to have the right person ready when the right person was needed. I give you Neal Armstrong. Neal armstrong was unflopble. He was a natural aviator and armstrong just seemed never to be ruffled. Neal is a cool guy, as we all know. In fact, all of the guys i was working with at the time are all exceptional pilots so its great to be on a team like that where they are all winners. Germany is the space agencys bridge to the future. With it well learn mans true capabilities and draw backs in space and on the last five germany flights well practice several different forms of rendezvous, the skill needed to supply spacecraft to change crews and ability to operate in a medium that is fantastically rewarding and terrifyingly dangerous. Its a rehearsal for apologize go. The threeman spacecraft to get us to the moon. The person who they say became the first man to walk around in space. When he went outside the spacecraft, they said no, he count have done that but the soviets went outside and came back was a shocker. The soviet union pushed americans back. Part of the game. I would say for most of the 60s we had a sense of being behind. One child fail to get to the air sickness bag in time. Another left his shoes on the plane. His shoes and a third simply doesnt want to be here. Until now. Until right booking now. Planet earths number one accomodation site booking. Com booking. Yeah moderate to severe is tough, but ive managed. I got to be pretty good at managing my symptoms, except that managing my symptoms was all i was doing. When i finally told my doctor, he said my crohns was not under control. He said humira is for adults like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohns disease. 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If you grew up in the 50s you were watching science fiction, if you were growing up in the 60s, you were watching it happen. I dont want to fire the gun yet. When ed white went out on the first eva, people were holding their breath. There was a real push to get a spacewalk as soon as possible. That turned out to be gemeni four and the spacewalk was a magnificent thing. Im rolling to the right now under my own influence. Like a thermal brush. It is. He went out and had this little nitrogen bottle to fire this truster that bushed this way and that way so he could rotate himself around and so on and it gave the appearance of being a piece of cake. Im turning over. You look beautiful. I feel like a million dollars. There was absolutely no sensation of falling. There was very little sensation of speed, other than the same type of sensation that we had in the capsule. As i stepped out, the biggest thing was a feeling of accomplish the of a goal of the formation. The next major breakthrough will be the bringing together of two orbiting craft. They have presumably learned something. We have not yet made the first test so we must be considered behind. Ignition. The primary goal of project gemeni was to perform space rendezvous. Without that, no mission. With the lunar technique with the command modular, you have to bring the two vehicles together and to get them close in such a way, it was easy to dock them. Took a fair bit of work. Flying nose to nose, very thoroughly see rising scanners up there. Roger. That was the moment when we pulled ahead to the space race. That was something the russians hadnt even come close to doing and wouldnt accomplish for a couple more years. It was an unknown as to how we would do that when we first started but we got good at it and mastered it on Neal Armstrongs gemeni eight. Houston, were keeping it at about 150 feet. Way to go, partner. Youve done it, boy. Thats great. Man, that is really slick. Okay, gemeni eight, looking good on the ground. They found another object in space and they docked them together to make one big spacecraft or rocket on the nose of the gemeni. That was amazing. So its nighttime. Power down. Have dinner and get ready for the next day and i happen to look over at neals panel and i saw his eight ball, his attitude bang and i said were in a bank. Weve got Serious Problems here. They got up to one revelation a second so we decided to undock, which we suspected was a problem and the gemeni started spinning and we figured out, oh, its the gemeni. What seems to be the problem . Its rolling and we cant turn anything off. Did he say he could not turn the agena off. He said he cant separate and in a roll and cant stop it. The only way to get out was for him to fire the truster. Stop the Spinning Spacecraft before it spun so much they passed out. We got down alive and neal said, i think well both have another chance and we did. The leak in space, cbs News Coverage of astronaut gemeni nine, two and a half walk in space reporting from the space center, Walter Cronkite. The spacewalk is over. The hatch is locked closed again, safely back in the spacecraft. A disappointing spacewalk in a true sense. The only thing we did not do well was eva, extra vehicular activity. For the last flight gemeni 12 was training in the water tank. I was a scuba diver from 1957 so i knew a bit about dealing with currents and moving around and spacewalking, it was very delicate moving and you balance so you dont exert yourself. So i started training under water. Buzz put all that together and the final eva was done very much by the book. It was a big success. So i was standing up in the hatch and looking around and took a come couple pictures of texas and the astrodome and took a picture but that was the first selfie in space. Gemeni 12. When it was over, the team of people, planners, astronauts, and people in the control center were complete sinked and we came out with confidence in ourselves. Let us have this apollo stuff. Well take it to the moon as fast as we possibly can. So nice, so nice sweet, sweet, st. Thomas nice so nice, so nice st. Croix full of pure vibes so nice, so nice st. John a real paradise so nice, so nice proud to be from the Virgin Islands and the whole place nice [ female announcer ] to experience your Virgin Islands nice, book one of our summer packages today. I recognize that there is some risk, people might look at our work as being perhaps dangerous, but we just try to take as much as that out as we can during pretesting to make sure the systems are good. I think we train in it and work in it so much and understand it well enough that we dont look at it from this view point. How far i want to go, i want to go as far as nasa goes and during my useful time as a pilot for them. I want to go on a moon flight and if we go tomorrow, i want to go on that. Nasa is looking ahead to the first manned alpollo flight. They had a lot of problems with this spacecraft but figure when they develop new spacecraft, youre going to have bugs. I cant read it. You want to try the phone . We got to get to the moon but we cant get through three buildings. The regularly scheduled program will not be seen to bring you this special program. It was all over in one stunned horrifying second. At t minus ten seconds, an electrical spark apparently shot out and ig anytioxygen in the c. Engineers watched flames. They heard their last words of shock and surprise. The flames took over apollo one, the crew men never has a chance. News of the tragedy reached the white house shortly after formal signing of a 60nation space treaty. The president sent condolences and said three young men have given their lives and service to the nation. We mourn the great loss and our hearts go out to their families. Apollo fire was a shock to those of us in the program. It was a real shock. It was devastating. How could we put these guys in there . How could we not see a danger so close . How could we not do that . There is reason to believe establishing a deadline of 1970 for the flight contributed to their deaths. Nasa acknowledged success had dulled the earlier apprehensions but determined not to let it paralyze the future efforts and that seems the proper attitude. Your option to stop or to keep going. Its insulting to stop. You want to fix the problem and keep going and achieve the goal. Thats what those guys would have wanted. Any endeavor will meet with tragedy and failure. Thats how humankind progressed. The complete reorganization of the Space Program without a doubt happened because of the fire. At the langly center and accomplished acrobat gave basic training in moon walking to this reporter. I feel like peter pan. He was like a big kid in a candy store. When you do on tv and you want to talk the about something happening, the best way to do it, go out and do it yourself. Walter enjoyed it. What happens if i fall over on my face . Nothing at all. Very simple, very soft. Slow motion in fact. Just so i fall over on my face to see . Right, dust yourself off. Really . Yeah. Okay. Here i go. Nothing to it. Why dont you try jumping a little bit . Here i go. This is just really for fun and games. What do you do for a living . What do you see in the way of the vehicle in which we travel in space in the next 35 years, already in the last 15 years, we build up this system of rockets to the point that your model doesnt even fit in the roof any longer. Are we going far beyond saturn five . I think there will be a continued need for some such a workhorse and rather arbitrary how big it will be as long as its big. The sadder five is like the monument to human ocaudacity. This was a mind blower. Saturn five is three big rockets stacked on top of each other. And you knew that that sucker was going someplace. It had a purpose and mind and it was going someplace. You get to december of 1968 and frank and bill arounders have been training to fly the first flight around the moon. We kind of feel that this flight set the pace to begin the Lunar Landing apollo program. The countdown to lift off for apollo eight is t minus 50 minutes and counting. This will be the first manned flight of the saturn five, the largest rocket man has ever built and it has the explosive potential in its fuel of 2. 5 million tons of tnt. Broadcasting the launch of the saturn five, i never got over it. We have ignition sequence. And im supposed to be talking through this. Its hard to talk when youre holding your breath. Three, two, one, zero. Spokesperson get a 1,000 turbocharged reward card with a new volkswagen turbo. Why are we so obsessed with turbo . 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Enter today at pgatour. Com quickenloans and you could have your mortgage paid for an entire year. Three, two, one, zero. Clear the tower. There is the rumble in the building. It looks good. This building is shaking under us. A camera platform is shaking but what a beautiful flight. We interrupt this program to spent another in a series of unborn Television Transmissions from the space capsule brought to you by tang, the breakfast drink. Apollo 8, 175,450 miles from earth and about to be pulled in by the moons gravity. The astronauts left the earth and gravity. For this second telecast, turned apollo 8 say it faces the earth. Here is communications coming through. Youre seeing the atmosphere, i can see the southwestern part of the United States and it appears now that the east coast is cloudy. Apologizlo 8 around christma showed us the creators of the moon and space at the same time. They spoke to us and read the book of genesis. The waters under the heavens be together in one place and let the dry land repair in of itself and god called the dry land earth and gathering together of the waters calling, god saw that it was good and from the crew of apollo 8 Merry Christmas and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. The far side of the moon and the earth rise for the first time seen by human eyes and the Television Broadcast from around or bit of the moon on christmas eve, holy smokes, who wrote that . Who is the genius that wrote that script . Pretty good. 1968 was a tough year for the country, assassinations, bad stuff happening in voietnam buta great way to end it with people going around the moon for the first time. Nobody has been able to do it since, except for the United States. Then apollo 9 goes up a few months later, does everything it needs to do and apollo ten does the same thing nine does but they fly all the way to the moon to do it lunier or bit. That works fine. They come back, nobody paid attention to apollo ten. Its a forgotten thing, oh, yeah, they did that, too, what a shame they didnt get to land on the moon and a few months later, it came down to apollo 11. What kind of physical sensation do you expect at actual touchdown . I hope it will be relatively mild. There is no intention to make a smooth touchdown we would prefer to come in several feed per second so we will collapse. That bottom step on the ladder is close enough to get down to the moon and more important. Cbs News Coverage of man and the moon. It was like this enormous fly momentum was gathering speed and the level on those three astronauts especially on Neal Armstrong because by that time we all knew that neal was going to be the first one on the moon. Follow 20 minutes later, armstrong will take that first step in more ways than one. Here they are as they left the space center about 6 30 this morning. Backs up through this elevator and takes them up for a couple to the second level and then out of that cage and across a few feet through a large hatch in the structure. The countdown going well, 28 minutes and counting. Mr. And mrs. Johnson arrived in the vip viewing area. Our transfer is complete. Internal power with the launch vehicle at this time. T minus 15 seconds away from the apollo 11 and guidance is internal, ten, nine, ignition sequence starts, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero. Approximately 2,091 feet per second. They are finally giving me a window to look out. Apollo 11 this is houston, youre confirmed to go for orbit. Were trying our best to be role models. Dels. We dont jump at the sound of the opening bell, because were trying to make the school bell. Corner booth beats Corner Office any day. We make the most of our time. And our money. The 2014 malibu. Highest ranked midsize car in initial quality the car for the richest guys on earth. Start a team. Join a team. Walk to end alzheimers. Visit alz. Org walk today. The last four hours have seen. One child fail to get to the air sickness bag in time. Another left his shoes on the plane. His shoes and a third simply doesnt want to be here. Until now. Until right booking now. Planet earths number one accomodation site booking. Com booking. Yeah back here at our cbs news space headquarters, were watching the countdown to the landing on the moon and waiting for the spacecraft to come around on this side of the moon again so we can get confirmation that all is still going well. 11, you got a pretty big audience that is live in the u. S. , that is going live to japan, western europe, and much of south america. Appreciate the great show. They werent just going on a Pleasure Cruise here. They had a lot of work to do. They needed to be on the top of their game working together as a crew and with control. So they were probably in the zone. I would have been in the zone bigtime. Everything had been tried on the missions leading up to that point except the landing itself. And there was a good reason for that. The landing was the most complex part of the entire apollo mission. It was essentially a controlled fall. Go for landing, 3,000 feet. Were go. Were go. Two and a half. Neil armstrong took over manually during the descent because they were coming down in an area that was the planned area to land, but there were some boulders and other kinds of stuff. So he had to maneuver the lunar lander from where it was committed to land. Which also caused everybody to start worrying, because they had a finite amount of fuel. So for him to do what he did caused everybody on the ground to get really nervous. Forward, drifting to the right a little. Contact right. The eagle has landed. Copy, tranquility. We have a rocket on the ground. We have a bunch of guys that are about to turn blue. Armstrong is on the moon. Neil armstrong, 38yearold american, standing on the surface of the moon on this july 20th, 1969. Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. It was a moment when it seemed like the whole country and a even most of the world kind of stopped in their tracks and just took all this in with a sense of wonder and almost disbelief. My god, can this really be happening . Oh, that looks beautiful. It looks different, but its very pretty out here. Okay, ready for me to come out . Okay, im on the top step. You have got three more steps and then a long one. There you go. Well the flag on the landing gear. From the planet earth first step foot upon the moon, july 1969. We came in peace for all mankind. The real moment of truth is next. They still have to get off the surface of the moon. They push the button on the computer, and then bang. They see the moon receding from them. And then some minutes later, theyre back in nunn lar orbit, and theyre on their way to rendezvous with mike collins. Although the entire world could watch the apollo 11 astronauts take mans first steps on the moon, the predawn darkness of the mid pacific obscured their return to earth. So it was already daylight when the carrier hornet approached and found columbia in the ocean swells. I want you to know that i think im the luckiest man in the world because i have the privilege of speaking to so many in welcoming you back to earth. It was such a huge event in our countrys history. I grew up in new york. This is bigger than the mets winning the world series in 1969. I remember as a little boy looking up to them thinking these guys are even cooler than the beatles. These guys were the epitome of cool. There was another one of these suckers scheduled for november. So the people who did it were so busy getting ready for the next one, they didnt have time to celebrate the first one. Houston . Hello, houston. Yankee clipper with intrepid has arrived on time. We didnt actually spend much time asking ourselves about the greater meaning of this. We werent aware of what was going on around the world in terms of the reaction of people. We just pressed right on. I think i see my crater. There it is, there it is son of a gun, right down the middle of the road. Outstanding, 42 degrees. It wasnt until afterwards that we began to realize the depth of the significance of it. Until apollo 11, the moon was an unobtainable mystery. But after apollo 11, the moon is mysterious no longer. All of Human Experience will be divided into two eras. Before man walked on the moon and after man walked on the moon. The whole world was together at that particular moment. It was an example that in spite of all this going on down here, in spite of all that were going through, there is hope. My generation is the generation that changed the moon from an object to a place. And that will never happen again. There can only be one first time. The Space Program in the 1960s, it set the standard of what we could do. We even say today we can land a man on the moon, but we cant do this. When we think within the Space Program, go to mars . Yeah, we can go to mars. We went to the moon in 1969. We can do anything. To all those americans who built those spacecraft and put their heart and all their abilities into those crafts, to those people, tonight we give a special thank you. To all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, god bless you. Good night from apollo 11. Next thursday on the sixties Martin Luther king was shot and was killed tonight. 1968 was one thing after another. More troops are being killed every week. People were afraid. And we have that love and understanding for our fellow citizens. We will have a new america. I picked up the phone. Collin said somethings happened to the senator. The 60s next thursday night on cnn. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Seriously, is it safe to fly . A passenger jet carry mortgage than 100 people crashes, this time in west africa, and there are no survivors. This as the dutch Prime Minister says its likely there are more bodies that remain at the flight 17 crash site. But rebels who control the site have banned recovery workers from searching. So are you worried about flying now . Make sure you tweet us using the askdon. We have an expert Team Standing by to answer your questions for you. The Obama Administration calling out russia. It says it has proof that Russian Forces are firing into ukrain