that script? pretty good. 1968 was a tough year for the country, assassinations, bad stuff happening in vietnam but a 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 10 does the same thing 9 does but they fly all the way to the moon to do it lunar orbit. that works fine. they come back, nobody paid attention to apollo ten. it s a forgotten thing, oh, yeah, they did that, too, what a shame they didn t get to land on the moon and a few months later,
who is the genius that wrote that script? pretty dang good. 1968 was a tough year for the country. assassinations, bad stuff happening in vietnam, people were kind of down. but it was a great way to end it with people going around the moon for the first time. no one s been able to do it since, besides the united states. then apollo 9 goes up a few months later. does everything it needs to do in earth orbit. then you have apollo 10 that does the same thing that apollo 9 does but except they fly all the way to the moon to do it in lunar orbit. lunar module goes down to within a few miles of the lunar surface. that works fine. they come back. no one has paid attention to apollo 10. apollo 10 risked death like everybody, and it s just this forgotten thing. oh, yeah, they did that too, what a shame they didn t get to land on the man. and just a few months later it came down to apollo 11.
where did they get that stuff and stuff from apollo 10, even stuff i d never seen before from apollo 17. was this hiding in a vault somewhere? i guess it was hidden somewhere. that s why i say it s nostalgia. brought back a lot of memories to me, and let me just say this. i think you know me well enough. i ve always felt, with everything that happened one of the greatest things that s happened in modern times. those of us who went to the moon were the tip of the arrow. and you know this as well as i do. the strength behind the bow the aunts and uncles and parents and grandparents who put the bolts in the heat shield and wired up everything that they needed to be done, everyone, and they re all out there a lot of them that was their spacecraft. they took ownership. their screw was not going to come undone not going to break. they were with us on every step of the journeys, and we ran into
his likely journey to become the last man that walked on the moon. casey stiegel live from austin texas, with this story for us. hey, casey. reporter: martha, good to see you. captain gene cernan, a lot of people don t know, was one of the very first nasa astronauts. the former u.s. navy fighter pilot was hand-selected by the space agency in 1966. it even submitted an application and, well, the rest is history of the his rise to fame and everything that came along with it, showcased in this new documentty. and tonight is the north american premier of, last man on the moon at the south by southwest festival a film profiling the man who flew three space missions in 1966. cernan, piloted gemini 9-a. three-year later lunar module pilot of apollo 10. december of 1972 he became the 11th and final person to step foot on the moon as
not long after neil armstrong maids giant leap for mankind a new expression entered the lexicon. if we can t put a if we can put a man on the moon why can t we sticking gum to our shoes, a joke, yes, but but showed how americans viewed apollo as a human achievement up to that point or will it be for all time? i have been asked a million times how does it feel to make that first step on the moon? i knew that when i made that first step it was mine. nobody could ever take it away from me. yet gene almost gave that up chance. he had done almost everything an astronaut could do. even buzzing the moon in apollo 10. he had never set foot on a a lunar surface. hoping to command a flight of his own was no guarantee