got it back. and our nbc news exclusive inside nasa s historic apollo mission control as america prepares to return to the moon this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening we are literally reading between the lines. the heavily redacted copy of the fbi s mar-a-lago search affidavit made public today, describing the whats but not the whos surrounding classified materials that were removed from the white house and taken to former president trump s florida estate, along with details of the fbi s month s long efforts to recover them and even references to information provided by a significant number of civilian witnesses. in its warrant application, the government saying it believed there were contraband, proofs of crime or other items illegally possessed at the trump estate after the fbi said after 15 boxes mr. trump returned to the national archives earlier this year, it discovered 184 classified items, including 25 top secret documents peter alexander has m
had. reporter: do you look back we didn t know what we didn t have. my generation looks back at what they accomplished and wonders how they did it. reporter: in 1965, they ran every apollo mission out of here. every moon landing they ran sky lab and shuttle missions, including the loss of challenger today an updated mission control runs the space station, and the upcoming artemis moon mission. we learned from their generation how to plan a mission, a very complex mission, how to go and train it, and that is the big part train it we train it, train it, train it. reporter: a new generation planning to return to the moon and stay with a nod to the apollo team that made it all possible. tom costello, nbc news houston. pretty amazing group there. up next, the secret service s mission to get back billions in stolen covid funds