reporter: good morning, kendis gibson on the space coast, awaiting that all civilian crew landing on earth later on this evening. they ll be in that tiny capsule the space tragon, ten people in the space cap actual itself, one of them is victor glover the nasa astronaut and friend to the show, he ll join us live next. in the nutritional drink you choose. try boost glucose control. it s clinically shown to help manage blood sugar levels and contains high quality protein to help manage hunger and support muscle health. try boost today. why bother mastering something? why hand-tune an audio system? why include the most advanced active safety system
talk about it now. dan, thank you for joining me. my pleasure. thanks. abby: sign up right now and you get to see it all, including george welch, the forgotten american hero. and this everyone s eyes has looked up at the moon, doctor warner von braun, genius rocket engineer, worked for nazi germany during the war and von braun took all his blueprints in the work to the u.s. government and their missile program. the united states comes out as a leading superpower out of world war ii. the scientific achievement by soviet russia has all of humanity during having me. there s a space cap releasing. i believe the commission should commit itself of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. the ultimate trophy is who to the moon first. kennedy told nasa i don t know how you know to the moon but i pledged were going so figure it out. it s a key effort.
george welch, the forgotten american hero. and this everyone s eyes has looked up at the moon, doctor warner von braun, genius rocket engineer, worked for nazi germany during the war and von braun took all his blueprints in the work to the u.s. government and their missile program. the united states comes out as a leading superpower out of world war ii. the scientific achievement by soviet russia has all of humanity during having me. there s a space cap releasing. i believe the commission should commit itself of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. the ultimate trophy is who to the moon first. kennedy told nasa i don t know how you know to the moon but i pledged were going so figure it out. it s a key effort. we have liftoff.
three, two, one, zero. we have commenced we have liftoff. we have cleared the tower. oh, there s the rumble in our building. it looks good. it looks like a good flight. this building is shaking under us. our camera platform is shaking. but what a beautiful flight. we interrupt this program to present another in a series of onboard television transmissions from the space cap you will brought to you by tang, the breakfast drink of champions. apollo 8, 175,450 miles from earth and about to be pulled in by the moon s gravity. the astronauts have now truly left the earth and its gravity. for this second telecast, frank borman has fixed the tv camera on a bracket below his window and has turned apollo 8 so it faces the earth. here is communications coming through from the apollo.
spacex and then boeing will once again get america back into the business of launching humans from florida s space coast. that hasn t happened for the past four years ever since the space shuttle program phased out and we ve to rely on and pay the russians about $70 million a ride to get our astronauts up to the space station. many last that recalling how 55 years nata trumpeted the mercury 5 astronaut seem who successfully led us to space and the moon and back in the 1960s. now nasa excitedly debuting the next four astronaut pioneers chosen to take our next step into the space cap actual future. bob bankin eric bowe doug hurley and sonny williams the test pilots on board of boeing and spacex rockets and returning to the u.s. to launch humans from cape canaveral, and they are excited. part of it is pride. part of it is the technology development. part of it is just you know