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We want to find out what's out there.

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We want to be able to, you know,

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expand out horizons and I think that

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that truly is built into the human spirit,

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we are always wondering "What's next?"

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"How much farther can we go?"

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- The Mercury astronauts
when they get introduced

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they immediately call
us as sort of a hero.

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The press conference
that NASA had goes crazy

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and the astronauts become
instant celebrities.

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They sorta look like knights
in armor, in some ways,

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going out there to defend the honor of

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The United States.

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(radioed) 3...2...1...Lift off.

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- Roger, lift off

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and the clock has started.

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I remember feeling a
moment of exhilaration

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exhilaration because, of course,

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I'd been training for two years

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and in fact I was more than ready

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for the lift off to occur

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and was quite delighted in
the fact that it did occur.

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It occurred so smoothly.

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- (John) Roger, zero G and I feel fine.

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Capsule is turning around.
Oh that view is tremendous.

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- We choose to go to the moon

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in this decade and do the other things,

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not because they are easy,

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but because they are hard.

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- It's outward bound. People have a

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human feeling I think for wanting

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to go outward bound and it's in us.

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You know, to go, to see, to touch,

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to understand what's there.

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- (mission control)
Ignition sequence start.

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- We finally come to the day, the moment.

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The trajectory had been wrong.

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They had targeted into
this inhospitable place.

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Then, they had to fly over this area

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at a high forward velocity.

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Then, pitch up to slow down,

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so it would kill that forward velocity

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and then start down like a helicopter.

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Tranquility Base here,
the eagle has landed.

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- (Neil) That's one small step for man,

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one giant leap for mankind.

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- (Charlie) The landing to
me was a great celebration

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we had won the race, the
nation was almost euphoric.

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- The knowledge that we gain

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about the origin and the
evolution of the moon

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is one of these days, gonna
help us right here on Earth.

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Course its only one area,

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but I believe it's an important area

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and I guess I'm bettin a lot on it.

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- NASA has been absolutely critical

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to improving the knowledge
of all human kind.

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Twelve humans walked on
the surface of the moon,

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which is a stunning achievement,

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and we are still the only
country ever to have done that.

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We're going to go back to the moon

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and we're gonna take what we learned there

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and we're gonna go to mars.

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- (Sandra) To get to Mars,
it's about a six month journey.

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And as an operator, I would
be really really happy

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if we could test out our operations

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and our equipment in our backyard.

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The moon's only three days away.

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The moon is the next step.

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- So the Space Station is
more than a million pounds,

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it's as big as two football fields.

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You are not going to bring
that up in one single lift.

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So, we had to bring up
the Space Station in parts

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and assemble it. The Space Shuttle

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was instrumental into bringing up,

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at least the American side of that.

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It was more than forty missions
over about thirteen years

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to assemble all of those
parts of the Space Station.

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- And so human space flight
is really interesting

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because we do adapt really
quickly to the environment.

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How quickly, it felt
natural to float around.

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How quickly, it felt normal
to look out the window

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and see the earth go by.

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- Human being are built
to be able to adapt

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to weightlessness and
that allows us to go do

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that exploration and so we have improved

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the exercise equipment,
we improved the diet,

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the vitamins. I mean
we came back so strong,

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that physically I was
actually stronger than

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when I left, when I did
the physical fitness test

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when we got back. It gives me great hope

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that, you know, if we have
similar type of equipment

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on our long duration space vehicles,

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we're going to show up on Mars

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and be ready to work
the minute we get there.

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- (Charlie) Orion, our state
of the art space craft,

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is designed to take crews into deep space,

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and then once their work is done,

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safely bring them back home.

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Sometimes folks ask me, you know,

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what do you think the next
sixty years has in store?

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I don't know all of the
destinations that we will visit,

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the mysteries we will solve,

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the places that we will
leave footprints, again.

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- And we want to see what's out there,

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we want to see how it works,

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we want to go explore.

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There's always this desire to learn more,