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if you ever -- this is the apollo 11 patch, carol. there is something very different about the apollo 11 patch than any of the other mission patches. there are no names on it of the astronauts. it's the only one. that's because neil always felt that the accomplishment was not his accomplishment. it was the accomplishment of everyone involved in the apollo program. >> wow! john zarrella, thanks. we'll get back to you. the service will start at 10:00 am eastern time, in just about 35 minutes. >>> the apollo 11 moon landing was armstrong's second and final mission into space. james hanson, neil armstrong's biography, sat down with cnn. he tells us armstrong would have gone back. >> it sort of became to him that he wasn't going to be reassigned to another apollo flight. i think he would have flown again, no question, if they wanted him to. congressmen and the white house and nasa was asking him to show up for photo shoots, autographs. the job that he wanted to do, they really weren't letting him do. and that wasn't neil. neil was a tech n
if you ever -- this is the apollo 11 patch, carol. there is something very different about the apollo 11 patch than any of the other mission patches. there are no names on it of the astronauts. it's the only one. that's because neil always felt that the accomplishment was not his accomplishment. it was the accomplishment of everyone involved in the apollo program. >> wow! john zarrella, thanks. we'll get back to you. the service will start at 10:00 am eastern time, in just about 35...
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his capsule communiqcator from apollo charlie duke said that he was always a team player. i am quoting charlie now. neil believed it was a u.s. accomplish and not their accomplishment. he was one of the humblest men i ever met. even the biographer echo ed the words. have a listen. >> i think that neil felt that he knew that other astronauts could have made the land iing. the crew dispatched for 11, all three of the astronauts, but the commander armstrong, felt it was important that it was a national effort, and this was a team effort, and to have the names of the astronauts was really, you know, it was not needed. and it was not really the message. in terms of the deciding who would be the first out, between aldrin and armstrong, they both landed at the same time. i mean, that is the way neil looked a it. he did not see why there was a emphasis upon him being the first out. >> it is one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. >> there was some thinking about, well, which of the two men will best, you know, will best represent nasa, and the country and humankind as
his capsule communiqcator from apollo charlie duke said that he was always a team player. i am quoting charlie now. neil believed it was a u.s. accomplish and not their accomplishment. he was one of the humblest men i ever met. even the biographer echo ed the words. have a listen. >> i think that neil felt that he knew that other astronauts could have made the land iing. the crew dispatched for 11, all three of the astronauts, but the commander armstrong, felt it was important that it was...
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and, you know, the most recent was back a couple of years ago at the anniversary of the apollo xiv moon landings and he went to the anniversaries, the private events, suzanne. just the astronauts attended. i happen to be the emcee for that event. you know, even at those events everybody wanted a picture with him, shake his hand and he was most gracious all the time in doing that. but that was why he shied away from the public limelight. because everybody always wanted to be there to touch him and say i shook the hand of the first man to walk on the moon. >> what do you think he took away from that and think that people would remember him for, the kind of person that he was? >> reporter: you know, i think and what the problem was so many people did not know the real neil armstrong and what we took away even from the ceremony today and from astronauts that i had the opportunity to talk to in the last week, the apollo astronauts who were so close to him, you know, the last man to fly on the moon today eloquently and haltingly and with tears in his eyes about everybody that i've talked to a
and, you know, the most recent was back a couple of years ago at the anniversary of the apollo xiv moon landings and he went to the anniversaries, the private events, suzanne. just the astronauts attended. i happen to be the emcee for that event. you know, even at those events everybody wanted a picture with him, shake his hand and he was most gracious all the time in doing that. but that was why he shied away from the public limelight. because everybody always wanted to be there to touch him...
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and a home base close to the apollo theater and silvia's is the incredible loft. you can stay there for $189 a night and great rooms with floor to ceiling windows and bliss amenities. just because you're staying in harlem doesn't mean you're not staying in style. >> you may think you know brooklyn, but you don't. there are hot areas, particularly williamsburg, not virginia, but new york. >> absolutely. williamsburg and brooklyn, i live in a different neighborhood, but last night, i was in williamsburg because it's a hotbed of coolness. >> take me to this boutique, this chocolate boutique. that alone will take me to brooklyn. >> so mast brothers chocolate, this is where you have to go. what is great about mast brothers, the passion project of two young brothers. they're obsessed with single origin chocolates. they go around the world looking for the best cocoa and produce these things by hand. not only do they produce them by hand but they wrap them individually in this beautiful paper. you can go to their frakactory see the process being done. their chocolate is o
and a home base close to the apollo theater and silvia's is the incredible loft. you can stay there for $189 a night and great rooms with floor to ceiling windows and bliss amenities. just because you're staying in harlem doesn't mean you're not staying in style. >> you may think you know brooklyn, but you don't. there are hot areas, particularly williamsburg, not virginia, but new york. >> absolutely. williamsburg and brooklyn, i live in a different neighborhood, but last night, i...
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you think about how hard it is if you do a belly flop on water, i'm not sure the apollo was that much softer. >> is this the landing? >> yes. boom, big cloud of dust. still had to hurt. >> and welcome home from the iss. >> and then the parachute blew over and tipped the thing on its side and they had to dig them out. >> that's how they get home now. >> yes. thanks to russia and the soyuz, hopefully with private enterprises that will soon change. thank you. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> welcome back. >> thank you. good to be back. >>> rolen martin is weighing in on this one, the whole topless fiasco involving the royal couple. and, you know what, he doesn't feel sorry for the duchess. he's going to explain. he'll join us live. it will be interesting. his morning starts with arthritis pain. and two pills. afternoon's overhaul starts with more pain. more pills. triple checking hydraulics. the evening brings more pain. so, back to more pills. almost done, when... hang on. stan's doctor recommended aleve. it can keep pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is rudy. who
you think about how hard it is if you do a belly flop on water, i'm not sure the apollo was that much softer. >> is this the landing? >> yes. boom, big cloud of dust. still had to hurt. >> and welcome home from the iss. >> and then the parachute blew over and tipped the thing on its side and they had to dig them out. >> that's how they get home now. >> yes. thanks to russia and the soyuz, hopefully with private enterprises that will soon change. thank you....