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From: "Moon, Larry J. (JSC-EA411)" <larry.j.moon@nasa.gov>
Date: December 9, 2012 12:47:39 PM GMT-06:00
To: "Moon, Larry J. (JSC-EA411)" <larry.j.moon@nasa.gov>
Subject: Neil Cavuto special Fly Me to the Moon  ---tonite at 8 CST

 

Don't forget to tune into Fox News Channels Neil Cavuto Special tonite at 8pm CST.  

 

 

Neil Cavuto Previews Sunday's 'Fly Me to the Moon' Special: Let's Remember a 'Time When Man Reached for the Stars'

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Sunday at 9p ET, Fox News Reporting brings you the inside stories of the men who walked on the moon. Watch as they share tales of triumph and near-tragedy with Neil Cavuto. Read Cavuto's preview of the special below and tune in to Fox News Reporting: Fly Me to the Moon, Sunday at 9p ET.

Can it really be 40 years?!

Forty years since the last man stepped on the moon? Has it been that long since a chunky, hideously dorky 13-year-old boy watched Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt galloping and singing (or at least trying to sing) on that barren white ball above us, the last of 12 human beings to do so?

Now, that same dorky kid is back four decades later to commemorate this incredible milestone with a special unlike anything you have ever seen anywhere. Starting Sunday night at 9p ET, hear for the first time from more of those original moon-walkers than ever, together and reminiscing together.

It's a television first! A pioneering look at America's, and indeed the world's, last pioneers … Men who did what was once thought the impossible, in an impossibly short length of time.

Relive John Kennedy's once mocked goal of landing a man on the moon before the decade of the sixties was out. Hear in the words of the men who met that challenge how they defied all doubters and all odds.

And relive Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell's grim realization he wasn't only not going to make it to the moon, he and his colleagues didn't seem likely to make it back home.

And yes, hear for the first time, heroes remembering the first among them. How did Neil Armstrong win that honor of being the first man on the moon? Let's just say, it's not how or what you think.

And hear their frustration with a country that's all but given up on a program that defined the essence of American greatness itself … Now reduced to hitching rides with the Russians to get back to space.

What happened? Who let it happen? And what do these heroes propose to bring the pioneering magic back? Because this intergalactic cocoon club is in no mood to retire, and after you listen to Apollo 11 hero Buzz Aldrin, not the least interested in being "retiring." I will leave it at that!

I wish I could put in words what a heartfelt passion I have for what we've all put together for you here at Fox — a remarkable look-back at a time when we never looked backwards. Always building, always dreaming, always coming up with ways to make something work, even after the very first Apollo crew burns to death in a freak explosion or the 13th Apollo risks the same 200,000 miles out in space.

The general story lines you might know, the personal insights from the men who were there, you do not. Not until now.

Take it from a guy who desperately wanted to be an astronaut when he was that chubby kid with the big head. After soon discovering upon a visit to the then-Kennedy Center and realizing that I couldn't fit in the capsule, I set my life to marveling at the men and women who did. I watched in awe how nothing could hold them back and no tragedy could tame their enthusiasm.

They are a testament to a time when "can't" simply wasn't in the American vocabulary, when there were no victims, when there were no cynics, when no challenge was too great or goal too outlandish. I want to take you back to a time when man reached for the stars, and held them tight.

I want you to watch this with your kids and grandkids. I want you to remind them that we are a great people, a heroic people. We can't all be astronauts. But we have it in our very DNA to be pioneers.

This Sunday, see for yourselves what made America great, and what makes us great still.

We could do worse than forget the heroes' warnings. Take a look around … We already are.

Tune in to Fox News Reporting: Fly Me to the Moon, Sunday at 9p ET.

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