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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn’t have done a better job of raising people’s hope.

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Well, I don’t know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it’s always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she’s up to to be fair, and that’s the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever – that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

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For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn’t get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.

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May 3, 2024

For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn’t get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.

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May 3, 2024

Well, I don’t know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it’s always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she’s up to to be fair, and that’s the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever – that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

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