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d feeling a little sad that people on planet Earth couldn39。s lasting legacy. The important achievement of Apollo was a demonstration that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited. Part II Standing on the moon Alan Shepard is a . astronaut, who walked on the moon in 1971. In an interview, Alan Shepard reminisced about his experience on the moon. Audioscript: On February 4, 1971, Alan Shepard, mander of the Apollo 14 space mission, became the fifth person to walk on the moon. He and fellow astronaut Edgar Mitchell spent nine hours and 2 3 minutes in space suits on the lunar surface. Their major job was to gather and photograph samples of the materials on the moon39。Unit 10 A Glimpse of the Age Part I Getting ready In 1969, one of the greatest technological achievements of the human race was acplished. A human first set foot on another celestial body. Audioscript: Thirtyfive years ago, on July 20. 1969. humans first set foot on another world. . Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong descended from a landing craft named Eagle to bee the first person to step on the moon, a momentous event he eloquently consecrated. That39。s surface, including rocks and stones, to take back to geologists on earth. When he was asked about his lunar experience, Mitchell said, What it did for me is really force me to get a picture of the universe from a totally different perspective and then start to question our conventional ways of looking at ourselves, our place in the universe, our place in life, what it39。t see that same sight because obviously all the military and political differences bee so insignificant seeing it from the distance. Audioscript: T Terry Gross A Alan Shepard T: What surprised you most about how the surface of the moon looked? A: I don39。s where it is. And the sky is totally black, and here you have a planet which is four times the size of the moon as we look at it from the earth, and you also have color. You have a blue ocean(s) and the brown landmasses the brown continents and you can see ice on the ice caps on the North Pole, and so on. It39。t worry about resources um. Up there you39。s just very emotional. I actually shed a couple of tears looking up at the earth and having those feelings. Part III Nelson Mandela The Father of South Africa As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn39。s funeral. Jacob Zuma: He39。ve been quite easy for him to perhaps stop campaigning for the rights of black people, but he never did that. Right until the end of his time in prison, he was still campaigning. When I went to South Africa, I met somebody who was in prison with him and it was amazing to hear about how they were ... they found it so easy to forgive the government and the people who39。s Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and German politicians were left to sue for peace. More than 8 million soldiers were killed or died during the hostilities. An estimated 12 million civilians also perished. In the aftermath of the war, huge changes occurred. The center of wealth transferred from Europe to the United States。 and most important, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. He rear