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Astronauts: Pushing the Limits of Man

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    FBN’s Neil Cavuto on why Astronauts such as Gene Cernan are true heroes.

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You -- once -- what's -- talk to a hero today I talked to the last man to walk on the wounded.

You know as a kid I watched him take those final steps up there and -- -- there and saying up there.

Okay how they have -- they -- pretty payoff for adulthood.

Land do.

OK okay -- I said he was a -- I didn't say it was a -- anyway I know this might surprise you but I -- you in a little bit of a secret of mine.

When I was a kid I really wanted to be -- -- I really did I collected stuff on -- and I Apollo.

I had rocket models lunar modules you name -- my room look like -- -- office and colonial.

My mom -- debt finally take me to see the space center and I look at those rockets and capsules.

And I discovered something.

-- -- -- -- -- -- It couldn't be an astronaut even as a kid I realized.

Cancel astronaut plans -- -- moved on the alphabet and went on to anchorman alas.

Such is life but but that is how much genuine American heroes like gene inserted touch my life and I think inspired -- whole generation.

Guys you simply refused to say now.

Or understand the meaning of the word can't guys -- challenged our conventional wisdom.

About the limits of men and dared push the very boundaries.

Of man that's why treasured my talk with -- hero.

I guess all the more because team -- -- you know he doesn't think of himself as a -- -- regular guy who got lucky.

Bull that is total bull.

Millions of secrets on -- you try doing with this guy did add boiling up in your spacesuit on the moon.

Because some solar like deflect -- didn't work in your suit like they were supposed to.

You price staying -- You -- staying upbeat you try walking in Jean asserted boots for one day like I did today.

Take it from me.

It's not -- a capsule but doesn't -- his boots didn't fit.

That didn't even come close and I know the big convention comes next -- of its find state.

I think I've already talked to -- pretty big dude in this state did stay when we remember what we were and what we could be.

Jean surname is proof of our potential.

So the next time someone says can't -- not gonna happen.

Remember Jeanne dance and on the moon.

I think you can.

Look at -- look at us.

He's our DNA.