 going outside of spacecraft is really a very special thing I mean we knew we could do it but the bosses and the design team want you demonstrating that you weren't gonna flop around and poke holes in your suit with the antennas and things like that so Dave Scott over in the command module was photographing with a movie camera and I got no more than about three or four feet up the handrail on the front of the lunar module when Dave said hey hold it the camera jam let me try and fix it so Jim McDivitt who's the commander says okay Dave I can give you five minutes to try and fix it and Rusty stay right where you are so I figured hey great this is my opportunity to really appreciate what's what's going on so I just let go with one hand and just sort of swung around looked at the earth below and the black space above and the Sun over my shoulder and I mean it was this incredible spectacular view you have to realize that in that Apollo suit the radio was voice operated so when you weren't talking it was totally silent and when you're not moving in the suit when you're just hanging you're not even aware of the suit it's floating and you're floating inside it like you're naked in space the the view out the helmet is totally unobstructed it was a time when I said okay I'm just gonna be a human being here and look at what's happening how did I get here humanity is reach this point where we're moving out from the earth you know I'm a small part of that but that's what's going on and how does that happen in history and what does it mean and when I say how did I get here who am I what am am I me or am I us you know that that is very clear that you're there as a representative of humankind this is this is humanity moving out and you're just the representative you know on that frontier