Ali Velshi

Even when things go horribly wrong, we learn and we're able to do more.

And the thing that...

that occurs to me as I've been watching this for the last hour and a half or so is that this is the history.

There are things happening in this very moment that will not be replicated again because they'll figure out how to manage the rafts or the radio communications.

And the next time this happens, including the next time when we land a crew on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years,

Other little things will also go wrong.

But in the course of a day, lots of things go wrong.

In the course of a space mission, lots of things can go wrong.

Some of them have historically been deadly.

Most of them are not.

Most of them are small matters that are adjusted and they debrief on and they get better.

And here's the thing.

People like us never learn of these things, right?

The experts who we've got on right now, these remarkable astronauts with whom we're speaking, they know of these things.

They have the stories of the little things that went wrong that got fixed.

We'll never know about it, but some invention will occur.

Some improvement will occur.

Some success will occur because of the things that we're watching right now, the lessons that we're learning right now.

So to me, this just all feels like this remarkable unfolding of history.

And when you look back at any of the great stories in history, any of the great moments in history,