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It still really matters,\" Branson said. \"There would be no Virgin Galactic, no Virgin Orbit and no spaceship company had it not been for Apollo astronauts and the thousands of talented people who made their mission possible.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Dr. Carolyn Williams of the nonprofit From One Hand To AnOTHER received the foundation's Education award, and former Johnson Space Center director Gerry Griffin, a flight director for all of the crewed Apollo missions, was honored with the Pioneer award.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's very humbling, it kind of came out of the blue,\" Griffin said. \"It is so neat to know that we've passed the torch that will let this next generation take us to this next step.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              That next step, Griffin said, is a return of Americans to the Moon and, eventually, Mars — something former Apollo astronauts Walt Cunningham, Harrison Schmitt, Rusty Schweickart and Tom Stafford discussed during a conversation with Cox.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We're sort of going through a second door here. The door isn't all the way open — we haven't gone all the way through it — but it's cracked open,\" Schweickart, who flew as the lunar module pilot on Apollo 9, told The Associated Press. \"Space is going to be much less expensive to go to, and that's going to open up not just opportunities for people to fly, but because of the decreased cost, real opportunities for innovators to generate new ideas and to do things that have never been done before.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Aldrin's ShareSpace Foundation is one of the sponsors of the annual gala, which raises money for Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics — or STEAM education — and Astronaut Scholarship Foundation scholarships.\u003cbr/\u003e              Renowned Brazilian pop artist Romero Britto donated artwork from his \"Buzz Aldrin Space Series\" for the auction, which also included a behind-the-scenes tour of Virgin Galactic in California and autographed space memorabilia. Tickets for the event ranged from $750 to $2,500 per person.\u003cbr/\u003e              The former astronaut's expected absence comes just a month after he sued two of his adult children and a former business manager, accusing them of misusing his credit cards, transferring money from an account and slandering him by saying he has dementia. Only weeks before the lawsuit, Andrew and Jan Aldrin filed a petition claiming their 88-year-old father was suffering from memory loss, delusions, paranoia and confusion.\u003cbr/\u003e              Andrew and Jan Aldrin, as well as business manager Christina Korp, are on the foundation's board and attended the gala. Aldrin's oldest son, James, isn't involved in the legal fight.\u003cbr/\u003e              Andrew Aldrin acknowledged his father's absence during the gala.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We're sorry dad can't be here, I know some of you are disappointed,\" Aldrin said. \"Ultimately, what we're about is creating the first generation of Martians.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Buzz Aldrin, along with Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins, was part of the Apollo 11 mission which landed the first two humans on the moon on July 20, 1969.\u003cbr/\u003e              ===========================================================\u003cbr/\u003e              Clients are reminded: \u003cbr/\u003e              (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com\u003cbr/\u003e              (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service \u003cbr/\u003e              (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              Cape Canaveral, Fla. — 21 July 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              +++ AUDIO FROM MULTBOX AS INCOMING +++\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of Apollo Celebration Gala, including guests, Andrew Aldrin and Jim Christensen of ShareSpace Foundation, Dr. Carolyn Williams of From One Hand To AnOTHER, guests, former Johnson Space Center director Gerry Griffin (covers part of soundbite)\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gerry Griffin, Former Johnson Space Center Director: \"My first reaction to receiving this award is that, a great honor. And, I'm really appreciative of it. These kinds of awards are always, I've thought of them as team awards. We had such a great team of people in the 60s ad 70s to get us to the moon – 400,000 altogether at one time or another – so these kind of awards are nice to be plucked out of the crowd to get, but I always like to keep the face that I'm here because of that great team.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Various of guests, space memorabilia, auction, British physicist Brian Cox and Apollo astronauts Walt Cunningham, Harrison Schmitt, Rusty Schweickart and Tom Stafford (covers part of soundbite)\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Cox, Physicist: \"The real legacy of Apollo is not the Saturn V that you see here, the real legacy of Apollo will be the next generation of explorers who go onwards to Mars and beyond and in doing so unify our planet and our civilization behind a positive vision of what we can do when we work together.\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Various of Christina Korp of ShareSpace Foundation performing\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Curt Brown, Astronaut Scholarship Foundation: \"We're the only country in the world that we know of that has ever put humans on another planet or another body and we're coming up on that one-year anniversary. 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