WEBVTT - Chapter 7 – Behind the Moon

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<v Speaker 1>Buzz, an audio drama for iHeart Podcasts starring John Lithgow

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<v Speaker 1>and Jeffrey Aaron as buzz Aldron. This series is based

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<v Speaker 1>on real events. However, certain characters, names, incidents, locations, and

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<v Speaker 1>dialogue have been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.

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<v Speaker 2>Chapter seven, Colombia, This is flight.

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<v Speaker 3>Are you reading me?

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<v Speaker 4>As if we needed it? The explosion that followed separation

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<v Speaker 4>of the command and lunar modules was proof that if

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<v Speaker 4>anything could go wrong with Apollo eleven, it would Colombia.

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<v Speaker 3>This is flight. If you can read me? Switch to

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<v Speaker 3>high gain Columbia. Do you have a visual with Eagle?

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<v Speaker 3>Pete Colombia? Do you have a visual with Eagle?

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<v Speaker 4>That is a negative?

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<v Speaker 3>We have no visual, Mike. We need you to make

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<v Speaker 3>a full rotation and pitch or yaw.

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<v Speaker 5>Houston, I'm beginning. Pitch over now any degrees.

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<v Speaker 6>One, ten, one, thirty, Jesus.

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<v Speaker 5>Still no visual on Eagle? Over Eagle?

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<v Speaker 3>This is flight? Are you reading me? And what is

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<v Speaker 3>your status? Capcom Switch to high hot Colombia, hell of

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<v Speaker 3>a rotati?

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<v Speaker 5>Columbia.

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<v Speaker 3>Has Eagle maintained structural integrity? Colombia? Can you assess eagle structure?

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<v Speaker 5>A negative?

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<v Speaker 2>Eagle's rotation is too rapid for.

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<v Speaker 7>That kind of assessment.

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<v Speaker 3>Over, Eagle, this is flight. Can you read me if affirmative?

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<v Speaker 3>We need you to null your rate of rotations in Colombia.

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<v Speaker 4>Eagle's rotation is continuing.

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<v Speaker 7>Give anything. It's getting faster.

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<v Speaker 3>Eagle, this is flight. Come in, Eagle, do you read

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<v Speaker 3>fdo is Eagle still on course?

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<v Speaker 8>Give me a minute to pull into lemtsy I.

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<v Speaker 7>Repeat, we can hear you, Houston.

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<v Speaker 3>Eagle, do you read us over? We're reading you, Eagle.

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<v Speaker 3>What's your status?

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<v Speaker 9>Uncle?

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<v Speaker 7>We've been thrown forward?

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<v Speaker 9>Position it flight. I have telemetry on Eagle. It's rolling

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<v Speaker 9>too much to engage the aboard guidance system Eagle.

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<v Speaker 3>Houston attempt to stabilize with manual RCS.

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<v Speaker 7>Roger Houston, manual RCS RS engaged FDL.

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<v Speaker 9>You're reading engagement. Rotation is slowing, Eagle.

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<v Speaker 3>Houston. We're with you on a slowing of rotation, Columbia.

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<v Speaker 3>What are you seeing?

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<v Speaker 5>Slowing rotation?

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<v Speaker 10>Houston?

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<v Speaker 7>Eagle, rotation still slowing.

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<v Speaker 5>R CS back.

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<v Speaker 11>So we're seeing here, Roger, Eagle, thank you, I'm seeing

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<v Speaker 11>encouraging numbers.

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<v Speaker 3>Copy that deck A never a dull moment, Houston. Mike

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<v Speaker 3>can you get a look at Eagle's docking assembly?

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<v Speaker 5>What are you looking for?

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<v Speaker 3>Houston, Neil, we're checking to see if the explosion did

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<v Speaker 3>any damage to your docking port.

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<v Speaker 7>Houston, Columbium.

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<v Speaker 3>There's definitely some buckling, okay, But is Eagle's docking port intact?

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<v Speaker 6>We won't know for sure until we attempt to READOC.

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<v Speaker 7>If Neil and Buzz have to spacewalk back to the

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<v Speaker 7>command module they're close enough.

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<v Speaker 9>Then now for time.

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<v Speaker 7>And we serve breakfast a low nine.

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<v Speaker 3>Hundred shrimp cocktail Mike, first come, first served post.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm Buzz Aldrin and this is the story you think

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<v Speaker 4>you know, but you don't.

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<v Speaker 5>It makes them frequent.

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<v Speaker 10>Five five four, Hey, you with the quality Dave here

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<v Speaker 10>the Eagle.

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<v Speaker 7>Plant one all pervan.

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<v Speaker 3>Part diapl.

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<v Speaker 4>You're listening to Buzz. This is the story of my

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<v Speaker 4>greatest achievement.

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<v Speaker 5>Chapter seven, Houston, are we go for lunar descent?

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<v Speaker 3>We don't have the data to order a goal with

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<v Speaker 3>maximum confidence. FDO is working on the dynamics impact of

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<v Speaker 3>the compression explosion.

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<v Speaker 5>Houston. Maximum confidence is a luxury.

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<v Speaker 4>I could tell Neil was ready to exert some authority,

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<v Speaker 4>which in my opinion fell on the category of better

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<v Speaker 4>late than never.

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<v Speaker 5>As Commander I suggest we begin lunar descent.

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<v Speaker 4>I suggested we first assess the position of the Russian craft.

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<v Speaker 4>Did I do it because it really worried me? Or

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<v Speaker 4>because if Neil said black, I'd say white? Absolutely?

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<v Speaker 11>Gene this print out from Sir Bernard in England. The

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<v Speaker 11>Russian craft is still in orbit and descending. If we

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<v Speaker 11>order a gopher descent now, we might slip past them.

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<v Speaker 3>For all we know, they could be targeting us when

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<v Speaker 3>we land. Fdo do we have telemetry? Not yet, Eagle.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not ordering descent until we have a full assessment

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<v Speaker 3>of flight dynamics and the position of the Russian craft. Repeat,

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<v Speaker 3>we are no go for descent as of this time.

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<v Speaker 3>And that's what the separation of the two modules looks like,

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<v Speaker 3>a procedure that was successfully completed a few moments ago.

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<v Speaker 12>Going to drink this one, Oh, I uh.

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<v Speaker 6>No, Look, Joan, we're all in the same situation.

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<v Speaker 2>We need to support each other.

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<v Speaker 12>Yeah, I guess you're right.

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<v Speaker 6>We may have had our arguments and our husbands may

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<v Speaker 6>not get on as well as everyone and NASA hoped,

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<v Speaker 6>but whatever our differences, we're still astronauts wives a rare breed.

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<v Speaker 8>Yeah, the compression explosion was the equivalent of a three

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<v Speaker 8>second SPSS burn in the wrong direction.

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<v Speaker 3>Are you sure?

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<v Speaker 8>We're waiting on two more CIS lunar navigation sightings. But

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<v Speaker 8>Eagle will overshoot the target area by eleven degrees of longitude.

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<v Speaker 3>Our landing data, the practice on acknowledged terrain means nothing.

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<v Speaker 8>It's eleven degrees if the rate of dissent fuel consumption

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<v Speaker 8>remains constant.

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<v Speaker 5>Meaning it could get worse.

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<v Speaker 3>Eagle, we're showing you on a course variation of at

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<v Speaker 3>least eleven degrees that'd take you from a secure landing

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<v Speaker 3>environment at Apollo Site two to one.

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<v Speaker 7>That's unknown, Houston. We could activate the thrusters to get

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<v Speaker 7>us closer to course.

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<v Speaker 10>A negative on that buzz.

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<v Speaker 3>There's not enough shue to cover that kind of cross

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<v Speaker 3>range and still run even like Dorcius will get you

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<v Speaker 3>there and back.

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<v Speaker 7>Yes they will, they won't.

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<v Speaker 3>Neil's gonna have to fly it in manually. He'll be okay,

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<v Speaker 3>change in course emergency landing.

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<v Speaker 5>You could give it the buzz.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't even want to consider that, Neil. If we

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<v Speaker 3>can't rely on the dissent program in the computer. Are

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<v Speaker 3>you prepared to disable programmed descent and designate the landing

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<v Speaker 3>site manually? Repeat? Neil, are you prepared to disable the

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<v Speaker 3>landing program and fly Eagle yourself? I am not you, buzz.

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<v Speaker 3>The question was addressed to the mission commander, Neil, are

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<v Speaker 3>you prepared to deactivate programmed landing and descend on manual control?

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<v Speaker 8>I am prepared.

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<v Speaker 7>You've got a visual contact with what could be the Russian.

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<v Speaker 13>Craft Eagles behind the moon in two minutes thirty Gene,

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<v Speaker 13>Sir Bernard's online three.

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<v Speaker 3>Eagle standby Sir Bernard Gene Krantz.

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<v Speaker 10>Gene, we've had a bit of a course change on

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<v Speaker 10>the Russian craft. It had been maintaining a five degree variance,

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<v Speaker 10>but in the last orbit it's three degrees closer to Eagle.

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<v Speaker 3>Is that an intentional path change or a gravitational anomaly?

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<v Speaker 10>All I can say is the odds of a collision

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<v Speaker 10>have increased, and I wouldn't put anything past the Russians,

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<v Speaker 10>especially since you're about to go behind the moon, which

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<v Speaker 10>would provide them with cover.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you, sus.

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<v Speaker 11>Werd behind the moon in forty five seconds? What's it

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<v Speaker 11>going to be, Gene?

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<v Speaker 3>I want to keep our options for to scent aboard

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<v Speaker 3>and trans Earth injection alive as long as we can.

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<v Speaker 11>That options disappearing fast.

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<v Speaker 5>Recommend we begin lunar descent before another orbit.

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<v Speaker 4>For a second, I thought of disagreeing with Neil, because

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<v Speaker 4>well just because, but in the interest of the mission,

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<v Speaker 4>and to prove that even I could show an occasional

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<v Speaker 4>sign of maturity, descend immediately.

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<v Speaker 2>Wait a second, did I hear you guys agree?

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<v Speaker 5>Better be careful or it'll look like we're on the

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<v Speaker 5>same team.

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<v Speaker 3>Complete orbit, Eagle. When you come out from behind the Moon,

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<v Speaker 3>we'll have a final go or no go on lunar

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<v Speaker 3>discent the readership for you. I heard that Eagle.

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<v Speaker 7>You were meant to Houston.

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<v Speaker 4>We disappeared behind the moon with no idea where the

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<v Speaker 4>Russian craft would be. When we emerged. We were out

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<v Speaker 4>of communication with Houston, and they with us. Neil and

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<v Speaker 4>I just might have been the two loneliest guys in

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<v Speaker 4>the universe.

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<v Speaker 7>Russian still there, gotta be. I just don't see them.

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<v Speaker 5>Wow, they're out there somewhere.

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<v Speaker 7>I remember in Korea they were always sneaking up behind you,

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<v Speaker 7>and I still shut the bastards down.

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<v Speaker 5>Can we talk about something else.

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<v Speaker 8>Like what.

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<v Speaker 12>I need some coffee? I can't, I am I'm shaking

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<v Speaker 12>too much. It's okay. Here, there you go. I'm not

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<v Speaker 12>jen I'm not sure I can do this. Joe, I'm here.

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<v Speaker 12>Pat's here. We'll make it.

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<v Speaker 3>We will.

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<v Speaker 7>Neil there out the window eleven o'clock. Is that the

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<v Speaker 7>Russian lunar?

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<v Speaker 5>I think it could be.

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<v Speaker 7>Dynamics are steady. Want me to take over. I can

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<v Speaker 7>execute evasive maneuvers.

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<v Speaker 5>You're not the only one who flew in Korea.

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<v Speaker 7>A two second burn of the descent engine at fifty

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<v Speaker 7>percent will put us low enough to advance our landing

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<v Speaker 7>window by one full orbit. That's all we need to do.

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<v Speaker 7>What to get to the surface?

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<v Speaker 5>First, you said the dynamics are steady.

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<v Speaker 14>If the Russians are trying to keep their distance, a

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<v Speaker 14>course change now increases the odds of a collision.

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<v Speaker 7>I'll accept the odds if it gets us on the ground.

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<v Speaker 5>We can't reach Houston for another three minutes.

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<v Speaker 7>Forget Houston and forget the steady dynamics. Neil, whatever that

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<v Speaker 7>thing is out there, it's gaining on us.

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<v Speaker 13>Eagle should be emerging from behind the Moon in five

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<v Speaker 13>four three two. Eagle Houston.

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<v Speaker 3>Here Eagle, this is Flight.

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<v Speaker 5>Eagle. Are you reading us?

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<v Speaker 3>Do we have telemetry and BioMed?

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<v Speaker 13>Columbia Houston, We've lost data with Eagle. Are you still

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<v Speaker 13>receiving I.

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<v Speaker 3>Can't read the wire, Columbia, this is Flight Try low frequency.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm trying every day.

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<v Speaker 5>Of God, I'm out of touch with the linking entering

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<v Speaker 5>a wire.

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<v Speaker 9>What are the possibilities e comm radical alignment change from

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<v Speaker 9>the explosive endings, structural failure from decompressed loss of visual

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<v Speaker 9>acuity by the CMP.

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<v Speaker 11>If the Russians hit him, they wouldn't have time to

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<v Speaker 11>activate the aboord and guidance system.

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<v Speaker 3>If the Russians hit him, deek, They're dead.

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<v Speaker 8>Columbia Houston.

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<v Speaker 13>If you can't read, you'll switch to OMNE.

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<v Speaker 5>I read you, Houston, but I'm getting static over the

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<v Speaker 5>Omni two.

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<v Speaker 2>It's still no visual.

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<v Speaker 3>It makes no sense that he can't see anything. If

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<v Speaker 3>eagles hull pressure failed or if it was hit by

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<v Speaker 3>the Russians, there'd be visible.

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<v Speaker 13>Debris unless the sun was at twelve o'clock. The solar

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<v Speaker 13>glare would make it impossible for.

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<v Speaker 7>Houston. This is Eagle, come in. Why the hell can't

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<v Speaker 7>they hear us?

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<v Speaker 6>Columbia.

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<v Speaker 7>Wo we get real fand the middlemen.

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<v Speaker 3>We've getting to select AFT omni. Eagle.

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<v Speaker 5>This is Columbia. Used to need you to select aft.

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<v Speaker 7>Omni now, Roger, Columbia aft omni Houston.

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<v Speaker 5>Are you reading Eagle on AFT omni negative?

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<v Speaker 1>Columbia.

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<v Speaker 3>I think they're in tennis blocked.

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<v Speaker 5>Eagle.

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<v Speaker 13>Produce your yaw about ten degrees so the omni has

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<v Speaker 13>line of sight.

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<v Speaker 5>Okay, Columbia ten degrees y'all? How's that now? Houston? You're

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<v Speaker 5>reading us.

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<v Speaker 9>We're worrying you.

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<v Speaker 4>Eagle.

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<v Speaker 7>Any sign of the Russians we did cite it. It

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<v Speaker 7>appeared to be on our path, but it's not there now.

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<v Speaker 4>Jeane, we've used thirty of ours fuel a deal.

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<v Speaker 3>We're not showing a fourteen degree.

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<v Speaker 8>Variants on landing longitude?

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<v Speaker 5>Houston. Are we go for descent?

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<v Speaker 7>Houston? We didn't come a quarter of a million miles

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<v Speaker 7>for nothing.

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<v Speaker 4>The silence from mission control lasted maybe five seconds. It

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<v Speaker 4>seemed like an hour.

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<v Speaker 5>Flight. If you were up here, what would you do?

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<v Speaker 3>Eagle?

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<v Speaker 8>We are go for lunar descent.

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<v Speaker 13>Arm the descent engine.

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<v Speaker 14>Eagle entering commands, descent guidance enabled, proceed to fire descent.

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<v Speaker 7>Engine proceeding engines firing. There's no change of motion.

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<v Speaker 5>I don't show engine firing.

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<v Speaker 10>What's going on up there, Eagle?

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<v Speaker 13>Can you confirm descent engine firing?

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<v Speaker 10>Uh?

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<v Speaker 14>We've got all our buttons pushed, thrust translation, balanced couple

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<v Speaker 14>on TTC, A throttle, minimum prop.

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<v Speaker 7>Button reset, att control, three of them to mode control, Eagles.

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<v Speaker 9>Houston, we are not showing.

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<v Speaker 13>Descent engine firing.

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<v Speaker 5>Neither are we, and AGS is reading four hundred plus

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<v Speaker 5>one music to my ears.

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<v Speaker 14>Houston confirming descent firing at sixty thousand feet.

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<v Speaker 5>Don't copy that, Eagle.

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<v Speaker 4>One thing about spaceflight. You can't pull up to a

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<v Speaker 4>gas station and say, filler up, e.

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<v Speaker 3>Camm, what's our RCS fuel situation?

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<v Speaker 8>Not good? We've used up the thrust reserves we were

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<v Speaker 8>saving for a potential overshoot.

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<v Speaker 3>If Neil runs long, he's going to have to compensate

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<v Speaker 3>with the descent engine, and he'll need every drop to

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<v Speaker 3>find somewhere flat enough to land. Is he going to

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<v Speaker 3>be dry during final descent?

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<v Speaker 13>If he overshoots, he'll be sucking fumes?

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<v Speaker 5>Houston confirming computerized.

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<v Speaker 7>Descent altitude fifty eight thousand.

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<v Speaker 13>Copy altitude now forty two five hundred.

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<v Speaker 14>Roger Houston, Our position checks down range show us to

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<v Speaker 14>be seventeen degrees long.

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<v Speaker 5>Can you confirm that Eagle?

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<v Speaker 13>That's confirmed? You think you can make the secondary landing site.

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<v Speaker 14>Negative.

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<v Speaker 5>Looks like we'll be pushing up on the western edge

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<v Speaker 5>of the landing ellipse near Hypatia Ridge Gene. That's like

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<v Speaker 5>landing in the Grand Canyon. Neil isn't prepared for it.

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<v Speaker 5>He hasn't practiced for that kind of terrain.

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<v Speaker 3>Get out the charts. He'll need all the help he

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<v Speaker 3>can get.

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<v Speaker 9>The latest orbit of the Russian craft sir declination to

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<v Speaker 9>equate a plane eighty seven degrees counted from zero meridian

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<v Speaker 9>two hundred.

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<v Speaker 10>What's the altitude and eccentricity of.

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<v Speaker 9>Eagle twenty eight thousand and descending eccentricity zero point zero

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<v Speaker 9>one With.

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<v Speaker 10>The possibility of a new landing site at rym h Rymi,

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<v Speaker 10>Hypatia is also one of the potential landing sites for

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<v Speaker 10>the Russians, which rather stretches coincidence.

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<v Speaker 12>Don't you think I'm not sure?

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<v Speaker 9>I follow you?

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<v Speaker 10>So these are ground controlled adjustments made by the Russians

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<v Speaker 10>virtually in conjunction with the descent of Eagle It was

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<v Speaker 10>almost as if they'd predicted it.

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<v Speaker 9>You don't believe the Soviets have some way of knowing

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<v Speaker 9>what's happening inside mission control. You think that is harboring

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<v Speaker 9>a spy.

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<v Speaker 4>Back at mission control, Crans and other engineers were examining

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<v Speaker 4>every lunar map they had.

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<v Speaker 3>We see areas on the western and northern fringes of

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<v Speaker 3>the landing ellipse that may be smooth enough for touchdown,

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<v Speaker 3>but we're not sure you'll have the fuel to reach them.

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<v Speaker 3>The capacities at.

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<v Speaker 7>Two nine Houston target touchdown time at seventeen to twenty hours.

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<v Speaker 3>E Calm, let's get a confirmation.

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<v Speaker 7>I don't need a confirmation. I worked it out. Time

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<v Speaker 7>is now fifteen fifty three eight in less than eighteen

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<v Speaker 7>minutes were dry.

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<v Speaker 5>We need to activate landing radar Houston.

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<v Speaker 7>Roger on that activation Eagle, given everything else that's gone wrong,

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<v Speaker 7>one hundred says that radar is a dude.

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<v Speaker 5>I don't gamble buys.

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<v Speaker 3>CO firm landing radar.

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<v Speaker 7>Are you doing, Neil? Thanks for saving me. One hundred

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<v Speaker 7>Houston Landing radar confirmed altitude twenty four thousand.

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<v Speaker 4>That's when Lovell's information about the Russians guessing our landing

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<v Speaker 4>site got to mission control.

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<v Speaker 11>Sir Bernard just sent this by wire?

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<v Speaker 5>How old is this?

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<v Speaker 11>No more than thirty minutes? Levell double checked it, and

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<v Speaker 11>he says the last correction before this one was an

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<v Speaker 11>hour ago.

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<v Speaker 7>They need a full hour and a half just to

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<v Speaker 7>update numbers on their last correction. Even with the guidance computer,

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<v Speaker 7>our guys couldn't do thrust to burns that fast.

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<v Speaker 3>We don't know where we're going, how could they?

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<v Speaker 1>Buzz, starring John Lithgow and Jeffrey Errand, is created by

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<v Speaker 1>Stephen Cronish and directed by John Scott Dryden.

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<v Speaker 1>Original music is by Sasha Putnam, editing and sound design

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