1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: Nine Days in July is a production of I Heart 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: Radio and Trade Traft Studios in association with High five Content. Okay, 3 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: off flight Controller's got I'll go for power decent retro FI. 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: Don't go guide and control Calcom, go Sergeant, go Capcom, 5 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: or go for power decent. We don't get any here 6 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: A year ago for a power decent over backer copy. 7 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: You think you knew this story, are right before good 8 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: A couple on day protoomum, but you don't proto auto 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: d R pop. But read that pop. But at the 10 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: border board day read that program alarm the trolbo toobo 11 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: to gether the reading on the twelve boat through program 12 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: alarm into the agg degree posy to pick that ray. 13 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: Feel it to be a little louder. Rock are hundred 14 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: ft down at nine things six hundred feet. They're four 15 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: hundred feet down at nine pay forward four hundred feet 16 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 1: Thannard faid down for app pouring forward three hundred feet. 17 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: I don't want anna wanna down If the astronauts inside 18 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: the lunar module are unable to reach the Moon surface. 19 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: Years of training, billions of dollars, and the hopes and 20 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: dreams of an entire planet work for nothing today. They 21 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: are like callouts. From now on will be fueled six day, 22 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: six day seconds, but they paid don't have down drip 23 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: into the right level. There is zero margin for error. 24 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 1: One miscalculation could cost them their lives third thurday seconds. 25 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: So much of the Apollo leven story you've heard is 26 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: the exact same moments, recycled and repeated over end over again. 27 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: But not here. This time you are going to hear 28 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: the stories behind the stories, the ones you've never heard. 29 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,239 Speaker 1: For the next nine hours, we are going to stow 30 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: away aboard a tin can, soaring through space at twenty 31 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: four thousand miles an hour. We're also going to go 32 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: behind the consoles of mission control to meet the unsung heroes, 33 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: the men and women who didn't make the headlines but 34 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: whose stories deserve to be told and will be returning 35 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: to Earth to look into what was happening while Apolo 36 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: eleven raced to the Moon and how everything stopped cold 37 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: when the eagle touched down. Using never before heard mission audio, 38 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you the story of Apollo eleven 39 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: as it unfolded, day by day, hour by hour, minute 40 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 1: by minute. This was one of the most tumultuous eras 41 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: in American history. The profoundly unpopular Vietnam War was raging 42 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: on without an end in sight. Saia that we are 43 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: fired and stalemate same thing all only realistic, if unsatisfactory conclusion. 44 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: Back home, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. And 45 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: the presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States, 46 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy, were assessments. Very sad news for all 47 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: of you, and that is that Martin Luther King and 48 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 1: was shot and was killed tonight. Remember, at the Democratic 49 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: National Convention, thousands of demonstrators clashed violently with police, National 50 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: guardsman or push thee hippie and anti war demonstrators back 51 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: a half a block or so from the hotel area. 52 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: On top of all of this, the United States was 53 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: embroiled in a cold war with its ideological nemesis, the 54 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: Soviet Union. Nuclear tipped violence seemed to be just one 55 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: thoughtless mistake away. Freedom as many difficulties, and democracy is 56 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: not perfect, but we have never had to put a 57 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: wall up to keep off people in smack in the 58 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: middle of This is the proxy war of a lifetime, 59 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: the race for space. I'll be up Apollo eleven is 60 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: about more than putting a man on the moon. Hanging 61 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: in the balance is the national pride and global grandstanding 62 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: of two superpowers on the brink of war. For many 63 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: who lived through this era, the United States seemed to 64 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: be coming apart at the seams. Not since the Civil 65 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: War had the country felt more divided or more angry. 66 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 1: Never had our democracy felt more brittle or imperiled. Sound familiar. 67 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: America needed a miracle. We needed a reason to reach 68 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: for a greatness beyond our misfortunes. We needed Apollo eleven. 69 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:53,280 Speaker 1: No pressure right. I'm Brandon Phibbs. I'm a science documentary 70 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: producer and journalist. Before that, my office was the cockpit 71 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: of an S three Viking jet aircraft, and my job 72 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: was to hunt submarines for the United States Navy. I 73 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 1: invite you to join me as we embark on one 74 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 1: of the most thrilling adventures any human has ever undertaken. 75 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: This is nine Days in July. At exactly four fifteen 76 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: on the morning of July nineteen sixty nine, Neil Armstrong, 77 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 1: Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins waken their living quarters at 78 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 1: NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Launch Control all elements 79 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: at the countdown Apollo eleven for setting satisfactorily. At this time, 80 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: the crew was described as appearing to be rested, that is, 81 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: a fiddle and ready to go. More than one thousand 82 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: miles away Admission control in Houston, Texas, two dozen flight 83 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 1: controllers are powering up their equipment. Apollo eleven lifts off 84 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 1: the pad in a little over four hours. This is 85 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: the calm before the storm. The rest of America is 86 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: still to sleep, including the astronauts families, though I suspect 87 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,799 Speaker 1: the night has not been especially considerate to the astronauts wives. 88 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: It's time to make history. Today is the day Apollo 89 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: eleven leaves for the Moon. Neil, Buzz and Michael have 90 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: a quick breakfast before reporting to the sud up room, 91 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: where a small army of technicians is waiting to help 92 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: them into their space suits, basically a spaceship shaped like 93 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: a human being. Once the astronauts are sealed in, they 94 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: are attached to horrible cases delivering pure oxygen, and just 95 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: like that, Neil buzzin Michael will not breathe outside air 96 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: or hear another human voice that is not coming through 97 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 1: a speaker for the next nine days back in Houston, 98 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: Gene Crantz is already awake. I have this incredibly spectacular 99 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: I mean just absolutely deep sleep, no dreams, no worries, 100 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: no nothing. But now he's pacing the house like a 101 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: caged animal. You got all this energy and you don't 102 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: have anything to do with it. You got no focus, 103 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: and you can't sleep. Heck, we had six kids and 104 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: and uh, MARTA's trying to figure out some way. Oh Jean, 105 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: what are you going to settle down? When are you 106 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 1: going to sleep? Jean's wife pushes him out the door. 107 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: Jean is one of four flight directors for Apollo eleven, 108 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: meaning the weight of the entire mission rests on his shoulders. Well, 109 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: he's not on duty this morning. He still wants to 110 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: be in mission control when Apollo eleven lifts off. Traditionally, 111 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: all flight directors show up in there and you find 112 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: a place to sit near three or four deep. Every 113 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: console is three or four deep. Nobody's gonna miss the 114 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: launch for the first lunar landing mission. Nobody. You know 115 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: Jean Crantz, even if you don't realize it. If you 116 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: saw the film with Pollo thirteen, he was the one 117 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: played by Ed Harris, you know the failure is not 118 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: an option. Guy, the guy whose wife made him a 119 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: new vest for every mission. Now why I pumped myself 120 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: up each time I get ready to do something. Stars 121 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: and traps. John Phillips sus I got probably thirty four 122 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: year records tapes and at this time also we had 123 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: eight act recorders, so I had him in the car. 124 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: It was every place i'd go, I'd have John Philip Sousa. 125 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: And this is why I get up to speed, get 126 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: the energy, get the adrenaline flowing. At around six three am, 127 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: Florida time, Neil, Buzz and Michael waved to the gathered guests, 128 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: press and other NASA employees and climb aboard a van 129 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: for a short trip to the launchpad eight miles away. 130 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: As they draw closer, they can see their Saturn five 131 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: bathed in giant Xenon lights, the tallest, heaviest, and most 132 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: powerful rocket ever created. Normally, Launchpad thirty nine A is 133 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: a beehive of activity and equipment, but today it is 134 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: eerily deserted. The weather is perfect, with only a light 135 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: breeze from the southeast, and temperatures are already climbing into 136 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: the mid eighties. Jim Lovell was the backup commander for 137 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: Apollo eleven. He flew to space on the Saturn five 138 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 1: twice aboard Apollo eight and apollow their team. What we 139 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: got off the vehicle, I started to walk up to 140 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: the elevator to go up to uh where we would 141 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: get inside the spacecraft. It was what have apprehensive to 142 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: the fact that this vehicle is sitting here with five 143 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: and a half billion pounds of high explosives, liquid oxygen, 144 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: liquid hydrogen. You know it happened, you know history. The 145 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: astronauts board the elevator and begin ascending to the top 146 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: of the rocket. Though they have yet to blast off. 147 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: The astronauts have already left the Earth. The Saturn five 148 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: rushing past them is an engineering marble. At three hundred 149 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: and sixty three ft, it is sixty ft taller than 150 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: the Statue of Liberty. It carries more than six million 151 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 1: pounds of rocket fuel and weighs as much as four 152 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:45,719 Speaker 1: hundred elephants. Apollo said Launch Control at this time and 153 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: their time proof for Apollo eleven has quoted the high 154 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: speed elevator from inside the A level and the mobile launcher. 155 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: That's Jack King. He's an assid Public Affairs Officer. You're 156 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 1: going to be hearing a lot from nassa's p a 157 00:09:57,559 --> 00:09:59,959 Speaker 1: os this series. It was their job during the mission 158 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: to explain what was going on to the public. There's 159 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: a high speed elevator six minutes which will carry them 160 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: to the three level, the spacecraft level. Dick Gordon went 161 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 1: to space on Apollo twelve. As he looked down at 162 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: the Saturn five on launch day, it's suddenly hit him 163 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: and say, hey, this is real. That beach below is 164 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: that Saturn five is a living, breathing object. It's vetting 165 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 1: vapors and ice is falling off of it, and it's 166 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: a creature. There's just about to come alive. The Saturn 167 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: five consists of three stages, basically just gas tanks with engines. 168 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: On the tippy top is a needle like structure. That's 169 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: the launch escape tower. It's there to yank the astronauts 170 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: free in the event of an emergency during launch. Directly 171 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 1: beneath the tower is a metallic gum drop. That's the 172 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: Command module. That's what our astronauts will spend the next 173 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,839 Speaker 1: nine days. In the cylindrical section just beneath it is 174 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: the service module. So where's the lunar module, the spidery 175 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: looking moonship that will actually make the voyage to the 176 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: surface of the Moon that's hidden away inside of a 177 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: compartment on top of the third stage. Remember this configuration 178 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: because it will become very important in a couple of minutes. Shortly, 179 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: we'll expect us and it's Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins 180 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: to come across Swing arm nine. The follow as time 181 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: empathy to the White Home and a standby to board 182 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: the spacecraft. The p AO only mentions Neil and Michael 183 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: because two flights below their final destination, the elevator pauses 184 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: for Buzz to step off. The loading area above is 185 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,599 Speaker 1: simply too small to accommodate everyone at once. As the 186 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,559 Speaker 1: elevator pulls away, Buzz welcomes the chance to steal a 187 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: couple contemplative moments. In the distance, he can see numerous 188 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: camp fires flickering on the beaches spectators who have been 189 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: camping out for days. He can see the vehicle assembly 190 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: building where the Saturn five's pieces were mated together by area. 191 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 1: It is one of the largest buildings in the world. 192 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: It's four walls enclose eight full acres and on human 193 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: Florida days, rain clouds have been known to form inside 194 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: the one story building. Once it was complete, the Saturn 195 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,079 Speaker 1: five was perched on top of the crawler transporter, a 196 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: vehicle the size of a baseball infield, which began the 197 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: slow process of moving to launch pad at one mile 198 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: a gym level. Recalls pausing on the gantry as the 199 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: enormity of what he was about to do sunk in. 200 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: I had a few moments to look down, and there 201 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: I saw the lights of the press people going into 202 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: their press sites to get set up to watch the launch, 203 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: and I thought, we're going to the boom. I mean, 204 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: all this training and all this navigation training and everything else, 205 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,439 Speaker 1: you know, I just took it as part of everyday 206 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: type of working. But that sort of forgetting where I 207 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: was going, and uh, it was suddenly the realization said, hey, 208 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: they're serious about this. The space pat command of Neil 209 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: Armstrong and they command Module Violet. Michael Collins, now proceeding 210 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: a class to swing arm into the small white homb 211 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: that attaches at the spacecraft level. At just shy of 212 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,439 Speaker 1: seven am, Neil climbs off the elevator and enters the 213 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: white room, the space connecting the Saturn five to the 214 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,079 Speaker 1: support structure. The unchallenged lord of the White Room is 215 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: Pad Leader Gunther, vent bespectacled and bow tied. The rail 216 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: thin Gunter is responsible for the Saturn five from the 217 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: moment it arrives at the pad till the moment he 218 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 1: seals the astronauts inside their capsule. The astronauts consider him 219 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: to be a good luck charm. They never want to 220 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: fly without. Der Pad Furer a nickname given to Gunter 221 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: by Mercury astronaut John Glenn. You heard that right, der 222 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: Pad Furer. During World War Two, Gunter was a flight 223 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 1: engineer for the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force. He immigrated 224 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 1: to America after the war, where he found work in 225 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: the burgeoning space program. If it seems peculiar that a 226 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 1: former Nazi is enmeshed at such a high level in 227 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: the U S Space program, gerg your loins. Gunter is 228 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: one of nearly two thousand x Nazis on Nassa's payroll. 229 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,199 Speaker 1: How the hell did that happen? We'll get back to that. 230 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: Neil grabs the handrail and swings himself inside the command module. 231 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: It's roughly the size of a SUBU outback. He takes 232 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: this position at the left of the capsule, the place 233 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: reserved for the mission commander. The spacecraft commander Neil Armstrong 234 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: now aboard the Apollo eleven space class at the level 235 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: at the pad. Morning, Nail, good, welcome aboard. I feel 236 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: like a good mone Michael, the command module pilot, takes 237 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: his seat on the right. Eventually, Buzz is called up 238 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: and drops into the center seat for the lunar module pilot. 239 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: The gang's all here, though he once served in the Navy. 240 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: Kneels the civilian now and a former test pilot. The 241 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: other two are officers of the U. S. Air Force. 242 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: Each of the men was born in ninety Each way 243 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: is a hundred and sixty five pounds, and each are 244 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: within an inch of the same height five ft eleven inches. 245 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: Neil is the quintessential calm, cool and collected personality. He 246 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: is unruffled, unassuming, and always laser focused. He never opens 247 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: his mouth unless he has something important to say. The 248 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: primary objective is is the ability to demonstrate that man 249 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: mankind in fact can do this kind of a job. 250 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: Buzz couldn't be more different. He is blunt and opinionated. Luckily, 251 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: his abrasive opinions are backed up by one of the 252 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: greatest brains at NASA. We certainly have the utmost confidence 253 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: of total six that Michael is the peacemaker he once 254 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: called Neil and Buzz amiable strangers. No one remembers Michael. 255 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: He didn't walk on the Moon, and so history has 256 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: declared him Apollo eleven's official third wheel. But he was 257 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: the glue, the fun one, witty, lighthearted, and quick with 258 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: a joke. We're going nine seven percent of the way there, 259 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: and that suits me just fine. These guys weren't friends. 260 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: They definitely weren't getting beers after work, but they were 261 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: pros with a job to do. Together, they are about 262 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: to crack history wide open. At all. Three astronauts now 263 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: avoids the spacecraft. Gunter and his technicians strapped the astronauts 264 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 1: in disengage their portable oxygen and begin hooking them up 265 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: to the ship's internal life support system and communications. Neil 266 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: gives the thumbs up, and the White Room team seals 267 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: the hatch. At this time or this in the process 268 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: of closing the hatch on the Apollo eleven spacecraft, the 269 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: astronauts are now cut off from all human contact they 270 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: won't see another person for the next nine days. For 271 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: the next two and a half hours, the astronauts run 272 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: through checklists. At this point in the countdown, spacecraft command 273 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: and Neil Armstrong once again appears to be the basic 274 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: worker in the spacecraft as he's performing a series of 275 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: alignment checks associated with a guidance system in the spacecraft. 276 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: The astronauts are subdued working inside the tunnel vision of 277 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: their training, but Michael Steele a moment of self reflection 278 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: as the only one not descending to the moon surface, 279 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 1: he realizes that the odds of him getting back in 280 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: one piece are far better than the two men flanking 281 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:15,439 Speaker 1: ten minutes away from our plan lifts up the access 282 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: arm retracts. The men in the capsule feel a jolt. 283 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: In Houston, mission Control is a beehive of activity. Seconds 284 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: after Apollo eleven takes flight. The men and women in 285 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,199 Speaker 1: this building will take over responsibility of the rocket from 286 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 1: the launch center in Florida. Gene Crantz is sitting in 287 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 1: the back. He catches sight of Cliff charles Worth, the 288 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: flight director for the launch. Charles Worth is the conductor 289 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 1: choreographing a room of finally two instruments. Charles Worth calls 290 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: for the room's attention. It's time to get a go 291 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: no go for launch sequence. He found fun go Fight, Go, 292 00:17:55,240 --> 00:18:00,159 Speaker 1: Busch Control Networks, you get it in everything has run 293 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 1: his life operations speed. When the countdown clock reaches t 294 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: minus nine minutes, Charles Worth orders the doors to mission 295 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: control locked. Jean bows his head in silent prayer. Three 296 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: and a half miles away minimum safe distance from the launchpad, 297 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 1: the grandstands are packed with invited guests and dignitaries. Three 298 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 1: thousand newsmen from fifty six countries stand by to file 299 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 1: to day's story. I think it's really a great event 300 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 1: for a man from just our planet, not just the 301 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: United States, to get on a do you actually be 302 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: on another world? Along miles of grid luck roads, bridges, 303 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 1: sand flats and beaches, more than a million spectators hold 304 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: their breath. Janet Armstrong, Neil's wife, and their sons Mark 305 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: and Ricky, have escaped the crush of onlookers and snooping 306 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: press by sleeping aboard a small yacht floating in the 307 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,880 Speaker 1: Banana River. Unsurprisingly, Janet didn't get a wink of sleep 308 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 1: last night. Collins and Joe Aldron watched from the privacy 309 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: of their homes, glued to their television sets, like an 310 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: estimated five hundred and thirty million people across the globe. 311 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Mike Collins where make the flight of 312 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: Apollo eleven. Let's take a look at their activities, beginning 313 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 1: last night at dinner. Andy Aldrin, buzz is youngest, remembers 314 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 1: the morning, well, I was home with mom, which kind 315 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: of annoyed me. I wanted to be at the launch, 316 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 1: and Mom told me that we couldn't go to the 317 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: launch because NASA didn't want us there because if something happened, 318 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: they think it would just be really horrible for the 319 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 1: family to be on camera with, you know, a national tragedy. 320 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 1: It would be decades before Andy would discover the truth. 321 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 1: NASA had no problem with them being there. Pat Collins 322 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 1: and his mother were merely trying to guard their privacy 323 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: and brittle emotions in case something went catastrophically wrong. I've 324 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 1: seen pictures of my mom during that time, and she's 325 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: literally very, very anxious, but I didn't notice it at 326 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: the time. The only place on Earth where people are 327 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: not sitting in front of their television sets is the 328 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: Soviet block there on the other side of the planet. 329 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: The workday is coming to a close, just like any 330 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: other day. Apollo eleven will not be televised. Everything, all 331 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,919 Speaker 1: the years of research, testing, training, and even the deaths 332 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: of beloved colleagues has led to this moment. It's one 333 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: minute seconds on the Apollo missions, the flights to land 334 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 1: of the first men on the Moon. All indications are 335 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 1: coming in to the control center at this time indicate 336 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: we are of gold. Neil Armstrong. Just we put it back. 337 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: It's been a real smooth countdown. We passed the fifty 338 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: second month. Power transfer is complete while on internal power 339 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: with the launch vehicle at this time, and a good 340 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: an report. It feels good. Ten nine ignition sequenced. Jim 341 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: Leble paints the scene inside the command module before the liftoff. 342 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,120 Speaker 1: We can start to hear things happen, you know, maybe 343 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: with a five or six seconds to go, we hear 344 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: the rumbling of the fuel started to float down into 345 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 1: the engine at a m the Saturn five engines ignite. 346 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,360 Speaker 1: The vehicle pours out flame, building thrust, but it doesn't move. 347 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: Hold down lamps keep it in place where the edge 348 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,880 Speaker 1: is the knife Before the liftoff, there's a tremendous war 349 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: roar of the spacecraft is shaking back and forth. Uh, 350 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: and you're just sitting there hoping that everything works. So 351 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: okay five or three two one, they're all all engine 352 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: running at zero. Explosive bolts released the vehicle. You might 353 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 1: think it erupts off the pan, but it doesn't. This 354 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 1: is the point at which gravity is the strongest and 355 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: the ship is the heaviest. Walter cunning Gown who flew 356 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: aboard Apollo seven. It's not a sudden acceleration. It's not 357 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,719 Speaker 1: like a cat shot on an aircraft carrier. I mean 358 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 1: that is like that, and you see spots in front 359 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 1: of your eyes. With this, you're starting out with zero 360 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 1: velocity and it's just a slow building. It's like a 361 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,719 Speaker 1: train behind you that's just building up. Ripped off let 362 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 1: the thirty two minute they are ripped off on a 363 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: follow eleven, not on her boat. Janet Armstrong tightly clutches 364 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: her son Ricky as her husband's rocket emerges from the 365 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:41,360 Speaker 1: Royaling Smoke and Flames power program. On reporting their role 366 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: in pitture program, which you put topolo and living on 367 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: a proper heading. That's Neil letting everyone know that the 368 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: Saturn five is clear of the tower and angling itself 369 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: to its proper heading. The other voice you hear is 370 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: astronaut Bruce McCandless at the capcom or capsule communicator position 371 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: in Michig Control. Bill Anders flew on Apollo eight and 372 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,239 Speaker 1: remember is his launch like it was yesterday. We had 373 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: simulated essentially everything we could think of, and yet the 374 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: very first seconds of the flight were a total surprise 375 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: to everybody. On the violent sideways movement and massive noise, 376 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: Thomas Mattingly Abolo sixteen launch man Apollo was really dramatic. 377 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: It feels just like a challenge. It's shaking and banging 378 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:31,399 Speaker 1: and pushing hard, and there is no doubt there's something 379 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: really gigantic is going on. Neil's left hand is wrapped 380 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: around the aboard handle. One quick twist would activate the 381 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,959 Speaker 1: launch escape tower and lift the command module free from 382 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,959 Speaker 1: the Saturn five, assuming he even knows there's a problem. 383 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: Bill Anders recalls that the first phase of the ascent 384 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: was so noisy it was impossible to communicate with the 385 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: men sitting right next to it. Had there been a 386 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: need to abort, detected on my instruments, I could not 387 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: have relayed that. Michael wonders how the headlines will read 388 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,400 Speaker 1: tomorrow if Neil A. Sidentally rotates that aboard handle moonshot 389 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: falls into ocean. Last transmission from Armstrong was oops altitudes 390 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 1: two miles and you're good at one a minute, down 391 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: range one mile, altitude three four miles. Now velocity two 392 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 1: thousand per second. We're through the region of maximum dynamic pressure. Now. 393 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: Maximum dynamic pressure is the point at which the Saturn 394 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 1: five is under the greatest amount of physical stress. Is 395 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,880 Speaker 1: it attempts to smash its way through the densest part 396 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 1: of the atmosphere. Bill anders. As we burned out on 397 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: the first stage, we were hitting about out of the 398 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: six or eight g s. You're back in your seat, 399 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,440 Speaker 1: hardly lift your arms. You have trouble breathing to try 400 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 1: to reach out. It's like you had a light in 401 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 1: your hand. The first stage of the Saturn five rocket 402 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: is made up of five clustered F one engines. These 403 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: are the largest, most powerful rocket engines ever designed. The 404 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: nozzles are so low large that the Apollo leven spacecraft 405 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: can fit inside them. Each one weighs more than nine 406 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: tons and produces seven point five million pounds of thrust. 407 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: How much is that. It's equivalent to roughly thirty seven 408 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 1: forty seven jumbo jets pumping out more power than eighty 409 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,120 Speaker 1: five Hoover dams. In the two minutes of their use, 410 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: they gobble up twenty tons of fuel per second. When 411 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: they're done, the Saturn five will have gone from a 412 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: dead stop to fifteen times faster than the speed of 413 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 1: a rifle bullet, and it will achieve that speed while 414 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 1: carrying one hundred and thirty tons, about as much weight 415 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 1: as ten full school buses. Think of the Saturn five 416 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: three stages as a relay race. One runner circles the track, 417 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 1: and when they get back to the point at which 418 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: they began, they hand the baton off to another teammate, 419 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 1: who carries it from there. That's also how the Saturn 420 00:25:52,200 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: five gets its payloaded. Do orbiting gave. A couple of 421 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 1: the first stage's engines begin to shut down. The higher 422 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,200 Speaker 1: the Saturn five goes, the less Earth's gravity is working 423 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: against it. The mass of the vehicle is now dropping 424 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: by more than thirteen metric tons per second if it 425 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 1: keeps accelerating at the same speed that was necessary to 426 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 1: get it off the ground. It is going to overshoot 427 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 1: its intended orbit and fling the crew into deep space 428 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: down range thirty five miles thirty miles high standing by 429 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: for the hardboard engine cuts down. Now, just two minutes 430 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: and forty two seconds after launch, the Saturn's first stage 431 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: shuts down completely. Apollo eight's bill anders, then the engine 432 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 1: is cut off. You go from a plus six G 433 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 1: to a minus one. I felt like I was going 434 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: to be catapulted right through that instrument panel. Explosive charges debtonate, 435 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 1: severing the two stages. The first stage tumbles back towards 436 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: the planet. Half a second later, at just shy of 437 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 1: nine oh five am, the second stag age engines ignite. 438 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: They will fire for six minutes, elevating the payload to 439 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 1: more than one hundred miles in altitude. The spacecraft is 440 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: currently traveling at more than sixty three hundred miles per hour. 441 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: This is the point at which the G forces are 442 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: the greatest. The astronauts are nearly four times heavier than 443 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: their normal weight. Power und the arm from confirming both 444 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: the engine skirt separation and the launch escape tower separations go. Today, 445 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: they finally gave me a wines that last voice you 446 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 1: heard was Michael. While Neil and Buzz both have their 447 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: own windows, the launch escape tower blocked Michael's view. He 448 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: is finally getting his first look outside the ship. Down 449 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:50,679 Speaker 1: range two seventy miles, altitude eighty two miles, velocity twelve thousand, 450 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: four hundred seventy. The second stage is done at nine 451 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: minutes and nine seconds. It is jettison and falls back 452 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 1: to Earth, but for time, the astronauts taste witlessness. At 453 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,360 Speaker 1: am the third and final stage comes to life. They're 454 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,359 Speaker 1: gently pushing them back into their couches. A follow eleven 455 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: that then you are gonna firm to go for urban 456 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:22,399 Speaker 1: habit and go velacinating certain twenty five th six A 457 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 1: follow eleven, it says jison. They booster has been configured 458 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: for orbital code. Folk spacecraft are looking good or The 459 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: third stage blasts what remains of the Saturn five into 460 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: a one and three nautical mile high Earth orbit. Do 461 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: you remember playing tag as a kid? Think of orbit 462 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,960 Speaker 1: as base. It's a safe place where the astronauts can 463 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,239 Speaker 1: hang out for a while. If something didn't work right, 464 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 1: they can turn around and head home. But if everything 465 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: went according to plan, they finally have a chance to 466 00:28:51,400 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: catch their breath. Apollo eleven will now circle the Earth 467 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: one and a half times. The third stage remains its 468 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 1: job is not yet done. The crew removed their helmets 469 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: and gloves and unbuckle from their restraints. The pressures of 470 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: gravity have lifted. They begin to levitate euphorically in micro 471 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 1: gravity and begin unstowing and checking their equipment. Michael decides 472 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: that Buzz should take some pictures. Ever since Wally Shara 473 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: bought his own Hasselblad from a local Houston camera shop 474 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: and used it to take the first pictures from space. 475 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: A word Mercury eight. The Swedish company has been manufacturing 476 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: cameras for Nassa. They had to be as light, as small, 477 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 1: and as rugged as possible. Plus they had to work 478 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 1: in the vacuum of space and in temperatures as high 479 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: as two hundred and forty eight degrees fahrenheit in the 480 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 1: sun and negative eighty degrees fahrenheit in the shade town 481 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: that was Neil. The astronauts find themselves on the dark 482 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: side of the Earth, lost in the planet's shadow. They 483 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: moved caut a lee about the cabin. It takes a 484 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: while for the inner ear to acclimate to micro gravity. 485 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: Rapid movements reduce even the most iron stomached metro to 486 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: a nauseous mess. A real need to picture that here, real, 487 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 1: There's just one problem. They can't find the camera. Everybody's 488 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 1: seen a half of breast bloating bird at two lights 489 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 1: for sunrise. No, but I mean where you want to 490 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: get it before the l T L I is translunar injection. 491 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: This is the upcoming burn which is going to propel 492 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: the spacecraft out of Earth orbit and toward the Moon. 493 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: The vehicle's acceleration will impart one point five g s, 494 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: and anything not secured inside the cabin, like a camera, 495 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: becomes a potentially deadly projectile. Ah. Here it is Planet 496 00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: Ye floating on the alf all over standing collection. Clearly 497 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: the guys are having fun with the camera. Michael is 498 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: spoofing Cecil B. De Mill, the legendary film director of 499 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: the Greatest Show on Earth and the Ten Commandments. He 500 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: were ready to go ahead with the in the docking probe, 501 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: and you know with the RN's hot fire when you're 502 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: ready to monitor. So did you go ahead with the probe? Now? 503 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 1: Remember when I told you to keep in mind how 504 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: everything on top of the Saturn five was configured. Here's why. 505 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 1: After A Paul eleven initiates the coming trains lunar injection, 506 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: they will undertake one of the single most difficult and 507 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 1: dangerous elements of the entire mission. The command service module 508 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: will separate from the third stage, make a you turn 509 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: dock with a lunar module and pull it out slightly 510 00:31:53,040 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: one already open data, We confirm existion and the throats go. 511 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: Two hours and forty four minutes into their mission. At 512 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,320 Speaker 1: eleven forty six am Houston time, Apollo eleven is finally 513 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 1: on its way. Right, you know, there's a little tiny 514 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: pretty grating the founds. The old FLA can be praga 515 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: brecond phenomenal, right, they were we have cut off the 516 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 1: last we have had a t l I cut off 517 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: seven article. That's more than twenty four thousand miles an hour, 518 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: more than enough to escape the Earth's gravitational field. He's 519 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: been eleven said and gave up right, all right, you're 520 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 1: eleven will pass that on and it's sly looks like 521 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: you're rolling your roy now. We have no complaints with 522 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 1: any of the three stages on that. That right was beautiful. 523 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 1: Michael glances out the window at Earth launch Day. Crowd 524 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 1: is probably still stuck in bumper to bumper traffic trying 525 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 1: to get home. He thinks on the yacht where Janet 526 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: Armstrong and her kids are hiding out from the press, 527 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 1: no champagne bottles have been popped. According to Neil's wife, 528 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: there will be no celebrating until her husband is back home. 529 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: Your Gopher separation. It's time to separate the command module 530 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 1: from the Saturn five and retract the lunar module. Shortly 531 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: after noon in Houston, Michael takes over the controls everywhere 532 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: they used them about the sad explosive bolts free the 533 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: Command Service Module from the Saturn five third stage. Expertly, 534 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: Michael uses short thruster bursts to ease the spacecraft forward. 535 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 1: Tucked beneath and behind it, hidden inside the third stage 536 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: garage rests the lunar module. It's spider like legs tucked 537 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 1: tight to its body, we can Michael guides the Command 538 00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 1: Service Module out to a distance of one or so 539 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: feet and rotates it around so that the CSMs docking 540 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: port is aligned with that of the lunar module. Michael 541 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:11,240 Speaker 1: uses thrusters to slowly close that distance. Neil and Buzz 542 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 1: help him site navigating. No, I don't think he's a 543 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 1: little bit alright, alright, They are now looking directly at 544 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: the top of the lunar module. To Michael, the docking 545 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,720 Speaker 1: port looks like a malevolent black eye. Four conical shroud panels, 546 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,920 Speaker 1: which protected the lunar module during launch, peel away like 547 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,400 Speaker 1: the opening petals of a flower. The moonship dubbed the 548 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 1: Eagle begins to gleam in the sunlight. All right, lul look, 549 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: it's time to see if the hundreds of hours Michael 550 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,400 Speaker 1: spent alone in the command module trainer preparing for just 551 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: this moment payoff. If he can't get the lunar module out, 552 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,400 Speaker 1: their moonshot is over before it begins. Then that they 553 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,720 Speaker 1: were closing at at last the fact he must maintain 554 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,439 Speaker 1: steady and slow rate of speed. Too fast and they'll 555 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,520 Speaker 1: have a head on collision, likely damaging or destroying both craft. 556 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,399 Speaker 1: As they nuzzle ever closer, the command modules thrusters caused 557 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:16,800 Speaker 1: the eagles metallic skin to ripple, damn the command service 558 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 1: modules Probe slides into the eagles docking port and three 559 00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:26,399 Speaker 1: latches snap closed. Michael has done. It is done. Yeah, 560 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 1: it felt good for me. Next, Michael must reverse plucking 561 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 1: the lunar module free when we're ready for lambent petion. 562 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:39,360 Speaker 1: Al right, here go for let me jack. Apollo eleven 563 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,239 Speaker 1: is now a complete spacecraft and all of this took 564 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: barely more than four hours from their launch. The Saturn 565 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 1: fives job is now complete. This is a control at 566 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 1: four hours thirty four minutes, where about five minutes away 567 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:57,800 Speaker 1: from the evasive maneuver that wasn't sure there will be 568 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 1: no whole problems of recontact between the spacecraft and the 569 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,080 Speaker 1: S four beast stage of the launch vehicle. What's left 570 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,239 Speaker 1: of the Saturn five is now too far from Earth 571 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: to fall back and burn up on re entry, and 572 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:13,360 Speaker 1: it's also too close for comforts. Looking good were standing? 573 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 1: The Apollo eleven sends a command of the third stage 574 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,839 Speaker 1: to jettison all of its remaining fuel in space, any 575 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 1: kind of ejection acts as a propulsive force. Venting the 576 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,160 Speaker 1: fuel sends the third stage tumbling away from the astronauts. 577 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,560 Speaker 1: It will ultimately be thrown into an orbit around the Sun, 578 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,320 Speaker 1: and it remains there to this day. And just like that, 579 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 1: the astronauts can finally relax. They peel themselves out of 580 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,840 Speaker 1: their bulky space suits, a difficult task considering their trapped 581 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,040 Speaker 1: inside a capsule the size of a station wagon. Eventually 582 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,120 Speaker 1: they ease into white, two piece nylon jumpsuits. Suddenly the 583 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:54,760 Speaker 1: cabin feels much larger. Back at mission control, Jeane Krantz 584 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,320 Speaker 1: and his white team are relieving Cliff Charlesworth and his 585 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 1: Green team. Gene is anxious to get into the light 586 00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,080 Speaker 1: director chair and started shift. It's here that he feels 587 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 1: most at home. Hello, Apollo, Levan Houston. The advice you're 588 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,839 Speaker 1: apparently white name is come over REVERSI we can see 589 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,239 Speaker 1: as a service hesitate to com. That was Charlie Duke. 590 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,600 Speaker 1: He's taking over Bruce McCandless's capcom seat for the shift. 591 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 1: Neil wants to know if Mission Control would like some 592 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 1: video of the view outside their windows the old anytime 593 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,280 Speaker 1: you want to turn it on. We're ready over okay, 594 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:32,879 Speaker 1: uh juson. We are ascendant of Birthtown. Right now we're 595 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:38,480 Speaker 1: seeing the center of the views of the spacecraft and 596 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:44,960 Speaker 1: the eastern Pacific Ocean. We can't clearly see the western 597 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:50,160 Speaker 1: coast of North America, the United States, the Samuel Kane Valley, 598 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:56,200 Speaker 1: the High Sierras, California, elect to go down as far 599 00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,120 Speaker 1: as a Copulco, as was so often the case, Seeing 600 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,320 Speaker 1: are marbled blue and white globe made a profound impression. 601 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,400 Speaker 1: The astronauts were all struck both by how imaginary our 602 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: planet's borders are and how fragile it seemed. Everything tearing 603 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 1: the Earth apart. Wars, protests and assassinations are invisible from 604 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,479 Speaker 1: Apollo Levin's lofty vantage point Apollo twelves. Dick Gordon said, 605 00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,680 Speaker 1: we have been asked a lot what don't we discovered 606 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,919 Speaker 1: when we went to the Moon. Collectively, I should say 607 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,239 Speaker 1: that we discovered the Earth, very delicate planet, sitting out 608 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,799 Speaker 1: there in a black of the blackest black you'll ever 609 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:40,799 Speaker 1: see it, just devoid of any color whatsoever. And it's 610 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,960 Speaker 1: been described like a Christmas tree armament hanging out there. 611 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:52,440 Speaker 1: You can terminate, You're convenience. We've got enough, stay their 612 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,600 Speaker 1: job done. The crew decides to begin their sleep period 613 00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,600 Speaker 1: a couple of hours early. They've earned it. At eight 614 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,840 Speaker 1: pm in Houston, the rest of America isn't far behind. 615 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 1: In mission control, Jean and his White team settle in 616 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,680 Speaker 1: for a quiet night of monitoring Apollo eleven as it 617 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:14,520 Speaker 1: races silently toward destiny. This is Apollo Control at fourteen hours, 618 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,440 Speaker 1: six minutes into the flight of Apollo eleven. The mission 619 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:22,200 Speaker 1: is progressing very smoothly. All spacecraft systems are functioning normally 620 00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,839 Speaker 1: at this time, and the flight surgeon reports that all 621 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,759 Speaker 1: three crewmen appear to be sleeping. At the present time. 622 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:34,040 Speaker 1: Apollo eleven is sixty six thousand, five hundred fifty four 623 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,440 Speaker 1: nautical miles from Earth and traveling at a speed of 624 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,640 Speaker 1: about seven thousand, ninety five ft per second, which would 625 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:46,960 Speaker 1: be about forty eight hundred miles. Throughout the history of 626 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,320 Speaker 1: our species, humankind has always been driven by an innate 627 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,680 Speaker 1: desire to explore, to see what is outside the cave, 628 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,040 Speaker 1: over the mountain, across the ocean. Civilization was spread into 629 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,239 Speaker 1: the sales of ancient sailing ships. The age of exploration 630 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,120 Speaker 1: pushed back the frontiers of the then known world and 631 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:08,880 Speaker 1: traced the shape of the planet's contours. Later expeditions crossed continents, 632 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,120 Speaker 1: braved oceans of ice to find the North and South Poles, 633 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,680 Speaker 1: and later still tamed the skies in aircraft that could 634 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,960 Speaker 1: outrun sound. Compared to every other expedition undertaken throughout the 635 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,279 Speaker 1: sweep of human history all paled in comparison to the 636 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,319 Speaker 1: enormity of Apollo eleven. Either Neil, buzzin Michael will die 637 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:31,319 Speaker 1: reaching for something unprecedented in the two hundred thousand years 638 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,760 Speaker 1: of modern human history, or they will triumph and cement 639 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,120 Speaker 1: their names in eternity. Before they left for the Moon, 640 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,600 Speaker 1: a reporter asked Neil Armstrong to lay odds on their success. 641 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,319 Speaker 1: He stopped to think about the answer for several long 642 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:50,120 Speaker 1: seconds before replying, The odds that he and his colleagues 643 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,799 Speaker 1: succeed in touching down on the Moon in four days 644 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,480 Speaker 1: is equal to the odds that none of them ever 645 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,960 Speaker 1: see Earth or their loved ones ever again. There is 646 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:03,520 Speaker 1: still so much that could go wrong. Day one is over. 647 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,880 Speaker 1: Day two, July, the crew's first full day in space, 648 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,719 Speaker 1: begins with our next episode. We're gonna jump back in 649 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,080 Speaker 1: time to learn who Neil, Buzz and Michael are and 650 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,120 Speaker 1: exactly what happened in their lives to put them right 651 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,160 Speaker 1: here right now. It's not nearly as straightforward as you 652 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,880 Speaker 1: might think, and we will go inside the inner sanctum 653 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,759 Speaker 1: that is Mission Control to learn how a handful of 654 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,360 Speaker 1: men and women, most of them just out of College 655 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:40,040 Speaker 1: made this mission possible. 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