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The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Taking place over just eight months, four perilous and eventful space missions laid the foundations for a successful Moon landing. Each pushed the boundaries of technology and revealed new insights into our own planet. As we count down to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, astronaut Nicole Stott tells the story of the build-up to mankind’s giant leap.

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0:00.0	60 seconds. We choose to go to the moon.
0:03.0	40 feet down 2.5.
0:05.0	Neil said we can't land here.
0:06.0	Everyone is sitting there not knowing what has happened.
0:10.0	30 seconds. We might not make it.
0:12.0	13 minutes to the moon, from the BBC World Service, coming soon. Coming up on the 10 second mark 10 we were cool war warriors 9 you can screw up if you're not careful 8 that was the beginning of what I call cosmic birth.
0:33.0	It was the longest, the most ambitious, the most successful first mission in history.
0:39.0	We have ignition.
0:40.0	We have lift off.
0:44.3	lift on.
0:45.3	Come fly with me.
0:46.3	Come fly with me.
0:49.0	Let's fly, let's fly away.
0:52.2	From October 1968,
0:53.6	1968, over just eight months, four remarkable space missions made history.
0:58.0	Apollo flight 7, 8, 9, and 10 would not only make it possible for Apollo 11 to land on the moon, they would transform
1:06.5	our view of Earth, provide a new perspective on our place in the universe, and prove that
1:11.7	when the pressure's on anything is possible.
1:14.4	Well there's nothing like a big goal and a deadline coming up on you to concentrate the
1:20.4	mind.
1:21.4	That goal set by President Kennedy in 1961, was to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
1:28.0	I'm astronaut Nicole Stott. I've flown in the space shuttle for two missions on the International Space Station.
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