13 Minutes to the Moon: 12. Live from Houston
13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
BBC
9.5 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Fifty years after the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, we’re at Houston’s Rice University, where President John F. Kennedy delivered his iconic “We choose to go to the Moon” speech to reflect on one of humanity’s greatest achievements. In this season finale, a panel of leading space experts discuss the success of the Apollo programme, how it transformed science and technology and what it means for the future of lunar exploration.
Hosted by Kevin Fong.
Starring: John Aaron Gerry Griffin Walt Cunningham Peggy Whitson
Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music
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This episode is being released 50 years after the first moon landing.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Mariana Spring, the BBC's social media investigations correspondent. |
| 0:06.0 | In my podcast, I've been investigating what happened to the daughter of a conspiracy theorist who died having rejected chemotherapy. |
| 0:13.0 | It would mean the world to me if I could make it that she wasn't just another in the long line of people that die in this way. |
| 0:19.0 | How does this reflect the rise of health conspiracy theories on social media and beyond? |
| 0:24.9 | The new series of Mariana in Conspiracy Land. |
| 0:27.9 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.1 | This is Rice University Football Stadium in Houston, the very place in 1962 that President John F. Kennedy |
| 0:39.5 | chose to make his famous speech, rallying a nation to the great challenge of landing people |
| 0:45.0 | on the surface of the moon before the end of the decade. |
| 0:49.0 | I can imagine the electric atmosphere here that day, under the searing Texas sunshine, with |
| 0:53.7 | the stands towering above me |
| 0:55.4 | packed with 40,000 expectant Americans and the young president where I am standing now on the 50-yard |
| 1:03.1 | line at his podium on this field. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. |
| 1:14.4 | We mean to be a part of it. We mean to lead it. |
| 1:20.0 | We set sail on this new scene. |
| 1:22.7 | That speech set the world on course for the greatest feat of exploration in the history of our species. |
| 1:29.1 | So for the last podcast in our series, we thought Rice University was the perfect place |
| 1:34.1 | to bring together a panel of people who've all played their part in the boldest adventure of all time. |
| 1:43.1 | We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon. |
| 1:46.0 | We choose to go to the moon. |
| 1:50.0 | We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, |
| 2:00.5 | but because they are hard. |
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