13 Minutes to the Moon: 2. Kids in control

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

9.5 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Crisis strikes Apollo 11. The Moon landing is threatened when an alarm goes off. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are minutes from the lunar surface when the spacecraft computer flashes error code 1202. It’s a major test for Nasa mission control - average age just 26. Flight controller Steve Bales must decide if the Moon landing can proceed. Can he and his team save this epic spaceflight in time? These engineers, scientists, controllers and programmers are the unsung heroes who worked behind the scenes to make one of history’s greatest space missions possible.

Hosted by Kevin Fong.

Starring: Steve Bales Charlie Duke John Aaron Glynn Lunney Gerry Griffin Jerry Bostick Gene Kranz courtesy of the Johnson Space Center History Office

Archive: Johnson Space Center History Office

Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music

#13MinutestotheMoon www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes

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0:00.0	Get closer to the action with live commentary from the world's greatest sporting events on BBC Sounds.
0:06.0	It is all over!
0:08.0	Bulls are an edge, caught behind.
0:10.0	Including cricket Super League, Women's Euro's 2025, Wimbledon, Formula One and much more.
0:17.0	It's all right to the lights and foot to the floor.
0:20.0	Oh, what's's done it!
0:21.5	Drop shots!
0:22.9	Winner!
0:23.6	On five sports extra,
0:25.1	Sports Extra 2 and Sports Extra 3.
0:27.7	Listen, only on the moon.
0:45.3	Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are squeezed into the cabin of their spacecraft eagle and dropping at a rate of 120 feet per second.
0:56.4	It's a little short of halfway
0:57.9	into their final 13 minutes of descent to the lunar surface.
1:02.9	You can hear them,
1:04.2	and people in mission control
1:05.7	sitting in a room a quarter of a million miles away
1:08.8	who are tracking Eagle's descent
1:10.5	and communicating with the crew by radio.
1:13.6	LA to minus 2,900.
1:16.6	Roger.
1:17.6	There are lots of different voices in NASA jargon in this, but listen out for the words 1202 and program alarm.
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