13 Minutes to the Moon: 3. Long Island Eagle

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

9.5 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The extraordinary story of the ‘Eagle’ spacecraft, which landed astronauts on the Moon. Built by Long Island engineers, it was a spacecraft like no other - one designed to land on another world. The result was the spidery lunar module, a spacecraft that was “difficult to fly and easy to crash”. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent hundreds of hours in the simulator to prepare for every possible manoeuvre required for the daring, final thirteen-minute descent to the lunar surface.

Hosted by Kevin Fong.

Starring: Charlie Duke Dick Dunne John Devaney Alan Contessa Neil Armstrong courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Tom Kelly courtesy of the MIT Museum Collections

Archive: Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Archive: MIT Museum Collections

Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music

#13MinutestotheMoon www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes

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0:23.6	On five sports extra, sports extra two and sports extra three.
0:27.6	Listen, only on BBC Sounds. What you're seeing, 2,000 feet, into the air, 47 degrees.
0:41.3	Community LPD, 47 degrees, 47 degrees, 47.
0:44.3	What you're hearing is Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in the cramped cabin of their bizarre-looking spacecraft eagle
0:50.3	during the final three minutes of their descent to the moon.
1:01.6	They're standing up as they fly, and both of them peer through small, triangular windows in front of them as they work the controls.
1:08.2	Buzz Aldrin is calling out the altitudes and rates of descent as they approach the lunar surface.
1:12.6	Here, they're just 750 feet above it. Coming down at 23.
1:14.6	Okay.
1:15.6	700 feet,
1:16.6	21 down.
1:17.6	33 degrees.
1:18.6	Pretty rocky area.
1:19.6	600 feet, down at 19.
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