13 Minutes to the Moon: 3. Long Island Eagle

13 Minutes to the Moon

BBC

Technology, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Ugly, angry, with four legs and wrapped in gold: it was a spacecraft like nothing on Earth. The story of Grumman’s lunar module, with 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 Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music #13MinutestotheMoon www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes

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0:00.0	What is love?
0:03.0	Is it chemistry, fate or a disaster waiting to happen?
0:07.0	Sometimes you mistake other things for love.
0:10.0	Join me, Ryland, on my new podcast as I ask experts and a few familiar faces what love really means.
0:16.3	Because it turns out it's a bit more complicated than happily ever after.
0:20.7	You should think of it as the daily commitment you make to someone that you care about.
0:25.2	Ryland, how to be in love. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:32.5	2.000, 3.290, into the air, 47 degrees.
0:41.1	Give me an LPC, 47 degrees, 47 degrees, 47.
0:43.7	What you're hearing is Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in the cramped cabin of their bizarre-looking spacecraft eagle
0:50.1	during the final three minutes of their descent to the moon.
0:57.0	They're standing up as they fly, and both of them peer through small, triangular windows in front of them
1:00.0	as they work the controls.
1:03.0	Buzz Aldrin is calling out the altitudes and rates of descent
1:06.0	as they approach the lunar surface.
1:08.0	Here, they're just 750 feet above it.
1:11.9	Now they're at 650 feet coming down at 23. Okay, 700 feet.
1:16.5	40 feet.
1:17.6	Now they're at 600 feet, down at 19.
1:21.6	Now they're at 600 feet, about 200 meters from the surface. You may have heard Neil Armstrong say pretty rocky area.
1:30.3	He's talking about the landing site they're currently headed toward and it's not what they were
1:34.6	expecting. It's listed with large boulders and it's certainly not a safe area to try and touch down.
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