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13 Minutes to the Moon

13 Minutes to the Moon: 4. Fire to the Phoenix

13 Minutes to the Moon

BBC

Technology, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

"You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened 21 months later – Apollo’s first successful manned mission into Earth’s orbit. With Kevin Fong. Starring: George Abbey Walt Cunningham Glynn Lunney Gerry Griffin John Aaron Jerry Bostick Courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project: Chris Kraft Gene Kranz Wally Schirra George Jeffs Courtesy of CBS News: Gus Grissom Ed White Roger Chaffee Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music #13MinutestotheMoon www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.

0:05.1

My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.

0:08.7

It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,

0:13.5

moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.

0:19.1

And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music

0:21.7

means we can tell those stories like no one else.

0:24.5

We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.

0:28.6

So whether you want an insightful take on music right now

0:31.3

or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,

0:35.7

check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.

0:51.6

As they descend to the surface of the moon during the final 13 minutes before landing, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are in their spacesuits, visors down.

1:03.9

Surrounding them in their cramped cabin is an atmosphere of pure oxygen.

1:09.7

Adity controller, good. Manual a deep control of good.

1:11.8

Manual. Autitude control did.

1:14.4

The Apollo spacecraft's life support systems were a critical link in the chain of survival

1:19.1

for the astronauts.

1:20.7

Failures here could lead to deadly consequences, something NASA discovered at terrible cost

1:26.8

in January, 1967.

1:29.3

Here's Neil Armstrong talking in 2001 with some emotion about the darkest moment in the Apollo program.

1:40.3

The disaster that struck Apollo 1, a fire in pure oxygen during testing of the command

1:47.4

module capsule on the ground at the launch pad in Florida, a catastrophe that killed his

1:53.5

astronaut colleagues Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffey, and Ed White. Ed White and I, here we were good

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