13 Minutes to the Moon: 8. ‘We’re go for powered descent’

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

9.5 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The 13-minute descent to the Moon begins, and it’s all going wrong for Apollo 11. They’re going too fast, alarms are flashing and the crew loses contact with Nasa mission control. The epic moments that almost jeopardised the first Moon landing.

Hosted by Kevin Fong.

Starring: Charlie Duke Steve Bales Don Eyles

Courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project: Neil Armstrong Gene Kranz Jay Greene Jack Garman Bob Carlton

Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music.

#13MinutestotheMoon www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes

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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?
0:24.7	The new series of Mariana in Conspiracy Land.
0:27.9	Listen on BBC Sounds. Yep, arm. Roger, Dick's arm.
0:40.3	All right.
0:42.3	In the last seven episodes, we've dug into the stories of the people, technology and events
0:51.3	that made Apollo 11's final 13 minutes of dissent possible.
0:56.6	But in the next two, we want to pull all of that together.
1:00.2	We want to take you through the first landing on the moon from beginning to end
1:04.9	and through the moments where it teetered on the edge of failure or worse.
1:11.4	12-0-2.
1:12.5	Standing by.
1:13.3	Provo 2.
1:15.6	Lost data flight.
1:16.7	Roger, copy.
1:18.9	I think we better be quiet.
1:20.2	Raj.
1:20.8	Okay, the only call-outs from now on will be fuel.
1:24.2	Low level.
1:26.8	The final 13 minutes were a leap into the unknown.
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