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13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

13 Minutes to the Moon: Trailer, T-minus 3

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

9.54.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Introducing 13 Minutes to the Moon, with Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham and former Apollo engineer Poppy Northcutt - the first woman to work as an engineer in an operational support role in NASA's Mission Control.

Transcript

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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?

0:24.9

The new series of Mariana in Conspiracy Land.

0:27.9

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:40.4

30 seconds and counting.

0:47.0

Welcome to the countdown to the launch of the BBC World Service podcast, 13 minutes to the moon.

0:48.8

Astronauts report, it feels good.

0:55.0

I was the first female engineer to work in NASA's mission control center in an operational support role. I was an astronaut in the Apollo program, the greatest program in the history of space flight,

1:00.0

the one that took humans to the moon for the first time. That was 50 years ago.

1:06.0

My name is Pompi Northcutt. I'm Walt Cunningham.

1:09.0

20 seconds and counting.

1:10.0

I'll be helping to tell the story of how we got to the lunar surface

1:13.8

in 13 minutes to the moon. 15 seconds. Guidance is internal. 13 minutes to the moon will tell the story

1:21.2

of the climax of that first descent to the moon, that final 13 minutes, and it will go back in time to tell the story of the work

1:29.3

that scientists, engineers, astronauts, and so many others did to make it possible.

1:35.0

To get to the moon and back again safely, that was my particular job, it was amazing to be

1:41.2

part of that history.

1:42.7

I'm helping to count down to the podcast launch,

1:45.8

and I thought you might like to know some of the others that you'll be hearing from.

1:49.9

There's Michael Collins, one of the astronauts on the first moon landing mission,

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