Ep.06 Saving 1968

13 Minutes to the Moon

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, Technology

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

War, riots, assassinations: “the year that shattered America”. And then NASA took the biggest risk in its history. There was the Vietnam War and the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert F Kennedy but with Apollo 8, astronauts went further from Earth than anyone had gone before and changed the way we look at our home forever. With Kevin Fong. Starring: John Aaron Bill Anders Frank Borman Jerry Bostick Michael Collins Jim Lovell Poppy Northcutt Katherine Johnson courtesy of WHRO Chris Kraft courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music #13MinutestotheMoon www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes This episode was updated on 19 June 2019.

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0:00.0	The
0:01.0	Lane is minus 2,900.
0:22.6	Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are deep into their 13 minute descent to the surface of
0:27.0	the Moon.
0:28.2	Their attention is focused firmly inside the cabin of their lunar module eagle, as
0:32.9	they monitor the vast array of readouts and controls.
0:36.3	But just for a moment, seconds before the 12-0-2 computer alarm crisis that will threaten
0:41.4	their landing, Aldrin's eyes are drawn, briefly, back home.
0:46.4	The earth outside their window rising majestically above the lunar surface, an arresting
0:57.9	sight, but they're not the first people to witness it.
1:02.5	That honor had been taken seven months previously by the crew of the most daring mission of
1:07.4	the whole Apollo program.
1:10.1	Apollo 8.
1:11.5	We've got it.
1:12.5	We've got it to Apollo 8 now in lunar orbit.
1:16.5	There's a cheer in this room.
1:18.0	This is Apollo Control, Houston switching now to the voice of Jim Levant.
1:21.7	The earth appears a grand oasis of the vastest of space.
1:26.7	I took completely hide the earth behind my thumb.
1:32.0	Everything I ever knew I could hide behind my thumb.
1:44.9	We choose to go to the moon.
1:46.9	Capcom or Goverland, the eagle used to hear Goverland, Aldrin.
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