We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy,

but because they are hard.

Godspeed, John Glenn.

Roger, zero G, and I feel fine.

Okay, I'm out.

How does it feel for the United States to be the new record holder?

At last, huh?

In that baby lights, there's no doubt about it.

Lift-off.

We have a lift-off.

32 minutes past the hour.

Lift-off in Apollo 11.

Liston, uh, tranquility base here.

The Eagle has landed.

That's one small step for man.

One giant leap for mankind.

Hello and welcome. This is Michael Annis, and you're listening to Episode 272 of the Space Rocket History podcast. And now, Apollo 13, Free Return, Part 2. Continuing from the previous episode, Jim Lovell was attempting to perform a fine alignment of the two docked spacecraft in preparation for the burn that would put Aquarius and Odyssey on a free return trajectory.

When Lovell looked out his window, however, he saw not only the target stars he needed to see to make his alignment but also thousands of bright glowing false stars in the debris surrounding the spacecraft finding the stars he was looking for was almost impossible

houston had been worrying about this problem for the last hour,

occasionally even calling the ship with the question.

Aquarius, can you see any stars?

Aquarius, Houston, can you see any stars out the land window?

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