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.

Listing, 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 number 283 of the Space Rocket History podcast. And now, Apollo 13, encouragement from the president.

In the White House, President Nixon was profoundly concerned for Apollo 13. Ever since Apollo 8's successful lunar orbit, just one month before his inauguration, Nixon had developed a fascination with moon flight and a special

admiration for the crew of that first circumlunar trip. After their return from the moon, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders had

been invited to attend the new president's inauguration, and then later, when he had moved

into the White House, to join him for dinner, not in one of the formal dining rooms on the

first floor of the mansion, but in the family

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