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, Tranquality base here.

The Eagle has landed.

That's one small step for man.

One giant leap for mankind.

Hello and welcome to this Dog Days of Summer episode number 315 of the Space Rocket History podcast.

And now, Apollo 14, Moonwalk 1, Part 3, ALSEP deployment.

But they are running a half an hour now almost behind schedule in deploying these scientific experiment packages on the moon.

But the flight of Apollo 14 certainly seems to be going very well.

The Apollo 14 landing site at Framorrow was chosen because lunar scientist had studied it for years and decided it likely contained some of the moon's older rocks. But the landing site turned out to be far more

undulating than the photographs, Shepard and Mitchell had studied. The two previous lunar landings were in wide flat areas known as Maure.

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