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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 in godspeed John Glenn Roger zero

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 on Apollo 11.

flipping Tanguality Base here.

The Eagle has landed.

That's one small step for man.

One giant leap for manned.

Hello and welcome.

This is Michael Annes and you're listening to episode number 403 of the Space Rocket History podcast.

And now, Skylab, Smeat, Skylab Mission Zero.

While the crews and controllers prepared for the three manned missions to Skylab,

a plan was devised to simulate a full-length Skylab mission on the ground,

a sort of trial run.

In order to simulate actual Skylab atmospheric conditions during the mission,

NASA chose to conduct the test in the Man Space Center's crew system division's

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