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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 Annas, and you are listening to Episode 410 of the Space Rocket History podcast.

And now, Skylab 2, Mission Days 24 through 28.

On Mission Day 24, something a bit unusual occurred.

You see, during the first Cold War, President Nixon scheduled a summit conference with the

General Secretary of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev.

The location was at the Western White House, which in 1973 was President Nixon's Place in the Sun in San Clemente, California.

The conference was scheduled for June 18th through the 26th of 1973.

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