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13 Minutes to the Moon

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, Technology

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The final part of our audio countdown to the launch of 13 Minutes to the Moon, with Kevin Fong. Lift off is on 13 May 2019.

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0:00.0	Capcom, we're Go for landing.
0:05.0	Jago, just in your Go for landing over.
0:07.0	On the 20th of July 1969, humanity took a giant leap.
0:13.0	We remember the first moon landing as one of the greatest triumphs.
0:19.0	It was an incredible achievement for humankind.
0:24.0	But it almost didn't happen.
0:27.0	The tension in mission control was through the roof.
0:31.0	Communications to the spacecraft kept breaking down.
0:34.0	We can't communicate to them. They can't communicate.
0:37.0	Outs.
0:38.0	The technology stretched beyond its limits.
0:41.0	There was something happening inside the computer that we did not understand.
0:44.0	They were low on fuel.
0:46.0	They were running out of gas.
0:47.0	He's telling me we got 60 seconds of fuel.
0:50.0	Having missed the planned landing site.
0:52.0	Neil kept changing his landing area.
0:55.0	Keep it on going forward and forward because he was over flying a large crater.
1:00.0	We got 30 seconds of fuel.
1:02.0	My mind was, that said, we're not going to land.
1:05.0	The crew and the team at Mission Control had to face stark choices.
1:09.0	Here's some 26 year old kid.
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