The First Moon Landing: 8. ‘We’re go for powered descent’

13 Minutes to the Moon

BBC

Technology, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The 13 minutes begin. Eagle is going too fast. There are communications problems. We have met the people and heard about the Apollo 11 technology, now the descent is underway. This is the full story and it is a leap into the unknown. With Kevin Fong. Starring: Charlie Duke Steve Bales Don Eyles Courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project: Neil Armstrong Gene Kranz Jay Greene Jack Garman Bob Carlton Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music #13MinutestotheMoon www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes

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0:00.0	Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.
0:05.1	My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.
0:08.7	It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,
0:13.5	moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.
0:19.1	And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music
0:21.7	means we can tell those stories like no one else.
0:24.5	We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.
0:28.6	So whether you want an insightful take on music right now
0:31.3	or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,
0:36.1	check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.
0:41.7	Yep, Samar, Raj, Dick's arm.
0:50.8	Alex, Harold.
0:53.3	In the last seven episodes, we've dug into the stories of the people, technology and events
1:00.6	that made Apollo 11's final 13 minutes of dissent possible.
1:05.7	But in the next two, we want to pull all of that together.
1:08.5	We want to take you through the first landing on the moon from beginning to end
1:13.7	and through the moments where it teetered on the edge of failure or worse.
1:20.2	The 12-0-2.
1:21.4	Stand by.
1:22.2	Provovo-2.
1:24.5	Lost state of flight.
1:25.5	Roger, copy.
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