The Moon Landing
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In July 1969, the world watched in awe as NASA’s Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon and Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the lunar surface. Former NASA flight controller Gerry Griffin talks to Simon Watts.
Photo: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon (Getty Images)
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| 0:30.9 | Hello and thank you for downloading the podcast of the BBC World Service |
| 0:38.1 | history program Witness History with me Simon Watts. Today we're going back to July 1969 when the world |
| 0:46.6 | watched in awe as Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon. I've been |
| 0:52.2 | talking to one of the flight controllers who worked on the |
| 0:55.2 | Apollo 11 mission. |
| 0:56.7 | T-mina 60 seconds and counting. We passed T-minous 60. |
| 1:01.3 | The Armstrong reported back when he received a good wishes. |
| 1:04.8 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:05.8 | We know it will be a good flight. |
| 1:07.8 | On the 16th of July 1969, an estimated 1 million people gathered at Cape Canaveral in Florida to watch the launch of Apollo 11. |
| 1:18.0 | Hundreds of millions more saw the spectacular take-off on television. |
| 1:23.0 | Lift off, we have a lift-off, 32 minutes past the hour. |
| 1:28.0 | Lift-off on Apollo 11. |
| 1:30.0 | The long site was really something else. |
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