The Moon Landing

American History Hit

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

July 20th, 1969. Neil Armstrong descends from Lunar Module Eagle to the Moon's surface. A momentous moment in American, and human history. For more than a decade, pioneers in the US and Soviet Union had competed in the exploration of space, the final frontier. Jay Gallentine tells Don how new technology was developed to go where no one had gone before. How America won the Space Race.

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0:00.0	It is the 12th of September 1962 in Houston, Texas.
0:05.0	A crowd of 40,000 spectators is packed into the football stadium at Rice University
0:10.0	to watch President John F. Kennedy deliver a speech on the nation's space efforts.
0:15.0	It has been five years since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, its first artificial satellite in 1957.
0:22.0	In April 61, Yuri Gagarin artificial satellite in 1957.
0:22.9	In April 61, Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth, followed by Alan Shepard's launch that May, and
0:28.8	then John Glenn, eight months later.
0:31.2	While the U.S. is making progress in space against the Soviets, it still lags behind.
0:36.8	In the sweltering Texas heat, Kennedy lays down the gauntlet, couching the space project
0:41.9	in a larger Cold War ethos, a great mission to achieve
0:45.2	scientific superiority. We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon and
0:58.0	We choose to go to the moon and this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard
1:02.0	The race to the moon is on money easy but because they are hard.
1:03.0	The race to the moon is on.
1:05.0	Money is pouring into NASA to develop new technology for something never before attempted.
1:11.0	And after years of trials, tribulations, and tragedy, the Apollo mission is finally
1:16.0	completed on July 20th, 1969, when the Eagle lands on the Moon and Neil Armstrong descends
1:22.2	to its surface.
1:24.0	That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
1:31.0	America has won the space race and a new era is born. Hello all
1:45.0	all, welcome to another episode of American History Hip.
1:49.0	I'm your host Don Wildman, so glad you're listening.
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