XX Factor | The Woman Who Put Man on the Moon | S13-E1
American Innovations
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4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are preparing to land on the Moon. The whole world is watching live on television. But something is very wrong, their warning alarms are flashing and they don't know what it is. There’s only one woman who can fix it: MIT software engineer Margaret Hamilton.
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| 0:16.5 | It's 1969 |
| 0:23.8 | Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are aboard the lunar module of the Apollo 11 |
| 0:31.7 | preparing to land on the moon. |
| 0:34.4 | If all goes well, they'll be the first humans to do so. |
| 0:38.8 | From the cockpit of the lunar module, Eagle, |
| 0:41.7 | they can see every crater, valley, and mountain peak, sky. The |
| 0:42.7 | Lunar module, Eagle, they can see every crater, valley, and mountain peak scattered across the moon's surface, |
| 0:46.7 | including their ultimate destination, the sea of tranquility. |
| 0:51.7 | But back on Earth, at NASA's Man Space Center in Houston, Texas, |
| 0:57.0 | things are the opposite of tranquil. |
| 0:59.0 | The Apollo 11, this is Houston, over? |
| 1:02.0 | Mission Control is on high alert. |
| 1:05.0 | What's going on? |
| 1:06.0 | The crew is saying that two of their warning alarms have been flashing every 10 seconds |
| 1:10.0 | for the past few minutes. |
| 1:11.0 | Nobody knows what's causing it. |
| 1:13.9 | With the whole world watching live on television |
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