War, riots, assassinations: “the year that shattered America”. And then Nasa took the biggest risk in its history. There was the Vietnam War and the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert F Kennedy but with Apollo 8, astronauts went further from Earth than anyone had gone before and changed the way we look at our home forever.
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13 Minutes To The Moon Ep.05 The fourth astronaut
The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anything like it. Apollo 11 was “the first time software ran on the moon”.
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13 Minutes To The Moon Ep.07 Michael Collins: Third man
Without the astronaut who didn’t step on the moon, Apollo 11 wouldn’t have succeeded. As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic landing, Michael Collins was in lunar orbit, playing a crucial role on the mothership. This is his story, with Kevin Fong.
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13 Minutes To The Moon Ep.04 Fire to the Phoenix
"You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened 21 months later – Apollo’s first successful manned mission into Earth’s orbit.
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13 Minutes To The Moon Ep.12 Live from Houston
“We choose to go.” The season finale comes from where President John F Kennedy made his famous Moon speech to rally the US behind the Apollo programme. The venue is Rice University in Houston, where we reflect on one of the greatest achievements in human history. And we consider a future return to the moon.
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Neil Armstrong’s Audio Transmision - Apollo 11 Moon Landing
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Ars Technicast, Episode 30: How to ruin a NASA capsule with a sandwich
In this episode of the Ars Technicast we talk about NASA in light of next week’s 44th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. We are excited to welcome special guest Amy Shira Teitel, a journalist who specializes in the history of NASA. According to Teitel, the Apollo 11 trip warped our perception of space travel. The mission set up the expectation that space travel was only limited by our imaginations, but the facts and requirements of actual space travel tell a different story, Teitel says.
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13 Minutes To The Moon Ep.08 ‘We’re go for powered descent’
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.
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13 Minutes To The Moon Ep.02 Kids in control
The unsung heroes who saved the day. 'Here’s some 26-year-old kid, who could stop the lunar mission.'
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13 Minutes To The Moon Ep.03 Long Island Eagle
Ugly, angry, with four legs and wrapped in gold: a spacecraft like nothing on Earth.