Watch Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins travel to the Moon on Apollo 11
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Transcript
[Music]
NARRATOR: Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins would make the historic journey. Next stop, Tranquility Base.
cAPSULE COMMUNICATOR: Two, one, zero. All engine running. Liftoff. We have a liftoff. Thirty-two minutes past the hour. Liftoff on Apollo 11. Tower cleared.
NEIL ARMSTRONG: We've got a roll program.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Neil Armstrong reporting the roll and pitch program which puts Apollo 11 on a proper heading.
MICHAEL COLLINS: Houston, Apollo 11 is calling you on the high gain. How do you read? Over.
cAPSULE COMMUNICATOR: Roger, loud and clear on the high gain.
Eagle, you're looking great, coming up nine minutes.
EDWIN ALDRIN: We are now in the approach phase. Everything looking good. Altitude forty-two hundred.
cAPSULE COMMUNICATOR: . . . You're go for landing. Over.
EDWIN ALDRIN: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Kicking up some dust. 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. Faint shadow. 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. Okay. Down a half.
cAPSULE COMMUNICATOR: 30 seconds.
NEIL ARMSTRONG: Forward drift?
EDWIN ALDRIN: Yes. Okay. Contact light.
NEIL ARMSTRONG: Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
NARRATOR: Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins would make the historic journey. Next stop, Tranquility Base.
cAPSULE COMMUNICATOR: Two, one, zero. All engine running. Liftoff. We have a liftoff. Thirty-two minutes past the hour. Liftoff on Apollo 11. Tower cleared.
NEIL ARMSTRONG: We've got a roll program.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Neil Armstrong reporting the roll and pitch program which puts Apollo 11 on a proper heading.
MICHAEL COLLINS: Houston, Apollo 11 is calling you on the high gain. How do you read? Over.
cAPSULE COMMUNICATOR: Roger, loud and clear on the high gain.
Eagle, you're looking great, coming up nine minutes.
EDWIN ALDRIN: We are now in the approach phase. Everything looking good. Altitude forty-two hundred.
cAPSULE COMMUNICATOR: . . . You're go for landing. Over.
EDWIN ALDRIN: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Kicking up some dust. 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. Faint shadow. 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. Okay. Down a half.
cAPSULE COMMUNICATOR: 30 seconds.
NEIL ARMSTRONG: Forward drift?
EDWIN ALDRIN: Yes. Okay. Contact light.
NEIL ARMSTRONG: Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
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