that does it for me. thank you for joining us this weekend. have a great night. "apollo 11" is next. welcome to a special each. this is the television premiere of the film "apollo 11." tonight's film features never before seen large format footage of the first man to step foot on the moon. you are about to see images of the men in the moments that made them into american heroes. this film is 100% archival. every frame of foot anl you aag about to see was shot during the mission. it's a unique film experience. sit back, relax and get ready for liftoff.

>> are there any changes to the schedule? >> line number seven, which is shown for all day, the tank pressurization test will not start until 1300. >> when do you want to run the

leak check? >> you going to extend that time out to five hours by cutting it off in the front end of the storage tank? >> negative. >> it's three hours and 32 minutes until man begins the greatest adventure in its history. if all goes well, apollo 11

astronauts are to lift off from pad 39a out there on the voyage man always has dreamed about. it is now, before they go, as their gleaming vehicle sits poised and peaceful out there, that there is time, if only briefly in this busy morning, to think of those three men and the burdens and hopes that they carry on behalf of all mankind. the vastness, the blackness, the cold of space, they will carry the pledge made eight years ago by president kennedy, to put a man on the moon and bring him back safely in this decade. >> each segment of the mission, every individual piece has to be completed perfectly in order for

the next step to be possible. of course, the nation itself is backing us. so we just sincerely hope that we measure up to that. >> the apollo program was designed to get two americans to the lunar surface and back again to earth safely. the enormity of this event is something that only history will be able to judge. >> apollo 11 is very simply been given the mission of carrying men to the moon, landing them there and bringing them safely back. >> in addition to the mission the three astronauts will perform and the experiments they will undertake, these men will carry with them many other things, many things that are not so easy to describe.

during the planned apollo 11 journey, we will be concerned with such things as mid course correction and docking. the astronauts, of course, will be concerned with very much more. the flight of apollo 11 is to be the culmination of a national effort and most difficult, most dangerous mission ever attempted since this country and the russians started sending men into space.

38-year-old civilian neil armstrong is to become the first human being to touch the moon. ald aldrin will follow but armstrong will take the first step. the mission of apollo 11, a skrou journey certainly for the history books. the beginning of man's greatest adventure, leaving this planet to set foot on the moon.

>> switch is on. >> roger. >> all stations stand by to give a crew departure status at this time. >> rcs. >> go. >> bse. >> go. >> verify all. >> roger. go for crew departure. >> roger. you are go for crew departure. >> the dawn of this day heralded the dawning of a new age. it's a time of exhilaration,

reflection, hope, fulfillment as a century's old dream starts toward reality. >> this is apollo launch control. t-minus three hours. right on time as far as the countdown is concerned. the crew departing from their quarters. neil armstrong, buzz aldrin and collins. they are boarding the transfer van for the trip to the launch pad. the trip in the transfer van should take some 15 minutes or so to reach the pad.

at which time the astronauts will board the first of two elevators for the trip to the 320-foot level after launch pad where they will then proceed to ingress the spacecraft. the depardeparture. the transfer man departing from the operations building at the kennedy space center on the start of its eight-mile trip to launch pad a here at complex 39 where the launch vehicle fully loaded with propellant going through preliminary checkout. this is launch control.

>> parked around gate one area. cars in every space. little kids staring at the saturn 5 glowing 15 miles away. we saw teenagers with telescopes. the same road we came over years ago. we came out at the same hour to cover shepherd.

this is saturn launch control, t minus two hours and counting. as the prime crew for apollo 11 are on their terminal part of their trip to the launch pad in the transfer van. it's making the curve toward the pad. we have discovered a problem at the launch pad as the crew is about to arrive. we have a leak in a valve located in a system associated with replenishing liquid hydrogen for the third stage of the saturn 5 launch vehicle. we have sent a team of three technicians and a safety man to the pad. these technicians are tightening bolts around the valve. >> go ahead. >> we have a leak. see if it will get better. it seems to be getting worse.

>> it's on camera 18. >> camera 18, you could see the men working on the hydrogen leak. >> once the technicians depart, we will send hydrogen through the system to assure that the la leak has been corrected. astronauts coming up toward the pad itself. the crew of several technicians at the 200 foot level proceed to tighten bolts around a leaking valve. the astronaut team, which arrived at the pad, transfer van now backing up toward the elevator. in a matter of five minutes or so, we will be ready for the spacecraft commander neil armstrong to come across at the 320 foot level. that's our status at two hours 43 minutes 47 seconds and counting. this is launch control.

>> go ahead. understand. >> hit the switch on the camera. >> roger. camera has been activated. >> the swing arm camera is on. >> copy. >> go. >> the crew is approaching.

>> this is launch control. we passed the two hour 21 minute mark in our countdown. we are proceeding at this time. 320 foot level, all three astronauts now aboard the spacecraft. a few minutes ago buzz aldrin took the center seat to join armstrong and collins. these are the positions they will fly at leiftoff. work continues on a leaky valve. the technicians tightening bolts around that valve at this time. >> loud and clear. >> good morning, neil. >> good morning. >> welcome aboard. >> how do you read? >> loud and clear. >> good morning, buzz. >> good morning. how are you? >> just fine. thank you. >> last check here. any adjustment on stats? >> happy. >> fine here. >> good luck. >> thank you.

>> proceed. >> we are proceeding with closing the hatch. >> the hatch is closed. >> roger. >> the hatch is closed and we are beginning to purge the cabin to bring it to the proper atmosphere for launch, which is a combination of oxygen and nitrogen, 60% oxygen and 40% nitrog nitrogen. the astronauts are breathing pure oxygen through their space suits. coming up shortly will be another key test with the launch vehicle crew and the spacecraft team combine together with the commander neil armstrong to make a check of the emergency detection system. this is the system that will signal the astronauts in the cabin if anything goes wrong below them. we use the ground-based computer to accomplish this test.

it will take 30 minutes. neil armstrong will do most of the work in the spacecraft. responding as different lights signifying different difficulties are presented to him. countdown continuing. this is kennedy launch control. >> 5,000 guests in all, including 400 congressmen and members of the supreme court, presidential cabinet. the nasa official calls it a roman circus. >> nasa has an agreement with

over 60 countries. >> t minus 61 minutes on the countdown and all elements are go at this time. here in the firing room, the launch vehicle test team keeping a close eye on the status of the propellants. this problem with the leaking involve is no problem at this time. we have bypassd the valve. we are maintaining our hydrogen supply aboard the vehicle. the big swing arm has been attached to the spacecraft up to now will be moved back now in five seconds. the swing arm will come back. mark. >> arm nine is retracted.

>> in the event during flight -- >> just got by a test with the launch vehicle, checking out batteries in the three stages and instrument unit.

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14 minutes 30 seconds and counting. all going well with the countdown at this time. for status report, we will switch to mission control houston. >> this is apololo mission control. flight director cliff charlesworth's team is ready to assume the control of this flight at tower clearance. >> coming up on auto sequence. >> go flight. >> control. >> go. >> network. >> affirmative flight. >> mission director, verify go for launch. >> go for launch. >> we passed the six minute mark in our countdown for apollo 11. five minutes 52 seconds and counting. >> booster flight. >> verify go for launch. >> go for launch. >> booster flight. >> sro verify go for launch.

>> go for launch. >> we have some 7.6 million pounds of push. t minus one minute 35 seconds on the apollo mission, flight to land the first men on the moon. >> this is launch operations manager, the launch team wishes you good luck and godspeed. >> thank you. >> t minus 60 seconds and counting. 55 seconds and counting. neil armstrong reported back it's been a smooth countdown. power transfer is complete. internal power. remove the launch vehicle at this time. 40 seconds away from the apollo

11 liftoff. all second stage tanks pressurized. 35 seconds a s and counting. 30 second s and counting. astronauts report it feels good. 20 second s and counting. t minus 15 seconds. guidance is internal. 12, 11, 10, 9 -- ignition sequence starts.

>> liftoff. we have liftoff, 32 minutes past the hour. liftoff on apollo 11. [ applause ]

>> one bravo, control mode. altitude is two miles. >> you are good at one minute. >> we're through the maximum

dynamic pressure now. >> your guidance is converted. you are looking good. >> eight miles down range, 12 miles, velocity 4,000 feet per second. >> stand by for mode one charlie. >> stand by for mode one charlie. >> go. >> you are go. >> reports from the control center. ignition. >> thrust, all engines. >> thrust is go all engines. you are looking good.

>> roger, we confirm. >> neil armstrong confirming the engine separation and launch escape tower separation. down range 270 miles, altitude 82 miles. >> stand by. >> the visual is go today. >> this is houston, roger out. >> altitude is 100 miles. down range 883 miles. outboard engine cutoff. >> and ignition. >> thrust is go.

>> we have a good third stage now. >> 23,128 feet per second. down range 1,000 miles, altitude, 101 miles. >> this is houston at ten minutes, you are go. >> roger. >> we are go. confirm go. >> apollo 11, this is houston. you are confirmed go for orbit. >> roger. >> we have a report on the launch heart rates from the flight surgeon. neil armstrong, 110. mike collins, 99. buzz ardrin, 88.

>> we will have radar in shortly. >> dave reed will report a refined orbit after more radar tracking. >> this is houston. the booster has been configured for orbital craft. over. >> roger. >> don't worry for the time being. >> go ahead. >> for your information, radar shows you in a 103 by 103 orbit. >> beautiful. >> one two niner zero two, los at goal stone one three three

five five over. >> roger. >> this is apollo control at one hour 51 minutes moving across the atlantic towards africa. on the next revolution, the spacecraft will be accelerating to the required speed to get it into an orbit that will intercept the moon doing the translunar maneuver. it will place the spacecraft on its trajectory toward the moon. >> go, go, go. >> let's go. >> go flight. >> apololo 11, this is houston. you are go. >> thank you. we got telemetry back on and everything is go. >> looks good here. >> we're showing present altitu altitude, about 108 nautical miles. we expect 177 nautical miles at

cutoff. >> coming into the terminator here. >> ignition. >> we have ignition. >> we're go. thrust is go. >> confirm ignition. thrust is go. >> final radar confirms. >> stage is good. over. >> telemetry and radar tracking both solid. >> cutoff.

>> roger. >> we shall cutoff and we copy the numbers. >> houston, apollo 11, a magnificent ride. >> roger. it looks like you are well on your way. >> that was neil armstrong praising the launch vehicle. >> we had a good burn, a good flight to the moon coming up. >> apollo 11, this is houston. for your information, we expect the maneuver to separate attitude to begin at three plus zero five plus zero three. >> the crew pressing ahead with their transposition and docking maneuver. the spacecraft, after having separated, third stage, turning around, docking with the lunar module, extracting the lou maun

module and pushing ahead on route to the moon. >> a very weak signal. we believe the antenna patterns aren't too good at the moment. >> this is houston. request omni. out.

>> houston, apololo 11, all 12 latches are locked. >> buzz reporting all 12 locked. >> we're ready for ejection. >> we are set. >> houston, apololo 11, we completed our maneuver. >> roger up. >> this is apollo control. six hours, 16 minutes into the mission.

velocity now 11,479 feet per second. apollo 11's discharge from earth, 27,938 nautical miles. charlie duke and jean krantz and team of flight controllers is preparing to take over the responsibility from cliff. >> it looks good to us. we will be ready to copy in a minute or two. >> the spacecraft will be placed in the passive thermal control mode. >> houston, you might be interested to look out my window, i can observe the entire continent of north america down to the yucatan peninsula down to cuba and you run out of window. >> i sure did like it. >> i didn't have much outside my window. >> we would like a crew status

report. we're about to tell you good night. >> status report is as follows. one one zero zero two. zero niner, copy. >> thank you much. you are cleared for z. over. >> okay. maybe we can get around to lunch.

morning, houston. >> roger, apollo 11. good morning. >> they are receiving tv from the spacecraft. >> hello there. you got a little. >> neil is on his head again. trying to make me nervous. >> copy. we see 651. >> we have a happy home.

plenty of room for the three of us. >> apollo 11 is 131 nautical miles from earth. >> the spacecraft rotates to maintain thermal balance. >> it's good night from the team. >> okay. see you tomorrow. thank you for everything. >> good morning, apollo 11. >> good morning, houston. >> i have the world in my window. >> sounds like one of the rotating restaurants. >> let's hand over to the white team here. we are going to crawl in shortly. >> we are receiving live tv. >> interior view of the command module looking into the hatch area. >> coming down. >> we are about to open the hatch now. >> buzz has carried the camera in with him. >> the vehicle is surprisingly very clean. >> a moment ago we had a good shot. >> that's the position. we will be putting the camera in

after down the ladder. >> hello there. >> hello there. >> the most unusual position a cameraman has ever had, hanging by his toes from a tunnel and taking a picture upside down. >> we will take all the data back into the command module. >> roger. >> we are going to turn our tv monitor off now while we have other work to do. apollo 11 signing off. >> houston, as the sun sinks in the west, the white team bids you good night. >> you earned your pay today. >> good night all.

>> the government succeeded in harnessing -- >> take a few minutes to review what else has been going on around the world while apollo 11 has held our attention. fighting in vietnam is in its fifth week with one incident reported from the battlefield today. a police chief who filed a complaint with charging kennedy with leaving the scene of an accident. kennedy, who suffered a concussion in the accident, remains in seclusion near the family compound. >> this story about ted kennedy, did you hear about that? >> yeah. >> go ahead. >> pressure in the bottle?

>> i don't think they have it. >> okay. give me a call when that comes up. we would like to take a look at it. >> good morning, houston. >> roger, 11. good morning. looking good from down here. >> good up here, too. >> director of flight crew operation and two members of the backup crew have joined bruce at the console. >> apollo 11, this is houston. over. >> roger. go ahead. >> this is houston. lost respiration rate. >> okay. we had a request that you check the two electrodes. >> looks normal up here. >> we could see variations on our trace as you connect and disconnect. the medics don't have a signal.

>> i promise to let you know if i stop breathing. >> coming up in less than ten seconds now, we will be crossing into the sphere of influence of the moon at this point at this point as the moon's gravitational force becomes the dominant effect on the spacecraft trajectory. and our displieays are shift fr the earth reference to moon reference. the spacecraft was at a distance of -- and 33,822 nautical miles from the moon. all spacecraft systems are functioning normally. mission going very smoothly. >> we've been having really spectacular sup rate behind the edge of the moon now. solar corona.

the sky is lit all the way around the moon. but an eerie sight because of the very marked three dimensional aspect of having the sun's corona coming from behind the moon the way it is. >> it's a view worth the price of the trip. mother earthing is 206059 nautical miles behind coming up on the lunar orbit insertion burn in which the spacecraft will start its initial orbit around the moon. that maneuver will slow the spacecraft down considerably from its present velocity, and it should come from behind the east face of the moon 33 minutes later. >> and the moon is there, boy, in all its splendor. >> hello moon. how is your backside?

>> all your systems are looking good. going around the corner. we'll see you on the other side, over. >> the loss of signal as apollo 11 goes behind the moon. >> control tower is -- number two on. >> control number two is on. >>. >> what's your vapor pressure? >> it's good.

that's beautiful bird. >> yes. like gangbusters. whoo. >> 30 seconds from acquisition time. >> well, i have to vote with the crew. that thing is round. >> yeah, sure is. >> when i first saw it, at that other angle, it really looked great. we're right behind you. >> increasing. >> god, that's a big beauty. gigantic crater. look at the mountains going around it. my gosh, they're monsters. >> there's a big mother over here, too. >> big fellow. >> look at those craters in a row. see them going right out there? >> there it is. it's coming up. >> what? >> the earth. >> see it. >> yeah.

beautiful. right over the -- boy, does that ever look beautiful. >> apollo 11. >> we sure do, houston. nominal as all get out and everything is looking good. >> it was like perfect. burn time 557. 60.9 by 169.9. >> that burn report was by neil armstrong. >> roger, we copy. the spacecraft is looking good on telemetry. >> apollo 11 on its first lunar revolution. >> have you got a good view? >> i sure do. man, this is really something. you ought to look at this if you want to watch our approach through the landing site, look through this window. we're coming up up here. straight out ahead. >> 80 hours 4 minutes now into the flight of apollo 11. astronaut charles duke has

arrived on the scene. >> what put us four minutes ahe ahead? >> we arrived at the moon four minutes early. >> speaks well for the booster. >> 11, that winds things up for the evening. we're ready to go to bet and get a little. over. >> we're about to join you. >> roger.

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>> this is, of course, the great day for mankind when we leave our planet earth and set foot on the moon. so on this historic day, neil armstrong and buzz aldrin are in their lunar module in their space suits. on this next pass, they are preparing to undock. >> all spacecraft looking very good at this time. the following revolution, revolution 13 armstrong and all dren will undock from the command and service module from which point the power descent to the lunar service will be initiated. apollo 11, houston we're going for undocking. over. >> roger, understand. >> we're all set when you are, mike. >> there you go.

>> eagle undocked. the eagle has legs. >> one minute. take care. >> see you later. all flight controllers go for power descent. retro now. guidance. >> go. >> control. >> go. >> telecom. >> go. >> econ. >> go. >> cap come we're go for power descent. >> eagle for power descent, over.

eagle, we've got you now. looking good. over. >> looks good. >> eagle, houston, everything is looking good here. over. >> roger. getting a little fluctuation. >> roger. >> stand by. >> looking good. still looking good. coming up three minutes. >> okay. we went by the three minutes early. our position a little off. >> roger, copy. >> a little long down range. >> i think we confirm that. >> we confirm that, rog. >>. >> all flight controls i'm going around the horn. >> watch that signal. >> what data you have for los.

few seconds. >> go. >> go, go. telecom go. econ go. >> cap com we're go to continue pdi. >> go. >> go. >> you go to continue. you are going to continue power descent. eagle, houston. you're still looking good into looks good, looks good. >> 1202. 1202 alarm. >> 1202. what's that? >> level 2 alarm. >> executive overflow does not occur again, we're fine. it has not occurred again. we're going. >> we're going. >> if it doesn't recur, we'll be go. >> we're go. >> roger, we're going at alarm.

>> roger. >> alarm appeared to come up. >> six plus 25, throttle down. six plus 25, throttle down. >> you can feel it. >> all flight controllers. >> go. >> go. >> gnc go. >> cap com, we're go for landing. >> eagle, houston, you're go for landing. over. >> roger. go for landing. >> bravo one. >> bravo one left. >> we're go, mike. >> pretty rocky area. >> okay. at hold. >> okay, the only callouts from now on will be fuel. >> stand by for 60. forward. >> 60. 60 seconds. >> 60 seconds.

>> flight time. now two and a half. five feet. okay. looks like a good area. looking good. forward, forward. that's good. repeat that. two and a half. 30 feet, two and a half. >> 30, 30 seconds. >> more forward. houston. forward. >> come back right. >> contact. >> engines stop. >> override off. alarm off.

>> we copy you down, eagle. >> houston, the eagle has landed. >> rocket point, tranquility. we copy you on the ground. you've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. we're breathing again. thanks a lot. >> thank you.

♪ houston, seems like a very long final phase. the auto targeting was taking us right into a football field sized crater and it required us flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area. >> we copy. it was beautiful from here. be advised lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. over. >> we have some heart rates for neil armstrong during that powered descent to the lunar surface. at the time the burn was initiated his heart rate was

110. at touchdown on the looner surface, he had a heart rate of 156 and the heart rate is now in the 90s. we do not have biomedical data on buzz aldrin. >> the hatch is coming open. >> hatch reported coming open at 109 hours eight minutes five seconds. >> okay, houston, i'm on the porch. >> roger, neil. >> okay, everything's nice in here. >> okay. can you pull the door open a little more? >> okay. >> okay. >> houston, this can radio check. >> ne hi l, this is houston, loud and clear. buzz, this is houston. verified circuit breaker in. >> tv circuit breakers in. >> roger.

>> and and we're getting a picture on the tv. >> you had a good picture, huh? >> a great deal of contrast in it and currently it's upside down on our monitor but we can make out a fair amount of detail. >> okay. >> i'm at the foot of the ladder. the footbeds are only depressed in the surface about one or two inches. although the surface appears to be very, very fine grained as you get close to it. it's almost like a powder. down this grapevine.

i'm going to step off the lam now. it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. i only go in a fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch. but i can see the foot prints of my gots and the treads in the fine sandy particles. >> neil, this is houston. we're copying. > this seems to be no difficulty in moving around, i suspect it'set perhaps easier than the simulations of 16g that we performed in various simulations on the ground.

the engine did not leave a crater of any size. it has about one-foot clearance on the ground. i can see some evidence of rays emanating from the descent engine but very insignificance can't amount. >> roger, neil. we're reading you loud and clear. see you getting some pictures and the contingenty sample. >> interesting, it's a very soft surface but here and there be i run into very hard surface but it appears to be very cohesive material of the same sort. i'll try to get a rock in here. >> that looks beautiful from here, neil. >> it has a beauty all its own. it's like much of the high desert of the united states. it's different but it's very pretty out here.

is that in the pocket? >> yeah, push down. got it? no, it's not all the way in. push it. there you go. >> sample is in the pocket. oxygen is 81%. i have no flags, and i'm in minimum flow. >> okay, i got the camera going at one frame a second. >> you ready for me to come out? >> just stand by a second. i'll move this from the hand rail. >> how far am i? >> okay, you're right at the end of the porch. >> i want to back up and partially close the hatch. making sure not to lock it on my way out. >> good thought. >> that's our home for the next couple hours. we want to take good care of it. >> you've got three more steps and then a long one.

beautiful view. >> isn't that something? magnificent sight out here. >> magnificent desolation. >> houston, i'm going to change lenses on you. >> roger, neil. we're getting a new picture. you can tell it's a longer focal length lens. >> haven't read the plastic. we'll read the plastic that's on the front landing gear of this lam. here men from the planet earth first set foot upon the moon, july 1969. we came in peace for all mankind. >> neil armstrong getting ready to move the tv camera now out to its panorama position. >> i got plenty of cable. >> you got plenty. plenty more. >> okay, that looks good there,

neil. >> okay. >> one hour seven minutes time expended. buzz is erecting the solar wind experiment now. >> some of these small depressions through the upper surface of the soil and about five or six inches breaks loose and moves as if it were caked on the surface when in fact, it really isn't. >> houston, over. >> clum clunlia, this is houston reading you loud and clear, over. >> this is -- reading you loud and clear, how is it going? >> roger. the eva is progressing beautifully. i guess you're about the only person around that doesn't have tv coverage of the scene. >> how is the quality of the tv? >> it's beautiful, mike. it really is. they've got the flag up now. you can see the stars and stripes on the lunar surface. >> beautiful, just beautiful. credible. >> neil and buzz, the president

of the united states is in his office now and would like to say a few words to you. over. that would be an honor. >> go ahead, mr. president. this is houston out. >> hello, neil and buzz. i'm talking to you by telephone from the oval room at the white house. >> and this certainly has to be the most historic v telephone call ever made from the white house. i just can't tell you how proud we all are of what you have done. for every american, this has to be the proudest day of our lives and for people all over the world, because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. and as you talk to us from the sea of tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to earth. for one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this earth are truly one. one in their pride in what you

have done and one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth. >> thank you, mr. president. it's a great honor and privilege for us to be here representing not only the united states but men of peace of all nations and with interest and curiosity for the future. an honor for us to be able to participate here today. >> neil's been on the surface an hour now. buzz not quite 20 minutes, less than that. heart rates on both crew men average between 90 and 100. >> don't know of any abnormalities in the lam. seem to be in good shape. the primary and secondary struts are in good shape. antennas are all in place. there's no evidence of problem underneath. >> the seq bay contains the scientific scientific experiments to be left on the

surface of the moon. >> eventual got have you got us. >> i'm going to have to get on the other side of this rock here. >> deflector is installed and the bubble level and alignment appears to be good. >> they've been on their life support systems two hours and 25 minutes. >> i have the seismic experiment tipped over now and i'm aligning it with the sun. and all parts of the solar array are clear of the ground now. >> buzz aldrin be collecting a core tube sample. >> it almost looks wet. >> got a sample. this is houston. after you've got the core tubes and the solar wind, anything else that you can throw into the box would be acceptable. >> we've got about i'd say 20 pounds of carefully selected if not documented samples. >> houston, roger well done. out.

credible. >> anything more before i head on up, bruce? >> negative. head on up the ladder, buzz. >> adios, amigos. >> okay. >> transferring the sample containers into the cabin now. unofficial time off the surface at 1:11.37.32. >> closed and latched. verified secure. >> okay. >> and we'd like to say from all of us down here in houston and really from all of us in all the countries in the entire word, we think that you've done a magnificent job up there today. over. >> thank you very much. it's been a long day. >> yes, indeed. get some rest there and have at it tomorrow.

not since adam has any human known such solitude as mike collins is experiencing during the 47 minutes of each lunar revolution when he's behind the moon while he waits for his comrades to soar with eagle from tranquility base and rejoin him for the trip back to earth. collins with the help of flight controllers here in mission control center has kept the command module systems going. >> columbia, columbia, good

morning from houston. >> all primed and raring to go? >> you betcha there, mike. going to keep you a little busy here. as soon as we get the vector in, we'd like to get a go ahead and do a p52 option 3 and then when you come on around the other side there, we'll give you landmark tracking information on the 130. >> all right, fine. i understand. thank you. >> tranquility base houston, how is the resting standal up there? did you chance to curl up on the engine cam? >> roger. neil has rigged himself a really good hammock and he's been lying on the engine cover and i curled up on the floor. >> roger, copy, buzz. >> our science support room reports receiving continuous data from the passive seismic experiment placed on the lunar as fast last night by the crew. recorded the astronauts footsteps on the moon and

mr. probably receive its strongest signal when it starts eagle into lunar orbit and rendezvous with columbia. >> roger, just a reminder we want to make sure you leave the rendezvous circuit breakers full. >> okay. >> eagle and columbia, this is the backup crew. congratulations to yed's performance. our prayers are with you. >> thank you, jim. >> thank you, jim. >> almost 5,000 pounds of propellent will be run through the as cents engine on ascent burn which will place eagle back into lunar orbit and following that the rendezvous sequence completed with the docking at 128 hours approximately. flight 0 rations director chris-craft commented some 500 million people around the world were helping push eagle off the moon and back nook orbit.

flight director glen lenny is pulling various positions here in the control room on tear readiness. >> final status. >> got it all, flight crew. >> waiting for guidance during the two minutes. go flight. >> flight looks good. >> tranquility base, houston. >> roger, go ahead. >> roger. eagle is looking real fine to us down here. and you're cleared for takeoff. >> roger, understand. we're number one on the runway. >> guidance reports both navigation systems on eagle are looking good. >> all right. nine, eight, seven, six, five, four fourth stage. ascent. proceed.

>> over. >> very smooth. . >> roger. >> not very much pressure activity. >> we're looking good. >> okay. roger. 30 seconds in. >> 700, 150 up. beautiful. eagle, houston, still looking mighty fine. >> roger. >> roger. >> all three data sources are agreeing quite closely here. >> houston, we'll see you at 1:27 plus five one. ♪

127 hours 39 minutes 39.2 seconds. this is the start time for a series of velocity match numbers to bring eagle in with columbia. houston, delta h of 15.5. >> maneuver of 51.3. >> roger, we copy. >> as the two vehicles come around on the 26th lunar revolution, mike collins board columbia is spring loaded to do what is called a mirror image

maneuver. >> okay. coming in. ♪ >> columbia, i've got 470 now. can you hold silent for a few second

seconds? >> columbia. >> okay, mike. try to get position here and then you got it. >> okay. >> looks good, mike.

>> all yours. >> communications are somewhat scratchy. columbia and eagle now reunited to become apollo 11. again. >> apollo 11 houston, got minute and a half to los. looking great. been a mighty fine day. >> armstrong and all dren transferring back to the command module and mike collins. >> this is columbia reading you loud and clear. we're all three back inside. the hatch is installed. we're running a pressure check. everything is going well. >> how does it feel up there to have some company? >> damn good, i'll tell you. >> talking to yourself up there after ten rounds or so. >> no, it's a happy home up there. it would be nice to have 100 million americans up here. >> they were with you in spirit anyway. at least that many. >> thank, sir.

apollo 11 houston, all your systems look real good to us. >> we would like you to jettisoned eagle. go for power on. go for a jettison. >> okay. >> there she goes. it was a good one. >> roger dodger. we got eagle looking good. it's holding cabin pressure and picked up about two feet per second from that jettison. >> the crew jettisoned the lam. we're now ten seconds away from transearth injection. they will burn their service propulsion service engine for 2:28 to start them on their way back to earth. >> apollo 11 houston, one minute to los. >> transverse injection maneuver will be performed on the backside of the moon on the beginning of the 31st revolution. we'll reacquire the spacecraft on the other side of the moon. >> houston, you're looking good going over the hill. go sic 'em.

>> thank you, sir. we'll do it. >> stand by. stand by. >> jettison good. >> man, that feels like -- doesn't it? >> one minute. standard pressures holding right on 100. >> looks good.

latitude looks good. a little bit. stand by for engine to be shut down now. >> okay. beautiful. >> yes, i love you. you are a duo. >> aos. and there's the cue. we have acquisition of signal. >> looking good here. that was a beautiful burn. they don't come any finer. >> type to open up the lrl doors, charlie. >> roger, we got you coming home. >> let's get some music. ♪

>> doing the best ♪ ♪ just a lot of people doing the best they could ♪ ♪ and then the lady said that they did it pretty up good ♪ ♪ whatever happened to those faces in the old photographs ♪ i mean the little boys. boys, hell, they were men. and here they come. ♪ sitting straight and proud and he's driving her stone blind ♪ ♪ and once you look at her, ah,

she never looked finer or better than today ♪ ♪ sweetheart on parade ♪ and the people cheered why, i even saw a grown man break right down and cry ♪ ♪ and the sun it is going down for mr. buoy ♪ ♪ as he's singing with his class 1902 ♪ ♪ oh, mother country i do love you ♪ ♪ oh, mother country i do love you ♪

>> this should be getting larger and if it is, it's the place we're coming home to. no matter where you travel, it's always nice to get home. >> we concur. we'll be happy to have you back.

apollo 11 now 94,961 nautical miles from earth. re-entry is scheduled to begin 18 hours 18 minutes and 12 seconds. >> flight, bruce, did you ever let you go get a cup of coffee when we were over on the backside? >> things have been going pretty

smoothly down here. he's really not that hard to get along with. >> he must be mellowing. >> we've only got two of them back there right now. >> the next item scheduled on the flight plan is a television transmission. >> you may be interested in knowing that jan and the children and pat and andy are all down here in the viewing room watching this evening. >> we're glad to hear that. >> good signal. >> okay, you're coming through loud and clear now, 11, with your patch. >> this has been far more than three men on a voyage to the moon. we feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown. this operation is somewhat like the perry scope of a submarine. all you see is the three of us, but beneath the surface are thousands and thousands of

others. we'd like to give a special thanks to all those americans who built those spacecraft, who did the construction, design, and put their -- their heart and all their abilities into those crafts. to those people, tonight we give a special thank you. and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, god bless you. good night from apollo 11. >> and while they're in the recovery area, skies will be partly cloudy. six-foot sea. temperature near 80 degrees. this landing area is 215 miles

to the northeast from the original landing area. moved because of thundershowers in the original area. >> apollo 11's distance now is 3,000 nautical miles. velocity 26,685 feet per second. in the next 20 minutes apollo 11 will add almost 10,000 feet to that figure. beginning blackout at 62 miles. main chute deployment. >> houston, weather still holding real fine in the recovery area. looks like it's about 1500 high

scattered and still three to six-foot waves. >> sounds good. >> roger. >> really getting bigger up here. >> apollo 11 lined up right down the middle of the entry corridor. we're 1:45 from entry. blackout will begin 18 seconds after entry. >> apollo 11 houston, still looking mighty fine here. you're cleared for landing. >> we appreciate that. >> stand and lock. >> roger. >> guidance officer reports the command module computer looks good and the guidance and navigation system is go. >> houston, going over the hill shortly. looking mighty fine to us. >> see you later. >> there's the horizon. at the horizon now.

>> and beginning a blackout approximately 17 seconds after entry interface into the atmosphere. 400,000 feet or approximately 85 miles. above the earth.

night at blackout, we were showing velocity 36,237 feet per second. range to go to splash 1,510 nautical miles. >> los. blackout. >> roger. you have arrived. >> apollo 11, houston. >> apollo 11 houston to arrive. >> apollo 11 houston through arrive four.

>> okay, captain. one last call. i'm going to have to give up. and let the recovery people have it. >> apollo 11 houston, through to arrive. >> apollo 11, apollo 11, this is hornet, hornet, over. >> apollo. clear. our position 1330. 16915. >> there they are! [ applause ] >> hey, condition. 4,000, 3500 feet on the way down. 1330.

16915. >> roger. copy. >> hornet reports spacecraft right on target point. >> nice job. splash down. this is the command module. >> roger. >> stable one now. stable one. >>. >> our condition is excellent. >> that was mike collins reporting the crew was excellent. >> astronaut is in the net. command module. >> i have three astronauts board. power frequency. power frequency.

>> hornet, understand. completed the decontamination in the command module. >> the elevator will take recovery one down to the hangar deck and where the crew will enter the mobile quarantine facility. this becoming jammed with people. i've never seen this many people in the control center at one time before. apollo 11 plastic has been hung in the mission control center. a replica of the crew patch. [ applause ]

and the flags are waving and the cigars are basically lit up and clear across the big board in front is president john f. kennedy's message to congress of may, 1961. >> even though i realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision for we do not now know what benefits await us, but if i were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon 240,000 miles away from the control station in houston a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control,

communications, food, and survival, on an untried mission to an unknown celestial body and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour had, causing heat about half that on the temperature of the sun, almost as hot as it is here today and do all this and do all this and do it right and do it first before this decade is out, then we must be bold. [ applause ]

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