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Washington monument, and it featured scenes from the apollo 11 mission, from liftoff. >> and fireworks over the space center in houston, texas. they were set off on saturday, at the exact hour. neil armstrong made his giant sleep a half-century earlier. as rachel crane tells us, the facility has been restored to the smallest detail. this location is about as cool as it gets. this is the iconic apollo mission control room. the room where it happened, where the scientists and engineers worked tire...

Knowledge of history knows those words by heart, right? but a lot of people are at the johnson space center in houston today to commemorate the men and the mission of apollo 11. the fact is, that moment still inspires us. it still sends a chill up the spine of anyone who was alive and watching that grainy footage live on that hot july night 50 years ago either from mission control or their living room. a little boy named mike was just 6 years old that night. almost 40 years later, astro mike sen...

Minutes until man begins the greatest adventure in his history. if all goes well, apollo 11 astronauts, armstrong, aldrin, and collins are to lift off from pad 39-a out there on the voyage man always has dreamed about. so 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 carry on behalf of all mankind. boring through the vastness, the blackness, and the cold of space, ...

And the tangy barbecue. the new hot chicken trio at togos. how far would you go for a togo? [woman on pa] >> houston. >> roger, apollo 11. good morning. >> goldstone reports theyre receiving tv from the spacecraft. >> about 130,000 miles out. >> hello there, sports fans. buzz is doing the camera work.

Armstrong 110. command module pilot mike collins 99. lunar module pilot buzz aldrin, 88. >> well have some radar in shortly. >> the flight dynamic officer dave reid will report a refined radar after more tracking. >> apollo 11 this is houston. the booster has been configured for orbital coast. both spacecraft are looking good. over. >> all right. roger. >> want some of these lights down further, mike? >> dont worry about it. >> apollo 11, over. >> go ahead. >> for your information, radar shows y...

Spacecraft. >> about 130,000 miles out. >> hello there. hes down on his head again. hes 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 presently 131 nautical miles from earth. >> the spacecraft slowly rotates to maintain thermal balance. >> its good night from the white team, over. >> okay. see you tomorrow. thank you for everything. >> good morning, apollo 11. >> good morning, houston. apollo 11. >> yeah, ive got the ...

Good night from apollo 11. >> weather 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 11s 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 per second to that figure. entry at 75 statute miles. beginning blackout at 62 statute m...

Example. and its taking all that data and sending it back to here at the goddard space flight center. and from here it gets distributed out. kristin: i also spoke with him about former president barack obamas impact on the space agencys effort to return to moon and what he remembers about apollo 11. >> im the first nasa administrator that was not alive during that achievement. ill tell you what my generation remembers, what do i remember, the challenger explosion with christa mcauliffe onboard. ...

1, 2 niner, 02 los at goldstone. over. >> roger. >> this is apollo control at 1 hour 51 minutes moving across the atlantic now toward africa and on the next revolution the spacecraft will be accelerating to the required speed to get it into an orbit thatll intercept the moon during the trans lunar ejection maneuver. the burn with the saturn third stage that will place the spacecraft on its trajectory toward the moon. >> go, flight. >> go, flight. >> okay. >> apollo 11, this is houston. you are g...

Put the first man on the moon. you got to meet some of them tonight. one unique individual came to our attention as the film was being researched. turns out there was only one woman allowed in the control room during the launch. her remarkable story has been mostly hidden all these years. she played a critical role, and as we learned, spending time with her, she remembers it well. heres her story. >> we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy bu...