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New possibilities are opening up for fruitful development - of scientific cooperation _ between countries and the peoples in the interests of of peace i and progress of all humanity. its taken us many years to open this door to useful cooperation in space between our two countries. and im confident that the day is not far off when space missions made possible by this first joint effort will be more or less commonplace. apollo control. 99 hours. 29 minutes. elapsed time. this is apollo control an...

Television picture from i apollo as it backs away. it was the second time in the whole history of the soviet union. and the united states, we work close together. it provided a framework for the international cooperation. and what we do today on the international space station and the type of working groups we have and how we approach things was all based on what we worked out from apollo. we started from scratch. so that kind of open the gate to go forward for international cooperation and expl...

Howard Gray gives us a fascinating look behind the scenes of recording and engineering some of the biggest tracks of the '80s.

Ejection. >> houston, apollo 11, weve completed our maneuver. >> houston, roger that. >> this is apollo control. at 6 hours 16 minutes into the mission, velocity now 11,479 feet per second. apollo 11s distance from earth, 5,000 naught ca 5,000 nautical miles. >> well be ready to copy in a minute or two. >> the spacecraft will be placed in the passive thermal control mode. it will be rotated about its x-axis at a rate of about 3 revolutions per hour to maintain proper temperature balance within t...

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 control center becoming jammed with people. ive never seen this many people in the control center at one time before. the apollo 11 plaque has been hung in the mission control center. a replica of the crew patch. [ applause ] ♪

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. >> lets go. >> go flight. >> apololo 11, this is houston. you are go. >> thank you. we got telemetry back on and everything is go. >> loo...

>> we interrupt to program to present another in a series of on-board television transmissions from the apollo 8 space capsule brought to you by tang, the instant breakfast drink chosen by gemini and apollo astronauts. 175,450 miles from earth. the astronauts have truly left the earth and its gravity. for the second tell i cast, frank foreman has turned the television so it faces the earth. here are the television pictures coming through from apollo control. >> what you are seeing is the western...