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>> looks good. >> eagle, houston, everything is looking good here. over. >> roger. copy. houston, were getting a little fluctuation. >> roger. >> stand by. >> looking good. youre still looking good. coming up three minutes. >> okay. we went by the three minutes point early. our position seems to be a little off. >> roger, copy. >> he thinks youre a little long down range. >> thats right. i think we confirmed that. >> we confirmed that. roger. ♪ >> all flight controllers im going around the hor...

>> not since adam has any human known such solitude as mike collins is experiencing during the 47 minutes of each lunar revolution when hes 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. >> how is the black team today? all primed and raring to go?...

>> eagle undocked. the eagle has legs. looking good. >> thrusting. okay, eagle, one minute. you guys take care. >> see you later. okay. all flight controllers going to go for power descent. retro now. guidance. >> go. >> control. >> go. >> telecom. >> go. >> econ. >> go. >> surgery. >> go. >> capcom were go for power descent. >> eagle for power descent, over. >> eagle, weve got you now. its looking good. over.

Docking maneuver worked perfectly the apollo astronauts were now well on their way to making the dream of a moon landing come true. the crew played a cassette tape of tulsas crafts about to start. the theme had recently been featured in the film 2001 a space odyssey the u.s. mission to put a man on the moon was about to become reality. but the flight controllers on the ground were concerned that an unmanned soviet spacecraft was orbiting the moon at this time the probe was to land on the lunar

>> were going. >> if it doesnt recur, well be go. >> were go. >> roger, were going at alarm. >> roger. >> alarm appeared to come up. >> six plus 25, throttle down. six plus 25, throttle down. >> you can feel it. >> okay. all flight controllers. >> go. >> go. >> gnc go. >> econ. >> go. >> surgeon. >> go. >> capcom, were go for landing. >> eagle, houston, youre go for landing. over. >> roger. >> 1201. >> 1201. >> okay, the only callouts from

>> we are set. >> houston, apollo 11, weve completed our maneuvers. six hours, 16 minutes. velocity. the distance from earth, 27,938 nautical miles. now charlie duke and jean kranz and his flight controllers preparing to take over the responsibility from cliff charlesworth team. >> well be ready to copy in a minute. >> the spacecraft will be placed in the thermal control mode. it will be rotating on its x axis to maintain proper temperature balance within the spacecraft.

>> all flight controllers im going around the horn. >> watch that signal. >> what data you have for l.o.s. few seconds. >> go. >> go, go. >> telcom. >> go. >> ecom. >> go. >> circuit. >> go. >> capcom were go to continue power descent. >> looks good. >> 1202. >> 1202 alarm. >> 1202? whats that? >> 1202 alarm. >> executive overflow. if it does not occur in the end, were fine. >> were go.

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. >> how is the black team today? 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, wed like to get a go ahead and do a p52 option 3 and then when you come on aroun...

The eagle has legs. looking good. >> thrusting. okay, eagle, one minute. you guys take care. >> see you later. okay. all flight controllers going to go for power descent. retro now. guidance. >> go. >> control. >> go. >> telecom. >> go. >> econ. >> go. >> circuit. >> go. >> capcom were go for power descent. >> eagle go for power descent, over.

>> were all set when you are, mike. >> there you go. see you later. >> eagle undocked. the eagle has legs. looking good. >> thrusting. okay, eagle, one minute. you guys take care. >> see you later. okay. all flight controllers going to go for power descent. retro now. guidance. >> go. >> control. >> go. >> telcom. >> go. >> gnc. >> go. >> econ. >> go. >> circuit. >> go. >> capcom were go for power descent. >> eagle go for power descent, over.