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Your way now. >> it was neil armstrong praising the launch vehicle. >> the crew at this time press ago head with their transposition and docking maneuver. the spacecraft after having separated from saturn third stage turning around docking with the lunar module extracting the lunar module from the sad turn third stage and pushing ahead en route to the moon.

Commander. when the original landing area turned out 3 so full of large boulders that landing there would have doomed the mission and the crew, history records that neil armstrong calmly took control of the lunar module, skimmed along the top of the surface of the moon in search for a safe place to touchdown and by the time he found a safe spot known to all of us as tranquility base, armstrong and aldrin had only 17 seconds of fuel remaining. like every one of my generation iran member that day....

Addition to the apollo mission. the lunar module was the module the challenger was one, could carry more payload. because of that we could take this lunar rover or moon buggy as you called it, to the moon and it did extend the exploration capability of the astronauts. we were outside the spacecraft for three different excursions for 22 hours, a little over 22 hours and most of that was actually using the lunar rover to move across this deep mountain valley in with i we landed and we traveled 35 ...

Armstrong took over manual control scooted past that, and they were almost out of fuel. so a lot of people didnt know what was happening while they were watching that. >> you talked at length about the numbers of people it took to put this lunar module on the moon ultimately. nasa which has said they want to land people on the moon again by 2024. do you support that, you think its going to happen? >> i dont know if its going to happen. i do support it, because i think its part of our heritage, b...

[applause] >> at the controls of the apollo 11 lunar module known as eagle, stood two great americans. mission commander neil armstrong and a man who is with us today, lunar module pilot buzz aldrin. [applause] >> circling overhead was command module pilot michael collins. [applause] >> just picture it. 50 years ago today at almost

Buzz aldrin, -- walked out placing a flag in the mood. while armstrong and aldrin made dinner footprints above above them orbiting the moon was michael collins. line the command module that the lunar lander would have to fly up to and dock with in order to get back to earth alive.this week he recalled the great risk of the sequence. >> knew no nasa in his wisdom always try to have redundancy and yet, when you look at the design of the lunar module, there is one combustion chamber, one little roc...

Which was very impressive then, although it seems quite primitive now. one of the surprising things to me, in retrospect, was how we were able to get to the moon with relatively primitive technology. >> right. i was going to ask you about that. because looking back, and you think of that achievement, no one probably in 2019 would recognize the technology and the computers that they used to do this feat. >> right. well, one of the positive benefits of the space program has been that it spawned th...

Legacy of apollo 11, we look forward to americas future return to the moon. someday we are told perhaps mars. what is the meaning of the day, the amazing encouragement walter cunningham joins us a retired colonel and former nasa astronaut. he was a lunar module pilot of apollo 7. he joins us now from the johnson space center in houston. mr. cunningham, first, is an honor to have you with us thank you for your service. as you reflect on apollo 11 and going to the moon, we take it for granted. it ...

20 minutes after armstrong and buzz aldrin climbed down the ladder. armstrong took photos of his colleagues at the turning point in the history of space travel. ive never been a writer. armstrong and aldrin then examined the lunar lander for possible damage they also set up a quick trip to measure the moons exact distance from the earth and to study lunar earthquakes. i am right back with the astronauts climbed back into the lunar module close the hatch and sealed it. while they were moving arou...

Formation of the moon. the moon rocks, in fact, upended what we understood about how both the earth and moon were formed. the reason to go back to the moon is all we ever did was visit. the lunar module didnt even have sleeping quarters. they slept on the floor or cots. so you go back now to learn how to live and work in a completely alien environment, before you go to mars. the moon is 2 1/2 days away. if you want to go to mars, thats three months away. so if you want to understand what it take...