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Surface and gather soil samples but its believed to a crashed into a mountain on july 21st. way back. on the afternoon of july 19th apollo 11 swung into lunar orbit and the crew started making preparations for their descent to the moon surface. after they are back. janet armstrong hoped for the best. landing gear set for late afternoon on july 20th armstrong and buzz aldrin now entered the eagle lunar lander and separated from the columbia command module. armstrong steered the lunar module stand...

The void. >> the eagle has landed. >> we copy you on the ground. you have a bunch of guys about to turn blue. >> it took just 66 years to go from the wright brothers at kitty hawk to this extraordinary moment. buzz aldrin joined minutes later. >> its a good step. >> the landscape, dusty and barren. nasa called it the sea of tranquillity. >> you have the flag up now. you can see the stars and stripes. >> even as they planted the flag, their crew mate orbited in the command module not knowing whet...

Meanwhile nasa continued to experiment with using parachutes to return apollo capsule safely to earth. a more difficult challenge was the design and construction of the vehicle that would actually land the astronauts on the surface of the moon. armstrong took part in flight tests early versions of the lunar module. armstrong took part in flight tests over earlier versions of the lunar module. some of the astronauts called it the flying bedstead the module suffered from a number of technical prob...

Genet armstrong hoped for the best. landing except for late afternoon on july 20th armstrong and buzz aldrin now entered the eagle lunar lander and separated from the columbia command module. armstrong steered the lunar module standing up the vehicle had no seats to cut down on wait. the astronauts families followed the flight on t.v. . suddenly the modules guidance computer set off several alarms but it turned out to be nothing serious. we all feared the worst but i mission control technician w...

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 around inside buzz aldrin created a serious technical problem. i know for in his back to back if bumped into the ignition switch for the you santana generated charge and broke it on. to for n.c. should have been called to. buzz aldrin used a felt tip in to activate the mechanism. before they reentered ...

And roger chaffee. during a launch test in january 1967 a fire broke out in the capsules cabin and spread quickly all 3 astronauts were killed. nasa blamed the fire on deficiencies in capsule design workmanship and quality control. the agency made improvements to the spacecraft and to operational procedures. meanwhile nasa continued to experiment with using parachutes to return apollo capsule safely to earth. a more difficult challenge was the design and construction of the vehicle that would ac...

Roger toy for a ready week ill be on the ground you got a bunch of guys about to. buzz aldrin filmed armstrong setting foot on the moon along with his historic words. armstrong then went about collecting dust and rock samples buzz aldrin set up some scientific equipment. together they planted the stars and stripes and the moon surface. and then the last big challenge the lunar module has only one engine and if it failed it would mean that the astronauts would be stranded on the moon.

>> reporter: a 1202 alarm means the lunar modules computer is overloaded. if the problem cannot be corrected, the landing will be aborted. >> give us a reading on the 1202 program alarm. >> reporter: the control room silent. but they soon decide its a go. >> were going. >> were going. >> reporter: neil armstrong flies the lunar module manually. evading boulders at their planned landing location. with their fuel running critically low, flight director gene krantz back at mission control in housto...

Think there were 5.6 million parts on what they called the stack, okay, it included the command module, the service module and of course the lunar module which landed and then everything of course in the saturn five rocket. the engineers strove for something called the 99.9% liability rate. it meant that if .1% of things went wrong, you had 5600 parts would could potentially fail. it took a lot of guts to be able to sit on that rocket. >> neil: to absorb the risks. the apollo fire, within two an...

And separated from the rocket. surely duke was one of the team members of the control center he kept in touch with the astronauts on their mission. the enthusiasm for space was building but we were in the space race with the russians so that motivated us to commit to it. there was a tense moment 4 days into the mission when armstrong and aldrin flew towards the moon again and again the radio cut out. then the navigation computer sounded the alarm neil armstrong took control and landed the lunar ...