Neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship in the lunar module and they were getting ready to fly from the lunar orbit around the moon to Tranquility Base to the surface. That last leg of the 240,000mile journey would take just 13 minutes from 50,000 feet to the surface of the moon. The first three minutes of the 13 minutes went perfectly normally. The last ten minutes were a cascade of problems. You might not have even noticed the problems if you were listening live because that is the bait astronauts and Mission Control word. The first problem is that as armstrong and aldrin swooped down towards the moon, they were looking out the window and armstrong discovered the place they were intending to land was strewn with boulders between ten and 20 feet, as big as honda accord and toyota camrys. So, the module had been flying on autopilot. The computer had been flying and at that point the armstrong took control and had to look for a different place to land. That led to the sec
The Impossible Mission to the moon. Its written by Charles Fishman titles the curious mind, the walmart effect into the big thirst. Hes a winner of the most prestigious prize in the latest to be in houston and its almost always because of space, so tonight is a nice night. Sunday afternoon july 20, 1969 it was about 215 central time. Neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship in the lunar module and they were getting ready to fly from the lunar orbit around the moon to Tranquility Base to the surface. That last leg of the 240,000mile journey would take just 13 minutes from 50,000 feet to the surface of the moon. The first three minutes of the 13 minutes went perfectly normally. The last ten minutes were a cascade of problems. You might not have even noticed the problems if you were listening live because that is the bait astronauts and Mission Control word. The first problem is that as armstrong and aldrin swooped down towards the moon, they were looking out the window and
Journalism please please help me giving a warm welcome to charles fishman. [applause] good evening. Im delighted to be in houston. I am always delighted to be in houston. Tonight is a nice night. I want to take you back to sunday afternoon, july 20, 1969. It was about 2 15 central time. Neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship, in the lunar module. They were getting ready to fly from lunar orbit, down to the moon to Tranquility Base and that last leg of the 240,000 mile journey would take just 13 minutes, from 50,000 feet to the surface of the moon. The first three minutes of the 13 minutes went perfectly normally. The last we 10 minutes were a cascade of problems. You would not have noticed the problems if you are listening live because that is the way astronaut and Mission Control were. The first problem was as armstrong and aldrin swooped down toward the moon, looking out the window, armstrong discovered the place they were intending to land was strewn with boulders be
[applause] good evening, im delighted to be in houston, always delighted to be in houston and its almost always a good space so i want to take you back to sunday afternoon, july 20 1969. It was about 2 15 central time. Neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship, they were in the lunar module. They were getting ready to fly lunar orbit, from an orbiter on the moon to Tranquility Base. And that last leg of the 240,000 mile journey takes just 13 minutes from the thousand feet to the surface of the moon. The first three minutes of the 13 minute went perfectly normally. The last 10 minutes were a cascade of problems and you might not have even noticed problems if you were listening live because thats the way after not adMission Control work. The first problem was that as armstrong and aldrin down to the moon they were looking out the window. Armstrong discovered the place they were intending to land was strewn with boulders between 10 and 20 feet. They were boulders as big as ho