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Orbit and rendezvous with columbia. >> tranquility base, houston. >> go ahead. >> roger, just a reminder we want to make sure you leave the rendezvous radar circuit breakers full. >> okay. >> eagle and columbia, this is the backup crew. congratulations to yesterdays performance. our prayers are with you for the rendezvous. over. >> thank you, jim. >> thank you, jim. >> almost 5,000 pounds of propellent will be run through the ascent engine on the ascent burn which will place eagle back into luna...

Verified secure. >> okay. >> and wed like to say from all of us down here in houston and really from all of us in all the countries in the entire world, we think that youve done a magnificent job up there today. over. >> thank you very much. its been a long day. >> yes, indeed. get some rest there and have at it tomorrow. >> 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 h...

Flight director glen lenny is pulling various positions here in the control room on tear readiness. >> final status. >> got it all, flight crew. >> waiting for guidance during the two minutes. go flight. >> flight looks good. >> tranquility base, houston. >> roger, go ahead. >> roger. eagle is looking real fine to us down here. and youre cleared for takeoff. >> roger, understand. were number one on the runway. >> guidance reports both navigation systems on eagle are looking good. >> all right....

>> 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 around the other side there, well give you some landmark tracking information on the 130. >> all right, fine. i understand. thank you. >> tranquility base houston, how is the resting standing up there? did you chance to curl up on the engine cam? >> roger. neil has ...

Morning from houston. >> 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 around the other side there, well give you landmark tracking information on the 130. >> all right, fine. i understand. thank you. >> tranquility base houston, how is the resting standal up there? did you chance to curl up on the engine cam? >> roger. neil has rigged himsel...

Moon and back nook orbit. flight director glen lenny is pulling various positions here in the control room on their readiness. >> final status. >> got it all, flight crew. >> waiting for guidance during the two minutes. go flight. >> flight looks good. >> tranquility base, houston. >> roger, go ahead. >> roger. eagle is looking real fine to us down here. and youre cleared for takeoff. >> roger, understand. were number one on the runway. >> guidance reports both navigation systems on eagle are ...

45 years ago today, we were all transfixed by this. >> one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: todays a very special day here at the kennedy space centers apollo center 5 building which is basically a museum of the apollo program. the enormous rocket hanging from the ceiling, thats what powered the apollo all the way to the moon. >> 30 seconds. tranquility base here, the eagle

Heard contact, tranquility base here, the eagle has landed, he just erupted if you will, and i was literally holding my breath. >> you were holding your breath and really about to turn blue. and i understand that, by the time the astronauts actually walked on the moon, your shift had ended and you were at home by then watching the event on tv with the rest of the country, that had to be surreal for you especially. do you remember your strongest emotion when armstrong took the first step on the m...

Tomorrow to give a true tribute to neil armstrong. >> you can never forget that moment. >> charles zuk, he was on the support crew for the apollo 11 mission, and got to be the 10th man to walk on the moon in the apollo 15 mission in 1972. duke, good to have you with us. 45 years ago, neil armstrong, houston tranquility base here, the eagle has landed. and it was you that responded, roger tranquility, we copy you on the ground. you got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, were breathing again. do ...

Computer path, he was now flying above unfamiliar territory, searching for a safe spot to land, but running low on fuel. >> so were on the far side of what was undesirable, and im reading the altitude, and about 100 feet -- >> 60. 60 seconds. >> 60 seconds. >> 100 feet, still a ways off the ground, and weve got 60 seconds. im getting a little concerned. >> so we got very tense in mission control. were biting our nails and holding our breath, and worried were going to run out of gas. 30 seconds. ...