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New possibilities are opening up for fruitful development - of scientific cooperation _ between countries and the peoples in the interests of of peace i and progress of all humanity. it's taken us many years to open this door to useful cooperation in space between our two countries. and i'm confident that the day is not far off when space missions made possible by this first joint effort will be more or less commonplace. apollo control. 99 hours. 29 minutes. elapsed time. this is apollo control and acquisition here. j we should have confirmation of undocking and a real time |

Television picture from i apollo as it backs away. it was the second time in the whole history of the soviet union. and the united states, we work close together. it provided a framework for the international cooperation. and what we do today on the international space station and the type of working groups we have and how we approach things was all based on what we worked out from apollo. we started from scratch. so that kind of open the gate to go forward for international cooperation and exploration. the handshake in space between cold war rivals. our next witness was a true pioneer. she wa...

Howard Gray gives us a fascinating look behind the scenes of recording and engineering some of the biggest tracks of the '80s.

Ejection. >> houston, apollo 11, we've completed our maneuver. >> houston, roger that. >> this is apollo control. at 6 hours 16 minutes into the mission, velocity now 11,479 feet per second. apollo 11's distance from earth, 5,000 naught ca 5,000 nautical miles. >> we'll be ready to copy in a minute or two. >> the spacecraft will be placed in the passive thermal control mode. it will be rotated about its x-axis at a rate of about 3 revolutions per hour to maintain proper temperature balance within the spacecraft. >> houston, you might be entered that out my window right now, i can observe the e...

Power frequency. power frequency. >> hornet, understand. completed the decontamination in the command module. >> the elevator will take recovery one down to the hangar deck and where the crew will enter the mobile quarantine facility. this control center becoming jammed with people. i've never seen this many people in the control center at one time before. the apollo 11 plaque has been hung in the mission control center. a replica of the crew patch. [ applause ] ♪