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Five five over. >> roger. >> this is apollo control at one hour 51 minutes moving across the atlantic towards africa. on the next revolution, the spacecraft will be accelerating to the required speed to get it into an orbit that will intercept the moon doing the translunar maneuver. it will place the spacecraft on its trajectory toward the moon. >> go, go, go. >> let's go. >> go flight. >> apololo 11, this is houston. you are go. >> thank you. we got telemetry back on and everything is go. >> looks good here. >> we're showing present altitu altitude, about 108 nautical miles. we expect 177 nau...

>> we interrupt to program to present another in a series of on-board television transmissions from the apollo 8 space capsule brought to you by tang, the instant breakfast drink chosen by gemini and apollo astronauts. 175,450 miles from earth. the astronauts have truly left the earth and its gravity. for the second tell i cast, frank foreman has turned the television so it faces the earth. here are the television pictures coming through from apollo control. >> what you are seeing is the western hemisphere. i can see the southwestern part of the united states. it appears now that the east coas...