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You're just a child. i feel really, really old. >> how was it for you -- i know you've been asked this so much. there you are circling the moon in the command module. you said it was peaceful. you enjoyed yourself. you couldn't view them on tv as the world was. what did you do? >> well, i had a good time. i'm always asked or was asked after the flight the prevalent question was, weren't you the loneliest man in the loneliest orbit in the loneliest mission that has gone around the lonely moon? weren't you lonely? i thought that was ridiculous. i didn't want to talk about that. i was not in the ...

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 and half years we would make it to the moon. we would complete the goal. that would've been unthinkabl...

Ignition sequence started. we should see fire. 4. 3. 2. 1. >> liftoff. >> liftoff. >> roger, liftoff. >> and we have liftoff. >> reporter: at 9:32 a.m., apollo 11 lifting off. >> i can see her rising now. >> reporter: the control room watching, some with binoculars. the view, spectacular. and even more so from inside. >> got the earth straight out our front window. >> reporter: after traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, apollo 11 enters into a lunar orbit. the next day, the lunar module, eagle, with armstrong and aldrin inside, separates from the command module where collins remained. hours la...

>> buzz aldrin has apparently carried the camera in with him. >> the vehicle is surprisingly very clean. >> a moment ago we had a good shot of the two helmets and now behind we have the aca. >> that's the position. we will be putting the camera in after the initial descent down the ladder and taking one frame a sick. >> hello there. >> hello there. >> probably the most unusual position a cameraman has ever had, hanging by his toes from a tunnel and taking a picture upside down. >> we're going to go ahead and take all the data back into the command module. >> roger. >> we are going to turn our ...

Stable one. >> your condition? >> our condition is excellent. we're just fine. take your time. >> all right. >> that was mike collins reporting the crew was excellent. >> astronaut is in the net. on his way up. command module. >> i have three astronauts aboard. switching power free kwquencfre. 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