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Instructing the crew to build a makeshift rig they called the mailbox, to purge the deadly gas from the craft and keep oxygen levels safe. this bought some time for the crew, who were barely breathing and running low on water. you lost 14 pounds? >> i didn't realize i'd lost 14 pounds. and i guess, you know, i was all charged up. >> they were sick, freezing, and tired, but safe for now. mission control's next task was to get the broken-down craft out of a lunar landing course and back on a free return to an earth trajectory. engineers in houston figured the crew could do this by executing two ...

Military time. it was set to enter in lunar orbit the 13th of april. but the crew were having nothing but good luck. 56 hours into the flight, the crew finished a broadcast showing how comfortably they lived and worked in weightlessness. >> the crew of 13 wishing everyone a nice evening. >> nine minutes later, oxygen tank number two blew up causing the number one tank to also fail. >> houston, we've had a problem. >> houston, we had a problem, words that would be forever linked to commander jim lovell. >> when the explosion occurred, i thought to myself, why me? why now? and for a little while...

Military time. it was set to enter in lunar orbit the 13th of april. but the crew were having nothing but good luck. 56 hours into the flight, the crew finished a broadcast showing how comfortably they lived and worked in weightlessness. >> the crew of 13 wishing everyone a nice evening. >> nine minutes later, oxygen tank number two blew up causing the number one tank to also fail. >> houston, we've had a problem. >> houston, we had a problem, words that would be forever linked to commander jim lovell. >> when the explosion occurred, i thought to myself, why me? why now? and for a little while...

My life. >> july 16th, 1969, showtime. >> you think about the countdown as the curtain opening, worry, the clouds, clear thinking, it's absolutely needed should something goes wrong. >> the launch, another dazzling pillar of fire was lost. the three-day, 240,000-mile trip from the earth to the moon without incident. >> we have a happy home. there's plenty of room for the three of us. >> then, four days into the mission came time to do what no astronaut had done before, decouple the lunar module from the command module and guide it safely to the moon. on their way down, armstrong and aldrin rea...

Dazzling pillar of fire. the trip from the earth to the moon without incident. >> we have a happy home. there is plenty of room for the three of us. >> anda then four days into the missionme came time to do what no astronaut had done before. decouple the lunar module named eagle from the command module and guide it safely to the moon. on their way down, armstrong and aldren realized they were going long, beyond the landing zone and into a boulder field. that's when armstrong took over. diverting from the planned computer path, he was now flying above unfamiliar territory. he was searching for ...