CSPAN2 Charles Fishman One Giant Leap July 14, 2024
[applause] good evening, im delighted to be in houston, always delighted to be in houston and its almost always a good space so i want to take you back to sunday afternoon, july 20 1969. It was about 2 15 central time. Neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship, they were in the lunar module. They were getting ready to fly lunar orbit, from an orbiter on the moon to Tranquility Base. And that last leg of the 240,000 mile journey takes just 13 minutes from the thousand feet to the surface of the moon. The first three minutes of the 13 minute went perfectly normally. The last 10 minu...