13 Minutes to the Moon: 3. Long Island Eagle
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The extraordinary story of the ‘Eagle’ spacecraft, which landed astronauts on the Moon. Built by Long Island engineers, it was a spacecraft like no other - one designed to land on another world. The result was the spidery lunar module, a spacecraft that was “difficult to fly and easy to crash”. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent hundreds of hours in the simulator to prepare for every possible manoeuvre required for the daring, final thirteen-minute descent to the lunar surface.
Hosted by Kevin Fong.
Starring:
Charlie Duke
Dick Dunne
John Devaney
Alan Contessa
Neil Armstrong courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project
Tom Kelly courtesy of the MIT Museum Collections
Archive:
Johnson Space Center Oral History Project
Archive: MIT Museum Collections
Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music
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www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes
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I'm only on the second episode and I am hooked. It's so different to hear this as history that it's fantastic. I've already called my father, he was QC on LEM, and told him to listen. And asked him a bunch more questions. Well done! Thank you.