Scenes from around the world as people watched manns first steps on the moon. Narrator they million mornings forgotten by the mind of man. Dawn remembers again the magic circle, stonehenge. Magic circle, observatory, temple aligned with the rising of the sun and the turning of stones from afar, brought by man to this place, where no stones were before, more than 3000 years ago. Narrator apollo 11, 15 july, 19 69, cape kennedy, florida. The night before the great day. Chuck themr bags and to the car. Going to take a trip to tell you where you are goodbye, mother earth goodbye, mother, so long, mother , so long, mother earth narrator 6 Million Pounds of nearly, 36 stories tall, 10 years work of half a Million People. Through the night, it was check listed, double checked, electronically monitored, computerized, televised, dehumanized of human error. While the night of celebration was ending, the day began for the astronauts. Breakfast, medical examination, suiting up. Neil armstrong, commander, apollo 11. Baldwin aldrin, lunar module pilot. Michael collins, command module pilot. [beeping] [indiscernible voices] [foreign languages spoken] take them to pad 39a. [beeping] far across the indian river 12. Iles away, the rocket three hours before armstrong pad 39a, and aldrin walked on the surface of the earth. Their next steps would be on the moon. Spectators rolled in by the thousands, campers, trailers, cars and pick and pickups filled the beaches, lined the parkways, nose to tail gate from Cape Canaveral to titusville. Vario very satisfactory, t minuse, 85 degrees, one hour 29 minutes and 30 seconds and counting. Propellant load pressure and temperature, digital transmission worldwide tracking, stabilization and guidance, radiofrequency telemetry and voice communications, signal disintegration, spacecraft electrical power, flight 4b propulsion stage monitoring, every important valve, gave, circuit continually monitored throughout the 24 hour countdown. Countdown is still going well, t 55 minutes, 10 seconds and counting. This is kennedy. Narrator among the 6000 special Vice President s, an expresident , to plane loads of diplomatic corps from washington, 200 five congressmen, 19 governors, 30 senators, 50 mayors from across the country, movie celebrities and television personalities, and another to plane loads of dignitaries from europe. Around the world, another , not so very different from the morning before or tomorrow morning. This day on which man will leave earth to walk on the moon, 3 billion people went about their daily lives, some in the way their ancestors did centuries before, others in a world shaped by modern technology. People wereat most unaware that this event might change the history of the human morning would be marked in history books and learned by their childrens children. Man will the meaning of this morning be understood . This is apollo Launch Control, we have passed the six minute mark in our countdown for apollo 11, the flight to land the first men on the moon. We are on time for our planned lift off at 32 minutes past the hour. Coming up shortly, that swingarm at the spacecraft level will come back to its fully returned position at the five minute mark in the count. With the swingarm not coming continues, countdown informing the astronauts the swingarm now coming back. Four minutes and counting, we are go for apollo 11. We will would be we will be coming up in the automatic sequence in 10 or 15 seconds at this time. All is still go as we monitor our status. Command coming in now, automatic sequence on the master computer, supervising hundreds of events occurring over these last few minutes. Two minutes, 10 seconds and counting, oxidized tanks in the second and third stages now have pressurized, t minus one minute 35 seconds, the third stage completely pressurized. We passed team 60. 55 seconds and counting. Neil armstrong reported back when he received the good wishes, thank you, very much. We know it will be a good flight. Good luck and godspeed. Apollonds away from the 11 lift off. Second stage tanks now pressurized. 35 seconds and counting, still go with apollo 11. 30 seconds and counting. Nasa astronauts report it feels good. T 25 seconds. 20 seconds and counting. Is15 seconds, guidance ,nternal, 12, 11, 10, nine ignition sequence starts, six [jet engines roaring] [yet] [jet engines fading] standby for mode one charlie. Mark mode one charlie. One charlie. Go forton, you are staging. Houston, thrusters go. All engines, you are looking good. Roger, loud and clear, houston. Skirts up. Roger, we confirm skirts up. [indiscernible voices] wasator when the Mission Safely underway, control of the mission was shifted to houston. The months of tightly focused work at the cape were over. It can be said this was the culmination of men and women over 25 centuries of recorded time. [applause] marie curie, alan shepard, copernicus,edy, leonardo da vinci, isaac newton, and robert goddard, the american rocket pioneer, yankee inventor, dreamer. They called him the moon man and left. But on his own, he went ahead with designing, inventing and testing. His first proving grounds were on his aunts farm in massachusetts. The neighbors complained. Narrator with a grant from toiel guggenheim, he moved new mexico with his wife, esther, who was also his camera his camera woman. He accumulated more than 200 patents for everything from multistage rockets to fuel pumps and clustered engines. By the year 1930, his rockets achieved a speed of 500 miles per our end an altitude of 2000 feet. This was the year in which the three apollo astronauts were born. Goddard had a vision of the age of space, but the world was too slow to make it happen before his death. Goddard, forbert your inventiveness and perseverance. For most people, a trip to the planets was easy. All you needed was a . 10 movie ticket then they nickel movie ticket and a nickel bag of popcorn. Speed to one half. What was that . I dont know. Ship coming up fast behind us. Here they come. You better put it in reverse, doc. Narrator what Science Fiction in the childhood of the spaceage could have guessed the shape of reality . Rocket, three stages, 28 stories tall with 11 engines as powerful as all the waterfalls in north america combined. Years in the planning, months and the building and testing, the saturns first stage is two minutes, 41 seconds. And ignition. Houston, thrusters go, all engines, you are looking good. Roger, you are loud and clear, houston. Narrator two minutes, 41 seconds, time to throw apollo up into the sky, and then an empty shell, to fall back into the sea. We got skirts up. Roger, we confirm skirts up. Neil armstrong, concerning the engines current separation of the launch tower separation. Apollo 11 is a magnificent ride. Roger, 11, we will pass that on. Guidance ison, your looking good, converged. Range 140 miles, altitude 62 miles. Narrator Mission Control in texas took over from Launch ControlCape Canaveral for the duration of the mission. A simpleolved from concept, lunar orbit rendezvous. Manymeans a rocket made of pieces that discards the useless white of pieces once its function is completed. At 6000 miles per hour, the empty first stage is discarded to save weight. So is the adapter ring in the unused escape tower. With the second stage rising firing, it reaches 15,000 bows per hour when it is jettisoned. The third stage places apollo in earth orbit at 17,400 miles per hour. When the spacecraft has been thoroughly checked out by the crew, the third stage fire again the third stage fires again, tearing free from earths gravity. While coasting outward, the command Service Module separates and docs were accessed with the lunar module in the empty third stage is left behind. Apollo loses speed throughout 9 10 of its journey until the moons gravity overcomes the polar whole. It slows down enough to be captured in orbit above the moon. Thetrong and aldrin enter lunar module, ego, which separates, leaving collins in the command Service Module in orbit. Eagle slows more and breaks to a touchdown on the lunar surface. After the moonwalk, the upper stage of the eagle lifts off, leaving behind the now useless landing stage, and swings into orbit to dock with columbia once again. Moon samples and are transferred to the command command surface module, the lunar surface the lunar module is discarded. The command Service Module fires itself out of lunar orbit and back to earth. As it approaches reentry speed of nearly 25,000 miles per hour, the Service Module drops away. The command module plunges into the atmosphere, protected by its heat shield, slowed more by the heavy, lower atmosphere, it parachutes into the sea. Command module columbia is all that remains from the original 3000 tons of rocket, fuel and cargo. Apollo 11, this is houston over. Orbit,r wiley in earth the crew had less than two hours to check out all spacecraft systems, the last chance to correct any malfunction before the third stage engine is restarted to break them free of earth, the trans lunar injection. We are 10 minutes away from injection from trans lunar injection. Apollo, this is houston, you are go for diy, over. Apollo 11, thank you. Apollo, this is houston, this is houston,n one slightly less than one minute to ignition, and everything is go. Roger. Ignition. Ignition and the thrust is go. Apollo 11 roger. Got its looking good. Velocity 26,000 feet per second. Guidance looking good. Velocity 26,000 feet per second. Velocity 27,800 feet per second. Ofrator through the window the lunar module, the earth fades away. Everything is looking good. Per second,et building toward 30,000 feet per second. Apollo 11, this is houston, three and a half minutes we are still looking good, youre cut off is right on the nominal. Deep space tracking antennas a third of a world apart listened to apollo and spoke to apollo. As the earth turned, at least one of them would have contact with apollo at all times except when it passed behind the moon. Per second,et altitude 152. 35,000 feet per second. Cut off. Velocity 30 5000, 5 hundred 70 feet per second. Altitude 177 nautical miles. At three hours 11 minutes into the mission, distance from earth, 3140 nautical miles. 4b as reported in a stable attitude for the operation. Apollo 11, this is houston, you are go for separation. Roger, we concur with logics. Quacks we are waiting confirmation we are awaiting confirmation of separation. Roger. We confirm separation here on the ground. Apollo 11, this is houston, radio check, over. The goldstone station reports a very weak signal. We believe mike collins is now maneuvering the spacecraft and the transposition and docking maneuver, and the antenna patterns arent too good at the moment. Also, we have a weak signal strength. The command Service Module turned around and docked with the eagle lunar module. Houston, how do you read . Apollo 11, this is houston, id check, over. Roger, we are copying you about five by two, very weak, can you give us a status report, please . [inaudible] loud and clear now, mike. We understand you are docked. Continue through your sequence of sightings and then we will analyze the data afterwards. Over. Narrator on board was a fourth brain, a small computer that solved problems and helped with the long sequence of systems checks and Data Exchange with earth. 11, ankle 47,ollo 70. Standby. Hello, apollo 11, houston, we would like you to press on star 44, over. Narrator they found their way across the sea of space, navigating by the same stars that guided columbus to shores unknown. Ok. Removal is coming next. Days to theree moon, three of the gravity of earth, no up or down, no day or night, a sense of stillness while traveling at the speed of a meteor. Beabout how long will it before you start closing the lem backup, over . Narrator an invisible speck in the night, sometime between here and there, constantly monitored from earth. Within this tiny spacecraft, a temporary earth environment, warmth, air, food, water, everything necessary to sustain life. These fragile walls, nothingness, absolute cold, an end to life. The most important function of the spacecraft, life, was also monitored constantly through telemetry, the heartbeat and breathing of each astronaut. Although each breath was 30,000 feet farther from breath than the one before it. Should one heart flutter, it would be of concerns to millions. Unlike any other place man had traveled before, space could provide him with nothing. It is a vacuum, devoid of every element needed for life. To send man into this nothingness, to protect him, it was first necessary to define him. What is the human machine . How does it function . What is the nature of its nervous system . Its respiration . Circulation, digestion, itst, hearing, balance, endurance . What gases to breathe should he take with him from earth . What atmospheric pressure suits him best . Betterossible to give conditions for space travel the nation provides on then is it possible to give better conditions for space travel than nature provides on earth . In moon is 250 degrees hot sunlight, and 240 degrees below zero in the middle of its night read how long can a man bake or freeze . What protection will he need from this inhuman environment . What straight of gravity is removed from is removed from the limbs . What protection will the body need from sudden deceleration or acceleration . [heavy machinery running] direction, speed and balance are easily fooled. Can his mind be trained to a can or false signals be trained to ignore false signals . We finding the physical man in absolute terms. Defining the physical man in absolute terms. s limitations,n we could build him an artificial environment for space travel. The command module, was the supreme achievement of the technology of its age. It is a mini planet, complete with its own Environmental Control system, telecommunications, electrical power, guidance, navigation, propulsion,n, reaction control. Watervided hot and cold and remove Carbon Dioxide from the air. Three men could live here for more than a week, eat, work, sleep, shave, exercise and listen to music. It was micro media proof, burn proof and seaworthy. It could tilt itself in any direction. In short, the most intricate and sophisticated machine ever made by man. We areman, however, stuck with the original model. All we could do is add an outer layer of things he does not naturally have. Space medicine showed us where man is vulnerable, and we learned to compensate for most weaknesses with technology and careful workmanship. I made boxing gloves before i came here. The fact is, i was an had tonced sewer, but i learn all over again, because it was completely different from what i had sewed before. This was getting down to one 64th of an engine where i had sewed before, you just sewed on a production line. This was quality more than quantity. We always say, our job is the hardest. We have the hardest job. And they say, do so and so, and you will find that job is as hard as yours. And a lot of times we are sowing wing, and the girl next he was doing the same thing, but we never see the suit put together, we dont know where this part goes on the other one doesnt know where that part goes. Like the gloves, if they gave you a glove to sew, you wouldnt know where to start. When they are there in space, you know what parts you worked on, and you say, i hope that part doesnt fail because i feel it would be my fault if it did. You make a mistake and you dont admit it, you have to think about the answer now. You inc. About a needle hole in the bladder or Something Like that, when you dont admit that, that would be on your conscience. Would come inong and look around and see what we were doing, talk to us, get them to sign their autograph. Some of them were real comical and we got a kick out of them. [laughter] of them went down the aisle and everybody looked at him and said, hi, buddy. I would love to go into space. I think it would be thrilling to get in there and blast off. I would love to go to space and just live there. Day, you get up, you go to work, you go home and to clean house. Up there, there is no work, no kids, no house. Narrator after body electrodes have been attached to monitor heartbeat and breathing, the first items are the watercooled therwear and first items are the watercooled underwear and a urine collector. Spacesuit is a sealed bag of atmosphere to counteract the vacuum of space. It might be called a oneman spaceship of the smallest possible dimensions. The pressure suit has to guard against extreme temperature, hard radiation from the sun and tiny meteorites, yet it must have the flexibility to allow man function as he would in his Natural Earth environment. The backpack cools the suits oxygen, cools the water in the watercooled underwear and provides radio communication. Over the pressure helmet is a clear visor, then a visor to protect against micro media and solar radiation. The final test was, how would the suit work in the silence, weightless world of space . Weightlessness on earth can be experienced only underwater, or in an airplane following a supersonic flight path. A hypersonic flight path. The only true test was in space it self space itself. Noop or down, no day or night orno up or down, no day night, only the sunlight through the windows as the spacecraft rotates to keep it from getting too hot on one side, too cold on the other. The carried with them biological day of the earthling, three meals, a snack or two, eight hours of sleep. Time to work, time to relax, three dayslect, falling upward to the moon. Look own, look down, that fragile orbit of life floats on earth. , spaceship 0019er zero. Pitch, 213, 357. 44 is n. A. Zt, 1 niner 7. 5 2. , 1 apollo 11, this is houston. I have the morning news here if you are interested, over. Yes, we sure are. Ok. First off, it is going to be impossible to get away from the fact that you guys are dominating all the news. In russia is highlighting the mission and czar of theheshe ship. Among the headlines is one asking if you would watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit. An ancient legend says a beautiful chinese girl called chang oh has been living there for 4000 years. It seems she was banished to the moon because she stole the pill of immortality from her husband. You might also look for her companion, a large, chinese rabbit always standing on his hind feet in the shade of a sedimentary. The name of the rabbit is not the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the rabbit is not reported. Ok. We will keep a close eye on the girl. And an irishman has one the world porridge eating championship by consuming 23 bowls of vote meal among a field of competitors. Hes on his 19th bowl. Roger. Houston, thein mayor is lift during is lifting watering restrictions if the big rains continue. World, theports Houston Astros rallied in the ninth inning to dump the reds, 74. At buzzs house, according to pat, it turned out to be a fast. Nixon is using his executive power to streamlined the interstate commerce commission. As airbnb and reached critical levels, the Senate Unanimously backed an environmental policy act. Of diego awaits the arrival ms. Sharon adams on her solo crossing of the pacific, seen here leaving yokohama things aream, relatively quiet, with only a few firefights. 814 men of the third battalion. Gis north of saigon were evacuating villagers, innew riots broke out Northern Ireland during a celebration marking the 297 that diversity marking the battle of an investigation of student disorders that took place is at harvard and other universities last spring. 10,000 Harvard Students registration for the black Panther PartyConvention Held at Party Headquarters quakerse white house, had gathered to continue their silent vigil worldfamous mario andretti, who now takes the lead antipoverty workers out of charleston, west virginia, are taking information about control and familyplanning into the mountains of appalachia a of space toys grew impressive crowds of children of all ages in Tokyo Department stores on the eve of apollos outew skirmishes broke really,taliation for is a force of egyptian commandos [indiscernible] [silence] 81 minus 00758 plus all balls or eight plus perigee plus572 000764, 030, 000 293, 986 minus 00 759 apollo went into orbit around the moon. Journey that had taken the lifetime of mankind was nearing its crucial moment. Ok charlie, we are in the lab. The stocking index mark is the same. Roger, we copy. Apollo 11, apollo 11 eagle, over lunar module, eagle, was again given a thorough check out to ensure all systems, as aldrin and armstrong prepared to seal themselves apart from collins in the module and for the two craft to pull apart. Narrator ok, retro, go. Control, go. Sevcon, go for undocking. Hello, eagle, houston we are standing by, over. Eagle, houston, houston, we see you, over. Roger, how does it luck. The eagle has wings. On its own now, but with columbia near at hand, it coasted around to the backside of the room the moon. There, while out of direct communication with earth, it slowed its engine for a touchdown. Collins, in libya, continued in orbit, awaiting their return. Orbit, in columbia, continued in orbit, awaiting their return. Go. Elcom, capcom, we are go for landing. Houston, go for landing. Understand, go for landing, 3000 feet. Looking great. How are you doing control . Got its you happy . Looking good. 2000 feet. Into the ice, 47 degrees. Still looking very good. Your go. You. Roger, 1201 alarm. Ok, we are go. Altitude 1600. Eagle looking great. Roger, 1202, we copy. 540 feet altitude, velocity light to 20 feet 200 feet 400 down 100 feet, three and one half down. 75 feet, down one half. 60 seconds lights on, forward 30 feet down, two and one half, rightorward, drifting 30 seconds ok, engines estopped. We copy you down eagle. Houston, the eagle has landed. This is apollo control, houston, at 105 hours down on the flight of apollo 11. The current plan is to have members aboard the eagle to eat and relax for a little while, prior to start easy a prep. Prep. So we will not know with certainty about an hour before schedule. [speaking foreign language] [speaking japanese] [speaking french] narrator enter the world waited. July 20, 1969. It is said that 500 Million People gathered at tv sets around the world, to wait for the first earthling to set foot on the moon. Countless more lessons on the radio to the voices from the moon. Never before had 70 people and attuned to one event at one time. The world waited. Aware. , wondering, awakened in the night, by a faraway sound. A moment sensed more than understood. Ok neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now. Ok, i just checked. Getting back up to that first step. It is adequate to get back up. Right, we copy. It is a good little jump. Im at the foot of the ladder. Only depressed and the surface about one inches or two inches. Though the surface appears to be very, very finegrained as you get close to it. It is almost like a powder. It is very fine. Im going to step off the lam now. Small step for man. Mankind. Leap for [speaking foreign languages] that looks beautiful from here. It has a dark beauty all of its own. It is like much of the high desert of the United States. It is different, but it is very pretty out here. Are you getting a tv picture now, houston . Nail, yes we are getting a tv picture. Yes we are getting a tv picture. Ok, im on the top step. It is a very simple matter to hop down from one step to the next. There, down to about the fourth rung up. Ok, go. A little more, about another inch. There you go. Thats a good step. Beautiful view. Is in that something . A magnificent sight out here. Magnificent desolation. Neil, did and i say we might see purple rocks . Did you find a purple rock . A very small, sparkly fragments. Ok, houston, im going to change lenses on you. Roger, neil. You are going too fast on the panorama sweep. Youre going to have to stop. I have not set it down yet. Thats the first picture in the panorama. Ok, im going to move it. Tell me if you got a picture, houston. We got a beautiful picture, neil. Ok, we got that one. Ok, there is another good one. For a final orientation, we would like it to come left about five degrees, over. Ok. Ok, that looks good there, neil. Buzz is directing the solar wind extremity now. Erecting the solar wind experiment now. Every minute was programs. Rock and soil samples were to be collected. Photographs to be taken. Experiments set up. To measure precisely by laser beam reflection the exact distance between moon and earth. Columbia, columbia, this is houston. Over. Roger, the eva is progressing beautifully. You are about the only person around who does not have tv coverage of the scene. Thats all right. I do not mind a bit. They have the flag up now you can see the stars stripes. It is beautiful, mike. It really is. I would like to evaluate [indiscernible] you do have to be rather careful to keep track of where your center of masses. It takes about two or three paces to make sure you have your feet underneath you. Maybe two or three or four easy paces can bring you to an easy stop. Like if a ballplayer, you can go out to the side and cut a low bit. Like a kangaroo hop. It seems your affordability is not as good. It can get rather tiring. That may be a function of the boot. Or lack of gravity. I noticed in the soft spots we have footprints nearly an inch deep. A slope of probably 70 degrees on one side of the [[indiscernible] buzz is making his way around the limm, photographing it from all angles, looking at its condition at all sides. Areight in this area there two craters. One right in front of me as i look off to the Eleven Oclock position. Feet. 32 35 roger that. Narrator in the foreground, buzz aldrin is collecting a core tube sample. I hope youre watching how hard i have to hit this into the ground, to the tune of about five inches here, houston. Roger. It almost looks wet. Buzz, this is used in. We have got about 10 minutes left now. Evaommencing your termination activities. Over. Roger, i understand. Fantastic. The first person on the moon. I cannot get over it. It is the most marvelous thing, it is a miracle. We are really thrilled for every american. This has to be the proudest day of our lives. And for people all over the world. It is great, really great for the whole world. This means a lot to all of the countries, not just for america. Being close to the moon makes us realize we are all human beings together. I hope this brings unity among all the countries. I hope it helps in solving all internal problems you may have. While i think they waste a lot of money that can be used for Something Else. People are being on starvation. These huge amounts of money americans spend to see what the moon is like. It is like they do not have Something Else to do. It would be better if they did something for the elders. What if columbus decided he could not get the money from isabella, where would he be . There in the sky for a purpose, not for people god put it there in the sky for a purpose not for people. We must open all secrets that are opening to us for all the ages. Man think that the dream of from the beginning of the human race, is coming now. Narrator alone, 45 miles above the moons surface, Michael Collins completed an orbit every two hours. He listened to the progress in the moonwalk, and waited the moment when his companions on the surface would lift off to rendezvous with him. 430 times, he saw the earthrise over the horizon of the moon. 12,000 miles of twilight. A line that divides night from day for 3 billion people on spaceship earth. 30 times. It is good to see the whole earth. To see the earth whole. Narrator the eagle had left the moon, and returned to columbia. Within the strange ship, two astronauts and a treasure. , vacuum boxes of rocks and soil from the surface of the moon. Locked within these rocks were secrets of the ages, to be studied and deciphered by the scientists of earth. The age of the moon. The age of the sun. How the moon was formed. How life began. Was there ever life on the moon . Was the moon once molten and volcanic, or has it always been cold and dead. Was it once part of the earth . Or was it a wandering planet captured by the earth eons ago . How hot was the son 3 billion years ago . Sune when armstrong and aldrin with their precious load of moon rocks had transferred to columbia, eagle, its task completed, could be cut adrift. Fired out of lunar orbit, to begin its threeday fall back to earth, where the recovery fleet was waiting for its splashdown in the pacific. Apollo 11, houston, with a little Recovery Force information, over. Go ahead. Roger, the hornet is on the station. Just are enough off the target point to keep from getting hit. Recovery one, the chopper is hornetr july 24, the was on station, and the president of the United States was aboard. The earths invisible atmosphere carries with it one of the most critical moments. Traveling nearly 25,000 miles per hour, the command module can miss the angle of reentry by only several degrees and reap and disintegrate into flames or bounce off into space never to return. 35,000 feet per second now. Per second. Et we are at entry time. There is blackout. [silence] [wind sounds] 11, houston arrived. , through 11, houston four. Hornick reports sonic boom a short time ago. Boom aet reports sonic short time ago. Visual contact, houston. Houston, standing by, over. Apollo 11, apollo 11, this is hornet, over. Read you loud and clear. 1330, 6915, 1675. Copy, any other data . 1330, 1675. [indiscernible] playing]f band [parade music] announcer music] [applause] [sirens] [applause] [applause] [applause] music] narrator what was it we were really celebrating . Three men who had done what no one before had it done . A technological feat that was believed beyond the realm of possibility . Oldfulfillment of an age dream . We were celebrating because it had been a long time since we had anything to celebrate . Or was this something that touched and irrational, unthinking instinct in us all . Music] [applause] [stars and stripes] [parade music] [applause] [stars and stripes] [applause] [applause] we are going to the moon together. Pack your bags and jump into the car. Going to take a trip to tell you where you are. Goodbye, mother. , so longgoodbye mother. So long, mother earth. Goodbye, goodbye, mother earth. Narrator the treasurer of the ages. Treasure of the ages. Across the night. Unrubbed by wind. Unwashed by rain. On tranquility. Bombarded by solar particles for billions of years, but unchanged in any other way, a moon rock books is like a diary of the sun. And i and linking since time an eye unblinking since time began. Staring across a sea of space. That watched unblinking when time began. Narrator remembered in these rocks are ancient sunspots, solar flares, solar storms whose fiery arms reached out a million miles. By making ourselves very small, like alice, perhaps we will see what these rocks have seen. And remember back those billions of years, to decipher the life of the sun. [dramatic music] narrator locks within our sun are answers to mysteries that have confounded us in time began. Since time began. We have reached out with our telescopes. We have reached in with our microscopes. Seeking. What is the source of life . What combination of energies and elements brought it into existence . Is the relationship between the nonliving and living things . How delicate is the balance . We slowly begin to realize how this bubblefragile of life. Sonsis one sun in a sea of more plentiful than all of the grains of sand on all of the shores of all of the seas of planet earth. That we are free to wander from earth, perhaps we will find the answers to our questions. Someday, we may know where we have come from. Where we are going. End,y know where is the where is the beginning. Narrator we have walked on the moon. We open our minds to the universe. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] narrator and now youre watching American History tv. Every weekend beginning at saturday at 8 00 a. M. Eastern, we bring you 48 hours of unique programming, exploring our nations passed. American history tv is only on cspan3