good night from apollo 11. weather in the recovery area, skies will be partly cloudy. six-foot sea. temperature near 80 degrees. this landing area is 215 miles to the northeast from the original landing area. moved because of thundershowers in the original area. apollo 11 s distance now is 3,000 nautical miles. velocity 26,685 feet per second. in the next 20 minutes apollo 11 will add almost 10,000 feet per second to that figure. entry at 75 statute miles. beginning blackout at 62 statute miles. main chute deployment, 10,500 feet.
and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, god bless you. good night from apollo 11. weather in the recovery area, skies will be partly cloudy. six-foot sea. temperature near 80 degrees. this landing area is 215 miles to the northeast from the original landing area. moved because of thundershowers in the original area. apollo 11 s distance now is 3,000 nautical miles. velocity 26,685 feet per second. in the next 20 minutes apollo 11 will add almost 10,000 feet per second to that figure. entry at 75 statute miles. beginning blackout at 62 statute miles.
commander. when the original landing area turned out 3 so full of large boulders that landing there would have doomed the mission and the crew, history records that neil armstrong calmly took control of the lunar module, skimmed along the top of the surface of the moon in search for a safe place to touchdown and by the time he found a safe spot known to all of us as tranquility base, armstrong and aldrin had only 17 seconds of fuel remaining. like every one of my generation iran member that day. 600 million people around the world were watching their tvs and listening to their radios, waiting with admiration,
has taken off and land from four different carriers and hear what it s like to be aboard the u.s.s. midway is a special experience for me. take a look. so you served on four aircraft carriers, not midway. tell me what it was like to be a pilot. actually a lot of fun. sometimes not so much fun. landing daytime, a nice day, it s a lot of fun. when the weather is bad and the deck is slick and the sun goes down, it s not fun. that s when you earn your flight pay. i m standing here. the length is three football fields. the landing area is about the size of a tennis court. yeah, you have to touchdown in it. this is the first thing you hit. the cables, there s three of them. they go across the deck.
we d like to give a special thanks to all those americans who built those spacecraft, who did the construction, design, and put their their heart and all their abilities into those crafts. to those people, tonight we give a special thank you. and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, god bless you. good night from apollo 11. weather in the recovery area, skies will be partly cloudy. six-foot sea. temperature near 80 degrees. this landing area is 215 miles to the northeast from the original landing area.