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. beginning blackout at 62 statute miles. main chute deployment, 10,500 feet. 11, houston, weather still holding real fine in the recovery area. looks like it s about 1500 high scattered and still three to
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 to that figure. beginning blackout at 62 miles. main chute deployment. houston, weather still holding real fine in the recovery area. looks like it s about 1500 high
others. 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. and while they re in the recovery area, skies will be partly cloudy. six-foot sea. temperature near 80 degrees. this landing area is 215 miles
concrete here, with a machine gun nest inside. this machine gun is clearly cited right down to the beach so they had a clear view that the soldiers were coming ashore, and this is what the allied troops had to contend with. you can see in the sea behind you, the wreckage of what was called mulberry harbor, the british engineers, american engineers came in and basically made a landing area for all of that equipment that was going to come in for the days and days and days after that successful landing, and you can still see it there rotting in the ocean as a remembrance of the engineering feat that was that morning. that s absolutely right. these are big concrete shells that were built over in england, and floated across the channel. part of the meticulous planning that went on, floating across the channel and sunk here to be a break water for the other parts of the mulberry harbor, which were what they call the whales, these were metal
attendance. reporter: we re just off of gold beach. this is where the british troops landed. omaha beach is more that way. of course, every country had its own landing area, designated. this was one of the places over in omaha, also here at gold beach where the allied forces built a temporary artificial harbor, and what they did was build those harbors so they could bring their supplies into the beach. now, we re speaking to you from one of the amphibious trucks that was used on the 6th of june, 1944. not so much in the first wave of landing but in the second. that is once the first wave had gone ashore, trucks like this one, carrying some of the supplies necessary to troops already on the beaches followed, making these amphibious landings to make thousands of tons of supplies needed until the artificial courts could be built. once they have been destroyed, there was nothing less but this huge operation, the most