july 16th, 1969, showtime. you think about the countdown as the curtain opening, worry, the clouds, clear thinking, it s absolutely needed should something goes wrong. the launch, another dazzling pillar of fire was lost. the three-day, 240,000-mile trip from the earth to the moon without incident. we have a happy home. there s plenty of room for the three of us. then, four days into the mission came time to do what no astronaut had done before, decouple the lunar module from the command module and guide it safely to the moon. on their way down, armstrong and aldrin realize they were going long, beyond the landing zone, and into a boulder field. that s when armstrong took over, diverting from the planned computer path, he was now flying
july 16th, 1969, showtime. you think about the countdown as the curtain opening, worry, the clouds, clear thinking, it s absolutely needed should something goes wrong. the launch, another dazzling pillar of fire was lost. the three-day, 240,000-mile trip from the earth to the moon without incident. we have a happy home. there s plenty of room for the three of us. then, four days into the mission came time to do what no astronaut had done before, decouple the lunar module from the command module and guide it safely to the moon. on their way down, armstrong and aldrin realize they were going long, beyond the landing zone, and into a boulder field. that s when armstrong took over, diverting from the planned computer path, he was now flying
my life. july 16th, 1969, showtime. you think about the countdown as the curtain opening, worry, the clouds, clear thinking, it s absolutely needed should something goes wrong. the launch, another dazzling pillar of fire was lost. the three-day, 240,000-mile trip from the earth to the moon without incident. we have a happy home. there s plenty of room for the three of us. then, four days into the mission came time to do what no astronaut had done before, decouple the lunar module from the command module and guide it safely to the moon. on their way down, armstrong and aldrin realize they were going long, beyond the landing zone, and into a boulder field. that s when armstrong took over, diverting from the planned
nobody knew that better than frank goreman, a p oi nt man in the investigation. nasa taped him with the mission. i was called back, will you volunteer to take apolo 8 to the moon? i said yes, we would be happy to. we found out we would be going to the moon in august of 1968. we were sort of at the last minute, just several. months before we were scheduled to launch, but that is what we were asked to do. ours is not the reason why, but to do or die. do or die not just for the three astronauts. it was 1968 and it ended with a space disaster. it could end america s lunar requestsa quest to good. it occurred to me if it was successful we would be a monument to the failure. apolo 8 launched pr kennedy space center in florida. we have liftoff. just over two and a half
dazzling pillar of fire. the trip from the earth to the moon without incident. we have a happy home. there is plenty of room for the three of us. anda then four days into the missionme came time to do what no astronaut had done before. decouple the lunar module named eagle from the command module and guide it safely to the moon. on their way down, armstrong and aldren realized they were going long, beyond the landing zone and into a boulder field. that s when armstrong took over. diverting from the planned computer path, he was now flying above unfamiliar territory. he was searching for a safe spot to land while running low on fuel. so we are on the far side of what was undesirable, and i am reading the altitude. it is about a hundred feet. 60. 60 seconds.