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over three billion years ago life first
appeared in the scenes of an infant
earth over 400 million years ago living
creatures left the protective waters to
begin life on land about two million
years ago the earliest man walked
upright on Merlin two hundred four years
ago James Watt made improvements to the
steam engine and began the age of
technology forever altering the course
of man sixty-six years ago two men named
Wright again changed the pattern of life
on this planet today men first left the
protective atmosphere of Earth to walk
in the vacuum of the Moon and we may
wonder will our lives ever be the same
will future generations look back from
the earth from another planet from
another star and say this was the
beginning
Neil Armstrong Michael Collins Edwin
Buzz Aldrin three men to represent the
culmination of a dream at the beginning
of a new concept of reality
so they rose through the atmosphere
toward the open vacuum a trip not only
through space but through time toward a
world untouched by the evolutionary
processes of Earth a journey that was to
be a door to the future and a window on
the past
now in Earth orbit it was time for
translunar injection the start of the
tip out
Oh mrs. Houston now slightly less than
one minute to ignition and everything is
go
vacation we confirm ignition and
addresses go the burn completed on their
way to the moon the next step was to
jettison their launch vehicle turn
around and docked with the lunar module
still attached to the third stage
bullying free now of the useless third
stage they continue their coasting
flight so they coasted toward the movie
as Jason sought the Golden Fleece to
regain a kingdom these three sought a
cargo of knowledge to gain a kingdom for
all men a kingdom of infinite frontier
then on July 19 1969 Apollo 11 prepared
for loi lunar orbit insertion your LOI
over right here gofer LOI and we've had
loss of signal as Apollo 11 goes behind
the moon now those of us on the earth
waited for the radio signal to be
acquired as Armstrong Collins and Aldrin
emerged from their first transit behind
the moon
the next day July 20th marked the
beginning of a new era Mike Collins
alone in the command module called
Columbia watched as Neil Armstrong and
Buzz Aldrin undocks the lunar module
called eagle
as the eagle rotated slowly Collins
inspected it carefully for now it was
time for the descent to the surface of
the Moon and into history a separation
maneuver had placed the command module
below the Eagle so that half an orbit
later there would be a safe clearance
for d0i
he sent orbit insertion armstrong and
aldrin looked down at columbia as they
passed over the landing site don't get
to here though for do-over got to go for
do idml OS and he left I'm sure like
you're both looking good going over the
hill
again Eagle and Columbia passed behind
the moon when they emerged eagle would
be on the way down
awaiting the signal that would begin the
powered descent and end with Man's first
lunar landing over 50,000 feet above the
moon Eagles descent engine
you
I got a bank opening
at this point the Eagle rolled onto its
back to give the landing radar surface
acquisition now the crew was flying
blind hurtling toward the lunar surface
only their instruments and the voice of
Mission Control telling them where they
were until the slope picks maneuver
brought the lunar horizon to their views
let it be three and a half down 9
forward I present
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hey 75 feet is looking good down a half
its forward 62nd speed Python down two
and a half
forward forward
pretty beat down to a nap city seats two
and a half down makes a dough for
forward four forward drifting to the
right little okay and a half shutting
back up over just picking up some dust
at the Battle of
I'm back
okay engine stop we got to get down
eagle person fan quality base here the
eagle has landed
rocket wing tranquility we copy on the
ground you got a bunch of guys about to
turn blue we're breathing again thanks a
lot
Harry's first touchdown and to Mike
Collins alone in the orbit in Columbia
Eagle is that same quality over go
Frank Quilici be advised there lots of
smiling faces in this room and all over
the world or too often appear right it
was a beautiful job you guys and don't
forget one in the command module
I will get to the details of what's
around here but it looks like a
collection of just about every variety
of shapes angularity granularity that
every variety of rocks you could find
there doesn't appear to be too much of a
general color at all we piece up of
angular blocks out several hundred feet
in front of us that are probably 2 feet
in size and have angular edges now in
the lesser gravity of the moon armstrong
and aldrin donned their equipment and
prepared to explore this stark lonely
world do you think you're gonna open the
hatch at this pressure of 0.1 to psi
guided by Buzz Aldrin Neil Armstrong and
his bulky suit worked his way through
the Eagles forward hatch and we're in
the picture on the TV
I'll bet at the foot of the ladder
he'll amphitheater only depressed in the
surface about one or two inches mm mm mm
that's one small step for man
the United States different but it's
very pretty here Armstrong next set
about taking pictures and collecting a
contingency sample of lunar soil surface
is fine and powdery Beckham I can pick
it up loosely with my toe
adhere and fine layers like powdered
charcoal to the distal and insides of my
business
only cool stuff of an inch but I can't
see foot of my food the tread to be fine
sandy particle then it was time for
Aldrin to join him
are you ready I'll bet
I want to back up and partially close
that they did sure not to lock it on my
way out
nicholae good god that's our home then I
step now I take good care
hey go
Dana only to go through the same
hangover from Freud earlier at that time
then the first man on the Moon read a
plaque attached to a leg of the Eagle a
plaque representing the philosophy of a
nation that itself less than two
centuries earlier had been thought by
many so called practical men and
impractical dream and as we watched them
plant the flag of the United States in
the lunar soil we perhaps wondered what
dream dreamt today by what impractical
dreamer will be tomorrow's reality
Columbia this is Houston reading you
loud and clear now Buzz Aldrin develops
the choreography for future lunar
explorers the steps with which those who
follow
like a football player but after the
night cut a little bit
kangaroo work but it seems the forward
ability is not quite as good
Neil and Buzz the President of the
United States is in his office now and
would like to say a few words to you
over that would be an honor
go ahead mr. president this is Houston
out hello Neil and Buzz I'm talking to
you by telephone from The Oval room at
the White House and this certainly has
to be the most historic telephone call
ever made because of what you have done
the heavens have become a part of math
world and as you talk to us from the Sea
of Tranquility it inspires us to
redouble our efforts to bring peace and
tranquility to earth for one priceless
moment in the whole history of man all
the people on this earth are truly one
one in their pride in which we've done
and one in our prayers that you will
return safely to earth
Thank You mr. president it's a great
honor and privilege for us to be here
representing not only the United States
but and a thief of all nations and with
interest and a curiosity and a division
for the teacher on and for us to be able
to participate here today
as armstrong and aldrin said about the
business of collecting samples and
setting up experiments earth observed
them
heart rates on both crewmen averaging
between 90 and 100 flight surgeon
reports they're in great shape
watching their loafing skating stride It
was as though we peered through a lens
that distorted time itself is an
activity healthier than loved awake
device to come up with an accurate level
all right 11 up on me at the ball is
right the middle down multiple make a
picture for boys
so they went about their tasks of
exploration aliens on a distant world
and strangely enough they looked as if
they belong there
buzzer the history of approximately
three minutes and the US commander Evy a
termination act
it was now time to leave the dusty lunar
plain stow the experiment samples and
photographs to be returned to Earth next
jettison the now useless equipment clean
house in the Eagle and rest for the next
day's liftoff and rendezvous
Siegel at Columbia this was the backup
crew or congratulations for yesterday's
performance Jennifer - with you - the
water glory thank you Jeff thank you for
liftoff the ascent engine would push the
Eagle into orbit for this one maneuver
this engine would have to work there was
no alternative we listened to the
countdown
from the moon dark guidance
recommendation his things and you're
cleared for takeoff brother man we're
number one up the runway
five eight seven six five four stage
economic proceed
beautiful 26:36 beats per second up
let's go
very quiet ride there's that much bigger
out there I'm God right bad us one and
that's aggressive look at it
so they departed tranquility base push
toward orbit body ascent engine up and
away for man's first firm
extraterrestrial foothold across the
heart fitted landscape of the moon
you
then following rendezvous procedures
developed through Gemini and Apollo
Eagle drew nearer and nearer to Columbia
alone in Colombia Mike Collins watched
the eagles climb its flashing beacon a
friendly signal for hours he had kept
his vigil now his companions were
returning
control thrusters firing eagle and
Columbia moves together for docking
the last movements of their lunar duet
after the docking that transfer the crew
and their precious samples of the moon
to Columbia the ascent stage of the
Eagle was jettisoned it was time for the
final burn in lunar orbit trans Earth's
injection
TEI again we waited waited for Apollo 11
to emerge from behind the moon coming
home on the way home Neil Armstrong Mike
Collins and Buzz Aldrin then on July
24th the crew of Apollo 11 witnessed a
final sunset over Earth's horizon and
prepared for entry here player for
landing pad gears devil are you later
now the freemen wearing biological
isolation garments enter the mobile
quarantine facility and their earthly
confinement
Neil buzz and Mike I want you to know
that I think I'm the luckiest man in the
world and I say this not only because I
had the honor to be President United
States but particularly because I have
the privilege of speaking for so many
and welcoming you back as a result of
what you've done the world's never been
closer together before and we just thank
you for that in reaching out for the
moon man had touched his destiny but to
attain that destiny we must take firm
Holub Act which we now only touch then
reach again for these men the first were
only the first
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from the moon earth exists as a warm
colorful sanctuary in the airless black
of space but in our planetary system
earth is the anomaly the strange
environment and now it is time time for
man to break free of his provincial
planet to expand physically and mentally
into the future into the universe into
reality and this was the beginning