13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle - 13 Minutes to the Moon: 8. ‘We’re go for powered descent’

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The 13-minute descent to the Moon begins, and it’s all going wrong for Apollo 11. They’re going too fast, alarms are flashing and the crew loses contact with Nasa mission control. The epic moments that almost jeopardised the first Moon landing.

Hosted by Kevin Fong.

Starring:
Charlie Duke
Steve Bales
Don Eyles

Courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project:
Neil Armstrong
Gene Kranz
Jay Greene
Jack Garman
Bob Carlton

Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music.

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Published on Sunday, 30th June 2019.

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