1 00:00:14,347 --> 00:00:16,716 THE APOLLO 11 MISSION TO THE MOON 2 00:00:16,816 --> 00:00:20,153 DEAN: HEY THERE STAR GAZERS, I'M DEAN REGAS, ASTRONOMER 3 00:00:20,253 --> 00:00:21,654 FOR THE CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY. 4 00:00:21,755 --> 00:00:23,957 JAMES: AND I'M JAMES ALBURY, DIRECTOR OF THE KIKA 5 00:00:24,057 --> 00:00:26,760 SILVA PLA PLANETARIUM IN GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. 6 00:00:26,860 --> 00:00:30,096 WE'RE HERE TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR WAY AROUND THE SKY TONIGHT. 7 00:00:30,196 --> 00:00:33,133 THIS WEEKEND MARKS A HUGE ANNIVERSARY FOR SPACE TRAVEL. 8 00:00:33,233 --> 00:00:37,504 DEAN: 50 YEARS AGO, JULY 20, 1969, NEIL ARMSTRONG 9 00:00:37,604 --> 00:00:42,475 AND BUZZ ALDRIN LANDED ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON WHILE ASTRONAUT MICHAEL COLLINS ORBITED 10 00:00:42,575 --> 00:00:43,676 THE LUNAR SURFACE. 11 00:00:43,777 --> 00:00:45,712 JAMES: WE WANTED TO LOOK BACK AT THIS TREMENDOUS 12 00:00:45,812 --> 00:00:50,016 FEAT OF ENGINEERING AND COURAGE, AND SHOW WHAT IT TOOK TO GO WHERE NO ONE HAD 13 00:00:50,116 --> 00:00:51,284 GONE BEFORE. 14 00:00:51,384 --> 00:00:53,053 DEAN: WE'RE GOING TO LAUNCH OFF THE EARTH AND TRAVEL 15 00:00:53,153 --> 00:00:56,456 TO THE MOON, TO THE TRANQUILITY BASE WHERE THE EAGLE LANDED, 16 00:00:56,556 --> 00:01:00,193 AND MAKE ONE SMALL STEP FOR A MAN, AND ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND. 17 00:01:00,293 --> 00:01:02,028 JAMES: LETS SHOW YOU! 18 00:01:02,128 --> 00:01:05,331 JAMES: OKAY, WERE AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER ON 19 00:01:05,432 --> 00:01:11,638 JULY 16, 1969 GETTING PREPARED FOR THE LAUNCHING OF THE APOLLO 11 MISSION TO THE MOON. 20 00:01:11,738 --> 00:01:13,139 DEAN, ISNT THIS EXCITING?!? 21 00:01:13,239 --> 00:01:14,340 DEAN: I'LL SAY! 22 00:01:14,441 --> 00:01:16,910 OUR THREE ASTRONAUTS, NEIL ARMSTRONG, COMMANDER. 23 00:01:17,010 --> 00:01:21,481 BUZZ ALDRIN, THE LUNAR MODULE PILOT, AND MICHAEL COLLINS, THE COMMAND MODULE PILOT 24 00:01:21,581 --> 00:01:24,884 ARE READY FOR LIFT OFF ATOP THE SATURN FIVE ROCKET. 25 00:01:24,984 --> 00:01:29,322 JAMES: THIS ROCKET STANDS 363 FEET TALL AND WEIGHS 26 00:01:29,422 --> 00:01:31,758 OVER 6 MILLION POUNDS. 27 00:01:31,858 --> 00:01:37,263 400,000 PEOPLE WORKED ON THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THIS ROCKET AND IT IS ABOUT TO BLAST OFF. 28 00:01:37,363 --> 00:01:39,666 DEAN: IT'S LIKE WATCHING A BUILDING SHOOT INTO 29 00:01:39,766 --> 00:01:43,403 THE SKY! 30 00:01:43,503 --> 00:01:49,642 JAMES: ONCE IN SPACE, SEVERAL STAGES OF THE ROCKET 31 00:01:49,742 --> 00:01:53,413 DROPPED AWAY REVEALING THE PORTIONS OF THE ROCKET THAT WILL HEAD TO THE MOON. 32 00:01:53,513 --> 00:01:56,182 DEAN: AND THE CREW OF THREE ASTRONAUTS INSIDE! 33 00:01:56,282 --> 00:01:57,951 JAMES: EXACTLY. 34 00:01:58,051 --> 00:02:02,422 THEY LIVED INSIDE THE COMMAND SERVICE MODULE AND THE LUNAR MODULE DURING THE TRIP. 35 00:02:02,522 --> 00:02:04,124 NOT A WHOLE LOT OF SPACE FOR 8 DAYS. 36 00:02:04,224 --> 00:02:06,326 DEAN: THEY DIDN'T FLY DIRECTLY TO THE MOON, BUT 37 00:02:06,426 --> 00:02:09,095 FIRST ORBITED THE EARTH ONE-AND-A-HALF TIMES. 38 00:02:09,195 --> 00:02:13,666 THEN THEY ACCELERATED TO BREAK FREE OF THE GRAVITY OF EARTH AND ROCKETED TOWARD 39 00:02:13,766 --> 00:02:14,734 THE MOON. 40 00:02:14,834 --> 00:02:16,870 JAMES: THE JOURNEY TO THE MOON TOOK ABOUT 41 00:02:16,970 --> 00:02:18,438 3 DAYS. 42 00:02:18,538 --> 00:02:21,975 THE ASTRONAUTS THEN GUIDED THEIR CRAFT INTO AN ORBIT AROUND THE MOON. 43 00:02:22,075 --> 00:02:24,210 DEAN: THE VIEW OF THE LUNAR SURFACE UP CLOSE MUST 44 00:02:24,310 --> 00:02:25,512 HAVE BEEN AMAZING. 45 00:02:25,612 --> 00:02:27,147 SO MANY CRATERS. 46 00:02:27,247 --> 00:02:29,616 BUZZ ALDRIN CALLED IT MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION. 47 00:02:29,716 --> 00:02:32,952 JAMES: AND THE VIEW OF THE DISTANT EARTH WAS UNBELIEVABLY 48 00:02:33,052 --> 00:02:34,320 MOVING. 49 00:02:34,420 --> 00:02:37,457 THERE WAS OUR ENTIRE PLANET AND EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER LIVED. 50 00:02:37,557 --> 00:02:39,325 DEAN: EXCEPT FOR THOSE THREE ASTRONAUTS. 51 00:02:39,425 --> 00:02:40,560 WOW. 52 00:02:40,660 --> 00:02:43,129 JAMES: THEN NEIL ARMSTRONG AND BUZZ ALDRIN ENTERED 53 00:02:43,229 --> 00:02:47,534 THE LUNAR MODULE AND PREPARED TO DESCEND TO THE SURFACE WHILE MICHAEL COLLINS REMAINED 54 00:02:47,634 --> 00:02:49,802 IN LUNAR ORBIT IN THE COMMAND MODULE. 55 00:02:49,903 --> 00:02:54,941 DEAN: ON THE AFTERNOON OF JULY 20, 1969 NEIL ARMSTRONG, 56 00:02:55,041 --> 00:02:59,512 AFTER SOME HARROWING MOMENTS, GUIDED THE LANDER SAFELY DOWN ONTO THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY, 57 00:02:59,612 --> 00:03:03,383 A RELATIVELY FLAT PLAIN OF HARDENED VOLCANIC ROCK. 58 00:03:03,483 --> 00:03:08,321 NEIL SAID, THE EAGLE HAS LANDED AND EVERYONE BREATHED A HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF. 59 00:03:08,421 --> 00:03:10,356 JAMES: AND THEN THEY CELEBRATED. 60 00:03:10,456 --> 00:03:11,357 WE DID IT! 61 00:03:11,457 --> 00:03:13,826 WE ACTUALLY SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON! 62 00:03:13,927 --> 00:03:19,032 THAT NIGHT ALMOST THE ENTIRE WORLD TUNED INTO THEIR TVS TO WATCH AS NEIL AND BUZZ TOOK THEIR 63 00:03:19,132 --> 00:03:21,701 FIRST STEPS ON THE LUNAR SURFACE. 64 00:03:21,801 --> 00:03:27,173 NEIL ARMSTRONGS WORDS, THATS ONE SMALL STEP FOR A MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND 65 00:03:27,273 --> 00:03:29,609 IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 66 00:03:29,709 --> 00:03:33,046 DEAN: NEIL AND BUZZ BOUNDED AROUND THE LUNAR LANDSCAPE, 67 00:03:33,146 --> 00:03:38,651 COLLECTED MOON ROCKS, SET UP SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS AND THEN HEADED BACK INSIDE TO PREPARE TO 68 00:03:38,751 --> 00:03:39,652 LEAVE. 69 00:03:39,752 --> 00:03:41,621 THEY ONLY SPENT 21 HOURS ON THE MOON. 70 00:03:41,721 --> 00:03:44,557 JAMES: THEN THEY HEADED BACK INTO SPACE IN ORDER 71 00:03:44,657 --> 00:03:46,626 TO RENDEZVOUS WITH MICHAEL COLLINS IN THE COMMAND MODULE. 72 00:03:46,726 --> 00:03:48,194 DEAN: BYE BYE MOON! 73 00:03:48,294 --> 00:03:49,696 JAMES: BYE! 74 00:03:49,796 --> 00:03:54,300 DEAN; THREE DAYS LATER, ON JULY 24TH, 1969 THE THREE 75 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,303 ASTRONAUTS SPLASHED DOWN INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 76 00:03:57,403 --> 00:04:00,240 JAMES: THEY HAD BEEN TO THE MOON AND BACK, AN EIGHT-DAY 77 00:04:00,340 --> 00:04:02,809 JOURNEY AND TRAVELED ABOUT ONE MILLION MILES. 78 00:04:02,909 --> 00:04:05,511 DEAN: THEY EMERGED AS NATIONAL HEROES AND BECAME 79 00:04:05,612 --> 00:04:07,880 SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. 80 00:04:07,981 --> 00:04:09,349 IT WAS A JOURNEY FOR THE AGES. 81 00:04:09,449 --> 00:04:12,318 JAMES: IN TOTAL, 18 OTHER ASTRONAUTS FLEW TO THE 82 00:04:12,418 --> 00:04:15,421 MOON, WITH 10 OF THOSE WALKING ON THE LUNAR SURFACE. 83 00:04:15,521 --> 00:04:18,458 JAMES: CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MOON 84 00:04:18,558 --> 00:04:20,293 LANDING THIS WEEKEND. 85 00:04:20,393 --> 00:04:24,364 AND THINK OF THE EPIC JOURNEY THOSE THREE ASTRONAUTS MADE AS WELL AS ALL THE COUNTLESS 86 00:04:24,464 --> 00:04:25,365 PEOPLE WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE. 87 00:04:25,465 --> 00:04:26,733 DEAN: I MEAN, THINK OF IT. 88 00:04:26,833 --> 00:04:30,436 WHEN YOU SEE THE MOON IN THE SKY, SOME 240,000 MILES AWAY. 89 00:04:30,536 --> 00:04:35,408 YOU CAN SAY, WOW, WE ACTUALLY WENT THERE! AND THEN YOU CAN DREAM OF ALL THE PLACES IN 90 00:04:35,508 --> 00:04:37,243 THE UNIVERSE WE WILL SOMEDAY EXPLORE. 91 00:04:37,343 --> 00:04:41,343 BOTH: KEEP LOOKING UP!