The 13 minutes begin. Eagle is going too fast. There are communications problems. We have met the people and heard about the Apollo 11 technology, now the descent is underway. This is the full story and it is a leap into the unknown. With 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 #13MinutestotheMoon www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes
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Dip'S arm, Roger Depp.
In the last seven episodes, we've dug into the stories of the people and events that made Apollo Eleven's final 13 minutes of descent possible.
But in the next two, we want to pull all of that together.
We want to take you through the first landing on the moon from beginning to end and through the moments where it teeters on the edge of failure or worse.
1202 standing by.
1202 lost data.
Flight copy.
I think we better be quiet, rog.
Okay.
The only call outs from now on will be fuel.
Low level.
The final 13 minutes were a leap into the unknown.