Introducing 13 Minutes to the Moon, with Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham and former Apollo engineer Poppy Northcutt - the first woman to work as an engineer in an operational support role in NASA's Mission Control.
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Ben county welcome to the countdown to the launch of the BBC World Service podcast.
13 minutes to the Moon Astronauts report it feels good I was the first female engineer to work in NASA's Mission control center in an operational support role.
I was an astronaut in the Apollo program, the greatest program in the history of space flight, the one that took humans to the moon for the first time.
That was 50 years ago.
My name is Pompey Northcott.
I'm Walt Cunningham.
20 seconds and counting.
I'll be helping to tell the story of how we got to the lunar surface in 13 minutes to the moon.
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Guidance is internal.
13 minutes to the moon will tell the story of the climax of that first descent to the moon, that final 13 minutes.
And it will go back in time to tell the story of the work that scientists, engineers, astronauts, and so many others did to make it possible to get to the moon and back again safely.