Apollo 11 Audiobook Demo
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space flight is dangerous. Everyone knew that none more so than the astronauts, their families and all those intimately involved in Apollo the project to land a man on the moon On that evening. 20 July 1969. Everyone in mission control in Houston knew the danger. The lives of the two men about to attempt a descent to the lunar surface depended upon single moments. The single decision any of them might have to make in a second. Jean Krantz, 31 years old was the flight director for the landing. He was confident in his abilities, though not arrogant. His job was to run the show by being able to assimilate all the information coming into mission control from Eagle. The lunar lander, formerly a fighter pilot and an engineer. He was leading a talented group. In front of him were rows of computer screens at which sat the mission controllers, all with their individual roles and names such as ***** and e com Kranz call sign was flight. The average age of the men in mission control was only 26. He selected a private loop only heard by the controllers. He didn't want anyone else to listen to what he was about to say. He waited a second and spoke. Today is our day and the hopes and dreams of the entire world are with us, this is our time and our place and we will remember this day and what we do here always in the next hour. We will do something that has never been done before. We will land an american on the moon. Less than an hour after those words were spoken Neil! Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were 500 m from the lunar surface. In the region of the Sabine complex of small craters on the western shore of the sea of tranquility. Armstrong was 38 and regarded as the best person to attempt the first landing. He had to put eagle down within the next three minutes Next to him was Edwin Buzz Aldrin, who was 39 years old. Ahead of them, stretched the dark expanse of lunar night. No one, especially Armstrong himself, knew if they were going to make it. The landing was the goal. The moonwalk was secondary. Before he left Earth, He had told close colleagues that he had only a 5050 chance of pulling off a successful landing.