Apollo 50: Go for the Moon
The crowd is waiting for the beginning of the show. It's a hot night in the middle of a heat wave.
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Before the show starts...It REALLY looked like steam was coming off the Saturn V rocket. So cool!
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As the show starts we have some history...petroglyphs here.
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Can anyone tell me what language/script this is?
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Time to go for the Moon! The launch pad waiting for Apollo 11.
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The entire Apollo 11 spacecraft is ready to go! It was 383 feet tall, the Washington Monument is 555 feet tall. So it fits!
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The first stage has separated, the second stage is firing!
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The third stage is pushing the command module and the lunar module beyond the Earth's orbit.
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The command module and lunar module spring from Apollo 11.
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The command module "Columbia" together with the lunar module "Eagle" will spend the next three days enroute to the Moon.
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Columbia and Eagle with planet Earth below.
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Enroute to the moon, the trip will take three days.
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Columbia and Eagle, with astronauts Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
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The command module and the Lunar Module float above the Moon.
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With Neil Armstrong and Buzz Collins aboard, Eagle's rockets fired to begin the descent to Tranquility Base.
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"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong.
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The Command Module Columbia floats above the moon with only astornaut Michael Collins aboard.
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After the show...walking past the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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