Over radio:
CapCom, we're go for landing. Zero. One. Eight, eight. Niner. Altitude 27,000 feet... Bravo, one. Roger, twelve-oh-one alarm.
GEORGE ALEXANDER:
It was touch and go.
Reporter, archive:
They have 70 seconds in which to re-designate the landing site.
ALEXANDER:
They were running low on fuel.
ED BUCKBEE:
The computer was overloading.
THEO KAMECKE:
That's the first time I understood what it meant to smell fear.
ALEXANDER:
The urge to explore goes back to our earliest days as homo sapiens.
FRANK MCGEE, archive:
This is the beginning of the most audacious undertaking that man has ever attempted.
WERNHER VON BRAUN, archive:
The Soviet program has definitely more momentum than ours.
ALEXANDER:
They had the first woman in orbit, the first multiple crew, the first spacewalk.
DAVID BRINKLEY, archive:
And now, the Russians are talking about shooting up something that will hit the moon.
ROGER LAUNIUS:
It sparked a political response.
RALPH RENICK, archive:
We have just witnessed a severe propaganda defeat for this country.
BUCKBEE:
The president wanted to do something astounding to the world.
KENNEDY, archive:
This will be the greatest and most complex exploration in man's history.
LAUNIUS:
By May, he's already having second thoughts.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR, archive:
Twenty-billion dollars to put a man on the moon?
ALEXANDER:
There were problems all the way along.
POPPY NORTHCUTT:
We were fixing errors very close to flight time. My feeling was they were flying with baling wire and rubber bands.
GUS GRISSOM, archive:
There's always a possibility of catastrophic failure, of course.
JULES BERGMAN, archive:
They died at t-minus 10 minutes, helplessly trapped inside their spacecraft.
FRANK BORMAN:
The fire shattered my wife's confidence in NASA and in the Apollo program.
VALERIE ANDERS:
It was just a time when we were in shock.
ROBERT GORALSKI, archive:
A 29-year-old negro says he is anxious to go into space.
ED DWIGHT:
After I had successfully finished the program, the White House announced, we now have a black astronaut. I was convinced I was in the club.
NORTHCUTT:
One of the joys about the space program, everybody felt they had a piece of it, and they did.
CHARLIE DUKE, archive:
Okay Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now.
ARMSTRONG, archive:
The surface appears to be almost like a powder. Magnificent sight out here.
HOUSTON:
Neil, this is Houston. We're copying.
BUCKBEE:
We needed something like that to really challenge this country.
ALEXANDER:
This was not a Yellow Brick Road from Cape Canaveral to the Moon. It was a hard march.
Archive:
2 minutes, 51 seconds into the mission. Burning perfectly.
JULES BERGMAN, archive:
Right on the money.
MICHAEL COLLINS:
It was a historical milestone and it was of importance to the people of the world.
COLLINS, archive:
I tell you, we man-kind, did this thing and we're all brothers together.
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