♪ ♪
(cars rushing past)
MARK BLOOM:
We had to be at the Cape
real early.
And got in the car,
start heading out for the Cape.
Huge crowds!
The roads--
you couldn't get through.
And I began to think,
"I'm not even going to get there
in time."
WALTER CRONKITE:
The goal is the moon,
perhaps man's oldest dream.
If all goes well, some 112 hours
and 50 minutes after liftoff,
Neil Armstrong will step
on the lunar surface.
It shows what this,
the richest nation in history,
can do
when it puts its mind to it.
♪ ♪
JOHN LOGSDON:
My very first launch was
Apollo 11.
(applause)
I had a press pass,
and so I was there
and had access.
I went up 3:00 or 4:00
in the morning,
stood by
the operations building,
and watched these three guys
walk by me
on the way to the moon.
That's like seeing Columbus
sail out of port.
♪ ♪
FRANK MCGEE:
We all realize
that this is the beginning
of the most audacious
undertaking
that man has ever attempted.
♪ ♪
BLOOM:
Historically,
man going to the moon--
that was an amazing thing.
The question was whether this
would represent a cosmic quest
that mankind is going to pursue
as a destiny.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
ARMSTRONG:
That's one small step for a man.
One giant leap for mankind.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
(helicopter rotors droning)
("Wait" by M83 playing)
(talking in background,
applauding)
RALPH ABERNATHY:
We may go on from this day
to Mars and to Jupiter,
and even to the heavens beyond,
but as long as racism,
poverty,
hunger, and war
prevail on the Earth,
we as a civilized nation
have failed.
("Wait" continues)
HEYWOOD BROUN:
Some of us think
that the tremendous interest
in space travel
is, in a sense,
a search for another Eden--
that man has a kind of guilt
about the world
in which he lives
and that he has despoiled
the place where he is,
and that perhaps he ought,
now in his maturity,
to set out to find
another place,
a place which man could go to,
leaving behind the rusty cage
in which his own mistakes
have held him.
("Wait" continues)
JACK KING:
Four minutes and counting,
we are a go for Apollo 11.
Firing command coming in now,
we are
on the automatic sequence.
THEO KAMECKE:
I was standing near
the giant windows
in the launch control center
right alongside
Wernher von Braun
and the other people
who were responsible for it.
KING:
Ten, nine,
ignition sequence start,
six, five, four, three,
two, one, zero.
(engines roaring)
Liftoff, we have a liftoff...
KAMECKE:
I was thinking,
"What a wonderful animal we are,
"that we could dream up this
"and get ourselves off
this planet that we were born on
and off to another world."
♪ No time ♪
♪ ♪
MISSION CONTROL (on radio):
Apollo 11, Houston,
you're good at one minute.
♪ No time ♪
POPPY NORTHCUTT:
One of the joys
about the space program--
everybody felt
they had a piece of it,
and they did.
MISSION CONTROL:
Velocity 2,195 feet per second.
♪ No time ♪
♪ ♪
♪ No time ♪
MISSION CONTROL:
We're through the region
of maximum dynamic pressure now.
♪ ♪
ERIC SEVAREID:
This is just the beginning,
perhaps,
of a new stage in the evolution
of the species--
something comparable
to the crawling
of the first amphibian creature
out of the primeval swamp
onto dry land.
♪ ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Oh ♪
DAVID BRINKLEY:
The astronauts are talking
to the ground
and reporting on the facts
and figures of the flight,
and somebody here a minute ago
was saying
they are as matter-of-fact
and unexcited and calm
as if they were taxicab drivers
reporting in
and saying,
"We're on Maple Street
headed for downtown."
(device beeping,
"Wait" continues)
MISSION CONTROL:
What's your staging status?
LAUNCH CONTROL:
Houston, you are go
for staging.
(device beeps)
("Wait" continues)
♪ Oh ♪
KING:
The circumstances were such that
we had the nation behind us,
everybody was sitting
on the edge of their seat,
and the awe
of the first time we did it--
something you never forget.
("Wait" continues)
MISSION CONTROL:
Standing by for the
outboard engine...
("Wait" ends)
