BBC podcast on Apollo 11

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Got this loaded in a flash drive in the car now. Lots of stuff in these that people don't usually think about, for example, how the LEM was built.

Episode list and description

T Minus 4 Welcome To 13 Minutes To The Moon.mp3 The countdown begins
T Minus 3 Ignition Sequence Start.mp3
T Minus 2.mp3 About the Hans Zimmer theme music
T Minus 1.mp3 Final part of audio countdown

01 We Choose To Go.mp3 With no idea how to get there, the race to the moon begins – "we intend to win". To understand how the story ends, we need to start at the very beginning.

02 Kids In Control.mp3 The unsung heroes who saved the day. "Here’s some 26-year-old kid, who could stop the lunar mission."

03 Long Island Eagle.mp3 Ugly, angry, with four legs and wrapped in gold: it was a spacecraft like nothing on Earth.

04 Fire To The Phoenix.mp3 "You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened 21 months later – Apollo’s first successful manned mission into Earth’s orbit.

05 The Fourth Astronaut.mp3 The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anything like it. Apollo 11 was “the first time software ran on the moon”.

06 Saving 1968.mp3 War, riots, assassinations: “the year that shattered America”. And then NASA took the biggest risk in its history, with Apollo 8.

07 Michael Collins Third Man.mp3 Without the astronaut who didn’t step on the moon, Apollo 11 wouldn’t have succeeded. Michael Collins was in lunar orbit, playing a crucial role. This is his story.
 
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