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13 Minutes to the Moon: 1. ‘We choose to go’, Apollo 11

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

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Do We Want to Go to the Moon or Not?

Lunar orbit rendezvous was the only way that nassa would get to the moon before the decade was out. It had taken more than 12 months to make that vital decision, eating well into kennedy's already challenging time line. The first thing i knew, the floor gave way. I covered my head with my hands. And wondered, frankly, whether this was the end. This was the aftermath of a v two rocket strike on london during world war two. There was no alert, and we had no war at all. We too the mon and liste, pin and do the other thing, not because they are easy, cut because they are hard. They

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