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Mission Control - A Spacecraft Landing
This is apollo control at 102 hours 12 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11. We're now two minutes 53 seconds from reacquiring spacecraft, 21 minutes 23 seconds from the beginning of the power descent to the lunar surface. A quarter of a million miles away, space suited neil armstrong and buzzledrina racing towards the lunar horizon at a speed of about one mile a second. They sound relaxed, remarking on the eery whistling noise they can hear in their head sets, like wind whipping through the trees. But it's now time for the crew to perform a critical task, to prime the spacecraft for the final 13 minutes to the noon hour. Remember guidance officer ste