wishes and the admiration of a world of
people have a man of features been and
who lived all his life on earth moves
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so prevent begin with johnny is Bethel
and annotated out of the universe
I had 30 minutes standing by myself on
the launch Tower almost near the top not
quick to the spacecraft but there was
another human being closed at site and I
could see the waves coming in the sun's
look slowly rising and see the evidence
that park cars of all the people out
watching our launch three five ten miles
away to millions of people
it was quite a quite a symbolic moment
that I said in my leg as you better
remember this one it was by definition
the greatest story of the century
I was at the press site there were at
least a thousand people there probably
500 of them were duly accredited and
arrested the more hangers on little old
ladies unclassified weirdos at one sort
or another a governor of one of our
state's and a rockstar were there
hand-in-hand watching it was a great
sense of goodwill is not a whole lot of
objectivity and then there's nobody that
criticized they didn't want to criticize
they wanted to the praise and wanted to
support they wanted to America to
succeed and so all the the naysayers
were were true believers and they want
to be true and fair here at Cape Kennedy
we are all after the moon funny now 14
minutes 30 seconds and counting
this is Kennedy mind control
the civil rights march a mule train
representing the poor and dispossessed
have made its way to the gates of Cape
Kennedy to protest the nation's
priorities NASA officials came out to
meet them walk to process this field
would seem to me to be a plane of battle
and the mule trains and the participants
were coming toward us and it seemed to
be so out of character with all the
technology that was around
the American government at that time
that spit 24 billion dollars on the
exploration of outer space 24 video now
for the last three years they had spit
three billion 3 billion dollars would
have seen even home with bruises in
America without coming up a 10-minute
mark and minutes away from my plan with
that mark t minus ten minutes and
counting
a man has 10 we're aiming for our plan
liftoff 32 minutes past the hour that is
Kennedy launch control at one trying to
see how many pieces could go wrong
infant influence whether be on the
ground or in the bird and how many could
cause catastrophe a tremendous number
okay Jules were getting close
we're getting close this is Apollo
Saturn mind control we passed a 6-minute
mark on our countdown for Apollo 11 now
five minutes 52 seconds and counting was
director Rocco patron that gives the
goal five minutes 20 seconds and
counting
you go into your final replenishment
cycle makes you get the amount of fuel
on board you then start pressurized are
going through steps leading right up to
the moment of commitment the refrigerant
moment of truth political writing to
pressurize as far as the propellant
tanks that concerned and all is still
growing computer supervisors hundreds of
events occurring over these last few
minutes
two minutes 10 seconds and counting
oxidized of tanks on the second and
third stages now have pressurized we had
all these umbilical arms we had like 10
different umbilical arms that way tons
each it were all linked to it the swing
I'm not coming back as a compound
continues scripture and informing the
astronauts but the one I'm not coming
back and then all of a sudden with all
the arms were back you realise that it
was sitting there by themselves
the next closest person was at least
five miles away and they were sitting
millions of gallons of propellant well
I'm style important back when he
received the good witch's thank you very
much we know it will be a good flight
there's no turning back once that rocket
lifted off this was the moment getting
very close to getting down to t minus
zero all the second stage times now
pressurized 35 seconds and counting we
are still go with Apollo 11 30 seconds
and counting
astronauts report it feels good two
minutes 25 seconds 20 seconds and
counting
t-minus 15 seconds guidance is internal
12 11 ten nine ignition sequence start
six four three two
most people base their thoughts with a
launch is like on what they see in the
movies
the transition from being on the ground
to actually in motion was so gentle that
none of us really other than hearing the
count 0 2 0 someone saying liftoff and
we could see the instruments begin to
change that would start to change at
liftoff
other than that there wasn't a great
physical sensation at all
the plane hitting the launcher roughly
30 or so feet beneath the vibration and
it's the control center and windows
start to shake great feeling but also a
little the apprehension of seconds
yes we reach the moment in the world
with
there's really nothing to say about it
what can you say about the site like
that
drawing reporting the roll and pitch
program which but you're probably living
on the property
downrange one-mile altitude 34 miles
sound thousand feet high 80 people per
second vertical rise and a minute or so
after that unbelievable event 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 there as matter of fact
and unexcited in column as if they were
taxicab drivers reporting in and saying
we're on Maple Street headed for
downtown 11 you are you all right format
with the spacecraft safely on its way
control of the flight path from the
launch team to Mission Control in
Houston Texas that the next day's the
control room would run the mission in
three teams follow another clinic
trajectory and guidance what's good and
the stage is good over 35,000 feet per
second
like doing the hint about the only
person around it doesn't have TV
coverage of the food and that man got
the black up now and you can feel it
getting a TV picture now they'll yes we
are getting a TV picture really now one
all
badly