Ep.09 Tranquility Base

We are five and a half minutes to the moon. Tension goes “through the roof”. Neil Armstrong takes control and the fuel starts to run out. In Mission Control, flight controllers count down to 60 seconds of fuel remaining – and then 30 seconds… With Kevin Fong. Starring: Steve Bales Charlie Duke Gerry Griffin Courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project: Neil Armstrong Gene Kranz Jack Garman Bob Carlton Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music #13MinutestotheMoon www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes

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Epic space stories – told by the people who made them happen. Beginning with Nasa’s missions to the Moon. Season 1: The first Moon landing, Apollo 11. The story of the final 13 minutes that took humans to the Moon. Season 2: The near disaster of Apollo 13, by the people who flew it and saved it. Produced by BBC Audio Science for the BBC World Service. Presenter: Kevin Fong. Theme music: Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music.