2015 Honors: Col. Buzz Aldrin (Narrated by Michael Douglas) — Transcript

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1. 0:00the audacity to do the
2. 0:02impossible there are some moments and
3. 0:05some men in the history of our country
4. 0:08who have accomplished feat so
5. 0:10extraordinary the mere mention of their
6. 0:13names instantly reminds us of the
7. 0:15uniquely American
8. 0:17Spirit July 16th
9. 0:211969 as Millions watch on television
10. 0:24around the world three American
11. 0:26astronauts aboard a small craft top
12. 0:29eight Saturn 5 rocket blast off from
13. 0:33Kennedy Space Center in Florida in an
14. 0:35attempt to accomplish the impossible to
15. 0:39set foot on the moon the audacious
16. 0:42Mission known as Apollo 11 would have
17. 0:45been Unthinkable prior to a speech
18. 0:48delivered to Congress by President
19. 0:50Kennedy 8 years
20. 0:52earlier in that speech he envisioned
21. 0:55land a man on the moon and returning him
22. 0:58safely before the end of the decade we
23. 1:01choose to go to the moon in this decade
24. 1:04and do the other things not because they
25. 1:06are easy but because they are hard tap
26. 1:10to lead this impossible mission where
27. 1:12astronauts Neil Armstrong Michael
28. 1:15Collins and Buzz Aldren clear of Earth's
29. 1:19atmosphere the men of Apollo 11 headed
30. 1:22toward orbit of the moon on July 20th
31. 1:26with Aldren and Armstrong aboard the
32. 1:28lunar module nickname named The Eagle
33. 1:31separated from the Command Module and
34. 1:34began its descent toward the lunar
35. 1:37surface absolute Precision in every step
36. 1:40of the landing was
37. 1:42imperative a single mistake could Doom
38. 1:45the mission and potentially leave the
39. 1:48men stranded at 4:17 p.m. eastern
40. 1:52Daylight time and with only 25 seconds
41. 1:56of fuel remaining the lunar module
42. 1:59touchdown on the Sea of Tranquility on
43. 2:03the surface of the
44. 2:04Moon Armstrong radioing
45. 2:08[Music]
46. 2:12home Aldren capturing the semity of the
47. 2:16moment radioed home I'd like to take
48. 2:19this opportunity to ask every person
49. 2:22listening in whoever wherever they may
50. 2:26be to pause for a moment and contemplate
51. 2:29the events of the past few hours and to
52. 2:32give thanks in his or her own way as
53. 2:37Millions watched Armstrong emerged from
54. 2:40the lunar module in one of History's
55. 2:42Legendary Moments shortly thereafter
56. 2:45Aldren joined Armstrong on the surface
57. 2:48of the Moon awed by its beauty and
58. 2:51describing it as magnificent
59. 2:55desolation the three men who had made
60. 2:58President Kennedy's Vision a reality ity
61. 3:00an impossible mission made possible
62. 3:04through the Ingenuity determination and
63. 3:07Audacity Of The Same Spirit that had
64. 3:10been ingrained in Americans from
65. 3:12generation to
66. 3:14generation and though that same Spirit
67. 3:17has been displayed countless times by
68. 3:20countless
69. 3:22Americans it has never been so evident
70. 3:25as on that day in July
71. 3:281969 when a group of now legendary
72. 3:31Americans took to the skies and
73. 3:35conquered the
74. 3:38unknown