Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong — Transcript

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1. 0:15that's a million millions of americans
2. 0:17drop it down
3. 0:19unfortunately
4. 0:21i can't do this with two hands but i'm
5. 0:23going to try a little sand draft shot
6. 0:24here
7. 0:42here we go again
8. 0:47here we go
9. 1:09the excitement really didn't start to
10. 1:11build until
11. 1:13the trailer
12. 1:14which was carrying me with the space
13. 1:16suit with the ventilation and all that
14. 1:18sort of stuff pulled up at the launch
15. 1:20pad i walked out
16. 1:22and
17. 1:23looked at that
18. 1:24huge rocket redstone rocket for the
19. 1:27first time of course it's not
20. 1:29huge by today's standards but
21. 1:32it seemed pretty big then uh
22. 1:35and i thought well now
23. 1:37there is that little rascal and uh and
24. 1:40i'm gonna get up on top and fly that
25. 1:42thing and
26. 1:44you know pilots always go out to the
27. 1:45airplanes and kick the tires before they
28. 1:47fly nobody would let me get near the
29. 1:50rocket to kick the fins but i kind of
30. 1:52walked around and thought well i'll take
31. 1:53a good look at it because i'll never see
32. 1:55that
33. 1:56part of the machine again
34. 1:58and then the excitement started building
35. 2:00i think at that point
36. 2:03six five
37. 2:05four
38. 2:06three
39. 2:21looking at the earth it's
40. 2:23big and bright beautiful
41. 2:26capcom gopher landing eagle houston
42. 2:28you're go for landing over
43. 2:30come back right
44. 2:32okay engine stop
45. 2:34we copy you down eagle listen uh
46. 2:38tranquility base here the eagle has
47. 2:40landed
48. 2:42i'm gonna step off the land now
49. 2:45that's one small step for man
50. 2:58july 1969
51. 3:00ap
52. 3:02it came in faith for all mankind
53. 3:14and to all the other people
54. 3:16that are listening
55. 3:18and watching tonight
56. 3:20god bless you good night from apollo 11.
57. 3:24high above us
58. 3:26is below the windows
59. 3:30stretches of freeze with 19 panels
60. 3:35depicting
61. 3:36important events in american history
62. 3:39the most recent of them
63. 3:42number 19
64. 3:45just above me here
65. 3:50depicts
66. 3:52the first successful flight of a man
67. 3:58in a powered aircraft
68. 4:04by the brothers right
69. 4:06108 years ago
70. 4:09the depiction in
71. 4:11addition to the craft and the
72. 4:14responsible individuals
73. 4:17includes
74. 4:18an american bald eagle
75. 4:21carrying an olive branch
76. 4:24wilbur and orville wright were the 45th
77. 4:28recipients of the congressional gold
78. 4:30medal
79. 4:32and the first
80. 4:33for achievements
81. 4:35in the world of flight
82. 4:38subsequently
83. 4:40congressional gold medals have been
84. 4:42presented
85. 4:43nine times
86. 4:45for aviation and rocketry achievements
87. 4:50today
88. 4:51for the first time
89. 4:54they have been given for achievements in
90. 4:57space flight
91. 5:00in an appropriate coincidence
92. 5:03apollo 11's mission emblem and crew
93. 5:06patch
94. 5:07also featured an american bald eagle
95. 5:11carrying an olive branch