July 16, 2025 • 17 mins
One malfunction. Two rivals. Three days to liftoff. As Russia races to the Moon, Apollo 11’s crew faces disaster before leaving the ground.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Buzz an audio drama for iHeart Podcasts starring John Lithgow
and Jeffrey Arran as buzz Aldron. This series is based
on real events, However, certain characters, names, incidents, locations, and
dialogue have been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Chapter five, There is the three hundred foot tall Saturn
rocket that will send Neil Armstrong, buzz Aldrin, and Michael
Cowns on their journey of a lifetime to the move.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
The weather at Cape Kennedy is perfect, and the countdown
toward liftoff at nine thirty two Eastern daylight time is proceeding.
Only he who is awake and has been for over
an hour, and one can only imagine the thoughts that
are going through their minds as their months of preparation
(00:54):
and training has brought them to this point.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
We headed to the launch pad. We had our steak
and eggs breakfast, and each of us signed one hundred
or so photos of ourselves that our families could sell
in case we never came home. For the last time
before lift off, Neil and I found ourselves alone.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Neil, I know you wanted me off the mission. I'm
big enough to forget it.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
He didn't tell me that he'd vouched for my skill
as a pilot and that he thought I should make
the trip. That's how big he was.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Truce, truthy.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
We need to modify the speaking.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
At his console in mission control, Krantz stood wearing his
signature white vest. Director of Crew Operations Dieke Slayton stood
next to him.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Still no location on the Russian craft, assuming it hasn't.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
We're working on an intercept, but their transmission power is
too low.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
One thing that gave me a modicum of joy was
the thought of doctor Rachel Ludwig's reaction reading today's newspaper
and seeing a picture of Neil, Mike and me suited
up and waving goodbye with the headline to the move.
Speaker 8 (02:24):
Shit, what the hell happened here?
Speaker 9 (02:28):
They emptied it this morning. Your personal effects are in
the boxes, sorry, bastards.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Team minus fifteen seconds.
Speaker 10 (02:44):
Guidance is internal twelve eleven.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Ten nine ignition sequence stock seven.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Roger six five four three.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
One zero all engines running lift off.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Job.
Speaker 11 (03:11):
We have a lift off at thirty two minutes past
the hour. Power clear now.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
All around. I could practically hear the crowds erupting into applause,
ecstatic groups of proud and well lubricated Houstonians, everyone from
Japan to Africa and beyond or on cloud nine. Well almost, that's.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Here.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Another bubbel Sure, here you go.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
He's you, Bill's oldrin.
Speaker 12 (04:18):
Good luck to you.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
You're gonna need it in the oceans.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Rolls complete, and the pitches programmed.
Speaker 10 (04:29):
Stand by for mode one.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Charlie, Mark one, Charlie.
Speaker 10 (04:35):
You are go for staging and you're looking good. Down
range seventy five miles, sixty miles high speed twenty three
thousand feet per second, thrust his go all engines.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Wow, what a sight that is. As a parlow eleven
rises higher in the atmosphere.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
Where do you get that coat?
Speaker 11 (04:58):
Mommy?
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Oh, your father gave it to me. You look nice.
Thank you, darling. It's going up to clutch the TV.
It's going to know.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Somewhere between Earth and that ghostly orb are three Americans
beginning a journey that will hopefully take them where no
human has ever set foot. A journey then will change
the course of history, and will for those three men,
change the course of their lives.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Jeane, what is it, Dieke?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
We got a problem. Malfunction in the capture latch assembly.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Shit, I'm Buzz Aldrin, and this is the story you
think you know but you don't.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Ignition Frequent five.
Speaker 13 (05:58):
Five, the.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
One you're listening to, Buzz, This is the story of
(06:29):
my greatest achievement, Chapter five. Have we talked to the
people at Grumham.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
It's their design.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
They're going over the schematics.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Cliff, what's wrong with the capture latch. It's not capturing,
which in my book is something of a flaw.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
We thought we had it solved.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
How serious is it If we don't get a fix
on the undocking procedure, There'll be a pressure surge when
the lunar modules separates from command that'll tear both modules aboard.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
The crew would never survive memo for you, sir, God
damn it. What is it the Russians?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
We didn't know about the capture latch assembly problem or
that we could be attacked by the Russian Luna fifteen spacecraft.
For us, ignorance was bliss and I was having too
good a time broadcasting to Earth.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
As the onboard physicist, I'd like to demonstrate one.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Of the more ethoteric effects of our zero G environment.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Take the camera, Joan, Why is your husband speaking to
my husband as if he's a junior officer.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
I don't know, Jan, You'll have to ask him.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Nil's the commander, bus should show some respect.
Speaker 10 (07:51):
Ah, there you are, Neils, couldn't see you on the camera.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
You're hiding.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
Why does his dad say something? He's the commander. He
doesn't have to say much.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Right, Joan.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
So we test in flight or risk the pressure surge, explosion.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Or abort module separation, in which case the Russians win.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
Come home with our tail between our lake.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
We're gonna get to the moon and bring our people home.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Krantz had finally reached boiling point.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
We have a flight operations manual, three hundred pages thick.
The most important thing in it isn't an algorithm or
a trajectory vector. It's an assumption that before we begin
any phase of this mission, we ask a fundamental question.
If I were up there, if my life were on
(08:43):
the line, would I order a go or no go?
Stay or no stay? Proceed or abort there's a pressure
problem during the undocking procedure, we'll solve it. I don't
expect one hundred percent certainty in this business.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
There's no such thing.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
But I do expect every man in this room to
answer that fundamental question.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Down in Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, England, astronomer Sir Bernard
Lovell was tracking the progress of the Russian Luna fifteene spacecraft.
Speaker 13 (09:20):
So what have we got the orbital trajectory of Apollo
compared with the most recent path of the Russian vessel.
The semi major axis is correct, Yes, sir Edit, well,
that bird's bloody badly. Put me through to mister Craft
in Houston right away.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
During my mission, I'm experiencing his mission, my g force.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I'm going to use that lack of gravity to demonstrate
the action of a gyroscope, which we all played with
at school and which is crucial to NAVI gation in space.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
If I spend this can.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Of hamspread we know what is the Buzz show? He's
having too much fun.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
I can't say the thing for Mike.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
How can he be so condescended?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I guess the bottom line is your husband's a genius
and ours aren't. Right Joan, Jen, why don't we.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Go make some more cold cuts for the guests.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I say, Buzz is in charge, and Neil and micro superfluous,
aren't you going to say anything, Joan.
Speaker 13 (10:31):
We could use more mayo.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
At the same time, tensions were still mounting admission control
and more mayo wouldn't calm.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Then we're going to run the entire undocking procedure again.
But I want it couched in terms of normalcy. I
don't want the crew alarmed.
Speaker 10 (10:51):
Apollo eleven, this is Houston. We have some new additions
to your checklist.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Over.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Oh God, what is it? New editions usually means trouble.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We've got a pretty packed schedule, Houston.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Is this necessary?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Cut off the squawk boxes?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Cutting off squawk boxes?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What where did it go?
Speaker 9 (11:12):
I don't recall them?
Speaker 10 (11:14):
Okay, hold on, We're not fully resolved on the undocking
pressurization issue. We can't seem to get the pressure in
the assembly down to zero. There's some concern about stress
to the modules.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
If you and latch with positive pressure.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Over, Houston, there's no problem with the procedures. There just
isn't any slow way to get that depressed to auto
without making a big bang.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Neil.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
They're coming up with nothing and they want us to
fix it.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Houston will give it a nice stress rehearsal.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Standby as we power up.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Eagle so this is missus Neil Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Tom Payn had a squawk box installed at my house
and it just went silent. Yes, uh no, don't tell
me it's a coincidence. I know an in flight test
of the undocking system is not normal.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
That pad RCS slash GNN program twenty two rule zero
zero zero zero zero seven zero zero.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Zero antennat omni RCS.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Pressurized closing lunar module.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Hatch closing command module hatch.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Mike used the flight stick to stabilize the two craft.
He was as talented and confident a pilot as I've
ever seen, and because he was probably as fine a
human being as ever put on a flight suit, he
never got the credit for it.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm disabling my role always disabled.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Depressed auto I know Neil depressed auto dump valve initiated.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
We all stared at the gauges creeping towards zero, almost there,
and they stopped. They stopped just above zero, and the
lunar module shuddered.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Terminating procedure.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Houston, We do not repeat, do not have full depressurization.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
Roger Eagle, we see you have an anomaly.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Anomaly, we have a dysfunction.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Cliff Cliff yeah, yeah, get the grumming guys in here.
I want him hands on in the simulator, and I
want him now, Sir Jesus.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Over at the Manned Space Center, Chris Kraft was receiving
news that knocked him for a loop, news that could
have meant we'd never land on the Moon.
Speaker 12 (14:03):
You're absolutely sure of the Russian spacecraft's current position, Sir.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Bernard, beyond a doubt.
Speaker 13 (14:11):
Of Russia's ultimate intent. I have no idea except to
say that if they can be disruptive, they will be,
and that human life is a commodity they regard as expendable,
and that's not the least of it.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 12 (14:27):
Yeah, this is what thirty minutes all, Gene, you got
a second. I don't want to make your life harder
than it already is, but you're going to. If we
undocked the modules without blowing them up, and if we
enter lunar orbit, Sir Bernard Lovell thinks we could collide
with Russia's Luna fifteen. Jesus Christ, Luna's trajectories are all
(14:53):
over the place. We have no idea if, when, or
where it will land. Whereas our flight plan hands might
as well have been on the front page of the
New York Times.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Because you're saying they're purposely trying to interfere.
Speaker 12 (15:06):
Why else would they be orbiting for three days?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
What the hell is that?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Do you? Eid? Heard?
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Shrimp?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Croctail? What one? I'll pass save a few from me,
will you, Mike?
Speaker 5 (15:31):
They're my favorite.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
You see that what through the window?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
It was there a second ago.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I didn't see anything.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Anywhere, descent, irregular movement.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
I didn't see anything either.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
An optical effect from a defect in the glass.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
I'm not buying that space garbage glinting off the sun.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I know what garbage looks like.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Whatever it was, it's gone.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Now.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Maybe should we tell Houston.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
No, it'll give every UFO not the ammunition to say
we were seeing things or we were letting aliens follow
us to the moon. But your commander, Neil, it's your call.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Neil went quiet. We all did, just three astronauts staring
out the window of our spacecraft for what we couldn't
be sure.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Buzz, starring John Lithgow and J. F. Frey Errand, is
created by Stephen Cronish and directed by John Scott Dryden.
Chapter five is written by Matt Graham and Thompson Evans.
Original music is by Sasha Putnam. Sound designed by Elouise Whitmore.
The producer is Emma Hearn. The executive producers are Jeremy Fox,
(17:18):
John Scott Dryden, Stephen Cronish, Howard Stringer and Jason English.
Buzz is a production of Thoroughbred Studios, gold Hawk Productions,
and iHeart Podcasts.
Buzz an audio drama for iHeart Podcasts starring John Lithgow
and Jeffrey Arran as buzz Aldron. This series is based
on real events, However, certain characters, names, incidents, locations, and
dialogue have been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Chapter five, There is the three hundred foot tall Saturn
rocket that will send Neil Armstrong, buzz Aldrin, and Michael
Cowns on their journey of a lifetime to the move.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
The weather at Cape Kennedy is perfect, and the countdown
toward liftoff at nine thirty two Eastern daylight time is proceeding.
Only he who is awake and has been for over
an hour, and one can only imagine the thoughts that
are going through their minds as their months of preparation
(00:54):
and training has brought them to this point.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
We headed to the launch pad. We had our steak
and eggs breakfast, and each of us signed one hundred
or so photos of ourselves that our families could sell
in case we never came home. For the last time
before lift off, Neil and I found ourselves alone.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Neil, I know you wanted me off the mission. I'm
big enough to forget it.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
He didn't tell me that he'd vouched for my skill
as a pilot and that he thought I should make
the trip. That's how big he was.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Truce, truthy.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
We need to modify the speaking.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
At his console in mission control, Krantz stood wearing his
signature white vest. Director of Crew Operations Dieke Slayton stood
next to him.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Still no location on the Russian craft, assuming it hasn't.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
We're working on an intercept, but their transmission power is
too low.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
One thing that gave me a modicum of joy was
the thought of doctor Rachel Ludwig's reaction reading today's newspaper
and seeing a picture of Neil, Mike and me suited
up and waving goodbye with the headline to the move.
Speaker 8 (02:24):
Shit, what the hell happened here?
Speaker 9 (02:28):
They emptied it this morning. Your personal effects are in
the boxes, sorry, bastards.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Team minus fifteen seconds.
Speaker 10 (02:44):
Guidance is internal twelve eleven.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Ten nine ignition sequence stock seven.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Roger six five four three.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
One zero all engines running lift off.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Job.
Speaker 11 (03:11):
We have a lift off at thirty two minutes past
the hour. Power clear now.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
All around. I could practically hear the crowds erupting into applause,
ecstatic groups of proud and well lubricated Houstonians, everyone from
Japan to Africa and beyond or on cloud nine. Well almost, that's.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Here.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Another bubbel Sure, here you go.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
He's you, Bill's oldrin.
Speaker 12 (04:18):
Good luck to you.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
You're gonna need it in the oceans.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Rolls complete, and the pitches programmed.
Speaker 10 (04:29):
Stand by for mode one.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Charlie, Mark one, Charlie.
Speaker 10 (04:35):
You are go for staging and you're looking good. Down
range seventy five miles, sixty miles high speed twenty three
thousand feet per second, thrust his go all engines.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Wow, what a sight that is. As a parlow eleven
rises higher in the atmosphere.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
Where do you get that coat?
Speaker 11 (04:58):
Mommy?
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Oh, your father gave it to me. You look nice.
Thank you, darling. It's going up to clutch the TV.
It's going to know.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Somewhere between Earth and that ghostly orb are three Americans
beginning a journey that will hopefully take them where no
human has ever set foot. A journey then will change
the course of history, and will for those three men,
change the course of their lives.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Jeane, what is it, Dieke?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
We got a problem. Malfunction in the capture latch assembly.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Shit, I'm Buzz Aldrin, and this is the story you
think you know but you don't.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Ignition Frequent five.
Speaker 13 (05:58):
Five, the.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
One you're listening to, Buzz, This is the story of
(06:29):
my greatest achievement, Chapter five. Have we talked to the
people at Grumham.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
It's their design.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
They're going over the schematics.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Cliff, what's wrong with the capture latch. It's not capturing,
which in my book is something of a flaw.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
We thought we had it solved.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
How serious is it If we don't get a fix
on the undocking procedure, There'll be a pressure surge when
the lunar modules separates from command that'll tear both modules aboard.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
The crew would never survive memo for you, sir, God
damn it. What is it the Russians?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
We didn't know about the capture latch assembly problem or
that we could be attacked by the Russian Luna fifteen spacecraft.
For us, ignorance was bliss and I was having too
good a time broadcasting to Earth.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
As the onboard physicist, I'd like to demonstrate one.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Of the more ethoteric effects of our zero G environment.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Take the camera, Joan, Why is your husband speaking to
my husband as if he's a junior officer.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
I don't know, Jan, You'll have to ask him.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Nil's the commander, bus should show some respect.
Speaker 10 (07:51):
Ah, there you are, Neils, couldn't see you on the camera.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
You're hiding.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
Why does his dad say something? He's the commander. He
doesn't have to say much.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Right, Joan.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
So we test in flight or risk the pressure surge, explosion.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Or abort module separation, in which case the Russians win.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
Come home with our tail between our lake.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
We're gonna get to the moon and bring our people home.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Krantz had finally reached boiling point.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
We have a flight operations manual, three hundred pages thick.
The most important thing in it isn't an algorithm or
a trajectory vector. It's an assumption that before we begin
any phase of this mission, we ask a fundamental question.
If I were up there, if my life were on
(08:43):
the line, would I order a go or no go?
Stay or no stay? Proceed or abort there's a pressure
problem during the undocking procedure, we'll solve it. I don't
expect one hundred percent certainty in this business.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
There's no such thing.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
But I do expect every man in this room to
answer that fundamental question.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Down in Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, England, astronomer Sir Bernard
Lovell was tracking the progress of the Russian Luna fifteene spacecraft.
Speaker 13 (09:20):
So what have we got the orbital trajectory of Apollo
compared with the most recent path of the Russian vessel.
The semi major axis is correct, Yes, sir Edit, well,
that bird's bloody badly. Put me through to mister Craft
in Houston right away.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
During my mission, I'm experiencing his mission, my g force.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I'm going to use that lack of gravity to demonstrate
the action of a gyroscope, which we all played with
at school and which is crucial to NAVI gation in space.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
If I spend this can.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Of hamspread we know what is the Buzz show? He's
having too much fun.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
I can't say the thing for Mike.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
How can he be so condescended?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I guess the bottom line is your husband's a genius
and ours aren't. Right Joan, Jen, why don't we.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Go make some more cold cuts for the guests.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I say, Buzz is in charge, and Neil and micro superfluous,
aren't you going to say anything, Joan.
Speaker 13 (10:31):
We could use more mayo.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
At the same time, tensions were still mounting admission control
and more mayo wouldn't calm.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Then we're going to run the entire undocking procedure again.
But I want it couched in terms of normalcy. I
don't want the crew alarmed.
Speaker 10 (10:51):
Apollo eleven, this is Houston. We have some new additions
to your checklist.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Over.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Oh God, what is it? New editions usually means trouble.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We've got a pretty packed schedule, Houston.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Is this necessary?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Cut off the squawk boxes?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Cutting off squawk boxes?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What where did it go?
Speaker 9 (11:12):
I don't recall them?
Speaker 10 (11:14):
Okay, hold on, We're not fully resolved on the undocking
pressurization issue. We can't seem to get the pressure in
the assembly down to zero. There's some concern about stress
to the modules.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
If you and latch with positive pressure.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Over, Houston, there's no problem with the procedures. There just
isn't any slow way to get that depressed to auto
without making a big bang.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Neil.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
They're coming up with nothing and they want us to
fix it.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Houston will give it a nice stress rehearsal.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Standby as we power up.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Eagle so this is missus Neil Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Tom Payn had a squawk box installed at my house
and it just went silent. Yes, uh no, don't tell
me it's a coincidence. I know an in flight test
of the undocking system is not normal.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
That pad RCS slash GNN program twenty two rule zero
zero zero zero zero seven zero zero.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Zero antennat omni RCS.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Pressurized closing lunar module.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Hatch closing command module hatch.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Mike used the flight stick to stabilize the two craft.
He was as talented and confident a pilot as I've
ever seen, and because he was probably as fine a
human being as ever put on a flight suit, he
never got the credit for it.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm disabling my role always disabled.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Depressed auto I know Neil depressed auto dump valve initiated.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
We all stared at the gauges creeping towards zero, almost there,
and they stopped. They stopped just above zero, and the
lunar module shuddered.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Terminating procedure.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Houston, We do not repeat, do not have full depressurization.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
Roger Eagle, we see you have an anomaly.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Anomaly, we have a dysfunction.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Cliff Cliff yeah, yeah, get the grumming guys in here.
I want him hands on in the simulator, and I
want him now, Sir Jesus.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Over at the Manned Space Center, Chris Kraft was receiving
news that knocked him for a loop, news that could
have meant we'd never land on the Moon.
Speaker 12 (14:03):
You're absolutely sure of the Russian spacecraft's current position, Sir.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Bernard, beyond a doubt.
Speaker 13 (14:11):
Of Russia's ultimate intent. I have no idea except to
say that if they can be disruptive, they will be,
and that human life is a commodity they regard as expendable,
and that's not the least of it.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 12 (14:27):
Yeah, this is what thirty minutes all, Gene, you got
a second. I don't want to make your life harder
than it already is, but you're going to. If we
undocked the modules without blowing them up, and if we
enter lunar orbit, Sir Bernard Lovell thinks we could collide
with Russia's Luna fifteen. Jesus Christ, Luna's trajectories are all
(14:53):
over the place. We have no idea if, when, or
where it will land. Whereas our flight plan hands might
as well have been on the front page of the
New York Times.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Because you're saying they're purposely trying to interfere.
Speaker 12 (15:06):
Why else would they be orbiting for three days?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
What the hell is that?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Do you? Eid? Heard?
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Shrimp?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Croctail? What one? I'll pass save a few from me,
will you, Mike?
Speaker 5 (15:31):
They're my favorite.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
You see that what through the window?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
It was there a second ago.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I didn't see anything.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Anywhere, descent, irregular movement.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
I didn't see anything either.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
An optical effect from a defect in the glass.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
I'm not buying that space garbage glinting off the sun.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I know what garbage looks like.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Whatever it was, it's gone.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Now.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Maybe should we tell Houston.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
No, it'll give every UFO not the ammunition to say
we were seeing things or we were letting aliens follow
us to the moon. But your commander, Neil, it's your call.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Neil went quiet. We all did, just three astronauts staring
out the window of our spacecraft for what we couldn't
be sure.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Buzz, starring John Lithgow and J. F. Frey Errand, is
created by Stephen Cronish and directed by John Scott Dryden.
Chapter five is written by Matt Graham and Thompson Evans.
Original music is by Sasha Putnam. Sound designed by Elouise Whitmore.
The producer is Emma Hearn. The executive producers are Jeremy Fox,
(17:18):
John Scott Dryden, Stephen Cronish, Howard Stringer and Jason English.
Buzz is a production of Thoroughbred Studios, gold Hawk Productions,
and iHeart Podcasts.
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