July 23, 2025 • 17 mins
Alarms blare. Time runs out. With seconds of fuel and no clear answers, Neil and Buzz make a call that will change history—or end it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Buzz an audio drama for iHeart Podcasts starring John Lithgow
and Jeffrey Aaron as buzz Aldren. 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 eight, Good Evening, My fellow Americans.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Fates has ordained that the men who went to the
Moon to explore in peace will stay on the Moon
to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and
Edwin Alburn, know that there's no pope for their recovery,
(00:49):
but they also know that there is hope for may
in time. In their sacrifice, they will be mourned by
their families and friends.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It will be mourned by their nation.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
They will be mourned by a mother Earth that dared
send two of her sons into the unknown.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Neil and I didn't know President Nixon was taping our eulogy.
We were focused on trying to survive a possible crash
landing or a Russian attack.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
Houston Eagle position check landing radars and SLEW mode. But
it's putting us three thousand feet lower than our altitude
from the guidance computer.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
Our data is not matching prediction.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
The radar echoes are more reliable than the computer I'm
keying in.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
The command.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Do you have a visual in a Russian Luna fifteen negative? Houston?
Speaker 8 (01:53):
We have a program along.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
We got an alarm code here, twelve oh two? What
the hell's a twelve capcom.
Speaker 9 (02:03):
Guide?
Speaker 8 (02:03):
Hope?
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Anyone? No one knows what a twelve o two is?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
What's it?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Say, Neil?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I can't find it.
Speaker 10 (02:13):
Trying to run down that program around. What's your engine
start up?
Speaker 8 (02:18):
We're burning down the descent tanks fast. We need to
know if we're going to lose primary guidance.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
We're getting from the computer altitude now twenty one thousand
velocity twelve hundred feet per second. We're going to have
an abort decision coming up momentarily.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
This better be good, boys.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Twelve oh two is the warning of a system overload.
The computer is running too many processes at once.
Speaker 11 (02:41):
It's executing only the most important guidance functions and dropping
any non essential processes.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
We're about to land on the moon.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
There are no non essential processes.
Speaker 11 (02:50):
The computer may clear the alarm when it reboots.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Is this a software defect or a system failure.
Speaker 11 (02:56):
If it's a system failure, it's not in the computer.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Where is it.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
He's twelve oh two on a board condition or not.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
There are two lives on the line and we're running
out of fuel.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I'm Buzz Aldrin, and this is the story you think
you know, but you don't.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
Ignition frequent fi S five four three per Gladydavi here
be able at land on all crap per ram Bam.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
You're listening to Buzz. This is the story of my
greatest achievement. Chapter eight.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
We're just a few minutes away from that historic moment
when the lunar module Eagle will touch down on the Moon.
We expect to be hooking up to NASA's communication line
to Eagle, so that as the landing occurs, we and
an estimated half billion television viewers around the world will
(04:22):
be so to speak along for the ride.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
What they didn't know was how close we were making
Nixon's eulogy.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Necessary maintaining speed of descent altitude ten thousand and five Houston,
Are we go or no go? To continue.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Eagle?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
We expect an answer on the twelve OZHO two momentarily.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
Momentarily is all we've got.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
You know it's not going to happen before you have
to appord.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
No, Chris, I don't know that the landing radar is
still showing a ten percent deviation from the computer's descent trajectory.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Even if we do aboard, there's no guarantee we can
put Eagle in a rendezvous position with Columbia.
Speaker 11 (05:04):
If the twelve oh two alarm remains, that are met,
and we should be okay, that's the best.
Speaker 10 (05:09):
We can do.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
That's not a ringing endorsement.
Speaker 11 (05:13):
Primary guidance should stay at the top of the execution list.
What if it becomes constant, we could lose radar, Give
me a straight answer.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Goddamn it.
Speaker 11 (05:23):
If it becomes constant, the computer could shut down altogether.
They've trained every ounce of mind, body, and spirit for this.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
They're explorers.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
They're also husbands and fathers.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
But if it were me, I'd keep going.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
But it's not.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
I know I'll see my wife and kids again.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Eagle.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
This is flight.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
We don't have cause for the twelve ZHO two, but
you might still make it down to the surface with
an intermittent computer overload.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Houston, can you quantify, Mike.
Speaker 10 (06:00):
How afiable to offer.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
How does an overload effect redocking with Columbia.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
It doesn't make it easier. The calls yours, gentlemen, all
of us, you will support your decision whatever it is.
Are we go for a landing or do we abort.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
Intend to redoc?
Speaker 8 (06:20):
You don't really need to ask.
Speaker 10 (06:22):
Do you.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
We are go for final descent?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Switch landing radar to rondevu moments landing radar to rendezvous
altitude six thousand feet.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
At the Genre Bank Observatory in England, Sir Bernard Lovell
was collecting information on the position of the Russian Luna.
Speaker 10 (06:59):
Fit there you go, Ramon.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
He was also feeding nuts to his two can Ramono.
But who is not a question in his choice of
a ped I had a monkey back home?
Speaker 9 (07:13):
Come, Sir Bernard. The Russian craft has changed its declination
to equate it from eighty seven degrees to sixty five.
Its orbit is circularizing at low altitude, and the burns
are being timed to give the craft a landing window
in the Sea of Tranquility. Pass it here, I see,
I thought you'd want to know immediately, so you carry
(07:35):
on feeding Ramont. I'll call Houston.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Every second brought us closer to the lunar's surface, the
question still remained, would we land onto it or slam
into it?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
What do you see out there?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Mountains?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I see mountains, Houston. Descend fuel is at twenty five
percent and falling rapidly. Less than four minutes until we're dry.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
Roger Eagle.
Speaker 10 (08:08):
Three minutes fifty to zero to st fuel capacity.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Eagle.
Speaker 11 (08:13):
Can you see the programmed landing.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Side now, Roger Houston?
Speaker 10 (08:19):
It's too un even here. I have a large crater
on my left and a motor.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Field stretching behind it. Eagle, this is flight any way
you could land short of the crater.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Negative Houston.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
We've got zero visibility below and behind me.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
We can't see what we drop into, Roger Eagle.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Any sign of the Russians?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Negative Houston.
Speaker 10 (08:42):
Frankly, we've been a little too busy to look. Dessentiel
remaining three minutes twenty seconds.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
We have yet to go to the NASSA feed, but
we're told the descent is proceeding smoothly towards the surface.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
There's a spot over there, too many boulders. We could
make it well, snap off a stress, I could make it.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I'm the commander.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Houston, is still no acceptable landing site two minutes forty
of available fuel.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Roger Eagle.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
Fuel has to be reserved in case of.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
An emergency board Roger Houston.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
We're told we'll be switching to the NASA communication line
and just a matter of moments, as the Eagle is
descending toward the Moon amerkanski a kasmchiskipa drama. What I
was ivied to.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Reach American information is that all systems on Eagle and
on the command module Columbia orbiting the Moon are in
perfect condition.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Altitude eighteen high, hundred speed of descent seven.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
We've got a landing site.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Altitude one thousand ninety.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Seconds, landing altitude ninety degrees.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Decent speed two hundred fbs sixty seconds, Roger Eagle, the
versions all clear. Forty seconds altitude fifty feet. Activate external camera.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Down here we see it on the louse surface as egleoproaches.
This man is about to land on the Moon.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Eagle will touch down, and the last word is that
all systems are performing very well.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Everything seems to be going as smoothly as parking your
car at the local.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Supermarket, descent engine and kicking up lunar dust altitude fifteen
feet twenty five.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Seconds contact leg We have contact. Left front pad of
the eagle is down. We had to set engine shutdown.
If you stay, Tranquility Base here the eagle has landed.
Speaker 11 (11:29):
Roger twin Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. We've
got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're
breathing again.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
Thanks a lot, Thank you, oh.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Boy, which seemed to speak for everyone of those half
billion people, including our wives and kids we brought along
with us.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Absolutely, can you hear me?
Speaker 11 (12:07):
Joan Cat, get some water.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Eagle had been depressurized in preparation for Neil and I
to step onto the lunar surface in that order.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
Houston, this is Tranquility Base. We are suited up and
ready to egress the lunar module. Over runching that tranquility,
have a nice luster all.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Over, Houston.
Speaker 10 (12:53):
We've got an issue here again, Tranquility over a lunar module.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Hatch will not budge Pep Tranquility.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
The hatch is it won't open.
Speaker 10 (13:06):
You gotta be kidding me, Neil, have you followed through
a hearse sequence.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Every step and I could give it a kick if
that help.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Negative tranquility any damage to the door, and you won't
be able to repressurize when you retired.
Speaker 10 (13:23):
I wasn't serious about that, Houston, Tranquility. It looks like
some residual cabin pressure is sealing the hatch. We're gonna
have to work on. It's the aluminum cover blocking the door.
I I'm gonna have to peel it back to break
the seal. Houston. I'm trying to peel back the skin
(13:44):
from the hatch. It's like peeling back the seal on
a can of sartines. Be careful, the terror propete bush.
Be careful there, That should do it.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
I opened the hatch, releasing a cloud of ice as
the last of the oxygen in the module was sucked
into the vacuum of space.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Houston Tranquility.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
The hatch is open, and I'm about to step onto
the lunar surface.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Here have a sip of water.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Thanks a quarter of a million miles away, our wives
and families were watching, waiting to hear what Neil was
going to say. I have to admit so was I.
Speaker 10 (14:42):
Get one small.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
On Those words would become cemented in our culture and
in our history, but they weren't my words. The fact
I couldn't live with for more years than I care
to count.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Did you know what Neil was going to say? I
had no idea. You wouldn't tell me, and I asked
him one hundred times. I can't believe they did it.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Step on the Moon?
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Are you ready for me to come out? Prepared to
descend beautiful view, magnificent desolation?
Speaker 5 (15:49):
In mission control there was a slogan on the noticeboard,
Tough and Competent. There we were two men, tough and competent,
preparing to plant our flag on the Moon, answering Kennedy's
challenge and beating the Russians to the greatest prize of all.
(16:09):
Or so we thought. I told you this was a
story you only thought you knew.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Buzz, starring John Lithgow and Jeffrey Errand, is created by
Stephen Kronish and directed by John Scott Dryden. Chapter eight
is written by Stephen Cronish. Original music is by Sasha Putnam,
editing and sound designed by Elouise Whitmore. The producer is
Emma Hearn. The executive producers are Jeremy Fox, John Scott Dryden,
(16:57):
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 Aaron as buzz Aldren. 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 eight, Good Evening, My fellow Americans.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Fates has ordained that the men who went to the
Moon to explore in peace will stay on the Moon
to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and
Edwin Alburn, know that there's no pope for their recovery,
(00:49):
but they also know that there is hope for may
in time. In their sacrifice, they will be mourned by
their families and friends.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It will be mourned by their nation.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
They will be mourned by a mother Earth that dared
send two of her sons into the unknown.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Neil and I didn't know President Nixon was taping our eulogy.
We were focused on trying to survive a possible crash
landing or a Russian attack.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
Houston Eagle position check landing radars and SLEW mode. But
it's putting us three thousand feet lower than our altitude
from the guidance computer.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
Our data is not matching prediction.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
The radar echoes are more reliable than the computer I'm
keying in.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
The command.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Do you have a visual in a Russian Luna fifteen negative? Houston?
Speaker 8 (01:53):
We have a program along.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
We got an alarm code here, twelve oh two? What
the hell's a twelve capcom.
Speaker 9 (02:03):
Guide?
Speaker 8 (02:03):
Hope?
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Anyone? No one knows what a twelve o two is?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
What's it?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Say, Neil?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I can't find it.
Speaker 10 (02:13):
Trying to run down that program around. What's your engine
start up?
Speaker 8 (02:18):
We're burning down the descent tanks fast. We need to
know if we're going to lose primary guidance.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
We're getting from the computer altitude now twenty one thousand
velocity twelve hundred feet per second. We're going to have
an abort decision coming up momentarily.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
This better be good, boys.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Twelve oh two is the warning of a system overload.
The computer is running too many processes at once.
Speaker 11 (02:41):
It's executing only the most important guidance functions and dropping
any non essential processes.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
We're about to land on the moon.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
There are no non essential processes.
Speaker 11 (02:50):
The computer may clear the alarm when it reboots.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Is this a software defect or a system failure.
Speaker 11 (02:56):
If it's a system failure, it's not in the computer.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Where is it.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
He's twelve oh two on a board condition or not.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
There are two lives on the line and we're running
out of fuel.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I'm Buzz Aldrin, and this is the story you think
you know, but you don't.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
Ignition frequent fi S five four three per Gladydavi here
be able at land on all crap per ram Bam.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
You're listening to Buzz. This is the story of my
greatest achievement. Chapter eight.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
We're just a few minutes away from that historic moment
when the lunar module Eagle will touch down on the Moon.
We expect to be hooking up to NASA's communication line
to Eagle, so that as the landing occurs, we and
an estimated half billion television viewers around the world will
(04:22):
be so to speak along for the ride.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
What they didn't know was how close we were making
Nixon's eulogy.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Necessary maintaining speed of descent altitude ten thousand and five Houston,
Are we go or no go? To continue.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Eagle?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
We expect an answer on the twelve OZHO two momentarily.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
Momentarily is all we've got.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
You know it's not going to happen before you have
to appord.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
No, Chris, I don't know that the landing radar is
still showing a ten percent deviation from the computer's descent trajectory.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Even if we do aboard, there's no guarantee we can
put Eagle in a rendezvous position with Columbia.
Speaker 11 (05:04):
If the twelve oh two alarm remains, that are met,
and we should be okay, that's the best.
Speaker 10 (05:09):
We can do.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
That's not a ringing endorsement.
Speaker 11 (05:13):
Primary guidance should stay at the top of the execution list.
What if it becomes constant, we could lose radar, Give
me a straight answer.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Goddamn it.
Speaker 11 (05:23):
If it becomes constant, the computer could shut down altogether.
They've trained every ounce of mind, body, and spirit for this.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
They're explorers.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
They're also husbands and fathers.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
But if it were me, I'd keep going.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
But it's not.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
I know I'll see my wife and kids again.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Eagle.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
This is flight.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
We don't have cause for the twelve ZHO two, but
you might still make it down to the surface with
an intermittent computer overload.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Houston, can you quantify, Mike.
Speaker 10 (06:00):
How afiable to offer.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
How does an overload effect redocking with Columbia.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
It doesn't make it easier. The calls yours, gentlemen, all
of us, you will support your decision whatever it is.
Are we go for a landing or do we abort.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
Intend to redoc?
Speaker 8 (06:20):
You don't really need to ask.
Speaker 10 (06:22):
Do you.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
We are go for final descent?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Switch landing radar to rondevu moments landing radar to rendezvous
altitude six thousand feet.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
At the Genre Bank Observatory in England, Sir Bernard Lovell
was collecting information on the position of the Russian Luna.
Speaker 10 (06:59):
Fit there you go, Ramon.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
He was also feeding nuts to his two can Ramono.
But who is not a question in his choice of
a ped I had a monkey back home?
Speaker 9 (07:13):
Come, Sir Bernard. The Russian craft has changed its declination
to equate it from eighty seven degrees to sixty five.
Its orbit is circularizing at low altitude, and the burns
are being timed to give the craft a landing window
in the Sea of Tranquility. Pass it here, I see,
I thought you'd want to know immediately, so you carry
(07:35):
on feeding Ramont. I'll call Houston.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Every second brought us closer to the lunar's surface, the
question still remained, would we land onto it or slam
into it?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
What do you see out there?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Mountains?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I see mountains, Houston. Descend fuel is at twenty five
percent and falling rapidly. Less than four minutes until we're dry.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
Roger Eagle.
Speaker 10 (08:08):
Three minutes fifty to zero to st fuel capacity.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Eagle.
Speaker 11 (08:13):
Can you see the programmed landing.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Side now, Roger Houston?
Speaker 10 (08:19):
It's too un even here. I have a large crater
on my left and a motor.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Field stretching behind it. Eagle, this is flight any way
you could land short of the crater.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Negative Houston.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
We've got zero visibility below and behind me.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
We can't see what we drop into, Roger Eagle.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Any sign of the Russians?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Negative Houston.
Speaker 10 (08:42):
Frankly, we've been a little too busy to look. Dessentiel
remaining three minutes twenty seconds.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
We have yet to go to the NASSA feed, but
we're told the descent is proceeding smoothly towards the surface.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
There's a spot over there, too many boulders. We could
make it well, snap off a stress, I could make it.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I'm the commander.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Houston, is still no acceptable landing site two minutes forty
of available fuel.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Roger Eagle.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
Fuel has to be reserved in case of.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
An emergency board Roger Houston.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
We're told we'll be switching to the NASA communication line
and just a matter of moments, as the Eagle is
descending toward the Moon amerkanski a kasmchiskipa drama. What I
was ivied to.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Reach American information is that all systems on Eagle and
on the command module Columbia orbiting the Moon are in
perfect condition.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Altitude eighteen high, hundred speed of descent seven.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
We've got a landing site.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Altitude one thousand ninety.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Seconds, landing altitude ninety degrees.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Decent speed two hundred fbs sixty seconds, Roger Eagle, the
versions all clear. Forty seconds altitude fifty feet. Activate external camera.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Down here we see it on the louse surface as egleoproaches.
This man is about to land on the Moon.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Eagle will touch down, and the last word is that
all systems are performing very well.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Everything seems to be going as smoothly as parking your
car at the local.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Supermarket, descent engine and kicking up lunar dust altitude fifteen
feet twenty five.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Seconds contact leg We have contact. Left front pad of
the eagle is down. We had to set engine shutdown.
If you stay, Tranquility Base here the eagle has landed.
Speaker 11 (11:29):
Roger twin Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. We've
got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're
breathing again.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
Thanks a lot, Thank you, oh.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Boy, which seemed to speak for everyone of those half
billion people, including our wives and kids we brought along
with us.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Absolutely, can you hear me?
Speaker 11 (12:07):
Joan Cat, get some water.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Eagle had been depressurized in preparation for Neil and I
to step onto the lunar surface in that order.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
Houston, this is Tranquility Base. We are suited up and
ready to egress the lunar module. Over runching that tranquility,
have a nice luster all.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Over, Houston.
Speaker 10 (12:53):
We've got an issue here again, Tranquility over a lunar module.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Hatch will not budge Pep Tranquility.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
The hatch is it won't open.
Speaker 10 (13:06):
You gotta be kidding me, Neil, have you followed through
a hearse sequence.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Every step and I could give it a kick if
that help.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Negative tranquility any damage to the door, and you won't
be able to repressurize when you retired.
Speaker 10 (13:23):
I wasn't serious about that, Houston, Tranquility. It looks like
some residual cabin pressure is sealing the hatch. We're gonna
have to work on. It's the aluminum cover blocking the door.
I I'm gonna have to peel it back to break
the seal. Houston. I'm trying to peel back the skin
(13:44):
from the hatch. It's like peeling back the seal on
a can of sartines. Be careful, the terror propete bush.
Be careful there, That should do it.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
I opened the hatch, releasing a cloud of ice as
the last of the oxygen in the module was sucked
into the vacuum of space.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Houston Tranquility.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
The hatch is open, and I'm about to step onto
the lunar surface.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Here have a sip of water.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Thanks a quarter of a million miles away, our wives
and families were watching, waiting to hear what Neil was
going to say. I have to admit so was I.
Speaker 10 (14:42):
Get one small.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
On Those words would become cemented in our culture and
in our history, but they weren't my words. The fact
I couldn't live with for more years than I care
to count.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Did you know what Neil was going to say? I
had no idea. You wouldn't tell me, and I asked
him one hundred times. I can't believe they did it.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Step on the Moon?
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Are you ready for me to come out? Prepared to
descend beautiful view, magnificent desolation?
Speaker 5 (15:49):
In mission control there was a slogan on the noticeboard,
Tough and Competent. There we were two men, tough and competent,
preparing to plant our flag on the Moon, answering Kennedy's
challenge and beating the Russians to the greatest prize of all.
(16:09):
Or so we thought. I told you this was a
story you only thought you knew.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Buzz, starring John Lithgow and Jeffrey Errand, is created by
Stephen Kronish and directed by John Scott Dryden. Chapter eight
is written by Stephen Cronish. Original music is by Sasha Putnam,
editing and sound designed by Elouise Whitmore. The producer is
Emma Hearn. The executive producers are Jeremy Fox, John Scott Dryden,
(16:57):
Stephen Cronish, Howard Stringer and Jason English. Buzz is a
production of Thoroughbred Studios, gold Hawk Productions, and iHeart Podcasts.
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