13 Minutes to the Moon The Apollo 11 story Episodes Episode guide
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Back up to: 13 Minutes to the Moon
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Bonus: The making of the music
Hans Zimmer in a special episode about creating the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music
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Ep.12 Live from Houston
“We choose to go.” The season finale comes from where JFK made his famous Moon speech
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Ep.11 The 13 minutes
History as it happened, uninterrupted: every word, every crackle, the tension and triumph
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Ep.10 ‘For all mankind’
History as it happened, explained. Kevin Fong guides us through audio of the descent
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Ep.09 Tranquility Base
Tension is “through the roof”. Neil Armstrong takes control and fuel starts to run out
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Ep.08 ‘We’re go for powered descent’
The 13 minutes begin. Eagle is going too fast. There are communications problems
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Ep.07 Michael Collins: Third man
Without the astronaut who didn’t step on the moon, Apollo 11 wouldn’t have succeeded
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Ep.06 Saving 1968
War, riots, assassinations: “the year that shattered America”. But it ended with Apollo 8
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Ep.05 The fourth astronaut
The computer that got us to the moon. There had never been anything like it
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Ep.04 Fire to the Phoenix
"You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened next
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Ep.03 Long Island Eagle
Ugly, angry, with four legs and wrapped in gold: a spacecraft like nothing on Earth
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Ep.02 Kids in control
Unsung heroes who saved the day. The "26-year-old kid who could stop the lunar mission"
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Ep.01 ‘We choose to go’
With no idea how to get there, the race to the moon begins – "we intend to win"
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The final part of our audio countdown. Lift off is on 13 May 2019
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Hans Zimmer has composed the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music. It’s his first podcast
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Introducing 13 Minutes to the Moon, with an Apollo astronaut and former NASA engineer
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T-minus 4: Apollo 11
The countdown begins