From the archives: Apollo 11 moon landing leaves Walter Cronkite "speechless"

and there's just 14 miles to go in four and a half minutes four and a half minutes left in this era 16 . oh boy this great the way the communications is working he sent two fuel to monitor over altitude 13005 feet per second made it uh quick overtime please dude Roger standby you're looking great at eight minutes a correction on that velocity now reading 760 feet per second because the p64 okay 760 feet per second on the way down that's pretty slow for space flying it is it's the slowest man has ever flown in space it sure is we're two 9 200 feet they're just about percent rate high Gateway copy seven to six hundred foot level 1.4 miles High when they get down to a speed of 98 miles an hour and they're just a little under five miles from The Landing site that point they can pitch forward get a really good view oh you're looking great coming up now in the approach phase everything looking good yes they're inside 50 200 feet less than a mile from the Moon Sir Rock your copy altitude 4200 I think you're a go for landing over oh great goal Landing three thousand feet two thousand feet we're go same tight we're go 2000 feet 2 000 feet into the AG 47 degrees right here 37 degrees these communications too we're getting this Arena Eagle looking great here we go altitude 1600. oh this is they've got a good look at their site now this is the the critical time they're going to hover they're going to make a decision apparently they're yeah 35 degrees 35 degrees 750 coming down to 23. 71 down 33 degrees oh the data is coming in beautiful 100 feet down to 19. 540 feet down to 30 and a 15. say 400 feet down at nine stay forward 10 and 50 feet down at four downtown they're uh I've done uh fantasy down three and a half 47 forward a minute one and a half down [Applause] 70. 50 down at two and a half 19 forward altitude velocity light and ass down funny face 13 forward 200 feet four and a half down five and a half pounds and a half down five and a half down nine forward good it's been 20 feet 100 feet three and a half down nine forward five percent how many fights [Applause] 875 feet there's looking good down a half pitch forward 60 Seconds lights on two and a half forward forward [Music] 40 feet down two and a half picking up some dust City feet two and a half down straight shadow four forward drifting to the right a little now and a half 30 seconds hey contact right okay engine stop ACA had a defense control both Auto detonation command override off events Man on the Moon get down eagle Roger Tranquility we copy you on the ground you got a bunch of guys about to turn blue we're breathing again oh boy thank you you're looking good here what wait we're gonna be busy for a minute thank you well they say something I'm speechless I'm just trying to hold on to my breath that is really something kind of nice to be aboard on this one isn't it um you know we've been wondering what what this guy Armstrong or Alden would say step foot on the moon which comes a little bit later now just to hear them do it we're left here absolutely with dry mouths and speechless for T1 I just and we have them favorite singer Roger and we see you venting the odds it's a great simulation you have to see there if you could see us that little fly Speck is supposed to be a limb see they must be in a perfect position upright we've heard no complaints about their position just a little dust even that concern was erased wow and there they sit on the moon [Applause] just exactly nominal wasn't it exactly as a flight plan all the way down man planting this thing on the surface of the Earth we're done you know it's funny Rocky we have it again he has landed Tranquility base Eagle is that plan quality over it's interesting that they're referring to Infinity Base that was a confirmation to Colombia and people have the audacity to say there's not much new going on these days I think that one's erased for a long time

Channel: CBS News

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Id: oMF58ZP681A

Length: 8min 14sec (494 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 20 2023