13 Minutes to the Moon: Trailer, T-minus 3

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30 seconds and counting.

Welcome to the countdown to the launch of the BBC World Service podcast, 13 Minutes to the Moon.

Astronauts report, it feels good.

I was the first female engineer to work in NASA's Mission Control Center in an operational support role.

I was an astronaut in the Apollo program, the greatest program in the history of spaceflight, the one that took humans to the moon for the first time.

That was 50 years ago.

My name is Poppy Northcott.

I'm Walt Cunningham.

20 seconds and counting.

I'll be helping to tell the story of how we got to the lunar surface in 13 minutes to the moon.

15 seconds.

Guidance is internal.

13 minutes to the moon will tell the story of the climax of that first descent to the moon, that final 13 minutes, and it will go back in time to tell the story of the work that scientists, engineers, astronauts, and so many others did to make it possible.

To get to the moon and back again safely, that was my particular job.

It was amazing to be part of that history.

I'm helping to count down to the podcast launch.

And I thought you might like to know some of the others that you'll be hearing from.

There's Michael Collins, one of the astronauts on the first moon landing mission, Apollo 11.

Then there's Jim Lovell, who was on Apollo 8, the first mission to fly to the moon and go into orbit around it.

And you'll hear from men and women like Don Iles and Margaret Hamilton, who built and programmed the revolutionary computer on board the spacecraft, which made the moon landing possible, even though it had a tiny fraction of the computing power.

in your mobile phone.

And there's also Steve Bales, the flight controller at Mission Control who, at the age of 26, saved the first moon landing in its final minutes when the spacecraft's computer started acting up.

Along with hundreds of thousands of others, I have been working for years to help make what we were witnessing happen, to make history.

And I'm very pleased to be one of those telling you all about it in 13 Minutes to the Moon.

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12, 11, 10, 9.

Ignition sequence starts.

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