Moonwalk, Episode 4: The Moon On Earth

[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hello I'm Lyn bandr and welcome to the final episode of our moonwalk series we have already seen how the Apollo 11 crew prepared itself for the grueling trip to the moon the largest TV audience until that time watched this extraordinary event people of all nations react in awe as Neil Armstrong places his foot on a Surface previously Untouched by a human being in this program we see research done by scientists after the Apollo 11 capsule returns to earth studies are conducted on samples of the Moon soil in order to compare them with Earth soil this television program is the moon on Earth alone 45 mil above the moon's surface Michael Collins completed an orbit every 2 hours he listened to the progress of the moonwalk and awaited the moment when his companions on the surface would lift off to rendevu with him for 30 times he saw the Earth rise over the horizon of the Moon 12,000 miles of Twilight a line that divides night from day for 3 billion people on spaceship [Music] earth it is good to see the whole earth to see the Earth [Music] [Music] whole [Music] for [Music] [Music] I the eagle had left the moon and returned to [Music] [Applause] [Music] Colombia within the this strange ship two astronauts and a treasure triple sealed vacuum boxes of rocks and soil from the surface of the [Laughter] [Music] Moon locked within these rocks were secrets of the ages to be studied and deciphered by the scientists of Earth the age of the Moon the age of the Sun how the moon was formed how life began was there ever life on the [Music] Moon was the moon once molten and Volcanic or has it always been cold and dead was it once part of the earth or was it a Wandering Planet captured by the Earth eons [Music] ago how hot was the sun 3 billion years ago [Music] when Armstrong and Aldren with their precious load of moon rocks had transferred to Colombia the faithful Eagle its task completed could be cut a drift Colombia fired out of lunar orbit to begin its 3-day fall back to Earth where the recovery fleet was waiting for its splash down in the [Music] Pacific Apollo 11 Houston with a little recovery Force information over go ahead H Roger The Hornet is uh on station uh just far enough off the target point to keep from getting hit recovery one The Cho July 24th the Hornet was on station and the president of the United States was aboard re-entry into the Earth's invisible atmosphere carries with it one of the most critical moments traveling nearly 25,000 mph The Command Module can miss the angle of re-entry by only several degrees and disintegrate into flames or bounce off into space never to return velocity 33,000 ft per second 35,000 ft per second now 36,000 ft per second we're at entry time there's blackout [Music] Apollo 11 Houston through Apollo 11 Houston through a RI Apollo 11 Houston through a RI 4 reports a sonic boom short time [Music] ago 11 Houston and the blind airb has a visal contact follow 11 Houston through arah standing by over [Music] Dres H 11 Apollo 11 this is Hornet Hornet over Apollo 11 position 1330 6915 11 Hornet copy 1330 16 75 any further data over 33 16 Niner [Music] [Applause] [Music] 15 [Music] [Applause] la [Music] [Music] la y what was it we were really celebrating three men who had done what no man before had done a technological feat that was believed beyond the realm of possibility the Fulfillment of an age-old dream were we celebrating simply because it had been a long time since we'd had anything to celebrate or was this something that touched an irrational unthinking Instinct in us all the down we're going to the Moon together pack your bags and jump into the car going to take a trip to tell you where you are goodbye mother so long mother so long mother goodbye goodbye mother so long mother so long mother so long Mother Earth Earth goodbye mother goodbye Mother [Music] Earth The Treasure of the ages stones from across the Night unrubbed by Wind unwashed by rain scattered on tranquility [Laughter] bombarded by solar particles for billions of years but unchanged in any other way a moon rock is like a diary of the Sun an eye unblinking since time began [Music] that stared across the sea of space that watched The Blue Planet when life began [Music] Remembered in these rocks are ancient sunspots solar flares solar storms whose fiery arms reached out a million miles by making ourselves very small like Alice perhaps we will see what these rocks have seen and remember back those billions of years to decipher the life of the [Music] Sun [Applause] [Music] [Applause] locked within our son are answers to Mysteries that have confounded man and since time began we have reached out with our telescopes we have reached in with our microscopes [Applause] seeking what is the source of life what combination of energies and elements brought it into existence what is the relationship between the non-living and living things how delicate is the balance man slowly begins to to realize how fragile is his bubble of [Music] [Music] Life ours is one son in a sea of suns more plentiful than all the grains of sand on all the shores of all the Seas of planet [Music] [Applause] [Music] Earth [Music] now that we are free to wander from Earth perhaps we will find the answers to our questions someday we may know where we've come from where we're going we you may know where is the end where is the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] beginning [Music] d we have walked on the [Music] moon we open our minds to the [Music] universe the moon's lack of Life causes human beings to step back and ask what makes Earth so different from other planets and satellites in the solar system the Apollo 11 flight makes us realize that life's existence depends upon the resources of this planet much more is to be learned about the moon's harsh environment from following Apollo missions the last flight will take place in De December of 1972 someday human beings will once again return to the Moon that time perhaps to establish a more permanent settlement I'm Lyn [Music] [Music] bandand [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] h [Music] [Music] oh [Applause] w [Applause] [Music] oh