APOLLO 11:

FIRST STEPS EDITION

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APOLLO 11: FIRST STEPS EDITION—47MINUTES

SENSORY COMMENTS

SCENE DESCRIPTION DIALOGUE/SOUND

FAST PACED IMAGES FOR THE 30 SECONED COMMERCIAL!

EXT. DESERT—DAY. Aerial shot of desert. CUT TO: Alternate aerial shot of desert CUT TO: Alternate aerial shot of desert CUT TO: Push in over steering wheel CUT TO: Hands curling over steering wheel CUT TO: Ignition button being pushed CUT TO: Wheel locked off center frame while car rotates around it Car driving vertically. Frame rotates horizontally CUT TO: M/S through passenger window of woman driving car CUT TO: Aerial shot of car driving through desert CUT TO: Alternate aerial shot of car driving through desert CUT TO: Foot steps onto desert surface

We have been here before

In the dreams of the ancients who traced the stars in pools

by moonlight,

And the chalkboards of scientists

who plotted a course.

It’s a journey they started,

And one we must continue. United in our drive

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CUT TO: Woman walks into frame CUT TO: Reverse W/S: woman stands next to car Boom up to view of stars. Land Rover logo appears

to never stop discovering.

COMPANY LOGO: MACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN COMPANY LOGO: CNN FILMS COMPANY LOGO: STATEMENT PICTURES

Sounds of heavy machinery Loud! Sound of helicopter

Black

MAIN TITILE: APOLLO 11

FIRST STEPS EDITION EXT. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER—DAY--A red truck passes the massive treads of the NASA crawler-transporter CUT TO: Saturn V on crawler transporter in distance with sign in foreground for launch complex 39 CUT TO: NASA worker walking next to treads of crawler-transporter CUT TO: Crawler-transporter approaching camera with workers in foreground CUT TO: Aerial shot of Saturn-V on crawler-transporter as it ascends ramp toward launch pad 39A. NASA

(Sounds of heavy machinery)

(Sound of helicopter)

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vehicle assembly building visible in distance CUT TO: Tilt down from Launch Escape Tower at top of vehicle

(Sounds of work on rocket)

INT. LAUNCH CONTROL CENTER – DAY. Scale model of crawler-transporter and vehicle assembly building. CUTTO: engineers/administrators in conference room CUT TO: JoAnn Morgan, NASA Launch Controller, listening during meeting CUT TO: Engineers sitting at table in conference room, listening CUT TO: Saturn-V model in foreground, conference room of engineers in background

NASA ADMINISTRATOR

OK, are there any changes to the schedule? Arnie?

ARNIE: The tank pressurization test

will not start until…

ARNIE (CONT’D) …13:00

NASA ADMINISTRATOR Arnie you gonna extend

that…

NASA ADMINISTRATOR(cont’d)

…time out for five hours by cutting it off in the front end of that…

NASA ADMINISTRATOR (cont’d)

… LH2 storage tank pressurization?

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Black GRAPHIC:

JULY 16, 1969 EXT. LAUNCH COMPLEX 39 EARLY MORNING. Slow tilt up from base of Saturn-V on mobile launcher platform

WALTER CRONKITE It’s 3 hours and 32 minutes…

…until man begins the

greatest adventure in his history…

…If all goes well, Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong,

Aldrin, and Collins are to lift off from Pad 39A out there on the voyage man always has dreamed about. So it is

now, before they go, as their gleaming vehicle sits poised and peaceful out there, that there is time—if only briefly

in this busy morning—to think of those three men, and

the burdens and the hopes that they carry on behalf of

all mankind.

INT. FIRING ROOM 1: A hand flips switches on a console CUT TO: INT. SUITING UP ROOM Neil Armstrong, with back to camera, suiting up. Technicians in white, one holding a camera, look on. Camera pans left, showing Collins and Aldrin suiting up. CUT TO: Buzz Aldrin having suit adjusted by tech. CUT TO: Armstrong looking frame left in suiting up room GRAPHIC:

NEIL ARMSTRONG

(Music )

WALTER CRONKITE And boring through the

vastness, the blackness, and the cold of space, they’ll

carry the pledge made eight years ago by President

Kennedy to put a man on the moon and bring him back

safely in this decade

ARMSTRONG Each segment of the

mission, every individual

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MISSION COMMANDER

CUT TO: Neil Armstrong speaking to technician at left of frame, and adjusting suit CUT TO: Michael Collins and technician adjusting headset as another technician looks on in background GRAPHIC:

MICHAEL COLLINS COMMAND MODULE PILOT

CUT TO: Collins continues to have his suit adjusted by technicians CUT TO: Buzz Aldrin having his suit adjusted by technicians GRAPHIC:

EDWIN “BUZZ” ALDRIN LUNAR MODULE PILOT

piece, has to be completed perfectly…

ARMSTRONG (cont’d)

…in order for the next step to be possible. And of course the nation itself is backing us

so we just sincerely hope that we measure up to that

COLLINS

The whole Apollo program was designed to get two Americans to the lunar

surface and back again to Earth safely. The enormity…

COLLINS …of this event is something

that only history will be able to judge.

ALDRIN Apollo 11 has very simply been given the mission of carrying men to the moon,

landing them there, and bringing them safely back

INT. SUITING UP ROOM: Neil Armstrong turned partially away from camera as a technician adjusts his suit

WALTER CRONKITE For in addition to the

mission the three astronauts will perform, and the

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Fast-Paced footage.

CUT TO: Neil Armstrong turned more towards camera has his suit adjusted by technicians SERIES OF ARCHIVAL PHOTOS AND FOOTAGE DENOTING FLASHBACK: A strip of four black and white photographs of Neil Armstrong as a baby Black and white school picture of Neil Armstrong, approximately age 10 Black and white school picture of Neil Armstrong, approximately age 16 Black and white photograph of Neil Armstrong, wearing Naval Aviator uniform approximately age 20 Black and white archival footage: a plane, piloted by Armstrong, takes off from the deck of an aircraft carrier Black and white photo: Janet Armstrong and Neil Armstrong at their wedding Black and white photo: The Armstrong children in the driveway of their residence next to a car Black and white photo: Armstrong kneeling with his son

experiments they’ll undertake…

… these men will carry with

them many other things, many things that are not

nearly so easy to describe…

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Black and white photo: Neil and Janet Armstrong, each carrying a child, standing near a fence Archival footage: Neil Armstrong being suited up for a test flight, standing next to an X-15 hypersonic aircraft Archival footage: air to air, an X-15 aircraft, piloted by Armstrong, is drop launched from a B-52 Archival footage: air to air, an X-15 aircraft in flight Archival footage: tail of X-15 as it performs barrel rolls. Contrail visible behind aircraft Archival footage: Gemini 8 astronauts, led by Armstrong, exit NASA transfer van and approach ramp Archival footage: Gemini 8 launch Archival footage: the Agena Target Vehicle seen from the window of Gemini 8 during rendezvous Archival footage: undocking from the Agena Target Vehicle as seen from window of Gemini 8 Archival photo: Neil Armstrong and Gemini 8 pilot David Scott with families after the completion of the Gemini 8 mission

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Archival footage: Neil Armstrong piloting the LLRV (Lunar Landing Research Vehicle) Archival footage: Neil Armstrong parachuting down above a crashed, burning LLRV Archival photo: Neil Armstrong in family home with Janet Armstrong, Mark Armstrong, and Rick Armstrong Neil Armstrong in suiting up room looking at a suit technician

WALTER CRONKITE During the planned Apollo

11 journey… More Fast-Paced images.

Michael Collins’ hand as glove is fastened on in suiting up room Michael Collins has his suit adjusted by technician in suiting up room SERIES OF ARCHIVAL PHOTOS AND MOVIES DENOTING FLASHBACK Archival photo: Michael Collins approximately age 8

…we’ll be concerned with such things as mid-course corrections and docking,

…the astronauts of course

will be concerned with very much more

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Archival photo: Michael Collins in a flight suit, standing with a group of pilots in front of F-86 Saber Archival photo: an Air Force plane, piloted by Collins, in mid flight Archival photo: Collins in flight suit, carrying helmet, posing next to plain. Archival photo: Collins posing in front of plane Archival photo: Michael and Patricia Collins on their wedding day Archival photo: Collins holding his young daughters Archival footage: the Agena Target Vehicle seen from the window of Gemini 10 Archival footage: the Agena Target Vehicle seen from the window of Gemini 10, Earth in background Archival footage: images of the Earth taken during Michael Collins’ EVA on Gemini 10 Archival footage: an engine burn on Gemini 10, with Earth rotating in background Archival footage: Michael Collins and Deke Slayton walking on a runway

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Archival footage: Astronauts in space suits walk down a hallway Archival footage: Astronaut being helped through the hatch of the command module by a technician Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin pose in front of the Saturn V rocket Alternate angle: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin pose in front of the Saturn V rocket Close up: Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins laughing while posing for pictures Archival photo: Michael Collins with family outside house Collins in suiting up room, having his suit adjusted by technicians

WALTER CRONKITE The flight of Apollo 11 is to

be the culmination….

Buzz Aldrin having his headset adjusted by a suit technician in the suiting up room Buzz Aldrin having his suit adjusted in suiting up room

WALTER CRONKITE (cont’d)

….of a national effort and the most difficult, most

dangerous mission ever attempted…

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Face-Paced Images.

SERIES OF ARCHIVAL PHOTOS AND MOVIES DENOTING FLASHBACK: Archival photo of Buzz Aldrin, age approximately 3 Archival photo of Buzz Aldrin, age approximately 14, standing next to his father Archival photo of Buzz Aldrin in the cockpit of an F-86 Sabre, after shooting down a MiG A series of 6 archival photos taken by Buzz Aldrin of a MiG pilot ejecting from his aircraft after being shot down by Aldrin Archival photo of Buzz Aldrin and his wife, Joan Archer Aldrin through the back window of a car on their wedding day Archival photo of Buzz Aldrin wearing space suit in the capsule of Gemini 12 Archival footage: a tether line connects the Agena Target Docking Vehicle to the Gemini 12 spacecraft during Earth orbit Archival footage: Buzz Aldrin performs an EVA during Gemini 12 mission Archival footage: Buzz Aldrin performs an EVA during Gemini 12 mission Cameramen take photos and movie footage of Astronauts

…since this country, and the Russians, started sending

men into space

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Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin pose for camera crew in front of the LM Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, in civilian clothes, carrying tools and camera, perform geology field training in preparation for Apollo 11 mission Buzz Aldrin squats near the passive seismic experiment during Apollo 11 training Buzz Aldrin undergoes zero-gravity training aboard KC-135 in preparation for Apollo 11 Buzz Aldrin training for Apollo 11 while photographers and press look on Archival photo: Buzz Aldrin with family aboard a bus Buzz Aldrin having his suit adjusted by a technician in the suiting up room

WALTER CRONKITE 38 year old civilian …

Neil Armstrong having his headset

adjusted by technician in the suiting up room Close-up of Armstrong’s suit

WALTER CRONKITE (cont’d)

Neil Alden Armstrong is to become the first human being to touch the moon

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Close-up of Armstrong’s glove being adjusted during suiting up Close-up of hand writing “Gloves on” on a biomedical display printout CUT TO: woman making additional notations on biomedical display printout Neil Armstrong in suiting up room, now wearing helmet Close-up of Michael Collins’ face, now wearing helmet Medium shot, Michael Collins in full space suit, looking down

…Aldrin will follow just 20 minutes later…

…But Armstrong will take

that first step

… the mission of Apollo 11, a journey certainly for the

history books

…a beginning of man’s greatest adventure

…leaving this planet to set foot on the moon

06:25 Feelings of Excitement and Anticipation!

EXT. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER--DAY Astronauts emerge from building as technician opens back door of transfer van. Crew boards transfer van CUT TO: Morning sun through clouds. Camera tilts down on length of Saturn V rocket on launch pad

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER

This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. T minus three hours, four minutes, 32 seconds and

counting. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, and then finally Buzz Aldrin, plus

their suit technicians and director of flight crew

operations, Deke Slayton now boarding the transfer

van for the trip to the launch pad.

The transfer van now

departing to Launch Pad A here at complex 39 where

the Saturn V launch vehicle,

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now fully loaded with propellants, going through

preliminary checkouts. This is launch control

EXT. SPECTATOR VIEWING AREA NEAR KENNEDY SPACE CENTER--DAY Model of Saturn V on the dashboard of a parked van. Tilt down to “Family-Wagon” written on side CUT TO: Cars and vans parked on beach among tents, with people milling around. Saturn V visible across water in distance. MOTION GRAPHIC:

-02:50:46 LAUNCH CUT TO: A man and his son asleep in the back of a station wagon CUT TO: A girl in a sleeping bag lies on a concrete block next to a radio CUT TO: A woman in sunglasses sits on sheets spread over concrete fixing her hair. She smiles into the camera

(indistinct voices)

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER … glowing in the huge xenon

spotlight 15 miles away

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER (cont’d)

…and we saw teenagers with telescopes

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER (cont’d)

….it was the very same road we came over 8 long years

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07:30 Sound of helicopter grows louder, to very loud.

CUT TO: A man and woman sit on top of pillows in the parking lot of a building, the woman pours coffee. CUT TO: Wide shot of cars parked on beach with spectators. CUT TO: A row of men and women sit on the sea wall looking out across the water. Tilt up to show helicopter flying overhead. CUT TO: Aerial shot from helicopter passing along roadway over hundreds of parked cars

ago, 21 manned space flights ago…

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER (cont’d)

When we came out at just about the same hour we came out to cover Alan

Shephard’s 15…America’s first manned spaceflight….

(Sound of helicopter)

INT. FIRING ROOM 1 –DAY Launch Controllers seated at consoles. GRAPHIC: FIRING ROOM 1 LAUNCH CONTROL CENTER MOTION GRAPHIC:

-02:45:55 LAUNCH CUT TO: Another group of flight controllers seated at consoles CUT TO: launch controllers in headsets CUT TO: Split screen, black and white video images. Left panel--identified as “034” shows NASA

LAUNCH OPERATIONS MANAGER

All stations stand by to give a crew departure status at this

time

(indistinct chatter of Launch Controllers)

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. T minus 2 hours, 45

minutes, 55 seconds and counting.

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transfer van backing up and astronauts emerging and boarding elevator. Right panel shows series of feeds of Saturn V.

The astronaut team which has just arrived at the

pad…the transfer van now backing up toward the

elevator. In a matter of five minutes or so, we’ll be ready

for the spacecraft commander Neil Armstrong to come across the sill at the

320 foot level. That is our status at 2 hours 43 minutes

47 seconds and counting. This is Launch Control.

08:30 Loud Sound of elevator. Anticipation grows as the time to launch approaches.

EXT. LAUNCH COMPLEX 39-- Elevator carries the astronauts and technicians upwards CUT TO: view from elevator ascending the length of the Saturn V. “USA” visible on side of rocket CUT TO: shot of crew on elevator as it reaches the 320 foot level. CUT TO: view out elevator as crew emerges and travels along swing arm towards Command Module

(sound of elevator)

CBTS MSTC, CBTS 111

MSTC

Go ahead

CBTS Astros proceeding to 320

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MSTC Understand, we’ll get the camera

Ok, Gunther, you can hit the switch on the camera

EXT. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER Tilt down from Vehicle Assembly Building to crowd of spectators standing on lawn and filling out flag-decorated bleachers CUT TO: Johnny Carson and Isaac Asimov, conversing, walk towards bleachers where they will watch the launch CUT TO: Three women in bleachers, one wearing a green hat CUT TO: wide shot of bleachers, almost completely full of spectators. Camera pans across hundreds of spectators standing on lawn.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER (cont’d) …proper atmosphere for launch which

is a combination of oxygen and nitrogen, 60% oxygen and 40%

nitrogen atmosphere, of course the astronauts themselves are breathing

pure oxygen through their space suits

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Neil Armstrong will be doing most of

the work in the spacecraft, responding as different cue lights signifying

different…

…difficulties are presented to him. Our

countdown continuing, this is Kennedy Launch Control

EXT LAUNCH COMPLEX 39- tilt up on Saturn V rocket on launch pad

STC CDR, STC. How do you read?

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ARMSTRONG STC, loud and clear

STC

Good morning, Neil

ARMSTRONG Good morning

STC

Welcome aboard. CMP, STC. How do you read?

Aldrin

STC, CMP. Loud and clear

STC Good morning, Buzz

Aldrin

Good morning. How are you gentlemen?

STC

Just fine thank you

INT. FIRING ROOM 1: Launch control personnel at work. MOTION GRAPHIC

-00:14:30 LAUNCH CUT TO: Launch controllers watching screens mounted above their consoles CUT TO: Launch controllers seated at their consoles in Firing Room 1

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER 14 minutes, 30 seconds and counting

…all still going well with the countdown at this time

…for status report, we’ll now switch to mission control Houston

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EXT. MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER: Aerial shot of facility GRAPHIC:

MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER

HOUSTON, TEXAS CUT TO: Interior of Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR). Flight Director Cliff Charlesworth sits at his console making notes. GRAPHIC:

MISSION OPERATIONS CONTROL ROOM

CUT TO: Split screen, left panel Cliff Charlesworth at his console with Gene Kranz next to him. Right panel a row of flight controllers, with Booster in foreground CUT TO: Split screen, left panel, close up down a line of consoles, right panel down a row of consoles CUT TO: Split screen, left panel comm loop buttons at Cliff Charlesworth’s console, right panel, row

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER This is Apollo Mission Control Flight Director Cliff Charlesworth’s team is

on station here in the Mission Operations Control Room, ready to assume the control of this flight at

tower clearance

FLIGHT DIRECTOR All flight controllers, coming up on

auto sequence. Booster, how are you?

BOOSTER

we’re go, flight

FLIGHT DIRECTOR EECOM?

EECOM Go flight

FLIGHT DIRECTOR GNC?

GNC

Go flight

FLIGHT DIRECTOR TELCOM?

TELCOM Go flight

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of flight contollers at their consoles, pans over to show Cliff Charlesworth at his console CUT TO: Low angle shot looking up at Saturn V rocket. MOTION GRAPHIC:

-00:05:57 LAUNCH CUT TO: Firing Room 1, tracking shot along consoles of seated Launch Controllers

FLIGHT DIRECTOR Control

CONTROL

Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR NETWORK…Got her Dale?

NETWORK

That’s affirmative, flight

CBTS Mission director, CBTS 111, verify go

for launch

MISSION DIRECTOR Go for launch

Public Affairs Officer We passed the 6 minute mark in our

countdown for Apollo 11 now 5 minutes, 52 seconds and counting

FLIGHT DIRECTOR BOOSTER, FLIGHT

CBTS CTSF, verify go for launch

CTSF

CTSF verifies go for launch

CBTS CTSC verify go for launch

CTSC

CTSC verifies go for launch

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FLIGHT DIRECTOR BOOSTER, FLIGHT

CBTS

SRO verify go for launch

SRO SRO verifies go for launch

CBTS

LM verify go for launch

LM LM go for launch

BOOSTER

GO FLIGHT…(INDISTICT)…roger, FLIGHT

CBTS

CBTS copies

CUT TO: F-1 engines at bottom of Saturn V. MOTION GRAPHIC:

-00:00:30 LAUNCH

CUT TO: base of Saturn V steaming on launch

platform CUT TO: Johnny Carson in viewing area

LAUNCH OPERATIONS MANAGER Apollo 11, this is Launch Operations

Manager. The launch team wishes you good luck and godspeed

ARMSTRONG

Sure has been a nice smooth countdown

LAUNCH OPERATIONS MANAGER Thank you babe. LMP…

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER T-Minus 60 seconds and counting. We

passed T-Minus 60

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11:40 Begin suspenseful music as the final seconds count down to launch. Feelings of Anticipation!

CUT TO: A man wearing a red RCA hat in the crowd of spectators CUT TO: Cameraman operating large, geared multi-camera platform CUT TO: Saturn V on launch pad as seen from across the Banana River CUT TO: Launch controller looking through binoculars CUT TO: Mid-section of Saturn V steaming on Launch pad

CUT TO: F-1 engines at bottom of Saturn V smoking CUT TO: Saturn V as seen through a shimmering wave of heat CUT TO: Launch Control administrators watching through binoculars from Firing Room 1

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER 55 seconds and counting…Neil

Armstrong just reported back it’s been a real smooth countdown

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER We passed the 50 second mark, power

transfer is complete…We’re on internal power with the launch vehicle at this time. 40 seconds away from the

Apollo 11 liftoff

All the second stage tanks now pressurized. 35 seconds and counting

We are still go with Apollo 11. 30

seconds and counting

CUT TO: Cameramen focusing on launch in press viewing area

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Astronauts report it feels good. T-

Minus 25 seconds

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12:20 Heavy Music Beat on each second as it ticks down to zero.

CUT TO: Saturn V in distance steaming on launch pad CUT TO: Woman with camera focusing on launch CUT TO: A group of spectators with cameras in viewing area focusing on launch CUT TO: A group of spectators. Several in military uniforms, focus cameras and binoculars on the launch. Many begin to stand CUT TO: Saturn V in distance on launch pad, thick steam billowing from base. MOTION GRAPHIC

-00:00:16 LAUNCH CUT TO: Base of Saturn V through heat waves steaming on the launch pad. MOTION GRAPHIC

-00:00:13 LAUNCH CUT TO: F-1 engines at base of Saturn V smoking. MOTION GRAPHIC

-00:00:11 LAUNCH

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER 20 seconds and counting

… T minus 15 seconds, guidance is internal

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER 12, 11, 10, 9… Ignition sequence starts

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CUT TO: bottom of rocket on launch pad. Steam billowing from tower

12:30 Loud! Rocket boosters fire up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

EXT. LAUNCH COMPLEX 39: Fire billowing from engines at bottom of Saturn V rocket CUT TO: Alternate angle, Fire billowing from engines at bottom of Saturn V rocket CUT TO: Entire Saturn V on launch pad, fire billowing from engines at bottom it CUT TO: Close up of base of rocket, sheets of ice falling down and breaking up CUT TO: close up of F-1 engines emitting flames as rocket lifts off CUT TO: Base of rocket lifting off from launch pad CUT TO: Entire rocket lifting off, clearing tower

(Sound of rocket launch)

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER

Liftoff! We have a liftoff. 32 minutes past the hour, liftoff on Apollo 11

FLIGHT CONTROLLER

Clear the tower

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Tower Clear!

ARMSTRONG

Roger, we got a roll program

Public Affairs Officer Neil Armstrong reporting the roll and pitch program which puts Apollo 11

on a proper heading.

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. 13:30 Feelings of Happiness as crowd cheers! Sounds remain very loud! .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13:45 Rocket becomes less loud as it passes into the atmosphere.

CUT TO: Apollo 11 lifting off from across the water, Spectators watching in foreground and applauding CUT TO: Cameramen tracks liftoff of Apollo 11 upwards with camera CUT TO: Woman in sunglasses, Apollo 11 lifting off visible in reflection of her glasses CUT TO: Spectator in hat and sunglasses, Apollo 11 visible in reflection in glasses CUT TO: Photographers in press viewing area taking pictures of Apollo 11 in flight CUT TO: Members of the press in press viewing area, radio announcer in center, watching Apollo 11 in flight CUT TO: A woman in red hat watches Apollo 11 in flight, mouth slightly open CUT TO: A woman with rose colored glasses takes photos of Apollo 11 in

(SOUND OF APPLAUSE OVER NOISE OF ROCKET)

(SOUND OF ROCKET)

(MUSIC IN)

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flight, a large smile on her face CUT TO: Apollo 11 in flight, trailing fire and smoke CUT TO: Aerial shot, showing crowds of people lined up along the seawall and sitting on top of parked cars watching the launch. Camera pans across water to show Apollo 11 in midair, trailing fire and smoke CUT TO: Shot from ground of Apollo 11 trailing fire and smoke

ARMSTRONG One Bravo

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER One bravo is a abort control mode…altitude’s two miles

CAPCOM

Apollo 11, Houston. You’re good at 1 minute.

ARMSTRONG

Roger

14:35 Begin louder music. Feelings of Suspense!

EXT. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER Aerial shot of Apollo 11 in flight, a condensation cloud forming around its upper stages and trailing downwards

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER We're through the region of maximum

dynamic pressure now.

FLIGHT CONTROLLER Yea, everything looks good here

CAPCOM

11, Houston. Your guidance is converged, you’re looking good.

FLIGHT CONTROLLER

We’re 1350 at the start, Bob

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER 8 miles downrange, 12 miles high.

Velocity 4,000 feet per second…

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CUT TO: Split screen. Left panel, Flight Director Cliff Charlesworth standing in Mission Operations Control Room. GRAPHIC:

FIDO

Standby for Mode One Charlie

CAPCOM Standby for Mode One Charlie

FIDO Mark

CAPCOM

Mark, Mode One Charlie

FLIGHT DIRECTOR Staging…BOOSTER

BOOSTER

Go

Flight Director FIDO

FIDO

Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR GUIDANCE

GUIDANCE

Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR Good for staging, Capcom

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER

Cliff Charlesworth taking a staging status

CAPCOM

Apollo 11, this is Houston, you are go for staging

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15:35 Loud boom as rocket separates. Suspenseful music continues.

CLIFF CHARLESWORTH FLIGHT DIRECTOR:

GREEN TEAM

Right panel, Apollo 11 in flight, footage taken from aircraft Split screen cont’d. Left panel CUTS TO close up of Bruce McCandless. GRAPHIC:

BRUCE MCCANDLESS CAPSULE

COMMUNICATOR (CAPCOM) GREEN TEAM

CUT TO: full screen of right panel, the rocket in flight. Explosive bolts fire, separating from first stage of rocket CUT TO: view from inside of second stage of rocket, J-2 engines at top of frame, as first stage falls away toward earth CUT TO: the rocket in flight, the first stage separated and now drifting behind the spacecraft CUT TO: View from inside second stage of rocket as

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Capcom Bruce McCandless giving the reports here from the control center

ARMSTRONG Staging…and ignition

FLIGHT CONTROLLER

Cutoff, ignition. Thrust is go all engines

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

Looks good, CAPCOM

CAPCOM Apollo, Houston. Thrust is go all

engines, you’re looking good

ARMSTRONG We’ve got skirt sep

CAPCOM

Roger, we confirm skirt sep

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engine skirt separates and falls away toward earth in background CUT TO: a semi-circle of light opens to reveal the Command Module window, earth visible to the right and sun above, as the launch escape tower is discarded CUT TO: The engine skirt and launch escape tower drifting away from the spacecraft CUT TO: Looking back toward earth from second stage of rocket. J-2 engines at top of frame, debris from staging floats around, including engine skirt at left of frame CUT TO: The command module window, the earth visible at the right, the sun at the top, slowly rotates CUT TO: View from inside second stage of rocket as the third stage of rocket separates from second stage. Condensation from

ARMSTRONG Tower’s gone

CAPCOM

Roger. Tower’s gone

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Neil Armstrong confirming the skirt

separation and the launch escape tower separation

ARMSTRONG Houston be advised, the visual is go

today

CAPCOM This is Houston, roger that

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Altitude is 100 miles, downrange 883

miles

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER

Outboard engine cutoff

ARMSTRONG And ignition

CAPCOM

Ignition confirmed thrust is go, 11

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER And we have a good third stage now.

FIDO

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ullage rockets washes over frame. Second stage rotates and Earth comes into view.

FLIGHT, FIDO, we are go.

FLIGHT DIRECTOR Confirmed go

CAPCOM

Apollo 11 this is Houston, you are confirmed go for orbit

ARMSTRONG

Roger

16:50 Music fades out. We can relax.

INT. MISSION OPERATIONS CONTROL ROOM (MOCR): A row of flight directors at their consoles, flight controller in foreground flips switch in mission operations control room CUT TO: Split Screen, left panel shows screen with dots running across, displaying heart rates. Right panel black then wider shot of same screen with flight surgeon gesturing at it

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER We have a report on the launch heart

rates now from the flight surgeon.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Commander Neil Armstrong, 110;

Command Module Pilot Mike Collins, 99; Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin,

88.

CUT TO: Computer animation showing earth and moon, a dotted line showing projected course of Apollo 11. Zoom in on animated spacecraft. GRAPHIC:

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Moving across the Atlantic now towards Africa. And on the next

revolution, the spacecraft will be accelerating to the required speed to

get it into an orbit to intercept the moon during the Trans-lunar Injection

Maneuver.

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TRANS-LUNAR INJECTION (TLI)

MANEUVER

CUT TO: View of earth from spacecraft window, rotating out of view and fading to black

ARMSTRONG

Houston, Apollo 11, that Saturn gave us a magnificent ride

CAPCOM

Roger 11, it certainly looks like you’re well on your way now

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER

That was Neil Armstrong praising the launch vehicle

CUT TO: computer animation showing transposition and docking maneuver. GRAPHIC:

TRANSPOSITION AND DOCKING (T&D)

MANEUVER

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER The crew at this time pressing ahead with their transposition and docking

maneuver. The spacecraft, after having separated the Saturn third

stage, turning around, docking with the Lunar Module, extracting the lunar

module from the Saturn third stage, and pushing ahead en route to the

moon

17:50 Fun music. Feelings of excitement.

View of earth from window of Command Module. GRAPHIC:

DAY 2 CUT TO: split screen, left panel—shot of mission control with screen on wall, displaying TV signal from spacecraft showing Earth. Right panel—TV

ALDRIN Morning Houston, Apollo 11

CAPCOM

Roger Apollo 11, good morning

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Goldstone reports they’re receiving

TV from the spacecraft

ARMSTRONG Calling in from about 130,000 miles

out

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signal from Spacecraft showing Earth. Left panel cuts to shot of flight controllers sitting at consoles, right panel CUTS TO Charlie Duke sitting at his console CUT TO: Split screen, left panel—Mike Collins speaking to camera. Right panel—Armstrong looking into camera , upside down. Left panel cuts to the guidance computer interface (DSKY) flashing the numbers 651 CUT TO : Split screen, left panel—astronaut crossing in front of camera aboard spacecraft. Right panel—wide shot of MOCR with screen displaying video signal from left panel CUT TO: TV camera shot of earth from window of spacecraft CROSS FADE TO: photo of earth from window of spacecraft, rotating. GRAPHIC TRACKS WITH EARTH:

DAY 2

COLLINS Hello there sports fans, you got a little

bit of me plus Neil’s on the center couch and you got Buzz is doing the camera work…Neil’s standing on his

head again, trying to make me nervous

CAPCOM

Roger, copy and we see the DSKY flashing with a 651

COLLINS

We do have a happy home, there’s plenty of room for the three of us

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER

Apollo 11 is presently 131,000 nautical miles from earth

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER

The spacecraft slowly rotates to maintain thermal balance

CAPCOM

It looks like we got a good PTC going. It’s good night from the white team,

over.

COLLINS Ok, see you tomorrow, thanks for

everything

CAPCOM Good morning, Apollo 11

ALDRIN

Good morning, Houston. Apollo 11.

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Earth tracks toward left side of window, then appears again at right side of window. GRAPHIC TRACKS WITH EARTH:

DAY 3 CUT TO : Split screen. Left panel—flight controllers walking through MOCR, right panel—tracking shot of flight controllers sitting at consoles. Left panel cuts to astronaut near LM hatch area. Left panel cuts to flight controllers looking at consoles, panning over to show TV signal on screen of astronauts near LM hatch area. Right panel cuts to astronauts opening the LM hatch. Left panel cuts to Aldrin opening LM hatch

ALDRIN Yeah, I’ve got the world in my window

for a change

CAPCOM Sounds like one of these rotating

restaurants

FLIGHT DIRECTOR Ok all flight controllers, let’s get

handed over pretty quickly to the white team here. We’re going to be crawling into the LM shortly, we’re

terminating PTC

NETWORK FLIGHT NETWORK, we’re receiving

live TV

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Interior view of the command module

looking up into the LM hatch area.

ALDRIN Ok, it’s moved now, coming down

ARMSTRONG Yeah, we’re about to open the hatch

now

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Buzz Aldrin has apparently carried the

camera into the LM with him

ALDRIN The vehicle is surprisingly very clean

CAPCOM

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CUT TO: Photo of Buzz Aldrin holding camera as he enters LM CUT TO: Split screen, left panel—Charlie Duke in MOCR. Behind him screen displays TV feed from spacecraft. Center panel—Buzz in sunglasses inside the LM (TV camera). Right panel--buzz in sunglasses in LM (film camera). CUT TO: Split screen, left panel—still photo of camera mounted to the window of the LM. Right panel—Buzz Aldrin affixing camera to window of the LM. Right panel cuts to Michael Collins in tunnel. Left panel cuts to same image of Collins displayed on MOCR TV screen camera pans to show Charlie Duke watching screen and smiling. Right panel cuts to sketchpad with a picture of Charlie Duke being sketched on it, zooms out to show artist

just a moment ago, we had a good shot of your PLSS, Buzz and the two helmet

stowage bags and now behind, we have the DSKY and the ACA

ALDRIN

That’s about the position we’ll be putting the camera in after the initial

descent down the ladder. It will be taking one frame a second

COLLINS

Hello there earthlings

CAPCOM Hello there

ARMSTRONG

Probably the most unusual position a cameraman’s ever had, hanging by his

toes from a tunnel and taking a picture upside down.

ALDRIN

We’re going to go ahead and take all the loose data on back into the

command module, Charlie.

CAPCOM Roger

ARMSTRONG And we’re going to turn our TV

monitor off now while we have some other work to do, Apollo 11, signing

off.

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making sketch. Left panel cuts to over the shoulder of sketch artist making sketch then pans to Charlie Duke and other flight controllers in the MOCR, with image from TV signal on screen displays. Center panel (TV image) cuts to Buzz Aldrin flipping a bag then launching it towards camera . Right panel cuts to same image from film camera, slightly wider. CUT TO: Buzz Aldrin in sunglasses in the LM. Camera pulls back through tunnel away from him. CUT TO: Satellite dish with sun setting behind it over mountains. Camera zooms out and we see a lens flair CUT TO: BLACK

CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. As the sun sinks

slowly in the west, the white team bids you good night.

ALDRIN

You earned your pay today Charlie

CAPCOM Rog, goodnight all

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20:30 Suspenseful music begins with a growing, heavy beat.

Fade in on image of the moon, a few wispy clouds passing in front. GRAPHIC:

JULY 20, 1969

FADE TO BLACK Computer animation of Command and Service Module (CSM) connected to Lunar Module (LM). The Lunar Module disconnects from the CSM, and rotates sideward. Its propulsion system fires as it approaches the Lunar surface, rotating again to orient its landing legs downward. CUT TO: close up of Eidophor screen in MOCR showing the position of the LM/CSM over the lunar surface. Zoom out to show console with model LM/CSM on it CUT TO: view of Lunar Module from window of Command Module. MOTION GRAPHIC:

DAY 5 -02:33:31 LANDING

The LM detaches and moves away from camera

WALTER CRONKITE This is of course the great day for

mankind when we leave our planet earth and set foot on the moon. So on this historic day, Neil Armstrong and

Buzz Aldrin are in their Lunar Module, in their spacesuits. On this next pass,

they are preparing to undock.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Both spacecraft looking very good at this time. The following revolution,

revolution 13, Armstrong and Aldrin, they will undock from the Command

and Service Module. From which point the powered descent to the lunar

surface will be initiated

CAPCOM APOLLO 11, Houston, we are go for

undocking over

ALDRIN Roger, understand

ARMSTRONG We’re all set when you are, Mike.

COLLINS Ok, here you go. See you later

ARMSTRONG

See ya

ALDRIN Looks like a good Sep

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CUT TO: Split screen. Right panel—continuous shot from previous frame: Eagle drifting away from Columbia. Left panel—Shot of Columbia from Eagle, drifting away, lunar surface in background.

ARMSTRONG

Eagle’s undocked

ALDRIN The Eagle has wings

ARMSTRONG Looking good

COLLINS

Thrusting…Ok, Eagle. One minute ‘til Tig. You guys take care.

ARMSTRONG See you later

21:30 Feelings of suspense grow stronger!

INT. MOCR Split screen, left panel--flight controllers at consoles. Flight Director Gene Kranz at right of frame. Right side of frame splits into 8 panels each one showing flight controller giving status check, in following order: RETRO, FIDO, GUIDANCE, CONTROL, TELCOM, GNC, EECOM, Surgeon.

FLIGHT DIRECTOR Ok, all flight controllers, Go/No Go for

powered descent. RETRO

RETRO Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

FIDO

FIDO Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

GUIDANCE

GUIDANCE Go

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CUT TO: Split screen, right panel—hand pushing button on console. Left panel—flight controller sitting at console with pocket watch in hand,

Flight Director: CONTROL

CONTROL

Go

Flight Director: TELCOM

TELCOM

Go

Flight Director GNC

GNC Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

EECOM

EECOM Go

Flight Director

Surgeon

SURGEON Go

Flight Director:

CAPCOM, we’re go for powered descent

CAPCOM EAGLE, Houston. If you read, you are

go for powered descent, over

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22:05 An alarm flashes on screen! Feelings of Suspense!

making notes. Right panel cuts to close up of pocket watch CUT TO: View of Eagle (Lunar Module) from window of Columbia (Command and Service Module). MOTION GRAPHIC:

-00:00:13 BURN FOR LUNAR LANDING

CUT TO: View from Eagle (Lunar Module) with part of spacecraft in foreground, as it descends toward lunar surface. Graphic next to FUEL and ALTITUDE readouts: red blinking “1202”

ARMSTRONG Descent armed

ALDRIN

Altitude light’s on

ARMSTRONG (garbled) proceed

ALDRIN

Proceed. One. Zero.

CAPCOM And Eagle, Houston. We had data dropout. You’re still looking good.

GUIDANCE

Looks good, FLIGHT. Looks good.

FLIGHT DIRECTOR Rog

ARMSTRONG

Houston, you’re looking at our Delta H

ARMSTRONG program alarm…it’s a 1202

ALDRIN

1202

FLIGHT CONTROLLER 1202 alarm

CAPCOM

1202…what’s that?

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22:50 The alarm is back! Feelings of even more suspense! Music builds dramatically.

Graphic next to FUEL and ALTITUDE readouts: red blinking “1202”

FLIGHT CONTROLLER 1202 alarm

JACK GARMAN

It’s executive overflow, if it does not occur again, we’re fine. If it has not

occurred again, continue

FLIGHT CONTROLLER Ok, we’re go

ARMSTRONG

Give us a reading on the 1202 program alarm

GUIDANCE

We’re go

CAPCOM Roger, we got you, we’re go on that

alarm

ARMSTRONG Roger

ALDRIN Same alarm and it appears to come up

when we have a 16/68 up

FLIGHT CONTROLLER 6 plus 25. Throttle down. 6 plus 25

throttle down.

ARMSTRONG Throttle down on time

ALDRIN

You can feel it in here when it throttles down. Better than the

simulator

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FLIGHT DIRECTOR Okay all flight controllers, Go/No Go

for landing. RETRO

RETRO Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

FIDO

FIDO Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

GUIDANCE

GUIDANCE Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

CONTROL

CONTROL Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

TELCOM

TELCOM Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

GNC

GNC Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

EECOM

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Graphic next to FUEL and ALTITUDE readouts: red blinking “1201”

EECOM Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

SURGEON

SURGEON Go

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

CAPCOM, we’re go for landing

CAPCOM Eagle, Houston. You’re go for landing.

Over

ALDRIN Roger, understand. Go for landing.

3000 feet. Program alarm

ALDRIN 1201

ARMSTRONG

1201

GUIDANCE Same type, we’re go FLIGHT

CAPCOM We’re go

ARMSTRONG

pretty rocky area

CONTROL Attitude hold

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

Ok, at hold

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23:35 Music changes to a heavy beat as the moon’s surface approaches.

“FUEL” in graphic glows yellow

ALDRIN 100 feet 3 and half down. 9 forward.

5%

CAPCOM Think we better be quiet flight

FLIGHT DIRECTOR

Rog…Ok the only call outs from now on will be fuel

CONTROL

Standby for 60…

FLIGHT DIRECTOR Rog

CONTROL

60

FLIGHT DIRECTOR 60 seconds

CAPCOM

60 seconds

ALDRIN lights on…feet down 2 1/2...5 feet

ARMSTRONG

Ok, Houston. looks like a good area here

ALDRIN

Looking good, down a half. 2 forward, forward. 40 feet down, 2 ½…picking

up some dust…30 feet, 2 ½ down

CONTROL 30

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24:30 Feelings of Joy and Relief!

“FUEL” IN GRAPHIC GLOWS RED CUT TO: Deke Slayton, Charlie Duke, and Jim Lovell sitting at consoles. Charlie Duke makes a gesture of relief. Slayton raises his arm to quiet the applause

FLIGHT DIRECTOR 30 seconds

ALDRIN

4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little…20 feet, down a half…drifting forward just a

little…light

ARMSTRONG Contact light. Shutdown

ALDRIN

Ok, engine stop…ACA out of detent

ARMSTRONG out of detent. Auto

ARMSTRONG

Mode control both auto. Descent Engine Command Override, off. Engine

Arm, off. 413 is in

ARMSTRONG Engine arm is off

CAPCOM We copy you down, Eagle

ARMSTRONG

Houston, ah. Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed

CAPCOM

Roger twan-Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of

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25:30 Feelings of awe and wonderment.

CUT TO: Shadow of LM on lunar surface CUT TO: MOCR Personnel, smiling. CUT TO: Shadow of LM on lunar surface CUT TO: Charlie Duke at console, smiling

guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot.

ARMSTRONG Thank you. Very smooth touchdown

FADE IN: Photo of lunar surface taken from LM. The first photo taken by a human on another world. LM thruster visible in foreground. Panning right to show shadow of LM CUT TO: Photo of LM with Earth visible beyond it CUT TO: Photo of LM shadow on lunar surface CUT TO: Photo of alternate angle of lunar surface, showing shadow of LM

ARMSTRONG

Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The auto

targeting was taking us right into a football field sized crater, and it

required us flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good

area

CAPCOM

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CUT TO: Photo of a rocky area of lunar surface. FADE TO BLACK

Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here. Be advised there are lots of

smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

INT. MOCR Heart rate display at surgeon’s console. Zoom out to flight controllers looking at consoles in the MOCR

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER We have some heartrates for Neil Armstrong during that powered

descent to the lunar surface. At the time the burn was initiated,

Armstrong’s heartrate was 110, at touchdown on the lunar surface he

had a heartrate of 156 and the heart rate is now in the 90s…

26:50 Feelings of being amazed. About to take the first step on the moon.

View from LM window showing shadow of LM on lunar surface.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER …and we do not have biomedical data

on Buzz Aldrin

ARMSTRONG The hatch is coming open

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER

Hatch reported coming open at 109 hours, 8 minutes, 5 seconds

INT. MOCR: View on consoles and projection screens of TV signal from lunar surface CUT TO: View from LM window, Armstrong’s shoulder visible as he begins to descend ladder

CAPCOM And we’re getting a picture on the TV

ALDRIN OK

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27:40 Feelings of amazement!

View of Neil Armstrong from LM window as he reaches bottom of ladder

CUT TO: Inside MOCR, flight controllers watch screens CUT TO: Flight controllers watching screens inside MOCR

ARMSTRONG I’m at the foot of the ladder. The LM footpads are only depressed in the

surface about one or two inches, although the surface appears to be

very, very fine grained as you get close to it, it’s almost like a powder. Ground mass is very fine…I’m going to step off the LM now…that’s one small step for

man. One giant leap for mankind.

ARMSTRONG

It has a stark beauty all its own. It’s like the much of the high desert of the United States. It’s different, but it’s

very pretty out here.

Series of photos of Aldrin emerging from LM and coming down ladder

ALDRIN How far are my feet from the…

ARMSTRONG

Ok, you’re right at the edge of the porch

ALDRIN

Ok, now I want to back up and partially close the hatch…making sure

not to lock it on my way out…

ARMSTRONG [Laughter] Particularly good thought

ARMSTRONG

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CUT TO: Split Screen, left panel--flight controllers watching TV feed of Aldrin standing on lunar surface next to ladder. Right panel---TV feed of Aldrin standing on lunar surface next to ladder. CUT TO: Split Screen, left panel—image from window of LM, showing shadow on lunar surface. Right panel—video feed of Armstrong and Aldrin standing next to LM landing gear. Left panel CUTS TO image of plaque on landing gear.

You’re on…You’ve got three more steps, then a long one.

ALDRIN

Beautiful view

ARMSTRONG Isn’t that something? Magnificent

sight out here

ALDRIN Magnificent desolation

CAPCOM We’re getting a new picture, you can

tell it’s a longer focal length lens

ARMSTRONG For those who haven’t read the

plaque, we’ll read the plaque that’s on the front landing gear of the LM. “Here

men from the planet earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 AD. We

came in peace for all mankind”

Tracking shot in front of

consoles in MOCR

CAPCOM Columbia this is Houston reading you

loud and clear, over.

COLLINS Yeah, reading you loud and clear.

How’s it going?

CAPCOM Roger, the EVA is progressing

beautifully. They’re setting up the flag now.

COLLINS

Great!

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CUT TO: Shot of TV feed on projection screen in MOCR as Aldrin and Armstrong set up American Flag CUT TO: Split screen, left panel—view from LM of Armstrong and Aldrin near flag. Right Panel—view from TV camera showing Armstrong and Aldrin near flag with LM in background CUT TO: Photos of Aldrin saluting flag

CAPCOM

I guess you’re about the only person around that doesn’t have TV coverage

of the scene

COLLINS How is the quality of the TV?

CAPCOM

Oh, it’s beautiful Mike. It really is. They’ve got the flag up now and you

can see the stars and stripes from the lunar surface

COLLINS

Beautiful, just beautiful

Series of photos documenting the set-up of the lunar science experiments

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER The SEQ bay contains the scientific

experiments to be left on the surface of the moon.

ALDRIN

You got us a good area picked out?

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Buzz Aldrin carrying the two

experiments

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ARMSTRONG

Straight out on that rise out there is probably as good as any

ALDRIN

I’m going to have to get on the other side of this rock here

ARMSTRONG

The laser reflector is installed, and the bubble’s level and the alignment

appears to be good.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER They’ve been on their life support systems 2 hours and 25 minutes

ALDRIN

Houston, I have the seismic experiment flipped over now and I’m

aligning it with the sun and all parts of the solar array are clear of the ground

now

Photo of Aldrin on lunar

surface. Armstrong and LM are visible in reflection in visor.

CUT TO: Photo of the lunar surface covered in footprints

ALDRIN Anything more before I head on up,

Bruce?

CAPCOM Negative, head on up the ladder, Buzz

ALDRIN

Adios, amigos.

ARMSTRONG OK

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER

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CUT TO: Series of photos of Aldrin and Armstrong inside LM CUT TO: Photo of LM with Earth beyond it FADE TO BLACK

Transferring the sample containers into the LM cabin now. Unofficial time

off the surface at 111:37:32

ALDRIN Ok, the hatch is closed and latched and

verified secure

ARMSTRONG OK

CAPCOM

And we’d like to say from all of us down here in Houston and really from

all of us in all the countries in the entire world, we think you’ve done a magnificent job up there today. Over.

ARMSTRONG

Thank you very much

ALDRIN It’s been a long day

CAPCOM

Yes indeed. Get some rest there and have at it tomorrow

Computer animation of

LM lifting off from lunar surface and docking with CM. GRAPHIC:

DAY 6 GRAPHIC:

LUNAR LIFTOFF & RENDEZVOUS

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Almost 5,000 pounds of propellant

will be run through the ascent engine on the ascent burn which will place

Eagle back into lunar orbit and following that, the rendezvous

sequence…(indistinct)… completed with the docking at 128 hours

approximately.

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CUT TO: row of Mission Control administrators including Chris Kraft.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Flight Operations Director, Chris Kraft,

commented that some 500 million people around the world were helping push Eagle off the moon and back into

orbit

32:05 Loud static of Rocket Blast through radio.

INT MOCR Split screen, left panel—Glynn Lunney at console. Right panel—black. Motion Graphic:

-00:00:18 LUNAR LIFTOFF

Left panel CUTS TO: series of flight controllers and administrators Right panel CUTS TO: bright light then view from LM window as it lifts off. CUT TO: full screen of view from LM window of lunar liftoff

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER GUIDANCE reports both navigation systems on Eagle are looking good.

ALDRIN [static] 9,8,7,6,5, abort stage, engine

arm. Ascent. proceed.

ARMSTRONG The Eagle has wings

ALDRIN Standby for

pitchover…pitchover…very smooth. …

ARMSTRONG We’re going right down U.S. 1

CAPCOM

Roger

GUIDANCE

30 seconds, FLIGHT

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CUT TO: split screen, left panel— Guidance officer Steve Bales. GRAPHIC

STEVE BALES GUIDANCE OFFICER

(GUIDO) WHITE TEAM Right panel—flight controllers at consoles with Eidophor screens beyond them. Right Panel cuts to close up on Eidophor screen showing positions of Columbia and Eagle CUT TO: View from LM window of lunar surface passing below

ALDRIN 700, 150 up. Beautiful

FLIGHT DIRECTOR TELCOM

TELCOM

GO

CAPCOM

Eagle, Houston. Aft Omni, low-bit rate, and we’ll see you at 127 plus 51

CUT TO: View from CM window of lunar surface passing below. The LM becomes visible far below and grows closer.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER 127 hours, 39 minutes, 39.2 seconds. This is the start time for a series of velocity match maneuvers to bring Eagle in with Columbia

ALDRIN

Ah, Houston, the AGS has a Delta-H of 15.5 and a maneuver of 51.3

CAPCOM

Roger, we copy

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33:15 Feelings of anticipation as the two vehicles dock.

CUT TO: View of Columbia from LM as it rotates nose forward CUT TO: View of Eagle from Columbia, growing nearer CUT TO: Split screen, left panel—Columbia. Right panel—Eagle. Each growing larger in frame CUT TO: Full screen view of Columbia from Eagle

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER As the two vehicles come around on

the 26th lunar revolution, Mike Collins aboard Columbia is spring loaded to

do what is called a mirror image maneuver

ARMSTRONG

Ok, we’re about [garbled] feet a second coming in at you

COLLINS

Eagle, Columbia. I’ve got 470 now for R-dot, and I just broke lock. Could you

hold silence for a few seconds here while I re-acquire

COLLINS:

Columbia has reacquired you

ARMSTRONG Ok, Mike, I’ll try to get in position here

and then you got it

COLLINS Eagle, Columbia’s starting to

maneuver to TPI attitude

ARMSTRONG OK

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35:50 A docking sound is heard. Feelings of relief.

CUT TO: Full screen view from Columbia of Eagle as it rotates into docking position CUT TO: Split screen, left panel—Columbia. Right panel—Eagle. Each growing larger in frame CUT TO: Full screen view of Eagle CUT TO: Full screen view of Columbia CUT TO: Full screen view of Eagle CUT TO: Full screen view of Columbia CUT TO: Full screen view of Eagle, getting closer and docking CUT TO: View from LM window of CM, now attached CUT TO: SPLIT SCREEN Flight controllers at their consoles, including Gene Kranz and Charlie Duke

ARMSTRONG [Garbled}

ARMSTRONG Looks good, Mike

ALDRIN Ok, we’re all yours, Columbia

ALDRIN

Tell ‘em to open up the LRL doors, Charlie

CAPCOM

Roger, we got you coming home

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CUT TO: CHARLIE DUKE SMILING

36:20 Begin fun music over radio. 36:35 Music is suddenly clear and joyous!

Shot of Earth from CM window GRAPHIC:

DAY 7 MOTION GRAPHIC:

-37:51:34 RE-ENTRY

CUT TO: interior of CM, a tape recorder flipping end over end CUT TO: Split screen, left panel—Mike Collins shaving, right panel Aldrin looking into camera. Right panel CUTS TO: TV display in MOCR showing Aldrin looking at a canister in his hands. Panning over to show flight controllers watching Left panel CUTS TO flight controllers looking at notes in MOCR Right Panel CUTS TO flight controller watching screen CUT TO: Flight controller watching TV feed of Collins eating

ALDRIN Let’s get some music…how about

these tapes?

Song: Mother Country by John Stewart

When a century was born and a century had died

About these good old days, the old

lady replied

Why, they were just a lot of people, doing the best they could

Just a lot of people, doing the best they

could

And then the lady said that they did it pretty up and walking good

Whatever happened to those faces in the old photographs?

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37:10 Feelings of excitement grow.

CUT TO: alternate view of flight controller watching feed CUT TO: Flight controller in MOCR CUT TO: Camera zooms in on Charlie Duke smiling in MOCR CUT TO: Split screen, left panel—Armstrong in CM. Center panel—Aldrin in CM. Right panel—Collins in CM CUT TO: Computer animation showing trajectory of Apollo 11 as it returns to Earth. Breaks into split screen: center panel—Apollo 11 patch on flight suit. Right panel—Recovery ship, USS Hornet CUT TO: Full screen aerial shot of USS Hornet. Graphic:

U.S.S. HORNET RECOVERY SHIP

CUT TO: Split screen, left panel—controllers at consoles. Center panel—controllers at consoles. Graphic

RECOVERY ROOM HOUSTON, TEXAS

I mean the little boys. Boys—hell they

were men

And here they come…sitting straight and proud

And he’s driving her stone blind

And would you look at her

Ah, she never looked finer, always better than today

Sweetheart on parade

And the people cheered

Why I even saw grown men break right down and cry

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38:13 Music suddenly cuts back to radio.

Right panel—controllers at consoles watching displays. Each panel cuts to different shot of controllers preparing for re-entry CUT TO: Radar antennas on USS Hornet CUT TO: ARIA aircraft in flight over deck of USS Hornet

CUT TO: Helicopters aboard deck of USS Hornet CUT TO: Split screen. Left panel—Buzz Aldrin in CM. Right panel—Carl Seiberlich, Commander of the USS Hornet talking to a member of the ship’s crew. Right panel CUTS TO: technician mounting camera on helicopter on deck of USS Hornet. Left panel CUTS TO: Charlie Duke watching TV screen in MOCR Right panel CUTS TO: helicopter being lowered from deck of USS Hornet

And the sun it is going down for Mr. Bouie

As he’s singing with his class of 1902

Oh, mother country, I do love you

Oh, mother country, I do love you

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Left panel CUTS TO: Flight controllers in MOCR Right panel CUTS TO: radar display aboard USS Hornet Left panel CUTS TO: Deke Slayton talking to Bruce McCandless in MOCR Right panel CUTS TO: technicians prepping the mobile quarantine unit CUT TO: tape recorder flipping aboard the CM CUT TO: Armstrong at controls of CM, looks into camera

View of Earth from window of CM

ARMSTRONG Hey-this should be getting larger. And

if it is, it’s the place we’re coming home to. No matter where you travel,

it’s always nice to get home

CAPCOM We concur, 11…we’ll be happy to have

you back

Black. GRAPHIC:

FINAL TV BROADCAST FROM SPACE

GRAPHIC:

DAY 8 MOTION GRAPHIC:

-18:18:27 RE-ENTRY

ARMSTRONG …good S-band signal strength now,

Houston?

CAPCOM Ok, you’re coming through loud and

clear now, 11, with your patch.

ALDRIN

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38:15 Feelings of Pride and Accomplishment.

SPLIT SCREEN: Left Panel—flight controllers in MOCR watching TV transmission. Right panel—black. Left Panel CUTS TO alternate shot of flight controllers watching video feed. Right panel—Aldrin speaking to camera aboard CM. Left panel cuts to alternate shot of flight controllers in MOCR. Left panel CUTS TO Michael Collins talking to camera aboard CM. Right panel CUTS TO technicians in hangar watching broadcast. Right panel CUTS TO hundreds of technicians seated in hangar watching transmission. CUT TO: center panel—Neil Armstrong talking to camera. Left panel CUTS TO: technicians watching broadcast. Right panel CUTS TO: flight controllers in MOCR watching transmission. Right panel CUTS TO technicians in hangar. Left panel CUTS TO technicians in hangar. Right panel CUTS TO technicians standing in a group in hangar. Left panel CUTS TO technicians standing in a

This has been far more than three men on a voyage to the moon. We feel

that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of mankind to

explore the unknown

COLLINS This operation is somewhat like the

periscope of a submarine: all you see is the three of us. But beneath the

surface are thousands and thousands of others.

ARMSTRONG We’d like to give a special thanks to all

those Americans who built the spacecrafts. Who did the construction, design, the tests, and put their hearts and all their abilities into those crafts.

To those people, we give a special thank you. And to all the other people

that are listening and watching tonight, God bless you. Goodnight

from Apollo 11.

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group. Right panel CUTS TO technicians standing and seated in a group. Right and left panels CUT TO black.

40:05 Slightly loud sound of a Helicopter.

Black. GRAPHIC:

DAY 9

MOTION GRAPHIC: -00:30:08 RE-ENTRY

FADE IN on deck of USS Hornet. ARIA aircraft at edge of deck. Sun low over the horizon CUT TO: helicopter takes off from deck of USS Hornet CUT TO: Computer animation showing Apollo 11 re-entry trajectory, and maneuver to splashdown Graphic:

RE-ENTRY

CUT TO: Radar antenna aboard USS Hornet with moon visible beyond.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER

Weather in the recovery area: skies will be partly cloudy, 6-foot sea,

temperature near 80 degrees

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER This landing area is 215 miles to the northeast from the original landing

area, moved because of thundershowers in the original area

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER

Apollo 11’s distance now is 3000 nautical miles, velocity now 26,685

feet per second. In the next 20 minutes, Apollo 11 will add almost

10,000 feet per second to that figure. Entry at 75 statute miles. Beginning

blackout at 62 statute miles. And main shoot deployment 10,500 feet

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Graphic:

U.S.S. HORNET—ON STATION AT LANDING

AREA

41:15 Louder sounds as they begin re-entry. .. Grows even louder. 42:05 Suddenly silence. Feelings of Anticipation.

View from window of CM, at first just black but window begins to glow red as atmosphere friction increases. Motion graphic:

-00:00:18 RE-ENTRY VELOCITY 24641MPH

Earth’s horizon comes into view. CUT TO BLACK CUT TO: Flight controllers at consoles in MOCR CUT TO: Flight Controllers in MOCR CUT TO: Crewmen in bridge of USS Hornet, one with binoculars

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Guidance officer reports the

Command Module computer looks good and the guidance and navigation

system is go

CAPCOM And 11, Houston. You’re going over the hill there shortly, you’re looking

mighty fine to us

ARMSTRONG See you later

ALDRIN

There’s your horizon

ARMSTRONG Got the horizon now

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER And beginning of blackout

approximately 17 seconds after entry interface into the atmosphere.

400,000 feet or approximately 85 miles above the Earth

SATELLITE TRACKING STATION

(indistinct) LOS

REDSTONE TRACKING STATION

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CUT TO: Close up of crewman with binoculars in bridge of USS Hornet CUT TO: ARIA aircraft in flight CUT TO: Split screen, left and right panels show personnel in MOCR waiting for signal CUT TO: Split screen, left and right panels show personnel in MOCR wait for signal CUT TO: Split screen, left and right show personnel in MOCR waiting for signal CUT TO: Personnel in MOCR wait for signal CUT TO: Personnel in MOCR wait for signal CUT TO: Personnel in MOCR wait for signal CUT TO: Aircraft on deck of USS Hornet CUT TO: Crewmen on deck of USS Hornet CUT TO: Recovery room personnel

REDSTONE LOS. Blackout

CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, through ARIA

CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, through ARIA 4

FLIGHT DIRECTOR Ok, CAPCOM, one last call here then

we’ll have to give up and let the Recovery people have it

CAPCOM

Apollo 11, Houston through ARIA

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CUT TO: Crewmen performing navigation tasks aboard USS Hornet CUT TO: Radar display aboard USS Hornet CUT TO: Series of shots of personnel in MOCR waiting for contact

43:20 Feelings of Joy! And Celebration!

EXT. LANDING AREA Shoots deploying from Command Module CUT TO: Series of shots: MOCR personnel applauding and celebrating pan over to projection screens CUT TO: aerial shot of CM descending with chutes deployed CUT TO: view from Command Module of chutes

RECOVERY OFFICER Apollo 11, Apollo 11 this is Hornet

Hornet, over

COLLINS This is Apollo 11, reading you loud

and clear. Our position—1330 16915

FLIGHT CONTROLLER There they are!

RECOVERY OFFICER Condition of crew. Over

ARMSTRONG The condition of the crew…4,000-

3500 feet on the way down. Latitude, longitude, 13. 30; 169.15…over

RECOVERY OFFICER Hornet roger, copy. Out

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER

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CUT TO: aerial shot of CM Splashing down

Hornet reports spacecraft right on target point

RESCUE PERSONNEL

Splashdown!

RECOVERY OFFICER Hornet copies

44:50 Feelings of celebration as the crowd cheers!

Helicopters circling CM in water CUT TO: CM in water with rescue divers approaching CUT TO: Astronaut being lifted in cage by helicopter CUT TO: Rescue helicopter landing on deck of Hornet CUT TO: Spectators, including Richard Nixon,

SWIM 1

This is SWIM 1 the Command Module is at stable 1

RECOVERY OFFICER

Hornet roger

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Stable 1 now, stable 1

COLLINS

Our condition is we’re all three excellent. We’re just fine, take your

time

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER That was Mike Collins reporting the

crew is excellent

RESCUE OFFICER The third astronaut is in the

(indistinct) and on his way up

(INDISTINCT)

RECOVERY 1 This is RECOVERY 1, I have three

astronauts aboard…tower frequency tower frequency

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watch landing from Hornet CUT TO: Recovery helicopter taxis in on deck of Hornet CUT TO: Rescue helicopter being lowered from deck of hornet. Spectators and band stands on deck CUT TO: Personnel in MOCR watching the Recovery

HORNET

RECOVERY 1, HORNET,Understand Big Swimmer has completed his

decontamination of the Command Module

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER The elevator will take Recovery 1

down to the hangar deck where the crew will enter the Mobile Quarantine

Facility

EXT. DECK OF USS HORNET Split screen: left panel—crew exiting recovery helicopter and entering mobile quarantine unit. Right panel-- personnel in MOCR celebrating CUT TO: Interior of Mobile Quarantine Facility as crew enters CUT TO: Personnel in MOCR celebrating

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER And the flags are waving and the

cigars are being lit up and clear across the big board in front is President

John F Kennedy’s message to congress of May, 1961

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45:55 Feelings of happiness!

CUT TO: Projection screen at front of MOCR showing quote by John F Kennedy CUT TO: The crew smiling and waving from the window of the Mobile Quarantine Facility CUT TO: The crew speaking to personnel from the window of the Mobile Quarantine Facility CUT TO: series of shots of flight controllers celebrating CUT TO: USS Hornet, its decks lined with crewmen, a banner reading “Hornet +3 Apollo 11”. Panning over to show Mobile Quarantine unit on deck. CUT TO: M/S of mobile quarantine facility CUT TO: series of shots of spectators waiving and taking photos of Mobile Quarantine Unit CUT TO: The CM being lifted from the water onto the deck of the hornet

JOHN F. KENNEDY

…even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision. For we do not now know…

…what benefits await us. But if I were

to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon,

…240,000 miles away from the control

station in Houston…

…a giant rocket, more than 300 feet tall. Fitted together with a precision

better than the finest watch…

…carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control,

communications, food and survival. On an untried mission, to an unknown

celestial body…

…and then return it safely to Earth,

reentering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing

heat about half that on the temperature of the sun, almost as hot as it is here today, and do all this, and

do all this and do it right, and do it first, before this decade is out…

Then we must be bold

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CUT TO: President Kennedy at lectern making speech FADE TO BLACK

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