Transcript: A Celebration of the Historic Apollo 11 Flight - Part 1

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BOB EDWARDS, Host: If you made a list of the most spectacular technological achievements in human history, landing on the moon probably would be at the top. It's been 25 years since the Apollo 11 mission. NPR' s Alex Chadwick recalls the moments leading up to the lunar landing.

[interior of National Air and Space Museum]

ALEX CHADWICK, Reporter: The great hall of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington holds an astounding array of icons from this century, but nothing more arrestingly displayed than the Wright brothers flyer, 1903; and just below and in front of it, the Apollo 11 lunar command module, 1969, that actually took the first pioneers ...

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