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Transcript: A Celebration of the Historic Apollo 11 Flight - Part 1
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- July 19, 1994
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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 ...