Ugly, angry, with four legs and wrapped in gold: it was a spacecraft like nothing on Earth.

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This is the story of Grumman’s lunar module, which took astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon.

Presented by: Kevin Fong.

Starring:
Charlie Duke
Dick Dunne
John Devaney
Alan Contessa
Neil Armstrong (Courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project)
Tom Kelly (Courtesy of the MIT Museum Collections)

Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music.

Listen to the podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083...

Watch Season 1 of 13 Minutes to the Moon here:    • 13 Minutes to the Moon  

Watch Season 2 of 13 Minutes to the Moon here:    • Playlist  

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