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00:00Apollo 11, this is Houston.
00:02Welcome to Apollo 11 Mission Control.
00:05Well, what's left of it anyway.
00:07The Space Race.
00:08Twelve years of open warfare between two superpowers.
00:11The United States and the Soviet Union.
00:14We used our best missiles, our best pilots.
00:16Scientists and engineers.
00:17We employed aircraft carriers, radar stations,
00:20all the military hardware we had to defeat our ideological nemesis.
00:25When each team had over 20,000 nuclear warheads apiece.
00:31The Space Race was the defining act of the second half of the 20th century.
00:35Time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement.
00:40Fifty years ago, men from planet Earth first set foot upon the moon.
00:44You owe it to yourself and to history to experience the space age from the inside
00:50and see how it took hundreds of small steps to get to that one giant leap.
00:56I'm Bill Whittle and this is what we saw.