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"   When Rhett Turner&amp;#039;s voice broadcast out from a Houston studio in July 1969, describing in clear, deliberate language the events of Apollo 11, it was heard over shortwave radio by people in dozens of countries around the world--from Australia and remote parts of India to the space race-era Soviet Union. All except the United States. &amp;quot;I was big in Fiji,&amp;quot; says Turner, then the worldwide English anchor for Voice of America (VOA), half-jokingly. &amp;quot;But we were unknown in this country.&amp;quot;  A federally funded broadcasting network begun during World War II, VOA reached what was probably the largest audience in radio history at the time of Apollo 11--some 615 million people, not including the tally from communist countries, according to the book Voice of America by Alan Heil. VOA went on to win the prestigious Peabody Award for broadcasting later that year.  Turner, a licensed pilot, traveled to Houston to interview all three Apollo 11 astronauts before the mission--producing the clips from preflight interviews (below). &amp;quot;Some of my interviews were tailored to drop into my on-air broadcast later,&amp;quot; Turner says. &amp;quot;Say Buzz Aldrin was outside the spacecraft somewhere. I would have prerecorded an interview with him telling me what he would be doing.&amp;quot; Those clips, as well as VOA clips from a press conference with Wernher Von Braun and interviews with such luminaries as Isaac Asimov and John Glenn, were gleaned from the National Archives for PM&amp;#039;s Apollo 11 40th anniversary special. They have never before been broadcast in the United States.   John Glenn, the first U.S. astronaut to go in orbit, on Feb. 20, 1962, aboard the Mercury-Atlas 6.  President John F. Kennedy peers into the window of the Friendship 7 space capsule, used by astronaut John Glenn (who stands next to Kennedy) during his Mercury-Atlas 6 space mission. (Photo by John Dominis/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)    Audio: John Glenn on Apollo 11&amp;#039;s Achievements  &amp;quot;Curiosity is what all of man&amp;#039;s progress is based on...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;    Dr. Wernher Von Braun, the director of NASA&amp;#039;s Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle     Audio: Von Braun on the Team Effort Behind Apollo 11 &amp;quot;Our flight has 300,000 fathers ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Von Braun on his Feelings After Splashdown &amp;quot;We have made, as Neil Armstrong so aptly put it, a giant step ... a giant leap ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Von Braun on the Atmosphere at Mission Control After Armstrong and Aldrin Walk on the Moon  &amp;quot;The flight was not over ... a lot of things have to go right and a lot of things, of course, also could go wrong ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Von Braun Reads Statements From the Time &amp;quot;1969 will survive as a year for forever ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;    Isaac Asimov, pre-eminent science-fiction writer.  Science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov poses, December 1985, in New York City. (Photo by Claudio Edinger/Liaison)    Audio: Asimov on Colonizing the Moon &amp;quot;I look forward to a time when humans will colonize the moon ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Asimov on Colonizing the Solar System &amp;quot;It will be our task to colonize the Solar System ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;    Don Beattie, program manager, Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments.     Audio: Beattie on the Threat of Contamination &amp;quot;It would be tragic if we, upon returning, contaminated our Earth.&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;    Neil Armstrong  Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong. (Photo by NASA/Time &amp;amp;amp; Life Pictures/Getty Images)    Audio: Introducing Neil Armstrong     &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Armstrong on the Primary Objective of Apollo 11 &amp;quot;Apollo 11 was man&amp;#039;s first attempt to ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Armstrong on What Liftoff Feels Like &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a great amount of noise ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Armstrong on Learning From Past Missions &amp;quot;The most important experience from Apollo 10 is a refinement of craft and procedure ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Armstrong on the Difficulty of Piloting the Descent to the Lunar Surface &amp;quot;Are we in fact at the precise geometric location that we expected to start the maneuver?&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;    Michael Collins  From left to right, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin &amp;#039;Buzz&amp;#039; Aldrin Jr., the crew of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing mission, are subjected to a period of quarantine upon their return to Earth. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)    Audio: Introducing Michael Collins     &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Collins on the Future of Space Tourism &amp;quot;We will now be able to offer human beings the option of walking on the surface of ... the moon or some other planet ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Collins on His Role as Command Module Pilot &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d be a fool to say that I have the best seat of the three, but I&amp;#039;m very happy to have the seat which I do ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Collins on His Most Difficult Apollo 11 Task &amp;quot;I hope I&amp;#039;ll be very unbusy ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Collins on Mission Control&amp;#039;s Role in Rendezvous &amp;quot;I have the utmost confidence in their ability to help me ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Collins on Spacesuits &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a tough business...&amp;quot;     &amp;amp;gt;    Edwin &amp;quot;Buzz&amp;quot; Aldrin     Audio: Introducing Buzz Aldrin     &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Aldrin on the Final Landing Approach     &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Aldrin on Controlling the Rate of Descent &amp;quot;As soon as we start to throw this little toggle switch, the computer immediately says ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Aldrin on What Will Occur on the Moon &amp;quot;One of the first things we&amp;#039;ll be engaged in is making immediate decisions as to how long we&amp;#039;ll be staying ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Aldrin on Sleeping on the Moon &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think we&amp;#039;ll be able to answer that until ... we give it a try ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;       Audio: Aldrin on Risks of Rendezvous &amp;quot;I feel we have a very sound plan that is quite flexible ...&amp;quot;      &amp;amp;gt;    &amp;amp;gt;  style=&amp;quot;color:#ccc;border:6px solid #cc0000;&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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