We are five and a half minutes to the moon. Tension goes “through the roof”. Neil Armstrong takes control and the fuel starts to run out. In Mission Control, flight controllers count down to 60 seconds of fuel remaining – and then 30 seconds… With Kevin Fong.
Starring:
Steve Bales
Charlie Duke
Gerry Griffin
Courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project:
Neil Armstrong
Gene Kranz
Jack Garman
Bob Carlton
Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music
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Episodes
Date
Duration
Introducing The Bomb
Emily’s grandad worked on the bomb that fell on Hiroshima. Could another man – Leo Szilard - have stopped it? This is the new series...
Wednesday 12 August 2020
00:02:55
S2 Ep.07 Resurrection
“I still have nightmares about this.” Can the crew survive the dangers of re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere? An error could see them...
Sunday 07 June 2020
01:00:31
S2 Bonus 02: John Aaron
Special episode with Nasa legend, flight controller John Aaron.
This extended interview ranges from John first learning about the...
Thursday 16 April 2020
00:39:47
S2 Bonus 01: Jim Lovell
Special episode with Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell. An extended interview.
The true space pioneer talks to Kevin Fong about everything from...
Tuesday 14 April 2020
00:41:13
S2 Ep.06 Earth in view
The crew are off course, 200,000 miles from home and without a guidance computer. Their lives now depend on their flying skills - and Jim...
Sunday 12 April 2020
00:31:05
S2 Delay to Episode 7
Producer Andrew Luck-Baker explains why the season finale will be delayed.
Saturday 11 April 2020
00:03:33
S2 Ep.05 Life support
“We were being poisoned by our own exhalation.” Carbon dioxide threatens to kill the crew. Mission control must improvise as the most...
Sunday 05 April 2020
00:34:36
S2 Ep.04 Power brokers
Power must be brutally rationed after the crew fly around the Moon. As systems are switched off, their cold, dark ship is reduced to little...
Sunday 29 March 2020
00:45:05
S2 Ep.03 Lifeboat
The astronauts are fighting for their lives. As the oxygen level plummets, they must escape to the lunar lander. It's a desperate act of...
Monday 23 March 2020
00:44:49
S2 Ep.02 Death of the Odyssey
“We were in deep, deep trouble.” This is Mission Control like you’ve never heard it before. After the explosion, denial and disbelief...
Monday 16 March 2020
00:45:45
S2 Ep.01 Time bomb: Apollo 13
“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” To ignite catastrophe would take just the flick of a single switch. Why Nasa’s third bid to land on...
Monday 09 March 2020
00:43:33
Countdown to Season 2
Jump on board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story, told by the people who flew it and saved it. Lift off is on...
Wednesday 19 February 2020
00:03:50
Bonus: The making of the music
Hans Zimmer in a special episode about creating the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music. The Oscar and Grammy-winning composer talks music,...
Monday 23 December 2019
00:21:37
Bonus: The music by Hans Zimmer
Hear the full theme music from 13 Minutes to the Moon. By Hans Zimmer and produced and arranged by Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers...
Monday 23 December 2019
00:03:55
Ep.12 Live from Houston
“We choose to go.” The season finale comes from where President John F Kennedy made his famous Moon speech to rally the US behind the...
Friday 19 July 2019
00:59:08
Ep.11 The 13 minutes
History as it happened, uninterrupted: every word, every crackle, the tension and triumph. Hear how Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became...
Sunday 14 July 2019
00:18:33
Ep.10 ‘For all mankind’
History as it happened, explained. Kevin Fong guides us through the descent to the Moon from start to finish, using Capcom Charlie Duke’s...
Sunday 14 July 2019
00:46:00
Ep.09 Tranquility Base
We are five and a half minutes to the moon. Tension goes “through the roof”. Neil Armstrong takes control and the fuel starts to run...
Sunday 07 July 2019
00:38:52
Ep.08 ‘We’re go for powered descent’
The 13 minutes begin. Eagle is going too fast. There are communications problems. We have met the people and heard about the Apollo 11...
Sunday 30 June 2019
00:41:13
Ep.07 Michael Collins: Third man
Without the astronaut who didn’t step on the moon, Apollo 11 wouldn’t have succeeded. As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their...
Sunday 23 June 2019
00:41:35
Ep.06 Saving 1968
War, riots, assassinations: “the year that shattered America”. And then NASA took the biggest risk in its history. There was the Vietnam...
Sunday 16 June 2019
00:46:41
Ep.05 The fourth astronaut
The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anything like it. Apollo 11 was “the first time...
Sunday 09 June 2019
00:47:56
Ep.04 Fire to the Phoenix
"You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened 21 months later – Apollo’s first successful...
Sunday 02 June 2019
00:45:45
Ep.03 Long Island Eagle
Ugly, angry, with four legs and wrapped in gold: it was a spacecraft like nothing on Earth. The story of Grumman’s lunar module, with...
Sunday 26 May 2019
00:42:52
Ep.02 Kids in control
The unsung heroes who saved the day. "Here’s some 26-year-old kid, who could stop the lunar mission." An alarm appears on the on-board...
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We are five and a half minutes to the moon. Tension goes “through the roof”. Neil Armstrong takes control and the fuel starts to run out. In Mission Control, flight controllers count down to 60 seconds of fuel remaining – and then 30 seconds… With Kevin Fong.
Starring:
Steve Bales
Charlie Duke
Gerry Griffin
Courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project:
Neil Armstrong
Gene Kranz
Jack Garman
Bob Carlton
Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music
#13MinutestotheMoon
www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes