From the Archives: Apollo 11 astronauts discuss their historic moon landing, 1969

Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins discuss their historic landing on the moon and the future of space exploration on "Face the Nation" in 1969 with CBS News Anchor Walter Cronkite, CBS News Correspondent David Schoumacher and Howard Benedict of the Associated Press.

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"Face the Nation" is America's premier Sunday morning public affairs program. The broadcast is one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television, having debuted November 7, 1954, on CBS. Every Sunday, "Face the Nation" moderator and CBS News senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan welcomes leaders, newsmakers, and experts to a lively round table discussion of current events and the latest news.

[twilightfilms]

Fascinating! Thank you for sharing a piece of genuine history!

[Heliosphan]

The comments are so sad. I feel bad for all of you.

[robertb.]

They didn't look excited at all. They looked carefully wagging every word if one wrong word could have great impact on them and their

[greenharvestproductions]

Thank you very much for the uploading this video

[darciek]

14:37 Great insight Neil! I wonder why that isn’t the case today.

[lox_]

I would have love to get this on dvd for my video collection.

[ApolloKid]

We had the technology well before 1969 and plenty of time to practice:
March 16, 1926 Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fuelled rocket.
October 3, 1942 A V2 built by Hermann Oberth and Wernher von Braun reaches an altitude of about 85 kilometers, which is already the edge of space.
October 4, 1957 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to be put into orbit around the Earth.
September 9, 1959 Start of the Mercury program with the aim of studying the functioning and behavior of humans in space and to return the capsule including astronaut safely to Earth.
April 12, 1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space and the first to orbit the Earth in a Vostok 1. Development of the Saturn rocket had also begun. February 20, 1962 John Glenn makes 3 orbits around the earth with an Atlas 6 rocket as part of the Mercury program.
April 8, 1964 First unmanned flight of the Gemini program. Spacewalks, docking of spacecraft, long-duration space flights and precision in orbits were practiced in preparation for the moon missions.
January 27, 1967 Fatal plugs-out test Apollo 1.
November 9, 1967 Unmanned test flight Apollo 4.
January 22, 1968 Unmanned test flight Apollo 5.
April 4, 1968 Unmanned test flight Apollo 6.
October 11, 1968 First manned flight Apollo 7. Testing of Command and Service module.
December 21, 1968 Apollo 8. First flight Saturn 5, First to the moon, First behind the moon.
March 3, 1969 Apollo 9. Practice with the LM around the earth.
May 18, 1969 Apollo 10. Practicing with the LM around the moon.
July 20, 1969 We are go for TLI.

[sergei]

Thanks from Russia. In 1994, Neil Armstrong replied to my letter and sent me a photo with good wishes. Eternal memory to the pioneers of space.

[ronrendina]

Like all these interviews they look not to excited for lieing about the moon like football players they already aware of the outcome

[JAMESGANG-fu]

Neil Armstrong always seems so meek. Lacking confidence in his speech. Rarely making eye contact.
He acts like an 8 year old who’s being scolded when answering relatively simple questions. Not simple questions necessarily, but questions that require simple answers in regards to the deep amount of knowledge and experience we’d all assume that Armstrong must surely possess.

[williamoleary]

Two of my children just went through K-12 and not in one semester either in Elementary, Middle or High School they learn about the United States Space Program’s history. Not the Mercury, Gemini or Apollo Programs nor the Astronauts that were apart of them. And not the Space Race. They’ve only learned about all of this because my wife and I taught them.
Do our School Systems today not want children to be proud of American Ingenuity and Exploration??
Why is 30+ years of American History being completely ignored by our K-12 School Systems??

[theeraphatsunthornwit]

Read neil face! He cant straightforwardly tell you ok ? His family life is on the line

[jg]

Such an accomplishment. And also interesting to see how much more “media savvy/trained” the astronauts are today.

[oliverhwd]

60 years later and the population has completely dumbed down. These questions simply wouldn’t be asked by today’s journalists.

[AutismusMaximus]

Why wasn't the director / Kubrick invited?

[dks]

why dont the hoaxers just watch this one video ?? why ?

[Wisdom]

These guys are terrible liars. They have never broken the firmament.

[yoskarokuto]

NASA SP287 " WHAT MADE APOLLO A SUCCESS ??? "
" of course, the way we got this job done was with meeting, big meetings, little meeting hundreds of meetings ! the thing we always tried to do in these meetings was to encourage every one, no matter how shy , to speak out "
WHY MANY MEETING AND TRY DON'T SHY TO SAY SOMETHING IS ULTIMATE SECRET TO MADE APOLLO A SUCCESS ??? YOU CAN GO TO THE MOON WITH " MEETING AND DON'T SHY TO SAY SOMETHING ??? " 🤔🤔🤔

[bandoytcx]

Imagine faking the moon landing and have to lie for the rest if your days

[toddlipira]

It's interesting how these men are clearly not predominently engineers or scientists, but pilots. (Their discomfort is very obvious).
•Go to Mars by 1981. 😆
•Take the family. 😅