Apollo 11

But did you know that for centuries, people looked at the moon and thought that it was completely out of reach? Even in the 1900s, many experts believed landing on the moon was extremely difficult or maybe even impossible with the technology of the time.

But then, on July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon during the mission Apollo 11.

When Armstrong stepped onto the surface and said, that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, the world stopped to watch.

Over 600 million people across the globe watched the landing or heard the news shortly thereafter, one of the largest shared media moments in history at that time.

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And RJ, for you, it was the Goldspeed, the Apollo 11, Goldspeed, of course.

And for me, it's the Seamaster 2254.

Yeah.

Okay, number three.

This NASA spacecraft became the first to successfully land on Mars and conduct an extended mission on its surface, touching down on July 20th, 1976, exactly seven years after Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

Name that spacecraft.

All right, number four.

We're talking about the bear.

Okay, number three.

This NASA spacecraft became the first to successfully land on Mars and conduct an extended mission on its surface, touching down on July 20th, 1976, exactly seven years after Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

Name that spacecraft.

I have memories from before I was four because my brother was born when I was three years and ten months.

One of my very distinct memories was when Apollo 11 took off, when the lunar module took off from the moon.

The reason why that's such a distinct memory is...

No.

The other two were never located.

And Apollo? Apollo? Yeah, this one's kind of sad.

So, the original slow-scan telemetry tapes from Apollo, Apollo 11, were very probably erased and reused in the late 70s and early 80s as routine.

It's like jumping over your wedding tape.

Exactly.

And that was my, maybe my fir- my entry into Pixar.

I was able to kind of g- uh, after I left, wrapped on Henry's movie, I wrote another script called In the Event of a Moon Disaster, which kind of reimagined the Apollo 11 landing as if it was a crash, and it was kind of like an alternate history kind of idea.

And that got it, that got into Pixar, and then that got me to Pete.

And so that, I did ...

Uh, she is now an archeologist who is obsessed with the dial that Jones says he lost in the French Alps.

Meanwhile, the Apollo 11 astronauts are visiting New York and having a celebratory parade, and we see that Voller, now going by the new name of Schmidt, works with NASA and built the rocket that sent the astronauts to the moon.

May I just say, it's odd that they kept saying the rocket and not the Saturn V.

It was a very specific rocket that sent the astronauts on the Apollo missions.