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What Happened After The Historic Apollo Moon Landing

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10min 52sec
Supermoon
NASA/Bill Ingalls

There are a lot of stories about the Apollo 11 moon landing 50 years ago. But what happened after Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, and what did it take to return to Earth? Gene Kranz, who was the flight director at mission control at the time, recounts this moment in history.