"Two of you will be first"

In honor of the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11. [July 16 - 24, 1969]. Here is an excerpt from episode 1 of the HBO mini-series "From The Earth To The Moon" [All-Hands meeting of astronauts with Deke Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations.]
"...I do know that the first man to walk on the moon walked into this room today and he's looking at me right now..."

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Entertainment

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• FTETTM
• HBO
• NASA
• Astronauts
• Earth
• Moon
• Slayton
• Mercury
• Gemini
• Apollo

[mpgingdl]

One of those scenes in which nothing happens, yet everything happens.

[thewaitingape]

Love this scene.

[observer9670]

Deke Slayton followed an Air Force-like flight rotation schedule, based on the premise of "Any astronaut, any mission". He choice of commanders was loosly based on their rotation in the Gemini flights. Neil Armstrong - the Gemini 8 commander - happened to be next in line when it came time to assign the commander of Apollo 11. Slayton assigned commanders of later flights - such as Lovell, Young and Scott - to be crew members in earlier Apollo flights.

[bobbya16]

the best scene in the whole series...

[olentangy74]

A great moment in this series.

[toddsmitts]

This meeting really did take place, with the only difference being that it took place AFTER the Apollo 1 fire, as opposed to this one which took place before and shows a very much alive Grissom, White, and Chaffee.