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  1. Bonus: The making of the music

    A special episode with award winning composer, Hans Zimmer, talking about music and space

  2. 12. Live from Houston

    Ffity years after the Moon landing, space experts consider a return to the lunar surface

  3. 11. The 13 minutes

    Nasa archive audio of the astronauts as they make the historic Moon landing

  4. 10. ‘For all mankind’

    The epic story of the final 13 minutes of the Apollo Moon landing

  5. 9. Tranquility Base

    Apollo 11’s mission is on the edge of failure, minutes away from the Moon landing

  6. 8. ‘We’re go for powered descent’

    The final 13-minute descent to the Moon begins, and it’s all going wrong for Apollo 11

  7. 7. Michael Collins: The third man

    The story of Michael Collins, the third Apollo astronaut in Nasa’s historic spaceflight

  8. 6. Saving 1968

    Nasa astronauts circle the Moon as America is rocked by war, assassinations and riots

  9. 5. The fourth astronaut

    How a briefcase-sized computer pioneered space tech for the first Moon landing

  10. 4. Fire to the Phoenix

    Nasa’s ambitions of a Moon landing are threatened by a deadly launchpad inferno

  11. 3. Long Island Eagle

    The extraordinary story of the Eagle spacecraft that landed astronauts on the Moon

  12. 2. Kids in control

    The Moon landing is threatened when an alarm goes off. Can Nasa save the spaceflight?

  13. 1. ‘We choose to go’, Apollo 11

    How Cold War rivalry fuelled Nasa’s race to land the first astronaut on the Moon

  14. Trailer, T-minus 1

    The final part of our audio countdown. Lift off is on 13 May 2019

  15. Trailer, T-minus 2

    Hans Zimmer has composed the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music. It’s his first podcast

  16. Trailer, T-minus 3

    Introducing 13 Minutes to the Moon, with an Apollo astronaut and former NASA engineer

  17. Trailer, T-minus 4

    The countdown begins