The Most Delightful Moments of the Apollo 11 Mission
(World News Science)

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series reflecting on the Apollo 11 mission, 50 years later. Apollo 11 was all about the destination, but there was more to the mission than the landing itself. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins took an eight-long day journey punctuated by a series of complicated procedures to reach the moon and make it back in one piece. And in between these tense maneuvers, there were easy conversations and playful jokes. After all, the crew was stuck with each other for hours. It´s wasn´t going to be business all the time. The Apollo 11 flight transcripts capture these buoyant moments in a sea of jargon about spacecraft systems. These exchanges...