Rasha Pecoraro
speaker
1,727 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Rasha Pecoraro’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 4.
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A rocket called the Saturn V took off from the Kennedy space station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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At the time, the Saturn V was the biggest and most powerful vehicle on Earth.
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It had a crew of three men on board.
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Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
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Since most of the Saturn V was made up of thrusters and fuel tanks, the men had to cram into a very tiny chamber called the Columbia Command Module.
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It was about the size of an average car.
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This was going to be their home and office for the duration of their eight day journey.
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The astronauts had spent nearly a decade preparing for this mission.
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They'd trained, they'd studied, and they'd learned everything about their equipment so they could repair it in the event of an emergency.
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Now they were ready to make history.
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It took four days, but on july twentieth, Saturn V reached its destination.
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It went into orbit around the moon, but it couldn't touch down because the rocket was too bulky to land and take off again.
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So instead, two astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, rode a smaller, detachable ship called the Eagle Lander to its rocky white surface.
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Michael Collins stayed on the Columbia, monitoring the equipment while staying in contact with Mission Control in Houston.
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But he took one for the team, allowing his colleagues Buzz and Neil to become the first human beings to ever land a craft on the moon.
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television.
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After their moonwalk was over, Buzz and Neil returned to the Eagle Lander and removed their spacesuits.
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A day later, they flew back to the Columbia.
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Then the three astronauts began their long journey back to Earth.
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On July twenty fourth, nineteen sixty nine, they splashed down safe and sound in the Pacific Ocean.
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