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Walter Cronkite kicks off CBS News report on Apollo 11, the "most dangerous, but most thrilling” mission

CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite reported early Tuesday morning, July 16, 1969, that the astronauts were pronounced “fit as a fiddle” and ready to fly.
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