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[P.A. Chatter]
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[Crowd chatter]
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[Announcer] A wild new
cowboy on the move.
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He placed last night, second.
Going for first.
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[Audience cheers]
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How many y'all wanna see that replay?
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[Crowd cheering]
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Following cowboy in hot water.
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[Crowd gasps]
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Come on big Jake, show 'em how.
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Yeah.
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[Man] Mission sequence start.
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Engines on five, four...
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Three, two...
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[Cernan] I'm the luckiest
human being in the world.
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There... fire going.
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I don't go around living in the past,
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for the most part.
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But ever once in while
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you let yourself go back in time.
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I'll look up there...
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And I might just reflect
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for a half a minute or so.
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I can take myself there
at the speed of thought.
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[Schmitt] Okay, stand by for pitchover.
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[Cernan] Oh, are we coming in?
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Pitchover.
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[Schmitt] There it is. Proceeded.
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[Cernan] And there it is Houston.
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There's Camelot. Right on target.
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[Schmitt] I see it.
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[Cernan] We got 'em all. 42 degrees.
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[Schmitt] 25 feet per
second through 400.
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That's a little high, geno.
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[Cernan] Okay.
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[Schmitt] Very little dust.
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40 feet. Going down at three.
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[Cernan] Stand by for touchdown.
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[Schmitt] Stand by.
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20 feet.
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Going down at two. 10 feet.
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10 feet.
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And contact.
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Stop, push. Engine stop.
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Engine arm, proceed.
Command override, off.
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[Cernan] As soon as you hit the surface,
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the dust is gone, engine is shut down.
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There's no noise.
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You are magically in another world.
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It was the ultimate
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quiet moment in my life.
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Pure silence.
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[Cernan] Absolutely incredible.
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I spent a lot of time growing up
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on my grandparents' farm in Wisconsin.
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No electricity.
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No tractors, just horses.
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So my desire in life was
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to sometime have a ranch.
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[Cows mooing]
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It's where I can just be who I am.
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I keep thinking, "my dad
always would have loved this."
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He was a jack of all trades,
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he could fix-- rewire your
house or build you a garage,
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or fix the plumbing in your bathroom,
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and that's why I learned to
do all those things with him.
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He said, "I don't care
whether you're in a classroom,
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on a football field,
or whatever you do..."
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Barron?
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[Cernan] "Just do your best.
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And someday, I promise you.
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You're gonna surprise yourself."
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It's like coming down the L.E.M.
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Only if I fall here, I break my butt.
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[Radio DJ] 1170 KCBQ, the
legendary gene cernan is with us.
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Now about the navy,
talk a little bit about--
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Because this is a big
navy town, as you know,
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and you spent time here.
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[Cernan] I tell ya, San Diego is--
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Is like another home.
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I spent my best years
coming out of Pensacola
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here in San Diego.
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[Cernan] From the time I was 22
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until I was 27, this was my life.
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In and out of San Diego,
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flying off aircraft carriers.
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This is where it all started for me.
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At that point, 22, 25,
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you're invincible
and you're bulletproof.
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There isn't anything you can't do,
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you know, risk be damned.
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The fact of life is,
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naval aviation is a risky process.
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You don't have much room for error.
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If you get sloppy,
you're gonna kill yourself.
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You live within that environment,
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you live within that culture,
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but you love it, and you keep doing it,
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and it doesn't discourage you,
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'cause it's not gonna happen to me.
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You know, it isn't gonna happen--
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It's always gonna
happen to the other guy.
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He screwed up. I'm not gonna screw up.
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That was the attitude you had to have.
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- [Man] Is that you?
- [Cernan] Course it is.
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- [Man] That is you.
- [Cernan] Red hot naval aviator.
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Invincible, invisible, and bulletproof.
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- Remember?
- That's a stretch.
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[Laughs]
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[Cernan] There we are. That's it.
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The stingers. Here we go,
up over the top.
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- The diamond roll.
- [Man] There it is.
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- God, that was fun, baldy.
- Yeah, we were flying.
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[Man] I made my first cruise with gene
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on the old U.S.S. Shangri-la.
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It was constant competition.
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Who could land better on the carrier.
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Who could bomb better on the carrier.
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We used to grab airplanes
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and go up and tail chase
around the clouds.
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We were-- we were pretty
impressed with ourselves.
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We have big egos.
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But I think you have to have a big ego
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to be able to do
the intense type of flying
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that we were trained to do.
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When you land a plane on a carrier
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in the daytime is tricky enough.
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But when you do it at night,
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you're not thinking
about your girlfriend.
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Well, gene might have been,
but I wasn't.
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I was-- I was dead serious.
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Now, cernan, who knows?
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Uh, he's kinda loose sometimes that way.
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Jesus. Now we got a fire.
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[Baldwin] If you think back
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when you and I were
in 113 together, okay?
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We flew together all the time,
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but were we competitive with each other?
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I was a hell of a lot better
left wing man,
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than you were right wing man.
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No. No, but I was a hell of a lot
better bomber than you were.
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You were lucky if you
even hit the damn ground.
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Why were you so weak in bombing, gene?
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You were the weapons training officer.
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Baldy, it's 240,000 miles away.
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Anybody could hit that.
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[Cernan] And my C.E.P. Was 50 miles.
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[Baldwin] You were average in bombing.
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You were pretty good
at getting aboard the boat.
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I knew you had a little fear at night.
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- [Laughs]
- Do I have to listen to this crap?
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Do-- if I have to listen to this...
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[Indistinct chatter]
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I'm gonna make a circle over the field.
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But I'll come in behind you.
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[Cernan] Flying is a
big part of my life.
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[Radio chatter]
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You got to have a passion,
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a love for what you're doing,
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or you shouldn't be doing it.
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[Woman] I was an airline stewardess
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for continental airlines
and I lived in Los Angeles.
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And I was in the airport
and he was in the line.
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I did not remember him,
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but he said I smiled at him
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and he just thought that I was great.
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And I thought later--
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I thought what he doesn't know,
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I have to smile at everybody
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because that was part of my job.
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The first time he came to my house.
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He had a-- I think it was,
like, a '56 Chevrolet
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and it had kind of loud mufflers on it.
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I thought, "oh, my lord,
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he's a hot rod of some sort."
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[Growls]
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[Chuckles] She says she heard that
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when I pulled into the driveway.
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And she said, "oh, my god,
what have I gotten into?"
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[Chuckles]
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Well...
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[Butler] We were very much in love.
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He was everything
I could have asked for.
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And so we bought a home,
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and I started working.
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And I worked and then I worked
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up until I had Tracy,
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and that was two years
after we were married.
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He was great with her.
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He was really-- he was good,
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and crazy about her.
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He still is.
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That's his "punk."
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He calls her "punk."
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[Announcer] Man had his first
great success in space,
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when the Russians pushed a
man across the threshold.
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He was Yuri Gagarin,
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the astronaut the Russians lionized
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as the first to orbit the earth.
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It was the propaganda coup of the year.
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After the Russian flight,
U.S. plans were accelerated.
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Commander Alan B. Shepard
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was sent into suborbital flight.
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Unlike the Russian venture,
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this took place in the white hot glare
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of world-wide publicity.
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[Cernan] It was period of time
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when America needed a hero desperately,
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and Alan became that hero
of the astronauts.
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The mercury seven
were the real pathfinders
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of what was to happen in the future,
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which none of us
really fully anticipated,
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especially me.
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[Crowd cheering]
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Many years ago,
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the great British explorer
George Mallory,
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who was to die on mount Everest,
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was asked why did he want to climb it.
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He said, "because it is there."
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Well, space is there.
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And we're going to climb it.
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And the moon and the planets are there.
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And new hopes for knowledge
and peace are there.
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And therefore, as we set sail,
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we ask god's blessing
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on the most hazardous, and dangerous,
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and greatest adventure
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on which man has ever embarked.
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Thank you.
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[Crowd applauds]
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[Man] I had two reactions.
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The man just placed
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a hell of a responsibility
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on we in the space program,
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but I was pleased to hear that--
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Very pleased to hear that.
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On the other hand,
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if I looked at what had
to be done to get there,
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I thought he was crazy.
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[Man] We had a total of 20 minutes
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manned spaceflight experience.
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We had never been to orbit,
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and when were challenged
to go to the moon.
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And our president had the confidence
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to issue this challenge
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and he had the confidence
that we would do it.
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[Butler] I remember he was
so enthralled with that,
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and I said to him, "would you
like to do something like that?"
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And he said, "oh, I'd love it."
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I'd love to do it.
Just give me the chance.
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But by the time I get good enough,
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by the time I get qualified,
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by the time I meet
all of their requirements,
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there won't be anything left to do.
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All the pioneering will be over.
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Don't ever shortchange yourself,
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you never ever know
what fate has in store.
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[Rings]
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I got a call out of the blue
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that NASA was looking for new astronauts
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and was I interested in applying?
262
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You bet I was.
263
00:18:03,183 --> 00:18:05,418
I was invited to Houston,
264
00:18:05,518 --> 00:18:08,521
but cautioned not to speak to anybody.
265
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I jumped into a cab, drove downtown.
266
00:18:14,694 --> 00:18:20,267
Checked into the old rice
hotel under a fake name.
267
00:18:20,367 --> 00:18:22,101
It was like I just stepped
268
00:18:22,202 --> 00:18:25,438
into some crazy spy movie.
269
00:18:25,538 --> 00:18:27,607
And who did I meet in the hotel bar,
270
00:18:27,707 --> 00:18:29,276
but a whole bunch
271
00:18:29,376 --> 00:18:31,444
of the greatest test pilots
in the country
272
00:18:31,544 --> 00:18:34,614
all checked in under the same name--
273
00:18:34,714 --> 00:18:37,284
Max peck.
274
00:18:37,384 --> 00:18:40,787
For the next few days, they threw
mountains of paperwork at us,
275
00:18:40,887 --> 00:18:43,856
and asked us questions
I knew nothing about.
276
00:18:46,659 --> 00:18:51,798
The next step was a
physical at San Antonio.
277
00:18:51,898 --> 00:18:54,467
I've never been subject
to anything like that
278
00:18:54,567 --> 00:18:55,735
in my entire life.
279
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Every cavity in your body
280
00:19:00,340 --> 00:19:01,808
had something stuck into it.
281
00:19:01,908 --> 00:19:04,311
[Man grunts]
282
00:19:04,411 --> 00:19:06,313
[Cernan] They put cold water in our ears
283
00:19:06,413 --> 00:19:09,316
and spun us around like a top.
284
00:19:09,416 --> 00:19:11,584
I was dizzier than a grasshopper.
285
00:19:14,354 --> 00:19:16,656
Then they put us in this idiot box
286
00:19:16,756 --> 00:19:20,327
to see how we could react
to the unknown.
287
00:19:20,427 --> 00:19:22,329
Up was no longer up, it was down.
288
00:19:22,429 --> 00:19:24,163
Red was green, green was red.
289
00:19:24,264 --> 00:19:26,333
Left was right.
290
00:19:26,433 --> 00:19:29,602
They did everything
possible to confuse us.
291
00:19:32,372 --> 00:19:33,673
And at the end of it all,
292
00:19:33,773 --> 00:19:36,843
all we were told to do was go home.
293
00:19:36,943 --> 00:19:40,280
"Don't call us. We'll call you."
294
00:19:40,380 --> 00:19:41,848
[Rings]
295
00:19:41,948 --> 00:19:44,183
When the phone rang,
it was my future boss,
296
00:19:44,284 --> 00:19:45,852
Deke Slayton.
297
00:19:45,952 --> 00:19:48,855
He said, "geno, we've got a job for you
298
00:19:48,955 --> 00:19:51,791
in Houston if you still want it."
299
00:19:51,891 --> 00:19:56,529
And of course from that point on,
300
00:19:56,629 --> 00:20:00,199
my life was changed forever.
301
00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:03,870
I just was selected
for the space program.
302
00:20:03,970 --> 00:20:05,305
Wow.
303
00:20:09,576 --> 00:20:12,379
* zoom a little zoom in a rocket ship *
304
00:20:12,479 --> 00:20:15,214
* off we go on a trip
305
00:20:15,315 --> 00:20:17,917
* heading for the moon
at a rocket clip *
306
00:20:18,017 --> 00:20:19,852
* we're gonna zoom zoom
307
00:20:19,952 --> 00:20:20,887
* rocket
308
00:20:20,987 --> 00:20:22,255
* zoom a little zoom
309
00:20:22,355 --> 00:20:24,223
* now we're almost free
310
00:20:24,324 --> 00:20:26,893
* from the earth's gravity
311
00:20:26,993 --> 00:20:30,397
* zooming to the moon
at terrific speed... *
312
00:20:30,497 --> 00:20:33,300
[cernan] We did all the
general training going in
313
00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,002
before we ever got assigned to a flight.
314
00:20:36,102 --> 00:20:37,937
We had desert survival.
315
00:20:38,037 --> 00:20:39,572
We did a little water survival.
316
00:20:39,672 --> 00:20:42,342
We did jungle survival.
317
00:20:43,943 --> 00:20:46,313
They gave us a fishhook and a machete
318
00:20:46,413 --> 00:20:48,315
and dropped us in a helicopter
319
00:20:48,415 --> 00:20:49,782
somewhere out in the
middle of the jungle
320
00:20:49,882 --> 00:20:51,984
in panama.
321
00:20:52,084 --> 00:20:53,920
All that survival training,
322
00:20:54,020 --> 00:20:57,757
it teaches you something about yourself.
323
00:20:57,857 --> 00:21:00,660
Most of us had technical
engineering backgrounds
324
00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,295
of one kind or another,
325
00:21:02,395 --> 00:21:04,664
but we were starting
school all over again.
326
00:21:04,764 --> 00:21:08,801
Orbital mechanics, which I
knew absolutely nothing about.
327
00:21:08,901 --> 00:21:12,839
Geology, which I really knew
little or nothing about.
328
00:21:14,874 --> 00:21:20,046
We were doing something
somewhere all the time.
329
00:21:20,146 --> 00:21:21,581
[Butler] They'd go to
work in the mornings
330
00:21:21,681 --> 00:21:23,450
and come home late.
331
00:21:23,550 --> 00:21:24,817
And this was before they
were training for a mission.
332
00:21:24,917 --> 00:21:26,719
They were just getting their feet wet
333
00:21:26,819 --> 00:21:29,722
at that particular time.
334
00:21:29,822 --> 00:21:31,724
And we were bombarded
335
00:21:31,824 --> 00:21:34,861
with photographers and press,
336
00:21:34,961 --> 00:21:38,965
and, you know, it was like a whirlwind.
337
00:21:39,065 --> 00:21:40,667
[Cernan] It was fame.
338
00:21:40,767 --> 00:21:45,071
Wasn't necessarily fortune,
but it was fame,
339
00:21:45,171 --> 00:21:49,041
and you had to learn
how to deal with it.
340
00:21:49,141 --> 00:21:51,077
I mean, you walked around with--
341
00:21:51,177 --> 00:21:53,346
With a halo over your head.
342
00:21:53,446 --> 00:21:54,547
You were special.
343
00:22:32,184 --> 00:22:36,022
[Cernan] One day, they
say very confidentially,
344
00:22:36,122 --> 00:22:38,958
we're gonna set up an appointment
for you to get fitted
345
00:22:39,058 --> 00:22:40,793
for a suit...
346
00:22:40,893 --> 00:22:42,929
For a space suit.
347
00:22:43,029 --> 00:22:44,063
I mean, all of a sudden.
348
00:22:44,163 --> 00:22:45,965
Wow.
349
00:22:48,134 --> 00:22:49,969
You don't know what
that's going to lead to,
350
00:22:50,069 --> 00:22:51,638
but you know what it means.
351
00:22:55,942 --> 00:22:58,044
In the fall of 1965,
352
00:22:58,144 --> 00:23:01,013
the Gemini 9 crew was announced.
353
00:23:01,113 --> 00:23:05,452
Charlie Bassett was
going to be the prime pilot
354
00:23:05,552 --> 00:23:07,119
with Elliot see,
355
00:23:07,219 --> 00:23:09,956
and Tom Stafford and I were
gonna be the backup crew.
356
00:23:12,224 --> 00:23:15,027
And charlie and I were
doing the same thing.
357
00:23:15,127 --> 00:23:17,764
We flew together.
We went places together.
358
00:23:17,864 --> 00:23:19,499
We trained together.
359
00:23:19,599 --> 00:23:21,668
We did everything together
360
00:23:21,768 --> 00:23:25,738
that our side of the
spacecraft had to do.
361
00:23:25,838 --> 00:23:27,774
So we got to be pretty good friends.
362
00:23:34,180 --> 00:23:39,719
And then in February of '66
363
00:23:39,819 --> 00:23:42,522
the totally unexpected happened.
364
00:23:53,232 --> 00:23:55,167
[Man] I heard this big crash.
365
00:23:55,267 --> 00:23:57,704
And then a few seconds
later, this big explosion,
366
00:23:57,804 --> 00:24:00,039
a big black cloud mushroomed up
367
00:24:00,139 --> 00:24:02,642
and parts from the airplane
just flew everywhere.
368
00:24:02,742 --> 00:24:04,143
No chance to do anything
for the two men?
369
00:24:04,243 --> 00:24:05,812
No. None. Not at all.
370
00:24:08,648 --> 00:24:09,716
[Reporter] Minutes after the crash,
371
00:24:09,816 --> 00:24:11,017
the Gemini 9 backup crew
372
00:24:11,117 --> 00:24:13,219
of Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford
373
00:24:13,319 --> 00:24:14,587
came in safely from Houston
374
00:24:14,687 --> 00:24:15,788
in a similar jet.
375
00:24:15,888 --> 00:24:16,923
And tonight NASA announces
376
00:24:17,023 --> 00:24:18,858
they now become the prime crew
377
00:24:18,958 --> 00:24:20,092
for the Gemini 9 flight.
378
00:24:24,997 --> 00:24:28,034
[Butler] That was just
a devastating time.
379
00:24:28,134 --> 00:24:31,704
It was just horrible.
380
00:24:31,804 --> 00:24:33,005
You just realized then I guess
381
00:24:33,105 --> 00:24:34,774
how close it can be.
382
00:24:38,811 --> 00:24:41,047
- [Man] Aim.
- [Gunshots]
383
00:24:41,147 --> 00:24:42,048
[Man] Aim.
384
00:24:42,148 --> 00:24:43,516
- [Gunshots]
- Aim.
385
00:24:43,616 --> 00:24:45,852
[Gunshots continue]
386
00:24:48,054 --> 00:24:50,189
[Man] It was very traumatic at the time.
387
00:24:50,289 --> 00:24:52,892
But then we had a job to do,
388
00:24:52,992 --> 00:24:56,062
to go on and fly the mission.
389
00:24:56,162 --> 00:24:58,898
And we had a short period
of time to do it.
390
00:24:58,998 --> 00:25:01,033
I'd had a lot of experience in Gemini.
391
00:25:01,133 --> 00:25:04,503
Gene had no experience in Gemini.
392
00:25:04,604 --> 00:25:05,605
So we had to concentrate
393
00:25:05,705 --> 00:25:07,139
on getting him up to speed
394
00:25:07,239 --> 00:25:09,576
on all the procedures and techniques
395
00:25:09,676 --> 00:25:11,110
and the duties he had.
396
00:25:17,784 --> 00:25:22,555
Suddenly, after this accident,
397
00:25:22,655 --> 00:25:25,124
I found myself on my very first flight.
398
00:25:27,794 --> 00:25:31,263
[Launch control]
This is Gemini launch control.
399
00:25:31,363 --> 00:25:32,765
T-minus ten...
400
00:25:32,865 --> 00:25:34,667
Nine... eight...
401
00:25:34,767 --> 00:25:36,535
Seven... six...
402
00:25:36,636 --> 00:25:38,204
Five... four...
403
00:25:38,304 --> 00:25:40,072
Three...
404
00:25:40,172 --> 00:25:42,575
One... zero.
405
00:25:42,675 --> 00:25:44,043
We have ignition.
406
00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:35,962
[Cernan] The real world's
got a lot of surprises
407
00:26:36,062 --> 00:26:39,899
and we found a great many
of them on Gemini 9.
408
00:26:49,141 --> 00:26:52,044
When I stepped out of that spacecraft,
409
00:26:52,144 --> 00:26:54,714
we were really headed out
into the unknown.
410
00:26:58,685 --> 00:27:01,954
The umbilical was about 25 feet long
411
00:27:02,054 --> 00:27:04,123
and it was-- it was like a snake.
412
00:27:06,192 --> 00:27:08,160
If it brought me back to the spacecraft,
413
00:27:08,260 --> 00:27:10,763
I'd hit it with my foot or my arm
414
00:27:10,863 --> 00:27:13,132
or my helmet or whatever,
415
00:27:13,232 --> 00:27:16,002
and I'd go tumbling back out.
416
00:27:16,102 --> 00:27:18,137
I mean, I was upside down, sideways--
417
00:27:18,237 --> 00:27:19,906
The earth might have been up here,
418
00:27:20,006 --> 00:27:21,841
it might have been down there.
I don't know.
419
00:27:21,941 --> 00:27:25,011
I was just helpless.
420
00:27:25,111 --> 00:27:27,379
[Radio chatter]
421
00:27:40,326 --> 00:27:43,395
I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing
422
00:27:43,495 --> 00:27:46,933
and it isn't working.
423
00:27:47,033 --> 00:27:49,168
And it isn't going to go away
unless something--
424
00:27:49,268 --> 00:27:51,070
I do something about it,
425
00:27:51,170 --> 00:27:54,106
and I wasn't sure what the
next step was going to be.
426
00:27:57,043 --> 00:28:01,748
[Radio chatter]
427
00:28:05,818 --> 00:28:07,787
Once I got behind the spacecraft,
428
00:28:07,887 --> 00:28:11,690
the umbilical was not my problem.
429
00:28:11,791 --> 00:28:15,361
My task was to basically
assemble the jetpack.
430
00:28:17,229 --> 00:28:19,398
I had to turn oxygen valves on
431
00:28:19,498 --> 00:28:21,801
and fuel valves.
432
00:28:21,901 --> 00:28:25,872
And every time I turned them,
433
00:28:25,972 --> 00:28:28,207
off I would go back into space.
434
00:28:33,212 --> 00:28:35,481
[Stafford] We had no proper handholds.
435
00:28:35,581 --> 00:28:37,917
The foot restraints,
436
00:28:38,017 --> 00:28:39,385
tethers-- any of that.
437
00:28:39,485 --> 00:28:41,788
[Panting]
438
00:28:41,888 --> 00:28:44,056
[Cernan] I was working pretty hard.
439
00:28:44,156 --> 00:28:47,393
My heart rate was 160, 170.
440
00:28:48,928 --> 00:28:51,163
I knew it. The ground knew it.
441
00:28:51,263 --> 00:28:54,934
I knew I was driving
the doctors bananas down there
442
00:28:55,034 --> 00:28:58,070
because they've never confronted
this type of thing before.
443
00:29:00,807 --> 00:29:03,776
Don't forget, the spacecraft
is going around the world
444
00:29:03,876 --> 00:29:04,977
once every 90 minutes.
445
00:29:08,114 --> 00:29:10,182
[Stafford] And the moment
the sun went down,
446
00:29:10,282 --> 00:29:12,184
he fogged over,
447
00:29:12,284 --> 00:29:13,853
so he could not see.
448
00:29:24,196 --> 00:29:28,400
[Kranz] It was very frustrating
here on the ground,
449
00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,537
listening to gene and
knowing he was in trouble,
450
00:29:31,637 --> 00:29:35,107
but there was nothing
I could do about it.
451
00:29:35,207 --> 00:29:37,844
His body temperature was increasing.
452
00:29:37,944 --> 00:29:40,446
Deep core temperature was increasing.
453
00:29:53,459 --> 00:29:55,127
[Houston] Okay, we have that. Roger.
454
00:29:55,227 --> 00:29:58,865
We concur on the no-go.
455
00:29:58,965 --> 00:30:03,002
[Kranz] It was the process
of really coming to grips
456
00:30:03,102 --> 00:30:05,104
for the first time
457
00:30:05,204 --> 00:30:06,372
that there was something
458
00:30:06,472 --> 00:30:09,575
about this element of space flight
459
00:30:09,675 --> 00:30:13,846
that we did not have
a good handle on yet.
460
00:30:13,946 --> 00:30:17,083
We had many lessons
to learn along the way.
461
00:30:26,492 --> 00:30:31,197
[Cernan] I was really disappointed,
462
00:30:31,297 --> 00:30:35,534
because I was sent up to do a job
463
00:30:35,634 --> 00:30:38,437
and I didn't get it done.
464
00:30:43,342 --> 00:30:44,911
[Kraft] Tom Stafford did a great job.
465
00:30:45,011 --> 00:30:48,114
Cernan himself did a great job,
466
00:30:48,214 --> 00:30:50,917
but they did have some tough moments,
467
00:30:51,017 --> 00:30:52,451
and we learned a lot from that.
468
00:30:54,987 --> 00:30:57,523
It was Cernan's failures
469
00:30:57,623 --> 00:31:00,359
that caused us
to eventually do it right.
470
00:31:43,602 --> 00:31:45,071
[Cernan] We moved in this house
471
00:31:45,171 --> 00:31:48,907
when Tracy was nine months old...
472
00:31:49,008 --> 00:31:53,012
In 1964.
473
00:31:53,112 --> 00:31:55,347
House is almost 50 years old.
474
00:31:55,447 --> 00:31:57,583
This neighborhood's almost 50 years old.
475
00:31:57,683 --> 00:32:01,253
There wasn't much here.
476
00:32:01,353 --> 00:32:03,522
On the corner was Mike Collins.
477
00:32:03,622 --> 00:32:07,359
Charlie Bassett, Al Bean
lived down the street.
478
00:32:07,459 --> 00:32:11,063
Rusty Schweickart lived here.
479
00:32:11,163 --> 00:32:13,332
That little house right there
480
00:32:13,432 --> 00:32:14,933
has a lot of history in the walls,
481
00:32:15,034 --> 00:32:16,202
if they could only talk.
482
00:32:29,448 --> 00:32:31,717
* here we are again
483
00:32:31,817 --> 00:32:34,620
* happy as can be
484
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,122
* all good pals
485
00:32:36,222 --> 00:32:38,290
* and jolly good company
486
00:32:38,390 --> 00:32:40,059
[butler] We were all pretty close,
487
00:32:40,159 --> 00:32:42,628
but I think I was probably
closer to Martha Chaffee.
488
00:32:42,728 --> 00:32:43,962
She lived next door to me,
489
00:32:44,063 --> 00:32:45,197
and she and I were very close.
490
00:32:45,297 --> 00:32:47,499
Oh, we were always back and forth,
491
00:32:47,599 --> 00:32:50,469
I mean, between our houses.
492
00:32:50,569 --> 00:32:52,638
And we did go to the same hairdresser,
493
00:32:52,738 --> 00:32:54,106
and we'd have lunch,
494
00:32:54,206 --> 00:32:57,343
and the normal things that women do.
495
00:32:57,443 --> 00:32:59,011
We were like sisters.
496
00:32:59,111 --> 00:33:01,580
* whoops we go again
497
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:02,748
* la-di-da-di-da
498
00:33:02,848 --> 00:33:05,584
we were already close, I think.
499
00:33:05,684 --> 00:33:07,686
We're all vying to be first guy
500
00:33:07,786 --> 00:33:10,022
to land on the moon, obviously.
501
00:33:10,122 --> 00:33:13,159
But we were very close
in our social activities,
502
00:33:13,259 --> 00:33:15,327
our training activities,
503
00:33:15,427 --> 00:33:19,331
and so it was a small band of brothers.
504
00:33:19,431 --> 00:33:20,999
* jolly good company
505
00:33:23,335 --> 00:33:26,405
we'd have a drink together occasionally.
506
00:33:26,505 --> 00:33:29,241
I won't go into any more details.
507
00:33:29,341 --> 00:33:31,443
* such good company
508
00:33:31,543 --> 00:33:33,445
* la-di-da-di-da
509
00:33:33,545 --> 00:33:37,216
* hey, la-di-da-di-dee
510
00:33:37,316 --> 00:33:40,319
[Chaffee] I don't want to
sound like they were wild,
511
00:33:40,419 --> 00:33:42,554
but they were a little crazy.
512
00:33:42,654 --> 00:33:44,156
[Chuckles]
513
00:33:44,256 --> 00:33:46,125
[Laughs]
514
00:33:46,225 --> 00:33:49,095
Oh, I don't know about
"the wild bunch" or not,
515
00:33:49,195 --> 00:33:50,362
but I'd like to think
516
00:33:50,462 --> 00:33:52,198
we worked hard and we played hard.
517
00:33:52,298 --> 00:33:54,333
* jolly good company, hey
518
00:33:54,433 --> 00:33:56,768
* jolly good company
519
00:33:56,868 --> 00:33:59,438
* jolly good company
520
00:33:59,538 --> 00:34:01,740
* jolly good company, hey
521
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,509
* jolly good company
522
00:34:05,811 --> 00:34:08,147
we all got along well.
523
00:34:08,247 --> 00:34:10,149
We liked some people better than others,
524
00:34:10,249 --> 00:34:11,650
just like any group.
525
00:34:11,750 --> 00:34:14,220
We were all trying to do the same thing.
526
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,722
We were willing to make sacrifices
527
00:34:16,822 --> 00:34:20,159
to achieve the dream
of getting to the moon.
528
00:34:20,259 --> 00:34:22,294
But we knew going in
529
00:34:22,394 --> 00:34:24,230
that some people weren't gonna make it.
530
00:34:34,173 --> 00:34:36,442
[Kraft] We do everything we possibly can
531
00:34:36,542 --> 00:34:38,144
to make sure that it is as safe
532
00:34:38,244 --> 00:34:39,778
as we can possibly make it.
533
00:34:39,878 --> 00:34:41,647
But one of these days,
534
00:34:41,747 --> 00:34:43,715
there are going to be
some mistakes made,
535
00:34:43,815 --> 00:34:47,419
either in the systems design
or we on the ground,
536
00:34:47,519 --> 00:34:49,421
which result in an accident
537
00:34:49,521 --> 00:34:51,357
and maybe a fatal one.
538
00:34:59,298 --> 00:35:00,766
[Announcer] We interrupt this program
539
00:35:00,866 --> 00:35:03,669
to bring you a special
report from ABC news.
540
00:35:03,769 --> 00:35:07,773
There's been a fire on the pad.
541
00:35:07,873 --> 00:35:10,209
What happened? They're dead.
542
00:35:14,746 --> 00:35:16,215
Top space agency officials
543
00:35:16,315 --> 00:35:18,184
are flying to cape Kennedy tonight
544
00:35:18,284 --> 00:35:19,651
to begin the official investigation
545
00:35:19,751 --> 00:35:21,587
into what caused the flash fire
546
00:35:21,687 --> 00:35:23,755
that killed the nation's first
three Apollo astronauts
547
00:35:23,855 --> 00:35:25,123
earlier tonight.
548
00:35:25,224 --> 00:35:28,227
Lieutenant colonel Gus Grissom, 42;
549
00:35:28,327 --> 00:35:30,362
Lieutenant colonel ed white, 36;
550
00:35:30,462 --> 00:35:33,131
And lieutenant commander
roger Chaffee, 31;
551
00:35:33,232 --> 00:35:34,766
All died in moments,
552
00:35:34,866 --> 00:35:37,403
helplessly trapped
inside their spacecraft.
553
00:35:43,542 --> 00:35:48,314
I was sitting
at that console right there
554
00:35:48,414 --> 00:35:52,651
when Grissom, Chaffee,
and white were killed.
555
00:35:52,751 --> 00:35:54,853
I listened to them die.
556
00:36:03,395 --> 00:36:07,333
[Chaffee] That evening,
January 27th, a Friday,
557
00:36:07,433 --> 00:36:11,937
I was giving my kids hot dogs...
558
00:36:12,037 --> 00:36:14,906
And then somebody said
there'd been an accident.
559
00:36:17,376 --> 00:36:21,413
So when Mike Collins finally came...
560
00:36:21,513 --> 00:36:25,751
To the door and I saw him, I knew.
561
00:36:25,851 --> 00:36:26,852
I knew already.
562
00:36:26,952 --> 00:36:31,957
I said, "I know, mike, but...
563
00:36:32,057 --> 00:36:33,425
You've got to tell me."
564
00:36:35,261 --> 00:36:36,862
And he did.
565
00:36:36,962 --> 00:36:40,532
And I took my children into the--
566
00:36:43,535 --> 00:36:45,304
I'm sorry.
567
00:36:47,373 --> 00:36:49,941
I took my children into the bedroom,
568
00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:52,210
and trying to tell...
569
00:36:54,780 --> 00:36:57,816
An eight-year-old and a five-year-old
570
00:36:57,916 --> 00:37:00,352
that they're dad wasn't coming home,
571
00:37:00,452 --> 00:37:01,887
it's hard.
572
00:37:06,057 --> 00:37:08,727
[Cernan] And I went home and...
573
00:37:08,827 --> 00:37:09,995
Pulled in my driveway,
574
00:37:10,095 --> 00:37:11,330
still in the flight suit.
575
00:37:11,430 --> 00:37:12,764
Cars all over the street.
576
00:37:15,934 --> 00:37:18,837
NASA security around.
577
00:37:18,937 --> 00:37:21,340
Walked right across the lawn
578
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:22,774
to Martha's house.
579
00:37:26,512 --> 00:37:29,581
I dreaded--
580
00:37:29,681 --> 00:37:31,783
I dreaded the moment.
581
00:37:51,102 --> 00:37:52,604
Arlington.
582
00:37:52,704 --> 00:37:57,343
Cold January day.
583
00:37:57,443 --> 00:38:00,579
I wasn't sure whether we were
burying three of our colleagues
584
00:38:00,679 --> 00:38:04,282
or whether we were burying
the entire Apollo program.
585
00:38:12,491 --> 00:38:14,926
Because we knew the Chaffees so well,
586
00:38:15,026 --> 00:38:19,931
I was asked to stay with Martha.
587
00:38:20,031 --> 00:38:23,034
And I did.
588
00:38:23,134 --> 00:38:26,805
Sat next to her at the cemetery.
589
00:38:26,905 --> 00:38:29,708
How she held her composure,
590
00:38:29,808 --> 00:38:31,042
I don't know.
591
00:38:52,030 --> 00:38:53,799
Good-bye, my friend.
592
00:39:10,616 --> 00:39:13,084
[Kranz] The Apollo 1 fire
changed us forever...
593
00:39:14,686 --> 00:39:17,923
And we've never forgotten it.
594
00:39:18,023 --> 00:39:20,792
In our business of space flight,
595
00:39:20,892 --> 00:39:23,462
risk is the price of progress.
596
00:40:01,567 --> 00:40:03,435
* and the sign said
597
00:40:03,535 --> 00:40:05,504
* long-haired freaky people *
598
00:40:05,604 --> 00:40:08,039
* need not apply...
599
00:40:08,139 --> 00:40:09,908
[Cernan] The world was in a mess,
600
00:40:10,008 --> 00:40:12,944
the country was in a mess,
601
00:40:13,044 --> 00:40:17,415
but this was going on
out there somewhere.
602
00:40:17,516 --> 00:40:19,084
Maybe we were a little cocoon
603
00:40:19,184 --> 00:40:20,919
in the middle of this big world of ours.
604
00:40:21,019 --> 00:40:24,623
* so I took off my hat
and said imagine that... *
605
00:40:24,723 --> 00:40:27,859
[Lovell] You know, we
had a mission to do--
606
00:40:27,959 --> 00:40:29,895
Astronauts, engineers,
607
00:40:29,995 --> 00:40:32,631
all sorts of people working for NASA,
608
00:40:32,731 --> 00:40:34,866
all working towards the same goal.
609
00:40:34,966 --> 00:40:40,539
* can't you read the sign
610
00:40:45,544 --> 00:40:48,547
[cernan] Man, I was working my butt off,
611
00:40:48,647 --> 00:40:50,982
and I never really appreciated
612
00:40:51,082 --> 00:40:53,919
what was going on at home.
613
00:40:54,019 --> 00:40:57,088
[Butler] I think the wives
played an important part
614
00:40:57,188 --> 00:40:59,958
because we did everything
when they weren't there,
615
00:41:00,058 --> 00:41:02,594
which they weren't there
most of the time.
616
00:41:02,694 --> 00:41:03,962
I think he'd be the first to tell you
617
00:41:04,062 --> 00:41:05,997
that I pulled my share of the load.
618
00:41:08,066 --> 00:41:10,235
[Cernan] They'd been home
taking care of the kids.
619
00:41:10,335 --> 00:41:11,703
Paying the bills,
620
00:41:11,803 --> 00:41:13,204
seeing the kids get to school
621
00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:15,941
and do their homework.
622
00:41:16,041 --> 00:41:20,245
We were unfair. We were selfish.
623
00:41:20,345 --> 00:41:22,914
[Bean] We were not very good husbands.
624
00:41:23,014 --> 00:41:25,751
We weren't very good fathers either.
625
00:41:25,851 --> 00:41:28,186
And sometimes you can't balance things
626
00:41:28,286 --> 00:41:30,021
like work and family.
627
00:41:30,121 --> 00:41:33,559
Like, we had-- this is how the work is
628
00:41:33,659 --> 00:41:35,694
and the family is way down here.
629
00:41:35,794 --> 00:41:37,128
If you didn't do this,
630
00:41:37,228 --> 00:41:39,798
you weren't gonna stay as an astronaut.
631
00:41:39,898 --> 00:41:41,132
That's simple.
632
00:41:41,232 --> 00:41:43,034
We weren't interested in this.
633
00:41:43,134 --> 00:41:45,036
We were interested in this.
634
00:42:19,871 --> 00:42:21,139
[Cernan] We're gonna
be the second flight
635
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,275
to ever go to the moon--
636
00:42:24,375 --> 00:42:27,012
Stafford, young, and myself.
637
00:42:27,112 --> 00:42:31,182
We're gonna get on a big ol' Saturn V.
638
00:42:31,282 --> 00:42:33,719
It was a big chunk to swallow.
639
00:42:35,754 --> 00:42:36,922
[Reporter] You're sitting on the top
640
00:42:37,022 --> 00:42:40,759
of 2,740 tons of equivalent TNT.
641
00:42:40,859 --> 00:42:43,995
Do you know fear or apprehension?
642
00:42:44,095 --> 00:42:47,298
I didn't before you told me
it was that much TNT.
643
00:43:09,187 --> 00:43:11,189
[Cernan] The last couple
of days before launch
644
00:43:11,289 --> 00:43:13,692
get pretty intense.
645
00:43:16,895 --> 00:43:18,897
[Butler] It is a very personal time,
646
00:43:18,997 --> 00:43:21,933
and it was a very loving time.
647
00:43:22,033 --> 00:43:24,703
You realize that unless god's willing,
648
00:43:24,803 --> 00:43:26,672
I might not ever see you again,
649
00:43:26,772 --> 00:43:30,241
or he might not see us again.
650
00:43:30,341 --> 00:43:32,043
What if doesn't come back?
651
00:43:38,116 --> 00:43:39,718
[Cernan] The night before I flew,
652
00:43:39,818 --> 00:43:43,321
I wrote a letter to Tracy just in case.
653
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:53,231
"To my dar-- darling daughter, Tracy.
654
00:43:53,331 --> 00:43:58,303
Trace, you're almost
too young to understand
655
00:43:58,403 --> 00:44:03,108
what it means to have your
daddy go to the moon.
656
00:44:03,208 --> 00:44:04,910
But someday,
657
00:44:05,010 --> 00:44:08,213
you'll have the feeling
of excitement and pride
658
00:44:08,313 --> 00:44:10,648
that mommy and daddy do.
659
00:44:10,749 --> 00:44:14,686
Punk, we have lots of camping
660
00:44:14,786 --> 00:44:19,424
and horseback riding to do
when I get back.
661
00:44:19,524 --> 00:44:21,893
I want you to look at the moon,
662
00:44:21,993 --> 00:44:24,395
because when you are reading this,
663
00:44:24,495 --> 00:44:29,067
daddy is almost there.
664
00:44:29,167 --> 00:44:31,002
I love you Tracy.
665
00:44:31,102 --> 00:44:34,139
My wonderful...
666
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,808
And beautiful daughter.
667
00:44:36,908 --> 00:44:38,076
All my love."
668
00:44:54,359 --> 00:44:55,794
You don't sleep that well,
669
00:44:55,894 --> 00:44:58,764
you get up fairly early in the morning.
670
00:44:58,864 --> 00:45:00,866
You have your traditional breakfast.
671
00:45:08,073 --> 00:45:09,474
Then you go down and get suited up.
672
00:45:12,510 --> 00:45:15,280
You've been suited up
a thousand times before
673
00:45:15,380 --> 00:45:19,284
for all kinds of tests
and what have you.
674
00:45:19,384 --> 00:45:21,119
This is for real.
675
00:45:32,097 --> 00:45:35,333
The worst part of it all
is just waiting.
676
00:45:44,175 --> 00:45:47,412
And then at last it's-- it's time to go.
677
00:45:51,817 --> 00:45:53,819
Your adrenaline is pumping pretty strong
678
00:45:53,919 --> 00:45:55,320
at that point in time.
679
00:45:59,090 --> 00:46:02,493
You know, you can hear yourself
breathe inside that suit.
680
00:46:11,336 --> 00:46:13,504
[Applause]
681
00:46:17,142 --> 00:46:20,211
[Man] T-minus 33 minutes and 30 seconds.
682
00:46:20,311 --> 00:46:24,182
33 minutes until the scheduled
liftoff of Apollo 10.
683
00:46:24,282 --> 00:46:25,550
This Saturn V, by the way,
684
00:46:25,650 --> 00:46:28,319
is the most powerful
Saturn V ever to fly,
685
00:46:28,419 --> 00:46:33,024
with 7,700,000 pounds
of first stage power...
686
00:46:33,124 --> 00:46:34,125
[Mission control]
Two minutes and counting.
687
00:46:34,225 --> 00:46:35,961
Our status board indicates
688
00:46:36,061 --> 00:46:38,063
here in the control room...
689
00:46:41,532 --> 00:46:44,836
[Cernan] It's no longer
something you're gonna do.
690
00:46:44,936 --> 00:46:48,139
It's something that's happening.
691
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:54,145
It's happening right now to you.
692
00:46:54,245 --> 00:46:57,415
[Radio chatter continues]
693
00:47:27,612 --> 00:47:30,515
Everything intensifies.
694
00:47:32,650 --> 00:47:34,519
[Mission control]
...Seconds and counting.
695
00:47:34,619 --> 00:47:37,923
We are go for our mission
to the moon at this time...
696
00:47:39,690 --> 00:47:42,027
[Cernan] But the clock keeps going.
697
00:47:42,127 --> 00:47:44,029
[Chatter continues]
698
00:47:44,129 --> 00:47:46,197
All systems are performing
satisfactorily.
699
00:47:46,297 --> 00:47:51,136
All the last minute countdown
checks are proceeding okay.
700
00:47:54,072 --> 00:47:56,307
[Cernan] This is it. This is for real.
701
00:47:59,077 --> 00:48:00,545
That thing's gonna light off under you
702
00:48:00,645 --> 00:48:02,613
and you're gonna
head on out to the moon.
703
00:48:04,649 --> 00:48:07,085
[Mission control] 15... 14...
704
00:48:07,185 --> 00:48:09,654
13... 12... 11...
705
00:48:09,754 --> 00:48:11,389
Ten... nine...
706
00:48:11,489 --> 00:48:14,892
We have ignition sequence start.
707
00:48:14,993 --> 00:48:16,661
And five... four...
708
00:48:16,761 --> 00:48:18,663
Three... two...
709
00:48:18,763 --> 00:48:21,266
All engines running.
710
00:48:21,366 --> 00:48:23,301
Launch, commence liftoff.
711
00:48:23,401 --> 00:48:27,005
We have liftoff,
49 minutes past the hour.
712
00:48:45,023 --> 00:48:46,191
[Mission control] You're go staging 10.
713
00:48:46,291 --> 00:48:48,559
[Stafford] roger. 10 is go.
714
00:48:48,659 --> 00:48:50,195
Inboard shutdown.
715
00:49:06,677 --> 00:49:10,115
[Cernan] What a ride. What a ride.
716
00:49:10,215 --> 00:49:13,251
[Mission control] That's gene
cernan reporting, "what a ride."
717
00:49:40,111 --> 00:49:41,679
[Cernan] It was America
that was going to the moon,
718
00:49:41,779 --> 00:49:45,516
but the fact of life,
it was 20th century humanity
719
00:49:45,616 --> 00:49:46,651
that was going to the moon.
720
00:49:46,751 --> 00:49:48,653
The entire world was on board
721
00:49:48,753 --> 00:49:50,288
that spacecraft with us.
722
00:49:52,557 --> 00:49:57,128
- [Man] Station point one.
- [Man] roger.
723
00:49:57,228 --> 00:49:59,164
Looking good intermediate zone.
724
00:50:10,741 --> 00:50:14,612
Apollo 10, Houston, do you read?
725
00:50:14,712 --> 00:50:17,748
[Houston] roger.
726
00:50:17,848 --> 00:50:20,585
10, you're go for pyro arm
and go for sep.
727
00:50:20,685 --> 00:50:23,154
[Young] roger.
728
00:50:25,523 --> 00:50:26,757
[Stafford] We have sep.
729
00:50:30,295 --> 00:50:32,663
The world is incredible.
730
00:50:32,763 --> 00:50:35,300
I sure hope we can show
it to you, I really do.
731
00:50:39,104 --> 00:50:43,341
[Cernan] You're part of this
big thing that's going on,
732
00:50:43,441 --> 00:50:45,376
and yet you don't realize
733
00:50:45,476 --> 00:50:47,278
how big a thing it is, quite frankly.
734
00:50:49,414 --> 00:50:52,117
You don't fully comprehend it all.
735
00:50:58,589 --> 00:51:01,659
[Radio chatter]
736
00:51:13,538 --> 00:51:17,442
[Man] 10, Houston, 22 looks good to us.
737
00:51:17,542 --> 00:51:20,511
I gotta check the thrusters here now.
738
00:51:30,155 --> 00:51:33,090
[Cernan] You look out the window,
739
00:51:33,191 --> 00:51:35,693
your whole window
is filled up with the earth.
740
00:51:37,895 --> 00:51:39,830
[Cernan] How's that for the front porch?
741
00:51:39,930 --> 00:51:41,332
[Houston] Oh, boy, that's beautiful.
742
00:51:49,407 --> 00:51:50,841
10, it's looking real stable to us.
743
00:51:50,941 --> 00:51:52,710
We show you closing slightly.
744
00:51:55,880 --> 00:52:00,218
[Cernan] charlie, we can't be
more than about 5, 10 feet away.
745
00:52:00,318 --> 00:52:01,652
[Houston] roger.
746
00:52:08,759 --> 00:52:10,295
[Stafford] Snap, snap, and we're there.
747
00:52:10,395 --> 00:52:13,198
- Got two grays.
- [Houston] roger.
748
00:52:24,475 --> 00:52:27,545
[Cernan] You capture that lunar module
749
00:52:27,645 --> 00:52:29,547
and we're on our way.
750
00:52:34,585 --> 00:52:40,191
You now regain consciousness
as to where you are
751
00:52:40,291 --> 00:52:41,759
and where you're going.
752
00:52:48,466 --> 00:52:51,736
[Announcer] ABC news presents
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753
00:52:51,836 --> 00:52:53,704
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754
00:52:53,804 --> 00:52:54,905
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755
00:52:55,005 --> 00:52:57,908
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756
00:52:58,008 --> 00:53:00,945
Good morning or good evening,
757
00:53:01,045 --> 00:53:03,448
depending on where
you are in the country.
758
00:53:03,548 --> 00:53:06,351
From ABC space headquarters
in new york...
759
00:53:06,451 --> 00:53:07,585
[Butler] I guess, after one mission
760
00:53:07,685 --> 00:53:10,187
you feel a little bit more confident,
761
00:53:10,288 --> 00:53:11,356
because you think, "oh, well,
762
00:53:11,456 --> 00:53:12,857
I've been there, done that.
763
00:53:12,957 --> 00:53:14,359
So maybe I'll be better this time.
764
00:53:14,459 --> 00:53:16,261
I'll do-- I know kind of
what to expect."
765
00:53:16,361 --> 00:53:18,529
You had all these people in your home.
766
00:53:18,629 --> 00:53:21,699
You had all these press out there.
767
00:53:21,799 --> 00:53:23,734
It's trying, believe me.
768
00:53:23,834 --> 00:53:26,604
It's very, very trying.
769
00:53:26,704 --> 00:53:28,806
You do sweat it out till they're home.
770
00:53:31,409 --> 00:53:33,544
[Houston] Apollo 10 is
reported to be maneuvering
771
00:53:33,644 --> 00:53:36,447
to burn attitude at this time.
772
00:53:36,547 --> 00:53:41,719
Its distance from the moon
is 681 nautical miles.
773
00:53:41,819 --> 00:53:45,523
Apollo 10, Houston.
Two minutes to L.O.S.
774
00:53:45,623 --> 00:53:49,560
Everybody here says godspeed.
775
00:53:49,660 --> 00:53:50,728
[Stafford] Okay, we'll see them
776
00:53:50,828 --> 00:53:52,430
right on the other side in orbit.
777
00:53:54,965 --> 00:53:56,834
[Stafford] We wouldn't see
the moon until we got there.
778
00:53:58,436 --> 00:53:59,404
And finally, we got close.
779
00:53:59,504 --> 00:54:00,638
We could finally see
780
00:54:00,738 --> 00:54:03,240
a little scimitar of the moon,
781
00:54:03,341 --> 00:54:04,509
that was all.
782
00:54:06,477 --> 00:54:10,715
And then the sun went and disappeared.
783
00:54:14,752 --> 00:54:17,722
[Cernan] The moon is
between you and the sun,
784
00:54:17,822 --> 00:54:21,292
and it blocks out that light.
785
00:54:21,392 --> 00:54:25,696
You are now immersed,
yourself, in this blackness.
786
00:54:28,065 --> 00:54:31,001
And then all of a sudden...
787
00:54:31,101 --> 00:54:33,771
Boom...
788
00:54:33,871 --> 00:54:36,707
Someone turns on the lights.
789
00:54:36,807 --> 00:54:39,009
There's the moon.
790
00:54:40,578 --> 00:54:42,880
[Stafford] roger, Houston, Apollo 10.
791
00:54:42,980 --> 00:54:45,716
You can tell the world
that we have arrived.
792
00:54:48,686 --> 00:54:51,422
[Cernan] As you come out,
you're still in sunlight.
793
00:54:51,522 --> 00:54:54,959
You come around the horizon of the moon,
794
00:54:55,059 --> 00:54:56,694
and here comes the earth.
795
00:54:58,896 --> 00:55:00,865
Earth rise.
796
00:55:03,133 --> 00:55:04,702
[Cernan] charlie, it might sound corny,
797
00:55:04,802 --> 00:55:06,671
but the view is really
out of this world.
798
00:55:13,778 --> 00:55:15,946
[Houston] charlie brown and snoopy.
You're going over the hill.
799
00:55:16,046 --> 00:55:17,448
All the systems are go.
800
00:55:17,548 --> 00:55:19,016
We're all go here on the ground.
801
00:55:19,116 --> 00:55:21,452
It's looking great. Over.
802
00:55:25,490 --> 00:55:29,594
Roger. 56, 22, 55. Snoopy going.
803
00:55:31,996 --> 00:55:35,400
[Cernan] We is go, and we is
down among them, charlie.
804
00:55:35,500 --> 00:55:37,535
[Houston] roger. I hear you
weaving your way up the freeway.
805
00:55:37,635 --> 00:55:39,870
Can you give me
a post-burn report? Over.
806
00:55:42,907 --> 00:55:45,510
[Cernan] Yeah, as soon
as I get my breath.
807
00:55:53,584 --> 00:55:55,486
As we circled the moon
808
00:55:55,586 --> 00:55:57,455
in a lunar lander-- snoopy--
809
00:55:59,957 --> 00:56:01,892
We knew we were vulnerable
810
00:56:01,992 --> 00:56:04,028
to a whole host of unknown problems.
811
00:56:07,164 --> 00:56:11,902
And our goal was to identify
and then solve those problems
812
00:56:12,002 --> 00:56:13,871
so that Neil and his crew would have
813
00:56:13,971 --> 00:56:16,373
just that much less to worry about.
814
00:56:18,609 --> 00:56:21,479
And one of the problems we encountered
815
00:56:21,579 --> 00:56:24,449
was pilot induced.
816
00:56:28,686 --> 00:56:32,657
We were going to simulate
from 47,000 feet,
817
00:56:32,757 --> 00:56:34,391
as if we were on the moon,
818
00:56:34,492 --> 00:56:36,727
lift off from the assent stage,
819
00:56:36,827 --> 00:56:40,498
and then go up into a rendezvous
mode with the mother ship.
820
00:56:41,899 --> 00:56:43,901
But in preparing to do so,
821
00:56:44,001 --> 00:56:46,904
tom and I misplaced a switch,
822
00:56:47,004 --> 00:56:48,405
[Houston] Snoop, Houston,
823
00:56:48,506 --> 00:56:51,709
we have you go for staging. Over.
824
00:56:51,809 --> 00:56:53,010
[Man] Okay, tom.
825
00:56:56,614 --> 00:56:58,015
What's that?
826
00:56:58,115 --> 00:56:59,717
[Man] Okay, let's...
827
00:56:59,817 --> 00:57:03,087
[Stafford] god damn.
828
00:57:03,187 --> 00:57:04,889
[Cernan] Son of a bitch.
829
00:57:04,989 --> 00:57:07,458
[Man] We're in trouble.
830
00:57:07,558 --> 00:57:10,528
[Cernan] I saw that lunar
horizon go by my window
831
00:57:10,628 --> 00:57:13,163
eight times in some 15 seconds.
832
00:57:15,633 --> 00:57:16,601
[Houston] Snoop, Houston...
833
00:57:16,701 --> 00:57:18,035
[Radio chatter]
834
00:57:22,072 --> 00:57:24,875
[Duke] The thing spun around at max rate
835
00:57:24,975 --> 00:57:26,711
to this new attitude.
836
00:57:26,811 --> 00:57:29,446
That got our attention
in mission control.
837
00:57:29,547 --> 00:57:32,550
And we got-- certainly got his attention
838
00:57:32,650 --> 00:57:35,986
as he relayed it over the--
Over the comm.
839
00:57:38,055 --> 00:57:42,827
[Cernan] Tom got this rotation stopped.
840
00:57:42,927 --> 00:57:44,461
How we did it,
841
00:57:44,562 --> 00:57:46,597
I don't know.
842
00:57:46,697 --> 00:57:49,500
[Stafford] Yeah, okay. Something
went wild there on that staging.
843
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:51,001
We're all set. We didn't lock it.
844
00:57:51,101 --> 00:57:53,003
We're going ahead to the auto maneuver.
845
00:57:57,241 --> 00:57:58,776
[Butler] It was frightening
when they did have
846
00:57:58,876 --> 00:58:00,177
that one mishap.
847
00:58:02,312 --> 00:58:06,083
If you think going to the moon is hard,
848
00:58:06,183 --> 00:58:08,085
you ought to try staying home.
849
00:58:15,860 --> 00:58:19,997
[Cernan] Apollo 10 really came
home in a blaze of glory.
850
00:58:20,097 --> 00:58:23,200
Rolling, twisting, turning--
851
00:58:23,300 --> 00:58:29,206
These flecks of fire
were just snapping at us.
852
00:58:29,306 --> 00:58:30,841
We're on our backs coming in backwards.
853
00:58:30,941 --> 00:58:32,242
The heat shield's behind us.
854
00:58:32,342 --> 00:58:34,912
It would just come over
the top of my window,
855
00:58:35,012 --> 00:58:36,180
and just come over there
856
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,516
right in front of my eyes and snap.
857
00:58:39,617 --> 00:58:43,520
A sheet of fire completely
immerses you and surrounds you.
858
00:58:50,060 --> 00:58:53,998
I know what it's like to be that comet.
859
00:58:54,098 --> 00:58:56,667
The shooting star.
860
00:58:56,767 --> 00:59:00,571
It is a spectacular fireworks show.
861
00:59:00,671 --> 00:59:02,873
It--
862
00:59:02,973 --> 00:59:05,275
I wish it had happened
on fourth of July.
863
00:59:35,940 --> 00:59:38,342
We had just been to the moon.
864
00:59:38,442 --> 00:59:42,913
So you can imagine
how it felt to come home.
865
00:59:44,114 --> 00:59:45,916
Home. Your real home.
866
00:59:46,016 --> 00:59:47,051
Not just your home away from--
867
00:59:47,151 --> 00:59:50,220
This home. Your family.
868
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:52,990
And the response of people
869
00:59:53,090 --> 00:59:55,893
you have known a lifetime
870
00:59:55,993 --> 00:59:58,262
was so overwhelming.
871
00:59:58,362 --> 01:00:01,265
You could tell it meant
something to them.
872
01:00:02,900 --> 01:00:04,301
[Baldwin] Nothing but pride.
873
01:00:04,401 --> 01:00:06,704
Nothing but pride.
874
01:00:06,804 --> 01:00:08,739
And so proud of him,
875
01:00:08,839 --> 01:00:10,708
so proud of him that he could go out
876
01:00:10,808 --> 01:00:12,943
and do something like that.
877
01:00:15,079 --> 01:00:16,313
And proud of the country.
878
01:00:34,164 --> 01:00:38,102
[Cernan] Not many people
remember Apollo 10,
879
01:00:38,202 --> 01:00:39,837
but I do.
880
01:00:39,937 --> 01:00:41,839
And I'll tell you someone else
who remembered it,
881
01:00:41,939 --> 01:00:43,140
and that's Neil Armstrong.
882
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,676
- [Electronic beep]
- Okay, Neil,
883
01:00:45,776 --> 01:00:49,379
we can see you coming
down the ladder now.
884
01:00:49,479 --> 01:00:51,749
[Armstrong] I'm gonna
step off the lander now.
885
01:00:55,986 --> 01:00:59,423
That's one small step for man,
886
01:00:59,523 --> 01:01:02,927
one giant leap for mankind.
887
01:01:06,964 --> 01:01:11,168
Would I have liked to been
at a first landing?
888
01:01:11,268 --> 01:01:12,402
You bet your life I would've.
889
01:01:14,939 --> 01:01:16,340
But as it turned out,
890
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:19,276
I think fate shined down upon us,
891
01:01:19,376 --> 01:01:21,678
and got the right people
892
01:01:21,779 --> 01:01:22,880
in the right place at the right time.
893
01:01:38,295 --> 01:01:40,765
How does one,
894
01:01:40,865 --> 01:01:45,770
adequately express his feelings
895
01:01:45,870 --> 01:01:49,173
about a special friend
896
01:01:49,273 --> 01:01:54,812
when that friend is also a world icon
897
01:01:54,912 --> 01:01:58,715
whose name will live
in history long after
898
01:01:58,816 --> 01:02:02,386
all here today have been forgotten.
899
01:02:04,154 --> 01:02:08,392
Neil, you can now finally
900
01:02:08,492 --> 01:02:10,961
put out your hands
901
01:02:11,061 --> 01:02:14,832
and touch the face of god.
902
01:02:15,933 --> 01:02:18,735
Farewell, my friend.
903
01:02:18,836 --> 01:02:22,472
You have left us far too soon.
904
01:02:24,274 --> 01:02:25,843
God bless you, Neil.
905
01:03:02,212 --> 01:03:03,313
[Car horn honks]
906
01:03:15,025 --> 01:03:17,127
[Woman] Oh!
907
01:03:17,227 --> 01:03:19,496
Hey, daddy.
908
01:03:19,596 --> 01:03:21,298
How are you?
909
01:03:23,300 --> 01:03:26,403
[Chattering]
910
01:03:39,349 --> 01:03:42,252
- Okay, here.
- Come here, baby.
911
01:03:42,352 --> 01:03:44,288
- Remember when I came back from--
- Mm-hmm.
912
01:03:44,388 --> 01:03:46,556
Apollo 10 and I tried to impress you?
913
01:03:46,656 --> 01:03:49,126
- Yeah.
- You know, daddy's been to the moon.
914
01:03:49,226 --> 01:03:51,561
- Been here, done this.
- He flew snoopy closer,
915
01:03:51,661 --> 01:03:54,431
and was way out in the--
916
01:03:54,531 --> 01:03:56,400
In-- in the heavens where god lives.
917
01:03:56,500 --> 01:03:58,969
And I never will forget it,
918
01:03:59,069 --> 01:04:01,238
you just stood, and listened to me.
919
01:04:01,338 --> 01:04:02,406
I brought you back down to earth.
920
01:04:02,506 --> 01:04:04,909
All the sudden, it got quiet
921
01:04:05,009 --> 01:04:06,176
and I had nothing else to say,
922
01:04:06,276 --> 01:04:08,478
and you looked up, and said,
923
01:04:08,578 --> 01:04:12,049
"daddy, now that you've been
to the moon and back,
924
01:04:12,149 --> 01:04:14,518
- when you gonna take me camping...
- Camping.
925
01:04:14,618 --> 01:04:16,320
- We used to go camping.
- ...Like you promised me."
926
01:04:16,420 --> 01:04:17,554
That's right.
927
01:04:17,654 --> 01:04:19,890
And you know what that brought home?
928
01:04:19,990 --> 01:04:22,392
All the times,
929
01:04:22,492 --> 01:04:25,195
during that period of our lives together
930
01:04:25,295 --> 01:04:26,997
that I couldn't take you camping,
931
01:04:27,097 --> 01:04:27,998
that I was gone.
932
01:04:28,098 --> 01:04:29,299
I was gone somewhere.
933
01:04:29,399 --> 01:04:32,536
I was gone and gone, and gone and gone.
934
01:04:32,636 --> 01:04:37,341
It was a very selfish life on my part,
935
01:04:37,441 --> 01:04:39,977
and on the part of all the guys.
936
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:46,150
[Radio chatter]
937
01:04:51,421 --> 01:04:56,994
[Chatter continues]
938
01:05:05,435 --> 01:05:07,537
[Man] The rim on this little crater
939
01:05:07,637 --> 01:05:09,073
seems to be all white.
940
01:05:12,442 --> 01:05:15,980
[Man] This is gonna be some
kind of different ride.
941
01:05:40,004 --> 01:05:45,442
[Cernan] Dick Gordon
had a crew with Jack Schmitt.
942
01:05:45,542 --> 01:05:48,312
Jack Schmitt was a lunar geologist.
943
01:05:48,412 --> 01:05:50,280
It made sense, at least to me,
944
01:05:50,380 --> 01:05:51,948
and I was afraid it made a lot of sense
945
01:05:52,049 --> 01:05:53,617
to too many other people,
946
01:05:53,717 --> 01:05:56,153
that they should keep
that crew together.
947
01:05:56,253 --> 01:05:58,989
Well, the national academy of sciences
948
01:05:59,089 --> 01:06:01,125
wanted a geologist to fly to the moon.
949
01:06:01,225 --> 01:06:02,492
They've always wanted that.
950
01:06:02,592 --> 01:06:05,295
So here's their last opportunity
951
01:06:05,395 --> 01:06:10,034
to put a ph.D. Geologist
on a flight crew.
952
01:06:10,134 --> 01:06:11,468
[Cernan] And so it was gonna come down
953
01:06:11,568 --> 01:06:14,971
to dick's crew or my crew,
954
01:06:15,072 --> 01:06:16,273
and he had an ace in a hole.
955
01:06:16,373 --> 01:06:19,676
He had jack Schmitt.
956
01:06:19,776 --> 01:06:23,280
I knew if I had any chance at all,
957
01:06:23,380 --> 01:06:26,350
I'd better not do something stupid.
958
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:32,056
We do a lot of training in simulators,
959
01:06:32,156 --> 01:06:35,159
and we had this lunar
landing training vehicle.
960
01:06:37,194 --> 01:06:39,596
We also used the helicopter.
961
01:06:44,434 --> 01:06:46,603
I had an urge to fly low
962
01:06:46,703 --> 01:06:48,738
over the Indian river,
963
01:06:48,838 --> 01:06:53,243
and the little skid that you
land on with this helicopter
964
01:06:53,343 --> 01:06:54,444
touched the water.
965
01:07:02,819 --> 01:07:06,423
This is the helmet that I was wearing
966
01:07:06,523 --> 01:07:08,058
when I was flying that helicopter,
967
01:07:08,158 --> 01:07:10,594
and when I unstrapped it,
968
01:07:10,694 --> 01:07:12,262
it floated to the surface,
969
01:07:12,362 --> 01:07:16,400
and it picked an equilibrium position.
970
01:07:16,500 --> 01:07:19,136
Probably floated,
I guess about like that,
971
01:07:19,236 --> 01:07:24,241
and everything above the
surface is charcoal.
972
01:07:24,341 --> 01:07:28,645
I thought he'd, as the
saying goes in the navy,
973
01:07:28,745 --> 01:07:30,780
that he'd screwed the pooch.
974
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:33,350
I thought he'd done it to himself,
975
01:07:33,450 --> 01:07:35,085
because, you know, hell,
976
01:07:35,185 --> 01:07:37,621
nobody flies a damn
helicopter into the water
977
01:07:37,721 --> 01:07:40,590
unless there's a couple bikinis
there you're looking at.
978
01:07:42,426 --> 01:07:45,695
How can anyone do something
979
01:07:45,795 --> 01:07:49,166
so dumb as I just did
980
01:07:49,266 --> 01:07:51,568
and be given the responsibility
981
01:07:51,668 --> 01:07:56,840
of flying a gillion-dollar
spacecraft to the moon--
982
01:07:56,940 --> 01:07:59,143
Being responsible for the crew,
983
01:07:59,243 --> 01:08:01,845
the safety, the success of the mission?
984
01:08:01,945 --> 01:08:04,348
And I knew, absolutely,
985
01:08:04,448 --> 01:08:08,185
when the time came, it would not be me.
986
01:08:08,285 --> 01:08:09,553
[Man] Scene four, take one.
987
01:08:09,653 --> 01:08:13,323
Sound for Apollo 17 astronaut cernan.
988
01:08:15,459 --> 01:08:17,761
Gene Cernan, Harrison
Schmitt, and Ronald Evans
989
01:08:17,861 --> 01:08:21,131
have been named for the finish
Apollo flight, Apollo 17.
990
01:08:21,231 --> 01:08:23,633
Schmitt is a first
among flying astronauts.
991
01:08:23,733 --> 01:08:26,336
He's primarily a geologist
rather than a pilot.
992
01:08:28,938 --> 01:08:31,541
When we made the final
selection of the crew
993
01:08:31,641 --> 01:08:34,544
for Apollo 17,
994
01:08:34,644 --> 01:08:37,681
that was done in concert
with Deke Slayton,
995
01:08:37,781 --> 01:08:39,115
who was head of the flight crew
996
01:08:39,216 --> 01:08:40,517
operations at the time.
997
01:08:40,617 --> 01:08:43,320
And I was never too pleased
with the process
998
01:08:43,420 --> 01:08:45,322
that was followed there,
999
01:08:45,422 --> 01:08:47,123
because I thought it was too much
1000
01:08:47,224 --> 01:08:49,759
in the hands of Mr. Slayton.
1001
01:08:51,595 --> 01:08:53,530
[Gordon] jack was taken off of my crew
1002
01:08:53,630 --> 01:08:57,334
and assigned to Apollo 17.
1003
01:08:59,336 --> 01:09:02,406
I didn't think that was very fair.
1004
01:09:02,506 --> 01:09:05,442
And I said, "they can't take
jack Schmitt off my crew
1005
01:09:05,542 --> 01:09:08,245
and give him to somebody else."
1006
01:09:08,345 --> 01:09:10,614
[Cernan] He may have had a
right to be somewhat bitter
1007
01:09:10,714 --> 01:09:13,217
I got the flight and he didn't.
1008
01:09:13,317 --> 01:09:15,219
And, uh, you know, he said--
1009
01:09:15,319 --> 01:09:16,653
Tells me that today,
1010
01:09:16,753 --> 01:09:20,657
because he said, "you took my flight."
1011
01:09:20,757 --> 01:09:22,292
And I may have.
1012
01:09:52,522 --> 01:09:54,858
You know, sitting on a pad
1013
01:09:54,958 --> 01:09:56,860
waiting for launch,
1014
01:09:56,960 --> 01:10:00,230
it's a long time to-- to contemplate
1015
01:10:00,330 --> 01:10:01,965
where you've come from,
1016
01:10:02,065 --> 01:10:03,467
where you're going.
1017
01:10:05,802 --> 01:10:08,705
It's one of those real moments
1018
01:10:08,805 --> 01:10:11,708
that you take an introspective look
1019
01:10:11,808 --> 01:10:14,978
at what is now in front of you.
1020
01:10:17,414 --> 01:10:19,349
This is what I asked for.
1021
01:10:19,449 --> 01:10:24,354
This was my personal
moment of reckoning.
1022
01:10:54,451 --> 01:10:55,985
[Butler] When it lifted off,
1023
01:10:56,085 --> 01:11:00,590
it was just-- I mean,
I'll never, ever, forget
1024
01:11:00,690 --> 01:11:04,761
how that was because the whole
ground rumbled underneath your feet
1025
01:11:04,861 --> 01:11:08,798
and all the fish jumped out of the lake.
1026
01:11:14,604 --> 01:11:18,875
[Tracy] The entire sky
just totally lit up.
1027
01:11:22,111 --> 01:11:25,014
It was just beautiful.
1028
01:12:02,819 --> 01:12:04,821
[Cernan] Oh, my golly!
1029
01:12:04,921 --> 01:12:07,357
Unbelievable.
1030
01:12:07,457 --> 01:12:08,425
Unbelievable,
1031
01:12:08,525 --> 01:12:09,559
but it is bright in the sun.
1032
01:12:12,095 --> 01:12:15,499
[Cernan] It was the most proud moment
1033
01:12:15,599 --> 01:12:17,767
of my entire life.
1034
01:12:20,570 --> 01:12:25,642
I had proved to myself
that I was capable
1035
01:12:25,742 --> 01:12:26,976
of coming this far.
1036
01:12:31,180 --> 01:12:34,818
I couldn't get out of my mind--
1037
01:12:34,918 --> 01:12:39,088
This almost science fiction world
1038
01:12:39,188 --> 01:12:40,824
I was living in.
1039
01:12:43,092 --> 01:12:46,730
Now we had a little more than three days
1040
01:12:46,830 --> 01:12:49,599
to make use of the time
we had on the moon,
1041
01:12:49,699 --> 01:12:53,102
and that's when the work really began.
1042
01:13:00,810 --> 01:13:03,947
So we set experiments out there,
1043
01:13:04,047 --> 01:13:05,148
seismic experiments,
1044
01:13:05,248 --> 01:13:08,051
experiments of all kinds.
1045
01:13:10,086 --> 01:13:13,990
The next thing we did
was unload the lunar rover.
1046
01:13:17,927 --> 01:13:20,864
We had the rover to facilitate
our ability to move around,
1047
01:13:20,964 --> 01:13:24,468
and try to explore this entire valley.
1048
01:13:24,568 --> 01:13:26,903
We never would have been able
to do that on foot.
1049
01:13:28,104 --> 01:13:29,739
It didn't go very fast,
1050
01:13:29,839 --> 01:13:34,177
but it went fast enough
on the moon in 1/6 gravity.
1051
01:13:34,277 --> 01:13:35,512
[Houston] Okay, and gene,
you might get the--
1052
01:13:35,612 --> 01:13:36,980
[cernan] Okay, now shove it.
1053
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:38,682
That's too much. Wait a minute.
1054
01:13:40,817 --> 01:13:45,989
But our major objective
was to try and establish
1055
01:13:46,089 --> 01:13:47,423
the history of that valley.
1056
01:13:47,524 --> 01:13:51,928
- Oh, hey! Wait a minute.
- What?
1057
01:13:52,028 --> 01:13:54,698
There is orange soil!
1058
01:13:54,798 --> 01:13:56,199
Well, don't move it until I see it.
1059
01:13:57,801 --> 01:13:59,803
It's all over.
1060
01:13:59,903 --> 01:14:01,070
Orange!
1061
01:14:01,170 --> 01:14:02,672
Don't move it until I see it.
1062
01:14:02,772 --> 01:14:06,109
I've stirred it up with my feet.
1063
01:14:06,209 --> 01:14:07,811
How can there be orange
soil on the moon?
1064
01:14:09,045 --> 01:14:10,747
Look at it.
1065
01:14:12,115 --> 01:14:13,783
I'll be a son of a--
1066
01:14:13,883 --> 01:14:16,720
That's the volcanic...
1067
01:14:16,820 --> 01:14:19,723
[Laughter]
1068
01:14:19,823 --> 01:14:21,791
...they're up against
a constraint anyways,
1069
01:14:21,891 --> 01:14:24,961
so they gotta leave at a certain
time regardless of what we got.
1070
01:14:25,061 --> 01:14:27,463
[Man] I'm willing to give up
all the light mantle stuff,
1071
01:14:27,564 --> 01:14:28,898
and stay up another--
1072
01:14:28,998 --> 01:14:30,534
That's the priority right up there, huh?
1073
01:14:30,634 --> 01:14:32,035
There it is. Look at that.
1074
01:14:33,737 --> 01:14:36,806
[Cernan] That change at all?
1075
01:14:36,906 --> 01:14:39,509
[Houston] Oh, thank you, geno.
It looks much better.
1076
01:14:42,712 --> 01:14:45,248
[Cernan] When you get out
there and look back...
1077
01:14:47,684 --> 01:14:51,020
As small as it is compared to the earth,
1078
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:53,056
when you're the only two guys out there,
1079
01:14:53,156 --> 01:14:56,492
it can be pretty lonely at times.
1080
01:15:00,897 --> 01:15:04,200
Once we got in, we took our suits off
1081
01:15:04,300 --> 01:15:07,771
and we had to dry them out.
1082
01:15:07,871 --> 01:15:09,873
We had to eat.
1083
01:15:09,973 --> 01:15:11,107
We had to rest.
1084
01:15:12,742 --> 01:15:16,212
I remember specifically
pulling up the shade
1085
01:15:16,312 --> 01:15:18,748
before we tried to get some rest
1086
01:15:18,848 --> 01:15:22,151
and looking out at the earth.
1087
01:15:24,020 --> 01:15:26,956
Maybe I just had to make
sure it was still there.
1088
01:15:34,831 --> 01:15:37,734
[Cernan] Oh, that ought
to be a beautiful shot
1089
01:15:37,834 --> 01:15:39,636
if I can see what my settings are.
1090
01:15:50,947 --> 01:15:55,218
That whole period of time,
that's the time I call
1091
01:15:55,318 --> 01:15:57,787
sitting on god's front porch.
1092
01:16:04,193 --> 01:16:08,564
I was out there somewhere
with the opportunity
1093
01:16:08,665 --> 01:16:11,234
to see something and be somewhere
1094
01:16:11,334 --> 01:16:16,039
and do something
that only 12 human beings
1095
01:16:16,139 --> 01:16:19,208
in the history of mankind
1096
01:16:19,308 --> 01:16:21,177
have been able to do, or be, or see.
1097
01:16:28,952 --> 01:16:31,821
Tracy, did he promise to
bring you anything back?
1098
01:16:31,921 --> 01:16:35,158
Well, I asked him to bring
a rock back from the moon.
1099
01:16:35,258 --> 01:16:36,960
But he said if he could,
1100
01:16:37,060 --> 01:16:38,795
he'd bring me one back.
1101
01:16:38,895 --> 01:16:41,665
And he said if he could,
he'd bring me a moonbeam.
1102
01:16:41,765 --> 01:16:43,633
- A what?
- A moonbeam.
1103
01:16:43,733 --> 01:16:45,769
A moonbeam?
1104
01:16:45,869 --> 01:16:47,003
[Laughs]
1105
01:16:47,103 --> 01:16:48,071
He's either pulling your leg
1106
01:16:48,171 --> 01:16:49,739
or you're pulling mine.
1107
01:16:49,839 --> 01:16:51,140
That's what he said.
1108
01:16:51,240 --> 01:16:52,208
[Chuckles]
1109
01:17:05,955 --> 01:17:07,791
[Cernan] I parked the rover
1110
01:17:07,891 --> 01:17:11,294
about 3/4 of a mile behind the L.E.M.
1111
01:17:11,394 --> 01:17:13,096
So that they could operate
the television camera
1112
01:17:13,196 --> 01:17:15,164
and watch our liftoff.
1113
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:18,802
And I don't know
what possessed me to do it,
1114
01:17:18,902 --> 01:17:24,240
I just scratched Tracy’s
initials in the lunar surface.
1115
01:17:25,809 --> 01:17:27,110
I put "T.D.C."
1116
01:17:29,278 --> 01:17:32,348
And someday, sometime,
1117
01:17:32,448 --> 01:17:33,983
I can only believe--
1118
01:17:34,083 --> 01:17:35,651
Not just hope, but believe--
1119
01:17:35,752 --> 01:17:37,653
That someone will go back,
1120
01:17:37,754 --> 01:17:39,088
and that's what they'll find.
1121
01:17:44,894 --> 01:17:47,263
[Tracy] I guess you appreciate
things the older you get.
1122
01:17:47,363 --> 01:17:49,365
Always.
1123
01:17:49,465 --> 01:17:51,835
You understand them better,
you appreciate them more.
1124
01:17:51,935 --> 01:17:53,937
And you know, the older I get,
1125
01:17:54,037 --> 01:17:59,008
probably the more
meaningful it gets to me.
1126
01:17:59,108 --> 01:18:01,344
[Cernan] I'm gonna roll it
downhill so we can work on it,
1127
01:18:01,444 --> 01:18:03,412
well, I'll document it first.
1128
01:18:05,882 --> 01:18:08,017
Walking up the ladder,
1129
01:18:08,117 --> 01:18:10,353
was probably one of the most
memorable moments for me,
1130
01:18:10,453 --> 01:18:14,057
because I looked down at my footprints
1131
01:18:14,157 --> 01:18:17,861
and I knew I wasn't
coming this way again.
1132
01:18:17,961 --> 01:18:20,964
Why we were here? What did it mean?
1133
01:18:21,064 --> 01:18:24,033
I looked over my shoulder,
and there's the earth,
1134
01:18:24,133 --> 01:18:26,402
there's reality. There's home.
1135
01:18:29,538 --> 01:18:33,943
I wanted to press the freeze button.
1136
01:18:34,043 --> 01:18:36,813
I wanted to stop time.
1137
01:18:36,913 --> 01:18:39,448
I really wanted to reach out,
1138
01:18:39,548 --> 01:18:43,019
put it in my hand,
stick it in my spacesuit,
1139
01:18:43,119 --> 01:18:46,055
and bring it home
and show it to everybody.
1140
01:18:48,457 --> 01:18:51,494
This is what it feels like.
This is what it looks like.
1141
01:18:58,835 --> 01:19:03,807
[Houston] This is Apollo control
and 187 hours, 31 minutes.
1142
01:19:03,907 --> 01:19:08,778
Now approaching 30 minutes
until time for lunar liftoff.
1143
01:19:08,878 --> 01:19:12,181
The countdown toward liftoff
going very smoothly.
1144
01:19:12,281 --> 01:19:15,919
Control, telmu, G.N.C, eecomm,
1145
01:19:16,019 --> 01:19:18,221
surgeon, inco.
1146
01:19:18,321 --> 01:19:20,423
I was the flight director
on this console
1147
01:19:20,523 --> 01:19:24,327
for gene Cernan's liftoff from the moon.
1148
01:19:24,427 --> 01:19:27,330
Rog. We're go for liftoff here, capcom.
1149
01:19:27,430 --> 01:19:29,232
[Kranz] So that when it came time,
1150
01:19:29,332 --> 01:19:32,802
we recognized the triumph of
the work that we had done,
1151
01:19:32,902 --> 01:19:36,039
but we also lost some very good friends.
1152
01:19:36,139 --> 01:19:39,876
So it was a celebratory mood,
1153
01:19:39,976 --> 01:19:43,512
but it was also one that we
looked very somberly at our past.
1154
01:19:43,612 --> 01:19:48,117
And we hoped that somewhere,
somehow, someday,
1155
01:19:48,217 --> 01:19:51,087
we would be able to carry the
work that we had been doing
1156
01:19:51,187 --> 01:19:52,488
into the future.
1157
01:19:52,588 --> 01:19:56,459
[Houston] Three, two, one, ignition.
1158
01:19:56,559 --> 01:19:58,895
[Cernan] Burn away, Houston.
1159
01:20:49,678 --> 01:20:55,251
Could I have imagined
that it would come to this?
1160
01:21:07,096 --> 01:21:09,032
I don't want to remember it this way.
1161
01:21:09,132 --> 01:21:10,433
I'm just disappointed.
1162
01:21:10,533 --> 01:21:12,969
I almost wish I didn't come here today.
1163
01:21:30,519 --> 01:21:34,223
You go to the moon
and you're everybody's hero.
1164
01:21:36,092 --> 01:21:38,361
You're sort of caught up in it yourself.
1165
01:21:43,366 --> 01:21:46,435
People everywhere of every
color, of every religion,
1166
01:21:46,535 --> 01:21:49,405
every ethnic background
were overwhelmed.
1167
01:21:49,505 --> 01:21:51,340
"Let me touch you. Let me talk to you."
1168
01:21:52,741 --> 01:21:56,545
And you live that kind of activity
1169
01:21:56,645 --> 01:21:58,447
for four or five years,
1170
01:21:58,547 --> 01:22:00,016
that's a big change in your life.
1171
01:22:04,387 --> 01:22:07,423
[Butler] Our life did change a lot.
1172
01:22:07,523 --> 01:22:10,926
He was so engrossed
in all of this notoriety,
1173
01:22:11,027 --> 01:22:14,597
and traveling, and speaking,
1174
01:22:14,697 --> 01:22:17,967
and I got so tired of it.
1175
01:22:18,067 --> 01:22:20,269
And I thought,
"I just want a normal life.
1176
01:22:20,369 --> 01:22:22,671
I want to be a normal housewife."
1177
01:22:27,643 --> 01:22:32,115
And I remember when gene and I
were on a private jet,
1178
01:22:32,215 --> 01:22:33,449
I was sitting in one aisle,
1179
01:22:33,549 --> 01:22:35,284
he was sitting across the aisle from me.
1180
01:22:35,384 --> 01:22:37,286
And I looked at him, and I thought,
1181
01:22:37,386 --> 01:22:41,290
"you know, cernan, this is your
life, this is what you want.
1182
01:22:41,390 --> 01:22:43,059
But I don't want it."
1183
01:22:46,662 --> 01:22:48,631
I guess a couple years after that
1184
01:22:48,731 --> 01:22:51,300
we ended up separating,
1185
01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:54,203
and going our different ways.
1186
01:23:00,743 --> 01:23:04,647
[Cernan] Some 60% of us got divorced,
1187
01:23:04,747 --> 01:23:06,682
and I'm not proud of it.
1188
01:23:06,782 --> 01:23:08,051
We were so tunnel-visioned
1189
01:23:08,151 --> 01:23:09,318
when we were going to the moon,
1190
01:23:09,418 --> 01:23:11,154
that we never had time to get off
1191
01:23:11,254 --> 01:23:14,157
that big white horse we were riding
1192
01:23:14,257 --> 01:23:15,691
until it was too late.
1193
01:23:19,062 --> 01:23:21,730
I lived a single life for, I don't know,
1194
01:23:21,830 --> 01:23:23,999
seven or eight years.
1195
01:23:24,100 --> 01:23:25,334
And that sounds like a lot of fun
1196
01:23:25,434 --> 01:23:28,104
when you're 40, 50 years old.
1197
01:23:30,539 --> 01:23:34,710
But sooner or later, you've gotta
come to grips with who you are
1198
01:23:34,810 --> 01:23:36,745
and what's important in life.
1199
01:23:42,485 --> 01:23:44,520
[Woman] I was invited to a friend's home
1200
01:23:44,620 --> 01:23:46,689
for a cocktail party,
1201
01:23:46,789 --> 01:23:51,026
and gene happened to be there.
1202
01:23:51,127 --> 01:23:53,196
And I just happened to see
the best looking chick
1203
01:23:53,296 --> 01:23:54,697
at the party, and it was her,
1204
01:23:54,797 --> 01:23:56,199
and someone said,
"would you take her home?"
1205
01:23:56,299 --> 01:23:58,201
And I said, "well, I'd be glad to."
1206
01:23:58,301 --> 01:24:00,035
But after taking her home,
1207
01:24:00,136 --> 01:24:02,037
I'm not sure I was ever
gonna see her again.
1208
01:24:02,138 --> 01:24:05,141
That's true.
1209
01:24:05,241 --> 01:24:07,042
I just liked gene's--
1210
01:24:07,143 --> 01:24:09,312
I thought he was more down to earth
1211
01:24:09,412 --> 01:24:11,214
than a lot of the other ones.
1212
01:24:11,314 --> 01:24:13,216
Mm-hmm.
1213
01:24:13,316 --> 01:24:15,551
And at that time, I didn't
think he had such a big ego.
1214
01:24:15,651 --> 01:24:19,555
- Give me a break.
- But I have since--
1215
01:24:19,655 --> 01:24:21,790
I'm learning more about me.
1216
01:24:23,192 --> 01:24:26,095
Give me a break.
1217
01:24:26,195 --> 01:24:28,731
You know we're gonna be
married 25 years?
1218
01:24:28,831 --> 01:24:31,567
- 24.
- Five.
1219
01:24:31,667 --> 01:24:32,501
It's five.
1220
01:24:40,609 --> 01:24:44,580
Jan became something
very special in my life.
1221
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:46,081
And from that relationship,
1222
01:24:46,182 --> 01:24:50,686
came a family again, and grand kids.
1223
01:24:52,721 --> 01:24:54,490
Kids.
1224
01:24:54,590 --> 01:24:57,092
- Give me a break.
- Take a seat. Come on.
1225
01:24:57,193 --> 01:24:58,427
This is a beautiful--
1226
01:24:58,527 --> 01:25:00,095
Someone take a picture.
1227
01:25:00,196 --> 01:25:03,266
We are! Sit down, come on.
1228
01:25:03,366 --> 01:25:04,533
- Okay.
- Fix your hair.
1229
01:25:04,633 --> 01:25:06,802
- Ow.
- You're about to sit on me?
1230
01:25:06,902 --> 01:25:08,804
Ow. That's-- you put me in the middle.
1231
01:25:08,904 --> 01:25:09,838
Wait. You're sitting on me.
1232
01:25:09,938 --> 01:25:11,440
Ow, my shirt.
1233
01:25:11,540 --> 01:25:13,108
- Okay, am I all right?
- Yes.
1234
01:25:13,209 --> 01:25:14,177
Okay.
1235
01:25:18,281 --> 01:25:20,283
[Talking off mic]
1236
01:25:20,383 --> 01:25:23,386
...1.6 billion dollars.
1237
01:25:23,486 --> 01:25:26,189
I'm here for a couple days and
I'm going to San Diego,
1238
01:25:26,289 --> 01:25:28,291
so I could do something...
1239
01:25:28,391 --> 01:25:30,626
[Woman] Oh, brother.
1240
01:25:30,726 --> 01:25:32,795
It's a very high energy level.
1241
01:25:32,895 --> 01:25:36,131
He-- you know, he just doesn't stop.
1242
01:25:36,232 --> 01:25:39,635
He doesn't take a moment
to catch his breath.
1243
01:25:39,735 --> 01:25:43,806
He's got a million things
on his mind at one time.
1244
01:25:43,906 --> 01:25:48,277
I don't know that retirement
is really in his vocabulary.
1245
01:25:48,377 --> 01:25:50,646
And there are people here
that are listening today
1246
01:25:50,746 --> 01:25:53,582
who will see humans walk on mars.
1247
01:25:53,682 --> 01:25:54,883
I won't, but they will.
1248
01:25:57,853 --> 01:26:00,823
[Cernan] While we're still here,
1249
01:26:00,923 --> 01:26:02,825
and there's an opportunity to share
1250
01:26:02,925 --> 01:26:05,160
what the space program has meant,
1251
01:26:05,261 --> 01:26:06,829
particularly in this day and age
1252
01:26:06,929 --> 01:26:09,198
when we're talking to a generation
1253
01:26:09,298 --> 01:26:11,600
who weren't even around
when we went to the moon,
1254
01:26:11,700 --> 01:26:14,403
we have an obligation to do that.
1255
01:26:14,503 --> 01:26:16,605
Okay. We get it?
1256
01:26:18,341 --> 01:26:19,508
You came all the way from France?
1257
01:26:19,608 --> 01:26:20,443
Yes.
1258
01:26:22,010 --> 01:26:23,846
Oh, boy.
1259
01:26:23,946 --> 01:26:25,914
Oh, yeah. That's a good one.
1260
01:26:27,015 --> 01:26:28,317
Thank you. Thank you.
1261
01:26:28,417 --> 01:26:29,485
Take care.
1262
01:26:30,586 --> 01:26:32,388
Whew!
1263
01:26:32,488 --> 01:26:34,757
[Baldwin] All of the
fame, and the speeches,
1264
01:26:34,857 --> 01:26:37,693
- and the traveling...
- What's your name?
1265
01:26:37,793 --> 01:26:42,365
I'm on him a lot now.
"Gene, shut it down."
1266
01:26:42,465 --> 01:26:43,932
Shut down your schedule.
1267
01:26:45,801 --> 01:26:47,370
[Cernan] This is October.
1268
01:26:47,470 --> 01:26:51,874
Here was September. Here was august.
1269
01:26:51,974 --> 01:26:55,544
Throttle back, you know?
Slow down, baby.
1270
01:26:55,644 --> 01:26:58,381
You gotta smell the roses a little bit.
1271
01:26:58,481 --> 01:26:59,748
But he drives himself.
1272
01:27:10,759 --> 01:27:13,396
[Cernan] The bad part about it is,
1273
01:27:13,496 --> 01:27:14,730
I'm realizing that,
1274
01:27:14,830 --> 01:27:16,732
like when we were in the space program,
1275
01:27:16,832 --> 01:27:19,234
when we're going full bar,
eight days a week,
1276
01:27:19,335 --> 01:27:21,404
I ignored my family.
1277
01:27:21,504 --> 01:27:24,573
We-- we all did.
1278
01:27:24,673 --> 01:27:27,576
But I'm finding I'm getting
innuendos from my family,
1279
01:27:27,676 --> 01:27:30,413
from the grand kids, from my wife,
1280
01:27:30,513 --> 01:27:33,248
that I'm doing the same thing now.
1281
01:27:33,349 --> 01:27:37,586
And maybe--
1282
01:27:37,686 --> 01:27:41,757
Maybe I'm finally
coming to a realization
1283
01:27:41,857 --> 01:27:43,592
that I gotta think of somebody else.
1284
01:27:43,692 --> 01:27:45,761
I do. I-- I don't think I'm selfish.
1285
01:27:45,861 --> 01:27:47,596
I think I do think of somebody else.
1286
01:27:47,696 --> 01:27:50,265
I think of those people
who want a piece of you,
1287
01:27:50,366 --> 01:27:52,768
who you somehow owe a piece to,
1288
01:27:52,868 --> 01:27:54,437
but there is a limit.
1289
01:27:54,537 --> 01:27:56,872
Now I think maybe I owe
a piece of me to my family.
1290
01:28:07,483 --> 01:28:09,885
- You got-- okay.
- Here you go.
1291
01:28:12,721 --> 01:28:14,289
You know, this is a lot of work
1292
01:28:14,390 --> 01:28:16,024
- for old guys like us.
- Tell me about it.
1293
01:28:25,668 --> 01:28:28,971
These two horses together
can go like the wind.
1294
01:28:29,071 --> 01:28:31,974
We ain't gonna do that today.
1295
01:28:32,074 --> 01:28:33,909
I know damn well I'm not.
1296
01:28:37,980 --> 01:28:40,315
You fly right wing, I'll fly left wing.
1297
01:28:40,416 --> 01:28:41,417
Okay.
1298
01:28:59,868 --> 01:29:01,604
We're gonna go across
1299
01:29:01,704 --> 01:29:03,338
and go back in through that gate.
1300
01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:05,340
- Okay.
- Unless you want to run the barrel?
1301
01:29:05,441 --> 01:29:10,012
No. I don't want to run any barrels.
1302
01:29:10,112 --> 01:29:12,515
Hey, baldy, are you ready to admit
1303
01:29:12,615 --> 01:29:14,082
we ain't got what we used to got?
1304
01:29:15,718 --> 01:29:17,553
Yeah.
1305
01:29:24,427 --> 01:29:28,697
Easy, now. Let's not have a wreck here.
1306
01:29:28,797 --> 01:29:30,365
I got it. I'll get it.
1307
01:29:30,466 --> 01:29:33,702
If I can get my leg
over this saddle, anyway.
1308
01:29:33,802 --> 01:29:34,870
There.
1309
01:29:34,970 --> 01:29:36,371
All right, I think we survived.
1310
01:29:36,472 --> 01:29:39,107
Come on. Oh, shit.
1311
01:29:42,911 --> 01:29:45,714
Oh, baldy! I can't walk!
1312
01:29:45,814 --> 01:29:46,982
I can't either.
1313
01:29:51,587 --> 01:29:54,122
[Cernan] We're still here.
1314
01:29:54,222 --> 01:29:55,891
- That's right.
- How many more years?
1315
01:29:55,991 --> 01:29:58,060
We got a pact to make it to 85
1316
01:29:58,160 --> 01:30:00,062
and then we'll reevaluate.
1317
01:30:00,162 --> 01:30:02,898
I gotta pact-- I gotta pact with my dog.
1318
01:30:02,998 --> 01:30:05,568
You know what? When we got him, I said,
1319
01:30:05,668 --> 01:30:07,402
"if you go ten, I'll go ten."
1320
01:30:07,503 --> 01:30:08,737
That was Barron,
1321
01:30:08,837 --> 01:30:10,405
and I've gotta renegotiate with him.
1322
01:30:10,506 --> 01:30:12,741
We only got three and a half
of those ten years left.
1323
01:30:12,841 --> 01:30:15,911
- I'm not ready!
- Well, bless.
1324
01:30:16,011 --> 01:30:18,013
- I love you, babe.
- I love you, too, man.
1325
01:30:48,811 --> 01:30:51,947
[Cernan] Just standing here,
1326
01:30:52,047 --> 01:30:53,115
getting a little nostalgic.
1327
01:30:53,215 --> 01:30:55,117
Sort of gives me a chance
1328
01:30:55,217 --> 01:30:58,787
to wonder whether
this all happened in my life.
1329
01:30:58,887 --> 01:30:59,955
Whether it was a reality
1330
01:31:00,055 --> 01:31:05,794
or whether it was a dream.
1331
01:31:05,894 --> 01:31:11,133
Is that dummy in there
with my name on really me?
1332
01:31:11,233 --> 01:31:13,969
[Radio chatter]
1333
01:31:14,069 --> 01:31:16,905
And I also stand here and I'm wondering
1334
01:31:17,005 --> 01:31:19,141
what people are gonna think,
1335
01:31:19,241 --> 01:31:22,144
not in another 40 years,
but maybe another 100 years.
1336
01:31:22,244 --> 01:31:24,913
Who knows? Maybe another 1,000 years.
1337
01:31:27,683 --> 01:31:31,920
[Radio chatter]
1338
01:31:51,006 --> 01:31:52,507
I often tell young kids,
1339
01:31:52,608 --> 01:31:57,012
and particularly my grand kids,
1340
01:31:57,112 --> 01:31:59,848
don't ever count yourself out.
1341
01:31:59,948 --> 01:32:02,951
You'll never know how good
you are unless you try.
1342
01:32:05,621 --> 01:32:06,855
Dream the impossible,
1343
01:32:06,955 --> 01:32:09,958
and go out and make it happen.
1344
01:32:12,227 --> 01:32:13,962
I walked on the moon.
1345
01:32:16,064 --> 01:32:18,133
What can't you do?
1346
01:35:36,389 --> 01:35:40,310
And, as we leave the Moon
at Taurus-Littrow,
1347
01:35:41,100 --> 01:35:45,857
we leave as we came and God
willing, as we shall return,
1348
01:35:46,231 --> 01:35:51,197
with peace and hope for all mankind.
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