1 00:00:09,092 --> 00:00:12,179 A voyage around the moon must be made in two phases. 2 00:00:12,971 --> 00:00:15,974 A rocket ship taking off from the Earth's surface 3 00:00:16,057 --> 00:00:18,518 will use almost all the fuel it will carry 4 00:00:18,602 --> 00:00:22,606 just to attain a speed great enough to balance the pull of gravity. 5 00:00:22,689 --> 00:00:28,111 Here we have a scale drawing of the Earth with the moon 240,000 miles away. 6 00:00:28,528 --> 00:00:31,782 This is the elliptical path which our rocket ship will follow 7 00:00:31,864 --> 00:00:34,493 going out and coming back. 8 00:00:36,286 --> 00:00:39,664 And then you will use its primary system, the AGS instead of the PGNCS, 9 00:00:39,747 --> 00:00:41,207 for separation and ascent. 10 00:00:41,290 --> 00:00:43,460 Copy all that, Tranquility Base? 11 00:00:43,543 --> 00:00:45,628 Guidance control AGS. Roger, Houston. 12 00:00:46,170 --> 00:00:48,715 We are definitely concerned about stability 13 00:00:48,798 --> 00:00:51,676 once we fire the ascent engine from this canted position. 14 00:00:52,219 --> 00:00:54,887 In the meantime, we're losing extra weight. 15 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:00,143 I don't like the margins, Wernher. 16 00:01:00,853 --> 00:01:03,646 Getting back to vertical's gonna cost him a lot of ascent fuel. 17 00:01:03,729 --> 00:01:06,108 I mean, they may not be able to rendezvous with Columbia. 18 00:01:06,191 --> 00:01:08,402 The plan is sound, Gene. 19 00:01:17,243 --> 00:01:19,329 Tranquility, you have go for liftoff. 20 00:01:20,914 --> 00:01:23,165 Okay, Buzz. Engine Arm on. 21 00:01:29,088 --> 00:01:31,841 Mike, we'll see you in a bit. 22 00:01:31,924 --> 00:01:33,509 Keep our beers cold for us. 23 00:01:35,304 --> 00:01:37,180 Copy that, Tranquility Base. 24 00:01:38,347 --> 00:01:39,724 Abort Stage. 25 00:01:41,100 --> 00:01:43,686 -Engine Arm, Ascent. -Engine Arm, Ascent. 26 00:01:45,229 --> 00:01:46,606 Here goes nothing. 27 00:01:46,689 --> 00:01:47,691 Ignition. 28 00:01:59,953 --> 00:02:01,704 Houston, we're definitely picking up a little shimmy. 29 00:02:21,057 --> 00:02:22,141 We're leveling out. 30 00:02:23,894 --> 00:02:25,145 The Eagle has wings. 31 00:04:36,067 --> 00:04:37,569 Excuse me... 32 00:04:41,531 --> 00:04:42,824 Good morning, sir. 33 00:04:44,033 --> 00:04:45,494 Green suits you, Emma. 34 00:04:46,077 --> 00:04:47,954 Administrator Paine just arrived, sir. 35 00:04:48,038 --> 00:04:49,747 Hope he's got good news. 36 00:04:50,499 --> 00:04:51,834 -Could use that. -Deke. 37 00:04:54,252 --> 00:04:55,504 I'll catch up. 38 00:05:04,096 --> 00:05:06,932 How much longer do I have to eat shit before you put me back on flight status? 39 00:05:07,014 --> 00:05:09,268 I've been cooling my heels for two damn months now. 40 00:05:09,350 --> 00:05:11,394 Look, it's not only up to me. 41 00:05:11,478 --> 00:05:13,021 You pissed off a lot of people. 42 00:05:16,858 --> 00:05:18,235 I'm never going back up, am I? 43 00:05:20,444 --> 00:05:22,406 Not as long as von Braun's director. 44 00:05:23,365 --> 00:05:25,617 I'm sorry. But you made your bed. 45 00:05:29,329 --> 00:05:31,874 So, what the hell am I supposed to do, just keep pushing paper? 46 00:05:31,956 --> 00:05:33,165 There are worse things. 47 00:05:33,250 --> 00:05:34,500 Yeah, I guess you'd know, wouldn't ya? 48 00:05:35,627 --> 00:05:36,627 Watch it, Ed. 49 00:06:19,213 --> 00:06:21,507 It's from a trusted source in the Kremlin. 50 00:06:21,589 --> 00:06:23,007 And if this is even close to ready... 51 00:06:23,091 --> 00:06:24,468 It's merely blueprints. 52 00:06:24,550 --> 00:06:26,762 I have hundreds of blueprints. It means nothing. 53 00:06:27,471 --> 00:06:29,764 We can't afford to be cautious now, Wernher. 54 00:06:30,307 --> 00:06:31,934 This is the new front in the Cold War. 55 00:06:32,016 --> 00:06:35,562 If the Soviets are gonna build a lunar military outpost up there, 56 00:06:35,646 --> 00:06:38,606 the president wants one too, and he wants it first. 57 00:06:38,689 --> 00:06:39,942 He can't be serious. 58 00:06:40,024 --> 00:06:41,985 Frankly, I've never seen him more serious. 59 00:06:42,485 --> 00:06:44,947 We're talking a major realignment of priorities here. 60 00:06:45,613 --> 00:06:50,369 We may have lost the moon, but we can still win the race for the base. 61 00:06:50,451 --> 00:06:52,079 "Race for the base"? 62 00:06:52,538 --> 00:06:53,538 Catchy, right? 63 00:06:54,497 --> 00:06:55,790 Your testimony before the committee 64 00:06:55,874 --> 00:06:58,793 is the perfect time to unveil NASA's new strategy. 65 00:06:58,877 --> 00:07:00,254 Beginning with Apollo 12, 66 00:07:00,336 --> 00:07:02,297 we will be scouting for the location 67 00:07:02,380 --> 00:07:05,050 of a permanent military installation on the moon. 68 00:07:05,132 --> 00:07:06,343 Absolutely not. 69 00:07:06,843 --> 00:07:10,430 We're a scientific program, not a playground for G.I. Joe. 70 00:07:10,514 --> 00:07:12,975 Wernher. This is a good thing. 71 00:07:13,057 --> 00:07:15,519 Nixon's doubling down on the program. 72 00:07:15,601 --> 00:07:17,562 Our budgets will go up exponentially. 73 00:07:17,646 --> 00:07:20,274 We can bring in three, four more classes of astronauts. 74 00:07:20,899 --> 00:07:21,899 What do you think, Deke? 75 00:07:21,983 --> 00:07:23,985 Well, I could sure use the extra manpower, 76 00:07:24,069 --> 00:07:26,697 but I don't know, 12's flight is right around the corner. 77 00:07:27,656 --> 00:07:29,908 Yeah. We may need to move that up a tad. 78 00:07:32,577 --> 00:07:33,829 Thomas, listen to me. 79 00:07:34,872 --> 00:07:36,790 We cannot allow this encroachment. 80 00:07:38,125 --> 00:07:39,834 I've seen it before. 81 00:07:40,586 --> 00:07:44,338 My Aggregat 4, it was designed for low-Earth orbit. 82 00:07:44,882 --> 00:07:50,387 When the Wehrmacht saw its potential, it became the V-2, a terrible weapon. 83 00:07:51,555 --> 00:07:54,516 We cannot allow space to become another battlefield. 84 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:55,600 It already is. 85 00:07:55,683 --> 00:07:57,978 If we don't respond in kind, we'll be sitting ducks. 86 00:07:58,060 --> 00:08:01,648 I will not watch, yet again, as my work is defiled by men with guns. 87 00:08:01,732 --> 00:08:03,901 This isn't Germany, Wernher. 88 00:08:04,860 --> 00:08:07,653 Dick Nixon's been fighting communists for 30 years, 89 00:08:08,197 --> 00:08:10,406 and a red moon isn't something our nation can accept. 90 00:08:10,490 --> 00:08:13,911 Red moon, blue moon, green moon. Enough with this nonsense. 91 00:08:13,994 --> 00:08:15,077 This is happening. 92 00:08:16,495 --> 00:08:18,831 I suggest you get on the train before it runs you over. 93 00:08:20,709 --> 00:08:21,877 Who does he think he is, 94 00:08:21,959 --> 00:08:24,129 to say "no" to the President of the United States? 95 00:08:24,838 --> 00:08:27,925 If I say put a military base on the moon, that's it. 96 00:08:28,007 --> 00:08:29,009 End of story. 97 00:08:30,009 --> 00:08:31,302 I want that Kraut bastard gone. 98 00:08:31,845 --> 00:08:34,932 I'm afraid he is quite untouchable, Mr. President. 99 00:08:35,014 --> 00:08:38,058 A beloved figure... he taught the country about space travel. 100 00:08:38,143 --> 00:08:39,144 Well, then, 101 00:08:39,226 --> 00:08:41,187 we'll have to get creative now, won't we? 102 00:08:44,482 --> 00:08:46,610 I miss the barbecue back in Huntsville. 103 00:08:48,195 --> 00:08:51,572 Maybe it's time to retire. Go back to Alabama. 104 00:08:52,658 --> 00:08:55,619 Yeah. You could sit on your porch. 105 00:08:56,286 --> 00:08:57,745 Smoke your pipe. 106 00:08:57,828 --> 00:08:59,581 Maybe take up painting? 107 00:09:01,291 --> 00:09:04,961 Besides, who would I eat lunch with? 108 00:09:05,837 --> 00:09:06,922 I don't know. 109 00:09:08,090 --> 00:09:10,133 Perhaps a handsome young suitor? 110 00:09:10,842 --> 00:09:13,595 We're doing this again? You know I don't have time. 111 00:09:13,678 --> 00:09:16,056 Yes. You're a very busy young woman. 112 00:09:18,642 --> 00:09:21,602 I heard about this interview of yours with Gene. 113 00:09:23,647 --> 00:09:25,649 I was going to tell you. I just wanted-- 114 00:09:25,731 --> 00:09:27,985 Wanted to do it yourself. I know. 115 00:09:30,195 --> 00:09:33,030 You worry too much about what others might think, Margo. 116 00:09:34,448 --> 00:09:35,658 You always have. 117 00:09:40,581 --> 00:09:43,917 The boys couldn't stop talking about that Apollo 11 landing. 118 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,253 Good old-fashioned controlled crash. 119 00:09:46,336 --> 00:09:47,921 Yeah, Neil's a good stick. 120 00:09:48,754 --> 00:09:51,884 Though I still think your landing on the Kearsarge, 121 00:09:51,966 --> 00:09:54,760 outta that Dutch roll, takes the cake. 122 00:09:56,971 --> 00:09:59,390 So when you going back up, Ed? 15, right? 123 00:10:00,433 --> 00:10:04,812 Well. It's unclear at the moment. 124 00:10:05,355 --> 00:10:07,441 Sort of why I asked you to come grab a beer. 125 00:10:07,524 --> 00:10:10,318 I've been thinking about maybe moving back navy side. 126 00:10:10,735 --> 00:10:11,986 Yeah, right. 127 00:10:14,447 --> 00:10:17,701 Now why on God's green earth would you wanna do something like that? 128 00:10:19,119 --> 00:10:22,623 Pilots become astronauts, Ed. Not the other way around. 129 00:10:23,456 --> 00:10:26,125 Well, the only thing I've been flying lately is a desk. 130 00:10:27,878 --> 00:10:29,086 This about that article? 131 00:10:29,879 --> 00:10:30,923 Yeah. 132 00:10:31,380 --> 00:10:35,052 You always did have a way of pissing off your superior officers. 133 00:10:36,302 --> 00:10:37,846 Present company included. 134 00:10:40,224 --> 00:10:42,600 But you're also one of the best aviators I've ever seen. 135 00:10:43,684 --> 00:10:44,727 "One of"? 136 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:46,855 Don't be a smart-ass. 137 00:10:48,273 --> 00:10:51,192 Navy would just about shit themselves though to get a guy like you back. 138 00:10:51,275 --> 00:10:54,153 Especially now. We're making a big push in Vietnam. 139 00:10:54,613 --> 00:10:56,740 Could be the turning point in the war. 140 00:10:57,698 --> 00:10:59,701 And that means commanding a squadron or-- 141 00:10:59,784 --> 00:11:00,785 Squadron? 142 00:11:01,202 --> 00:11:03,330 You'd probably get command of an entire air wing. 143 00:11:04,956 --> 00:11:07,000 And wait till you fly this new Phantom. 144 00:11:07,375 --> 00:11:10,504 Puts those Panthers we flew in Korea to shame. 145 00:11:11,547 --> 00:11:13,590 It's a fire-breathing beast, Ed. 146 00:11:20,304 --> 00:11:21,389 I'm sorry, Ed. 147 00:11:21,472 --> 00:11:22,932 It's just, I can't. 148 00:11:23,892 --> 00:11:27,687 Ed. I can't get another phone call that your plane was shot down. 149 00:11:28,730 --> 00:11:31,899 I mean, every time the phone rang, my heart just fell. 150 00:11:32,567 --> 00:11:34,945 I coulda gotten killed just as easily going up on 10. 151 00:11:36,196 --> 00:11:38,072 Yeah. Well, at least you weren't being shot at. 152 00:11:39,615 --> 00:11:41,284 It's what I signed up for, Karen. 153 00:11:43,870 --> 00:11:46,331 No, Ed. It's what we signed up for. 154 00:11:48,292 --> 00:11:49,500 Remember? 155 00:11:54,630 --> 00:11:55,798 Oh, my God, would you just-- 156 00:11:56,758 --> 00:11:59,344 Cut that out. You're making a mess of things. 157 00:12:00,345 --> 00:12:04,224 While in Washington, the political fallout from the Soviet moon landing continues, 158 00:12:04,307 --> 00:12:06,058 as a joint congressional committee looks deeper 159 00:12:06,143 --> 00:12:08,352 into the alleged failures of the space program. 160 00:12:08,437 --> 00:12:12,274 Administrator Thomas Paine grilled by Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, 161 00:12:12,356 --> 00:12:15,277 who's quickly established himself as a leading voice on the committee 162 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,403 questioning President Nixon's leadership. 163 00:12:17,486 --> 00:12:21,741 And how, sir, do you justify canceling production of the Saturn V rocket 164 00:12:21,825 --> 00:12:23,826 a full year before Apollo 11? 165 00:12:23,911 --> 00:12:25,370 It was part of a broader-- 166 00:12:25,870 --> 00:12:30,417 These were drastic reductions of NASA's funding by President Nixon. 167 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:33,294 Excuse me. That's not accurate, Senator. 168 00:12:33,378 --> 00:12:35,547 The president is fully committed to the space program. 169 00:12:51,730 --> 00:12:52,980 Yeah. 170 00:12:53,398 --> 00:12:54,399 Hey. 171 00:12:56,192 --> 00:12:59,028 Where'd you put those vacuum tubes? TV's fritzing again. 172 00:12:59,529 --> 00:13:00,530 Jesus. 173 00:13:01,907 --> 00:13:03,241 I don't know. Maybe... 174 00:13:03,658 --> 00:13:04,743 What time is it? 175 00:13:06,285 --> 00:13:07,703 Tell me you're not still drunk. 176 00:13:08,455 --> 00:13:13,125 Hey, no, baby, I'm... just beat, is all. 177 00:13:14,378 --> 00:13:16,212 They're really working us down here. 178 00:13:16,296 --> 00:13:18,673 You know I hate being away from you and the kiddos. 179 00:13:18,756 --> 00:13:20,591 Yeah. I'm sure it's just torture. 180 00:13:20,676 --> 00:13:21,927 Mine, give it back! 181 00:13:22,469 --> 00:13:25,556 Hey! Daniel, Jimmy! 182 00:13:25,639 --> 00:13:29,183 Anything you put on that floor, you will pick up. Are we clear? 183 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:32,520 Hey, you tell Danny that I said-- 184 00:13:41,947 --> 00:13:45,616 Listen to his mom, yeah. Tell him I said that, hon. 185 00:13:50,038 --> 00:13:51,081 Okay. 186 00:13:52,915 --> 00:13:54,168 Guess I'll see you soon. 187 00:13:54,625 --> 00:13:56,003 Hey, Trace. 188 00:13:57,837 --> 00:13:58,922 I love you. 189 00:14:16,063 --> 00:14:18,024 Look, I know you're smart, Margo. 190 00:14:18,692 --> 00:14:20,277 But it gets intense down there. 191 00:14:21,278 --> 00:14:23,071 They call it the trench for a reason. 192 00:14:23,154 --> 00:14:24,697 I need to know you're not some pogue 193 00:14:24,780 --> 00:14:26,908 who's gonna wilt at the first sign of pressure. 194 00:14:26,991 --> 00:14:29,702 No, sir. That wouldn't be-- 195 00:14:29,786 --> 00:14:32,663 I've had guys on FIDO, solid guys, 196 00:14:33,414 --> 00:14:36,043 damn near piss their pants during a rocky re-entry. 197 00:14:36,626 --> 00:14:38,461 Well, sir... 198 00:14:39,504 --> 00:14:40,963 I don't wear pants. 199 00:14:44,217 --> 00:14:45,427 That is a fact. 200 00:14:49,222 --> 00:14:51,642 Dr. von Braun sure thinks the world of you. 201 00:14:52,768 --> 00:14:54,186 How do you two know each other? 202 00:14:54,686 --> 00:14:57,105 I've known him most of my life, actually. 203 00:14:57,563 --> 00:15:00,359 My father, he taught at the university over in Huntsville. 204 00:15:01,067 --> 00:15:05,239 Dr. von Braun would come over for dinners and regale us with stories 205 00:15:05,322 --> 00:15:08,908 about rockets to outer space, journeys to the moon. 206 00:15:09,618 --> 00:15:11,077 Mars. 207 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,538 I'd never even been outside of Huntsville. 208 00:15:14,163 --> 00:15:17,960 But he made me think anything was possible. 209 00:15:18,585 --> 00:15:20,294 He's the reason I became an engineer. 210 00:15:22,713 --> 00:15:24,883 I'm sorry. Am I rambling? 211 00:15:24,966 --> 00:15:27,094 No. It's nice. 212 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,389 Tell me a bit more about yourself. 213 00:15:31,139 --> 00:15:32,390 What do you do for fun? 214 00:15:34,684 --> 00:15:35,686 I... 215 00:15:35,769 --> 00:15:37,855 Relax. Margo, it's not a test. 216 00:15:38,897 --> 00:15:41,274 Astronauts aren't the only ones allowed to have fun around here. 217 00:15:41,357 --> 00:15:43,652 But you are not exactly a spring chicken. 218 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,573 I give you this job, you're not gonna run off on me to start a family, are you? 219 00:15:49,283 --> 00:15:53,120 I don't think kids are in the cards, sir. 220 00:15:53,745 --> 00:15:55,831 Really? You don't want kids? 221 00:15:57,206 --> 00:15:58,417 I mean... 222 00:15:59,418 --> 00:16:01,544 it's not that I don't, it's just, right now-- 223 00:16:01,628 --> 00:16:02,796 It's okay. 224 00:16:02,879 --> 00:16:05,381 Not every woman is cut out to be a mother. 225 00:17:08,987 --> 00:17:10,029 Seen Aleida? 226 00:17:12,906 --> 00:17:13,991 Aleida. 227 00:17:14,991 --> 00:17:16,743 Papa is home. 228 00:17:17,162 --> 00:17:18,203 Octavio. 229 00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:20,664 I caught her doing it again. 230 00:17:21,333 --> 00:17:22,960 Livi almost burned her hand. 231 00:17:23,460 --> 00:17:25,752 You have to get her under control 232 00:17:26,171 --> 00:17:29,508 or find someplace else to live. 233 00:17:29,590 --> 00:17:31,343 No. No, Cata. Cata, wait. 234 00:17:32,426 --> 00:17:33,554 Where is she? 235 00:17:36,265 --> 00:17:37,266 Aleida! 236 00:17:52,405 --> 00:17:56,159 Aleida, you need to stop doing this. 237 00:17:56,826 --> 00:17:58,662 It's dangerous. You know that. 238 00:18:01,414 --> 00:18:03,584 Why do you do it? Talk to me. 239 00:18:05,001 --> 00:18:06,961 I don't know. I like it. 240 00:18:07,045 --> 00:18:08,713 -English. -I don't want to. 241 00:18:15,386 --> 00:18:16,430 Aleida... 242 00:18:18,140 --> 00:18:19,641 you need to talk to me. 243 00:18:20,683 --> 00:18:24,145 Do you remember how we used to talk all the time? 244 00:18:25,689 --> 00:18:28,733 Look, I know this is hard. I know. 245 00:18:29,401 --> 00:18:31,361 It's a new home, a new country, a-- 246 00:18:34,114 --> 00:18:35,531 But we can help each other. 247 00:18:37,617 --> 00:18:39,161 Just leave me alone. 248 00:19:10,983 --> 00:19:11,984 Thank God. 249 00:19:12,068 --> 00:19:13,403 I'm so glad you called. 250 00:19:14,403 --> 00:19:15,614 How's she doing? 251 00:19:15,696 --> 00:19:16,823 How do you think? 252 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:18,241 All right. Here. 253 00:19:18,325 --> 00:19:19,326 -Okay. -Give this to me. 254 00:19:19,409 --> 00:19:20,410 Are you sure? 255 00:19:20,493 --> 00:19:22,328 I will take it from here. You can go. 256 00:19:22,412 --> 00:19:23,955 -All right. -I'll get it. Thank you, Doris. 257 00:19:24,038 --> 00:19:25,039 Yeah. 258 00:19:25,123 --> 00:19:26,625 -Bye-bye. -Bye. 259 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:34,842 Trace? 260 00:19:36,343 --> 00:19:37,594 Hon, it's Karen. I-- 261 00:19:37,677 --> 00:19:39,304 Don't you dare make excuses for him. 262 00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:42,223 Gordo can stay with that Cape cookie for all I care. 263 00:19:42,307 --> 00:19:43,851 -Okay. -I'm not letting him back in this home. 264 00:19:43,933 --> 00:19:45,227 Yes, let's calm down, all right? 265 00:19:45,309 --> 00:19:46,644 I could hear her! 266 00:19:47,855 --> 00:19:49,647 She was in the room with him. 267 00:19:50,691 --> 00:19:54,027 Maybe some of you other wives can grin and bear it for the program, 268 00:19:54,111 --> 00:19:56,529 but... fuck the program! 269 00:20:00,450 --> 00:20:01,451 Trace... 270 00:20:02,994 --> 00:20:03,996 come here. 271 00:20:17,425 --> 00:20:18,594 You know... 272 00:20:19,928 --> 00:20:22,597 I have this fantasy I'm married to another man. 273 00:20:24,599 --> 00:20:25,642 Yeah? 274 00:20:26,143 --> 00:20:27,560 Yeah, his name's Bert. 275 00:20:30,146 --> 00:20:35,109 He's an accountant, 9:00 to 5:00, drives a Buick. 276 00:20:36,486 --> 00:20:37,945 Does Bert have a brother? 277 00:20:38,614 --> 00:20:40,490 Come on. Ed's a rock. 278 00:20:42,201 --> 00:20:44,827 Believe you me, being married to Edward Baldwin is no picnic. 279 00:20:46,329 --> 00:20:47,873 I'm not saying our problems are the same, 280 00:20:47,955 --> 00:20:50,041 but that doesn't mean we don't have problems. 281 00:21:01,303 --> 00:21:02,346 You know... 282 00:21:03,971 --> 00:21:05,432 I think I always knew. 283 00:21:08,018 --> 00:21:09,102 I was just-- 284 00:21:12,146 --> 00:21:16,652 I fooled myself into-- to feeling like a-- 285 00:21:19,445 --> 00:21:21,490 Christ, he's not even trying to hide it anymore. 286 00:21:21,573 --> 00:21:24,701 I do everything for that man, Karen. 287 00:21:24,785 --> 00:21:25,786 I know. 288 00:21:25,868 --> 00:21:27,996 I know it's not easy, I do. 289 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,125 Divorce. 290 00:21:35,045 --> 00:21:37,338 I mean, that's what we're talking about. 291 00:21:37,422 --> 00:21:39,132 That's where this leads. 292 00:21:42,635 --> 00:21:45,096 I mean, it's-- it is hard enough for any woman. 293 00:21:45,180 --> 00:21:47,182 But for women like us, it's-- 294 00:21:49,684 --> 00:21:51,310 Do you remember Harriet and Don? 295 00:21:51,811 --> 00:21:54,522 There were reporters camped out in their front lawn. 296 00:21:54,605 --> 00:21:56,607 Their kids' photos were in magazines. 297 00:21:56,692 --> 00:21:59,528 I mean, Trace, you gotta think about those things. 298 00:22:00,362 --> 00:22:03,865 You know, I mean, a divorced single mother of two. I-- 299 00:22:03,949 --> 00:22:07,869 How do you support yourself? I mean, what do you tell your kids? 300 00:22:07,952 --> 00:22:09,078 Your parents? 301 00:22:09,872 --> 00:22:13,584 I mean, you're not just leaving Gordo, you're leaving your entire life. 302 00:22:15,460 --> 00:22:16,545 I'm sorry. I-- 303 00:22:18,172 --> 00:22:20,298 Trace, I want what's best for you, I do. 304 00:22:23,759 --> 00:22:27,471 Look me in the eye and tell me you don't love him. 305 00:22:39,942 --> 00:22:40,943 Well... 306 00:22:44,198 --> 00:22:45,199 shit. 307 00:22:58,336 --> 00:22:59,337 Margo. 308 00:23:00,005 --> 00:23:01,757 I thought you'd already left for DC. 309 00:23:02,465 --> 00:23:04,050 I am disappointed in you. 310 00:23:04,884 --> 00:23:06,970 Why? What happened? 311 00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:09,597 You've made me look very bad. 312 00:23:10,307 --> 00:23:11,682 I was second to the moon. 313 00:23:11,767 --> 00:23:17,396 And now you, you will be the first woman in Mission Control. 314 00:23:25,614 --> 00:23:27,490 You didn't have to convince him, did you? 315 00:23:27,574 --> 00:23:28,909 I did not say a word. 316 00:23:29,660 --> 00:23:33,121 Gene is a smart man. He could see how talented you are. 317 00:23:33,622 --> 00:23:35,624 No, this is you alone. 318 00:23:37,584 --> 00:23:39,711 No, it wasn't. 319 00:23:40,170 --> 00:23:41,462 Yes. 320 00:23:44,132 --> 00:23:45,174 Well, I... 321 00:23:46,801 --> 00:23:50,346 I've had this for over 20 years. 322 00:23:50,430 --> 00:23:54,934 And now I would like you to have it. 323 00:24:05,737 --> 00:24:07,280 I was hoping for cognac. 324 00:24:40,271 --> 00:24:41,690 Welcome to the trench, 325 00:24:41,772 --> 00:24:43,275 -Eva von Braun! -Eva von Braun! 326 00:24:46,403 --> 00:24:49,655 All right, people. Let's get those handover briefs started. 327 00:24:50,324 --> 00:24:53,035 White Team is on-console in 35 minutes. 328 00:24:59,958 --> 00:25:01,210 Don't take it personal. 329 00:25:01,751 --> 00:25:03,711 They pull this stuff with all the new guys. 330 00:25:17,058 --> 00:25:21,521 Feeling like we should make a little detour here, Freddie. 331 00:25:22,522 --> 00:25:23,690 Come on, Gordo. 332 00:25:24,273 --> 00:25:26,234 Don't you remember the ass-chewing we got last time? 333 00:25:27,277 --> 00:25:30,530 Ellington Tower, NASA 963. 334 00:25:39,205 --> 00:25:42,250 Boys, Daddy's home. 335 00:26:08,109 --> 00:26:09,152 Hello. 336 00:26:10,362 --> 00:26:11,363 Hey. 337 00:26:11,445 --> 00:26:12,489 -Daddy! -Daddy! 338 00:26:12,573 --> 00:26:13,990 Yeah! 339 00:26:16,868 --> 00:26:19,788 I got you something. I got you this. 340 00:26:19,872 --> 00:26:21,789 It's the biggest because you're the biggest. 341 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,294 Smelling good, Trace. What you cooking? 342 00:26:25,751 --> 00:26:28,881 It's just some casserole. Hands off. It's for the barbecue. 343 00:26:28,963 --> 00:26:30,007 -Barbecue? -Mm-hmm. 344 00:26:30,089 --> 00:26:31,258 All right! 345 00:26:36,180 --> 00:26:37,306 It's good to see you. 346 00:26:40,142 --> 00:26:41,643 -You too. -Okay. 347 00:26:43,604 --> 00:26:45,230 -That's the casserole. -Yeah. 348 00:26:57,116 --> 00:26:58,242 Guys. 349 00:26:59,827 --> 00:27:02,038 Hey, you. Glad you could make it. 350 00:27:02,122 --> 00:27:03,915 Yeah, well, wouldn't miss it. 351 00:27:07,669 --> 00:27:09,712 -Come here. Come here! -He loves those boys. 352 00:27:10,756 --> 00:27:12,840 Yeah, I know. But this would be great for the... 353 00:27:13,717 --> 00:27:15,301 Come on. Come on over here. Come on-- 354 00:27:15,384 --> 00:27:19,222 That's great. Great! That's great. Up here! Big smiles. 355 00:27:19,306 --> 00:27:21,349 Buzz, take a bite of the hamburger. 356 00:27:23,434 --> 00:27:25,561 There we go! Nice. Excellent. 357 00:27:29,482 --> 00:27:32,736 I'm just saying, word is we're putting a base up there. 358 00:27:32,818 --> 00:27:34,195 We wanna be on the crew, Deke. 359 00:27:34,278 --> 00:27:37,740 Guys, drink some beer. Eat some dogs. Enjoy yourselves. 360 00:27:42,371 --> 00:27:44,080 Her niece just got back from London, 361 00:27:44,163 --> 00:27:48,460 and apparently all the kids over there were wearing hammer and sickle T-shirts. 362 00:27:49,419 --> 00:27:50,503 Can you imagine? 363 00:27:50,586 --> 00:27:53,757 Karen, I cannot believe how well you put this all together, 364 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,759 what with all you and Ed are going through. 365 00:27:57,051 --> 00:27:58,595 Well, we do what we can. 366 00:28:00,513 --> 00:28:03,182 Gordo! Stop it! 367 00:28:04,934 --> 00:28:06,394 You got me all wet. 368 00:28:09,189 --> 00:28:11,607 I wish Harry and me still had that kind of passion. 369 00:28:21,910 --> 00:28:22,952 Ed. 370 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:30,751 Plotting your escape too? 371 00:28:31,670 --> 00:28:33,130 Yeah. Something like that. 372 00:28:43,515 --> 00:28:47,269 Look, I know you came out here to get away from all the questions, 373 00:28:47,352 --> 00:28:49,479 but it's still my backyard. 374 00:28:49,563 --> 00:28:51,606 So, spit it out. 375 00:28:52,523 --> 00:28:55,067 Did they really make you go through customs when you came back? 376 00:28:58,029 --> 00:28:59,405 I got the receipt to prove it. 377 00:28:59,489 --> 00:29:00,490 Jesus. 378 00:29:08,457 --> 00:29:12,586 That was... a hell of a landing, Neil. 379 00:29:12,669 --> 00:29:14,212 If you can call it that. 380 00:29:16,673 --> 00:29:18,674 Maintaining attitude control was no joke. 381 00:29:18,759 --> 00:29:19,800 I bet. 382 00:29:21,761 --> 00:29:22,846 Tell you the truth? 383 00:29:24,597 --> 00:29:26,182 I can't believe I didn't abort. 384 00:29:26,974 --> 00:29:28,769 Well, you pulled it off. It was a good call. 385 00:29:29,269 --> 00:29:31,145 Easy to say that looking back. 386 00:29:31,646 --> 00:29:33,731 Couple things go different, 387 00:29:33,815 --> 00:29:36,067 we drift a little bit further into those rocks... 388 00:29:37,402 --> 00:29:38,403 we're a smoking hole 389 00:29:38,862 --> 00:29:41,698 and I got my name on the biggest disaster in NASA history. 390 00:29:44,535 --> 00:29:46,036 Then why'd you go for it? 391 00:29:46,118 --> 00:29:49,413 I don't know. You're in flight test... 392 00:29:51,875 --> 00:29:53,251 and, every once in a while, 393 00:29:53,335 --> 00:29:56,587 you get to that point where part of your brain is saying, "Eject." 394 00:29:57,756 --> 00:30:00,342 But another part of your brain is saying, "Go for it." 395 00:30:03,595 --> 00:30:05,263 And you just have to make the call... 396 00:30:07,557 --> 00:30:08,767 and hope you're not wrong. 397 00:30:16,148 --> 00:30:17,233 There he is. 398 00:30:17,317 --> 00:30:19,862 Ed, I want you to meet Congressman Charles Sandman. 399 00:30:19,944 --> 00:30:23,198 He's on the committee looking at this whole mess, and he's a big fan of yours. 400 00:30:23,281 --> 00:30:25,409 You know, before I headed back to Washington, 401 00:30:25,491 --> 00:30:28,244 I told Tom here I had to meet the man who almost won the moon for us. 402 00:30:28,327 --> 00:30:30,497 I watched Apollo 10 on TV, Commander. 403 00:30:30,580 --> 00:30:34,000 I mean, you boys, you came so damn close. Must have just about killed you. 404 00:30:34,084 --> 00:30:36,295 Not exactly a secret these days, huh? 405 00:30:37,378 --> 00:30:40,214 You know, I would love for you to come talk to the committee, 406 00:30:40,298 --> 00:30:41,758 hear what you have to say about all this. 407 00:30:43,676 --> 00:30:46,930 With all due respect, sir, I think my mouth has done enough damage. 408 00:30:47,597 --> 00:30:48,682 You see? 409 00:30:49,557 --> 00:30:51,643 The fact that you were punished for speaking the truth... 410 00:30:51,727 --> 00:30:55,063 I mean, if they'd listened to you before, we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with. 411 00:30:55,146 --> 00:30:56,230 We're at war here. 412 00:30:56,731 --> 00:30:58,567 Well, you, you know what I'm saying, you're navy. 413 00:30:58,650 --> 00:31:01,111 All you astronauts, you're all military, aren't you? 414 00:31:01,194 --> 00:31:03,029 Well, technically, yes, sir. But-- 415 00:31:03,113 --> 00:31:05,240 They're on loan to NASA. 416 00:31:05,990 --> 00:31:09,243 Still military, but they can't even wear their uniforms in public. 417 00:31:10,203 --> 00:31:11,704 See? What a disgrace. 418 00:31:11,788 --> 00:31:15,416 That is exactly the kinda ticky-tack crap that's undermining our fight for the moon. 419 00:31:16,460 --> 00:31:18,420 I know you're not happy, Ed. 420 00:31:19,046 --> 00:31:21,882 And I've spoken with the president. He's not happy either. 421 00:31:22,758 --> 00:31:25,969 He wants to make some big changes at the agency, and he needs your help. 422 00:31:26,053 --> 00:31:30,015 Come on up to DC and tell my colleagues exactly what you told that reporter. 423 00:31:30,557 --> 00:31:32,808 That von Braun is too cautious. That he cost us the moon. 424 00:31:37,855 --> 00:31:38,856 I don't know. 425 00:31:41,943 --> 00:31:46,531 Look, I don't always see eye to eye with von Braun. But I respect him. 426 00:31:47,031 --> 00:31:49,076 -You know, he built the Saturn V. -Yeah, yeah, yeah. 427 00:31:49,159 --> 00:31:53,163 No, Wernher is a great man. Don't get me wrong. 428 00:31:53,829 --> 00:31:57,416 But men like him, they don't see the tide till they're drowning in it. 429 00:31:57,500 --> 00:32:00,878 The president is clear-eyed about the threat we're facing here. 430 00:32:00,962 --> 00:32:03,423 He thinks astronauts should be running things. 431 00:32:03,507 --> 00:32:06,300 Men who actually know what it feels like to be in a dogfight. 432 00:32:06,384 --> 00:32:08,135 You astronauts, you're holding all the cards. 433 00:32:08,220 --> 00:32:11,597 I mean, hell, you're already the face of the program. Why not be the voice too? 434 00:32:13,016 --> 00:32:14,893 The president's real keen on this, Ed. 435 00:32:15,935 --> 00:32:17,604 And he remembers his friends. 436 00:32:18,438 --> 00:32:20,356 Could be your ticket back up there. 437 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:21,525 So, what do you say? 438 00:32:35,329 --> 00:32:38,750 Maybe if you do what they want, things will go back to the way they were before. 439 00:32:40,586 --> 00:32:41,627 Yeah. 440 00:32:42,296 --> 00:32:43,922 I'd be back on 15... 441 00:32:45,048 --> 00:32:47,175 headed for the Apennine Highlands. 442 00:32:49,552 --> 00:32:51,596 Yeah. No desk duty. 443 00:32:53,682 --> 00:32:54,932 No Vietnam. 444 00:33:01,272 --> 00:33:06,612 You know, you said yourself that NASA could use a good kick in the rear. 445 00:33:07,528 --> 00:33:08,821 That's true. 446 00:33:13,242 --> 00:33:14,619 But von Braun, he-- 447 00:33:16,121 --> 00:33:17,122 he would be... 448 00:33:18,749 --> 00:33:19,916 Yeah. 449 00:33:58,788 --> 00:34:02,125 Now, Commander Baldwin, if I'm not mistaken... 450 00:34:03,376 --> 00:34:06,630 both Apollo 10 and Apollo 11 lunar modules, 451 00:34:06,712 --> 00:34:09,173 they had almost the same amount of fuel, correct? 452 00:34:09,257 --> 00:34:10,509 Yes, sir. 453 00:34:10,592 --> 00:34:13,512 A little shy of 18,000 pounds in the descent stage, 454 00:34:13,594 --> 00:34:14,972 and 5,000 in the ascent. 455 00:34:15,054 --> 00:34:17,599 Okay. Were there any other differences in the spacecraft? 456 00:34:17,682 --> 00:34:19,351 Anything that would prevent you from landing. 457 00:34:20,393 --> 00:34:21,728 Well, Snoopy was-- 458 00:34:21,811 --> 00:34:24,940 Wait. I'm sorry. Snoopy? 459 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,693 Yes, sir. We named our LEM Snoopy. 460 00:34:30,112 --> 00:34:33,614 And the command module was Charlie Brown. 461 00:34:35,951 --> 00:34:37,202 Okay. 462 00:34:37,286 --> 00:34:39,161 Our LEM was heavier than Eagle, 463 00:34:39,246 --> 00:34:44,293 so the concern was whether we'd have enough thrust to re-enter lunar orbit. 464 00:34:45,543 --> 00:34:46,795 You share in that concern? 465 00:34:46,878 --> 00:34:49,547 Well, it wasn't within NASA's safety margins. 466 00:34:50,298 --> 00:34:51,300 Uh-huh. 467 00:34:51,382 --> 00:34:55,637 You were a naval test pilot, were you not, Commander? At Pax River. 468 00:34:56,387 --> 00:34:57,389 I was, sir. 469 00:34:57,472 --> 00:35:00,766 And when was playing it safe part of being a test pilot? 470 00:35:02,393 --> 00:35:03,394 Never, sir. 471 00:35:04,688 --> 00:35:08,775 You pushed and you pushed for Apollo 10 to land on the moon, didn't you? 472 00:35:08,858 --> 00:35:12,487 Well, during planning, yes, sir. I pushed for us to land. 473 00:35:12,570 --> 00:35:15,407 And you were overruled by Wernher von Braun. 474 00:35:15,865 --> 00:35:17,909 Well, it was ultimately his decision 475 00:35:17,992 --> 00:35:22,039 to view Apollo 10 as a trial run for 11. 476 00:35:22,456 --> 00:35:23,916 But were it not for him, 477 00:35:24,291 --> 00:35:27,251 you would've been the first man to set foot on the moon, right? 478 00:35:40,181 --> 00:35:42,016 It's not that simple, sir. 479 00:35:45,938 --> 00:35:47,731 It's not-- I'm sorry? 480 00:35:50,025 --> 00:35:53,653 Well, it's true von Braun made the call on the ground, but... 481 00:35:56,739 --> 00:35:58,492 when we were up in lunar orbit... 482 00:36:00,034 --> 00:36:02,954 I knew I could bring the LEM safely down to the surface. 483 00:36:12,172 --> 00:36:13,590 I mean, we were so close. 484 00:36:14,132 --> 00:36:18,177 Snoopy, Houston. We put you one minute ahead of the timeline. 485 00:36:18,554 --> 00:36:20,889 Take a minute and enjoy the view, gentlemen. 486 00:36:20,972 --> 00:36:24,226 Roger that, Houston. We got the best seat in the house. 487 00:36:26,228 --> 00:36:29,898 All I had to do was hit Engine Arm, Descent... 488 00:36:31,233 --> 00:36:33,235 let the burn run all the way to completion. 489 00:36:33,985 --> 00:36:36,320 Except that wasn't your mission, Commander. 490 00:36:36,405 --> 00:36:39,490 I mean, von Braun, you know, he made it very clear that that was not-- 491 00:36:39,574 --> 00:36:42,702 After launch, it's my ship to command. 492 00:36:45,496 --> 00:36:47,748 There's boulders in every one of those little-- 493 00:36:48,958 --> 00:36:50,668 little craters. You see that? 494 00:36:50,751 --> 00:36:51,961 On the ridge. 495 00:36:52,503 --> 00:36:56,550 Boulders are black, but whatever's ejected out of them is white. 496 00:36:56,632 --> 00:37:00,971 White, but... still some black around them. 497 00:37:01,471 --> 00:37:04,432 It almost looks windblown down there, right? 498 00:37:04,516 --> 00:37:05,559 Uh-huh. 499 00:37:06,851 --> 00:37:07,978 What a place. 500 00:37:10,396 --> 00:37:12,148 Snoopy, Houston. 501 00:37:12,231 --> 00:37:15,527 Hate to rain on your parade, but that's as close as you get this trip. 502 00:37:15,610 --> 00:37:16,945 Time to head for the barn. 503 00:37:17,445 --> 00:37:19,072 Roger that. 504 00:37:19,155 --> 00:37:20,489 Heading for the barn. 505 00:37:21,115 --> 00:37:25,704 I wanna just reach down there and scoop up a handful of moon dust. 506 00:37:29,041 --> 00:37:31,376 Engine Arm, Ascent. 507 00:37:31,460 --> 00:37:33,128 Engine Arm, Ascent. 508 00:37:33,753 --> 00:37:35,672 Abort Descent Stage. 509 00:37:36,797 --> 00:37:39,717 Three, two, one... 510 00:37:45,724 --> 00:37:46,849 Skipper? 511 00:37:50,728 --> 00:37:52,271 And if I would've said we can land, 512 00:37:52,356 --> 00:37:54,315 I knew Gene would've backed me. 513 00:37:54,942 --> 00:37:56,693 Just like he backed Neil on 11. 514 00:38:01,989 --> 00:38:03,617 It was maybe a few seconds... 515 00:38:07,329 --> 00:38:09,998 but I knew I could've flown her right down to the deck. 516 00:38:24,054 --> 00:38:25,806 Abort Descent Stage. 517 00:38:25,889 --> 00:38:28,934 Three, two, one... 518 00:38:42,405 --> 00:38:43,574 And I almost did. 519 00:38:49,954 --> 00:38:51,664 But I pulled back. 520 00:38:53,916 --> 00:38:55,335 And it was my call... 521 00:38:57,003 --> 00:38:58,213 no one else's. 522 00:39:10,934 --> 00:39:12,603 Hang on, now. 523 00:39:12,686 --> 00:39:14,313 You said-- 524 00:39:14,396 --> 00:39:16,106 Just hang on a minute. 525 00:39:17,231 --> 00:39:18,525 You said-- Here! Right here. 526 00:39:18,608 --> 00:39:23,530 You said, "We don't have guts at NASA anymore. That's why we lost the moon." 527 00:39:24,072 --> 00:39:25,239 Now what are you saying? 528 00:39:25,324 --> 00:39:28,117 Now you're saying, "I could've landed. I just didn't"? 529 00:39:31,288 --> 00:39:33,123 I think about it every day, sir. 530 00:39:33,956 --> 00:39:35,791 Whether it was the right call or not. 531 00:39:37,251 --> 00:39:40,297 Ten years ago when I was in flight test, 532 00:39:41,172 --> 00:39:42,715 maybe I would've said, "Hell with it." 533 00:39:44,134 --> 00:39:45,135 Brought the LEM down. 534 00:39:45,219 --> 00:39:51,182 But up there I wasn't just some test pilot trying to break another record. 535 00:39:54,393 --> 00:39:56,271 I was the commander of Apollo 10. 536 00:40:00,817 --> 00:40:03,362 So if this committee is looking for someone to blame... 537 00:40:04,570 --> 00:40:09,159 don't look to von Braun or Neil or anyone else. 538 00:40:11,077 --> 00:40:12,286 You look to me. 539 00:40:15,164 --> 00:40:16,458 I lost the moon. 540 00:40:28,052 --> 00:40:29,096 Right. 541 00:40:29,179 --> 00:40:31,597 Thank you, Commander. That'll be all for today. Thank you. 542 00:40:32,557 --> 00:40:33,766 Thank you, everyone. 543 00:40:54,161 --> 00:40:58,500 The new rocket can carry over one million pounds into Earth orbit. 544 00:40:58,583 --> 00:41:01,795 Nearly four times the payload of the Saturn V. 545 00:41:03,630 --> 00:41:04,882 This is possible... 546 00:41:04,965 --> 00:41:06,550 So you just weren't gonna tell me? 547 00:41:10,554 --> 00:41:13,389 -What do you want me to say, Gordo? -It wasn't just your decision to make, Ed. 548 00:41:13,472 --> 00:41:14,682 I was up there too. 549 00:41:17,101 --> 00:41:19,438 Did it ever even occur to you to ask me what I thought? 550 00:41:19,813 --> 00:41:21,648 Pushing the envelope. That's what all this is about. 551 00:41:21,731 --> 00:41:23,442 Or did you just forget that? 552 00:41:23,858 --> 00:41:26,777 Right now it should be you and me doing all these ticker tape parades. 553 00:41:26,862 --> 00:41:29,322 Instead I'm backing up Pete Conrad on 12. 554 00:41:30,615 --> 00:41:33,367 Hey, don't blame every bad decision you've ever made on me. 555 00:41:34,119 --> 00:41:36,038 'Cause you do enough damage yourself. 556 00:41:36,121 --> 00:41:39,583 What do you think it says when you wander into sim an hour late 557 00:41:39,666 --> 00:41:41,418 just reeking of booze and pussy? 558 00:41:41,501 --> 00:41:43,586 That the American dream is alive and well. 559 00:41:44,588 --> 00:41:46,965 Yeah. Everything's a goddamn joke to you, huh? 560 00:41:50,677 --> 00:41:52,262 At least I own what I did. 561 00:41:52,762 --> 00:41:54,431 And what the hell's that supposed to mean? 562 00:41:55,389 --> 00:41:56,474 I resigned. 563 00:41:59,061 --> 00:42:00,269 I'm going back to the navy. 564 00:42:01,188 --> 00:42:02,271 You for real? 565 00:42:06,860 --> 00:42:09,278 What are you doing drinking beer? 566 00:42:09,362 --> 00:42:10,364 Hey, Pam. 567 00:42:12,114 --> 00:42:13,659 We're gonna need a couple of whiskeys. 568 00:42:22,251 --> 00:42:23,376 All right, all right, all right. 569 00:42:23,460 --> 00:42:27,965 NASA will be pressing forward. Pursuing more ambitious projects. 570 00:42:28,047 --> 00:42:29,882 Journeys to Mars, to Jupiter, 571 00:42:29,967 --> 00:42:34,096 and perhaps, even deeper into the solar system. 572 00:42:34,179 --> 00:42:37,431 Right, yeah. That's a very impressive presentation, Director. 573 00:42:37,891 --> 00:42:40,268 But while we sit here, 574 00:42:40,893 --> 00:42:42,271 the Soviets are pushing ahead 575 00:42:42,353 --> 00:42:45,648 with their plans for a lunar military foothold. 576 00:42:45,731 --> 00:42:48,735 We cannot cede the beachhead! 577 00:42:49,527 --> 00:42:51,362 I mean, it's not a time for pie in the sky ideas 578 00:42:51,445 --> 00:42:52,822 about Mars and the solar system-- 579 00:42:52,905 --> 00:42:56,451 Respectfully, Congressman. Now is precisely the time. 580 00:42:56,534 --> 00:42:59,371 We cannot allow fear to drive us from our purpose. 581 00:42:59,454 --> 00:43:02,248 What we are seeking is the key to our future. 582 00:43:02,875 --> 00:43:05,001 We are expanding the mind of man. 583 00:43:05,085 --> 00:43:09,422 Extending this God-given brain and these God-given hands to their outermost limits. 584 00:43:09,505 --> 00:43:13,385 And in so doing, everyone will reap the harvest. 585 00:43:13,467 --> 00:43:14,469 He's good. 586 00:43:14,927 --> 00:43:18,014 Well, for someone who claims not be guided by fear, 587 00:43:18,097 --> 00:43:23,311 your leadership created a culture of caution after the Apollo 1 fire, right? 588 00:43:23,394 --> 00:43:26,148 Yes, of course. We were more cautious. 589 00:43:26,648 --> 00:43:28,233 Lives were lost. 590 00:43:28,317 --> 00:43:31,527 We test, we retest, and we prepare. 591 00:43:31,612 --> 00:43:32,987 Because, unlike the Soviets, 592 00:43:33,447 --> 00:43:35,824 we care about the lives of our astronauts. 593 00:43:35,907 --> 00:43:40,621 You must understand, Congressman, that this is not the end of the race. 594 00:43:41,079 --> 00:43:42,456 It's simply the first stage. 595 00:43:42,539 --> 00:43:45,333 We must keep our eyes to the future. 596 00:43:45,416 --> 00:43:48,045 As Mr. Armstrong so aptly put it, 597 00:43:48,128 --> 00:43:50,380 "We pick ourselves up and go back to work." 598 00:43:51,215 --> 00:43:52,465 Well, if you had-- If you-- 599 00:43:59,306 --> 00:44:00,306 Come here. 600 00:44:04,393 --> 00:44:06,063 Okay. Sorry. Just one more thing, Director. 601 00:44:07,146 --> 00:44:10,692 Now, you're such a familiar face to Americans. 602 00:44:10,775 --> 00:44:13,027 Honestly, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you were born in Alabama. 603 00:44:13,110 --> 00:44:16,030 Unfortunately my accent gives me away, Congressman. 604 00:44:20,911 --> 00:44:23,496 And most people know that during World War II, 605 00:44:23,996 --> 00:44:25,958 you built the German V-2 rocket... 606 00:44:27,166 --> 00:44:30,003 that killed thousands of innocent Londoners. 607 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,092 Well... I, of course... 608 00:44:37,427 --> 00:44:39,887 have great regret that my rockets, 609 00:44:39,972 --> 00:44:45,476 which were born of idealism, much like the Saturn V, 610 00:44:46,269 --> 00:44:48,563 had joined in the business of killing. 611 00:44:48,646 --> 00:44:52,192 Then why-- why didn't you stop manufacturing it? 612 00:44:54,235 --> 00:44:56,405 If I may, Mr. Chairman, 613 00:44:56,487 --> 00:44:59,490 I'm not sure how any of this is relevant to the hearing. 614 00:44:59,574 --> 00:45:00,576 There is-- 615 00:45:00,659 --> 00:45:04,161 Congressman, I was not a soldier, merely an engineer. 616 00:45:04,954 --> 00:45:06,414 Well, that's interesting. 617 00:45:07,541 --> 00:45:09,960 Because what most people don't know, 618 00:45:11,003 --> 00:45:12,211 since, until very recently, 619 00:45:12,295 --> 00:45:14,297 it was classified as part of Operation Paperclip, 620 00:45:14,380 --> 00:45:16,465 is that you were also a member 621 00:45:16,550 --> 00:45:19,510 of the elite Nazi organization known as the SS. 622 00:45:24,349 --> 00:45:27,186 That was a matter in which I had no choice. 623 00:45:28,728 --> 00:45:32,273 Not everybody gets invited to a photo op with the Führer. 624 00:45:33,317 --> 00:45:36,652 Dr. von Braun, only a few minutes ago, 625 00:45:37,153 --> 00:45:40,489 you stated that, 626 00:45:40,574 --> 00:45:44,536 "We care about the lives of our astronauts." 627 00:45:44,619 --> 00:45:45,704 Yes. 628 00:45:45,786 --> 00:45:48,748 And what about the lives of the workers from the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp 629 00:45:48,831 --> 00:45:50,375 that were, in fact, building your rockets? 630 00:45:50,458 --> 00:45:52,210 Do you care about their lives? 631 00:45:52,293 --> 00:45:55,630 I saw no camp or any sort of thing like this-- 632 00:45:55,713 --> 00:45:59,050 You did visit the Mittelwerk factory, yeah, quite a few times. 633 00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:01,677 I visited the factory, yes. 634 00:46:01,762 --> 00:46:04,556 Did you not wonder where all these workers came from? 635 00:46:04,639 --> 00:46:07,184 I didn't know. This was handled by others. 636 00:46:07,266 --> 00:46:10,103 You must understand that I had no real authority in-- 637 00:46:10,186 --> 00:46:13,440 I'm sorry. Are you saying you had no authority over your own rocket factory? 638 00:46:14,023 --> 00:46:17,610 Well, yes. I had authority insomuch as I was chief-- 639 00:46:17,693 --> 00:46:21,155 But I never worked there. I had only visited. 640 00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,742 The camp was less than half a mile 641 00:46:24,826 --> 00:46:27,036 from the factory where you made your rockets. 642 00:46:27,829 --> 00:46:30,373 So, how could you not know? 643 00:46:35,628 --> 00:46:40,800 You know, over 20,000 men and women died building your V-2. 644 00:46:41,927 --> 00:46:45,304 Ten times more than were killed by it as a weapon. 645 00:46:46,264 --> 00:46:48,266 They were worked to death, 646 00:46:48,349 --> 00:46:52,311 starved, hung from machinery, shot. 647 00:46:52,396 --> 00:46:53,688 That photograph? 648 00:46:54,648 --> 00:46:56,733 That was taken by American soldiers 649 00:46:57,483 --> 00:47:00,152 upon their arrival at Dora Camp. 650 00:47:00,612 --> 00:47:05,534 That's the camp that supplied your workers, Director von Braun. 651 00:47:05,617 --> 00:47:06,659 I... 652 00:47:07,702 --> 00:47:08,704 I... 653 00:47:09,829 --> 00:47:15,126 They paid for your scientific pursuits with their lives, sir. 654 00:47:17,378 --> 00:47:22,509 You knew exactly what was going on, didn't you? 655 00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,889 And you did nothing. 656 00:47:29,016 --> 00:47:30,016 I-- 657 00:47:32,436 --> 00:47:35,271 I had no authority. 658 00:47:36,815 --> 00:47:39,318 I was... limited. 659 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:40,402 You-- 660 00:47:41,277 --> 00:47:42,528 You must understand-- 661 00:47:58,753 --> 00:48:03,175 Gather 'round while I sing you Of Wernher von Braun 662 00:48:03,257 --> 00:48:07,596 A man whose allegiance Is ruled by expedience 663 00:48:07,679 --> 00:48:11,099 Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown 664 00:48:11,766 --> 00:48:14,894 "Nazi, Schmazi" says Wernher von Braun 665 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:22,152 Some have harsh words For this man of renown 666 00:48:22,235 --> 00:48:25,989 But some think our attitude Should be one of gratitude 667 00:48:26,072 --> 00:48:30,202 Like the widows and cripples In old London town 668 00:48:30,284 --> 00:48:34,289 Who owe their large pensions To Wernher von Braun 669 00:48:34,373 --> 00:48:36,958 You too may be a big hero 670 00:48:37,583 --> 00:48:41,170 Once you've learned To count backwards to zero 671 00:48:41,922 --> 00:48:47,260 "In German, oder Englisch I know how to count down 672 00:48:47,635 --> 00:48:50,012 Und I'm learning Chinese!" 673 00:48:50,097 --> 00:48:53,851 Says Wernher von Braun 674 00:49:00,858 --> 00:49:02,192 Margo. 675 00:49:03,568 --> 00:49:07,155 Apparently, the Soviets have launched another N1... 676 00:49:08,739 --> 00:49:10,576 right ahead of Apollo 12. 677 00:49:11,367 --> 00:49:15,956 Imagine both of them on the moon at the same time. 678 00:49:18,416 --> 00:49:19,626 Margo. 679 00:49:22,211 --> 00:49:23,380 Did you know? 680 00:49:26,300 --> 00:49:27,925 It was an ambush. 681 00:49:28,885 --> 00:49:31,637 Nixon and his lackeys, they laid a trap for me. I-- 682 00:49:31,722 --> 00:49:32,722 But... 683 00:49:34,849 --> 00:49:36,309 is it true? 684 00:49:38,061 --> 00:49:39,605 How can you ask me this? 685 00:49:43,192 --> 00:49:44,275 Sit down, Margo. 686 00:49:48,780 --> 00:49:52,074 I had to keep my work moving forward. 687 00:49:52,159 --> 00:49:54,244 You of all people must understand this-- 688 00:49:54,327 --> 00:49:55,454 Your work? 689 00:49:58,789 --> 00:50:00,291 What do you expect me to say? 690 00:50:01,543 --> 00:50:02,628 "I don't know. 691 00:50:03,211 --> 00:50:05,088 Maybe I could have done more." 692 00:50:06,297 --> 00:50:09,842 But then I would probably be dead. 693 00:50:11,802 --> 00:50:14,722 And all the things I have spent my life building, 694 00:50:15,599 --> 00:50:17,851 they would never have come to pass. 695 00:50:19,811 --> 00:50:22,813 You can't know that, what might have been. 696 00:50:23,565 --> 00:50:26,443 Something is or it isn't. 697 00:50:28,612 --> 00:50:29,820 Remember? 698 00:50:31,782 --> 00:50:33,032 When the war was ending... 699 00:50:34,326 --> 00:50:35,827 we gathered everything... 700 00:50:36,911 --> 00:50:40,916 schematics, calculations, designs... 701 00:50:42,291 --> 00:50:44,710 and buried it in the hills above Peenemünde 702 00:50:44,795 --> 00:50:46,463 so the Soviets couldn't find it. 703 00:50:49,382 --> 00:50:54,262 I chose America to give my life's work. 704 00:50:54,346 --> 00:50:57,099 I gave them everything. 705 00:50:58,099 --> 00:51:02,271 And now I'm an old man and no longer indispensable. 706 00:51:03,938 --> 00:51:05,815 They throw me to the wolves. 707 00:51:08,777 --> 00:51:11,070 Did you know? 708 00:51:18,494 --> 00:51:21,373 Progress is never free, Margo. 709 00:51:25,085 --> 00:51:26,670 There's always a cost. 710 00:52:12,173 --> 00:52:13,175 Aleida? 711 00:52:14,134 --> 00:52:15,135 Aleida! 712 00:52:16,594 --> 00:52:17,721 Aleida! 713 00:52:20,974 --> 00:52:21,974 Are you okay? 714 00:52:23,643 --> 00:52:26,230 What is wrong with you?! What were you thinking?! 715 00:52:27,271 --> 00:52:28,856 I could have put it out... 716 00:52:29,398 --> 00:52:31,485 -It's fine. -No, it's not fine! 717 00:52:32,027 --> 00:52:33,987 Tell me, why do you keep setting these fires? 718 00:52:38,534 --> 00:52:39,534 Aleida... 719 00:52:41,161 --> 00:52:42,286 Tell me. 720 00:52:44,706 --> 00:52:45,706 I want... 721 00:52:47,291 --> 00:52:48,293 I want... 722 00:52:49,585 --> 00:52:51,963 I want to be inside the fire. 723 00:52:58,094 --> 00:52:59,096 But... 724 00:52:59,721 --> 00:53:01,681 Why would you want to be inside the fire? 725 00:53:01,764 --> 00:53:02,766 I don't know. 726 00:53:06,478 --> 00:53:07,478 I don't know. 727 00:53:07,563 --> 00:53:08,981 It's okay, it's okay... 728 00:53:20,324 --> 00:53:22,077 I want to show you something. 729 00:53:46,143 --> 00:53:47,393 Tu mamá... 730 00:53:49,813 --> 00:53:52,398 she had a dream of what your future could be. 731 00:53:53,233 --> 00:53:54,610 That's why we came here. 732 00:53:57,112 --> 00:53:58,237 I miss her. 733 00:53:59,197 --> 00:54:00,282 I know. 734 00:54:01,574 --> 00:54:02,951 I miss her too, mija. 735 00:54:21,385 --> 00:54:26,224 You know, maybe one day, Aleida, you'll build a fire inside one of these. 736 00:54:38,487 --> 00:54:41,489 I have been informed by Dr. Kissinger that, 737 00:54:41,572 --> 00:54:45,202 thanks to our recent military operations, we may be within reach 738 00:54:45,284 --> 00:54:48,454 of an honorable peace with the North Vietnamese. 739 00:54:48,539 --> 00:54:51,958 I have instructed him to begin negotiations with Lê Ðuc Tho 740 00:54:52,543 --> 00:54:55,170 so that we may focus our efforts and resources 741 00:54:55,795 --> 00:54:57,840 on the new challenges facing our nation. 742 00:54:58,632 --> 00:55:03,177 And on this momentous day, as Apollo 12 readies to begin the search 743 00:55:03,262 --> 00:55:06,181 for the location of the first American lunar base, 744 00:55:06,722 --> 00:55:09,684 I commit that we will do whatever it takes. 745 00:55:09,768 --> 00:55:13,230 We will bear any burden to secure our place in the heavens, 746 00:55:13,313 --> 00:55:16,233 and bring the fight for freedom to the new frontier. 747 00:55:16,315 --> 00:55:21,280 We are on time for our planned liftoff of 32 minutes past the hour. 748 00:55:21,362 --> 00:55:24,115 Test supervisor now going through some status checks. 749 00:55:24,574 --> 00:55:25,992 Okay. Here we go. 750 00:55:26,076 --> 00:55:27,619 Give me status, people. 751 00:55:27,702 --> 00:55:29,204 -Booster? -Go. 752 00:55:29,621 --> 00:55:31,164 -Retro. -Go, Flight. 753 00:55:31,248 --> 00:55:32,248 -FIDO. -Go. 754 00:55:32,331 --> 00:55:34,041 -GUIDO. -Go, Flight. 755 00:55:34,126 --> 00:55:35,293 -EECOM. -Go. 756 00:55:36,795 --> 00:55:38,630 -GNC. -Good to go, Flight. 757 00:55:38,963 --> 00:55:42,717 Launch control, this is Houston. We are go for launch of Apollo 12. 758 00:55:43,135 --> 00:55:44,219 Go for launch. 759 00:55:45,512 --> 00:55:49,891 Ten, nine, eight, ignition sequence has started, 760 00:55:49,974 --> 00:55:55,021 six, five, four, three, two, one. 761 00:55:59,025 --> 00:56:00,610 All engines running. 762 00:56:07,074 --> 00:56:09,327 Liftoff. We have a liftoff! 763 00:56:09,411 --> 00:56:11,621 Thirty-two minutes past the hour. 764 00:56:19,755 --> 00:56:21,005 Tower cleared! 765 00:56:27,512 --> 00:56:28,931 Yeah, we got a roll program. 766 00:56:29,806 --> 00:56:33,726 Roger! I've got the pitch and roll program, and this baby's really going. 767 00:56:34,311 --> 00:56:36,730 Roger, Pete. Forty seconds. 768 00:56:36,813 --> 00:56:38,273 Mark one, bravo. 769 00:56:38,356 --> 00:56:41,068 First stage tank pressures, all nominal. 770 00:56:41,150 --> 00:56:43,277 Altitude a mile and a half. 771 00:56:48,074 --> 00:56:49,284 FIDO, how we looking? 772 00:56:49,367 --> 00:56:51,827 FIDO is good, Flight. Right down the middle. 773 00:56:53,371 --> 00:56:54,373 Good. 774 00:57:33,411 --> 00:57:35,706 -Here you go. -Thanks, Karen. 775 00:57:35,789 --> 00:57:36,789 Mm-hmm. 776 00:57:46,300 --> 00:57:47,509 How you holding up? 777 00:57:48,217 --> 00:57:51,722 Just fine. And how's everybody at MSC? 778 00:57:53,599 --> 00:57:56,101 This whole von Braun mess was a real black eye. 779 00:57:57,101 --> 00:58:01,023 And now Nixon's got us putting all hands on deck for this military lunar outpost. 780 00:58:01,856 --> 00:58:02,940 Dark days. 781 00:58:05,943 --> 00:58:07,487 What can I do for you, Deke? 782 00:58:09,072 --> 00:58:10,282 I brought you something. 783 00:58:14,494 --> 00:58:16,954 Couldn't figure out what to do with the damn thing. 784 00:58:27,715 --> 00:58:32,846 I almost threw it away when Leonov landed, but I couldn't quite bring myself to. 785 00:58:34,347 --> 00:58:37,809 "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. 786 00:58:38,684 --> 00:58:41,230 We came in peace for all mankind." 787 00:58:47,568 --> 00:58:51,697 Presidents come and go, Ed, but we're the ones carrying the fire. 788 00:58:54,701 --> 00:58:57,246 It took a lot of guts, what you did up there in DC. 789 00:58:59,414 --> 00:59:02,416 I need guys like you around for what's coming down the pike. 790 00:59:02,835 --> 00:59:04,878 I'm not coming back to sit behind a desk. 791 00:59:05,336 --> 00:59:07,005 No, you're not. 792 00:59:10,842 --> 00:59:12,177 What exactly does that mean? 793 00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:14,512 It means you're back on Apollo 15. 794 00:59:15,556 --> 00:59:16,764 Wait-- Are you-- 795 00:59:16,849 --> 00:59:19,601 Ed, maybe just once, shut the fuck up. 796 00:59:19,684 --> 00:59:21,936 You're going back to the moon. 797 00:59:30,403 --> 00:59:31,405 Yes, sir. 798 00:59:34,615 --> 00:59:35,826 Thank you, sir. 799 00:59:36,994 --> 00:59:39,413 I'm sorry. Hon, Deke, 800 00:59:40,204 --> 00:59:41,789 you guys should come and see this. 801 00:59:46,253 --> 00:59:49,922 And even now, while Apollo 12 is hurtling towards the moon, 802 00:59:50,007 --> 00:59:53,802 the Soviets have upped the ante in the space race once again. 803 00:59:54,510 --> 00:59:56,847 The video is coming in now. 804 00:59:58,056 --> 01:00:02,686 There's the cosmonaut now, descending the ladder. 805 01:00:04,688 --> 01:00:05,938 There we have it. 806 01:00:06,481 --> 01:00:09,775 The cosmonaut is now on the lunar surface. 807 01:00:13,864 --> 01:00:14,864 It's a woman. 808 01:00:16,490 --> 01:00:19,619 Ladies and gentlemen, it's been confirmed that it's a woman. 809 01:00:19,702 --> 01:00:23,248 Her name is Anastasia Belikova, 810 01:00:23,623 --> 01:00:27,835 a former pilot in the Soviet Air Forces. 811 01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:34,592 What a truly, truly historic moment for women watching across the world. 812 01:00:35,427 --> 01:00:37,846 The 32-year-old Soviet cosmonaut