1 00:02:08,735 --> 00:02:11,559 There it is, General. It's your vindication. I'm glad you're here today 2 00:02:11,674 --> 00:02:13,281 Profit without honor, heh? 3 00:02:13,396 --> 00:02:15,736 Well, at least I'm still alive to see this. 4 00:02:15,851 --> 00:02:19,335 They'll break their necks to get you back when they see what this can do! 5 00:02:19,538 --> 00:02:21,426 21...20...19... 6 00:02:21,541 --> 00:02:24,210 18...17...16...15... 7 00:02:24,325 --> 00:02:26,974 14...13...12...11... 8 00:02:27,089 --> 00:02:29,541 10...9...8...7 9 00:02:29,656 --> 00:02:32,150 6...5...4...3... 10 00:02:32,265 --> 00:02:34,749 2...1...Fire! 11 00:03:05,011 --> 00:03:05,982 Sweeney! 12 00:03:06,097 --> 00:03:08,469 Stay in here! There may be more explosions! 13 00:03:26,224 --> 00:03:29,367 What happened, Charles? What went wrong? - I don't know! 14 00:03:29,482 --> 00:03:32,091 There couldn't have been anything wrong withe the design aeronautically. 15 00:03:32,207 --> 00:03:33,977 No, it was the motor. 16 00:03:34,092 --> 00:03:38,249 Why? Why after 4 years of development and tests? 17 00:03:38,364 --> 00:03:41,263 It seems impossible but I can think of only one thing...-What? 18 00:03:41,378 --> 00:03:43,616 Somebody tampered. - Sabotage? 19 00:03:43,731 --> 00:03:46,130 That's for intelligence to find out while we build another. 20 00:03:46,245 --> 00:03:48,758 I'm afraid you won't, Charles. - Of course we will! 21 00:03:48,873 --> 00:03:52,336 Do you think this failure will make it easier to get new appropriations? 22 00:03:52,451 --> 00:03:54,911 Things like this mean military cuts. 23 00:03:55,026 --> 00:03:58,909 Research is going back to the laboratories. - Then I will too. 24 00:03:59,024 --> 00:04:01,246 I'm not quiting! 25 00:04:01,361 --> 00:04:04,614 First, I want to re-introduce myself to my wife and kids. 26 00:04:04,729 --> 00:04:09,385 Mow the lawn, fix leaky faucets, paint fences and... 27 00:04:09,771 --> 00:04:12,383 ...read a few detective stories in the bathtub. 28 00:04:12,498 --> 00:04:16,521 Then get on with the problem and a few others I've neglected. 29 00:04:17,826 --> 00:04:22,948 A satellite to circle the Earth forever at 12,000 miles above sea level. 30 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:29,835 What did I call it just before it was fired? 31 00:04:29,950 --> 00:04:32,075 Your vindication, General? 32 00:04:32,190 --> 00:04:34,993 I'm sorry. I'm sorrier about that than anything else. 33 00:04:35,108 --> 00:04:38,488 For your years of crusading all I've given you is... 34 00:04:38,603 --> 00:04:41,664 ...the most expensive pile of junk in history. 35 00:05:31,047 --> 00:05:34,899 General Thayer is here, Mr. Barnes. - Fine. Send him in. 36 00:05:44,810 --> 00:05:47,164 Don't forget to wash behind your ears! 37 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,646 How was your trip, General? - Very smooth. 38 00:05:49,761 --> 00:05:54,868 I flew in on one of your Skyliners. Nice ship, Jimmy. Very nice. 39 00:05:55,245 --> 00:05:57,566 Whenever you start with a compliment, you're after something. 40 00:05:57,681 --> 00:06:01,128 That's hardly civil, Jim. I haven't seen you for 2 years. 41 00:06:01,243 --> 00:06:03,337 Did I ask you for something the last time I saw you? 42 00:06:03,452 --> 00:06:04,737 You certainly did! 43 00:06:04,852 --> 00:06:07,896 You wanted a shoulder to cry on because Cargraves' rocket fizzled. 44 00:06:08,011 --> 00:06:09,525 Glad to see you anyway. 45 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,281 I'm not wasting time crying about that anymore. 46 00:06:12,396 --> 00:06:14,602 After the way you sold me... 47 00:06:14,717 --> 00:06:17,517 Quote: "the rocket is an absolute necessity." 48 00:06:17,632 --> 00:06:20,339 "If any other power gets one into space before we do... 49 00:06:20,454 --> 00:06:25,991 ...we'll no longer be the United States, we'll be the Disunited World, etc..." 50 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:28,489 It's twice as true today. 51 00:06:28,604 --> 00:06:30,810 You proved that a satellite rocket isn't practical. 52 00:06:30,925 --> 00:06:32,439 It blew up, didn't it? 53 00:06:32,555 --> 00:06:34,165 Did it blow up, Jimmy? 54 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:37,114 Or was it blown up? 55 00:06:38,726 --> 00:06:40,725 Blown up? 56 00:06:41,532 --> 00:06:44,949 Why ask me? Army Intelligence might know. 57 00:06:45,065 --> 00:06:47,109 They know. 58 00:06:47,674 --> 00:06:49,608 What's your pitch, General? 59 00:06:49,723 --> 00:06:51,784 I'll tell you! - Wait a minute... 60 00:06:51,899 --> 00:06:54,331 I think I can put this together myself! 61 00:06:54,446 --> 00:06:57,053 You're a satellite rocket man... 62 00:06:57,168 --> 00:07:00,905 You crusaded yourself right out of the service and you kept on crusading. 63 00:07:01,020 --> 00:07:03,989 Finally they took up the Cargraves project and it fizzled. 64 00:07:04,104 --> 00:07:07,276 Now, following the course of old established habits... 65 00:07:07,392 --> 00:07:10,001 ...you'd like to drop it in my lap! 66 00:07:10,116 --> 00:07:11,887 Well, I love you General... 67 00:07:12,002 --> 00:07:15,112 ...but I'm just a plain manufacturer, not the Dept. of Defense! 68 00:07:15,227 --> 00:07:16,885 The answer is no! 69 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,787 Don't light that cigar, we're going to lunch! 70 00:07:18,902 --> 00:07:22,801 Who said you're anything but a manufacturer? That's why I came to you. 71 00:07:22,916 --> 00:07:26,476 Building rocket satellites is big stuff. I couldn't begin to finance one.... 72 00:07:26,591 --> 00:07:28,619 I'm not asking you to rebuild the satellite. 73 00:07:28,735 --> 00:07:31,037 Cargraves spent 4 years on that project! 74 00:07:31,152 --> 00:07:34,931 That rocket could have and should have done everything we anticipated! 75 00:07:35,046 --> 00:07:37,703 There's no time nor need to repeat that experiment. 76 00:07:37,818 --> 00:07:41,265 Then what are you driving at now? - The moon! 77 00:07:43,425 --> 00:07:46,036 Okay, I'll listen. Tell me. 78 00:07:46,151 --> 00:07:51,306 I did tell you! The next rocket we build is going to the moon! 79 00:07:52,821 --> 00:07:55,159 Let's go to lunch. - I'm serious, Jim. 80 00:07:55,274 --> 00:07:58,170 You can't be! It's too fantastic! The Moon? Impossible! 81 00:07:58,285 --> 00:08:00,330 Even with an atomic energy engine? 82 00:08:00,445 --> 00:08:04,263 Exhaust velocity potential of 30,000 ft/sec? 83 00:08:04,378 --> 00:08:06,487 A thrust of 3,000,000 pounds? 84 00:08:06,602 --> 00:08:12,098 Why, even Gesputly's atomic engine has only limited use. He has no mobile unit. 85 00:08:12,213 --> 00:08:16,530 Cargrave's has spent the last 2 years on it. He designed and tested it. 86 00:08:16,645 --> 00:08:22,316 His scale model ran for an hour and 23 minutes before it blew up! 87 00:08:23,492 --> 00:08:25,797 Incredible! - I saw it, Jim. 88 00:08:25,912 --> 00:08:28,270 And the government hasn't taken that over? 89 00:08:28,385 --> 00:08:31,510 It's peacetime. The government isn't making that kind of appropriations. 90 00:08:31,625 --> 00:08:36,411 They'll need to rocket one day and they'll turn to you! 91 00:08:36,526 --> 00:08:41,236 To private industry. Government always does that when it gets in a jam! 92 00:08:41,494 --> 00:08:45,572 This time, I figured we might be ready for the government! 93 00:08:45,910 --> 00:08:50,069 Preparedness isn't all military, Jim. 94 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:53,434 What about the money? That's not the problem! 95 00:08:53,549 --> 00:08:56,464 It's production. That's why I came to you. You're a production man. 96 00:08:56,579 --> 00:08:59,511 The problem right now is one of research. 97 00:08:59,626 --> 00:09:02,154 Designing, special materials... 98 00:09:02,269 --> 00:09:06,329 the pooling of resources, specialized skills, engineering brains.... 99 00:09:06,444 --> 00:09:08,532 industrial capacity. 100 00:09:08,647 --> 00:09:11,949 No single company could possibly do it. 101 00:09:12,064 --> 00:09:16,689 But combined American industry sparked by Jim Barnes... 102 00:09:16,804 --> 00:09:20,081 could put a rocket on the moon within a year. 103 00:09:21,870 --> 00:09:23,756 What do you say, Jim? 104 00:09:23,871 --> 00:09:25,771 Do we go to lunch? 105 00:09:25,886 --> 00:09:28,463 Or do we go to the moon? 106 00:09:41,468 --> 00:09:42,902 The moon, huh? 107 00:09:44,869 --> 00:09:46,238 Here's the control room. 108 00:09:46,353 --> 00:09:49,718 All this space below carries the working fluid, the reaction mass. 109 00:09:49,833 --> 00:09:53,715 Water heated to dry steam by the atomic pile and expelled by this jet. 110 00:09:53,830 --> 00:09:57,214 Here we have the shielding to protect the crew from radioactivity. 111 00:09:57,329 --> 00:10:02,355 Here are the gyros that can be used to turn the ship to any desired attitude. 112 00:10:02,470 --> 00:10:05,837 I admit, gentlemen, that this enterprise appeals to me! 113 00:10:05,952 --> 00:10:11,444 I've always been attracted by progressive forms of transportation! 114 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,845 I'm not known as a "horse and buggy" man! 115 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,403 I'd like to have a finger in this new devil. 116 00:10:18,518 --> 00:10:21,708 Though nothing would tempt me to ride in it. 117 00:10:21,823 --> 00:10:23,723 But can we afford it? 118 00:10:23,838 --> 00:10:26,930 I've been told you can, Mr. La Porte! 119 00:10:27,882 --> 00:10:30,203 Now listen, I've known you from way back... 120 00:10:30,318 --> 00:10:33,281 Two engine planes weren't fast enough; you had to go in for four. 121 00:10:33,396 --> 00:10:36,054 Then props weren't fast enough; you had to go in for jets. 122 00:10:36,169 --> 00:10:37,720 Now, you've got something else. 123 00:10:37,835 --> 00:10:41,717 Something that will go higher and faster than anything before it. 124 00:10:41,832 --> 00:10:45,376 You can't swing it alone, so you're trying to rope us in on it. 125 00:10:45,491 --> 00:10:49,952 Before we go along with you, you'll have to tell us...what's the payoff? 126 00:10:50,067 --> 00:10:52,273 Dollars and cents? I don't know. 127 00:10:52,388 --> 00:10:55,900 I want to do this job because it's never been done, because I don't know. 128 00:10:56,015 --> 00:10:57,802 It's research, it's pioneering! 129 00:10:57,917 --> 00:11:00,735 What's the moon? Another North or South Pole? 130 00:11:00,851 --> 00:11:04,894 Our nearest neighbor in the sky! - But why go there, Jim? 131 00:11:05,009 --> 00:11:07,810 We'll know when we get there. We'll tell you when we get back! 132 00:11:07,925 --> 00:11:09,744 It's a venture I don't want to be left out of. 133 00:11:09,859 --> 00:11:13,514 I like our viewpoint, Jim. But there are those here who won't see it. 134 00:11:13,629 --> 00:11:15,465 They don't even understand it! 135 00:11:15,580 --> 00:11:18,188 I've got a first reader lesson for them. 136 00:11:18,304 --> 00:11:20,461 Sit down will you fellows? 137 00:11:24,926 --> 00:11:26,538 Gentlemen! 138 00:11:26,653 --> 00:11:28,730 May I have your attention please? 139 00:11:28,845 --> 00:11:32,421 If you'll be seated, I'd like to show you a movie prepared for this meeting. 140 00:11:32,536 --> 00:11:35,546 We have one of Hollywood's best known actors to play for you! 141 00:11:35,661 --> 00:11:37,335 Alright, Sam! 142 00:11:52,887 --> 00:11:54,371 I'm a busy man. 143 00:11:54,486 --> 00:11:57,062 Dragging me all the way here to talk about a rocket to the moon! 144 00:11:57,177 --> 00:12:00,510 It's ridiculous! Comic book stuff! 145 00:12:00,625 --> 00:12:02,364 Comic book stuff, eh? 146 00:12:02,479 --> 00:12:04,652 Life Magazine doesn't think so! 147 00:12:04,767 --> 00:12:07,860 Nor Look, nor Pic, nor Collier's... 148 00:12:07,975 --> 00:12:11,119 nor your biggest daily newspapers! 149 00:12:18,231 --> 00:12:20,633 It'll never get off the ground! 150 00:12:20,748 --> 00:12:22,309 No propeller! 151 00:12:22,424 --> 00:12:25,403 Rockets do not employ propellers. They use jets. 152 00:12:25,519 --> 00:12:28,563 So do gas stoves, but they don't fly to the moon. 153 00:12:31,430 --> 00:12:34,267 Obviously, you know nothing about rockets. 154 00:12:34,382 --> 00:12:38,329 Now, let's pretend that umbrella of yours is a shotgun. 155 00:12:39,873 --> 00:12:41,791 Shoot it! 156 00:12:49,934 --> 00:12:52,465 Who pushed me? - The gun, Woody. 157 00:12:52,580 --> 00:12:54,899 The charged not only fired out of the muzzle, 158 00:12:55,015 --> 00:12:57,801 it kicked back with equal force against the barrel. 159 00:12:57,916 --> 00:13:01,104 It wouldn't happen again in a hundred times! 160 00:13:01,219 --> 00:13:05,955 Shoot it at the ground a few times quickly and see what happens. 161 00:13:08,930 --> 00:13:11,412 That same principle applies to rockets. 162 00:13:11,527 --> 00:13:14,168 It is the same shotgun kick of the explosives... 163 00:13:14,283 --> 00:13:16,425 that throws the rocket forward. 164 00:13:16,540 --> 00:13:20,599 That kick is independent of the air around the rocket. 165 00:13:20,715 --> 00:13:25,175 It also works in a vacuum or in outer space which is a vacuum. 166 00:13:37,075 --> 00:13:40,364 The moon is easier to reach than you realize. 167 00:13:40,479 --> 00:13:42,652 Oh sure, it's a cinch! 168 00:13:42,767 --> 00:13:45,295 Only 240,000 miles! 169 00:13:47,099 --> 00:13:49,420 Paved highway all the way and a gas station at every intersection! 170 00:13:49,535 --> 00:13:53,998 Fuel is no problem, Woody. The engines do not have to blast all the time. 171 00:13:54,113 --> 00:13:58,090 Just long enough to get away from the gravitational pull of the Earth. 172 00:13:58,205 --> 00:14:02,088 Following which you fall wherever you are headed for. 173 00:14:02,203 --> 00:14:04,860 Get in and I'll demonstrate! 174 00:14:07,115 --> 00:14:11,193 Let me out of here! Help! Help! 175 00:14:13,495 --> 00:14:16,267 At the start, the jets blast powerfully enough... 176 00:14:16,382 --> 00:14:19,298 to counteract the gravitational pull of the Earth. 177 00:14:19,413 --> 00:14:23,325 Once out of the Earth's atmosphere, the rocket just keeps on going... 178 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,598 encountering no resistance to slow it up. 179 00:14:26,713 --> 00:14:28,870 The rocket does not appear to be traveling... 180 00:14:28,985 --> 00:14:32,184 but the high speed or escape velocity as we call it... 181 00:14:32,299 --> 00:14:34,441 is about 7 miles a second. 182 00:14:34,556 --> 00:14:39,357 It keeps falling in outer space in the direction in which it was started. 183 00:14:40,043 --> 00:14:41,962 Now as it nears the moon, 184 00:14:42,077 --> 00:14:46,797 that planet's gravitational field begins to pull it toward it. 185 00:14:48,099 --> 00:14:52,886 Can't hear you, Woody! No air remember. Turn on your aerial! 186 00:14:54,127 --> 00:14:58,189 Hey, no brakes on this thing! I'm going to crash! 187 00:14:58,304 --> 00:15:00,252 How do I land? 188 00:15:00,367 --> 00:15:03,153 Very simple. Just reverse the takeoff. 189 00:15:03,268 --> 00:15:05,426 But what about the wings? 190 00:15:05,541 --> 00:15:07,908 Can't use them. The moon has no air. 191 00:15:08,023 --> 00:15:09,698 Now he tells me! 192 00:15:10,261 --> 00:15:15,258 Turn the ship around. Use the shotgun kick of the exhaust to break the speed... 193 00:15:15,373 --> 00:15:18,771 and set her gently on her tail. 194 00:15:21,199 --> 00:15:23,020 Se we made it! 195 00:15:23,135 --> 00:15:25,566 But how do we get home from this piece of cheese? 196 00:15:25,681 --> 00:15:28,210 Shooting a rocket from the moon to the Earth... 197 00:15:28,325 --> 00:15:31,546 is a great deal easier than shooting from the Earth to the moon... 198 00:15:31,661 --> 00:15:34,723 because it's downhill almost all the way. 199 00:15:34,838 --> 00:15:37,705 The V2 rocket could do it today. 200 00:15:37,820 --> 00:15:41,329 On the return trip, we use the wings to glide in. 201 00:15:41,444 --> 00:15:45,439 And for economy's sake, we finish the landing like this. 202 00:15:58,190 --> 00:15:59,673 Sensational! 203 00:15:59,788 --> 00:16:02,735 I'm sold! I'll back it to the hilt! 204 00:16:02,850 --> 00:16:05,066 Here's my 2 bucks! Well, when do we start building? 205 00:16:05,067 --> 00:16:07,281 206 00:16:14,590 --> 00:16:17,588 Well gentlemen, when do we start building? 207 00:16:17,703 --> 00:16:20,391 You've examined our model; you've seen our little picture. 208 00:16:20,506 --> 00:16:24,420 I hope we've succeeded in dispelling your original skepticism. 209 00:16:24,535 --> 00:16:28,418 Mr. Barnes can you imagine me going before a meeting of my stockholders... 210 00:16:28,533 --> 00:16:31,269 and reporting that I'd put millions into a trip to the moon? 211 00:16:31,384 --> 00:16:33,639 Why some would lynch me! 212 00:16:33,754 --> 00:16:37,088 I doubt it even in Texas, when you tell them why. 213 00:16:37,204 --> 00:16:39,168 It just happens we have no choice. 214 00:16:39,283 --> 00:16:42,746 If we want to stay in business, we have to build this ship! 215 00:16:42,861 --> 00:16:45,100 Did you say "have" to build it, Jim? 216 00:16:45,215 --> 00:16:47,918 That's what I said! - If it's that important a project... 217 00:16:48,033 --> 00:16:50,949 why doesn't the government undertake it? 218 00:16:51,064 --> 00:16:54,896 The vast amount of brains, talent, special skills, research facilities... 219 00:16:55,011 --> 00:16:57,217 necessary for this project are not in the government! 220 00:16:57,332 --> 00:17:02,198 Nor can they be mobilized by the gov't in peacetime without fatal delay. 221 00:17:02,313 --> 00:17:05,082 - Only American industry can do this job! - 222 00:17:05,083 --> 00:17:05,084 223 00:17:05,197 --> 00:17:07,596 And American industry must get to work now! 224 00:17:07,711 --> 00:17:09,572 Just as we did in the last war! 225 00:17:09,687 --> 00:17:11,829 Yes, but the government footed the bill! 226 00:17:11,944 --> 00:17:15,020 And they'll foot this bill too if we're successful. You know that. 227 00:17:15,135 --> 00:17:18,647 If we fail, we'll take a colossal beating, so we can't fail! 228 00:17:18,762 --> 00:17:22,113 Not only is this the greatest adventure awaiting mankind... 229 00:17:22,228 --> 00:17:26,077 but it's the greatest challenge ever hurled at American industry! 230 00:17:26,193 --> 00:17:29,559 And General Thayer is going to tell you why! 231 00:17:31,291 --> 00:17:33,901 The reason is quite simple... 232 00:17:34,304 --> 00:17:38,479 we are not the only ones who know that the moon can be reached. 233 00:17:38,594 --> 00:17:41,961 We are not the only ones planning to go there. 234 00:17:42,077 --> 00:17:43,877 The race is on! 235 00:17:43,992 --> 00:17:46,569 And we'd better win it because... 236 00:17:46,684 --> 00:17:51,725 there is absolutely no way to stop an attack from outer space! 237 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:56,432 The first country that can use the moon for the launching of missiles... 238 00:17:56,894 --> 00:17:59,667 will control the Earth! 239 00:18:00,247 --> 00:18:05,002 That gentlemen, is the most important military fact of this century! 240 00:18:18,572 --> 00:18:20,183 Gentlemen! 241 00:18:20,602 --> 00:18:23,810 I see no need for further discussion! 242 00:18:24,310 --> 00:18:26,228 It's our job! 243 00:18:27,478 --> 00:18:30,685 Well, all I got to say is we better build it in Texas. 244 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,973 It's the only state big enough to hold it! 245 00:18:46,059 --> 00:18:49,589 If you can increase the initial velocity only 600ths of a mile per second... 246 00:18:49,704 --> 00:18:52,893 you can make the trip in 2 days instead of four. 247 00:18:53,008 --> 00:18:56,198 We'll have to compute what that means in reaction mass. 248 00:19:00,066 --> 00:19:04,821 This is a case where pounds of ship costs many pounds of reaction mass. 249 00:19:04,936 --> 00:19:06,788 Try titanium! 250 00:19:11,029 --> 00:19:13,044 That's exactly right as far as appearance goes. 251 00:19:13,159 --> 00:19:15,107 All that remains now is to test it. 252 00:19:15,222 --> 00:19:18,085 It goes for it's atmosphere chamber test this afternoon. 253 00:19:18,201 --> 00:19:20,182 I've added one detail, Charles. 254 00:19:20,297 --> 00:19:21,842 What is that for? 255 00:19:21,957 --> 00:19:26,549 The chaffing suits we wear over our pressure suits are in different colors. 256 00:19:26,664 --> 00:19:28,513 Why? - For identification. 257 00:19:28,628 --> 00:19:32,027 We'll use these 4 colors for the 4 crew members then nobody can get lost. 258 00:19:32,769 --> 00:19:34,848 The moonscape is pretty drab. 259 00:19:34,963 --> 00:19:37,556 These bright colors will give us high visibility. 260 00:19:37,671 --> 00:19:41,747 Your right if no one minds looking like a carnival balloon! 261 00:20:41,276 --> 00:20:42,839 Hey, Brownie! 262 00:20:42,954 --> 00:20:45,238 What do you want? 263 00:20:46,528 --> 00:20:49,526 Have you taken a look down from here? 264 00:20:49,641 --> 00:20:52,360 No, I never liked high places. Why? 265 00:20:52,476 --> 00:20:54,249 You're halfway to the moon already! 266 00:20:54,364 --> 00:20:58,037 It's the other half that's tough! - I wouldn't worry about that! 267 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,036 How come? 268 00:21:00,151 --> 00:21:04,484 Who are you kidding? This thing is as close to the moon as it'll get! 269 00:21:04,599 --> 00:21:08,208 I never felt so silly in my life as I have since you sent for me! 270 00:21:08,323 --> 00:21:12,396 You show me all your nice plans for instruments to navigate to the moon. 271 00:21:12,511 --> 00:21:14,863 I help you build them. We install them. 272 00:21:14,978 --> 00:21:19,327 You teach me how they work and I understand how they work. 273 00:21:19,442 --> 00:21:21,551 But nobody tells me how the ship works! 274 00:21:21,667 --> 00:21:23,873 This thing is built like the Washington Monument! 275 00:21:23,988 --> 00:21:26,484 You could stick an atom bomb under it and it wouldn't go! 276 00:21:28,676 --> 00:21:30,450 What's the matter, Brownie? 277 00:21:30,565 --> 00:21:33,528 It's nothing. Just a bellyache. 278 00:21:33,643 --> 00:21:35,430 You been eating green apples? 279 00:21:35,545 --> 00:21:37,654 I haven't been able to eat anything. 280 00:21:56,921 --> 00:22:00,459 I tried to get you before you left Washington. - Is anything wrong? 281 00:22:00,574 --> 00:22:02,409 It's not the engine, is it? Have you tested it? 282 00:22:02,525 --> 00:22:04,730 Not yet and it doesn't look like we're going to. 283 00:22:04,845 --> 00:22:08,952 "I'm directed to inform you that your petition to test an atomic engine... 284 00:22:09,067 --> 00:22:12,240 is regretfully denied." 285 00:22:12,355 --> 00:22:13,326 Denied? 286 00:22:13,442 --> 00:22:17,485 "It is our opinion that a danger exists should the engine fail structurally." 287 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,433 "There is a possibility of dispersal of radioactive materials." 288 00:22:21,549 --> 00:22:24,752 We've told them a dozen times the area is cleared for 10 miles around. 289 00:22:24,867 --> 00:22:27,702 "While it is admitted that no real danger of atomic explosion exists... 290 00:22:27,817 --> 00:22:30,910 a belief in such danger does exist in the public mind." 291 00:22:31,025 --> 00:22:33,648 "It is the policy of the Commission..." - Policy, my foot! 292 00:22:33,763 --> 00:22:36,421 Somebody's throwing a monkey wrench! - Wait, there's more. 293 00:22:36,536 --> 00:22:40,402 "The test is authorized at the Special Weapons Testing Center in the S. Pacific. 294 00:22:40,517 --> 00:22:42,078 South Pacific? 295 00:22:42,820 --> 00:22:44,319 That's nice of them! 296 00:22:44,434 --> 00:22:46,865 What's the matter with the North Pole or Little America? 297 00:22:46,980 --> 00:22:48,944 What's a few months delay? 298 00:22:49,059 --> 00:22:52,700 There trying to protect their own necks. You can't buck public opinion! 299 00:22:53,898 --> 00:22:56,171 Have you seen this? 300 00:22:58,282 --> 00:23:01,715 That isn't public opinion, it's propaganda! 301 00:23:01,830 --> 00:23:06,567 You're right it is! Manufactured and organized with money and brains! 302 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,450 Somebody's out to get us. 303 00:23:09,998 --> 00:23:12,142 Stops us in our tracks anyway. 304 00:23:12,755 --> 00:23:15,769 We'll have to reschedule. - With what? 305 00:23:16,123 --> 00:23:17,461 What do you mean? 306 00:23:17,576 --> 00:23:20,911 What are we going to use for money? We've pushed our resources to the limit! 307 00:23:21,026 --> 00:23:23,345 Every day of delay costs! 308 00:23:28,131 --> 00:23:29,841 Hey, Doc... 309 00:23:31,903 --> 00:23:34,918 The ship's about ready to take off, isn't she? 310 00:23:35,033 --> 00:23:37,561 Except for tests and minor adjustments. 311 00:23:37,676 --> 00:23:40,117 What's the next favorable time? 312 00:23:40,232 --> 00:23:42,920 About a month from now. - I don't mean that. 313 00:23:43,035 --> 00:23:46,563 What's the next favorable time this month? 314 00:23:52,996 --> 00:23:56,880 The only favorable time this month is about 17 hours from now. 315 00:23:57,203 --> 00:23:59,009 That's it then. 316 00:23:59,124 --> 00:24:00,925 We take off in 17 hours. 317 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,988 Are you out of your mind? 318 00:24:03,103 --> 00:24:06,196 I will be if we run into any more red tape. Now look... 319 00:24:06,311 --> 00:24:08,146 There's no law against taking off a spaceship. 320 00:24:08,262 --> 00:24:10,875 It's never been done, so it's not been prohibited. 321 00:24:10,990 --> 00:24:14,969 If we ask for permission, they'll find a way to block us. So we go now! 322 00:24:15,084 --> 00:24:16,533 In an untested ship? 323 00:24:16,648 --> 00:24:19,273 How do you test a thing of this kind? It either works or it doesn't! 324 00:24:19,388 --> 00:24:22,415 It's a one time deal! Doc, any worries about the engine? 325 00:24:22,530 --> 00:24:24,350 None, but we haven't trained a crew! 326 00:24:24,465 --> 00:24:27,590 So we don't. The takeoff is fully automatic. 327 00:24:27,705 --> 00:24:30,395 The General and I will run the ship. You'll be the Engineer. 328 00:24:30,510 --> 00:24:34,443 Brown has known from the beginning that he'll handle the radio and radar. 329 00:24:34,734 --> 00:24:36,394 What about ballistics? 330 00:24:36,509 --> 00:24:39,681 That's where we're stuck. The takeoff wasn't planned for this month. 331 00:24:39,797 --> 00:24:41,793 It's a week's work! 332 00:24:42,712 --> 00:24:45,774 You think Dr. Hastings is pretty good, don't you? 333 00:24:45,889 --> 00:24:48,386 The best in the world! - Give him the job! 334 00:24:48,501 --> 00:24:50,891 And all the black coffee and assistants he can use! 335 00:24:51,006 --> 00:24:53,953 You all set, General? - All set! - Then it's settled. 336 00:24:54,068 --> 00:24:56,968 We'll all be heroes or angels so what can we lose? 337 00:24:57,083 --> 00:24:59,272 We'll takeoff tomorrow morning before dawn. 338 00:24:59,387 --> 00:25:02,270 We've a lot in 17 hours! 339 00:25:06,848 --> 00:25:10,410 Get me my home. I'd like to talk to Mrs. Cargraves. 340 00:25:11,495 --> 00:25:13,380 All roads have been blocked. 341 00:25:13,495 --> 00:25:18,199 Because of the danger of radioactivity, the area is being cleared of spectators. 342 00:25:18,314 --> 00:25:21,907 Do not attempt to approach the site of the spaceship! 343 00:25:22,022 --> 00:25:24,438 The public is asked to stay away. 344 00:25:24,553 --> 00:25:26,517 I shall repeat this warning... 345 00:25:26,632 --> 00:25:30,063 Do not attempt to approach the site of the spaceship! 346 00:25:35,335 --> 00:25:37,334 452.6 347 00:25:39,364 --> 00:25:41,170 22.78 348 00:25:42,247 --> 00:25:44,599 Correction: 22.79 349 00:25:45,487 --> 00:25:46,711 22.79 350 00:25:49,113 --> 00:25:50,757 32.1 351 00:25:50,872 --> 00:25:52,127 Yes? 352 00:25:52,242 --> 00:25:54,654 Mr. Brown still cannot be located, Mr. Barnes. 353 00:25:54,769 --> 00:25:58,716 Check with the main gate, the store, everywhere. Keep calling me back. 354 00:25:58,831 --> 00:26:01,747 What was the last one? - 32.1 355 00:26:02,263 --> 00:26:03,597 219.9 356 00:26:16,465 --> 00:26:17,465 Yes? 357 00:26:17,580 --> 00:26:19,850 Mr. Sweeney is here to see General Thayer. 358 00:26:19,965 --> 00:26:21,687 Send him in. 359 00:26:30,156 --> 00:26:32,878 What's up, Joe? - It's Brown, sir. 360 00:26:32,993 --> 00:26:36,631 They've taken him to the hospital. - The hospital? Is he alright? 361 00:26:36,746 --> 00:26:39,841 He will be after they cut out his appendix. 362 00:26:44,368 --> 00:26:46,270 What will we do? 363 00:26:46,737 --> 00:26:48,978 Say, Joe. Joe! 364 00:26:49,093 --> 00:26:51,988 You can handle the ship's radio and radar equipment, can't you? 365 00:26:52,103 --> 00:26:55,421 You know as much about it as Brown. Will you take his place? 366 00:26:55,537 --> 00:26:57,484 To the moon? 367 00:26:57,774 --> 00:27:00,031 What's the moon got that this desert ain't? 368 00:27:00,146 --> 00:27:02,013 Besides... - Besides what, Joe? 369 00:27:02,128 --> 00:27:05,527 I got a date with a nice little chick tomorrow. 370 00:27:05,642 --> 00:27:07,090 No thanks! 371 00:27:07,205 --> 00:27:08,315 Joe! 372 00:27:08,430 --> 00:27:10,361 Unless you come with us, we're sunk! 373 00:27:10,476 --> 00:27:13,202 You're the only man left who knows how to handle the equipment. 374 00:27:13,317 --> 00:27:16,221 Mr. Barnes, mind if I sound off a little? 375 00:27:16,336 --> 00:27:19,094 What do you mean? - You're pretty smart men... 376 00:27:19,209 --> 00:27:21,333 you and Dr. Cargraves and the General. 377 00:27:21,449 --> 00:27:25,626 I don't know as much as you do, but... - What's on your mind?. 378 00:27:25,741 --> 00:27:27,947 You're all wet! - In what way? 379 00:27:28,062 --> 00:27:30,529 The thing won't work. It can't! 380 00:27:30,644 --> 00:27:35,208 It's crazy! Figure all that weight. It won't budge an inch. 381 00:27:35,323 --> 00:27:38,779 And what do I see them putting in the fuel tanks? Water! 382 00:27:38,894 --> 00:27:41,915 You're all going to look like a bunch of dummies! 383 00:27:42,273 --> 00:27:44,399 If you believed that, you'd come along. 384 00:27:44,514 --> 00:27:46,861 Yeah, but I don't want to look like a dummy. 385 00:27:46,976 --> 00:27:50,510 You wouldn't. We're entirely responsible for the whole thing. 386 00:27:50,768 --> 00:27:52,406 You don't think it could blow up? 387 00:27:52,521 --> 00:27:54,523 We'd never get in it if we thought that. 388 00:27:54,638 --> 00:27:56,029 Joe... 389 00:27:56,314 --> 00:27:59,925 You have confidence in Dr. Cargraves, me, the General... 390 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,704 we wouldn't ask you to do anything we didn't believe in. 391 00:28:04,158 --> 00:28:06,561 Would you like to go? 392 00:28:09,326 --> 00:28:10,650 Okay. 393 00:28:10,765 --> 00:28:14,312 I'll sit up there with you and twiddle the knobs, just for laughs. 394 00:28:14,427 --> 00:28:15,507 Fine, Joe. 395 00:28:15,622 --> 00:28:19,042 It'll never budge! - Be sure you twiddle the right knobs! 396 00:28:20,094 --> 00:28:22,938 You guys are really serious, ain't ya? 397 00:28:24,022 --> 00:28:26,034 Dead serious. 398 00:28:38,845 --> 00:28:41,039 Hey, wait a minute! I've got to get through! 399 00:28:41,154 --> 00:28:44,441 Sorry, nobody passes here. - You have to take me through! 400 00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:48,181 I've got a court order here forbidding them from taking off! 401 00:29:07,648 --> 00:29:09,556 I'm sorry you couldn't bring the boys, Emily. 402 00:29:09,671 --> 00:29:12,218 I couldn't; you gave me so little time. 403 00:29:14,127 --> 00:29:16,412 Like to go in my place, Mrs. Cargraves? 404 00:29:16,527 --> 00:29:19,257 Who me? Oh, dear no. 405 00:29:19,372 --> 00:29:21,751 Don't worry ma'am. We won't get very far. 406 00:29:22,009 --> 00:29:24,594 Coming Doc? - In a moment. 407 00:29:24,892 --> 00:29:26,723 It's about time, Charles. 408 00:29:26,838 --> 00:29:28,776 Bye, Mrs. Cargraves. 409 00:29:28,891 --> 00:29:31,035 We'll take good care of your husband. 410 00:29:31,150 --> 00:29:33,255 Try not to worry. 411 00:29:35,060 --> 00:29:37,814 Mr Barnes, there's a joker back there trying to crash the gate! 412 00:29:37,929 --> 00:29:40,385 He has a court order and it says you can't take off! 413 00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:41,450 Darling! 414 00:29:41,565 --> 00:29:43,437 Come back to me, Charles. 415 00:29:43,552 --> 00:29:45,216 Doc, come on! 416 00:29:45,331 --> 00:29:47,618 Hastings, I wish you had room for me in the ship! 417 00:29:47,733 --> 00:29:50,076 You've got to stay here and make sure we get home! 418 00:29:50,191 --> 00:29:52,257 Goodbye and good luck. 419 00:29:53,725 --> 00:29:56,261 Alright, take it away! 420 00:30:06,247 --> 00:30:09,532 Barnes! Cargraves! Stop! 421 00:30:09,647 --> 00:30:11,430 Come back here! 422 00:30:11,545 --> 00:30:14,625 We can't hear a word you say! 423 00:30:48,229 --> 00:30:51,164 Alright, Jim. You're the skipper, take over. 424 00:30:51,279 --> 00:30:52,985 First time I outranked a general. 425 00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:55,908 First time I've heard you admit you were outrank by anybody. 426 00:30:56,023 --> 00:30:59,102 Am I the only one who's scared? This thing might work! 427 00:30:59,217 --> 00:31:01,207 We're all scared. 428 00:31:01,740 --> 00:31:04,700 Alright, gentlemen. Takeoff stations. 429 00:31:43,140 --> 00:31:44,310 Communications? 430 00:31:44,556 --> 00:31:46,972 I'll have it all cooking in a minute. 431 00:31:49,406 --> 00:31:52,418 As soon as the TV screen is operating, check clearance at base of ship. 432 00:31:52,533 --> 00:31:55,523 Then phone check the Tracking Center at Dry Wells. 433 00:31:55,638 --> 00:31:57,619 Cut in the boys at the traffic shack. 434 00:31:57,734 --> 00:32:01,646 Calling traffic shack, over. - Traffic to ship, over. 435 00:32:02,035 --> 00:32:07,053 Official designation of ship is Luna. L-U-N-A. Luna, over. 436 00:32:07,168 --> 00:32:10,312 Luna, roger. - Tell them to clear for firing. 437 00:32:10,427 --> 00:32:13,818 Clear firing area in preparation for departure, over. 438 00:32:13,933 --> 00:32:15,337 Roger. 439 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,643 Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells Airfield, over. 440 00:32:19,758 --> 00:32:22,266 Dry Wells to Luna, over. 441 00:32:22,381 --> 00:32:25,266 Making preparations for firing, over. 442 00:32:25,381 --> 00:32:28,227 Dry Wells is ready for tracking, over. 443 00:32:28,342 --> 00:32:30,723 Dry Wells reported. Traffic reported. 444 00:32:30,838 --> 00:32:34,101 Power Station report. - Power Station ready for firing. 445 00:32:34,710 --> 00:32:36,252 Communications? 446 00:32:36,367 --> 00:32:39,320 Everything's just dandy, Skipper. 447 00:32:40,537 --> 00:32:41,641 Co-pilot? 448 00:32:41,756 --> 00:32:44,580 Instruments okay. Automatic pilot tracking. 449 00:32:44,695 --> 00:32:47,362 Give warning signal. 450 00:33:17,572 --> 00:33:19,747 451 00:33:19,748 --> 00:33:22,019 Need time from the integrating computer. - 03:47:58 452 00:33:22,408 --> 00:33:23,854 Two minutes to go. 453 00:33:40,186 --> 00:33:43,335 Traffic to Luna. All clear, over. 454 00:33:43,450 --> 00:33:44,715 Roger. 455 00:33:44,830 --> 00:33:47,754 Tell them to stand by to count off for firing. 456 00:33:47,869 --> 00:33:52,234 Stand by for count off and firing. - Roger. 457 00:33:54,816 --> 00:33:58,128 Check. 34840 458 00:33:58,744 --> 00:34:00,189 Check. 459 00:34:00,304 --> 00:34:05,764 Pickup count off at 3:49:30. - Count off at 3:49:30 460 00:34:05,879 --> 00:34:09,188 Check Dry Wells. - Dry Wells, roger. 461 00:34:09,304 --> 00:34:12,334 Count off 3:49:30, over. 462 00:34:14,331 --> 00:34:17,010 30 seconds coming up. 463 00:34:17,125 --> 00:34:19,136 Standby. 464 00:34:19,691 --> 00:34:21,299 30 seconds. 465 00:34:21,414 --> 00:34:24,674 29...28...27... 466 00:34:24,790 --> 00:34:28,067 26...25...24... 467 00:34:28,182 --> 00:34:31,313 23...22...21... 468 00:34:31,428 --> 00:34:34,252 20...19...18... 469 00:34:34,367 --> 00:34:37,287 17...16...15... 470 00:34:37,402 --> 00:34:40,112 14...13..12... 471 00:34:40,227 --> 00:34:43,147 11...10...9... 472 00:34:43,262 --> 00:34:46,044 8...7...6... 473 00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:48,820 5...4...3... 474 00:34:48,935 --> 00:34:51,368 2...fire! 475 00:36:10,170 --> 00:36:12,118 What's happening? 476 00:36:12,508 --> 00:36:14,943 What's the matter? 477 00:36:16,014 --> 00:36:18,627 Nothing's the matter. 478 00:36:18,743 --> 00:36:21,501 Just passed the speed of sound. 479 00:36:22,588 --> 00:36:24,260 Joe... 480 00:36:24,634 --> 00:36:27,897 switch on view aft. 481 00:36:28,497 --> 00:36:31,143 I can't move a muscle. 482 00:36:31,258 --> 00:36:33,732 I'm froze solid. 483 00:36:33,847 --> 00:36:35,518 Do it! 484 00:37:30,022 --> 00:37:31,726 We're falling. 485 00:37:31,841 --> 00:37:35,673 It's alright, Joe. We're weightless, in free orbit that's all. 486 00:37:35,788 --> 00:37:38,026 Weightless? 487 00:37:39,032 --> 00:37:41,143 Free orbit? 488 00:37:41,994 --> 00:37:44,040 Just where are we? 489 00:37:44,155 --> 00:37:49,380 You mean this thing is working? We're...no, sir! Not me! 490 00:37:49,689 --> 00:37:51,620 Nobody ever told me this was practical! 491 00:37:51,735 --> 00:37:54,247 Turn this thing around! Take me back! 492 00:37:54,362 --> 00:37:57,964 I ain't going to no moon! That's just to look at! 493 00:37:59,199 --> 00:38:01,147 I'm sick. 494 00:38:01,262 --> 00:38:02,777 Grab hold. 495 00:38:02,892 --> 00:38:04,498 Hang on. 496 00:38:05,537 --> 00:38:07,307 What happened to me? 497 00:38:07,422 --> 00:38:08,880 You're alright. 498 00:38:08,996 --> 00:38:11,575 In free orbit, everything is falling at the same speed. 499 00:38:11,690 --> 00:38:16,186 Everything unfastened just floats. There's no up or down. 500 00:38:18,961 --> 00:38:22,841 Tell that to my stomach! It says there's nothing but up! 501 00:38:23,956 --> 00:38:26,975 Oh, boy! Am I seasick! 502 00:38:27,090 --> 00:38:29,534 You're not seasick, you're space sick! 503 00:38:29,649 --> 00:38:32,358 I'm sick of that too! 504 00:38:53,907 --> 00:38:57,608 Take one of these pills. It'll settle your stomach. 505 00:39:09,521 --> 00:39:11,940 I can't swallow. It won't go down! 506 00:39:12,055 --> 00:39:16,776 It'll take practice without gravity to help. You'll manage. 507 00:39:21,868 --> 00:39:24,157 General, how are you feeling? 508 00:39:24,272 --> 00:39:28,004 You got another one of those pills? - Here's a whole box full. 509 00:39:28,119 --> 00:39:31,729 Let's see if I can swallow better than Sweeney. 510 00:39:31,989 --> 00:39:37,816 Unless these pills work, space travel isn't going to be popular. 511 00:39:51,163 --> 00:39:52,786 Don't! 512 00:39:53,208 --> 00:39:56,146 Think of the condition of my stomach! 513 00:41:03,967 --> 00:41:07,620 Shoes, General? - Thank you. 514 00:41:10,856 --> 00:41:14,395 Let's get these on you. They've got magnets in the soles. 515 00:41:14,655 --> 00:41:16,181 How do you feel now? 516 00:41:16,296 --> 00:41:19,751 The way I did when I tried my first smoke. 517 00:41:19,866 --> 00:41:24,791 You'll be alright in a minute. Put that one on and try to get Dry Wells. 518 00:41:37,373 --> 00:41:42,275 Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells. Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells, over. 519 00:41:42,648 --> 00:41:46,609 Dry Wells to Spaceship Luna. Man alive, I can't believe it! 520 00:41:46,724 --> 00:41:48,937 Your takeoff checked out according to flight plan. 521 00:41:49,053 --> 00:41:51,275 We are now tracking you by radar. 522 00:41:51,390 --> 00:41:54,684 You are in your calculated orbit. 523 00:41:54,799 --> 00:41:58,287 We will continue to track you as long as we can. Good luck, over. 524 00:41:58,402 --> 00:42:01,834 Thank you, Dry Wells and roger. 525 00:42:01,949 --> 00:42:05,421 Doc, General. You've got to see this. 526 00:42:18,408 --> 00:42:21,167 Gosh, ain't that something! 527 00:42:21,282 --> 00:42:24,072 I thought I'd seen everything. 528 00:42:24,187 --> 00:42:26,832 Just look at those cities! 529 00:42:26,947 --> 00:42:29,209 Is that Los Angeles? - And San Francisco. 530 00:42:29,325 --> 00:42:32,343 Sure! That's Los Angeles. 531 00:42:33,007 --> 00:42:34,713 That's New York! 532 00:42:34,828 --> 00:42:37,293 Can you see Brooklyn? 533 00:42:37,409 --> 00:42:39,387 Sure there's Brooklyn. 534 00:42:39,502 --> 00:42:42,357 I wonder who's pitching? 535 00:44:09,013 --> 00:44:10,279 Joe! 536 00:44:11,077 --> 00:44:15,719 I want to test the radar. The antenna seems to be stuck. 537 00:44:15,834 --> 00:44:17,310 Stuck? 538 00:44:18,073 --> 00:44:21,417 I don't understand it. I was particularly careful when I greased it. 539 00:44:21,532 --> 00:44:23,674 Greased it? No wonder it's stuck! 540 00:44:23,789 --> 00:44:27,261 It's exposed to outer space! It's frozen solid! You should know better than that! 541 00:44:27,376 --> 00:44:28,852 I'm no scientist! 542 00:44:28,967 --> 00:44:32,926 Didn't you bother to read the engineering instructions? 543 00:44:33,932 --> 00:44:36,967 Arguing won't get us anywhere. 544 00:44:37,082 --> 00:44:39,191 The radar has to be fixed. 545 00:44:39,306 --> 00:44:41,659 To try to land blind would be our finish. 546 00:44:41,774 --> 00:44:43,623 How do we fix it, Doc? 547 00:44:43,738 --> 00:44:46,942 Somebody has to go outside and free it. - Outside? 548 00:44:47,057 --> 00:44:49,717 You mean go outside the ship? - It can't be done any other way. 549 00:44:49,832 --> 00:44:53,126 We'd be swept off! - No, you can't fall. 550 00:44:53,241 --> 00:44:57,314 Outside, you'll be in the same orbit and trajectory as the ship. 551 00:44:57,429 --> 00:45:00,795 The worst that could happen is that you'd drift away from the side. 552 00:45:00,910 --> 00:45:03,311 We avoid that by using safety lines. 553 00:45:03,426 --> 00:45:05,577 Let's do it! 554 00:45:05,692 --> 00:45:07,444 No Jim, I'll go. 555 00:45:07,559 --> 00:45:12,557 I want to inspect the rocket jet anyway to see how it stood up on the takeoff. 556 00:45:12,869 --> 00:45:14,947 I'll tag along. - Me too. 557 00:45:15,062 --> 00:45:18,632 I fouled us up and if you guys go out, so do I. 558 00:45:18,956 --> 00:45:20,725 Coming, General. - No. 559 00:45:20,841 --> 00:45:23,290 I'm not curious. You boys go have your fun. 560 00:45:23,405 --> 00:45:26,418 I'll stay and write up the log. 561 00:45:32,246 --> 00:45:35,492 Green is just the color for you, Sweeney. 562 00:45:39,135 --> 00:45:40,904 Ready to put on the helmets? 563 00:45:41,019 --> 00:45:43,127 I won't be able to breathe in here! 564 00:45:43,242 --> 00:45:45,676 You won't be able to breathe without it. Hook up your air hose. 565 00:45:45,792 --> 00:45:47,721 - - You forget there's no air outside. 566 00:45:47,722 --> 00:45:47,723 567 00:45:47,836 --> 00:45:50,400 There's plenty of room for it! 568 00:46:02,952 --> 00:46:04,851 Check radios. 569 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,146 Check instruments. Check air. 570 00:46:08,845 --> 00:46:10,760 Let's go! 571 00:46:10,875 --> 00:46:14,111 I'm going to get another line! 572 00:46:33,074 --> 00:46:35,103 Now it will open. 573 00:46:52,221 --> 00:46:54,169 Close it, Skipper! We'll fall out! 574 00:46:54,284 --> 00:46:58,601 Get this through your head, Joe. You can't fall. 575 00:47:00,971 --> 00:47:02,480 Let's go! 576 00:47:47,328 --> 00:47:50,120 Hey, we're stuck up here! We ain't moving! 577 00:47:50,235 --> 00:47:54,714 It only seems that way. We're really traveling thousands of miles per hour. 578 00:47:54,829 --> 00:47:58,141 Here in space, all comparisons are lost. 579 00:47:59,456 --> 00:48:02,216 Take a look behind you. 580 00:48:03,304 --> 00:48:04,375 Wow! 581 00:48:04,490 --> 00:48:07,151 The geography books are right. 582 00:48:07,266 --> 00:48:09,187 How do you feel now, Joe? 583 00:48:09,302 --> 00:48:10,811 Weird. 584 00:48:10,926 --> 00:48:14,463 Thousands of miles an hour and not a breeze. 585 00:48:14,578 --> 00:48:18,228 It's more beautiful than I ever dreamed. 586 00:48:18,343 --> 00:48:22,173 We will never be able to describe it to anyone. 587 00:48:50,391 --> 00:48:53,800 I'm going aft. See you shortly. 588 00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,611 Wait until we finish this. I'll go with you. 589 00:48:58,726 --> 00:49:01,776 You stay here and take care of the radar. Give me a rope. 590 00:49:01,891 --> 00:49:04,048 Help yourself. 591 00:49:05,808 --> 00:49:08,536 I'll be back in a minute. 592 00:50:26,574 --> 00:50:29,284 Skip! Joe! Help! I'm adrift! 593 00:50:29,907 --> 00:50:31,742 I can't get back! 594 00:50:31,857 --> 00:50:33,722 Tie it off to the ship. - Where? 595 00:50:33,838 --> 00:50:36,400 Off the stern. Come on! 596 00:50:36,822 --> 00:50:39,160 Jim! Joe! Help! 597 00:50:39,275 --> 00:50:41,375 Can you hear me? I'm adrift! 598 00:50:41,490 --> 00:50:43,794 Coming, Doc! 599 00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:47,438 Hurry! If we can't get him, he will float forever! 600 00:50:50,827 --> 00:50:53,100 Get a rope to him! 601 00:50:50,827 --> 00:50:53,166 Captain, towards the stern! 602 00:50:53,281 --> 00:50:55,860 We're working towards you, Doc. We can see you. 603 00:50:56,655 --> 00:50:59,333 Jim, Joe! Is he alright? Can you get him? 604 00:50:59,448 --> 00:51:03,024 We've go to get him! - I'm coming out! 605 00:51:04,395 --> 00:51:08,128 Steady, Doc. We're going to get a rope to you. 606 00:51:14,496 --> 00:51:16,784 Steady, Doc! Here it comes! 607 00:51:16,899 --> 00:51:18,781 Catch! 608 00:51:19,122 --> 00:51:20,827 I can't reach it! 609 00:51:20,942 --> 00:51:23,326 We'll try again. 610 00:51:27,969 --> 00:51:30,566 General! Can you hear me? 611 00:51:30,681 --> 00:51:33,942 Bring out an oxygen bottle! Hurry! 612 00:51:41,032 --> 00:51:44,344 Hurry, Jim! Joe, help! 613 00:52:02,428 --> 00:52:05,707 General! That oxygen tank, hurry! 614 00:52:07,772 --> 00:52:09,882 Where is he? 615 00:52:09,997 --> 00:52:12,171 Way out there. 616 00:52:12,430 --> 00:52:14,427 What are you going to do? 617 00:52:14,542 --> 00:52:16,491 Get him! 618 00:52:16,606 --> 00:52:19,201 I hope it's got enough kick! 619 00:52:19,656 --> 00:52:23,438 General, grab him! We'll lose him too! 620 00:53:08,453 --> 00:53:11,147 I almost didn't make it. 621 00:53:11,262 --> 00:53:12,705 Can we get back? 622 00:53:12,820 --> 00:53:16,894 If we don't, we'll tour the universe together! Hang on, I'm going to turn it. 623 00:53:29,771 --> 00:53:33,260 Pray there's enough gas to get us back. 624 00:53:34,283 --> 00:53:36,344 He's got him! 625 00:53:43,487 --> 00:53:45,776 Give me the rope! 626 00:54:07,712 --> 00:54:11,136 You okay, Doc? - I didn't think we'd make it! 627 00:54:11,251 --> 00:54:14,172 Come on, boys. Let's go inside. 628 00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:54,183 We're getting close. - Standing by, ready to fire. 629 00:54:55,141 --> 00:54:57,771 Here goes the turn. 630 00:55:19,825 --> 00:55:21,595 We're going backwards! 631 00:55:21,710 --> 00:55:25,767 Yes, we're going to use the firing as brakes. 632 00:55:28,830 --> 00:55:31,443 Stand by for acceleration. 633 00:55:52,202 --> 00:55:54,101 Tracking as predicted. 634 00:55:54,216 --> 00:55:56,342 Good. Radar report? 635 00:55:56,942 --> 00:55:59,263 Altitude 108000. 636 00:55:59,378 --> 00:56:02,228 Closing as predicted. - Power? 637 00:56:02,344 --> 00:56:04,160 Plant okay. 638 00:56:05,686 --> 00:56:08,494 That didn't slow us! We're going faster than ever! - No we're not! 639 00:56:08,609 --> 00:56:11,741 It seems that way because we're close and heading in. 640 00:56:11,856 --> 00:56:15,238 I just decided I don't want to go through with this thing. Let's go home! 641 00:56:15,353 --> 00:56:18,452 Cut it out, Joe. Give me the view aft. 642 00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:20,792 View aft. 643 00:56:21,052 --> 00:56:23,438 Power plant? - On manual. 644 00:56:24,087 --> 00:56:26,409 Ready now... 645 00:56:28,455 --> 00:56:31,327 Holy smoke! We can't land on that, we'll be splattered! 646 00:56:31,442 --> 00:56:34,996 Quit worrying. We're landing in the smooth plain short of there. 647 00:56:35,111 --> 00:56:38,227 I'm going to kill our forward speed. Stand by. 648 00:56:39,732 --> 00:56:41,923 Acceleration! 649 00:56:46,906 --> 00:56:49,958 You missed, Jim! - I know it! Emergency! 650 00:56:59,552 --> 00:57:01,938 Pick her up, Jim! Give us some lateral! 651 00:57:02,053 --> 00:57:05,460 Too late! Too much firing and we can't get home. 652 00:57:05,576 --> 00:57:08,707 I'll have to use the drift we've got. 653 00:57:21,722 --> 00:57:24,628 You going to chance it, Jim? - Have to! 654 00:57:24,969 --> 00:57:27,534 Automatic landing! - Automatic, it is. 655 00:57:27,649 --> 00:57:31,170 Co-pilot! Tracking in on automatic. 656 00:57:31,285 --> 00:57:33,295 Tracking now. 657 00:57:33,410 --> 00:57:35,601 Cover me at 830 feet. 658 00:57:35,716 --> 00:57:38,993 Covered at 830. - Correction...cover at 870. 659 00:57:39,108 --> 00:57:42,036 870, right. Can you miss those peaks? - Got a prayer in your pocket? 660 00:57:42,151 --> 00:57:45,607 Correction...860! - 860! 661 00:57:46,679 --> 00:57:49,065 Tracking steady. 662 00:57:51,175 --> 00:57:54,307 All hands brace for crash! 663 00:58:02,374 --> 00:58:04,127 - We're down. - 664 00:58:04,128 --> 00:58:04,129 665 00:58:18,891 --> 00:58:20,757 We're down. 666 00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:23,470 Cut out your gyros. 667 00:58:24,296 --> 00:58:25,497 Okay. 668 00:58:26,228 --> 00:58:28,289 Fine landing, Jim. 669 00:58:28,404 --> 00:58:30,245 That was a terrible landing and you know it! 670 00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,436 I mean for a first one. 671 00:58:32,551 --> 00:58:36,055 I wasted reaction mass we'll need to get back. If we get back. 672 00:58:36,171 --> 00:58:38,994 Worry about that later, we just got here. 673 00:58:39,109 --> 00:58:40,584 Here... 674 00:58:40,699 --> 00:58:42,776 On the moon! 675 00:58:43,149 --> 00:58:45,145 Jim, Doc... 676 00:58:45,973 --> 00:58:47,418 We're on the moon! 677 00:58:47,534 --> 00:58:49,009 And we're alive! 678 00:58:49,124 --> 00:58:54,415 Holy cow! The next time you tell me you can get to the moon, I'll believe you. 679 00:58:56,029 --> 00:58:59,745 You waited a long time for this, Doc. - All my life. 680 00:59:00,785 --> 00:59:03,771 Sweeney, how about trying to raise Washington? 681 00:59:03,887 --> 00:59:05,476 You bet! Wait until I tell them... 682 00:59:05,591 --> 00:59:08,982 First race: Spaceship Luna in the lead, way out in front! 683 00:59:09,097 --> 00:59:13,592 Doc, Jim. You two go down and set foot on the surface. 684 00:59:13,891 --> 00:59:16,570 That's something I want to enter in my log. 685 00:59:16,685 --> 00:59:21,259 No, I think we should all go together. - Nonsense, you made this trip possible. 686 00:59:21,374 --> 00:59:23,418 Spaceship Luna calling Washington. 687 00:59:23,533 --> 00:59:26,226 Come on then, Doc. This is your moment. 688 00:59:26,341 --> 00:59:30,236 Let's get into our spacesuits. 689 01:01:02,853 --> 01:01:04,866 Let's go. 690 01:01:32,095 --> 01:01:33,572 Come on. 691 01:03:12,228 --> 01:03:16,400 Claim it, Doc. I'm your witness. Claim it officially. 692 01:03:17,893 --> 01:03:21,773 By the grace of God, and in the name of the United States of America... 693 01:03:21,888 --> 01:03:25,227 I take possession of this planet on behalf of, and for the benefit of... 694 01:03:25,343 --> 01:03:27,451 all mankind. 695 01:03:33,876 --> 01:03:35,840 Dr. Cargraves! Mr. Barnes! 696 01:03:35,955 --> 01:03:39,769 Yes? - I'm in contact with Washington. There's terrific excitement on Earth! 697 01:03:39,884 --> 01:03:42,641 We're hooked up to all the networks. They just interviewed the General. 698 01:03:42,756 --> 01:03:46,366 They want to interview you two. I've patched your radio into the transmitter. 699 01:03:46,481 --> 01:03:50,327 I hooked up our receiver too. You can have a two-way conversation with them. 700 01:03:50,442 --> 01:03:52,826 Okay, go ahead Earth! 701 01:03:53,915 --> 01:03:55,993 Hello! Hello on the moon! 702 01:03:56,108 --> 01:03:58,558 This is Carl Zurski, greeting you from the Earth. 703 01:03:58,673 --> 01:04:03,363 The people of the world congratulate you for your epoch-making achievement! 704 01:04:03,478 --> 01:04:05,635 Thank you. 705 01:04:05,750 --> 01:04:08,184 I must explain to the listeners of the lag between... 706 01:04:08,299 --> 01:04:11,706 my voice and those from the moon is due to the vastness of space. 707 01:04:11,821 --> 01:04:15,845 It takes 3 seconds even at the speed of light, for radio waves to travel... 708 01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:18,969 between the Earth and moon. Can you tell us where you landed? 709 01:04:19,084 --> 01:04:23,218 The astronomers at Palomar say they could see you if they knew where to look 710 01:04:23,333 --> 01:04:25,669 We landed in the crater Harpalus... 711 01:04:25,785 --> 01:04:31,253 which is in the upper NW quadrant of the moon as seen from North America. 712 01:04:31,757 --> 01:04:34,629 Is Dr. Cargraves hooked in? - Yes. 713 01:04:36,236 --> 01:04:39,986 Can you give us your first impressions of the moon, Dr. Cargraves? 714 01:04:40,101 --> 01:04:42,600 Well, I'll try. 715 01:04:42,715 --> 01:04:44,726 The first impression is... 716 01:04:44,841 --> 01:04:47,956 one of utter barrenness and desolation. 717 01:04:48,071 --> 01:04:49,701 Then the silence... 718 01:04:49,816 --> 01:04:54,522 As there is not air, the only sound we hear comes through our radios. 719 01:04:55,477 --> 01:04:56,889 The sky is... 720 01:04:57,004 --> 01:04:57,912 black. 721 01:04:58,027 --> 01:05:00,704 Velvet black and pierced by the most intensely... 722 01:05:00,819 --> 01:05:03,999 brilliant stars anyone ever dreamed of. 723 01:05:04,115 --> 01:05:07,863 Hanging over the mountains in the distance, I can see our own planet Earth 724 01:05:07,978 --> 01:05:11,231 many times larger than the harvest moon. 725 01:05:11,571 --> 01:05:14,396 I see most of the Western Hemisphere... 726 01:05:14,511 --> 01:05:18,990 and I can also see it's about sunrise in San Francisco. 727 01:05:19,105 --> 01:05:20,937 It's afternoon here... 728 01:05:21,053 --> 01:05:24,337 and will be for a couple of more days. 729 01:05:24,808 --> 01:05:27,405 Now perhaps, Jim Barnes can add something. 730 01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:29,191 As a matter of record... 731 01:05:29,306 --> 01:05:32,405 may I report that the moment he sat foot on the moon... 732 01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:35,594 Dr. Cargraves claimed possession in the name of the United States... 733 01:05:35,709 --> 01:05:38,873 for the benefit of all mankind! 734 01:05:39,617 --> 01:05:43,545 This is great and wonderful news for the people of the Earth! Thank you! 735 01:05:43,661 --> 01:05:47,976 The Naval Station in Washington will stand by 24 hours a day for.... 736 01:05:48,091 --> 01:05:51,165 further signals from you. Goodbye and good luck! 737 01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:52,496 Roger. 738 01:06:07,158 --> 01:06:09,430 Doc, I'll never get use to this. 739 01:06:09,545 --> 01:06:12,287 This must weigh 500 or 600 pounds! 740 01:06:12,402 --> 01:06:16,020 On Earth it does. Gravity here is about 1/6 as much. 741 01:06:16,135 --> 01:06:18,358 That means things weigh 1/6 as much. 742 01:06:18,796 --> 01:06:22,026 I know it, but I can't believe it. 743 01:06:22,757 --> 01:06:24,347 General, look! 744 01:06:28,233 --> 01:06:30,684 Sweeney, cut that out! 745 01:06:30,799 --> 01:06:34,061 What's the matter? If I could do that back home, I'd be an acrobat! 746 01:06:34,176 --> 01:06:37,859 We've got too much to do and too little time for any more clowning. 747 01:06:37,974 --> 01:06:39,709 Let's get on with our schedule! 748 01:06:39,824 --> 01:06:43,313 I'm suppose to help you with the astronomical photos, Doc. 749 01:06:43,428 --> 01:06:45,976 I can't for a bit. I've got to Earth and get Hastings to give us... 750 01:06:46,091 --> 01:06:48,345 revised figures for our trip back. 751 01:06:48,461 --> 01:06:52,087 Well, I'll just have to wait for you. - Joe, you help him. 752 01:06:52,202 --> 01:06:53,596 I can handle the radio. 753 01:06:53,711 --> 01:06:56,534 Joe was going to help me with the mineralogical survey! 754 01:06:56,649 --> 01:06:59,618 You can get along without him. You've only got one Geiger Counter. 755 01:06:59,733 --> 01:07:03,433 But don't lose sight of the ship! That's a rule for everybody! 756 01:07:03,549 --> 01:07:05,494 Okay, Skipper. 757 01:07:05,610 --> 01:07:09,050 I'll help you later, General. I'm for seeing what there is to see! 758 01:07:09,165 --> 01:07:12,628 I don't figure on staying here too long anyway. Do you know why? 759 01:07:12,743 --> 01:07:15,729 No beer, no babes, no baseball! - You got it! 760 01:07:15,844 --> 01:07:18,293 Well Doc, I'll pack this little gadget. 761 01:07:18,408 --> 01:07:21,523 I'll join you after I talk to Hastings. 762 01:07:52,410 --> 01:07:56,289 Say Doc, there is one thing I'd like as a souvenir of the trip. 763 01:07:56,404 --> 01:08:00,436 How about taking a picture of me up here alongside the camera? 764 01:08:00,551 --> 01:08:04,997 Sure Joe, that's not too much to ask. Give me the little camera. 765 01:08:25,852 --> 01:08:28,401 Move a little closer! 766 01:08:29,894 --> 01:08:31,485 That's it! 767 01:08:32,816 --> 01:08:35,786 Wait a minute, I have a better idea. 768 01:08:37,069 --> 01:08:39,082 Come over here. 769 01:08:39,993 --> 01:08:42,184 Now turn around... 770 01:08:43,938 --> 01:08:46,713 Now hold your arm up. 771 01:08:47,963 --> 01:08:51,291 Bend your elbow as though you were holding a heavy weight. 772 01:08:51,406 --> 01:08:53,608 Now your hand... 773 01:08:54,712 --> 01:08:57,536 That's it. Hold it! 774 01:09:01,416 --> 01:09:04,305 Okay. That'll be something to show! 775 01:09:04,906 --> 01:09:07,649 What is it Doc? - You and the Earth. 776 01:09:07,908 --> 01:09:11,319 You're holding it up like a modern Atlas. 777 01:09:13,450 --> 01:09:15,690 Hey, that's something Doc. 778 01:09:15,805 --> 01:09:18,257 There's only one thing... - What's that? 779 01:09:18,372 --> 01:09:20,807 Nobody will know it's me in this diving suit! 780 01:09:20,922 --> 01:09:22,670 Hey, Doc! 781 01:09:23,063 --> 01:09:24,305 Joe! 782 01:09:26,038 --> 01:09:27,803 Over here! 783 01:09:27,918 --> 01:09:29,487 Behind you! 784 01:09:43,749 --> 01:09:46,887 Charles, I picked up clicks. 785 01:09:47,851 --> 01:09:49,895 Here, hold this. 786 01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:54,603 I picked them up a few yards back. They are stronger in this direction. 787 01:09:54,718 --> 01:09:56,761 Listen to this. 788 01:10:01,695 --> 01:10:04,310 There's a trace, eh? - What is it, Doc? 789 01:10:04,425 --> 01:10:09,067 I'm not sure. - These mountains may have a real deposit. 790 01:10:09,182 --> 01:10:12,208 Uranium? - It's possible. 791 01:10:12,323 --> 01:10:16,065 Then you could blow up the moon too. Ain't that dandy! 792 01:10:16,180 --> 01:10:19,188 Check your reaction mass. 793 01:10:23,627 --> 01:10:26,325 Point 8672. 794 01:10:26,815 --> 01:10:29,170 What? Repeat that. 795 01:10:29,285 --> 01:10:32,047 Yes, point 8672. 796 01:10:32,162 --> 01:10:35,988 I wasted power making a very bad landing. 797 01:10:39,946 --> 01:10:42,595 I'll have to compute it, but it looks bad. 798 01:10:42,710 --> 01:10:45,439 We have to get you back. Jettison every ounce. 799 01:10:45,554 --> 01:10:49,035 - - All your forward tanks are empty. Can you rip them out? 800 01:10:49,036 --> 01:10:49,037 801 01:10:50,367 --> 01:10:54,748 Not without tearing the ship apart. She wasn't built for it. 802 01:10:56,170 --> 01:11:00,159 I'll call at the same time 24 hours from now. I'll give you the answers. 803 01:11:00,274 --> 01:11:02,693 Be able to tell me how much you lightened the ship... 804 01:11:02,808 --> 01:11:04,590 and I'll tell you if you can make it. 805 01:11:04,705 --> 01:11:07,238 I'll stand by 24 hours from now. 806 01:11:07,353 --> 01:11:10,688 Just get us back home. That's all I ask. 807 01:11:25,578 --> 01:11:27,998 Hello, Jim! 808 01:11:28,831 --> 01:11:32,297 We've got news for you! - I have for you too. All of you. 809 01:11:32,412 --> 01:11:35,463 This is right up your alley, Jim. - Hold it, General. 810 01:11:35,578 --> 01:11:39,909 Sit down the camera, Joe and Doc. It's no use to us. 811 01:11:40,171 --> 01:11:42,412 I haven't shot more than a half a dozen plates. 812 01:11:42,527 --> 01:11:45,665 That's all you'll be able to shoot. - What's the matter? 813 01:11:45,780 --> 01:11:48,477 I just talked to Dr. Hastings at Dry Wells. 814 01:11:48,592 --> 01:11:51,708 I gave our instrument readings. Reaction mass, mass ratio... 815 01:11:51,823 --> 01:11:53,653 checked our time. 816 01:11:53,768 --> 01:11:56,726 Well? - Our time is okay. 817 01:11:56,842 --> 01:11:58,590 Nothing else is. 818 01:11:58,705 --> 01:12:02,089 What are you talking about, Skipper? Everything on the board is ticking. 819 01:12:02,204 --> 01:12:04,540 I checked every instrument. All alive. 820 01:12:04,655 --> 01:12:07,777 So are we. For awhile. 821 01:12:08,104 --> 01:12:09,870 I don't get it. 822 01:12:09,985 --> 01:12:11,456 We have to lighten the ship! 823 01:12:11,571 --> 01:12:14,710 Our job for the next 24 hours is to get rid of everything we can. 824 01:12:14,825 --> 01:12:16,328 Or stay here ourselves. 825 01:12:16,443 --> 01:12:19,646 Hastings will give me the answers at 07:30 tomorrow. 826 01:12:19,761 --> 01:12:23,341 Well, let's not panic until we've talked to him again. 827 01:12:23,457 --> 01:12:28,850 Meanwhile... - We go back to the ship and strip off everything we can! 828 01:12:33,771 --> 01:12:39,345 Acceleration couch pad 4. Serial number 706. Schedule B. 829 01:12:41,905 --> 01:12:45,371 706 Schedule B, check. 830 01:12:46,384 --> 01:12:49,000 And the schedule itself! 831 01:12:49,528 --> 01:12:51,899 That's everything that you can get out? 832 01:12:52,014 --> 01:12:54,628 3 of our spacesuits will be dropped before takeoff. 833 01:12:54,743 --> 01:12:58,208 One will be used in the airlock to dump the others. 834 01:12:58,323 --> 01:13:00,840 Skipper, I'll dump the stuff. 835 01:13:02,491 --> 01:13:06,807 It'll take me 15 minutes to check again. I'll give you the answer asap. 836 01:13:14,009 --> 01:13:16,477 Here's the wash! 837 01:13:25,853 --> 01:13:27,749 36 hours. 838 01:13:28,338 --> 01:13:30,431 36 hours, what? 839 01:13:30,546 --> 01:13:32,506 Until takeoff time. 840 01:13:32,621 --> 01:13:34,747 It's then or a month from then. 841 01:13:34,862 --> 01:13:37,280 That means never. 842 01:13:38,016 --> 01:13:40,418 Spaceship Luna, Spaceship Luna. 843 01:13:40,534 --> 01:13:43,164 Spaceship Luna, Barnes speaking. 844 01:13:43,279 --> 01:13:46,549 Here's the total: you've taken out almost 2 tons. 845 01:13:46,664 --> 01:13:51,029 Before takeoff, drop all the oxygen except what you need to get back on. 846 01:13:51,144 --> 01:13:53,872 Before takeoff, you can drop your remaining food. 847 01:13:53,987 --> 01:13:56,357 You can hold yourselves to a pint of water a day... 848 01:13:56,472 --> 01:13:58,941 and throw the rest of your drinking water into the reaction tank. 849 01:13:59,056 --> 01:14:01,458 Have you got it? - Right! 850 01:14:01,785 --> 01:14:04,858 You'll have to get out another 1,000 pounds. 851 01:14:04,973 --> 01:14:10,106 Another 1,000? Of what? We're stripped! 852 01:14:10,645 --> 01:14:13,049 Don't make me say this... 853 01:14:13,490 --> 01:14:15,583 you have to or... 854 01:14:15,698 --> 01:14:18,804 You don't have to say it. We know.... 855 01:14:19,180 --> 01:14:22,449 or we don't get back! 856 01:14:22,565 --> 01:14:24,902 I'm standing by. 857 01:14:25,017 --> 01:14:28,024 You've got to work it out! 858 01:14:37,215 --> 01:14:38,834 Hey, Sweeney... 859 01:14:38,949 --> 01:14:41,646 is this thing bolted or welded? 860 01:14:41,761 --> 01:14:42,937 Bolted. 861 01:14:43,052 --> 01:14:45,929 Let's get to work. Give me a wrench! 862 01:15:03,868 --> 01:15:06,305 I guess we used this one up. 863 01:15:06,420 --> 01:15:09,094 Doc, we'll be able to takeoff, won't we? 864 01:15:09,210 --> 01:15:11,497 Probably. Takeoff, at least. 865 01:15:11,612 --> 01:15:13,246 What do you mean, "at least"? 866 01:15:13,361 --> 01:15:17,399 If we're too heavy, we'll crash or fall into an orbit around the moon. 867 01:15:17,660 --> 01:15:19,622 Just keep on going around? 868 01:15:19,737 --> 01:15:21,829 That's it. 869 01:15:26,390 --> 01:15:30,019 Hey, Skipper! That's my radar! - We won't need it to land on Earth. 870 01:15:30,134 --> 01:15:32,831 You don't know how much work I did putting this together! 871 01:15:32,946 --> 01:15:36,215 Now, anybody with anything in your pockets? 872 01:15:41,088 --> 01:15:42,853 This too? - Everything! 873 01:15:42,969 --> 01:15:45,470 The 3 spacesuits then come back. 874 01:16:05,742 --> 01:16:07,689 How much time we got? 875 01:16:08,065 --> 01:16:10,240 27 minutes. 876 01:16:17,431 --> 01:16:21,403 Another 110 pounds. - What? 877 01:16:21,942 --> 01:16:25,277 Another 110 pounds and you can coast home! 878 01:16:25,392 --> 01:16:28,940 We're stripped. We'll have to take a chance as we are. 879 01:16:30,296 --> 01:16:32,193 That's suicide! 880 01:16:32,309 --> 01:16:35,168 You haven't enough power to pull free of the moon. 881 01:16:35,284 --> 01:16:37,931 You could be wrong, couldn't you? 882 01:16:38,195 --> 01:16:39,421 I could. 883 01:16:39,536 --> 01:16:41,693 I don't think the computer could. 884 01:16:41,808 --> 01:16:44,489 Ask Dr. Cargraves. 885 01:16:45,273 --> 01:16:47,971 We'll let you know, roger. 886 01:16:49,575 --> 01:16:52,501 Well Charles, is he right? 887 01:16:53,646 --> 01:16:55,853 I'm afraid so. 888 01:17:00,635 --> 01:17:02,401 We're stuck here! 889 01:17:02,516 --> 01:17:05,638 Who got me here? I didn't want to come! 890 01:17:05,753 --> 01:17:09,332 You can blame me, Joe. You didn't think it would work. 891 01:17:09,970 --> 01:17:13,010 Well, in a way, you were right. 892 01:17:13,778 --> 01:17:18,438 What a sucker! What a dumb, stupid blockhead I am! 893 01:17:18,553 --> 01:17:21,511 I could have blown my brains out or gone over Niagara Falls... 894 01:17:21,626 --> 01:17:24,454 or found some other decent way to die! 895 01:17:24,569 --> 01:17:27,413 Alright, Joe. We're all in this together. 896 01:17:42,618 --> 01:17:46,443 It's as simple as that. One of us stays. 897 01:17:46,558 --> 01:17:48,258 Of course. 898 01:17:49,331 --> 01:17:52,600 I weight 180. More than enough. - Now look here.... 899 01:17:52,715 --> 01:17:55,821 I'm the oldest. I've done my job. - I'm the Skipper of this ship! 900 01:17:58,029 --> 01:18:00,963 I give the orders on this ship! I'm giving the orders now! 901 01:18:01,078 --> 01:18:04,626 - Jim, nobody gives orders. - Yes, they do. This is the order... 902 01:18:04,741 --> 01:18:06,914 Doc is the engineer. He goes back to his work. 903 01:18:07,029 --> 01:18:10,192 The General pilots the ship when you reach the Earth's atmosphere. 904 01:18:10,308 --> 01:18:13,904 I can be spared on this trip. I have no family. My job gets along without me. 905 01:18:14,019 --> 01:18:17,958 Jim, listen to me. This is not a ship at sea and this is not a plane. 906 01:18:18,073 --> 01:18:21,636 This has been a joint undertaking. The 3 of us did it together. 907 01:18:21,915 --> 01:18:24,677 It is no ones duty more than the others to give his life. 908 01:18:24,792 --> 01:18:28,013 I've had my day. A great one! I've shown that this could be done! 909 01:18:28,128 --> 01:18:31,135 It's enough to make me glad I lived and content to stay. 910 01:18:31,250 --> 01:18:33,686 It's very noble, Doc, but it's philosophy. 911 01:18:33,801 --> 01:18:36,678 Skip philosophy! I'm the one who stays. Why? Because I'm the oldest. 912 01:18:36,793 --> 01:18:40,291 You two can tell them back home what we've seen much better than I could. 913 01:18:40,406 --> 01:18:42,842 Tell them how we looked up and saw the Earth... 914 01:18:42,957 --> 01:18:45,735 vulnerable and exposed forever. 915 01:18:45,850 --> 01:18:49,022 Never setting in this lunar sky. 916 01:18:51,213 --> 01:18:53,485 You know what you just proved, General? 917 01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:55,921 You're the one man that must go back! 918 01:18:56,591 --> 01:19:00,417 Are we going to end this in futility because we can't make a simple decision? 919 01:19:00,532 --> 01:19:03,244 I've reached my decision! I'm standing by it! 920 01:19:03,359 --> 01:19:06,204 Skipper, look here... - Stay out of this, Sweeney. 921 01:19:06,319 --> 01:19:08,083 Don't worry, you'll get back. 922 01:19:08,198 --> 01:19:10,421 Right now it looks like nobody gets back! 923 01:19:10,536 --> 01:19:14,508 If you brains can't make up your minds, why don't you do what kids do? 924 01:19:14,623 --> 01:19:17,924 Match for it. You know, draw lots. 925 01:19:18,186 --> 01:19:19,674 Alright! - No! 926 01:19:19,789 --> 01:19:22,142 Jim, two against one. - What do we use? 927 01:19:22,257 --> 01:19:26,360 Anyone have paper, matches, coins? - No, everything's overboard. 928 01:19:26,475 --> 01:19:30,970 You've got buttons on your coveralls. Match them. 929 01:19:31,881 --> 01:19:34,414 Spaceship Luna...Spaceship Luna. 930 01:19:34,530 --> 01:19:37,636 Dry Wells calling Spaceship Luna. 931 01:19:37,751 --> 01:19:39,843 Spaceship Luna to Dry Wells. 932 01:19:39,958 --> 01:19:44,044 We're are working it out. One of us will stay behind We're drawing lots. 933 01:19:44,160 --> 01:19:47,543 Only 110 pounds! There must be something more! 934 01:19:47,658 --> 01:19:49,358 Check time! 935 01:19:49,898 --> 01:19:53,740 9:31:50. 18 minutes to zero hour. 936 01:19:53,855 --> 01:19:55,158 Check. 937 01:19:55,273 --> 01:19:57,888 We'll take off with three men. 938 01:20:00,078 --> 01:20:02,089 Where's Joe? He's gone! 939 01:20:02,204 --> 01:20:03,871 What's wrong? You're not coming in! 940 01:20:03,986 --> 01:20:06,340 It won't open! 941 01:20:06,455 --> 01:20:09,202 He's not in there! - Then he...he can't do that! 942 01:20:09,317 --> 01:20:11,474 Spaceship Luna, Spaceship Luna! 943 01:20:11,589 --> 01:20:14,025 He's left the ship! - Stand by, something's happened. 944 01:20:14,140 --> 01:20:18,128 Sweeney's left the ship! His helmet's gone! I can't see him! 945 01:20:18,243 --> 01:20:22,476 There he is! He's dragging something! Sweeney! 946 01:20:30,110 --> 01:20:32,317 Sweeney! Sweeney, can you hear me? 947 01:20:32,644 --> 01:20:34,786 Sure, I hear you. 948 01:20:34,901 --> 01:20:36,731 Come back, Joe! 949 01:20:36,846 --> 01:20:38,922 And die in that steel death trap? 950 01:20:39,037 --> 01:20:41,463 You won't die, Joe. Not you. You're going home! 951 01:20:41,578 --> 01:20:46,464 Not a chance. Goodbye, fellows. Remember me to the gals. Any gals! 952 01:20:46,579 --> 01:20:49,554 Spaceship Luna, you're not coming in! 953 01:20:49,669 --> 01:20:51,402 Here's Doc. Talk to him. 954 01:20:51,517 --> 01:20:55,178 Something's happened! Joe's left the ship! - Are you taking off? 955 01:20:55,293 --> 01:20:59,478 I don't know! We got to do something! - Joe, we can't let you do this! 956 01:20:59,593 --> 01:21:02,993 What do you mean let me? You can't stop me. 957 01:21:03,108 --> 01:21:04,900 I lightened your ship. 958 01:21:05,015 --> 01:21:08,611 I gave you your chance, now get going. Don't make a monkey out of me. 959 01:21:08,726 --> 01:21:12,682 Come back, Joe! We're in this together. If you don't, we can't takeoff. 960 01:21:12,797 --> 01:21:15,968 You've got to or you'll be killing me for nothing. 961 01:21:16,083 --> 01:21:19,108 Nobody's asking you to, you're killing yourself! 962 01:21:19,223 --> 01:21:22,001 Takeoff, will you? I want to see it. 963 01:21:22,116 --> 01:21:24,227 A ship going back from the moon to the Earth! 964 01:21:24,342 --> 01:21:26,434 Joe, i just thought of a way... 965 01:21:26,549 --> 01:21:30,995 A way to what? - Takeoff. All of us! Hurry! 966 01:21:31,110 --> 01:21:32,582 What do you mean "all of us"? 967 01:21:32,697 --> 01:21:35,148 Do just as I tell you. I think we can make it! 968 01:21:35,263 --> 01:21:37,503 You wouldn't kid me? - Don't be a fool! 969 01:21:37,618 --> 01:21:40,248 It's our lives too. We've less than 15 minutes! 970 01:21:40,499 --> 01:21:43,033 What's the deal? - Get back to the airlock fast. 971 01:21:43,148 --> 01:21:47,414 Bring a screwdriver, knife and a file. And a weight, an oxygen tank. 972 01:21:47,529 --> 01:21:49,346 Tie the tank to the end of your safety line. 973 01:21:49,461 --> 01:21:51,288 I'll tell you the rest when you're in the airlock! 974 01:21:51,403 --> 01:21:54,769 Is he coming? - He's picking up the things! 975 01:21:59,382 --> 01:22:02,263 He's heading towards us! - What's your plan? 976 01:22:02,378 --> 01:22:07,141 Sweeney's spacesuit weighs 70 pounds, the radios 50. There's over 110 pounds! 977 01:22:07,257 --> 01:22:09,198 We can't open the door to the airlock without his spacesuit. 978 01:22:09,313 --> 01:22:10,947 We won't open it when he gets his spacesuit off! 979 01:22:11,062 --> 01:22:14,410 He can drill a small hole in the door big enough for a safety line. 980 01:22:14,525 --> 01:22:17,583 He ties the tank to the line and it hangs outside... 981 01:22:17,698 --> 01:22:19,432 The line passes through the small hole... 982 01:22:19,547 --> 01:22:23,155 There's a slow leak. He takes off his suit, ties it to the line and comes here. 983 01:22:23,270 --> 01:22:26,072 We decompress the airlock, the door opens, the suit is dragged out. 984 01:22:26,187 --> 01:22:28,484 General, watch for him. 985 01:22:31,416 --> 01:22:34,621 He must be in the airlock. It's cycling. - He's in there. 986 01:22:36,742 --> 01:22:39,607 Pressure's up. I can open it. 987 01:22:49,505 --> 01:22:51,221 Let me have a screwdriver. 988 01:22:51,336 --> 01:22:53,163 General, unscrew the radio! 989 01:22:53,278 --> 01:22:56,319 Sweeney, listen carefully... 990 01:22:56,740 --> 01:22:59,557 Hastings! We're coming home! All of us! 991 01:22:59,672 --> 01:23:04,300 You won't hear from us again until you see us. I'm ripping out the radio! 992 01:23:07,035 --> 01:23:08,298 Sweeney, listen carefully. 993 01:23:08,413 --> 01:23:13,369 Put on the helmet, go to the airlock, decompress it and open the outer door. 994 01:25:20,548 --> 01:25:22,749 Takeoff stations! 995 01:25:34,626 --> 01:25:38,899 Sweeney, as soon as your strap's fast, television view aft. 996 01:25:40,833 --> 01:25:42,921 Strap's okay here. 997 01:25:46,838 --> 01:25:48,393 Power plant? 998 01:25:48,508 --> 01:25:50,674 All ready to go. 999 01:25:53,241 --> 01:25:55,960 No time for count off, standby! 1000 01:25:56,300 --> 01:25:57,757 Fire! 1001 01:26:28,474 --> 01:26:30,804 We're going home.