1 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,531 They're now beginning to pressurize the tanks. 2 00:02:37,616 --> 00:02:43,204 Pressurize all of the tanks in all three stages with gaseous helium. 3 00:02:43,288 --> 00:02:45,539 As the pressurization builds up, it's monitored. 4 00:02:45,624 --> 00:02:51,295 Here in the control center, our status board still indicating all is well. 5 00:02:51,380 --> 00:02:54,006 Network, Flight. You configured for the terminal count? 6 00:02:54,091 --> 00:02:55,758 - Roger, Flight. We're a go. - Okay. 7 00:02:55,842 --> 00:02:58,177 Check status for terminal count, Rooster? 8 00:02:58,261 --> 00:02:59,553 - Go, Flight. - Retro? 9 00:02:59,638 --> 00:03:00,971 - We're a go. - Fido? 10 00:03:01,056 --> 00:03:02,223 - Go. - GMC? 11 00:03:02,307 --> 00:03:03,474 - Go, Flight. - E-COM? 12 00:03:03,558 --> 00:03:04,726 - Affirmative, Flight. - F-COM? 13 00:03:04,726 --> 00:03:06,143 Go all the way. 14 00:03:06,228 --> 00:03:09,772 Sony Panel Three, tape recorder forward, switch to forward. 15 00:03:09,856 --> 00:03:12,566 - Verify gray bar. - Roger, we have a gray flag. 16 00:03:12,651 --> 00:03:14,193 DNC is running, Flight. 17 00:03:14,277 --> 00:03:17,571 Roger, in automatic sequence, start on my mark. 18 00:03:17,656 --> 00:03:19,156 - Mark. - All right, Jim. 19 00:03:19,241 --> 00:03:22,576 - Stand by your panel 325 function. - Roger. 20 00:03:22,661 --> 00:03:24,578 - Fuel pre-pressure initiated. - Roger, Fuel. 21 00:03:24,663 --> 00:03:27,415 - This one's gonna light on your toes. - PCS bypass on. 22 00:03:27,499 --> 00:03:29,917 - Glycol radiator full to bypass. - Full to bypass. 23 00:03:30,001 --> 00:03:33,295 - Internal cooling, Flight. - This is launch control. 24 00:03:33,380 --> 00:03:35,423 The second stage fuel tank is pressurized. 25 00:03:35,507 --> 00:03:38,718 The third stage liquid oxygen tank pressurizing at this time. 26 00:03:38,802 --> 00:03:40,845 Ironman One, this is Flight, how do you read? 27 00:03:40,929 --> 00:03:42,555 - Loud and clear, Dick. - All right. 28 00:03:42,639 --> 00:03:46,142 CMP on panel two, verify program two. 29 00:03:46,226 --> 00:03:47,476 - We're a go, Flight. - Roger. 30 00:03:47,561 --> 00:03:50,146 - Flight recorder to record. - GDC, align. 31 00:03:50,230 --> 00:03:52,940 - GDC, align. - All recorders to flight speed. 32 00:03:53,024 --> 00:03:55,609 - Network, Flight. All okay with you? - Affirmed, Flight. 33 00:03:55,694 --> 00:03:57,903 RTC, you got everybody configured for commands? 34 00:03:57,988 --> 00:04:00,614 - That's affirmative. - Internal power and go, Flight. 35 00:04:00,699 --> 00:04:02,616 - You got the transfer? - That's affirmed. 36 00:04:02,701 --> 00:04:05,119 Ironman One, stand by for the 10-second count. 37 00:04:05,203 --> 00:04:07,163 Roger, Ted. 38 00:04:07,956 --> 00:04:10,833 Ten, nine, eight... 39 00:04:10,917 --> 00:04:15,755 seven, six, five, four... 40 00:05:06,097 --> 00:05:09,141 - Flight, safety is green downrange. - Roger, safety green. 41 00:05:10,477 --> 00:05:12,770 - Booster okay. - Go, Flight. 42 00:05:20,153 --> 00:05:21,403 - Everything okay? - Affirmed. 43 00:05:21,488 --> 00:05:22,822 - GNC? - Go, Flight. 44 00:05:22,906 --> 00:05:24,782 - E-COM? - Flight, we're a go. 45 00:05:24,866 --> 00:05:26,075 Roger. 46 00:05:47,889 --> 00:05:49,807 DX manual. 47 00:05:51,601 --> 00:05:53,894 - Stand by for mode one Charlie. - Mode one Charlie. 48 00:05:53,979 --> 00:05:55,896 Mode one Charlie. 49 00:06:00,861 --> 00:06:03,153 Rooster, I need your status for staging. 50 00:06:03,238 --> 00:06:06,740 - The tower has jettisoned. - Trajectory and guidance are a go. 51 00:06:06,825 --> 00:06:08,826 Roger, trajectory and guidance a go. 52 00:06:26,469 --> 00:06:28,789 - Spacecraft systems are a go. - Spacecraft systems are go. 53 00:06:28,847 --> 00:06:33,434 - All spacecraft systems are go. - No mistaking. 54 00:06:33,518 --> 00:06:35,436 - We have CECO. - Roger, CECO. 55 00:07:25,028 --> 00:07:27,821 Hey, it looks like a fine day down there! 56 00:07:28,907 --> 00:07:32,910 I can see all the way from Gibraltar to Greece. 57 00:07:32,994 --> 00:07:36,997 Coming up on the terminator, should be in our first sunset in a few minutes. 58 00:07:45,256 --> 00:07:48,676 - Loss of signal with Canary. - Roger, LOS. 59 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,762 Okay time to activate TV transmission. 60 00:07:51,846 --> 00:07:54,306 We remote to Houston through Araya, Buzz. 61 00:07:54,391 --> 00:07:57,017 Araya One, this is Ironman, how do you copy, over? 62 00:07:57,102 --> 00:08:00,104 Ironman One, Araya. I read you loud and clear, copy. 63 00:08:00,188 --> 00:08:02,064 I read you the same. 64 00:08:02,148 --> 00:08:05,442 On my mark, TV transmission from camera A. 65 00:08:05,944 --> 00:08:08,946 - Mark. - Smile! 66 00:08:12,158 --> 00:08:17,121 - How are you getting this? - A little snowy, Ironman. 67 00:08:20,375 --> 00:08:22,918 Clearing up now. 68 00:08:24,462 --> 00:08:26,213 Clear now. Good picture. 69 00:08:26,881 --> 00:08:30,175 Well, say something, Ted. Are we beautiful? 70 00:08:30,260 --> 00:08:35,514 Ironman, this is Houston. See you real good, all three of you. 71 00:08:35,598 --> 00:08:39,643 - How about the other camera, Jim? - Camera B coming on. 72 00:08:43,189 --> 00:08:44,982 Mark. 73 00:08:45,608 --> 00:08:47,985 You should be getting me now. 74 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,280 Here's Buzz. 75 00:08:54,701 --> 00:08:56,368 Here's Stoney. 76 00:08:58,371 --> 00:09:00,998 - How's it look? - Sharp and clear. 77 00:09:01,082 --> 00:09:02,916 How are you for docking with the lab? 78 00:09:03,001 --> 00:09:07,463 Docking is still planned for the second orbit as advertised. 79 00:09:08,048 --> 00:09:11,300 Roger. We have an update on your initial phase maneuver. 80 00:09:11,384 --> 00:09:14,803 Delta V, 249 at .3 feet per second. 81 00:09:14,888 --> 00:09:16,472 This is mission control, Houston, 82 00:09:16,556 --> 00:09:19,516 at 22 minutes into the flight of Ironman One. 83 00:09:19,601 --> 00:09:22,394 After a brief 20-minute flight across the Atlantic 84 00:09:22,479 --> 00:09:25,939 the spacecraft is now crossing the Mediterranean. 85 00:09:26,024 --> 00:09:28,776 We begin to look at the business of the flight plan 86 00:09:28,860 --> 00:09:30,944 which shows a rendezvous on docking 87 00:09:31,029 --> 00:09:32,863 with the Saturn 4B orbital laboratory. 88 00:10:14,739 --> 00:10:16,907 Buzz, what's our closing rate? 89 00:10:18,493 --> 00:10:21,829 - Closing rate: 50 feet per second. - Roger. 90 00:10:21,913 --> 00:10:25,040 - Let me know when we have 25. - Roger. 91 00:11:03,496 --> 00:11:05,539 This is mission control, Houston. 92 00:11:05,623 --> 00:11:08,333 Commander Pruett reported completion of docking the Apollo 93 00:11:08,418 --> 00:11:10,294 at the S-4B laboratory. 94 00:11:10,879 --> 00:11:14,047 After completing systems checks, the crew will transfer into the lab 95 00:11:14,132 --> 00:11:17,092 in which they will live and work for the next seven months. 96 00:11:17,177 --> 00:11:21,138 This will be a test of the spacecraft, the systems and most of all the men. 97 00:11:21,222 --> 00:11:24,266 In preparation for interplanetary deep-space missions 98 00:11:24,350 --> 00:11:26,602 which are now being planned. 99 00:11:26,686 --> 00:11:29,771 During this entire period the astronauts will cover their activities 100 00:11:29,856 --> 00:11:33,066 with TV cameras, which will be tape-recorded here on Earth 101 00:11:33,151 --> 00:11:35,402 for study and evaluation. 102 00:12:13,608 --> 00:12:17,569 Well, it's not too bad. We could use a couple of windows though. 103 00:12:17,654 --> 00:12:20,113 I think we're missing the view. 104 00:12:20,198 --> 00:12:22,282 What's first, Buzz? 105 00:12:23,117 --> 00:12:26,286 Extra vehicular activities in the S-509 maneuvering unit. 106 00:12:26,371 --> 00:12:30,290 You take it out. Stoney, you handle the camera. 107 00:14:00,631 --> 00:14:02,591 Watch it, Stoney. 108 00:14:13,311 --> 00:14:15,896 Try a little aerobatics here. 109 00:14:17,273 --> 00:14:18,482 Here goes. 110 00:15:01,025 --> 00:15:03,610 Buzz, how about some work? 111 00:15:04,362 --> 00:15:06,321 Yeah, right. 112 00:15:07,865 --> 00:15:09,825 I'm coming right down. 113 00:15:11,369 --> 00:15:14,371 Okay, Buzz, micrometeorite experiment. 114 00:15:14,455 --> 00:15:16,873 - Say again, Stoney. - Micrometeorite. 115 00:15:16,958 --> 00:15:19,584 Roger, micrometeorite. 116 00:15:27,802 --> 00:15:31,138 This material was obtained during their first week in space. 117 00:15:31,222 --> 00:15:34,182 I am presenting it as a point of reference. 118 00:15:34,267 --> 00:15:36,101 Here is Pruett. 119 00:15:37,395 --> 00:15:39,271 Lloyd. 120 00:15:39,856 --> 00:15:41,606 Stone. 121 00:15:42,316 --> 00:15:45,402 We got this day before yesterday. 122 00:15:49,282 --> 00:15:52,242 It demonstrates a serious decline in the ability to perform 123 00:15:52,326 --> 00:15:55,120 even simple manual tasks. 124 00:15:55,746 --> 00:15:59,416 Just over five months of the mission have been completed satisfactorily. 125 00:16:00,001 --> 00:16:03,378 We wonder if it remains desirable to continue for the full seven months 126 00:16:03,463 --> 00:16:05,422 originally planned. 127 00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:16,558 - What are your parameters, Courtney? - EKG, rate and rhythm. 128 00:16:16,642 --> 00:16:19,895 - EEG, brain. - He's not sleeping. 129 00:16:20,646 --> 00:16:22,689 The trend shows definite fatigue. 130 00:16:23,441 --> 00:16:27,360 - Is he still losing weight? - Down 16 pounds. 131 00:16:27,445 --> 00:16:30,447 The quality of the solar spectral film's been very poor. 132 00:16:31,365 --> 00:16:35,118 - Well, you're not gonna see any more. - Why not? 133 00:16:35,870 --> 00:16:37,871 Take a look at this. 134 00:16:50,968 --> 00:16:52,677 Tired and he's making mistakes. 135 00:16:53,471 --> 00:16:56,848 You want to try living in a tin can for five months? 136 00:16:58,476 --> 00:17:01,728 - What else? - We got this yesterday. 137 00:17:03,981 --> 00:17:07,776 Some further degradations to our CS system: 138 00:17:07,860 --> 00:17:11,571 We've lost a backup coolant loop in the oil thruster. 139 00:17:15,493 --> 00:17:18,578 Oh, yeah. The washing machine is out. 140 00:17:18,663 --> 00:17:22,332 I was doing some preventative maintenance on it. I shorted it out. 141 00:17:22,416 --> 00:17:26,545 I also discovered some computation errors in the telescope settings. 142 00:17:26,629 --> 00:17:32,509 I guess that accounts for the poor quality in the solar spectral pictures. 143 00:17:35,304 --> 00:17:37,097 I... 144 00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:43,645 I've fixed the razor. 145 00:17:47,525 --> 00:17:51,027 So we can go back to shaving again now. 146 00:17:51,529 --> 00:17:56,366 And I'm sleeping better. 147 00:17:57,535 --> 00:18:00,579 I guess we're all getting our second wind. 148 00:18:02,707 --> 00:18:06,876 And if the hardware holds up, I guess we can make it right to the end. 149 00:18:07,545 --> 00:18:09,212 I know I can. 150 00:18:10,298 --> 00:18:12,215 I think they've done a hell of a job. 151 00:18:16,262 --> 00:18:17,554 Bring them down. 152 00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:19,723 Yes, sir. 153 00:18:21,559 --> 00:18:24,561 Mrs. Wheeler, get everyone on the net in mission control. 154 00:18:48,586 --> 00:18:50,920 This is mission control, Houston. 155 00:18:51,005 --> 00:18:54,758 The crew of Ironman One has closed down the S-4B space laboratory 156 00:18:54,842 --> 00:19:00,180 in which they've worked, lived, slept and eaten for the last five months. 157 00:19:00,264 --> 00:19:02,932 Their Apollo spacecraft has separated from the lab 158 00:19:03,017 --> 00:19:07,145 and at this time, the automatic sequence of retrofire is about to begin. 159 00:19:07,229 --> 00:19:09,689 Ten, nine, eight... 160 00:19:09,774 --> 00:19:13,526 seven, six, five, four... 161 00:19:13,611 --> 00:19:18,448 three, two, one, retrofire. 162 00:19:18,532 --> 00:19:21,576 The spacecraft should be starting its descent across Australia 163 00:19:21,661 --> 00:19:24,454 towards the splash point in the Pacific 164 00:19:24,538 --> 00:19:26,831 some 400 miles south of Midway Island. 165 00:19:26,916 --> 00:19:30,710 They are waiting now for confirmation of retrofire. Standing by for contact. 166 00:19:31,545 --> 00:19:39,545 Ironman One, Ironman One, this is Houston CapCom, do you read? 167 00:19:45,101 --> 00:19:47,560 After five months in orbit, a mission termed 168 00:19:47,645 --> 00:19:50,730 a successful prelude to the long-term space voyages 169 00:19:50,815 --> 00:19:53,149 that some day will be normal and routine, 170 00:19:53,234 --> 00:19:56,152 astronauts Jim Pruett, Buzz Lloyd and Clayton Stone 171 00:19:56,237 --> 00:19:58,780 should be on their fiery way home to the good Earth. 172 00:19:58,864 --> 00:20:02,826 Ironman One, Ironman One, this is Houston CapCom, do you read? 173 00:20:04,495 --> 00:20:09,082 Ironman One, Ironman One, this is Houston CapCom, do you read? 174 00:20:09,917 --> 00:20:13,420 Ironman One, Ironman One, this is Houston CapCom on UHF. 175 00:20:13,504 --> 00:20:15,755 Do you read? 176 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,592 Ironman One, Ironman One, this is Houston CapCom on UHF. 177 00:20:19,677 --> 00:20:21,678 Do you read? 178 00:20:23,013 --> 00:20:26,599 Ironman One, Ironman One, this is Houston CapCom on S-band. 179 00:20:26,684 --> 00:20:29,144 - Do you read? - Go ahead, Houston. 180 00:20:29,228 --> 00:20:31,604 Hey, you old bum. How's the run? 181 00:20:31,689 --> 00:20:33,690 We have negative retrofire. 182 00:20:36,694 --> 00:20:37,694 Say again, Ironman. 183 00:20:38,612 --> 00:20:40,739 Negative, no burn. 184 00:20:41,490 --> 00:20:43,324 Bailey, kill it. 185 00:20:43,409 --> 00:20:45,994 - Ironman, wait one. - What's wrong, Dick? 186 00:20:46,078 --> 00:20:47,871 Don't know. 187 00:20:49,373 --> 00:20:51,791 E-COM, GNC, how does the data look? 188 00:20:51,876 --> 00:20:53,793 A minute and 20 seconds past retrofire. 189 00:20:54,462 --> 00:20:57,338 Ironman, Flight. Would you check your circuit breakers 190 00:20:57,423 --> 00:21:00,633 and also your Delta V thrust manual A and B switches? 191 00:21:00,718 --> 00:21:02,385 Roger. 192 00:21:02,470 --> 00:21:05,305 Glenn, would you punch up channel six? 193 00:21:06,724 --> 00:21:10,643 - All parameters are normal. - Then why in the hell doesn't it fire? 194 00:21:10,728 --> 00:21:13,646 - Houston, Ironman. - Go, Ironman. 195 00:21:13,731 --> 00:21:17,358 Circuit breakers are closed, SPS switch is on. 196 00:21:17,443 --> 00:21:21,446 Delta V manual A and B switches are on. 197 00:21:21,530 --> 00:21:23,615 Thank you. We're affirming new target. 198 00:21:23,699 --> 00:21:26,618 Suggest you try manual re-entry on your next pass. 199 00:21:26,702 --> 00:21:30,663 Roger, understand manual re-entry using RCS backup system. 200 00:21:30,748 --> 00:21:33,500 Negative, Jim. Negative. 201 00:21:33,584 --> 00:21:35,752 We suggest you use the primary system. 202 00:21:40,090 --> 00:21:42,675 - We just told them it didn't work. - Houston... 203 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,761 we prefer using the backup thrusters. 204 00:21:49,016 --> 00:21:51,184 I'm afraid you don't have backup thrusters. 205 00:21:52,645 --> 00:21:56,397 - Say again? - You've fallen too low in RCS fuel. 206 00:21:57,066 --> 00:21:59,692 What about the lab? There's oxygen in the lab. 207 00:21:59,777 --> 00:22:02,695 Houston, do we have enough fuel to re-dock with the lab? 208 00:22:04,031 --> 00:22:06,199 Negative, Ironman. Negative. 209 00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:11,913 - Well, what do you propose, Ted? - You have insufficient RCS fuel. 210 00:22:11,997 --> 00:22:17,919 You're going to have to try retrofire with your primary engine. 211 00:22:18,003 --> 00:22:20,713 Smart boys think your automatic control system is out 212 00:22:20,798 --> 00:22:22,715 but you'll be able to get ignition 213 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,469 from your primary engine on manual command. 214 00:22:27,096 --> 00:22:29,764 In other words, kick the box, Jimmy. 215 00:22:29,849 --> 00:22:34,477 - Do you copy, Ironman? - Yeah, copy. 216 00:22:35,813 --> 00:22:38,731 - Mr. Keith, BAO. - No announcement. 217 00:22:38,816 --> 00:22:41,734 We should say something, sir. We've been off the air... 218 00:22:41,819 --> 00:22:44,737 All right. Just keep it trivial. Keep it routine. 219 00:22:44,822 --> 00:22:47,031 - We may not have a problem. - Yes, sir. 220 00:22:48,117 --> 00:22:50,285 This is mission control, Houston. 221 00:22:50,369 --> 00:22:53,413 We received word from Ironman One of a malfunctioning switch 222 00:22:53,497 --> 00:22:55,832 that has prevented retrofire on their last orbit. 223 00:22:56,834 --> 00:23:02,130 They'll bypass the switch. At their next orbit we'll try manual retrofire. 224 00:23:05,134 --> 00:23:06,551 This is Canon in Houston. 225 00:23:06,635 --> 00:23:08,761 - Yeah, Canon? - Unfreeze the dead, will you? 226 00:23:08,846 --> 00:23:11,055 - Hold on a second. - Are you ready now? 227 00:23:11,140 --> 00:23:12,765 - Go ahead. - Primary engine 228 00:23:12,850 --> 00:23:14,684 did not fire on first pass. 229 00:23:14,768 --> 00:23:18,146 The secondary thrusters are out. Repeat, out. 230 00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:21,774 If that big baby doesn't fire this time, they're not coming back. 231 00:23:21,859 --> 00:23:25,612 Motor, pitch two and yaw two start, on. 232 00:23:25,696 --> 00:23:27,488 Pitch two and yaw two start, on. 233 00:23:27,573 --> 00:23:29,782 - One minute to burn. - One minute to burn. 234 00:23:29,867 --> 00:23:31,868 Translation hand controller, neutral. 235 00:23:32,912 --> 00:23:37,749 - Hand controller neutral. - Hand controller power, both. 236 00:23:37,833 --> 00:23:40,960 - On. - Direct RCS, on. 237 00:23:41,045 --> 00:23:44,797 - Direct RCS. - Delta V thrust, A and B normal. 238 00:23:44,882 --> 00:23:47,800 - A and B normal. - Thirty seconds to burn. 239 00:23:47,885 --> 00:23:49,969 - Thirty seconds. - Hand controller's armed. 240 00:23:52,306 --> 00:23:54,474 - Hand controller armed. - Hand controller's armed. 241 00:23:54,558 --> 00:23:56,893 EMS Delta V, auto. 242 00:23:58,395 --> 00:24:01,814 - Delta V, auto. - Fifteen seconds to burn. 243 00:24:01,899 --> 00:24:04,108 - Roger, 15 seconds. - Acknowledge. 244 00:24:04,193 --> 00:24:07,654 All right, you bastard, fire, fire, fire! 245 00:24:07,738 --> 00:24:11,240 Ten, nine, eight, seven, six... 246 00:24:11,325 --> 00:24:17,830 five, four, three, two, one, retrofire. 247 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,502 Direct Delta V switch. 248 00:24:29,051 --> 00:24:32,303 Ironman, this is Houston. Ironman, this is Houston, do you read? 249 00:24:32,388 --> 00:24:36,015 - Go, Houston. - Do you affirm retrofire? 250 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:38,226 - Negative. - Say again. 251 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:40,770 I said, we had negative retrofire. 252 00:24:41,939 --> 00:24:45,858 Ironman, this is Keith, do you get any indications from your event lights? 253 00:24:45,943 --> 00:24:48,945 Boss, we got a little light here that says we have retrofired. 254 00:24:49,989 --> 00:24:53,241 It's green. We're gonna decorate it for Christmas. 255 00:24:53,951 --> 00:24:56,369 All right, Ironman, we're going to work on it. 256 00:24:56,453 --> 00:24:58,079 Roger. 257 00:24:58,872 --> 00:25:00,915 Cabin pressurization on. 258 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,419 We'll be back in a couple of hours. Get out of your hot suits. 259 00:25:04,503 --> 00:25:08,297 - Roger. - See you later. 260 00:25:08,382 --> 00:25:10,216 We'll be here. 261 00:25:22,396 --> 00:25:26,983 I want a complete tape dump from all sites. I want it played back here. 262 00:25:27,067 --> 00:25:29,152 And I want it in strip charts. 263 00:25:29,236 --> 00:25:31,612 Call Sacco, tell him to put an engine in the simulator. 264 00:25:31,697 --> 00:25:34,741 Feed it all the TM we've got and see what keeps it from firing. 265 00:25:34,825 --> 00:25:37,535 Hard copies of everything and an oxygen projection. 266 00:25:37,619 --> 00:25:39,162 Yes, sir. 267 00:25:40,581 --> 00:25:42,331 Mr. Keith? 268 00:25:44,793 --> 00:25:47,920 - Forgot all about them. - Ted, will you get them out of here? 269 00:25:48,005 --> 00:25:51,382 - Ben, take this. - Right. 270 00:26:11,111 --> 00:26:13,321 No retrofire. 271 00:26:16,033 --> 00:26:18,034 They're still up there. 272 00:26:21,038 --> 00:26:25,166 It'll take a little time to psych out the engine. 273 00:26:29,379 --> 00:26:35,134 Well, I guess it's time to go home and light the fires and mind the kids. 274 00:26:35,219 --> 00:26:36,886 Do you need a lift? 275 00:26:36,970 --> 00:26:40,264 - Did you talk to them? - Yeah. 276 00:26:41,058 --> 00:26:43,059 They're fine. 277 00:26:49,942 --> 00:26:52,068 For how long? 278 00:26:53,654 --> 00:26:57,740 - Well, we'll be in touch, Mrs. Stone. - Thank you, but... 279 00:26:57,825 --> 00:27:00,284 I'd also like to know what's happening. 280 00:27:01,662 --> 00:27:05,414 Teresa, Celia and I have been in this business 10 years. 281 00:27:05,499 --> 00:27:09,585 We learned the best thing is for us girls to keep our feelings to ourselves. 282 00:27:09,670 --> 00:27:13,172 And let the men get on with their jobs. 283 00:27:13,257 --> 00:27:17,093 - Right, Celia? - Wrong, Betty. 284 00:27:19,221 --> 00:27:22,265 It's been 15 years. 285 00:27:30,107 --> 00:27:33,192 Morning, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry that I've kept you waiting. 286 00:27:33,277 --> 00:27:35,695 - Dr. Keith, are you...? - Mr. Keith. 287 00:27:35,779 --> 00:27:37,419 - Are you on your way to Washington? - No. 288 00:27:37,447 --> 00:27:40,575 - Spoken to the White House yet? - No. 289 00:27:42,035 --> 00:27:44,787 Tell me, sir, who's responsible for withholding the news? 290 00:27:44,872 --> 00:27:48,124 - Oh, I'm the responsible officer. - Do you have a statement, Mr. Keith? 291 00:27:49,042 --> 00:27:51,919 No, but I would like to say that approximately 15,000 people 292 00:27:52,004 --> 00:27:54,839 are trying to isolate and correct this malfunction. 293 00:27:54,923 --> 00:27:58,009 Every resource of the NASA and our industrial contractors 294 00:27:58,093 --> 00:28:00,720 is being used to the fullest. 295 00:28:02,389 --> 00:28:05,391 - Mr. Canon. - Let me get this straight: 296 00:28:05,475 --> 00:28:07,852 - The spacecraft is still in orbit, right? - Yes. 297 00:28:07,936 --> 00:28:10,062 Going around the world every 94 minutes, right? 298 00:28:10,147 --> 00:28:11,439 That's right, Mr. Canon. 299 00:28:11,523 --> 00:28:14,233 How much oxygen does the crew have for life support? 300 00:28:14,318 --> 00:28:15,985 They're in no immediate danger. 301 00:28:16,069 --> 00:28:19,405 - There's a rumor the men are dead. - Not true. 302 00:28:20,741 --> 00:28:21,991 Mr. Henry? 303 00:28:22,075 --> 00:28:24,493 What happens if you can't get the engine to retrofire? 304 00:28:24,578 --> 00:28:28,122 We're prepared for every contingency, Mr. Henry. 305 00:28:29,374 --> 00:28:32,084 What happens if you can't get the engine to fire? 306 00:28:32,169 --> 00:28:34,712 Does the spacecraft continue circling around the Earth 307 00:28:34,796 --> 00:28:37,089 until orbital decay slows it down sufficiently 308 00:28:37,174 --> 00:28:38,716 for it to re-enter the atmosphere? 309 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,511 If so, does the spacecraft and everything in it get burnt to a crisp, 310 00:28:42,596 --> 00:28:45,139 - is that right? - Well, what's your point? 311 00:28:45,224 --> 00:28:48,351 How long before that happens, five years? 312 00:28:48,435 --> 00:28:50,228 Seven years. 313 00:28:52,314 --> 00:28:54,148 Have you given up hope, Mr. Keith? 314 00:28:54,233 --> 00:28:57,109 Certainly not, Mr. Canon. Why should I? 315 00:28:57,194 --> 00:28:59,654 If you'll excuse me now, please. 316 00:29:19,883 --> 00:29:23,135 Strawberry cereal cubes. 317 00:29:23,220 --> 00:29:26,347 Soup, corn, cream. 318 00:29:27,391 --> 00:29:30,184 Jim, why are we just lying here waiting, huh? 319 00:29:30,269 --> 00:29:33,145 For Ground to analyze the entire telemetry. 320 00:29:33,230 --> 00:29:36,732 So some smart-ass engineer can tell us we're out of luck? 321 00:29:37,234 --> 00:29:40,736 Why not go EVA? We'll check the engine ourselves. 322 00:29:40,821 --> 00:29:42,655 Maybe one of the fuel valves is frozen. 323 00:29:44,241 --> 00:29:46,826 No, Ground could tell that. 324 00:29:46,910 --> 00:29:50,413 Maybe we took a meteor strike. Maybe something hung up on separation. 325 00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:58,254 Just relax. Eat your chicken while it's hot. 326 00:30:01,550 --> 00:30:03,676 What are you looking at, Stoney? 327 00:30:07,264 --> 00:30:10,725 A disturbance in the inner-tropical conversion zone. 328 00:30:10,809 --> 00:30:13,894 Somebody's gonna have a hurricane. 329 00:30:14,938 --> 00:30:19,150 - Where's the center, Stoney? - It's just northeast of Cuba. 330 00:30:20,402 --> 00:30:25,698 Yeah, nice thick clouds, good east-west slope. 331 00:30:25,782 --> 00:30:27,992 Looks like clouding circulation's just beginning. 332 00:30:28,076 --> 00:30:31,162 She's gonna be a big beast. 333 00:30:33,290 --> 00:30:37,918 Alma, first of the season. 334 00:30:49,514 --> 00:30:51,390 Houston, this is Simulator. 335 00:30:51,475 --> 00:30:55,686 We have on the stand SPS engine unit H37 modified block four. 336 00:30:55,771 --> 00:30:58,189 This unit is an exact one-to-one duplicate 337 00:30:58,273 --> 00:31:00,608 of the primary equipment in Ironman One. 338 00:31:01,193 --> 00:31:03,194 We have analyzed the engine telemetry. 339 00:31:03,278 --> 00:31:05,738 And we're attempting to construct a configuration 340 00:31:05,822 --> 00:31:09,325 which will reproduce the conditions that prevented ignition. 341 00:31:09,951 --> 00:31:13,120 Three, two, one. 342 00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:17,249 Firing the engine. 343 00:31:17,334 --> 00:31:20,711 I say, apparently we have failed to prevent ignition. 344 00:31:20,796 --> 00:31:23,506 But we'll keep working on it. 345 00:31:27,010 --> 00:31:30,554 All right, the president's waiting for our recommendations. 346 00:31:30,639 --> 00:31:34,058 One, a statement to be issued at the conclusion of this meeting: 347 00:31:34,142 --> 00:31:36,268 "Every effort is being made to discover 348 00:31:36,353 --> 00:31:38,437 and correct the spacecraft malfunction... 349 00:31:38,939 --> 00:31:40,940 in accordance with contingency plans 350 00:31:41,024 --> 00:31:43,859 designed to meet such emergencies." 351 00:31:43,944 --> 00:31:47,696 Two, a report to be issued Tuesday morning 352 00:31:47,781 --> 00:31:50,366 by the director of manned space flight. 353 00:31:50,450 --> 00:31:55,371 Emphasizing the high degree of safety and success in the program thus far. 354 00:31:55,997 --> 00:32:01,085 The accident will be compared to the failure of an experimental aircraft. 355 00:32:01,169 --> 00:32:04,630 It'll be noted that in the development of such aircraft 356 00:32:04,714 --> 00:32:08,634 a 10 percent pilot loss is considered acceptable. 357 00:32:09,386 --> 00:32:12,138 Now, Wednesday morning, if necessary... 358 00:32:12,222 --> 00:32:16,308 the president will issue an appropriate message to the nation. 359 00:32:16,393 --> 00:32:21,063 Emphasizing the courage and determination of the crew. 360 00:32:21,148 --> 00:32:27,403 And their final wish, that the program be continued without pause. 361 00:32:31,324 --> 00:32:33,200 Discussion? 362 00:32:35,412 --> 00:32:37,538 Yeah, I have something. 363 00:32:38,999 --> 00:32:41,917 I want to talk about a rescue mission. 364 00:32:42,002 --> 00:32:45,546 I'm speaking for the pilots and some of the Air Force boys. 365 00:32:46,381 --> 00:32:50,176 We propose launching a rescue craft using one of their boosters. 366 00:32:50,260 --> 00:32:52,928 Rendezvous with Ironman, transfer crew and return to Earth. 367 00:32:53,013 --> 00:32:54,763 Dougherty, you haven't been listening. 368 00:32:54,848 --> 00:32:56,849 Courtney, will you repeat that trend data 369 00:32:56,933 --> 00:32:59,435 on oxygen consumption in the spacecraft? 370 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:02,563 As of now, they're going to live another 42 hours. 371 00:33:02,647 --> 00:33:07,359 Plus or minus two percent. Now, that takes us up to 10:30 Monday night. 372 00:33:07,444 --> 00:33:10,821 There's a launch window for a shot at 8:48 Monday night. 373 00:33:11,615 --> 00:33:13,073 Nothing to put in that window. 374 00:33:13,158 --> 00:33:17,077 An Air Force Titan 3C left Denver for the Cape one hour ago. 375 00:33:17,162 --> 00:33:19,371 Oh, actually it was already in the pipe. 376 00:33:19,456 --> 00:33:21,665 And also the XRV lifting body from Edwards. 377 00:33:21,750 --> 00:33:24,084 Can you get the Titan and an XRV 378 00:33:24,169 --> 00:33:28,255 - on the pad ready to go in 42 hours? - Some of our boys think they could. 379 00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:31,383 A non-man-rated booster and a craft that's never flown. 380 00:33:31,468 --> 00:33:35,471 Oh, it'll fly all right, and Dougherty here has all the qualifications. 381 00:33:37,474 --> 00:33:39,892 Proposal is rejected. 382 00:33:40,477 --> 00:33:41,477 Anything else? 383 00:33:43,980 --> 00:33:45,856 Yeah, what do I tell the pilots? 384 00:33:45,941 --> 00:33:49,485 Tell them that the request is outside the area of their competence. 385 00:33:50,529 --> 00:33:53,239 - We've got three men dying. - They're professionals. 386 00:33:53,323 --> 00:33:56,116 If they were here they'd say, "Take what you've learned. 387 00:33:56,201 --> 00:33:57,409 Get on with the next mission." 388 00:33:57,494 --> 00:33:59,662 I don't give a damn about the next mission! 389 00:33:59,746 --> 00:34:02,414 There's no room in this program for a chief astronaut 390 00:34:02,499 --> 00:34:04,333 who cannot look at the whole picture. 391 00:34:05,502 --> 00:34:06,669 Then you fire me. 392 00:34:09,506 --> 00:34:12,091 You want to launch a rescue mission in 42 hours... 393 00:34:12,175 --> 00:34:13,717 All right. 394 00:34:14,511 --> 00:34:20,432 One: Assemble and check out booster stage one, stage two and trans stage. 395 00:34:20,517 --> 00:34:22,309 How long, on past performance? 396 00:34:22,394 --> 00:34:24,853 Well, on past performance, 12 days, but if we were... 397 00:34:24,938 --> 00:34:26,522 Twelve days. 398 00:34:26,606 --> 00:34:30,859 Two: Build up and strap on solid fuel stacks. 399 00:34:30,944 --> 00:34:33,404 - Four days, but we can... - Four days. 400 00:34:33,488 --> 00:34:36,615 Check launch weather for Monday night. There's a hurricane out there. 401 00:34:36,700 --> 00:34:39,451 600 miles off the coast and headed out to sea. 402 00:34:39,536 --> 00:34:42,454 Well, you're in luck. Three: Make the vehicle to the bird 403 00:34:42,539 --> 00:34:44,832 and check out configuration. How long, colonel? 404 00:34:45,375 --> 00:34:47,418 - Bob? - We haven't any accurate way 405 00:34:47,502 --> 00:34:51,505 - to determine the minimum time... - Couldn't do it under five days. 406 00:34:51,590 --> 00:34:54,091 Four: Compute navigation and guidance tapes 407 00:34:54,175 --> 00:34:59,763 for first apogee rendezvous, 10 days. Program computers... 408 00:34:59,848 --> 00:35:01,765 - three weeks. - We'll go without a computer. 409 00:35:01,850 --> 00:35:04,852 - We'll go without a checkup. - And crew training in a craft 410 00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:09,064 which has not been man-rated, which cannot be flown by one pilot 411 00:35:09,149 --> 00:35:12,484 and which has not been modified to hold four men. 412 00:35:12,569 --> 00:35:14,778 How about that one? 413 00:35:14,863 --> 00:35:17,573 They'll do it in 42 hours. 414 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,286 While you're assembling your rescue ship in 42 hours 415 00:35:22,370 --> 00:35:24,747 and spending... How much would that cost, Fisher? 416 00:35:24,831 --> 00:35:26,540 - Fifty million. - So what? 417 00:35:26,625 --> 00:35:29,335 Plus how many deaths? 418 00:35:30,629 --> 00:35:34,131 - Jimmy? - In a program of this magnitude 419 00:35:34,215 --> 00:35:37,509 in which all nominal safety factors are disregarded 420 00:35:37,594 --> 00:35:40,721 I calculate .02 percent of the workforce... 421 00:35:40,805 --> 00:35:43,182 How the hell do you know how many people will die? 422 00:35:43,266 --> 00:35:45,601 Think we haven't considered rescue? Here it is. 423 00:35:45,685 --> 00:35:48,228 Rescue and every other contingency. 424 00:35:48,313 --> 00:35:51,523 Reduced to digitals and computerized. 425 00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:54,276 You helped to write it. 426 00:35:54,361 --> 00:35:58,530 - A rational approach. - Well, screw your rational approach. 427 00:35:58,615 --> 00:36:00,449 Three of your pilots are in trouble. 428 00:36:00,533 --> 00:36:03,035 And if you don't try to get them down, well, God damn you! 429 00:36:04,621 --> 00:36:07,539 Well, you have feelings. Good. I have feelings. 430 00:36:07,624 --> 00:36:10,751 That's why we live by the rules. 431 00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:14,880 Wheeler. Courtney. 432 00:36:15,632 --> 00:36:17,883 Fisher. Klein. 433 00:36:17,967 --> 00:36:20,010 Degrote. 434 00:36:20,095 --> 00:36:22,262 Those men up there are your friends. 435 00:36:22,347 --> 00:36:26,642 Can you launch a rescue mission in 42 hours? 436 00:36:34,526 --> 00:36:38,070 - Yeah, all right. - Are you ready to talk to him now? 437 00:36:38,154 --> 00:36:41,031 - We're ready at this end. - The president will take your call 438 00:36:41,116 --> 00:36:44,827 - at 7:00 our time. - Very good. 439 00:36:44,911 --> 00:36:49,081 The president will take the call at 7:00 his time. 440 00:36:49,791 --> 00:36:53,419 That leaves us an hour and 15 minutes. 441 00:37:52,437 --> 00:37:55,439 - Your license, please... - Officer, I'm a government official. 442 00:37:55,523 --> 00:37:57,149 - I'm in a hurry. - I can see that. 443 00:37:57,233 --> 00:38:01,028 Here's security, Q clearance, top secret. 444 00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:03,906 You've got a lot on your mind, all right. That's how it happens. 445 00:38:03,990 --> 00:38:07,659 - You forget where you are and wham. - I've got to get to a telephone. 446 00:38:07,744 --> 00:38:09,203 Shut off your engine. 447 00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:11,663 I'm Charles Keith, head of Manned Space. 448 00:38:11,748 --> 00:38:12,873 I know who you are. 449 00:38:12,957 --> 00:38:18,670 BSG-2896553, another code three, Charles Raymond Keith. 450 00:38:18,755 --> 00:38:21,507 You have no brake lights. Your license is expired. 451 00:38:22,050 --> 00:38:24,690 You may get to the moon, but mister you're a menace on the highway. 452 00:38:24,761 --> 00:38:26,678 - Are you Charles Raymond Keith? - Yes! 453 00:38:26,763 --> 00:38:29,431 Somebody named Olympus wants to talk to you. 454 00:38:35,355 --> 00:38:39,775 Can you patch me into command network, Baker to Olympus? 455 00:38:40,443 --> 00:38:42,361 Keith, where are you? 456 00:38:42,445 --> 00:38:45,697 Mr. President, I have a sort of a problem here. 457 00:38:45,782 --> 00:38:48,075 What do you have for me? 458 00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:50,702 Well, we're analyzing the engine telemetry. 459 00:38:50,787 --> 00:38:53,705 We've got a contractor running a similar engine 460 00:38:53,790 --> 00:38:56,750 in a failure mode, and we're running down the history 461 00:38:56,835 --> 00:38:59,002 of all the hardware in the spacecraft. 462 00:38:59,087 --> 00:39:02,172 What else can you do besides what you're doing? 463 00:39:02,257 --> 00:39:04,424 I don't think there's anything else. 464 00:39:04,509 --> 00:39:07,094 Have you fellas considered rescue? 465 00:39:07,178 --> 00:39:09,179 Yes, we've discussed it, of course. 466 00:39:09,264 --> 00:39:11,265 What do you think? 467 00:39:11,808 --> 00:39:18,313 Well, sir, it's a very, very remote possibility. 468 00:39:18,398 --> 00:39:20,983 Charles, can I talk to you as a friend? 469 00:39:21,067 --> 00:39:22,734 Well, yes, sir, of course. 470 00:39:22,819 --> 00:39:25,195 You're right, and for the right reasons. 471 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:29,741 But if we do it your way, 200 million people are going to start raising hell. 472 00:39:29,826 --> 00:39:33,745 Well, Mr. President, it's not my way. There is data 473 00:39:33,830 --> 00:39:36,999 and there are certain facts that we have to deal with. 474 00:39:37,083 --> 00:39:40,586 Charles, just put away your slide rule for a minute and listen. 475 00:39:40,670 --> 00:39:42,754 There's more going on here than logic. 476 00:39:42,839 --> 00:39:44,965 The world is watching us and what we do 477 00:39:45,049 --> 00:39:46,758 about rescuing these men. 478 00:39:46,843 --> 00:39:49,428 To say that there's nothing we can do 479 00:39:49,512 --> 00:39:53,640 is going to be disaster for me, for you and for your program. 480 00:39:53,725 --> 00:39:57,019 We have to take a crack at it with the very best we've got. 481 00:39:57,103 --> 00:39:59,438 Now, what do you say, Charles? 482 00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:08,363 Mr. President, it'll be a dangerous gamble, but we'll go if you say so. 483 00:40:08,448 --> 00:40:11,366 Charles, you let me know how you're doing and what you need. 484 00:40:11,451 --> 00:40:13,285 Whatever you want, you've got it. 485 00:40:22,295 --> 00:40:25,589 Confirmed tonight that the SPS engine failed to fire, 486 00:40:25,673 --> 00:40:27,799 leaving America's three astronauts in orbit 487 00:40:27,884 --> 00:40:32,846 some 285 miles above the Earth, circling the globe every 94 minutes. 488 00:40:32,931 --> 00:40:35,807 They are now approaching the west coast of Africa. 489 00:40:35,892 --> 00:40:39,061 No word has been issued as to the cause of the malfunction 490 00:40:39,145 --> 00:40:42,814 beyond the statement made by Dr. Keith at the news conference 491 00:40:42,899 --> 00:40:44,483 held this morning in... 492 00:40:44,567 --> 00:40:46,985 that contingency plans have been developed 493 00:40:47,070 --> 00:40:49,404 to meet every conceivable emergency. 494 00:40:49,489 --> 00:40:52,616 It has been reported from mission control in Houston 495 00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:55,494 that the three astronauts are... 496 00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:07,089 Okay, Buzz, you're right. 497 00:41:07,173 --> 00:41:10,842 To hell with waiting for a bunch of slide-rule jockeys. 498 00:41:10,927 --> 00:41:13,845 We used to fix the airplanes we flew with paper clips. 499 00:41:13,930 --> 00:41:16,515 Let's get into our hard suits and fix this bird. 500 00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:19,518 - Okay, Jimmy. - You watch the store, will you, Stoney? 501 00:41:19,602 --> 00:41:21,853 Yeah, go. 502 00:41:21,938 --> 00:41:25,107 - Ironman One this is Houston Flight. - Go, Houston. 503 00:41:25,191 --> 00:41:27,943 We're coming up to get you, Ironman. 504 00:41:28,528 --> 00:41:29,861 Say again. 505 00:41:29,946 --> 00:41:31,363 We're coming to get you. 506 00:41:31,447 --> 00:41:33,907 We're launching a rescue mission from the Cape. 507 00:41:33,992 --> 00:41:39,121 We're using a Titan 3C with an XRV lifting body modified to hold four men. 508 00:41:39,205 --> 00:41:41,999 The pilot is Ted Dougherty. 509 00:41:42,959 --> 00:41:45,127 Do you read, Ironman? 510 00:41:45,211 --> 00:41:47,879 Yeah, yeah, we read you. 511 00:41:47,964 --> 00:41:50,340 Houston, when do you estimate launch? 512 00:41:50,425 --> 00:41:52,134 Just over 40 hours, Stoney. 513 00:41:53,219 --> 00:41:57,222 Forty hours? Who are they kidding? 514 00:41:58,808 --> 00:42:00,225 Do you read, Ironman? 515 00:42:01,978 --> 00:42:03,979 We've decided to make a move up here. 516 00:42:04,063 --> 00:42:08,150 Go EVA and eyeball the engines. The fuel valves could be frozen. 517 00:42:08,234 --> 00:42:10,902 We'll pull the insulating hatches. If they are 518 00:42:10,987 --> 00:42:13,613 we'll get in the sun and get some heat on them. 519 00:42:14,574 --> 00:42:17,784 That's an interesting thought, but we have no indication 520 00:42:17,869 --> 00:42:20,579 of that here or anything else you could correct. 521 00:42:20,663 --> 00:42:23,123 We're all agreed the rescue mission is it. 522 00:42:23,207 --> 00:42:27,502 We're agreed we have to take affirmative action to repair our vehicle. 523 00:42:27,587 --> 00:42:29,379 Ironman, stand by one. 524 00:42:30,006 --> 00:42:32,966 Tell them negative, Jimmy, negative. 525 00:42:33,051 --> 00:42:36,803 Jim, we appreciate your desire to take affirmative action 526 00:42:36,888 --> 00:42:40,932 and we need your affirmative action if the mission is to succeed. 527 00:42:41,017 --> 00:42:44,227 The most critical factor is your oxygen supply. 528 00:42:44,896 --> 00:42:48,023 To get 15 minutes of activity outside the spacecraft 529 00:42:48,107 --> 00:42:50,942 to eyeball the engine, you have to trade off 530 00:42:51,027 --> 00:42:53,945 three or four hours of passive breathing. 531 00:42:54,030 --> 00:42:57,949 From where we sit you don't have that oxygen to spare. 532 00:42:58,034 --> 00:43:03,330 Therefore, we'd like to suggest that you go into low-tide mode... 533 00:43:03,414 --> 00:43:07,959 lower your oxygen pressure to 3.5... 534 00:43:08,044 --> 00:43:10,629 execute a full emergency power down... 535 00:43:10,713 --> 00:43:12,798 and take your pills. 536 00:43:12,882 --> 00:43:15,509 They want us to buy it while we're sleeping. 537 00:43:18,721 --> 00:43:20,472 Do you copy, Ironman? 538 00:43:21,057 --> 00:43:24,059 Yeah. We're thinking about it. 539 00:43:25,853 --> 00:43:28,271 Tell them negative, Jim, negative. 540 00:43:31,109 --> 00:43:34,027 Pruett, now, this is Keith. 541 00:43:34,112 --> 00:43:36,321 I'm down here at the Cape with Sadler 542 00:43:36,405 --> 00:43:39,032 and we're getting this rescue shot ready to go. 543 00:43:39,117 --> 00:43:40,951 Don't do anything foolish. 544 00:43:41,035 --> 00:43:44,162 Don't climb into your hard suits. Don't get out your tools 545 00:43:44,247 --> 00:43:46,248 and don't try to fix the engine. 546 00:43:46,332 --> 00:43:48,333 Just take your pills and go to sleep. 547 00:43:50,086 --> 00:43:51,837 Can you get us down, boss? 548 00:43:51,921 --> 00:43:54,005 We've got a better chance than you do. 549 00:43:54,090 --> 00:43:56,007 - We'll be back at you. - Roger. 550 00:43:56,092 --> 00:43:58,093 Yeah, he's lying. 551 00:43:58,886 --> 00:44:03,473 Buzz, you eat up 25 percent more oxygen every time you lose your cool. 552 00:44:07,895 --> 00:44:12,023 Houston, Ironman, preparing for power down. 553 00:44:12,108 --> 00:44:14,276 Roger, Ironman. 554 00:44:15,111 --> 00:44:16,820 What are the numbers, Stoney? 555 00:44:19,282 --> 00:44:24,202 Well, with nominal oxygen usage, I make it 36 hours left. 556 00:44:24,287 --> 00:44:29,708 Take out the pad, 40 hours, more or less. 557 00:44:31,043 --> 00:44:33,920 How you figuring the residual amounts in the tanks? 558 00:44:34,005 --> 00:44:37,048 How would you? 559 00:44:37,133 --> 00:44:42,429 Yeah, you'd have to breathe them dry to find out. 560 00:44:42,513 --> 00:44:45,056 No one's ever done that. 561 00:44:45,141 --> 00:44:48,518 Yeah, well, I got the feeling we just may be the first. 562 00:45:17,173 --> 00:45:21,176 Royce Fitzgerald, call 10-993. 563 00:45:31,062 --> 00:45:35,315 Resume count-off, my mark at minus 240. 564 00:45:35,399 --> 00:45:36,816 Mark. 565 00:45:59,882 --> 00:46:02,592 Pull the GNN circuit breakers and the IMU heater breakers. 566 00:46:02,677 --> 00:46:04,970 Circuit breakers off. 567 00:46:05,054 --> 00:46:08,098 Shut down the attitude control system. 568 00:46:08,182 --> 00:46:10,100 SCS secured. 569 00:46:10,184 --> 00:46:12,227 Shut down number two and three fuel cells. 570 00:46:12,311 --> 00:46:15,105 We'll leave one on the line in case we have to charge. 571 00:46:15,189 --> 00:46:17,148 Two and three off. What about the comm? 572 00:46:17,233 --> 00:46:18,692 No, we'll leave it on. 573 00:46:18,776 --> 00:46:20,527 Flood lights off. 574 00:46:22,989 --> 00:46:24,823 EL off. 575 00:46:26,450 --> 00:46:28,410 Buzz, are the lower equipment bays dark? 576 00:46:28,911 --> 00:46:31,204 The B lights are off. 577 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,250 Then why isn't that off? 578 00:46:36,335 --> 00:46:38,253 I don't know why. 579 00:46:41,882 --> 00:46:43,383 Houston, Ironman. 580 00:46:43,467 --> 00:46:46,720 - We're cranked down. - Copy, Jim. 581 00:46:47,513 --> 00:46:50,140 We'll check in when you come over the hill at Guaymas. 582 00:46:50,224 --> 00:46:52,976 We're gonna keep you informed every step of the way. 583 00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:54,394 Get some sleep now. 584 00:46:54,478 --> 00:46:57,063 - In a while. - Jim, this is Courtney. 585 00:46:57,148 --> 00:47:00,108 I want you to take one tablet of Stryzene after every meal 586 00:47:00,192 --> 00:47:02,068 and one when you complete power down. 587 00:47:02,153 --> 00:47:04,154 You can drink as much water as you want. 588 00:47:04,238 --> 00:47:06,656 Every word, every emotion costs oxygen 589 00:47:06,741 --> 00:47:09,326 so the more relaxed you are, the better. 590 00:47:09,410 --> 00:47:13,580 All right, you bums, take your pills and go to sleep. 591 00:47:13,664 --> 00:47:15,373 Hey! Hello, big brother. 592 00:47:15,458 --> 00:47:17,375 - Hey, Ted. - Hi, Stoney. 593 00:47:17,460 --> 00:47:20,211 Hey, where are you? What's all the racket? 594 00:47:20,296 --> 00:47:23,882 Well, I'm in Huntsville, kluging up a simulator to the XRV. 595 00:47:23,966 --> 00:47:25,091 Say again? 596 00:47:25,176 --> 00:47:26,217 A simulator to the XRV. 597 00:47:26,302 --> 00:47:30,096 I'm gonna do a little pressure up here before I take it to the Cape. 598 00:47:30,181 --> 00:47:32,599 This is a great time to start learning how to fly it. 599 00:47:32,683 --> 00:47:36,061 All you guys gotta worry about is where you want me to set you down 600 00:47:36,145 --> 00:47:37,812 after I make the transfer. 601 00:47:37,897 --> 00:47:39,230 Go on, pick your spot. 602 00:47:39,315 --> 00:47:42,025 Edwards, Vegas, how about the beach in Malibu? 603 00:47:42,109 --> 00:47:43,234 Why not? 604 00:47:43,319 --> 00:47:47,322 All right, take your pills, go to sleep and leave the driving to us. 605 00:47:47,823 --> 00:47:50,992 I'll see you in 39 hours and 16 minutes. 606 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,293 Simulation will begin in 10 minutes. 607 00:48:42,378 --> 00:48:46,756 Maintain RF silence until further notice. 608 00:48:47,383 --> 00:48:48,675 How does it look to you? 609 00:48:48,759 --> 00:48:51,719 The XRV will leave in two hours, be on the pad in five. 610 00:48:51,804 --> 00:48:54,472 That gives you nine hours. You're not gonna make it. 611 00:48:54,557 --> 00:48:57,308 We've got eight separate systems to verify. 612 00:48:57,393 --> 00:49:00,520 - I don't know how to do it any faster... - Here. 613 00:49:15,786 --> 00:49:18,288 That's how you're gonna do it. 614 00:49:18,873 --> 00:49:22,250 Colonel, you've got automatic backups designed into all your systems. 615 00:49:22,334 --> 00:49:25,420 Now you're gonna find out if they work. 616 00:49:44,023 --> 00:49:47,317 Range 6-5, range 2-4. 617 00:49:48,777 --> 00:49:50,528 A little under. 618 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:53,364 Three-point-four second vert. 619 00:49:53,449 --> 00:49:55,575 Range 6-3, range 2-1. 620 00:49:55,659 --> 00:49:57,619 Missed his target by 20 miles. 621 00:49:57,703 --> 00:49:59,454 Col. Dougherty, you've overshot. 622 00:50:02,291 --> 00:50:04,918 Yeah, I know. I missed it by 20 miles. 623 00:50:06,378 --> 00:50:10,673 Is it possible to break down the program into segments... 624 00:50:10,758 --> 00:50:13,384 to repeat DPI to rendezvous? 625 00:50:13,469 --> 00:50:15,845 No, we don't have the time to break up the tapes. 626 00:50:15,930 --> 00:50:17,472 Okay. 627 00:50:18,557 --> 00:50:21,684 Can we recycle fast time from launch to first Delta V 628 00:50:21,769 --> 00:50:23,353 and real time from then? 629 00:50:23,437 --> 00:50:25,438 Okay, will do. 630 00:50:32,488 --> 00:50:34,906 All right, let's go again. 631 00:50:36,325 --> 00:50:38,409 The tape is ready. 632 00:50:38,494 --> 00:50:41,412 On my mark, first Delta V burn. 633 00:50:41,497 --> 00:50:45,416 Three, two, one, ignition. 634 00:50:45,501 --> 00:50:47,794 Roger, I have ignition. 635 00:50:47,878 --> 00:50:50,505 Timer on and counting. 636 00:51:33,632 --> 00:51:37,260 We have a new APT, and it's not good. 637 00:51:42,182 --> 00:51:45,268 - It's turned. - Sure has. 638 00:51:45,352 --> 00:51:47,020 How soon will it get here? 639 00:51:47,104 --> 00:51:48,771 What do you think? 640 00:51:49,273 --> 00:51:50,607 Eight hours, major. 641 00:51:50,691 --> 00:51:53,568 Seven, maybe eight. 642 00:51:53,652 --> 00:51:55,612 It's gonna be a tight fit. 643 00:52:03,287 --> 00:52:04,662 All right. 644 00:52:13,631 --> 00:52:15,590 Keith speaking. 645 00:52:16,592 --> 00:52:18,593 Yes, okay. Okay. 646 00:52:21,597 --> 00:52:23,806 - Hello, Mr. President? - The hurricane. 647 00:52:23,891 --> 00:52:25,558 Well, it changed course. 648 00:52:25,643 --> 00:52:28,645 Eighty-mile winds heading straight for us. 649 00:52:28,729 --> 00:52:32,607 Well, we can launch in winds up to 45 miles per hour. 650 00:52:33,692 --> 00:52:36,736 Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure, sir. I wrote it. 651 00:52:38,614 --> 00:52:40,990 No, they can't help us. I've already talked to them. 652 00:52:41,075 --> 00:52:43,534 I know Kashvin pretty well. 653 00:52:43,619 --> 00:52:48,456 You see, their Voshkod's in the wrong orbit, won't wash. 654 00:52:50,376 --> 00:52:54,545 We can't launch any earlier, sir. We have to go precisely at 8:48. 655 00:52:55,172 --> 00:52:57,548 Well, what are you gonna do? 656 00:52:57,633 --> 00:53:00,051 We just keep going. 657 00:53:00,135 --> 00:53:01,928 Keep plugging. 658 00:53:09,228 --> 00:53:12,730 Deep, dreamless sleep. That's a nice adjustment. 659 00:53:21,490 --> 00:53:22,573 Nightmare? 660 00:53:22,658 --> 00:53:27,036 He's an angry, active guy. Frustrated. He's helpless. 661 00:53:27,121 --> 00:53:30,039 - Can we give him something to do? - No. 662 00:53:34,461 --> 00:53:36,671 He's not taking his pills. 663 00:53:38,048 --> 00:53:40,341 He's got a lot to think about. 664 00:53:40,426 --> 00:53:42,844 The sleep period should be terminated. 665 00:53:43,679 --> 00:53:46,389 All right, but tell mission control not to keep him busy. 666 00:53:46,473 --> 00:53:49,684 - Kid him along, keep him informed. - Yes, sir. 667 00:53:50,686 --> 00:53:52,603 Houston CapCom, this is Courtney. 668 00:53:52,688 --> 00:53:55,022 This is Houston, CapCom, Frank Piro. 669 00:53:55,107 --> 00:53:56,607 Frank, wake them up. 670 00:53:56,692 --> 00:54:00,611 And, Frank, Mr. Keith does not want you to try to keep them busy. 671 00:54:00,696 --> 00:54:03,614 Just keep them informed, kid them along. 672 00:54:03,699 --> 00:54:05,700 Understood. 673 00:54:11,915 --> 00:54:14,709 The sleep period is terminated. 674 00:54:17,588 --> 00:54:20,631 Hi, fellas! We see you're awake now. 675 00:54:20,716 --> 00:54:23,426 Thought we'd bring you up to date on mission status. 676 00:54:23,510 --> 00:54:25,470 The solid stacks are being strapped on 677 00:54:25,554 --> 00:54:29,098 and we'll be moving the bird on the pad in about nine hours. 678 00:54:29,183 --> 00:54:31,642 Say, here's a little item of space news. 679 00:54:31,727 --> 00:54:35,062 The Russians have just launched another Voshkod. 680 00:54:35,147 --> 00:54:39,317 Would you believe it's carrying a Red Army all-girl marching band? 681 00:54:42,154 --> 00:54:44,405 Say, you guys still asleep? 682 00:54:44,490 --> 00:54:47,074 No, we're having a wild party. 683 00:54:47,159 --> 00:54:48,743 Hey, that's pretty funny. 684 00:54:49,369 --> 00:54:52,538 You sure you're taking your quiet pills? 685 00:54:52,623 --> 00:54:54,332 We are, but the girls aren't. 686 00:54:56,752 --> 00:54:58,836 Well, have fun. 687 00:54:59,797 --> 00:55:01,756 Roger, Houston. 688 00:55:11,767 --> 00:55:13,768 You never wind down, do you, Stoney? 689 00:55:13,852 --> 00:55:15,853 No, never do. 690 00:55:17,481 --> 00:55:20,483 I just do the job I was trained for: 691 00:55:20,567 --> 00:55:24,987 I observe systems under stress. 692 00:55:25,781 --> 00:55:27,657 Okay. 693 00:55:29,034 --> 00:55:31,786 I'll give you some data points. 694 00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,164 You know what I'm thinking now? 695 00:55:36,250 --> 00:55:39,794 I'm thinking I never made enough money in this business. 696 00:55:41,004 --> 00:55:44,507 How do some of those pilots make so much money? 697 00:55:45,676 --> 00:55:47,593 I don't have a dime. 698 00:55:50,806 --> 00:55:52,682 Are you getting all that? 699 00:55:52,766 --> 00:55:54,976 Yeah. Yeah, getting all that. 700 00:55:56,812 --> 00:55:58,896 I'll tell you something else. 701 00:56:00,566 --> 00:56:02,984 I'll never get the Mars shot. 702 00:56:05,070 --> 00:56:07,989 You know why? I'm too old. 703 00:56:12,661 --> 00:56:14,745 How about that? 704 00:56:20,836 --> 00:56:23,254 Why are you doing that? 705 00:56:23,338 --> 00:56:26,716 - Relax, Buzz. - Don't tell me what to do. 706 00:56:33,599 --> 00:56:35,808 Hey, Buzz, you... 707 00:56:36,602 --> 00:56:39,937 You remember that psychologist at Brooks? 708 00:56:40,731 --> 00:56:42,773 The one with the blank sheet of paper? 709 00:56:42,858 --> 00:56:44,859 I don't remember. 710 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,862 Sure. Sure, you remember. 711 00:56:48,447 --> 00:56:51,490 He held up a blank sheet of paper and said: 712 00:56:51,575 --> 00:56:53,659 "What do you see?" 713 00:56:53,744 --> 00:56:56,203 - I don't remember. - What did you see? 714 00:56:56,288 --> 00:56:57,872 Who, me? 715 00:56:58,957 --> 00:57:01,334 I saw a blank sheet of paper. 716 00:57:02,878 --> 00:57:05,046 No imagination. 717 00:57:05,130 --> 00:57:08,466 No, no. Devotion to truth. 718 00:57:11,011 --> 00:57:14,305 Why don't you take that Ph.D. and shove it? 719 00:57:16,850 --> 00:57:18,935 What are you gonna do when you finish that? 720 00:57:19,019 --> 00:57:20,811 Drop it out the window in a bottle? 721 00:57:20,896 --> 00:57:22,897 No, I'm the scientist. 722 00:57:22,981 --> 00:57:25,900 I rely on the pilot to get me places. 723 00:57:25,984 --> 00:57:31,113 If we'd had a couple more pilots, we'd be out there instead of laying here. 724 00:57:33,575 --> 00:57:36,994 Jim, what did you see when the psychologist held up the paper? 725 00:57:37,079 --> 00:57:40,247 They didn't have all that jazz when I came in. 726 00:57:40,916 --> 00:57:43,876 I saw a field covered with snow. 727 00:57:47,714 --> 00:57:50,299 And underneath, there was new oats. 728 00:57:53,929 --> 00:57:57,640 And then the snow melted, and the field turned to green. 729 00:58:03,563 --> 00:58:07,692 But the psychologist said I was wrong, it was just a blank sheet of paper. 730 00:58:10,153 --> 00:58:11,779 They took you anyway? 731 00:58:12,698 --> 00:58:14,323 Yeah, I guess they made a mistake. 732 00:58:14,408 --> 00:58:17,743 No, no. They don't make mistakes. 733 00:58:19,955 --> 00:58:21,956 That's right, I forgot. 734 00:58:23,041 --> 00:58:25,668 They don't make mistakes, do they? 735 00:58:35,095 --> 00:58:36,804 Ironman One. 736 00:58:36,888 --> 00:58:39,598 Ironman One, Goldstone, do you read? 737 00:58:39,683 --> 00:58:40,975 Yeah. Go, Goldstone. 738 00:58:41,059 --> 00:58:44,186 You might want to look out your window, Jim. 739 00:58:44,271 --> 00:58:45,396 What for? 740 00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:48,899 There's somebody down there that wants to say something to you. 741 00:58:49,443 --> 00:58:50,735 Say again? 742 00:58:50,819 --> 00:58:53,070 Why don't you look out your window? 743 00:59:10,297 --> 00:59:14,425 That's San Diego, Jim. Your hometown, saying hello. 744 01:00:04,935 --> 01:00:07,561 Suspended beneath the Air Force CA3 helicopter, 745 01:00:07,646 --> 01:00:10,231 the XRV is on its way to the launch pad. 746 01:00:10,315 --> 01:00:12,983 A flying wedge, shaped much like a thick arrowhead, 747 01:00:13,068 --> 01:00:15,986 the XRV has never before been in space. 748 01:00:16,071 --> 01:00:19,615 When it makes its first flight, Col. Dougherty will be going it alone 749 01:00:19,699 --> 01:00:21,992 because that bird was designed for two men 750 01:00:22,077 --> 01:00:24,995 but now has been modified, of course, to carry four men. 751 01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:27,331 Col. Dougherty will be on his way to bring home 752 01:00:27,415 --> 01:00:29,667 the three astronauts of Ironman One. 753 01:00:29,751 --> 01:00:31,836 That XRV will plunge into the atmosphere 754 01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,714 at 17,000 miles per hour, a flaming meteor coming back to Earth. 755 01:00:35,799 --> 01:00:38,134 When it breaks down into the lower atmosphere 756 01:00:38,218 --> 01:00:41,762 the speed will drop to only a few hundred miles per hour 757 01:00:41,847 --> 01:00:44,515 and Dougherty will be flying a high-speed glider, 758 01:00:44,599 --> 01:00:46,016 an airplane without power. 759 01:00:46,101 --> 01:00:49,228 He'll take that bird straight in towards Edwards Air Force Base 760 01:00:49,312 --> 01:00:52,523 to land on the long runway out there in the California desert. 761 01:02:24,199 --> 01:02:26,116 Hello, Ted. 762 01:02:26,201 --> 01:02:28,118 Thirty-six hours and 15 minutes. Great, Ted. 763 01:02:28,203 --> 01:02:30,829 - What about the hurricane? - Heading straight for us. 764 01:02:30,914 --> 01:02:32,998 - When did it turn? - About six hours ago. 765 01:02:33,083 --> 01:02:36,168 - When do we get it? - 75-knot winds by 9:00. 766 01:02:36,253 --> 01:02:38,712 - They said it was headed to sea. - They were wrong. 767 01:02:38,797 --> 01:02:41,423 How in the hell can they make a mistake like that? 768 01:02:41,508 --> 01:02:45,928 Stop wasting your energy. It changed course once, it can change again. 769 01:03:08,576 --> 01:03:10,703 How are the children, Teresa? 770 01:03:11,246 --> 01:03:13,122 Fine. 771 01:03:13,957 --> 01:03:16,750 Mine are home studying for exams. 772 01:03:16,835 --> 01:03:20,254 Boy, they sure are putting the pressure on at school these days. 773 01:03:26,219 --> 01:03:28,512 It'll just be a minute. 774 01:03:28,596 --> 01:03:30,639 I should caution you. 775 01:03:30,724 --> 01:03:34,184 You're going to notice some degeneration. 776 01:03:34,269 --> 01:03:37,187 But it's important to show them how confident you are. 777 01:03:37,272 --> 01:03:39,398 We understand, Dick. We won't let you down. 778 01:03:39,482 --> 01:03:40,983 You want us to be confident? 779 01:03:41,067 --> 01:03:44,653 The more relaxed they are, the less oxygen they use. 780 01:03:44,738 --> 01:03:49,450 I know why we're here. You're letting us say goodbye. 781 01:03:49,534 --> 01:03:51,410 Wyman's report to contact. 782 01:03:52,954 --> 01:03:54,413 Celia? 783 01:04:06,301 --> 01:04:08,344 - Hi, Celia. - Hi, Frank. 784 01:04:09,304 --> 01:04:11,680 Celia? 785 01:04:11,765 --> 01:04:12,931 It's Jim. 786 01:04:13,016 --> 01:04:15,934 - Frank, take it off for a minute. - All right. 787 01:04:16,936 --> 01:04:18,437 Celia? 788 01:04:19,731 --> 01:04:21,231 Celia. 789 01:04:21,316 --> 01:04:24,943 Celia, we're gonna talk to him on the monitor up here. 790 01:04:45,340 --> 01:04:46,840 Celia. 791 01:04:46,925 --> 01:04:49,343 Well, here I am again. 792 01:04:50,345 --> 01:04:51,762 Celia? 793 01:04:51,846 --> 01:04:53,472 Well... 794 01:04:53,973 --> 01:04:56,975 everybody's been so nice. 795 01:04:58,311 --> 01:05:00,938 I spoke to your father today. 796 01:05:01,022 --> 01:05:03,399 And he says to say hello. 797 01:05:03,483 --> 01:05:06,193 His cold, it seemed better. 798 01:05:07,362 --> 01:05:10,614 I bought some new shoes. 799 01:05:10,698 --> 01:05:12,366 They hurt. 800 01:05:14,119 --> 01:05:15,911 And the kids? 801 01:05:15,995 --> 01:05:18,372 Oh, fine, fine. 802 01:05:18,873 --> 01:05:21,291 I lost the bill to the insurance. 803 01:05:21,376 --> 01:05:25,712 I thought I had it paid, and then just this morning, I got a letter. 804 01:05:26,381 --> 01:05:28,799 Listen, babe, I... 805 01:05:28,883 --> 01:05:31,385 I just want to tell you that I love you. 806 01:05:32,095 --> 01:05:33,470 What? 807 01:05:35,390 --> 01:05:37,391 I said, I love you. 808 01:05:40,145 --> 01:05:42,229 I just wanted you to know. 809 01:05:43,523 --> 01:05:45,816 I know that. 810 01:05:47,026 --> 01:05:48,986 I just wanted to make sure. 811 01:05:51,781 --> 01:05:54,032 Is it very lonely where you are? 812 01:05:58,204 --> 01:06:02,040 No, not for long. 813 01:06:02,625 --> 01:06:05,419 We all have great confidence. 814 01:06:10,675 --> 01:06:14,178 Celia, if you have any more problems with the insurance 815 01:06:14,262 --> 01:06:17,347 or the house or anything like that... 816 01:06:17,432 --> 01:06:19,933 you can talk to Dougherty. He's a good guy. 817 01:06:20,018 --> 01:06:21,518 You can depend on him. 818 01:06:21,603 --> 01:06:24,438 I gave him a kiss to give you when he sees you. 819 01:06:27,484 --> 01:06:30,736 Yeah, that's just what I need. 820 01:06:30,820 --> 01:06:33,071 You never can tell. 821 01:06:42,707 --> 01:06:47,336 - Well, I gotta go now. - No, not yet. 822 01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:02,935 Celia, I... 823 01:07:03,811 --> 01:07:06,438 I had a real good day today. 824 01:07:07,315 --> 01:07:09,024 And... 825 01:07:10,151 --> 01:07:13,779 you know, when you think about this... 826 01:07:16,741 --> 01:07:19,576 I want you to remember I had a real good day. 827 01:07:22,497 --> 01:07:24,498 Jim? 828 01:07:28,503 --> 01:07:30,629 We better cut it off now. 829 01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:36,009 Oh, there's one more thing that I have to tell you. 830 01:07:38,888 --> 01:07:42,182 I lost five pounds last week. 831 01:07:42,267 --> 01:07:45,060 I can't wait till you see me. 832 01:07:54,529 --> 01:07:56,446 You take care of yourself. 833 01:07:57,574 --> 01:07:59,032 Take care. 834 01:08:25,268 --> 01:08:27,477 Hi, sport. 835 01:08:27,562 --> 01:08:28,729 Hiya, kid. 836 01:08:29,564 --> 01:08:31,565 How are the mice? 837 01:08:32,567 --> 01:08:35,611 Well, we're learning something every day. 838 01:08:35,695 --> 01:08:37,571 You writing a big, dull book up there? 839 01:08:38,323 --> 01:08:41,867 No. No, a small, dull book. 840 01:08:41,951 --> 01:08:43,577 How are you? 841 01:08:44,746 --> 01:08:48,915 I'm working on a little project. 842 01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:53,378 I've developed an experimental hypothesis for you to proof out. 843 01:08:53,463 --> 01:08:56,506 Have you? Well, what is it? 844 01:08:57,717 --> 01:08:59,593 I miss you like mad. 845 01:09:04,390 --> 01:09:05,807 Yeah. 846 01:09:08,061 --> 01:09:10,312 Your paper came out last week. 847 01:09:10,897 --> 01:09:13,523 Professor Stavel said it's a brilliant presentation. 848 01:09:13,608 --> 01:09:16,652 It was the best he's ever read. 849 01:09:16,736 --> 01:09:18,445 We're gonna make it, Teresa. 850 01:09:18,529 --> 01:09:19,529 What? 851 01:09:19,614 --> 01:09:22,282 - We're gonna make it back. - What? 852 01:09:22,367 --> 01:09:24,534 We're gonna make it back. 853 01:09:24,619 --> 01:09:27,621 - I know. - Believe me. 854 01:09:27,705 --> 01:09:31,875 - Yes. - I mean it, we're all coming back. 855 01:09:38,633 --> 01:09:41,093 Listen, Teresa, I... 856 01:09:41,636 --> 01:09:44,846 I want you and the kids to... 857 01:09:49,644 --> 01:09:52,854 Look, I have to go now. 858 01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:55,565 - I'll be seeing you. - Stoney. 859 01:09:55,650 --> 01:09:57,275 I'll be seeing you. 860 01:09:58,444 --> 01:10:00,362 No, no. 861 01:10:00,446 --> 01:10:03,073 I love you, remember that. 862 01:10:04,992 --> 01:10:06,827 Remember that. 863 01:10:20,967 --> 01:10:22,676 Buzz? 864 01:10:23,302 --> 01:10:24,720 Yeah? 865 01:10:26,264 --> 01:10:29,933 General LeClair called all the way from Clark's Field. 866 01:10:30,017 --> 01:10:33,562 - I thought that was so nice. - Yeah. 867 01:10:34,105 --> 01:10:36,606 They want to give you something, a scroll or... 868 01:10:36,691 --> 01:10:38,734 Look, hon... 869 01:10:39,986 --> 01:10:43,238 you don't seem to understand, it's all falling apart up here. 870 01:10:43,322 --> 01:10:44,906 You understand? 871 01:10:44,991 --> 01:10:46,908 I understand, Buzz. 872 01:10:46,993 --> 01:10:49,035 You see... 873 01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:52,789 I broke the washing machine, and now I can't fix it. 874 01:10:54,208 --> 01:10:56,001 I understand how you feel. 875 01:10:56,711 --> 01:10:58,754 I could fix it if they'd give me the tools. 876 01:10:59,589 --> 01:11:01,089 But they won't. 877 01:11:01,632 --> 01:11:06,052 Listen, honey, I wrote something. We're all gonna sign it. 878 01:11:06,137 --> 01:11:08,638 - Do you want to hear it? - What? 879 01:11:08,723 --> 01:11:12,309 "To the president, the White House, Washington D.C.: 880 01:11:12,894 --> 01:11:14,978 Dear Mr. President... 881 01:11:15,062 --> 01:11:17,814 we just wanted to let you know how much we appreciate... 882 01:11:17,899 --> 01:11:20,650 the heroic action to save our husbands. 883 01:11:20,735 --> 01:11:23,570 We are grateful to you and to everyone in the nation. 884 01:11:24,113 --> 01:11:27,657 The team effort of the past two days will be an inspiration to us, 885 01:11:27,742 --> 01:11:29,284 our children and our..." 886 01:11:29,368 --> 01:11:33,789 Don't you understand? It's all falling apart and they're blaming me. 887 01:11:35,041 --> 01:11:36,750 I don't feel very good. 888 01:11:40,630 --> 01:11:42,255 Buzz... 889 01:11:44,592 --> 01:11:46,593 I have to go now. 890 01:11:47,762 --> 01:11:51,765 I love you. I'll see you later. 891 01:12:04,028 --> 01:12:08,073 Can you give me a reading on your partial pressure of carbon dioxide? 892 01:12:08,157 --> 01:12:09,783 Thank you, Dick. I'll be all right. 893 01:12:09,867 --> 01:12:12,160 I just gave you that! 894 01:12:12,662 --> 01:12:14,454 Negative, Buzz. 895 01:12:15,289 --> 01:12:16,706 Negative, you gave me a PS... 896 01:12:16,791 --> 01:12:20,460 What difference does it make? What's going on down there? 897 01:12:20,545 --> 01:12:22,337 Why don't you get us out of here? 898 01:12:22,421 --> 01:12:25,757 Get ahold of him, Jim. Keep him away from the controls! 899 01:12:25,842 --> 01:12:28,802 - Get us out... - Sedate him, Jim, sedate him. 900 01:12:30,054 --> 01:12:31,721 Buzz? 901 01:12:31,806 --> 01:12:34,182 Come on. Buzz. 902 01:12:35,810 --> 01:12:39,020 Now just get us out of here, that's all! Come on! 903 01:12:39,814 --> 01:12:42,274 Come on! Leave me alone! 904 01:12:51,826 --> 01:12:55,745 Don't kill me! 905 01:12:55,830 --> 01:12:57,831 It's not my fault! 906 01:13:02,712 --> 01:13:04,462 Why'd you bring in his goddamn wife? 907 01:13:04,547 --> 01:13:07,173 Keep him sedated, keep him away from the controls. 908 01:13:07,258 --> 01:13:08,842 Do you understand me? 909 01:13:10,428 --> 01:13:12,846 You just get Dougherty off the pad. 910 01:13:18,519 --> 01:13:20,478 He's tired, that's all. 911 01:13:21,188 --> 01:13:23,231 Everybody's tired. 912 01:14:52,446 --> 01:14:54,864 Fuel is complete. 913 01:14:54,949 --> 01:14:58,159 Your final numbers: insertion into XRV, 8:36, 914 01:14:58,244 --> 01:15:01,287 hack sealed cabins burst, 8:42, 915 01:15:01,372 --> 01:15:04,874 liftoff, 8:48, rendezvous, 9:33. 916 01:15:04,959 --> 01:15:07,419 Roger, how's the wind? 917 01:15:07,503 --> 01:15:09,796 Thirty-two knots and climbing. 918 01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:12,674 - It's not changing course? - Nope. 919 01:15:14,051 --> 01:15:16,136 Well, Buzz, you're right. 920 01:15:16,220 --> 01:15:18,430 This whole damn thing is impossible. 921 01:15:18,514 --> 01:15:20,265 No, you were right. 922 01:15:20,349 --> 01:15:22,684 We're gonna do it anyway. 923 01:17:23,222 --> 01:17:25,306 We're in position for launch. 924 01:17:33,065 --> 01:17:35,942 - Do you read me, Ted? - Roger. 925 01:17:41,532 --> 01:17:43,408 Oxygen okay? 926 01:18:05,931 --> 01:18:07,807 - Flight network. - Go ahead. 927 01:18:07,892 --> 01:18:11,227 We have a problem with the liftoff on the KS system 928 01:18:11,312 --> 01:18:13,646 but Fido's prepared to back it up. 929 01:18:13,731 --> 01:18:16,149 - Copy that, Fido? - Affirmative, Flight. 930 01:18:20,654 --> 01:18:23,740 All personnel in the control room be advised 931 01:18:23,824 --> 01:18:27,076 that prior to 1:20, we'll call a hold if we have a problem. 932 01:18:27,161 --> 01:18:29,996 After 1:20, there is no hold. 933 01:18:31,123 --> 01:18:33,333 - Okay, EMIL, how you doing? - Go on three. 934 01:18:33,417 --> 01:18:37,128 - EMIL, repeated configuration, right? - That's right. 935 01:18:37,213 --> 01:18:40,173 All right. 936 01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:44,844 Raising the hatch cover. 937 01:18:44,929 --> 01:18:48,097 - Ted, request idea. Signal off. - Roger. 938 01:18:48,182 --> 01:18:50,558 - Ted, secure the hatch cover. - Roger. 939 01:18:50,643 --> 01:18:53,061 - Power supply off? - Verified. 940 01:18:53,145 --> 01:18:54,145 Hatch secured. 941 01:18:54,230 --> 01:18:57,273 - Your power supply, DC to off. - Roger. 942 01:18:57,358 --> 01:18:59,192 Lower the shroud. 943 01:19:02,780 --> 01:19:05,531 Good, steady. 944 01:19:06,325 --> 01:19:08,534 - Steady. - Easy. 945 01:19:08,619 --> 01:19:10,453 Good. 946 01:19:11,664 --> 01:19:13,206 - Good. - All right. 947 01:19:14,208 --> 01:19:16,209 Easy. 948 01:19:16,752 --> 01:19:19,003 - Easy. - Slowly, slowly. 949 01:19:20,214 --> 01:19:21,798 Good. 950 01:19:24,176 --> 01:19:28,221 Easy, easy, easy. 951 01:19:29,682 --> 01:19:32,016 - Network, this is Flight. - Go, Flight. 952 01:19:32,101 --> 01:19:34,852 - Verify ready. - We are ready, Flight. 953 01:19:34,937 --> 01:19:36,145 Shroud secure. 954 01:19:36,230 --> 01:19:40,650 Launch control, this is Rescue, radio is on. 955 01:19:42,987 --> 01:19:48,157 Roger, all personnel clear the launch area. 956 01:19:48,242 --> 01:19:50,034 - PCS, LD. - Go ahead. 957 01:19:50,119 --> 01:19:51,661 - All video recorders on. - Roger. 958 01:19:51,745 --> 01:19:53,246 SRO, turn off your video recorder. 959 01:19:53,330 --> 01:19:57,250 And focus spacecraft camera to monitor spacecraft umbilical. 960 01:19:58,210 --> 01:20:00,253 - PCS, LD? - Stand by. 961 01:20:00,838 --> 01:20:03,506 - LD tracking flight safety. - Go ahead. 962 01:20:03,590 --> 01:20:05,341 Command receiver checks are complete. 963 01:20:06,593 --> 01:20:08,594 LD, go ahead. 964 01:20:08,679 --> 01:20:11,472 You can print out your initial conditions. 965 01:20:12,433 --> 01:20:14,475 - LD, flight safety. - Go ahead. 966 01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:17,186 - Verify item number one. - Roger. 967 01:20:17,271 --> 01:20:18,938 - STC this is LD. - Go, LD. 968 01:20:19,023 --> 01:20:21,274 - Are you ready for range recorder? - Affirmative. 969 01:20:21,358 --> 01:20:24,360 SRO, turn on your range recorder for spacecraft function. 970 01:20:24,445 --> 01:20:26,195 Roger, recorders are on. 971 01:20:26,280 --> 01:20:28,197 T-minus eight minutes and counting. 972 01:20:28,282 --> 01:20:29,866 - SRO, LD. - Go, LD. 973 01:20:29,950 --> 01:20:33,202 - SRO, you have a go on C-band. - Roger. 974 01:20:33,287 --> 01:20:35,038 - LD, this is ALD. - Go ahead. 975 01:20:35,122 --> 01:20:37,874 Range status is go, global network status is go. 976 01:20:37,958 --> 01:20:40,793 Roger, that completes all items on page 420. 977 01:20:40,878 --> 01:20:42,712 - LD, instrumentation. - Go ahead. 978 01:20:42,796 --> 01:20:45,381 - Verify item number two. - Roger. 979 01:20:46,508 --> 01:20:50,762 All personnel switch to channel number two for status check. 980 01:20:50,846 --> 01:20:52,972 - Instrumentation? - Instrumentation, go. 981 01:20:53,057 --> 01:20:54,182 - Propulsion? - Go. 982 01:20:54,266 --> 01:20:55,808 - Facility? Electrical? - Go. 983 01:20:55,893 --> 01:20:56,976 - Flight safety? - Go. 984 01:20:57,061 --> 01:20:58,186 - TCED? - Go. 985 01:20:58,270 --> 01:20:59,270 - MacDonnell? - Mac is go. 986 01:20:59,313 --> 01:21:00,396 - Aero jets? - Go. 987 01:21:00,481 --> 01:21:01,606 - PSO? - Go. 988 01:21:01,690 --> 01:21:02,815 - SRO? - Go. 989 01:21:02,900 --> 01:21:04,233 - Test wing? - Go. 990 01:21:04,318 --> 01:21:05,693 - LD, this is ALD. - Go ahead. 991 01:21:05,778 --> 01:21:08,863 Unless we get another computation on the Q Alpha Beta plot 992 01:21:08,947 --> 01:21:10,239 we may have to hold. 993 01:21:10,324 --> 01:21:13,326 Unless I receive a go from you on that, I will initiate a hold. 994 01:21:13,410 --> 01:21:16,245 - SRO, this is LD. - Go ahead, LD. 995 01:21:16,330 --> 01:21:19,499 SRO, is the T-minus sync locked out at this time? 996 01:21:19,583 --> 01:21:23,378 That's affirmative, it is locked out and we will bypass. 997 01:21:24,338 --> 01:21:27,298 - Minus four minutes and counting. - Item one under four minutes. 998 01:21:27,383 --> 01:21:32,011 This is ALD, manual hold initiated at minus three minutes. 999 01:21:32,096 --> 01:21:34,055 We will hold at minus three minutes, 1000 01:21:34,139 --> 01:21:37,058 waiting for the latest computation on altitude-wind data. 1001 01:21:41,397 --> 01:21:44,023 - Propulsion, this is LD on two. - Go ahead. 1002 01:21:44,108 --> 01:21:46,526 - How do your tank pressures look? - Very good, we are go. 1003 01:21:46,610 --> 01:21:49,737 - Roger, item one under 230. - Roger. 1004 01:21:49,822 --> 01:21:52,240 Range recorder back up. 1005 01:21:55,035 --> 01:21:58,287 This is launch director for a final status communication check. 1006 01:21:58,372 --> 01:22:00,123 - Instrumentation? - Go. 1007 01:22:00,207 --> 01:22:02,250 - Propulsion? Facility? - Go. 1008 01:22:02,334 --> 01:22:03,334 - Electrical? - Go. 1009 01:22:03,377 --> 01:22:05,044 - Track and flight safety? - Go. 1010 01:22:05,129 --> 01:22:06,254 - Spacecraft? - Go. 1011 01:22:06,338 --> 01:22:07,588 - TCED? - Go. 1012 01:22:07,673 --> 01:22:08,965 - We'll go to 50. - Go. 1013 01:22:09,049 --> 01:22:10,299 - Aero jets? - Go. 1014 01:22:10,384 --> 01:22:11,467 - PSO? - Go. 1015 01:22:11,552 --> 01:22:12,677 - SRO? - Go. 1016 01:22:12,761 --> 01:22:14,679 - Test wing? - Proceed with the launch. 1017 01:22:14,763 --> 01:22:15,888 Roger. 1018 01:22:15,973 --> 01:22:19,308 Launch control, Houston Flight. Ask Rescue to prepare to copy. 1019 01:22:19,393 --> 01:22:22,061 Ted, are you ready to copy computer updates? 1020 01:22:22,146 --> 01:22:24,814 Launch control, this is Rescue, go ahead. 1021 01:22:24,898 --> 01:22:28,276 Address: 6-0-2-4-9-7. 1022 01:22:29,319 --> 01:22:33,322 Address: 6-1-3-5-6-7. 1023 01:22:35,409 --> 01:22:38,202 Flight, this is Rescue, the computer's ready. 1024 01:22:38,287 --> 01:22:39,662 - STC, this is LD. - Go ahead. 1025 01:22:39,746 --> 01:22:42,248 - Ready to pick up at this time? - Roger, proceed. 1026 01:22:42,332 --> 01:22:46,627 Pick it up on my mark, ALD. Three, two, one, mark. 1027 01:22:47,463 --> 01:22:51,632 This is launch control at T-minus two minutes and counting. 1028 01:22:51,717 --> 01:22:54,969 In just 60 seconds, we will start the count. 1029 01:22:55,053 --> 01:22:58,347 Launch pad runs completely on internal power. 1030 01:22:58,432 --> 01:23:01,267 This is launch control coming up on T-minus... 1031 01:23:01,351 --> 01:23:05,771 We're now beginning to feel the real force of Hurricane Alma, 1032 01:23:05,856 --> 01:23:08,149 making it difficult to speak. 1033 01:23:08,233 --> 01:23:10,359 - LD, SRO. - Go ahead. 1034 01:23:10,444 --> 01:23:13,362 - You have a clear to launch. - Roger. 1035 01:23:13,447 --> 01:23:15,698 - LD, this is instrumentation. - Go ahead. 1036 01:23:15,782 --> 01:23:18,326 I verify item four under two minutes. 1037 01:23:18,410 --> 01:23:21,746 Roger. SRO, start range recorders and TV videotape recorders. 1038 01:23:21,830 --> 01:23:22,997 Wilco. 1039 01:23:23,081 --> 01:23:24,624 - LD, instrumentation. - Go ahead. 1040 01:23:24,708 --> 01:23:27,376 Start and calibrate all instrumentation recorders. 1041 01:23:27,461 --> 01:23:29,003 Roger. 1042 01:23:33,050 --> 01:23:36,844 Minus 90 seconds and counting, mark. 1043 01:23:36,929 --> 01:23:40,556 - Second stage, fuel and oxidizing. - Roger. 1044 01:23:40,641 --> 01:23:44,685 - LD, this is instrumentation. - Go ahead. 1045 01:23:44,770 --> 01:23:48,397 Start following the instrumentation calibration, SSB pre-fire. 1046 01:23:48,482 --> 01:23:51,400 Instrumentation, PCM pre-fire. 1047 01:23:51,485 --> 01:23:55,988 T-minus 70 seconds and counting, mark. 1048 01:24:08,919 --> 01:24:12,004 T-minus 60 seconds and counting. 1049 01:24:13,423 --> 01:24:14,590 - Hold! - Hold! 1050 01:24:18,220 --> 01:24:19,804 Shut her down. 1051 01:24:21,014 --> 01:24:23,849 Tower crew to launch pad, move in, Tower. 1052 01:24:25,435 --> 01:24:30,481 The launch is scrubbed. The launch is scrubbed. 1053 01:24:34,152 --> 01:24:36,028 Houston, Ironman. 1054 01:24:38,490 --> 01:24:40,533 Houston, Ironman, do you read? 1055 01:24:45,163 --> 01:24:48,124 Goldstone, this is Ironman, do you read? 1056 01:24:53,422 --> 01:24:55,756 Guaymas, Ironman. 1057 01:25:01,555 --> 01:25:03,472 Cape, this is Ironman. 1058 01:25:03,557 --> 01:25:06,434 Pruett, this is Keith. 1059 01:25:06,518 --> 01:25:11,022 I'm sorry, we had to scrub the launch. 1060 01:25:18,488 --> 01:25:20,781 Yeah... 1061 01:25:21,533 --> 01:25:25,661 I figured it might be like that, we've been watching the storm. 1062 01:25:27,414 --> 01:25:29,707 How close did you get? 1063 01:25:29,791 --> 01:25:32,168 T-minus 60 seconds. 1064 01:25:32,252 --> 01:25:35,212 Now listen, Jim, we're still working on that engine. 1065 01:25:50,103 --> 01:25:51,604 Boss... 1066 01:25:52,606 --> 01:25:56,734 I just... I wanted to tell you... 1067 01:25:57,444 --> 01:26:01,197 that you've done a great job, all of you. 1068 01:26:05,035 --> 01:26:08,621 We know that you've all worked your tails off for us... 1069 01:26:09,289 --> 01:26:14,210 and whatever happens to us, you can't let it affect the program. 1070 01:26:15,170 --> 01:26:17,046 You've done a great job, really... 1071 01:26:17,130 --> 01:26:21,967 and, you know, whatever it is that's hanging us up, it's nobody's fault. 1072 01:26:23,637 --> 01:26:26,013 GBI reports loss of signal. 1073 01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:30,685 Ascension will acquire the spacecraft, shall we remote you through? 1074 01:26:31,895 --> 01:26:33,145 Nope. 1075 01:26:33,230 --> 01:26:35,564 Move in, white room. Get the pilot out of there. 1076 01:26:35,649 --> 01:26:37,316 - Ted. - Wait. 1077 01:26:37,401 --> 01:26:40,903 - I want to speak to Keith. - I'm here, Ted. 1078 01:26:40,987 --> 01:26:45,074 We've done everything we possibly could. We cannot launch. 1079 01:26:45,158 --> 01:26:49,078 I'm telling you to launch! You get this haywagon off the ground! 1080 01:26:49,162 --> 01:26:52,373 Now launch, damn it, Keith, launch this thing! 1081 01:26:52,999 --> 01:26:55,835 Keith! 1082 01:27:15,564 --> 01:27:17,857 I have a brief statement. 1083 01:27:18,442 --> 01:27:22,194 The launch of the XRV rescue craft 1084 01:27:22,279 --> 01:27:27,616 was scrubbed at 8:47, Cape time. 1085 01:27:27,701 --> 01:27:30,911 The pad was shut down at T-minus 58 seconds 1086 01:27:30,996 --> 01:27:35,207 when the wind velocity in the launch area rose to 48 knots. 1087 01:27:36,710 --> 01:27:41,714 Commander Pruett in the Apollo Command Module has been informed. 1088 01:27:45,719 --> 01:27:47,428 This... 1089 01:27:49,723 --> 01:27:54,727 This was a very fine, fine effort. 1090 01:27:55,854 --> 01:27:57,480 Do you have any questions? 1091 01:27:57,564 --> 01:28:00,816 Mr. Keith, you say that the launch has been scrubbed. 1092 01:28:00,901 --> 01:28:03,611 Are you going to reschedule at a later time? 1093 01:28:03,695 --> 01:28:04,695 We have no plans. 1094 01:28:04,738 --> 01:28:07,907 - Any future rescue attempts? - We have no plans. 1095 01:28:07,991 --> 01:28:12,077 Mr. Keith, you say the men have been informed. Who informed them? 1096 01:28:12,162 --> 01:28:13,579 I did. 1097 01:28:13,663 --> 01:28:16,165 What was their reaction? 1098 01:28:19,586 --> 01:28:21,670 Do you have any other questions? 1099 01:28:21,755 --> 01:28:27,510 There's an assumption that the space program will be brought to a halt 1100 01:28:27,594 --> 01:28:29,678 for an investigation of the accident... 1101 01:28:29,763 --> 01:28:33,808 plus a general examination of our purposes in space 1102 01:28:33,892 --> 01:28:37,186 and the morality of putting men into space without adequate... 1103 01:28:37,270 --> 01:28:38,771 What's your question? 1104 01:28:39,689 --> 01:28:42,566 Are the results you gained worth the lives you lost? 1105 01:28:42,651 --> 01:28:44,693 You're damn right they are! 1106 01:28:44,778 --> 01:28:49,114 Know what they accomplished living up there in a tin can for five months? 1107 01:28:50,033 --> 01:28:54,495 Because of men like these, we've taken the first step off this little planet. 1108 01:28:54,579 --> 01:28:56,539 The moon trip was a walk around the block. 1109 01:28:56,623 --> 01:29:01,168 We're going to the stars, to other worlds, other civilizations. 1110 01:29:01,253 --> 01:29:03,087 Mr. Keith? 1111 01:29:04,297 --> 01:29:08,509 Men will be killed in this effort just as they're killed in cars and airplanes... 1112 01:29:08,593 --> 01:29:10,052 and bars and... What is it? 1113 01:29:10,136 --> 01:29:12,304 - Look at the numbers. - What about them? 1114 01:29:12,389 --> 01:29:15,015 The numbers, Mr. Keith, the numbers! 1115 01:29:18,687 --> 01:29:21,522 - In God's name... - What is that? 1116 01:29:32,784 --> 01:29:35,160 In this disturbance, we have 90-knot winds. 1117 01:29:35,245 --> 01:29:37,580 In the center, or eye, we have zero. 1118 01:29:37,664 --> 01:29:39,915 The eye of the hurricane will pass over the Cape. 1119 01:29:40,500 --> 01:29:45,754 All I wish to hear from each of you is yes or no. Go or no go. 1120 01:29:45,839 --> 01:29:48,757 Do we have a launch window while the eye's over the Cape? 1121 01:29:48,842 --> 01:29:51,760 We affirm a launch window at 2231:06. 1122 01:29:51,845 --> 01:29:53,846 Can you launch your rocket through the eye? 1123 01:29:53,930 --> 01:29:56,015 - Yes, sir. - Will the bird fly? 1124 01:29:56,099 --> 01:29:58,642 Well, it's been kicked around by 80-knot winds. 1125 01:29:58,727 --> 01:30:00,603 - The data's... - What's your judgment? 1126 01:30:00,687 --> 01:30:01,770 It'll fly. 1127 01:30:01,855 --> 01:30:02,938 - Carp? - Yes, sir? 1128 01:30:03,023 --> 01:30:06,442 - Do we have 16 minutes in the eye? - No, sir, not 16. 1129 01:30:06,526 --> 01:30:07,651 Do we have 14? 1130 01:30:07,736 --> 01:30:10,279 We've been trying to get a chart from the computer... 1131 01:30:10,363 --> 01:30:11,822 What's your judgment? 1132 01:30:11,907 --> 01:30:13,782 I'll buy 14. 1133 01:30:13,867 --> 01:30:16,160 Can we move the tower back in 12 minutes? 1134 01:30:16,244 --> 01:30:18,287 You give the order and we'll do it. 1135 01:30:18,872 --> 01:30:20,789 Houston, Flight. 1136 01:30:20,874 --> 01:30:23,459 Is the rescue craft go for Point Charlie? 1137 01:30:23,543 --> 01:30:26,795 We can have Point Charlie, but then pilot will be on his own. 1138 01:30:26,880 --> 01:30:30,799 Rescue, can you rendezvous without an onboard computer program? 1139 01:30:30,884 --> 01:30:32,676 You just get me in the ballpark. 1140 01:30:33,845 --> 01:30:38,807 Then we are go for launch at 2231:06 local time. 1141 01:30:38,892 --> 01:30:46,892 Roger, 2231:06 local time. 1142 01:30:47,817 --> 01:30:50,986 We'll recycle to T-minus 30. 1143 01:30:54,908 --> 01:30:59,828 You know, of course, that by 2231:06, the crew will be dead. 1144 01:30:59,913 --> 01:31:02,915 There's not enough oxygen left for three men to live that long. 1145 01:31:03,917 --> 01:31:06,669 What about two men? 1146 01:31:06,753 --> 01:31:10,089 We don't figure that way, we plot total pressure against total use. 1147 01:31:10,173 --> 01:31:13,425 Is there sufficient oxygen for two men? 1148 01:31:15,095 --> 01:31:17,179 For one? 1149 01:31:21,017 --> 01:31:23,018 Two might just make it. 1150 01:31:48,420 --> 01:31:50,671 - Go! - Move back service tower. 1151 01:31:58,972 --> 01:32:01,765 This is launch control, we have just resumed the count. 1152 01:32:01,850 --> 01:32:03,392 Col. Dougherty has confirmed 1153 01:32:03,476 --> 01:32:06,186 that all spacecraft systems are go at this time. 1154 01:32:06,271 --> 01:32:10,065 Launch director is about to feed the computer update to the spacecraft. 1155 01:32:11,443 --> 01:32:16,822 This is an unbelievable scene. No wind, absolute silence. 1156 01:32:16,906 --> 01:32:18,907 Overhead... 1157 01:32:18,992 --> 01:32:21,910 nothing but black night and brilliant stars 1158 01:32:21,995 --> 01:32:26,290 as the eye of the Hurricane Alma passes directly over us. 1159 01:32:26,374 --> 01:32:29,418 There's an eerie hush over everything here. 1160 01:32:29,502 --> 01:32:31,920 No rain, no wind. 1161 01:32:32,005 --> 01:32:36,925 The lives of three men are measured by their fading heartbeats... 1162 01:32:37,010 --> 01:32:39,428 and here on pad 41 at Cape Kennedy 1163 01:32:39,512 --> 01:32:41,764 we're in the middle of another heartbeat. 1164 01:32:41,848 --> 01:32:45,225 It's a single moment in the life of a great storm... 1165 01:32:45,310 --> 01:32:48,479 reprieve, we hope, for Pruett, Lloyd and Stone. 1166 01:32:49,981 --> 01:32:52,733 The service tower is rolling away from the launch pad. 1167 01:32:52,817 --> 01:32:55,944 As soon as it's 800 feet away it'll be locked into position 1168 01:32:56,029 --> 01:32:58,030 but they'll launch before that happens. 1169 01:32:58,531 --> 01:33:00,783 That tower is expendable... 1170 01:33:00,867 --> 01:33:05,954 but the three men in Ironman One are not. 1171 01:33:06,039 --> 01:33:08,040 - LD, SRO. - Go ahead. 1172 01:33:08,124 --> 01:33:10,292 - You have a clear to launch. - Roger. 1173 01:33:10,376 --> 01:33:12,461 - LD, this is instrumentation. - Go ahead. 1174 01:33:12,545 --> 01:33:14,838 Verify item four under two minutes. 1175 01:33:14,923 --> 01:33:18,050 Roger. SRO, start range recorders and TV videotape recorders. 1176 01:33:18,134 --> 01:33:19,343 Wilco. 1177 01:33:19,427 --> 01:33:23,639 T-minus 70 seconds and counting, mark. 1178 01:33:24,349 --> 01:33:26,433 - LD, instrumentation. - Go ahead. 1179 01:33:26,518 --> 01:33:29,686 Start and calibrate all instrumentation recorders. 1180 01:33:30,230 --> 01:33:33,982 T-minus 60 seconds and counting, mark. 1181 01:33:35,068 --> 01:33:36,860 - Start instrument recorders. - Go. 1182 01:33:36,945 --> 01:33:38,904 - SRM pressure sensor squibs. - Go. 1183 01:33:38,988 --> 01:33:40,781 - Pyro sequence started. - Roger. 1184 01:33:40,865 --> 01:33:45,077 T-minus 50 seconds and counting, mark. 1185 01:33:45,912 --> 01:33:48,997 - XRV is go on internal. - Roger, all systems on internal. 1186 01:33:49,082 --> 01:33:51,542 - Enable SRM regulators. - Go. 1187 01:33:51,626 --> 01:33:55,712 T-minus 40 seconds and counting, mark. 1188 01:33:55,797 --> 01:33:58,048 - Transfer TVC power. - Go. 1189 01:33:58,133 --> 01:34:02,678 T-minus 30 seconds and counting, mark. 1190 01:34:02,762 --> 01:34:05,514 - Pyro-initiators to on. - Go. 1191 01:34:06,933 --> 01:34:08,225 - Launch panel to on. - Go. 1192 01:34:08,309 --> 01:34:10,602 - Release control to on. - Go. 1193 01:34:10,687 --> 01:34:13,814 T-minus 20 seconds and counting, mark. 1194 01:34:13,898 --> 01:34:15,983 Stand by for a terminal count. 1195 01:34:22,115 --> 01:34:26,034 Ten, nine, eight, seven, six... 1196 01:34:26,119 --> 01:34:32,124 - five, four, three, two, one. - I have ignition. 1197 01:34:48,141 --> 01:34:51,852 - Go! Go! - All right, go, go! 1198 01:35:26,471 --> 01:35:29,348 - Roll programmed. - Roger the roll. 1199 01:35:30,183 --> 01:35:31,600 Pitch programmed. 1200 01:35:31,684 --> 01:35:35,187 - Roger the pitch. - Mark, 50 seconds. 1201 01:35:36,189 --> 01:35:40,108 Cabin pressure holding fine, .57. 1202 01:35:40,193 --> 01:35:41,693 Mark one plus 40. 1203 01:35:41,778 --> 01:35:44,154 PCS update in. 1204 01:35:44,239 --> 01:35:45,739 You look good here. 1205 01:35:45,823 --> 01:35:47,532 Go for staging. 1206 01:35:47,617 --> 01:35:50,118 Roger, Ted, you are go for staging. 1207 01:35:50,203 --> 01:35:55,123 Rescue, this is Flight, Fido confirms orbit insertion at 8:20. 1208 01:35:55,208 --> 01:35:56,208 Roger. 1209 01:35:56,292 --> 01:35:58,126 My initial rendezvous parameters 1210 01:35:58,211 --> 01:36:02,130 indicate Delta V of 263 feet per second. 1211 01:36:02,215 --> 01:36:05,133 Timer burn T plus 12, plus 15. 1212 01:36:05,218 --> 01:36:09,221 - Have Fido confirm my numbers. - Roger, stand by. 1213 01:36:23,903 --> 01:36:27,155 Rescue, Flight. We show you right on the money. Go get them, kid. 1214 01:36:28,241 --> 01:36:32,035 Cause of death will be anoxia. 1215 01:36:36,124 --> 01:36:38,750 You know, that's an interesting way to go. 1216 01:36:39,502 --> 01:36:42,170 The brain gets starved for oxygen. 1217 01:36:42,255 --> 01:36:46,258 Ironman One, this is the Cape. Do you read? 1218 01:36:47,468 --> 01:36:52,973 Just before the end you feel great and then you laugh it up. 1219 01:36:55,059 --> 01:36:59,229 When you're ready to start singing and shouting... 1220 01:37:01,482 --> 01:37:03,191 blackout. 1221 01:37:03,276 --> 01:37:07,404 Ironman One, this is the Cape. Do you read? 1222 01:37:10,825 --> 01:37:13,827 You know, that's an interesting mechanism. 1223 01:37:13,911 --> 01:37:16,913 There's not much data on that either. 1224 01:37:20,293 --> 01:37:23,795 Ironman One, this is Carnarva. Do you read? 1225 01:37:25,673 --> 01:37:28,550 Ironman One, Redstone, do you copy? 1226 01:37:31,888 --> 01:37:39,686 Ironman One, Houston CapCom, do you read? 1227 01:37:41,064 --> 01:37:45,192 Ironman One, this is Houston Flight, do you read me? 1228 01:37:46,361 --> 01:37:49,279 Ironman, this is Keith. 1229 01:37:50,990 --> 01:37:53,200 What the hell do they want? 1230 01:37:56,287 --> 01:37:58,246 Hello, Jim, I want to talk to you. 1231 01:37:58,331 --> 01:37:59,873 Yeah, what do you want? 1232 01:37:59,957 --> 01:38:02,042 I have some numbers for you. 1233 01:38:02,126 --> 01:38:06,922 The eye of the hurricane passed over the Cape at 2218 1234 01:38:07,006 --> 01:38:12,344 and we had a second window at 2231:06, Cape time. 1235 01:38:12,428 --> 01:38:16,181 We've successfully launched the rescue craft through the eye, 1236 01:38:16,265 --> 01:38:18,058 do you understand? 1237 01:38:19,769 --> 01:38:21,978 You have launched the XRV? 1238 01:38:22,063 --> 01:38:24,981 Yes, that's correct, the XRV has completed staging 1239 01:38:25,066 --> 01:38:27,526 and is on its way to rendezvous. 1240 01:38:27,610 --> 01:38:31,029 Our transfer will be at 2328. 1241 01:38:31,114 --> 01:38:34,741 That's 55 minutes from now, do you read? 1242 01:38:34,826 --> 01:38:36,410 Yeah, I read. 1243 01:38:40,790 --> 01:38:47,295 Jim, how do you evaluate the oxygen situation? 1244 01:38:50,216 --> 01:38:54,094 Well, we have whatever oxygen's left in the spacecraft system... 1245 01:38:54,178 --> 01:38:58,181 and there are only two bottles of emergency oxygen onboard, 1246 01:38:58,266 --> 01:39:01,435 five minutes each, that's 10 man-minutes. 1247 01:39:03,396 --> 01:39:07,691 My backpack and Lloyd's and Stone's... 1248 01:39:07,775 --> 01:39:10,819 but there's not much oxygen left in them. 1249 01:39:10,903 --> 01:39:13,572 Well, you'll have to save your backpacks for the EVA transfer. 1250 01:39:13,656 --> 01:39:15,407 Yeah, I know that. 1251 01:39:17,410 --> 01:39:18,827 Fifty-five minutes. 1252 01:39:24,333 --> 01:39:25,709 We'll be dead by then. 1253 01:39:25,793 --> 01:39:32,132 Well, only if you continue to use oxygen at the present rate. 1254 01:39:32,216 --> 01:39:35,469 Well, we can't cut down. 1255 01:39:35,553 --> 01:39:37,721 Let's think about that. 1256 01:39:39,432 --> 01:39:43,393 You want us to lower the partial pressure again? 1257 01:39:43,478 --> 01:39:46,271 No, we've examined that. It won't work. 1258 01:39:49,442 --> 01:39:52,652 Well, we're lying here like corpses now. 1259 01:39:52,737 --> 01:39:54,154 What else can we do? 1260 01:39:55,573 --> 01:39:57,908 You must think. 1261 01:40:06,125 --> 01:40:07,959 Yeah, we're thinking. 1262 01:40:12,507 --> 01:40:15,300 Are we talking about the same thing? 1263 01:40:17,512 --> 01:40:18,512 Yeah. 1264 01:40:20,139 --> 01:40:23,391 Why don't you talk it over? 1265 01:40:23,476 --> 01:40:26,394 If you could work out something, it would be a great help. 1266 01:40:26,479 --> 01:40:28,396 Yeah, we'll talk it over. 1267 01:40:28,481 --> 01:40:32,400 I must point out that any effective action must be taken immediately. 1268 01:40:32,485 --> 01:40:34,736 Look, don't tell me what to do! 1269 01:40:34,820 --> 01:40:37,489 We've been taking your damned orders and where the hell are we?! 1270 01:40:37,573 --> 01:40:40,492 From now on we're gonna make all of the decisions! 1271 01:40:40,993 --> 01:40:42,577 Whatever we do, you're out of it! 1272 01:40:43,621 --> 01:40:46,373 I appreciate what you're saying, Jim... 1273 01:40:46,457 --> 01:40:49,292 and I agree with you, you're exactly right. 1274 01:40:49,961 --> 01:40:52,170 Yeah, anything else? 1275 01:40:52,838 --> 01:40:55,340 No, that's all at the moment. 1276 01:40:57,343 --> 01:41:01,054 Would you please give me those launch numbers again? 1277 01:41:01,138 --> 01:41:06,059 Yes, that's launch at 2231:06, Cape time... 1278 01:41:06,143 --> 01:41:09,437 rendezvous and transfer at 2328. 1279 01:41:10,523 --> 01:41:12,190 Thanks. 1280 01:41:28,207 --> 01:41:33,878 Launch at 2231:06, rendezvous 2328. 1281 01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:38,633 - That's what they say. - Fifty-five minutes to go. 1282 01:41:40,303 --> 01:41:42,512 Through the eye of a hurricane. 1283 01:41:42,597 --> 01:41:44,889 Jesus, 55 minutes. 1284 01:41:46,058 --> 01:41:48,768 - Right. - We'll be pretty cold by then. 1285 01:41:56,027 --> 01:41:57,694 Well... 1286 01:41:59,280 --> 01:42:02,240 one of us is gonna have to go. 1287 01:42:03,743 --> 01:42:05,577 I mean... 1288 01:42:07,163 --> 01:42:09,456 that's what we're talking about, isn't it? 1289 01:42:10,416 --> 01:42:13,585 One of us goes and the other two stay. 1290 01:42:17,590 --> 01:42:19,591 Well... 1291 01:42:20,593 --> 01:42:22,594 what are we gonna do? 1292 01:42:25,431 --> 01:42:27,098 Look, let's do it scientifically. 1293 01:42:27,183 --> 01:42:30,226 Two big guys throw the little guy out, okay? 1294 01:42:30,311 --> 01:42:32,687 Yeah, well that's an idea. 1295 01:42:40,696 --> 01:42:44,783 We're gonna have to talk about this. So, what are we gonna do? 1296 01:42:48,621 --> 01:42:50,830 I could do it by chance. 1297 01:42:53,125 --> 01:42:55,460 I'll tear out strips from a pad. 1298 01:42:55,544 --> 01:42:58,546 One short, two long. The guy with the short end goes. 1299 01:42:58,631 --> 01:43:00,173 Yeah. 1300 01:43:02,426 --> 01:43:04,511 Oh, Jesus, we can't do that. 1301 01:43:05,638 --> 01:43:07,639 No, we can't do that. 1302 01:43:09,183 --> 01:43:12,435 Well look, I don't want to just lay here and die. 1303 01:43:12,978 --> 01:43:14,771 All right, then figure the odds. 1304 01:43:14,855 --> 01:43:17,607 Two guys, three guys, is that much difference? 1305 01:43:17,692 --> 01:43:19,567 I say double the pills. 1306 01:43:19,652 --> 01:43:22,570 No moving, no talking, pulse way down. 1307 01:43:22,655 --> 01:43:26,783 Even when there's no pressure there's oxygen molecules floating around. 1308 01:43:27,451 --> 01:43:30,704 You live for a while even when there's no pressure in the gauges. 1309 01:43:32,248 --> 01:43:35,166 For God's sake, it's less than 55 minutes! 1310 01:43:35,668 --> 01:43:38,670 - You're dreaming, Stone. - All right, okay. 1311 01:43:43,175 --> 01:43:44,676 I'll go. 1312 01:43:46,220 --> 01:43:49,597 I'm the weakest, I'm using up the most oxygen, I'll go. 1313 01:43:49,682 --> 01:43:51,224 It's all right. 1314 01:43:51,976 --> 01:43:54,018 All right, all right. 1315 01:43:59,108 --> 01:44:00,692 All right, get your helmets on. 1316 01:44:02,987 --> 01:44:05,029 I'm going out to fix the engine. 1317 01:44:05,114 --> 01:44:08,241 Are you kidding? You can't fix that engine. 1318 01:44:08,325 --> 01:44:09,951 What the hell do you know about it? 1319 01:44:15,416 --> 01:44:17,459 I don't know why I let them talk me out of it. 1320 01:44:17,543 --> 01:44:19,419 I should've done this two days ago. 1321 01:44:22,089 --> 01:44:24,549 Come on, get your helmets on. 1322 01:46:03,357 --> 01:46:05,567 He'll fix it. 1323 01:46:05,651 --> 01:46:08,653 He's good, he'll fix it. 1324 01:46:08,737 --> 01:46:12,282 You son of a bitch. You know what he's doing up there. 1325 01:46:18,122 --> 01:46:19,747 - Buzz, don't! - Jim! 1326 01:46:19,832 --> 01:46:22,834 - Get back in here. - Jim, don't do it! 1327 01:46:24,753 --> 01:46:27,171 You're going to rip out the umbilicals. 1328 01:46:27,256 --> 01:46:29,841 Jim, don't do it. Jim! 1329 01:46:30,968 --> 01:46:32,844 Jim. 1330 01:46:33,470 --> 01:46:36,848 Jim, don't do it. Jim! 1331 01:46:44,857 --> 01:46:48,401 Stoney. Stoney, give me some line here. 1332 01:46:48,485 --> 01:46:51,112 - Stoney? - We can't get to him. 1333 01:48:49,982 --> 01:48:50,982 Yes? 1334 01:48:51,817 --> 01:48:55,111 Mrs. Pruett, I wanted to talk to you. 1335 01:48:55,195 --> 01:48:57,447 Mrs. Pruett... 1336 01:48:57,531 --> 01:48:59,949 your husband is dead. 1337 01:49:05,706 --> 01:49:09,000 It was an accident. 1338 01:49:10,002 --> 01:49:13,504 He was trying to repair the spacecraft. 1339 01:49:21,013 --> 01:49:23,431 I'm sorry. 1340 01:49:45,037 --> 01:49:49,540 Jim? 1341 01:49:50,292 --> 01:49:52,502 I told you, Jim's not here. 1342 01:49:53,045 --> 01:49:55,004 He had an accident. 1343 01:49:55,923 --> 01:49:58,257 Where's Stoney at? 1344 01:49:58,342 --> 01:50:00,134 I'm here. 1345 01:50:02,096 --> 01:50:03,971 Stoney? 1346 01:50:04,640 --> 01:50:06,891 Dougherty's coming. 1347 01:50:13,607 --> 01:50:18,111 Stoney, tell Jim to get us out of here. 1348 01:50:18,195 --> 01:50:21,781 Stop eating your oxygen, damn you! 1349 01:50:21,865 --> 01:50:23,658 Be still! 1350 01:50:27,079 --> 01:50:30,373 Range 76.8. 1351 01:50:31,875 --> 01:50:34,418 I've got to hit it. I'm a little under the line. 1352 01:50:34,503 --> 01:50:37,004 Rescue, Flight. Do you confirm burn attitude? 1353 01:50:37,089 --> 01:50:42,426 - Roger, attitude is go, Delta V 63. - Roger, Ted, this is the one. 1354 01:50:42,511 --> 01:50:46,097 Roger, three, two, one. 1355 01:50:50,144 --> 01:50:52,019 Oxygen. 1356 01:50:52,104 --> 01:50:56,149 Can't. Can't, gotta save it for the transfer. 1357 01:50:59,570 --> 01:51:01,529 I'm dying. 1358 01:51:02,114 --> 01:51:05,867 - I'm dying. - No, you're not dying. 1359 01:51:07,202 --> 01:51:10,037 It takes a long time to die. 1360 01:51:10,122 --> 01:51:15,918 Ironman, this is Rescue. 1361 01:51:17,129 --> 01:51:21,132 - Read you. - Turn on your acquisition lights. 1362 01:51:23,135 --> 01:51:24,302 Say again? 1363 01:51:24,386 --> 01:51:27,138 Come on, Stoney, turn on your acquisition lights. 1364 01:51:28,473 --> 01:51:32,852 Roger. Roger, acquisition lights. 1365 01:51:40,485 --> 01:51:45,239 Okay, Stoney, I'm coming right down the pipe. I'll see you in six minutes. 1366 01:51:45,324 --> 01:51:46,866 Six minutes, roger. 1367 01:51:47,659 --> 01:51:52,872 Buzz, six more minutes. Only six more minutes, Buzz. 1368 01:51:55,250 --> 01:51:59,503 - I can't. - You can, Buzz. You've got to. 1369 01:51:59,588 --> 01:52:02,506 - I can't. - You can, Buzz. Think of something. 1370 01:52:02,591 --> 01:52:04,217 Think of... 1371 01:52:06,178 --> 01:52:07,428 Think of the Earth, Buzz. 1372 01:52:09,473 --> 01:52:11,432 Look at the Earth, Buzz. 1373 01:52:11,934 --> 01:52:14,060 Look, can you...? 1374 01:52:14,144 --> 01:52:16,270 Can you tell where we are? 1375 01:52:17,189 --> 01:52:19,106 Stoney? 1376 01:52:21,193 --> 01:52:23,194 All right, Buzz. 1377 01:52:25,197 --> 01:52:27,198 All right. 1378 01:52:45,217 --> 01:52:49,720 All right, Buzz, you're on my air now. 1379 01:52:49,805 --> 01:52:53,557 Take a breather. I'm going back on cabin air. 1380 01:52:53,642 --> 01:52:55,226 There must be some left. 1381 01:53:28,719 --> 01:53:31,429 Ironman, this is Keith. 1382 01:53:32,764 --> 01:53:35,850 Ironman, this is Keith, do you read me? 1383 01:53:35,934 --> 01:53:37,727 Purpose... 1384 01:53:38,562 --> 01:53:40,604 and objective. 1385 01:53:40,689 --> 01:53:44,525 Ironman One, this is Keith, do you read? 1386 01:53:47,279 --> 01:53:49,196 Purpose... 1387 01:53:49,281 --> 01:53:51,532 and objective. 1388 01:53:52,284 --> 01:53:55,328 Ironman, this is Keith, do you read me? 1389 01:54:02,294 --> 01:54:04,378 Purpose: 1390 01:54:07,299 --> 01:54:11,552 The acquisition of... 1391 01:54:11,636 --> 01:54:13,137 data. 1392 01:54:13,221 --> 01:54:16,223 Ironman, do you read me? 1393 01:54:18,310 --> 01:54:20,227 No. 1394 01:54:20,312 --> 01:54:25,316 Oh, God. 1395 01:54:26,234 --> 01:54:30,112 How beautiful. 1396 01:54:36,828 --> 01:54:39,955 I'm beginning to see... 1397 01:54:40,040 --> 01:54:41,624 visions... 1398 01:54:41,708 --> 01:54:44,377 Stoney, come in. 1399 01:54:47,672 --> 01:54:49,590 Of death. 1400 01:54:55,305 --> 01:54:57,390 There you are. 1401 01:55:03,355 --> 01:55:06,273 Ironman, this is Keith. 1402 01:55:06,358 --> 01:55:11,278 Ironman, a Russian spacecraft is making rendezvous with you. 1403 01:55:11,363 --> 01:55:15,783 Do you see a Russian spacecraft? Come in. 1404 01:55:16,701 --> 01:55:20,788 Stoney, do you see a Russian spacecraft? 1405 01:55:21,665 --> 01:55:23,290 I see him. 1406 01:55:24,209 --> 01:55:29,046 Good. Now 30 minutes ago he made a change in orbit. 1407 01:55:29,131 --> 01:55:32,591 He is moving towards you for rendezvous. 1408 01:55:32,676 --> 01:55:34,385 We don't know what he's going to do. 1409 01:55:35,429 --> 01:55:38,222 All you can do at this point is watch him. 1410 01:55:38,306 --> 01:55:41,058 Watch him. Stoney, do you read me? 1411 01:55:42,769 --> 01:55:44,395 He... 1412 01:55:45,147 --> 01:55:47,731 He's stopping. 1413 01:56:01,037 --> 01:56:03,414 He's opening up. 1414 01:56:04,416 --> 01:56:08,043 He's coming out. 1415 01:56:22,100 --> 01:56:25,394 He wants me to do something. 1416 01:56:35,447 --> 01:56:40,075 I think he wants me to open the hatch. 1417 01:56:40,994 --> 01:56:44,371 Stoney, what is your oxygen readout? 1418 01:56:44,456 --> 01:56:46,874 Your oxygen readout? 1419 01:56:47,834 --> 01:56:50,294 Oh, it's zero-zero. 1420 01:56:50,378 --> 01:56:53,964 No, no. No, that... 1421 01:56:54,049 --> 01:56:56,759 That can't be right. I'm... 1422 01:56:59,721 --> 01:57:01,555 I'm breathing something. 1423 01:57:01,640 --> 01:57:06,101 Now, Stoney, listen to me. I want you to follow through with the Russian. 1424 01:57:06,186 --> 01:57:07,937 Don't wait for Dougherty. 1425 01:57:08,480 --> 01:57:11,065 - Is Dougherty here? - Dougherty is not there. 1426 01:57:11,149 --> 01:57:15,819 The Russian is there. He wants you to open your hatch. 1427 01:57:15,904 --> 01:57:18,489 Oh, God, I'm tired, Charles. 1428 01:57:19,157 --> 01:57:22,868 - I'm tired. - Stoney, put on your helmet. 1429 01:57:22,953 --> 01:57:26,497 Open the hatch. 1430 01:57:27,916 --> 01:57:29,500 Open... 1431 01:57:30,919 --> 01:57:33,128 All right. 1432 01:57:33,213 --> 01:57:36,590 - Blow hatch. - Negative, do not blow the hatch. 1433 01:57:36,675 --> 01:57:39,802 Open it with the lever, the unlocking lever. 1434 01:57:39,886 --> 01:57:41,720 Do you read me, Stoney? 1435 01:57:51,314 --> 01:57:53,023 Stoney? 1436 01:58:45,744 --> 01:58:48,746 Flight, this is Rescue, I've got their light. 1437 01:58:48,830 --> 01:58:51,415 Roger, Ted, you've got their acq lights. 1438 01:58:54,502 --> 01:58:55,586 Blow hatch. 1439 01:59:00,592 --> 01:59:05,596 - Blow the hatch. - Do not. Do not blow the hatch! 1440 01:59:11,561 --> 01:59:13,646 Hatch blown. 1441 01:59:53,103 --> 01:59:55,646 He can't get any closer, Buzz. 1442 01:59:56,940 --> 01:59:59,441 We have to go to him. 1443 02:01:24,444 --> 02:01:28,113 I've got visual on them now. I'm gonna brake down to 10. 1444 02:01:28,198 --> 02:01:31,825 They're about 50 feet apart. The Apollo hatch is open. 1445 02:01:31,910 --> 02:01:35,204 - Can you see the crew? - Negative. 1446 02:01:35,288 --> 02:01:37,414 I'm gonna go in a little closer. 1447 02:02:10,949 --> 02:02:14,076 There's a light flashing from the Russian ship. 1448 02:02:32,262 --> 02:02:37,057 Some guy's floating about 150 feet below me. I'm going after him. 1449 02:04:56,948 --> 02:05:00,367 Ironman, this is Keith, do you read me? 1450 02:05:05,206 --> 02:05:07,457 Come in, Ironman. 1451 02:05:24,350 --> 02:05:27,978 Ironman, this is Keith, come in. 1452 02:06:05,099 --> 02:06:09,019 Ironman One, this is Keith, do you read? 1453 02:06:33,711 --> 02:06:37,047 Ironman, this is Keith, do you read me? 1454 02:06:50,228 --> 02:06:52,979 Ironman, do you read me? 1455 02:06:53,064 --> 02:06:54,815 Keith, this is Rescue. 1456 02:06:54,899 --> 02:06:57,484 I'm in the Apollo. The Russian got air to Stoney 1457 02:06:57,568 --> 02:07:00,070 and I've transferred him to my oxygen. 1458 02:07:01,405 --> 02:07:03,365 He's all right, he's breathing. 1459 02:07:04,075 --> 02:07:06,243 And I've got Lloyd. 1460 02:07:34,105 --> 02:07:38,358 Ted, get back to the XRV and prepare for re-entry. 1461 02:07:38,442 --> 02:07:41,027 Roger, I'm on my way. 1462 02:07:57,128 --> 02:08:00,922 Ten, nine, eight, seven... 1463 02:08:01,007 --> 02:08:07,095 six, five, four, three, two, one.