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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:08,341 --> 00:00:12,012 CRONKITE (off screen): It's 3 hours and 32 minutes until man begins the greatest 4 00:00:12,095 --> 00:00:13,805 adventure in his history. 5 00:00:13,888 --> 00:00:15,724 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Five minutes, Gino, and you're go down here, 6 00:00:15,807 --> 00:00:16,933 you're looking great. 7 00:00:17,017 --> 00:00:18,601 Comm Manager and Attitude. 8 00:00:18,685 --> 00:00:20,228 MAN (over radio): Comm Manager... 9 00:00:20,311 --> 00:00:22,272 CRONKITE (off screen): Man is about to launch himself on a trip to the Moon with the 10 00:00:22,355 --> 00:00:24,315 expectation of landing there. 11 00:00:31,448 --> 00:00:36,036 KENNEDY: 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston... 12 00:00:36,786 --> 00:00:40,832 KENNEDY (off screen): A giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, 13 00:00:40,915 --> 00:00:45,045 reentering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour. 14 00:00:49,340 --> 00:00:52,010 HYDE (off screen): You well may be the first man on the Moon. 15 00:00:52,093 --> 00:00:53,845 How do you personally feel about it? 16 00:00:53,928 --> 00:00:56,723 LOVELL (off screen): Well I have the same desire as all the astronauts. 17 00:00:56,806 --> 00:00:58,475 We'd all like to make that trip. 18 00:00:58,558 --> 00:01:00,101 MAN (over radio): Verified, go for launch. 19 00:01:00,185 --> 00:01:02,103 PA OFFICER (over radio): All still, "go" at this time. 20 00:01:02,187 --> 00:01:04,939 MAN (over radio): Four, three, two, one. 21 00:01:05,023 --> 00:01:06,983 Roger T minus zero. 22 00:01:07,067 --> 00:01:08,568 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Liftoff. Liftoff. 23 00:01:08,651 --> 00:01:09,861 Roger liftoff. 24 00:01:09,944 --> 00:01:12,530 REPORTER (over radio): And we have liftoff! 25 00:01:12,906 --> 00:01:15,241 She's lifting up, we have, "Tower Clear." 26 00:01:15,325 --> 00:01:16,409 PA OFFICER (over radio): Tower clear! 27 00:01:16,493 --> 00:01:17,869 REPORTER (over radio): We have tower clear. 28 00:01:17,952 --> 00:01:21,414 We're beginning to feel the first thunderous roar! 29 00:01:29,464 --> 00:01:32,550 BERGMAN (off screen): You claim that morale hasn't sagged here with the cutbacks 30 00:01:32,634 --> 00:01:34,010 in the space program. 31 00:01:34,094 --> 00:01:37,847 Are you concerned that some step in check out may be missed that might 32 00:01:37,931 --> 00:01:39,766 cause a mechanical failure? 33 00:01:39,849 --> 00:01:42,102 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Seventy. 34 00:01:42,185 --> 00:01:44,479 ALDRIN (over radio): Thirty feet, two and a half down. 35 00:01:45,355 --> 00:01:48,233 ALDRIN (over radio): 20 feet, down a half. 36 00:01:49,234 --> 00:01:51,069 Moving forward just a little bit, all right. 37 00:01:51,152 --> 00:01:53,113 Right. 38 00:01:53,822 --> 00:01:56,616 KRANZ (over radio): Okay, T1 stay, no stay, Retro? 39 00:01:56,699 --> 00:01:57,617 MAN (over radio): Stay. 40 00:01:57,700 --> 00:01:58,827 KRANZ (over radio): Fido? MAN (over radio): Stay. 41 00:01:58,910 --> 00:02:00,161 KRANZ (over radio): Guidance? GUIDANCE (over radio): Stay. 42 00:02:00,245 --> 00:02:01,496 KRANZ (over radio): Control? CONTROL (over radio): Stay. 43 00:02:01,579 --> 00:02:03,873 CAPCOM (over radio): No PDI plus 12. 44 00:02:10,213 --> 00:02:11,548 LOVELL (over radio): Ah, Houston we've had a problem. 45 00:02:11,631 --> 00:02:12,757 MAN (over radio): We've got more than a problem. 46 00:02:12,841 --> 00:02:14,092 LUNNEY (over radio): Okay, listen, listen you guys. 47 00:02:14,175 --> 00:02:16,177 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): We lost O2 tank 2 pressure. GNC, Flight. 48 00:02:16,261 --> 00:02:18,680 LUNNEY (over radio): What do you want on the heater circuit breaker? 49 00:02:18,763 --> 00:02:20,390 AARON (over radio): We ought to get off entry battery and do it with a 50 00:02:20,473 --> 00:02:22,517 flashlight through the LM. 51 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,060 PA OFFICER (over radio): Less than seven minutes now from time of entry into 52 00:02:24,144 --> 00:02:26,146 the Earth's atmosphere. 53 00:02:26,229 --> 00:02:28,064 REPORTER (over radio): There it is, it's coming out of the cloud level now. 54 00:02:28,148 --> 00:02:30,608 1,000 feet to go! 55 00:02:37,407 --> 00:02:41,619 ♪ ♪ 56 00:02:41,953 --> 00:02:44,581 LOVELL (over radio): Welcome from the Moon, Houston. 57 00:02:55,675 --> 00:02:57,427 DISNEY: At Disneyland Park, 58 00:02:57,510 --> 00:03:00,513 the ground devoted to things of the future is called, "Tomorrowland." 59 00:03:02,182 --> 00:03:05,768 DISNEY (off screen): One of the popular attractions here is our simulated rocket trip 60 00:03:05,852 --> 00:03:08,104 around the Moon. 61 00:03:08,730 --> 00:03:13,443 After entering the Disneyland Spaceport, visitors may experience the thrills that 62 00:03:13,526 --> 00:03:17,780 space travelers of the future will encounter when rocket trips to the Moon 63 00:03:18,406 --> 00:03:21,159 become a daily routine. 64 00:03:21,492 --> 00:03:24,537 KIMBALL: When we hear the exciting news of how the rocket scientists of today are 65 00:03:24,621 --> 00:03:28,499 preparing for tomorrow's trip to the Moon, we must remember that such a trip 66 00:03:28,583 --> 00:03:32,128 has long been the dream of many men since history began. 67 00:03:33,254 --> 00:03:35,465 KIMBALL (off screen): Roll the moon sequence, please. 68 00:03:37,842 --> 00:03:40,803 BRAUN (off screen): Since ancient times, since the beginning of man's 69 00:03:40,887 --> 00:03:43,014 ability to think, 70 00:03:43,097 --> 00:03:45,975 he has gazed at the heavens and dreamed that 71 00:03:46,059 --> 00:03:48,645 someday he would travel through space, 72 00:03:50,271 --> 00:03:54,108 to explore the Moon and planets, 73 00:03:54,192 --> 00:03:57,695 which have eternally captivated his imagination. 74 00:04:03,618 --> 00:04:06,537 DISNEY (off screen): However, scientists tell us it will be many years before space 75 00:04:06,621 --> 00:04:09,040 travel becomes a reality. 76 00:04:21,928 --> 00:04:23,596 REPORTER (off screen): President Eisenhower and other spokesmen of the 77 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,974 administration have been attempting to relieve the 78 00:04:26,057 --> 00:04:29,102 fears and anxieties caused by Russia's spectacular 79 00:04:29,185 --> 00:04:33,064 breakthrough in the Earth satellite and intercontinental ballistic missile field. 80 00:04:34,232 --> 00:04:36,859 REPORTER 2 (off screen): The rise of Sputnik-1 and the traumatic reaction 81 00:04:36,943 --> 00:04:38,903 of the world's peoples. 82 00:04:38,987 --> 00:04:42,282 Thrust before all Americans, problems wholly new. 83 00:04:42,615 --> 00:04:46,786 REPORTER 3 (off screen): The space age has become the new frontier in the Cold War. 84 00:04:51,416 --> 00:04:54,002 GLENNAN: We have one of the most challenging assignments that has ever 85 00:04:54,085 --> 00:04:56,587 been given to modern man. 86 00:04:56,671 --> 00:04:59,090 Expansion of human knowledge about space, 87 00:04:59,173 --> 00:05:02,385 development and operation of vehicles capable of 88 00:05:02,468 --> 00:05:07,473 carrying instruments and man through space, preservation of the role of 89 00:05:08,016 --> 00:05:12,645 the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology. 90 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:21,446 REPORTER (off screen): It was expected for months the first man in space 91 00:05:21,529 --> 00:05:22,822 would be a Russian. 92 00:05:22,905 --> 00:05:25,366 But still, the news was not welcome in Washington. 93 00:05:25,450 --> 00:05:28,077 REPORTER 2 (off screen): The United States man in space program is at least 94 00:05:28,161 --> 00:05:30,705 eight months behind that of the Soviet Union. 95 00:05:30,788 --> 00:05:33,541 KENNEDY: Now it is time to take longer strides. 96 00:05:33,624 --> 00:05:36,544 Time for a great new American enterprise. 97 00:05:37,128 --> 00:05:42,342 Time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, 98 00:05:43,426 --> 00:05:47,221 which in many ways, may hold the key to our future on Earth. 99 00:05:48,765 --> 00:05:52,477 I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal 100 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,438 before this decade is out 101 00:05:55,521 --> 00:05:59,192 of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. 102 00:06:00,985 --> 00:06:02,987 REPORTER (over TV): America's team of astronauts was increased 103 00:06:03,071 --> 00:06:05,823 to 16 today with the addition of nine new members. 104 00:06:05,907 --> 00:06:09,577 It was specified that they will be trained for trips to the Moon. 105 00:06:22,548 --> 00:06:28,763 ♪ ♪ 106 00:06:29,931 --> 00:06:32,392 REPORTER (over TV): As more and more scientific instruments marked, 107 00:06:32,475 --> 00:06:33,768 "Made in America" 108 00:06:33,851 --> 00:06:35,812 begin to show up in the space around the Earth, 109 00:06:35,895 --> 00:06:38,689 a wave of business-like optimism is being felt among 110 00:06:38,773 --> 00:06:41,109 American space officials. 111 00:06:41,609 --> 00:06:44,821 In both the House and Senate Space Committees, the committee men have been 112 00:06:44,904 --> 00:06:48,866 pleading with an official of the space administration to tell them that he needs more 113 00:06:48,950 --> 00:06:51,369 money, and he's been saying "No, he doesn't. 114 00:06:51,452 --> 00:06:54,539 His space work has been going fine on its current budget." 115 00:06:54,872 --> 00:06:56,791 That official is Wernher Von Braun, 116 00:06:56,874 --> 00:06:59,919 head of the famous Army rocket team which is now in the process of being 117 00:07:00,002 --> 00:07:03,214 transferred to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 118 00:07:03,798 --> 00:07:06,676 known from its initials as NASA. 119 00:07:07,468 --> 00:07:11,472 BRAUN: I'm often asked just what reason there is for man's going into space. 120 00:07:12,890 --> 00:07:16,060 It seems the notion is popular in this age of electronic and 121 00:07:16,144 --> 00:07:19,897 mechanical miracles that man is rapidly becoming obsolete. 122 00:07:20,773 --> 00:07:24,944 Men in space, some people say is a liability and a nuisance. 123 00:07:25,820 --> 00:07:30,241 Equipment can be designed to react to many known and fewer anticipated 124 00:07:30,324 --> 00:07:33,202 situations or events. 125 00:07:33,286 --> 00:07:38,583 But men can observe and correlate facts and respond to the unexpected. 126 00:07:40,501 --> 00:07:42,753 MAN (off screen): This spacecraft built by American Industry for the 127 00:07:42,837 --> 00:07:45,298 National Aeronautics and Space Administration 128 00:07:45,381 --> 00:07:49,177 will be launched into space from Cape Kennedy in a few days. 129 00:07:49,510 --> 00:07:51,596 It will carry no astronauts, 130 00:07:51,679 --> 00:07:54,098 yet this mission is one of the most important space flights 131 00:07:54,182 --> 00:07:56,559 to date for this is Apollo, 132 00:07:56,642 --> 00:07:59,228 the first of a family of spacecraft designed to 133 00:07:59,312 --> 00:08:02,899 transport Americans to the Moon before 1970. 134 00:08:03,441 --> 00:08:06,444 Many of its complex systems will fly in space for the first time 135 00:08:06,527 --> 00:08:08,779 aboard this spacecraft. 136 00:08:08,863 --> 00:08:11,949 SHEA: After the launch vehicle has placed us at the proper velocity, 137 00:08:12,033 --> 00:08:16,746 the Command Module and the Service Module separate from the launch vehicle. 138 00:08:17,955 --> 00:08:22,168 They've been pitched down at an attitude roughly like this. 139 00:08:22,251 --> 00:08:27,340 This engine, which we will ultimately use to return the astronauts from Earth's orbit 140 00:08:27,423 --> 00:08:32,261 to the Earth's surface and also in later missions to put the astronauts into lunar 141 00:08:32,345 --> 00:08:34,764 orbit and bring them back home from lunar orbit, 142 00:08:34,847 --> 00:08:37,183 will then have its first flight test. 143 00:08:37,683 --> 00:08:39,560 MAN (off screen): From the Mission Control Center in Houston, 144 00:08:39,644 --> 00:08:41,938 Glynn Lunney will direct the flight. 145 00:08:42,313 --> 00:08:45,441 LUNNEY: We are conducting the first Apollo spacecraft test, 146 00:08:45,525 --> 00:08:48,277 Apollo-Saturn 201, from this control center 147 00:08:48,361 --> 00:08:51,572 in the Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas. 148 00:08:51,656 --> 00:08:55,076 From now on, the Apollo flights after liftoff will be directed from 149 00:08:55,159 --> 00:08:56,869 this Control Center. 150 00:08:56,953 --> 00:08:59,914 We've been exercising the Control Center for the last couple of months, 151 00:08:59,997 --> 00:09:02,416 and we are ready to start flying. 152 00:09:05,795 --> 00:09:08,756 REPORTER (over radio): Astronauts preparing for America's first lunar mission 153 00:09:08,839 --> 00:09:11,551 follow a complex training program. 154 00:09:11,634 --> 00:09:15,346 Designed to provide them with knowledge about the conditions they will face 155 00:09:15,429 --> 00:09:17,682 during their mission to the Moon. 156 00:09:19,934 --> 00:09:21,811 BURKE (over TV): There's one way on Earth that you can 157 00:09:21,894 --> 00:09:24,063 reproduce the weightlessness experienced in space, 158 00:09:24,146 --> 00:09:26,190 and that's in this plane. 159 00:09:26,524 --> 00:09:28,234 I don't know if I'm talking clearly, 160 00:09:28,317 --> 00:09:30,820 but pretty soon we'll go up over the top and when we 161 00:09:30,903 --> 00:09:34,991 do I'm supposed to float, and, and, 162 00:09:36,075 --> 00:09:38,911 I'm going. I'm going. 163 00:09:39,954 --> 00:09:41,247 It's fantastic. 164 00:09:41,330 --> 00:09:42,415 It's unbelievable! 165 00:09:42,498 --> 00:09:45,668 It's the most extraordinary feeling. 166 00:09:45,751 --> 00:09:48,838 I can't, I can't really control myself. 167 00:09:49,964 --> 00:09:52,717 All the dust is flying with me. 168 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,720 I'm up, I can't control myself at all. 169 00:09:56,637 --> 00:09:58,472 CRONKITE (over TV): Two years, really, 170 00:09:58,556 --> 00:10:01,225 of day and night work and months away from home. 171 00:10:01,309 --> 00:10:03,311 It's a big job these men have. 172 00:10:03,394 --> 00:10:05,521 There's nothing simple about it. 173 00:10:06,105 --> 00:10:08,316 REPORTER (over TV): The question everybody wants to ask, 174 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:10,192 what do the wives and children of 175 00:10:10,276 --> 00:10:12,778 these men think of their ambitions to go into space? 176 00:10:13,362 --> 00:10:16,407 GLENN: My wife's attitude towards this has been the same as it has been all along 177 00:10:16,490 --> 00:10:20,244 through all my flying that if it's what I want to do and she's behind it 178 00:10:20,911 --> 00:10:23,581 and the kids are too, 100%. 179 00:10:23,664 --> 00:10:26,125 GRISSOM: Well, my wife feels the same way or of course I couldn't be here. 180 00:10:26,208 --> 00:10:31,881 She's with me all the way, and the boys are too little to realize what's going on yet, 181 00:10:31,964 --> 00:10:33,591 but I'm sure they feel the same way. 182 00:10:33,674 --> 00:10:37,678 REPORTER (off screen): Mrs. Grissom, do you hope that he is the fellow who makes it? 183 00:10:39,180 --> 00:10:42,099 BETTY: Well, I don't know. 184 00:10:43,309 --> 00:10:45,102 How would you feel if your wife, 185 00:10:45,186 --> 00:10:47,605 I still want one of you guys to answer that for me. 186 00:10:48,564 --> 00:10:49,774 REPORTER (off screen): Answer what? 187 00:10:49,857 --> 00:10:52,193 BETTY: Just how would you feel it was vice versa, 188 00:10:52,276 --> 00:10:54,236 if it was your wife going to outer space. 189 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:55,821 Now, just how would you feel about it? 190 00:10:58,574 --> 00:11:01,911 MAN (off screen): The Moon is a necessary first step for exploration of the planets. 191 00:11:02,745 --> 00:11:06,123 To fly men there and return them safely in this decade is the goal 192 00:11:06,207 --> 00:11:08,459 of NASA's project Apollo. 193 00:11:09,043 --> 00:11:12,797 The early missions of Mercury and the experience from Gemini have brought 194 00:11:13,422 --> 00:11:14,882 this country to 195 00:11:14,965 --> 00:11:18,469 the next major milestone, the first Apollo three-man space flight. 196 00:11:18,552 --> 00:11:20,846 These are the men to fly that mission. 197 00:11:20,930 --> 00:11:23,140 Command pilot Virgil Grissom. 198 00:11:23,224 --> 00:11:25,351 Mercury, Gemini, and now Apollo. 199 00:11:25,434 --> 00:11:27,311 His third time into space. 200 00:11:27,395 --> 00:11:29,772 One of the original seven astronauts. 201 00:11:29,855 --> 00:11:31,524 The senior pilot, Edward White. 202 00:11:31,607 --> 00:11:34,902 He will be remembered for his spacewalk during Gemini four. 203 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:39,073 White has been specializing in the computers and training for the upcoming mission. 204 00:11:39,782 --> 00:11:43,035 Astronaut Roger Chaffee will man the third Apollo seat. 205 00:11:43,119 --> 00:11:46,038 He has been concentrating on the flight plan and experiments. 206 00:11:53,337 --> 00:11:56,757 CHAFFEE: I think everybody in the space program has been asked this 50 times and 207 00:11:56,841 --> 00:12:01,554 it's probably the toughest question to answer and not sound, shall we say corny, 208 00:12:02,972 --> 00:12:04,098 with the answer. 209 00:12:04,181 --> 00:12:06,183 It's a new phase of exploration. 210 00:12:06,267 --> 00:12:11,522 It's, you might say and sound a little trite, it's there. 211 00:12:14,024 --> 00:12:17,862 We'd be neglecting our duties as people, as human beings if we 212 00:12:17,945 --> 00:12:20,698 didn't try to investigate it. 213 00:12:21,115 --> 00:12:23,075 CHAFFEE (off screen): We're improving our engineering capability. 214 00:12:23,159 --> 00:12:28,247 We're building new equipment that has an untold number of uses in fields that 215 00:12:28,330 --> 00:12:31,000 we can't even conceive of today. 216 00:12:31,083 --> 00:12:36,630 The scientific aspect, I don't think anybody can predict what it's going to be. 217 00:12:37,465 --> 00:12:41,677 Things that we'll find there, some of the basic geologic things that we might find 218 00:12:41,761 --> 00:12:47,016 there that have long since been destroyed by weather on Earth, might give us more 219 00:12:47,099 --> 00:12:51,353 insight into the birth of our universe, or birth of our solar system. 220 00:12:54,231 --> 00:12:56,734 REPORTER (off screen): You flew on Mercury, you flew on Gemini, 221 00:12:56,817 --> 00:12:58,986 now you're flying on Apollo. 222 00:12:59,069 --> 00:13:03,783 Is the law of averages so far as the possibility of a catastrophic failure bother 223 00:13:03,866 --> 00:13:06,160 you at all, sir? 224 00:13:06,243 --> 00:13:09,622 GRISSOM: No, you sort of have to put that out of your mind. 225 00:13:09,955 --> 00:13:14,418 There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic 226 00:13:14,502 --> 00:13:15,920 failure of course. 227 00:13:16,003 --> 00:13:17,296 It's going to happen on any flight. 228 00:13:17,379 --> 00:13:19,590 It can happen on the last one as well as the first one, 229 00:13:19,673 --> 00:13:22,885 so you just plan as best you can 230 00:13:22,968 --> 00:13:25,930 to take care of all of these eventualities. 231 00:13:26,013 --> 00:13:30,226 And you get a well-trained crew and you go fly. 232 00:13:37,942 --> 00:13:43,489 ♪ ♪ 233 00:13:58,712 --> 00:14:05,010 ♪ ♪ 234 00:14:09,807 --> 00:14:11,225 MAN (over radio): Go ahead... 235 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:15,145 CONTROL (over radio): Okay, have we got all three astronauts patched 236 00:14:15,229 --> 00:14:18,190 S-Band into Black 3? 237 00:14:18,941 --> 00:14:20,359 MAN (over radio): Ah, yep. 238 00:14:20,442 --> 00:14:22,611 CONTROL (over radio): Say again? 239 00:14:23,654 --> 00:14:26,448 CREW (over radio): How are we going to get to the Moon if we can't talk 240 00:14:26,532 --> 00:14:28,242 between three buildings? 241 00:14:29,827 --> 00:14:31,912 MAN (over radio): They can't hear a thing you're saying. 242 00:14:32,663 --> 00:14:34,206 CREW (over radio): Again, this is the Command Pilot. 243 00:14:34,290 --> 00:14:37,126 One, two, three, four, five. Five, four, three, two, one. 244 00:14:40,129 --> 00:14:43,299 CONTROL (over radio): Can we get a verification that all three of you are 245 00:14:43,382 --> 00:14:45,843 in the S-Band mode? 246 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:52,808 (radio static) 247 00:14:57,396 --> 00:14:59,106 CREW (over radio): Flames! 248 00:15:05,404 --> 00:15:08,949 CREW (over radio): We're having a bad fire! We're burning up! 249 00:15:13,871 --> 00:15:16,415 CONTROL (over radio): Hey, crew, can you egress at this time? 250 00:15:16,498 --> 00:15:17,791 Confirm it? 251 00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:20,878 Pad leader, get in there and help them. 252 00:15:21,378 --> 00:15:23,797 Pad leader, were you able to hear them? 253 00:15:25,007 --> 00:15:27,176 All right, crew, we get verification? 254 00:15:27,259 --> 00:15:29,428 Gus, can you read us? 255 00:15:30,888 --> 00:15:32,932 CONTROL (over radio): Pad leader? 256 00:15:35,351 --> 00:15:36,560 REPORTER (over radio): 7:12. 257 00:15:36,644 --> 00:15:38,520 Just handed to us from WCCO Radio News now. 258 00:15:38,604 --> 00:15:41,774 An accidental fire has broken out on the Apollo launch pad at Cape Kennedy, 259 00:15:41,857 --> 00:15:44,443 killing at least one person. 260 00:15:44,526 --> 00:15:46,612 Now, here's more news on that. 261 00:15:47,905 --> 00:15:49,531 RYAN: Good evening. 262 00:15:49,615 --> 00:15:52,618 Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee have been killed 263 00:15:52,701 --> 00:15:57,039 in a flash fire during a rehearsal of the countdown and launch of the Apollo flight 264 00:15:57,122 --> 00:15:59,583 they were to have made on the 21st of next month. 265 00:16:02,711 --> 00:16:04,505 EDWARDS (over radio): Details are sparse, 266 00:16:04,588 --> 00:16:06,840 but killed were Air Force Lieutenant Colonel 267 00:16:06,924 --> 00:16:10,928 Virgil Grissom, who was one of the seven original Mercury astronauts. 268 00:16:11,011 --> 00:16:13,722 Very well known, indeed. 269 00:16:15,057 --> 00:16:17,768 Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Edward White II, 270 00:16:17,851 --> 00:16:20,354 who was the first American to walk in space, 271 00:16:20,437 --> 00:16:24,066 and Navy Lieutenant Commander Roger Chaffee, a rookie awaiting his first 272 00:16:24,149 --> 00:16:26,318 flight in space. 273 00:16:27,945 --> 00:16:30,698 REPORTER (over radio): The spacecraft was located 218 feet above the launch 274 00:16:30,781 --> 00:16:34,910 pad and was mated to the uprated Saturn 1B launch vehicle. 275 00:16:35,577 --> 00:16:37,371 Hatches on the spacecraft were closed. 276 00:16:37,454 --> 00:16:41,250 Emergency crews were hampered by dense smoke in removing the hatches. 277 00:16:44,044 --> 00:16:46,797 HARTZ (off screen): Within a few hours, an official investigation was underway. 278 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,591 Tapes containing telemetry records were impounded. 279 00:16:49,675 --> 00:16:52,386 Photographs showing the position of every switch and valve inside 280 00:16:52,469 --> 00:16:54,346 the cabin were made. 281 00:16:54,430 --> 00:16:57,891 Eyewitnesses were asked to tell their story while it was fresh and then, 282 00:16:57,975 --> 00:16:59,810 shortly before 2:00 this morning, 283 00:16:59,893 --> 00:17:03,397 the bodies of Grissom, White, and Chaffee were removed and brought down. 284 00:17:09,653 --> 00:17:13,198 BROOKS (over radio): With the Moon visible overhead and a blue sky traced with clouds, 285 00:17:13,282 --> 00:17:15,367 the same Moon he had hoped someday to land on, 286 00:17:15,451 --> 00:17:17,161 the stage is set for the burial of 287 00:17:17,244 --> 00:17:20,664 Virgil Gus Grissom here at Arlington National Cemetery this morning. 288 00:17:25,085 --> 00:17:27,838 The mourners taking their place. 289 00:17:28,797 --> 00:17:31,675 The families, still off on the side. 290 00:17:32,509 --> 00:17:36,055 Mrs. Grissom and the two sons. 291 00:17:38,015 --> 00:17:40,768 CLAPPER (over radio): President Johnson said in a statement, "Three valiant 292 00:17:40,851 --> 00:17:43,395 young men have given their lives in the nation's service. 293 00:17:43,479 --> 00:17:46,190 We mourn this great loss and our hearts go out to their families." 294 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:51,528 Space officials say that because of the tragedy, 295 00:17:51,612 --> 00:17:55,240 the Apollo 1 flight has now been postponed indefinitely. 296 00:18:02,664 --> 00:18:05,876 GUIDE (over speaker): The national space program began in 1958 under 297 00:18:05,959 --> 00:18:09,004 President Dwight Eisenhower. 298 00:18:10,339 --> 00:18:15,427 NASA's primary purpose is to acquire new knowledge about the universe in which we live. 299 00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:20,015 We're now approaching the industrial area of the Kennedy Space Center. 300 00:18:20,099 --> 00:18:23,393 That first large building over there is known as the CIF, 301 00:18:23,477 --> 00:18:26,897 which means Central Instrumentation Facility. 302 00:18:46,291 --> 00:18:52,589 ♪ ♪ 303 00:19:01,598 --> 00:19:04,768 CRONKITE (off screen): Good evening, tonight we're on the eve of the resumption of this 304 00:19:04,852 --> 00:19:06,812 country's push to the Moon. 305 00:19:06,895 --> 00:19:11,358 A push halted by that disaster on Pad 34 almost two years ago. 306 00:19:15,404 --> 00:19:18,115 CRONKITE (off screen): The entire Apollo program has been reexamined; 307 00:19:18,198 --> 00:19:21,368 the spacecraft re-designed. 308 00:19:25,205 --> 00:19:28,417 With the work done, the attempt to reach the Moon, and to get there before the 309 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:31,920 Russians resumes tomorrow morning with the launch of Apollo 7. 310 00:19:39,052 --> 00:19:43,724 MAN (over radio): Twelve, eleven, ten, nine, ignition sequence start. 311 00:19:44,641 --> 00:19:49,438 Five, four, we have ignition we have liftoff, we have liftoff. 312 00:19:59,281 --> 00:20:01,825 CRONKITE (off screen): The flight will be exotic only in that it is a 313 00:20:01,909 --> 00:20:05,078 first test flight. 314 00:20:06,121 --> 00:20:08,624 It is planned as an endurance test. 315 00:20:08,707 --> 00:20:13,420 Ten days and nineteen hours in orbit during which the crew will test Apollo 7. 316 00:20:14,213 --> 00:20:17,424 Wring it out as thoroughly as possible to make sure it is ready for the 317 00:20:17,507 --> 00:20:20,135 more demanding flights to come. 318 00:20:23,263 --> 00:20:25,515 REPORTER (off screen): I understand, Mr. Tinnen, that among the sophisticated 319 00:20:25,599 --> 00:20:28,560 equipment on board the craft will be live TV cameras. 320 00:20:28,644 --> 00:20:29,895 Will you tell us about that? 321 00:20:29,978 --> 00:20:31,563 TINNEN: Yes, this will be a first. 322 00:20:31,647 --> 00:20:34,441 There will be a small, portable camera on board. 323 00:20:34,524 --> 00:20:39,029 And about five or six times during the mission at the discretion of Captain Schirra, 324 00:20:39,112 --> 00:20:43,492 it will be used to view the astronauts at work, in the spacecraft. 325 00:20:45,285 --> 00:20:48,330 CAPCOM (over radio): Here comes a picture, and it's white. 326 00:20:48,872 --> 00:20:50,374 We look at Eisele. 327 00:20:50,457 --> 00:20:54,586 Uh, a nice shot, it looks straight up and he's moving and he's really quite clear. 328 00:20:55,212 --> 00:20:57,005 Let's all have a look at it. 329 00:20:57,089 --> 00:21:00,133 REPORTER (off screen): That's Donn Eisele talking, now he's holding up a sign. 330 00:21:00,217 --> 00:21:02,678 CAPCOM (over radio): I can read it, now just a minute. 331 00:21:03,011 --> 00:21:05,973 CAPCOM (over radio): The lovely Apollo room high atop everything. 332 00:21:06,390 --> 00:21:08,058 SCHIRRA (over radio): That's right. 333 00:21:08,976 --> 00:21:10,435 EISELE (over radio): And there we have him. 334 00:21:10,519 --> 00:21:12,312 You can see he has been working very hard. 335 00:21:12,396 --> 00:21:14,982 Wally has been drilling his troops. 336 00:21:15,649 --> 00:21:18,694 SCHIRRA (over radio): As you can see, we have our lighter moments. 337 00:21:19,027 --> 00:21:21,989 You may note from this that we even have our ups and downs. 338 00:21:22,948 --> 00:21:25,450 SCHIRRA (over radio): Next time, we will have to get better material 339 00:21:25,534 --> 00:21:27,119 or better writers. 340 00:21:27,452 --> 00:21:29,288 HOPE: Gentlemen, you all know why we're here. 341 00:21:29,371 --> 00:21:33,083 NASA wasn't too happy with your TV shows from space. 342 00:21:33,166 --> 00:21:35,377 SCHIRRA: I thought we were pretty funny. 343 00:21:36,003 --> 00:21:37,129 HOPE: Are you kidding? 344 00:21:37,212 --> 00:21:39,715 You're lucky you weren't canceled in mid-flight. 345 00:21:42,009 --> 00:21:43,760 EISELE: But sir, we accomplished our mission. 346 00:21:43,844 --> 00:21:44,928 It was successful. 347 00:21:45,012 --> 00:21:47,472 HOPE: Successful? Did you see your ratings? 348 00:21:48,724 --> 00:21:49,766 It won't do gentlemen. 349 00:21:49,850 --> 00:21:51,727 You've gotta give the people a show, excitement, laughs. 350 00:21:51,810 --> 00:21:52,894 Believe me, I know. 351 00:21:52,978 --> 00:21:55,188 Why do you think I've been a star for 25 years? 352 00:21:55,272 --> 00:21:56,898 SCHIRRA: Luck? 353 00:21:57,774 --> 00:22:00,902 (laughter and applause) 354 00:22:05,866 --> 00:22:08,327 HOPE: Watch it, nobody likes a smart astronaut. 355 00:22:26,261 --> 00:22:29,848 REPORTER: Mr. Schneider, will you detail the milestones of the Apollo 8 mission? 356 00:22:30,557 --> 00:22:33,101 SCHNEIDER: Well, on December 21st, 357 00:22:33,185 --> 00:22:36,438 the Saturn Five will place the spacecraft into a 358 00:22:36,521 --> 00:22:39,316 100-mile orbit around the Earth. 359 00:22:40,275 --> 00:22:45,739 Roughly two orbits later, that is about two hours and fifty minutes later, 360 00:22:46,656 --> 00:22:49,868 the last stage of the Saturn Five will re-ignite, 361 00:22:49,951 --> 00:22:52,788 placing the spacecraft on a trajectory 362 00:22:53,455 --> 00:22:55,957 that will lead it out to the Moon. 363 00:22:56,750 --> 00:23:00,962 SCHNEIDER (off screen): At the back side of the moon, if things are as we expect, 364 00:23:01,046 --> 00:23:02,923 the crew will ignite the 365 00:23:03,006 --> 00:23:07,594 Service Propulsion System on the spacecraft and place themselves into 366 00:23:07,677 --> 00:23:13,016 an elliptical 60-mile by 170-mile orbit around the Moon. 367 00:23:14,184 --> 00:23:17,437 LOVELL: You know we've been planning this flight for years and years, and sometimes, 368 00:23:17,521 --> 00:23:21,525 when you read about it or hear it for so long you think that the 369 00:23:21,608 --> 00:23:23,276 goal is academic, you know. 370 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:27,114 You don't really, finally understand that you're really gonna try something like this 371 00:23:27,197 --> 00:23:28,907 and now it's getting closer, 372 00:23:28,990 --> 00:23:31,576 and we're not just talking about something in the future, 373 00:23:31,660 --> 00:23:33,995 we're talking about something right now. 374 00:23:34,329 --> 00:23:36,915 HYDE: You well may be the first man on the moon. 375 00:23:36,998 --> 00:23:38,875 How do you personally feel about it? 376 00:23:39,501 --> 00:23:41,878 LOVELL (off screen): Well I have the same desire as all the astronauts. 377 00:23:41,962 --> 00:23:43,797 We'd all like to make that trip. 378 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,509 But I think that the way the trip will be accomplished is by teamwork. 379 00:23:47,592 --> 00:23:51,555 Whether we're back here on Earth, or we're in the capsule, or actually getting 380 00:23:51,638 --> 00:23:54,349 off on the, onto the Moon's surface. 381 00:23:55,142 --> 00:23:57,519 Teamwork is the most important part. 382 00:23:57,853 --> 00:24:02,858 JIM: Frank, the Russians have indicated that some lifeforms they had aboard 383 00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:08,029 Zond 5 underwent some major changes, and I was wondering if because of this 384 00:24:08,113 --> 00:24:11,408 you're going to take any extra precautions in radiation detection? 385 00:24:12,951 --> 00:24:16,913 BORMAN: Well Jim, we have fortunately, I have, Jim has liver trouble, 386 00:24:17,873 --> 00:24:21,460 and Bill Anders is a radiation expert so I can pass the question off to them. 387 00:24:22,294 --> 00:24:25,922 ANDERS: Well, I haven't heard about what the Russians are flying. 388 00:24:26,006 --> 00:24:27,424 REPORTER: Turtles. 389 00:24:27,507 --> 00:24:30,927 ANDERS: Well, we've had trouble with turtles in flight, too. 390 00:24:35,390 --> 00:24:37,017 REPORTER (off screen): We had them there first, too. 391 00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:40,854 ANDERS: Our, the analysis that I'm familiar with about radiation in and around the 392 00:24:40,937 --> 00:24:44,733 moon, to my knowledge, will present a negligible problem. 393 00:24:50,780 --> 00:24:53,158 MURPHY (off screen): There is a feeling of self-assuredness here, 394 00:24:53,241 --> 00:24:56,119 a feeling that everything's going to go all right. 395 00:24:56,203 --> 00:24:59,998 But beneath the calm exterior, there is concern. 396 00:25:00,081 --> 00:25:03,293 Few here would agree with an official who said yesterday that this mission 397 00:25:03,376 --> 00:25:05,337 had no special significance. 398 00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:06,588 It does. 399 00:25:06,671 --> 00:25:09,049 Man is about to leave his planet for the first time. 400 00:25:09,132 --> 00:25:12,928 Odds are against a major systems failure, but if one occurred, the men could be 401 00:25:13,011 --> 00:25:16,806 lost, and that would be a disaster for the American space program. 402 00:25:17,849 --> 00:25:22,103 On the other hand, if the mission is successful, it would be dramatic proof that 403 00:25:22,187 --> 00:25:25,065 we are ahead of the Russians in the race to put a man on the Moon. 404 00:25:25,148 --> 00:25:28,860 It could mean a lot more money for the space program. 405 00:25:29,194 --> 00:25:33,323 Everyone here knows that, but as I said everyone is calm, cool, and confident, 406 00:25:33,406 --> 00:25:35,367 also concerned. 407 00:25:42,207 --> 00:25:47,837 ♪ ♪ 408 00:25:51,967 --> 00:25:54,803 MICHELMORE (off screen): In 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed, 409 00:25:54,886 --> 00:25:58,056 as far as anyone could commit, the Americans to having a 410 00:25:58,139 --> 00:26:01,017 man on the Moon by 1970. 411 00:26:01,768 --> 00:26:08,108 Today, from Cape Kennedy, a vital step is being made to the realization of that goal. 412 00:26:08,984 --> 00:26:13,780 The plan today is to put three men in orbit around the Moon 10 times. 413 00:26:14,614 --> 00:26:19,369 They will see that 40% of the Moon that man has never set eyes on before. 414 00:26:20,495 --> 00:26:24,624 LOVELL: Once you're in the spacecraft, once the hatch is closed and the engines 415 00:26:24,708 --> 00:26:27,961 start up and those retaining arms go down, 416 00:26:28,044 --> 00:26:31,298 then it's either gonna go, or it's not gonna go. 417 00:26:31,923 --> 00:26:37,971 KING (over radio): T-Minus 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10. 418 00:26:40,890 --> 00:26:43,768 9, we have ignition sequence start. 419 00:26:44,769 --> 00:26:46,187 The engines are armed. 420 00:26:46,271 --> 00:26:49,649 Four, three, two, one, zero. 421 00:26:49,983 --> 00:26:52,277 CRIM: And there's the flames from those five first stage engines. 422 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:55,530 What a tremendous sight, there's brilliant orange flames blowing out in all 423 00:26:55,614 --> 00:26:58,325 directions from underneath that rocket, and we have liftoff. 424 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:03,079 Moving very, very slowly now as the base of that rocket burning brilliantly against 425 00:27:03,163 --> 00:27:05,498 the Florida sky moves up past the tower. 426 00:27:06,750 --> 00:27:09,294 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Liftoff. The clock is running. 427 00:27:12,088 --> 00:27:13,465 CRIM (off screen): The rocket has cleared the tower and 428 00:27:13,548 --> 00:27:15,342 there she goes on her way to the Moon. 429 00:27:15,425 --> 00:27:19,220 There goes the Saturn V rocket taking man on his first visit to the vicinity of the Moon. 430 00:27:21,097 --> 00:27:23,099 Roll 6 program. 431 00:27:28,563 --> 00:27:31,316 REPORTER (off screen): Mrs. Lovell, after watching the last two launches involving 432 00:27:31,399 --> 00:27:33,568 your husband from your home in Houston, 433 00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:36,321 why did you decide this time to come to the Cape? 434 00:27:38,156 --> 00:27:42,202 MARILYN: Well, I just felt like it was an experience that we should share as a family, 435 00:27:42,535 --> 00:27:43,703 and Jim wanted us down here. 436 00:27:43,787 --> 00:27:45,538 REPORTER (off screen): Was it different than the first time? 437 00:27:45,622 --> 00:27:46,915 MARILYN: Yes. It was. 438 00:27:46,998 --> 00:27:49,084 REPORTER (off screen): In what way? 439 00:27:50,001 --> 00:27:52,462 MARILYN: Well, I, I don't know how to explain it. 440 00:27:52,545 --> 00:27:55,840 I guess because I was here to see it with a naked eye, maybe that's the reason 441 00:27:55,924 --> 00:27:57,550 why I feel that it was different. 442 00:27:57,634 --> 00:28:00,595 REPORTER (off screen): Are the children gonna wait for their presents until he gets back? 443 00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:03,390 MARILYN (off screen): No. We're going to have a normal Christmas with the children 444 00:28:03,473 --> 00:28:05,975 on Christmas day. 445 00:28:07,394 --> 00:28:09,396 BURKE: This mission is loaded with what's called 446 00:28:09,479 --> 00:28:11,356 "Life Critical Points." 447 00:28:11,439 --> 00:28:14,484 Those are the points during the mission when if anything goes wrong, 448 00:28:14,567 --> 00:28:17,112 a rocket fires, or fails to fire, 449 00:28:17,195 --> 00:28:20,365 or misfires, then the life of the astronauts is put in danger. 450 00:28:20,990 --> 00:28:23,451 The first one of course is on launch. 451 00:28:23,827 --> 00:28:28,123 The second one is after two orbits of the Earth, round here over the Pacific, 452 00:28:28,206 --> 00:28:31,793 when they decide to go for what's called Translunar Insertion, 453 00:28:32,127 --> 00:28:34,087 that is to begin the trip to the Moon. 454 00:28:34,170 --> 00:28:38,842 When Saturn IV B, that's the third stage of the giant booster, fires for a second 455 00:28:38,925 --> 00:28:40,677 time to put them into space. 456 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:45,849 Now that Saturn IV B rocket has never fired twice in space before with men on board. 457 00:28:45,932 --> 00:28:49,477 If it over-fires, it will put them into a wild trajectory out here, 458 00:28:49,561 --> 00:28:52,105 from which they could possibly not return. 459 00:28:52,188 --> 00:28:54,691 REPORTER (off screen): Do they understand anything about what's going on, 460 00:28:54,774 --> 00:28:56,192 the youngest ones? 461 00:28:56,860 --> 00:28:58,194 VALERIE (off screen): A surprising amount. 462 00:28:58,278 --> 00:29:01,364 In fact, my four-year-old said to me, "Is he going around the Moon ten times," 463 00:29:01,448 --> 00:29:03,408 which nearly floored me. 464 00:29:03,491 --> 00:29:07,078 I had no idea that he, that he really grasped that much. 465 00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:09,539 And then yesterday, he heard a newscast and he said, 466 00:29:09,622 --> 00:29:11,082 "Mommy, is it dangerous?" 467 00:29:11,166 --> 00:29:13,001 REPORTER (off screen): What'd you tell him? 468 00:29:13,084 --> 00:29:16,004 VALERIE: I said, "No, daddy's gonna be fine, Eric." 469 00:29:16,629 --> 00:29:18,506 What else? 470 00:29:18,882 --> 00:29:21,468 REPORTER (over radio): The manned Spacecraft Center in Houston says all is ready 471 00:29:21,551 --> 00:29:24,637 for a translunar injection of Apollo 8. 472 00:29:24,721 --> 00:29:26,014 In a matter of a few minutes, 473 00:29:26,097 --> 00:29:27,932 near the end of the second revolution, 474 00:29:28,016 --> 00:29:31,978 the J2 engine of the third stage of the mighty Saturn V will be reignited 475 00:29:32,061 --> 00:29:33,897 for about five minutes. 476 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,318 This will inject the vehicle and spacecraft into a translunar trajectory. 477 00:29:41,571 --> 00:29:43,698 COLLINS (over radio): Apollo 8. Houston. Over. 478 00:29:43,782 --> 00:29:46,326 HANEY (over radio): Apollo 8 has been advised once again that they look 479 00:29:46,409 --> 00:29:47,952 good for the burn. 480 00:29:48,036 --> 00:29:51,247 COLLINS (over radio): Roger, we are gonna rewind your tape recorder and we have the TLI. 481 00:29:51,331 --> 00:29:54,375 HANEY (over radio): About every minute, the flight director has pulsed, 482 00:29:54,459 --> 00:29:57,504 the booster man, in this control center, to get his status. 483 00:29:57,587 --> 00:29:59,923 MAN (over radio): Um, the weight will be. 484 00:30:00,006 --> 00:30:01,925 HANEY (over radio): Thirty seconds to TLI. 485 00:30:02,008 --> 00:30:04,928 COLLINS (over radio): Apollo 8, coming up on 20 seconds to ignition. 486 00:30:05,345 --> 00:30:07,597 Mark it and you're looking very good. 487 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,642 HANEY (over radio): And Mike Collins gives them a mark, 20 seconds to ignition. 488 00:30:12,310 --> 00:30:14,270 BORMAN (over radio): Roger. 489 00:30:15,355 --> 00:30:17,148 HANEY (over radio): And he's counting, four, two... 490 00:30:17,857 --> 00:30:19,150 LOVELL (over radio): Ignition. 491 00:30:19,651 --> 00:30:20,985 COLLINS (over radio): Roger, ignition. 492 00:30:24,781 --> 00:30:26,616 HANEY (over radio): We see ignition. 493 00:30:26,699 --> 00:30:29,452 COLLINS (over radio): Apollo 8, Houston. You're looking good. 494 00:30:29,536 --> 00:30:31,704 PA OFFICER (over radio): This climb translates out to approximately 495 00:30:31,788 --> 00:30:34,040 150 miles a minute. 496 00:30:34,791 --> 00:30:37,377 HANEY (over radio): These three crew members are traveling faster than 497 00:30:37,460 --> 00:30:40,213 man has ever flown before. 498 00:30:41,172 --> 00:30:42,799 COLLINS (over radio): Apollo 8, Houston. 499 00:30:42,882 --> 00:30:45,802 Trajectory and guidance look good, over. 500 00:30:47,053 --> 00:30:50,974 REPORTER (off screen): Hold your breath just a little bit longer. 501 00:30:51,349 --> 00:30:53,393 This rocket has just a little longer to go. 502 00:30:54,394 --> 00:30:58,231 The rocket's obviously riding very smoothly for them and thrusting at full value. 503 00:30:58,690 --> 00:31:00,608 HANEY (over radio): Flight dynamics says we're exactly nominal. 504 00:31:01,359 --> 00:31:03,528 REPORTER (off screen): Right on the button. 505 00:31:04,571 --> 00:31:06,948 HANEY (over radio): Flight dynamics says we look good, flight. 506 00:31:07,282 --> 00:31:09,367 They're watching the thrust build. 507 00:31:10,451 --> 00:31:12,036 COLLINS (over radio): Apollo 8, Houston, you're looking good here, 508 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:13,580 right down the centerline. 509 00:31:14,247 --> 00:31:15,915 BORMAN (over radio): Roger. Apollo 8. 510 00:31:16,749 --> 00:31:18,209 HANEY (over radio): Trajectory, guidance, flight dynamics. 511 00:31:18,293 --> 00:31:21,588 Everybody in the front trench of this control center, says they're happy. 512 00:31:22,005 --> 00:31:24,257 That includes the Booster. 513 00:31:24,966 --> 00:31:26,009 REPORTER (off screen): There you have it. 514 00:31:26,092 --> 00:31:28,011 They are on their way to the Moon. 515 00:31:28,094 --> 00:31:31,180 One of the most critical points on this flight is now over. 516 00:31:32,932 --> 00:31:36,227 SCHOUMACHER (over TV): The spacecraft is well over 70,000 miles right on course 517 00:31:36,311 --> 00:31:37,896 to the Moon. 518 00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:41,357 It is rolling very slowly to distribute the heat of the Sun over the skin of the capsule. 519 00:31:41,983 --> 00:31:45,486 Ground computers calculate that Apollo 8 will arrive in the vicinity of the Moon 520 00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:48,197 within 3 minutes of the pre-launch schedule. 521 00:31:51,701 --> 00:31:55,204 REPORTER (over radio): You've just been listening to a broadcast of history. 522 00:31:55,288 --> 00:32:00,501 We have men on their way to the Moon solidly, and at this point, very safely. 523 00:32:04,005 --> 00:32:06,507 MUELLER (over radio): Apollo 8 will be doing only about 2,700 miles an hour 524 00:32:06,591 --> 00:32:09,886 when the Moon's gravity grabs it on Christmas Eve and draws Apollo 8 525 00:32:09,969 --> 00:32:13,932 toward mankind's first historic rendezvous with another celestial body. 526 00:32:15,850 --> 00:32:18,394 BORMAN: Oh my God! Look at that picture over there. 527 00:32:20,188 --> 00:32:22,440 Here's the Earth coming up. Wow is that pretty. 528 00:32:23,733 --> 00:32:25,193 ANDERS: Hand me that roll of color quick, will you? 529 00:32:25,276 --> 00:32:26,527 LOVELL (over radio): Oh man, that's great. Where is it? 530 00:32:26,611 --> 00:32:28,237 ANDERS: Quick. 531 00:32:31,366 --> 00:32:35,036 ANDERS: Just grab me a color. That color exterior. 532 00:32:40,458 --> 00:32:43,503 LOVELL (over radio): Mike, what I keep imagining is, if I'm a- 533 00:32:43,586 --> 00:32:45,630 some lonely traveler from another planet, 534 00:32:45,713 --> 00:32:48,091 what I would think about the Earth at this altitude 535 00:32:48,174 --> 00:32:51,302 whether I think it'd be inhabited or not. 536 00:32:52,595 --> 00:32:55,056 CAPCOM (over radio): Don't see anybody waving, is that what you're saying? 537 00:32:56,224 --> 00:32:59,644 LOVELL (over radio): I was just kind of curious whether I would land on the blue or the 538 00:32:59,727 --> 00:33:01,479 brown part of the Earth. 539 00:33:03,189 --> 00:33:04,983 ANDERS (over radio): You better hope that we land on the blue part. 540 00:33:09,737 --> 00:33:12,073 DOWNS (over TV): We're back now 30 minutes after the hour on this Today, 541 00:33:12,156 --> 00:33:14,534 December 24th, and 542 00:33:14,617 --> 00:33:16,786 it's a rather unusual Christmas Eve, I think, for the, 543 00:33:16,869 --> 00:33:19,831 for the nation and the world. 544 00:33:20,415 --> 00:33:23,626 It's the first, not only Christmas Eve, but the first day at all 545 00:33:23,710 --> 00:33:26,838 that we've had human beings circling the Moon. 546 00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:32,343 REYNOLDS (over TV): And tonight, the crew of Apollo 8 presents a 547 00:33:32,427 --> 00:33:34,846 Christmas Eve program from the heavens. 548 00:33:48,484 --> 00:33:50,403 CAPCOM (over radio): Apollo 8, Houston, Over. 549 00:33:52,405 --> 00:33:55,283 ANDERS (over radio): Houston, this is Apollo 8 with the TV going. Over. 550 00:33:58,578 --> 00:34:00,872 LOVELL (over radio): Welcome from the Moon, Houston. 551 00:34:04,417 --> 00:34:06,419 LOVELL (over radio): What we've noticed especially that 552 00:34:06,502 --> 00:34:10,089 you cannot see from Earth, are the small bright impact craters 553 00:34:10,173 --> 00:34:12,425 that dominate the lunar surface. 554 00:34:13,718 --> 00:34:19,182 (camera shutter clicking) 555 00:34:20,641 --> 00:34:23,978 BORMAN (over radio): The Moon is a different thing to each one of us. 556 00:34:30,735 --> 00:34:33,696 BORMAN (over radio): I know my own impression is that it's a vast, 557 00:34:33,780 --> 00:34:37,909 lonely, forbidding-type existence. 558 00:34:39,786 --> 00:34:44,499 ANDERS (over radio): We are now approaching lunar sunrise 559 00:34:44,582 --> 00:34:48,669 and for all the people back on Earth, 560 00:34:49,295 --> 00:34:53,591 the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you. 561 00:34:56,469 --> 00:35:00,473 ANDERS (over radio): In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth. 562 00:35:01,182 --> 00:35:04,143 And God said, "Let there be light." 563 00:35:04,602 --> 00:35:06,729 And there was light. 564 00:35:08,481 --> 00:35:11,192 And God divided the light from the darkness 565 00:35:14,153 --> 00:35:17,115 LOVELL (over radio): And God called the light Day 566 00:35:17,198 --> 00:35:19,659 and the darkness he called Night. 567 00:35:21,369 --> 00:35:24,580 BORMAN (over radio): And God said, "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered 568 00:35:24,664 --> 00:35:26,040 together unto one place. 569 00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:28,501 And let the dry land appear." 570 00:35:28,584 --> 00:35:30,086 And it was so. 571 00:35:30,169 --> 00:35:32,880 And God called the dry land Earth. 572 00:35:35,341 --> 00:35:37,677 BORMAN (over radio): And from the crew of Apollo 8, 573 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,846 we close with good night 574 00:35:39,929 --> 00:35:41,347 good luck 575 00:35:41,430 --> 00:35:44,600 a merry Christmas and God bless all of you 576 00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:47,311 all of you on the good Earth. 577 00:35:50,773 --> 00:35:53,693 LAZAR: This is Sidney Lazar in the Rockefeller Center New York. 578 00:35:53,776 --> 00:35:58,322 We stopped some passersby on their way home this Christmas Eve to ask them how they felt 579 00:35:58,406 --> 00:36:01,284 about America's most recent accomplishment in space. 580 00:36:02,326 --> 00:36:06,455 Sir, how did you feel when you first learned that we had men circling the Moon? 581 00:36:07,498 --> 00:36:11,377 MAN: Well I thought it was a wonderful accomplishment. 582 00:36:11,711 --> 00:36:16,799 I don't think there was any alternative to our attempting to do it before the Russians 583 00:36:17,383 --> 00:36:23,806 did both from a propaganda purpose and also to prevent them from using it 584 00:36:25,016 --> 00:36:28,186 as a power base in the future. 585 00:36:28,769 --> 00:36:31,856 LAZAR: A lot of people sir, say that this effort has cost too much. 586 00:36:31,939 --> 00:36:33,941 That the money would have been better spent here on Earth. 587 00:36:34,025 --> 00:36:35,067 What do you think about that? 588 00:36:35,151 --> 00:36:36,402 MAN: Definitely not. 589 00:36:36,485 --> 00:36:39,280 I think it's the greatest accomplishment that man has ever reached so far. 590 00:36:39,363 --> 00:36:44,035 CRONKITE: There is one positive result already from the flight of Apollo 8, and we 591 00:36:44,118 --> 00:36:48,831 should report it to you, I think, to keep all of history recorded this morning. 592 00:36:49,582 --> 00:36:54,462 In London, Britain's Flat Earth society admits now that it's going to have to take a 593 00:36:54,545 --> 00:36:56,797 new look at things. 594 00:36:59,592 --> 00:37:03,221 BUNCHE (over TV): The epic flight of Apollo 8 in cracking the Moon barrier 595 00:37:03,304 --> 00:37:09,727 demonstrates that man now has the capability to soar as high and as far as 596 00:37:10,770 --> 00:37:13,564 his dreams may project. 597 00:37:20,905 --> 00:37:27,078 ♪ ♪ 598 00:37:31,749 --> 00:37:34,794 CRONKITE (over TV): In space, Apollo 9 and 10 tested the manned operation of the 599 00:37:34,877 --> 00:37:36,879 entire Apollo spacecraft. 600 00:37:36,963 --> 00:37:38,506 Nine, an Earth orbital flight, 601 00:37:38,589 --> 00:37:41,384 and ten in lunar orbit, with the LEM descending to within 602 00:37:41,467 --> 00:37:43,469 10 miles of the lunar surface. 603 00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:48,975 We are now ready to challenge our own technology and land a man on the Moon. 604 00:37:51,435 --> 00:37:53,271 ROGGE: Would you like to live on the Moon? 605 00:37:53,354 --> 00:37:54,772 BOY: Yes, I would. 606 00:37:54,855 --> 00:37:56,774 ROGGE: You would, you'd like to be one of the first people to go? 607 00:37:56,857 --> 00:37:58,359 BOY: Yes. 608 00:37:58,442 --> 00:38:00,403 ROGGE: How about Wade over there, what are your comments? 609 00:38:00,486 --> 00:38:03,739 WADE: Well, I'd like to be one of the first ones to go too. 610 00:38:04,115 --> 00:38:08,244 ROGGE: Mrs. Hubbard, I'd like to ask you, uh, do you think many people will be 611 00:38:08,327 --> 00:38:10,246 interested, you know, in, being on the first colony? 612 00:38:10,329 --> 00:38:11,789 HUBBARD: I'm sure of it. 613 00:38:11,872 --> 00:38:15,876 In fact I read in the paper today that 90,000 people have signed up with Pan Am for the 614 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,088 first flight to the Moon whenever it comes and it's going to cost 615 00:38:19,171 --> 00:38:21,382 $28,000 a flight. 616 00:38:22,258 --> 00:38:24,969 And 90,000 people unsolicited have signed up. 617 00:38:42,862 --> 00:38:45,698 ♪ ♪ 618 00:38:45,781 --> 00:38:48,034 REPORTER (off screen: Dr. Wernher Von Braun says the Russians will land 619 00:38:48,117 --> 00:38:50,077 their Luna 15 on the Moon by tomorrow. 620 00:38:50,161 --> 00:38:53,831 He also says it's a good bet that there's nobody inside the Luna 15. 621 00:38:54,457 --> 00:38:58,377 He says it could have the ability to bring back some Moon soil to Earth, but nobody 622 00:38:58,461 --> 00:39:00,629 knows anything about it. 623 00:39:00,713 --> 00:39:03,758 CLARK (of screen): If the Russians scoop some of this up automatically 624 00:39:03,841 --> 00:39:05,384 and brought it back, 625 00:39:05,468 --> 00:39:07,511 so that they retrieved the first samples of the Moon, 626 00:39:07,595 --> 00:39:09,263 would you feel a disappointment? 627 00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:12,266 ALDRIN: I'm sure that all of us would. 628 00:39:12,350 --> 00:39:17,104 We'd like to return with everything that we've set out to do on this flight. 629 00:39:17,897 --> 00:39:19,315 SHURKIN: This is for Mr. Armstrong. 630 00:39:19,398 --> 00:39:22,234 There's been speculation about what the first man on the Moon will say 631 00:39:22,318 --> 00:39:23,903 when he gets there. 632 00:39:23,986 --> 00:39:27,239 Will you prepare something ahead of time, or will it be prepared for you, 633 00:39:28,074 --> 00:39:30,534 or can we expect a spontaneous exclamation? 634 00:39:31,494 --> 00:39:35,831 ARMSTRONG: Our attention during the training period and up until now has been focused 635 00:39:35,915 --> 00:39:38,334 on how to do the job and how to do it best, 636 00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:42,213 and not so much with what might be the 637 00:39:42,296 --> 00:39:45,466 emotions of the moment. 638 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,969 ARMSTRONG (off screen): I think that would be impossible to predict. 639 00:39:52,139 --> 00:39:55,351 REYNOLDS: The American space engineers and scientists designed the lunar 640 00:39:55,434 --> 00:39:59,105 module for the most delicate part of this or any mission: 641 00:39:59,855 --> 00:40:02,525 setting men down safely on another planet. 642 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:12,243 REYNOLDS( off screen): It's just under 23 feet tall and it is beautifully 643 00:40:12,326 --> 00:40:14,703 constructed for its purpose: 644 00:40:14,787 --> 00:40:17,957 to land softly on the Moon. 645 00:40:22,378 --> 00:40:24,338 ARMSTRONG (off screen): The question was how does the machine fly? 646 00:40:24,422 --> 00:40:29,969 And I think it does an excellent job of actually capturing the handling 647 00:40:30,052 --> 00:40:33,764 characteristics of the lunar module in landing maneuver. 648 00:40:41,897 --> 00:40:45,317 LOY: If you've been considering coming to the Kennedy Space Center to watch 649 00:40:45,401 --> 00:40:49,196 the historic flight of Apollo 11, you might think twice before you leave your 650 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,949 comfortable living room and your nice television set. 651 00:40:53,033 --> 00:40:57,163 Soon hundreds of thousands of people will jam the Titusville, Cocoa Beach area 652 00:40:57,246 --> 00:40:59,165 to watch this historic flight. 653 00:41:04,795 --> 00:41:06,046 CRONKITE (off screen): Good morning! 654 00:41:06,130 --> 00:41:09,800 It's three hours and thirty-two minutes till man begins the greatest adventure 655 00:41:09,884 --> 00:41:11,719 in his history. 656 00:41:11,802 --> 00:41:14,555 All of that long billion years or so. 657 00:41:19,435 --> 00:41:21,729 CRONKITE (off screen): Because at 9:32am, 658 00:41:21,812 --> 00:41:25,316 three hours and thirty-two minutes from now, here, in Florida, 659 00:41:25,399 --> 00:41:27,401 the Kennedy Space Center, 660 00:41:27,485 --> 00:41:32,490 man is about to launch himself on a trip to the Moon with the expectation of landing there. 661 00:41:32,573 --> 00:41:34,408 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Comm Manager and Attitude. 662 00:41:34,492 --> 00:41:35,826 MAN (over radio): Comm Manager. 663 00:41:35,910 --> 00:41:37,453 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): We got your Auto-patterns. 664 00:41:37,536 --> 00:41:38,746 MAN (over radio): Roger, thank you. 665 00:41:38,829 --> 00:41:40,498 Have you got both computers operating? 666 00:41:40,581 --> 00:41:44,460 Verify, go for launch. FRO verify, go for launch? FRO verify, go for launch. 667 00:41:45,544 --> 00:41:48,005 KING (off screen): The estimate is more than a million persons are in the 668 00:41:48,088 --> 00:41:53,010 immediate area in Brevard County to watch the launch. 669 00:41:53,093 --> 00:41:55,012 All still go at this time. 670 00:41:55,095 --> 00:41:57,640 Neil Armstrong reported back when he received the good wishes, 671 00:41:57,723 --> 00:42:00,100 "Thank you very much. We know it will be a good flight." 672 00:42:00,184 --> 00:42:01,852 MAN (over radio): Verify, go for launch. 673 00:42:01,936 --> 00:42:04,188 Verify, go for launch. Verify, go for launch. 674 00:42:04,271 --> 00:42:05,814 SRO verified, go for launch. 675 00:42:05,898 --> 00:42:08,025 FRO verified, go for launch? 676 00:42:08,108 --> 00:42:09,902 LOM verified, go for launch. 677 00:42:09,985 --> 00:42:14,698 REPORTER (over radio): We're down to 12, 11, 10, 9, ignition sequence start, 678 00:42:15,324 --> 00:42:16,784 we should see fire. 679 00:42:16,867 --> 00:42:19,411 Four, three, two, one. 680 00:42:20,621 --> 00:42:22,206 MAN (over radio): Roger, team liftoff. 681 00:42:22,289 --> 00:42:24,833 Liftoff. Roger liftoff. 682 00:42:25,709 --> 00:42:27,920 REPORTER (over radio): And we have liftoff! 683 00:42:29,255 --> 00:42:31,674 Now the huge tail is passing the tower! 684 00:42:34,885 --> 00:42:36,220 She's rising! 685 00:42:36,303 --> 00:42:39,723 She's yawing now to clear the tower, that slight yaw. 686 00:42:39,807 --> 00:42:40,849 She's lifting up. 687 00:42:40,933 --> 00:42:43,561 We have tower clear. We have tower clear. 688 00:42:43,644 --> 00:42:45,688 We're beginning to feel the first thunderous roar! 689 00:42:46,772 --> 00:42:50,943 I can see her rising now, as she's going up straight into the roll program, 690 00:42:51,026 --> 00:42:52,820 which she should be completing. 691 00:42:52,903 --> 00:42:56,323 We should expect to hear from the astronauts as this spit of land is beginning 692 00:42:56,407 --> 00:42:58,659 to shake with the power of it. 693 00:42:58,742 --> 00:43:01,745 The power of it as it goes and splits the clouds. 694 00:43:07,668 --> 00:43:10,129 ARMSTRONG (over radio): We've got skirt SEP. 695 00:43:10,212 --> 00:43:12,715 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Roger, we confirm skirt SEP. 696 00:43:12,798 --> 00:43:16,594 REPORTER (over radio): Those are the men in space, bound for the Moon. 697 00:43:16,969 --> 00:43:18,554 COLLINS (over radio): Houston. Apollo 11. 698 00:43:18,637 --> 00:43:21,724 The Saturn gave us a magnificent ride. 699 00:43:21,807 --> 00:43:23,434 CAPCOM (over radio): Roger, 11. 700 00:43:23,517 --> 00:43:26,687 We'll pass that on and certainly looks like you're well on your way now. 701 00:43:36,864 --> 00:43:38,616 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Well, we didn't have much time, 702 00:43:38,699 --> 00:43:41,201 Houston, to talk to you about our views out 703 00:43:41,285 --> 00:43:44,330 the window when we were preparing for LEM injection. 704 00:43:44,913 --> 00:43:51,086 But up to that time, we had the entire northern part of the lighted hemisphere 705 00:43:51,837 --> 00:43:58,260 visible, including North America, North Atlantic, and Europe and Northern Africa. 706 00:44:00,971 --> 00:44:03,849 Most of the United States was clear. 707 00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:10,064 REPORTER: Now, I understand that Neil, umpteen miles away, predicted that our showers 708 00:44:10,564 --> 00:44:12,524 here would end in just a short while. 709 00:44:12,608 --> 00:44:14,234 What'd you think of that? 710 00:44:14,318 --> 00:44:16,820 JAN: I'd say that was about normal for him. 711 00:44:16,904 --> 00:44:18,405 REPORTER (off screen): Normal? 712 00:44:18,489 --> 00:44:19,865 JAN: That's correct. 713 00:44:19,948 --> 00:44:21,659 REPORTER (off screen): You mean, he always does something like this? 714 00:44:21,742 --> 00:44:23,827 JAN: Yes. He usually wins. 715 00:44:23,911 --> 00:44:28,040 REPORTER (off screen): What kind of plans do you have for Neil when he gets back? 716 00:44:28,582 --> 00:44:32,336 A quiet outing or what? 717 00:44:32,419 --> 00:44:35,214 JAN: We haven't made any plans yet. 718 00:44:37,508 --> 00:44:40,302 JAN (off screen): They have to get back. 719 00:44:42,137 --> 00:44:43,514 CAPCOM (over radio): Apollo 11, this is Houston. 720 00:44:43,597 --> 00:44:47,935 If you're interested in the morning news, I've got a summary here. 721 00:44:48,602 --> 00:44:51,146 Britain's big Jordel Bank radio telescope 722 00:44:51,230 --> 00:44:54,316 stopped receiving signals from the Soviet Union's 723 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:58,654 unmanned Moon shot at 5:49 EDT today. 724 00:44:59,697 --> 00:45:01,740 A spokesman said that it appeared that the 725 00:45:01,824 --> 00:45:07,246 Luna 15 space ship, quote, "has gone beyond the Moon," unquote. 726 00:45:09,081 --> 00:45:11,125 PARK: Tell me. What do you think about the space program? 727 00:45:11,208 --> 00:45:14,044 GIRL: Well, I'm real excited about it and I think I can speak for most teenagers 728 00:45:14,128 --> 00:45:17,131 in saying that we are all excited about it, 'cause just about everyone 729 00:45:17,214 --> 00:45:19,967 I've talked to is excited. 730 00:45:20,592 --> 00:45:23,470 Just the other day, Judy and I were talking to two boys, and they said what did 731 00:45:23,554 --> 00:45:26,974 they think we'd probably do when we actually saw someone walking on the moon? 732 00:45:27,558 --> 00:45:28,892 And I said, "I don't know. 733 00:45:28,976 --> 00:45:31,937 Maybe I, maybe we'll get up and just scream or maybe just it'll be so exciting, 734 00:45:32,020 --> 00:45:35,232 or maybe we'll just cry." 735 00:45:43,615 --> 00:45:45,117 PA OFFICER (over radio): This is Apollo control. 736 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:48,495 We're now six minutes, eight seconds from ignition. 737 00:45:49,121 --> 00:45:50,414 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Houston, 738 00:45:50,497 --> 00:45:51,790 you're looking good for separation. 739 00:45:51,874 --> 00:45:55,669 You're a go for separation, Columbia. Over. 740 00:45:57,171 --> 00:45:59,423 COLLINS (over radio): You cats take it easy on the lunar surface 741 00:45:59,506 --> 00:46:02,092 If I hear you huffing and puffing I'm going to start bitching at you. 742 00:46:02,718 --> 00:46:04,845 ALDRIN (over radio): Okay Mike. 743 00:46:23,489 --> 00:46:26,033 WARD (over radio): It's grown quite quiet here in mission control. 744 00:46:26,116 --> 00:46:27,326 A few moments ago, 745 00:46:27,409 --> 00:46:30,829 flight director Gene Kranz requested that everyone sit down, 746 00:46:31,580 --> 00:46:35,292 get prepared for events that are coming, and he closed with the remark, 747 00:46:35,375 --> 00:46:37,377 "Good luck to all of you." 748 00:46:39,630 --> 00:46:44,760 DUKE (over radio): 4-0-0-0-0-0-1. 749 00:46:45,260 --> 00:46:49,598 0-7-1-1-3-0-0-0. 750 00:46:51,058 --> 00:46:53,352 No PDI plus 12. 751 00:47:02,319 --> 00:47:04,905 ALDRIN (over radio): Got the Earth straight out our front window. 752 00:47:06,031 --> 00:47:08,200 (alarm) 753 00:47:09,535 --> 00:47:11,245 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Program alarm. 754 00:47:11,954 --> 00:47:15,582 Houston, you're looking at our Delta-H. 755 00:47:17,417 --> 00:47:19,795 1202; 1202. 756 00:47:30,806 --> 00:47:32,724 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): 12, 1202 alarm. 757 00:47:33,183 --> 00:47:35,227 1202. Standby. 758 00:47:35,310 --> 00:47:36,728 1202, 1202 alarm. 759 00:47:36,812 --> 00:47:38,188 Looks like it's converging. 760 00:47:38,272 --> 00:47:40,524 1202. What's that? 12, 1202 alarm. 761 00:47:41,191 --> 00:47:43,986 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Give us a reading on the 1202 program alarm. 762 00:47:46,613 --> 00:47:48,156 HOUSTON (over radio): It's executive overflow. 763 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:50,284 If it does not occur again, we're fine. 764 00:47:50,367 --> 00:47:51,910 MAN (over radio): Yeah, it's the same thing we had. 765 00:47:51,994 --> 00:47:53,287 It had not occurred again. Okay. We're go. 766 00:47:53,370 --> 00:47:55,330 REID (off screen): They got a momentary alarm on their system. 767 00:47:55,414 --> 00:47:56,874 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): We're go on that alarm. 768 00:47:56,957 --> 00:47:58,333 We're go. Same type. We're go. 769 00:47:58,417 --> 00:47:59,668 We're go on that, Flight. 770 00:47:59,751 --> 00:48:01,128 KRANZ (over radio): We're go on that alarm? 771 00:48:01,211 --> 00:48:02,838 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): It's, if it doesn't reoccur we'll be go. 772 00:48:02,921 --> 00:48:04,464 He's taking it to Delta-H now. 773 00:48:04,548 --> 00:48:07,301 DUKE (over radio): Eagle, Houston you are Go for landing, over. 774 00:48:07,676 --> 00:48:10,095 ALDRIN (over radio): Roger, understand. Go for landing. 3,000 feet. 775 00:48:11,805 --> 00:48:13,265 ROWAN (off screen): Coming up on a point, 776 00:48:13,348 --> 00:48:17,144 which is called appropriately enough "last ridge," 777 00:48:18,228 --> 00:48:22,441 a 300-foot high ridge directly beneath them. 778 00:48:25,777 --> 00:48:27,654 BERGMAN (over TV): There are reasons to be conservative 779 00:48:27,738 --> 00:48:30,657 there are many, very many new things that are happening in this flight. 780 00:48:30,741 --> 00:48:33,619 Very many new things that have never been attempted before. 781 00:48:33,702 --> 00:48:36,538 The descent, the landing. 782 00:48:36,622 --> 00:48:41,376 There are big dangers involved despite the best our technology can do and our 783 00:48:41,460 --> 00:48:44,046 technology does do very well. 784 00:48:44,463 --> 00:48:47,382 ROWAN: They have 70 seconds in which to re-designate the landing site. 785 00:48:47,466 --> 00:48:49,718 So, take a good look at it now if they want to change it. 786 00:48:49,801 --> 00:48:51,678 ALDRIN (over radio): Alpha says we're go. Altitude 9,200 feet. 787 00:48:51,762 --> 00:48:54,056 MISSION CONTROL 8-30. You're looking great. 788 00:48:54,139 --> 00:48:55,766 ALDRIN (over radio): We're now in the approach phase. 789 00:48:55,849 --> 00:48:57,142 Everything looking good. 790 00:48:57,225 --> 00:49:01,688 REPORTER (off screen): Just a little more than 100 miles per hour descent rate. 791 00:49:01,772 --> 00:49:05,108 They should be within five miles of their landing point. 792 00:49:05,525 --> 00:49:09,112 They should be getting a good look at it now. 793 00:49:10,030 --> 00:49:10,948 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): We're descending at 794 00:49:11,031 --> 00:49:13,158 27 feet per second, 25 feet per second. 795 00:49:13,241 --> 00:49:16,411 ALDRIN (over radio): 2,000 feet. Into the AGS. 47 degrees. 796 00:49:16,495 --> 00:49:17,746 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Roger. 797 00:49:17,829 --> 00:49:20,332 ALDRIN (over radio): 2,000 feet, 47 degrees. 798 00:49:21,333 --> 00:49:23,085 ALDRIN (over radio): 13 forward. 799 00:49:24,127 --> 00:49:25,796 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Ten minutes, thirty seconds, 800 00:49:25,879 --> 00:49:27,798 we are down to 9 feet per second. 801 00:49:27,881 --> 00:49:29,883 Vertical velocity, 359 feet. 802 00:49:38,392 --> 00:49:40,143 KRANZ (over radio): Okay. The only caveat from now on will be fuel. 803 00:49:40,227 --> 00:49:41,895 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Low level. 804 00:49:41,979 --> 00:49:43,313 KRANZ (over radio): Low level. 805 00:49:43,397 --> 00:49:44,898 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): And on for 60. 806 00:49:44,982 --> 00:49:46,316 KRANZ (over radio): Rog. 807 00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:47,693 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): 60. 808 00:49:47,776 --> 00:49:49,194 KRANZ (over radio): 60 seconds. 809 00:49:49,569 --> 00:49:51,488 ALDRIN (over radio): 11 forward, coming down nicely. 200 feet. 810 00:49:52,072 --> 00:49:54,157 4 1/2 down. 5 1/2 down. 811 00:49:57,703 --> 00:49:59,830 ALDRIN (over radio): 160 feet. 6 1/2 down. 812 00:49:59,913 --> 00:50:02,207 5 1/2 down. 9 forward. 813 00:50:05,210 --> 00:50:08,130 KRANZ (over radio):75 feet looking good down a half. 814 00:50:09,131 --> 00:50:10,966 KRANZ (over radio): How's our margin looking, Bob? 815 00:50:11,049 --> 00:50:12,968 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): It looks okay, we've got 4-1/2. 816 00:50:13,427 --> 00:50:14,720 KRANZ (over radio): Rog. 817 00:50:14,803 --> 00:50:16,805 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): 285 feet descending at one foot per second. 818 00:50:18,432 --> 00:50:20,767 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Okay, how's the fuel? 819 00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:23,020 ALDRIN (over radio): Wait just a minute. 820 00:50:23,103 --> 00:50:25,772 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Okay. Here's a... Looks like a good area here. 821 00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:26,982 ALDRIN (over radio): I got the shadow out there. 822 00:50:27,315 --> 00:50:28,692 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Standby for 30. 823 00:50:29,151 --> 00:50:31,028 ALDRIN (over radio): Forward. Forward. 824 00:50:31,361 --> 00:50:32,654 KRANZ (over radio): 30, 30 seconds. 825 00:50:32,738 --> 00:50:34,322 ALDRIN (over radio): Good. 826 00:50:34,406 --> 00:50:37,617 40 feet down, 2 1/2. Picking up some dust. 827 00:50:38,827 --> 00:50:41,371 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. Faint shadow. 828 00:50:47,252 --> 00:50:49,963 ALDRIN (over radio): 4 forward. 4 forward. 829 00:50:50,047 --> 00:50:51,631 Drifting to the right a little. 830 00:50:51,715 --> 00:50:53,175 20 feet, down a half; 831 00:50:53,258 --> 00:50:55,302 Drifting forward just a little bit. 832 00:50:55,385 --> 00:50:59,723 That's good. Okay. 833 00:51:01,224 --> 00:51:03,518 ALDRIN (over radio): Contact light. 834 00:51:04,227 --> 00:51:05,771 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Shutdown. 835 00:51:07,731 --> 00:51:09,941 ALDRIN (over radio): Okay. Engine stop. 836 00:51:10,859 --> 00:51:13,236 ACA out of Detent. 837 00:51:15,989 --> 00:51:17,532 ALDRIN (over radio): Mode control, both auto. 838 00:51:17,616 --> 00:51:19,326 Descent Engine Command Override, off. 839 00:51:19,409 --> 00:51:21,745 Engine arm, off. 413 is in. 840 00:51:26,917 --> 00:51:28,502 DUKE (over radio): We've had shut down. 841 00:51:28,585 --> 00:51:30,587 We copy you down, Eagle. 842 00:51:30,670 --> 00:51:33,590 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Okay, keep the chatter down in this room! 843 00:51:34,257 --> 00:51:37,511 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Houston. Tranquility Base here. 844 00:51:37,594 --> 00:51:39,221 The eagle has landed. 845 00:51:40,597 --> 00:51:43,308 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. 846 00:51:43,767 --> 00:51:45,519 You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. 847 00:51:45,602 --> 00:51:47,521 We're breathing again. Thanks a lot. 848 00:51:51,066 --> 00:51:52,526 ALDRIN(over radio): Thank you. 849 00:51:54,027 --> 00:51:55,487 (applause) 850 00:51:55,987 --> 00:51:57,697 CRONKITE (off screen): Wally, say something. I'm speechless. 851 00:51:57,781 --> 00:52:00,200 SCHIRRA (off screen): I'm just trying to hold on to my breath. 852 00:52:00,283 --> 00:52:02,536 That is really something. 853 00:52:02,619 --> 00:52:04,162 CRONKITE: Phew, boy. 854 00:52:04,246 --> 00:52:06,414 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Okay, we're going to be busy for a minute. 855 00:52:06,748 --> 00:52:08,625 (radio chatter) 856 00:52:17,926 --> 00:52:19,970 BERGMAN (off screen): Everyone wondered what Neil Armstrong's 857 00:52:20,053 --> 00:52:22,848 first words would be: "This is Tranquility Base." 858 00:52:23,473 --> 00:52:25,308 ALDRIN( over radio): Very smooth touchdown. 859 00:52:26,726 --> 00:52:30,313 REPORTER (off screen): Very smooth touchdown. I don't believe it yet. 860 00:52:32,899 --> 00:52:35,777 Tranquility base. And the Eagle has landed. 861 00:52:36,903 --> 00:52:38,905 ALDRIN (over radio): Master arm. On. Take care of the descent vent. 862 00:52:38,989 --> 00:52:40,657 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Master arm coming on. 863 00:52:40,740 --> 00:52:41,950 ALDRIN (over radio): I'll get the pressure check. 864 00:52:42,033 --> 00:52:43,451 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Okay. 865 00:52:45,370 --> 00:52:47,706 REPORTER (off screen): They have just a very few seconds here to decide whether 866 00:52:47,789 --> 00:52:51,209 they want to stay or whether they want to leave right away. 867 00:53:00,051 --> 00:53:01,511 KRANZ (over radio): Okay, T-1. Stay, no stay. Retro. 868 00:53:01,595 --> 00:53:02,929 MAN (over radio): Stay! 869 00:53:03,013 --> 00:53:04,431 KRANZ (over radio): Fido. MAN (over radio): Stay! 870 00:53:04,514 --> 00:53:05,724 KRANZ (over radio): Guidance. GUIDANCE (over radio): Stay! 871 00:53:05,807 --> 00:53:06,933 KRANZ (over radio): Control. CONTROL (over radio): Stay! 872 00:53:07,017 --> 00:53:08,268 KRANZ (over radio): Tel-com. MAN (over radio): Stay! 873 00:53:08,351 --> 00:53:09,394 KRANZ (over radio): Gen-C. MAN (over radio): Stay! 874 00:53:09,477 --> 00:53:10,437 KRANZ (over radio): E-Com. MAN (over radio): Stay! 875 00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:11,855 KRANZ (over radio): Surgeon. SURGEON (over radio): Stay! 876 00:53:11,938 --> 00:53:14,274 KRANZ (over radio): Capcom, we're stay for T-1. 877 00:53:14,357 --> 00:53:18,236 STRAWSER (off screen): We are now 106 hours, 27 minutes into the mission of Apollo 11. 878 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,906 And some 15 minutes ago from Tranquility Base, 879 00:53:20,989 --> 00:53:22,991 the lunar module resting on the Moon's surface, 880 00:53:23,074 --> 00:53:25,410 Commander Neil Armstrong radioed he was beginning 881 00:53:25,493 --> 00:53:27,245 preparations for EVA. 882 00:53:27,871 --> 00:53:31,333 EVA standing for Extravehicular Activity, or to put it more simply, 883 00:53:31,416 --> 00:53:33,335 the moonwalk. 884 00:53:34,002 --> 00:53:35,921 REPORTER (off screen): Southern Californians do just about everything in their 885 00:53:36,004 --> 00:53:38,215 automobiles, even go to church, 886 00:53:38,590 --> 00:53:40,842 park in the parking lot, and listen to the sermon 887 00:53:40,926 --> 00:53:42,886 sitting in their car. 888 00:53:42,969 --> 00:53:45,847 This is Southern California's first drive-in church. 889 00:53:46,598 --> 00:53:49,768 MINISTER: This is a very special day for you and for all of mankind. 890 00:53:50,894 --> 00:53:55,398 For you are permitting man to conquer space and on this very day, to plant 891 00:53:55,482 --> 00:53:58,485 his footsteps on the Moon. 892 00:53:58,818 --> 00:54:01,446 REYNOLDS (over TV): Just about everybody in the world you might think is 893 00:54:01,529 --> 00:54:03,698 watching this event on television. 894 00:54:03,782 --> 00:54:06,993 It is believed that half a billion have watched the touchdown of the men on the 895 00:54:07,077 --> 00:54:11,331 Moon, and at least that many of course will be around to see this moonwalk. 896 00:54:11,790 --> 00:54:15,710 Here is Central Park in New York where it's raining on the people who 897 00:54:15,794 --> 00:54:17,295 have assembled for, 898 00:54:17,379 --> 00:54:19,214 well, I guess you would call it a Moon-in. 899 00:54:19,297 --> 00:54:21,925 Everybody gathers there and just looks up at the moon. 900 00:54:22,008 --> 00:54:25,262 And in perhaps less than an hour or so, they might actually see 901 00:54:25,345 --> 00:54:27,722 the men walking on the Moon they're looking at. 902 00:54:31,935 --> 00:54:33,353 REPORTER (off screen): Strange. 903 00:54:33,436 --> 00:54:37,274 All of this, this lack of sound is almost dramatic, too, Steve. 904 00:54:37,357 --> 00:54:39,317 MAN (over radio): Cabin pressure at point two. 905 00:54:40,151 --> 00:54:42,028 ARMSTRONG (over radio): The hatch is coming open. 906 00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,783 ALDRIN (over radio): Okay, you're not quite squared away. 907 00:54:46,866 --> 00:54:49,828 Hold her. Pull right a little. 908 00:54:50,620 --> 00:54:53,540 CRONKITE (off screen): Now, Aldrin's directing him through the hatch opening. 909 00:54:54,541 --> 00:54:57,919 He can't see where he's going. He's backing out of the hatch. 910 00:54:58,253 --> 00:55:01,548 BURKE (over TV): Armstrong is out on the porch. 911 00:55:01,631 --> 00:55:05,969 Any minute now, he should release the controls that turns on the television. 912 00:55:07,095 --> 00:55:09,389 BURKE (over TV): Any minute now, we should see pictures. 913 00:55:11,683 --> 00:55:13,143 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Did you get some... 914 00:55:13,226 --> 00:55:14,728 ALDRIN (over radio): I'm going to pull it now. 915 00:55:14,811 --> 00:55:17,939 BURKE (over TV): Here it goes. Here goes the mission with the television camera on it. 916 00:55:19,399 --> 00:55:20,567 ALDRIN (over radio): Roger. 917 00:55:26,406 --> 00:55:30,744 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): We're getting a picture on the TV. 918 00:55:38,126 --> 00:55:41,713 (cheering and applause) 919 00:55:48,345 --> 00:55:50,305 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): There's a great deal of contrast in it and 920 00:55:50,388 --> 00:55:53,141 currently it's upside down on our monitor, 921 00:55:53,224 --> 00:55:56,019 but we can make out a fair amount of detail. 922 00:55:56,478 --> 00:55:59,689 BURKE (off screen): There is Armstrong. You can see him moving. 923 00:56:00,023 --> 00:56:01,691 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Okay, Neil. 924 00:56:01,775 --> 00:56:04,152 We can see you coming down the ladder now. 925 00:56:05,695 --> 00:56:06,863 SCHIRRA (off screen): There's a foot going down. 926 00:56:06,946 --> 00:56:13,078 CRONKITE (off screen): There he is. There's a foot coming down the steps. 927 00:56:13,495 --> 00:56:14,871 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Okay, I just checked 928 00:56:14,954 --> 00:56:18,875 getting back up to that first step Buzz. It's... 929 00:56:20,043 --> 00:56:23,254 The strut isn't collapsed too far, but 930 00:56:23,338 --> 00:56:26,633 it's adequate to get back up. 931 00:56:27,550 --> 00:56:29,928 I'm going to step off the LM now. 932 00:56:35,683 --> 00:56:41,856 ♪ ♪ 933 00:56:52,534 --> 00:56:55,620 ARMSTRONG (over radio): That's one small step for man... 934 00:56:58,540 --> 00:57:01,000 one giant leap for mankind. 935 00:57:02,502 --> 00:57:05,255 CRONKITE (off screen): Armstrong is standing on the surface of the moon. 936 00:57:05,338 --> 00:57:09,509 38-year-old American 937 00:57:13,638 --> 00:57:17,308 on this July 20th, 1969. 938 00:57:19,978 --> 00:57:25,608 (cheering and applause) 939 00:57:28,027 --> 00:57:29,362 WOMAN (off screen): He's on the Moon! 940 00:57:29,446 --> 00:57:31,573 Look at him walking around. 941 00:57:32,699 --> 00:57:36,327 PA OFFICER (over radio): Unofficial time on the first step: 1:09:24:20. 942 00:57:37,370 --> 00:57:39,914 ARMSTRONG (over radio): There seems to be no difficulty in moving around 943 00:57:39,998 --> 00:57:42,000 as we suspected. 944 00:57:42,083 --> 00:57:46,713 It's even perhaps easier than the simulations of one-sixth G 945 00:57:46,796 --> 00:57:51,759 that we performed in the various simulations on the ground. 946 00:57:55,847 --> 00:57:59,476 ARMSTRONG (over radio): I'll step out and take some of my first pictures here. 947 00:58:02,645 --> 00:58:04,939 It has a stark beauty all its own. 948 00:58:05,023 --> 00:58:08,860 It's like much of the high desert of the United States. 949 00:58:09,486 --> 00:58:12,238 It's different, but it's very pretty out here. 950 00:58:13,114 --> 00:58:15,366 ALDRIN (over radio): Oh, that looks beautiful from here, Neil. 951 00:58:18,036 --> 00:58:20,788 ALDRIN (over radio): Okay. Are you ready for me to come out? 952 00:58:21,331 --> 00:58:24,250 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): He's running about 1400-BTU. Clear? 953 00:58:24,334 --> 00:58:26,294 ALDRIN (over radio): Are you ready? 954 00:58:26,377 --> 00:58:28,546 ARMSTRONG (over radio): All set. 955 00:58:28,630 --> 00:58:31,799 Your toes are about to come over the sill. 956 00:58:34,260 --> 00:58:36,262 Okay. Now drop your PLSS down. 957 00:58:36,346 --> 00:58:37,722 There you go; you're clear. 958 00:58:37,805 --> 00:58:40,850 You've got three more steps and then a long one. 959 00:58:42,769 --> 00:58:45,897 ALDRIN (over radio): Okay. I'm going to leave the one foot up there and... 960 00:58:46,481 --> 00:58:48,900 both hands down to about the fourth rung up. 961 00:59:00,119 --> 00:59:05,917 ♪ ♪ 962 00:59:11,589 --> 00:59:13,675 ALDRIN (over radio): Beautiful view! 963 00:59:17,929 --> 00:59:21,641 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Isn't that something? Magnificent sight out here. 964 00:59:23,268 --> 00:59:25,895 ALDRIN (over radio): Magnificent desolation. 965 00:59:28,273 --> 00:59:30,567 Neil is now unveiling the plaque. 966 00:59:33,278 --> 00:59:35,572 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Tell me if you've got a picture Houston. 967 00:59:36,197 --> 00:59:37,991 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): We've got a beautiful picture, Neil, beautiful. 968 00:59:38,866 --> 00:59:40,201 ARMSTRONG (over radio): Underneath it says: 969 00:59:40,285 --> 00:59:45,123 "Here men from planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, 970 00:59:45,206 --> 00:59:48,793 July 1969, A.D. 971 00:59:50,295 --> 00:59:52,505 We came in peace for all mankind." 972 00:59:53,923 --> 00:59:58,177 It has the crew members' signatures and the signature of the 973 00:59:58,261 --> 01:00:00,763 President of the United States. 974 01:00:04,851 --> 01:00:07,562 CAPCOM (over radio): Tranquility Base, this is Houston. 975 01:00:07,645 --> 01:00:09,939 Could we get both of you on the camera for a minute, please? 976 01:00:10,940 --> 01:00:12,150 SECRETARY (over phone): Hello? 977 01:00:12,233 --> 01:00:13,318 They're on there now? 978 01:00:13,401 --> 01:00:14,611 MAN (over phone): They're on the line right now. 979 01:00:14,694 --> 01:00:16,070 SECRETARY (over phone): Okay, I'll put the President right on. 980 01:00:16,154 --> 01:00:18,489 MAN (over phone): Alright. Gentlemen, he's coming on the line. 981 01:00:18,823 --> 01:00:20,617 CAPCOM (over radio): Neil and Buzz... 982 01:00:20,700 --> 01:00:24,996 The President of the United States is in his office now and would like to say a few 983 01:00:25,079 --> 01:00:26,789 words to you. Over. 984 01:00:32,170 --> 01:00:34,213 ARMSTRONG (over radio): That would bean honor. 985 01:00:35,715 --> 01:00:38,760 (ringing) 986 01:00:38,843 --> 01:00:40,178 NIXON (over phone): Hello? 987 01:00:40,261 --> 01:00:42,013 SECRETARY (over phone): We're ready with the astronauts, sir. 988 01:00:42,096 --> 01:00:43,222 NIXON (over phone): Yes. 989 01:00:43,306 --> 01:00:44,807 SECRETARY (over phone): There you are. 990 01:00:44,891 --> 01:00:46,309 NIXON (over phone): Hello, Neil and Buzz. 991 01:00:46,392 --> 01:00:49,937 I'm talking to you by telephone from the Oval Room at the White House. 992 01:00:51,439 --> 01:00:56,402 I just can't tell you how proud we all are of what you, for every American 993 01:00:56,486 --> 01:01:00,490 this has to be the proudest day of our lives. 994 01:01:01,824 --> 01:01:04,702 For one priceless moment, 995 01:01:04,786 --> 01:01:10,458 in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one, 996 01:01:12,543 --> 01:01:18,383 one in their pride in what you have done, and one in our prayers that you will 997 01:01:18,466 --> 01:01:20,551 return safely to Earth. 998 01:01:36,943 --> 01:01:42,156 ♪ ♪ 999 01:01:56,587 --> 01:01:58,589 DRUMMOND (over radio): Earlier this afternoon here in Chicago, 1000 01:01:58,673 --> 01:02:01,884 the astronauts were made honorary citizens of Chicago. 1001 01:02:02,260 --> 01:02:06,139 There's no question about it, Chicago went all out for the Apollo 11 astronauts. 1002 01:02:06,514 --> 01:02:09,183 Veterans here in the city have seen many parades, many occasions. 1003 01:02:09,267 --> 01:02:13,354 They say that the enthusiasm that was shown by the public on this occasion was by far 1004 01:02:13,438 --> 01:02:16,524 the most that they have seen in years. 1005 01:02:21,112 --> 01:02:24,157 DANCY (over TV): The Moon rocks, the most valuable cargo in history, 1006 01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:25,908 arrived under heavy guard. 1007 01:02:25,992 --> 01:02:28,911 NASA officials were hard pressed to put a price on them and finally just 1008 01:02:28,995 --> 01:02:30,747 said they were priceless. 1009 01:02:30,830 --> 01:02:35,168 For three months, 142 investigators all over the world will study the rocks. 1010 01:02:35,918 --> 01:02:39,213 There has never been another event like it in the history of science. 1011 01:02:45,553 --> 01:02:47,889 BEUTEL (over TV): Like so many people around the world, 1012 01:02:47,972 --> 01:02:49,932 there is enthusiasm for the most important feat 1013 01:02:50,016 --> 01:02:52,351 of exploration in the history of the world. 1014 01:02:52,435 --> 01:02:55,730 A feat of exploration that even five years ago was almost inconceivable. 1015 01:02:56,397 --> 01:02:59,692 On the other hand, there's the question that everyone asks and nobody, so far, 1016 01:02:59,776 --> 01:03:01,360 is able to answer. 1017 01:03:01,444 --> 01:03:02,820 Is it worth it all? 1018 01:03:02,904 --> 01:03:06,032 Could it all have been spent a little bit better here on Earth? 1019 01:03:11,788 --> 01:03:15,583 ROGGE: This is Bette Rogge recording for Channel 7's total news at the Apollo news 1020 01:03:15,666 --> 01:03:17,668 center in Cocoa Beach, Florida. 1021 01:03:17,752 --> 01:03:20,755 I'd like for you to meet one of the ladies involved in the space program, 1022 01:03:20,838 --> 01:03:22,048 Mrs. Mary Driver. 1023 01:03:22,131 --> 01:03:23,549 She's in personnel. 1024 01:03:23,633 --> 01:03:26,886 Mary tell us, how important are the women in this program? 1025 01:03:27,678 --> 01:03:30,723 DRIVER: I think the women are very important in the space program. 1026 01:03:30,807 --> 01:03:36,437 They're involved in almost all phases from the clerical, 1027 01:03:37,063 --> 01:03:38,648 professional administrative. 1028 01:03:38,731 --> 01:03:41,484 We even have quite a few women engineers. 1029 01:03:44,362 --> 01:03:46,948 NORTHCUTT: I think the first mission that I worked on, Apollo 8, 1030 01:03:47,031 --> 01:03:50,910 I got a little nervous. Mainly it was being keyed up. You were excited. 1031 01:03:52,203 --> 01:03:54,622 And everyone was very excited. 1032 01:03:54,705 --> 01:03:57,208 But I think that, uh, you are capable of functioning, 1033 01:03:57,291 --> 01:04:01,254 we practice so much, so many times that the real missions 1034 01:04:01,337 --> 01:04:04,048 almost seem easy compared to some of the simulations. 1035 01:04:06,342 --> 01:04:09,887 REPORTER (off screen): How does it feel to work among so many men in a world 1036 01:04:09,971 --> 01:04:12,431 that is dominated by men, isn't it? 1037 01:04:13,349 --> 01:04:16,352 NORTHCUTT: Well, it's actually dominated by computers, 1038 01:04:16,435 --> 01:04:18,688 and by machinery as a whole. 1039 01:04:19,438 --> 01:04:23,150 KING (off screen): 10, 9, 8 ignition sequence start, 1040 01:04:23,609 --> 01:04:29,282 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. 1041 01:04:29,782 --> 01:04:33,369 All engines running. Commence liftoff. We have liftoff. 1042 01:04:33,452 --> 01:04:36,414 11:22 AM Eastern Standard Time. 1043 01:04:46,757 --> 01:04:48,885 REPORTER (over radio): It's all happened before, 1044 01:04:48,968 --> 01:04:51,512 so why get excited this time? 1045 01:04:51,596 --> 01:04:54,390 For Apollo 11, everything stopped. 1046 01:04:55,474 --> 01:04:58,561 Apollo 12, far less interest. 1047 01:04:59,437 --> 01:05:04,150 So easily does the human mind accept the impossible, a man on the Moon. 1048 01:05:05,943 --> 01:05:07,778 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): TV's starting to come in. 1049 01:05:07,862 --> 01:05:11,073 BURKE (over TV): The flight plan calls for Al Bean to actually start 1050 01:05:11,157 --> 01:05:12,950 getting the camera away, 1051 01:05:13,034 --> 01:05:14,744 pulling it out to a point where we can see better pictures. 1052 01:05:14,827 --> 01:05:16,621 And there, there he goes he's doing it now. 1053 01:05:17,330 --> 01:05:19,832 CONRAD (over radio): Where, oh where, is Earth? 1054 01:05:20,750 --> 01:05:22,960 Pointing toward the Sun. That's bad. 1055 01:05:23,044 --> 01:05:24,879 Point it here a minute. 1056 01:05:26,339 --> 01:05:27,965 CAPCOM (over radio): Al, we have a pretty bright image on that TV. 1057 01:05:28,049 --> 01:05:30,217 Could you either move or stop it down? 1058 01:05:30,843 --> 01:05:32,970 BEAN (over radio): That may do it right there, Houston. 1059 01:05:33,804 --> 01:05:35,222 CAPCOM (over radio): Al, we haven't seen any change at all. 1060 01:05:35,306 --> 01:05:38,142 Why don't you go ahead and take and put your glove in front of the lens, 1061 01:05:38,225 --> 01:05:39,226 but not over it, 1062 01:05:39,310 --> 01:05:41,479 to see whether we can get any change at all? 1063 01:05:41,938 --> 01:05:44,815 REPORTER: But for how well things went this morning, there are a few too-bads. 1064 01:05:45,316 --> 01:05:48,736 Too bad, for instance, that the television camera wasn't working, particularly since 1065 01:05:48,819 --> 01:05:51,781 the engineers have now figured out a way that it could have been repaired, 1066 01:05:51,864 --> 01:05:53,324 at least partially. 1067 01:05:53,950 --> 01:05:56,494 HOPE: It's too bad, really, about that TV camera conking out on the Moon, 1068 01:05:56,577 --> 01:05:57,995 but it's going to work out alright. 1069 01:05:58,079 --> 01:05:59,956 It's still under warranty. 1070 01:06:04,293 --> 01:06:06,921 And there was nothing NASA could do about it, that time at night it's 1071 01:06:07,004 --> 01:06:09,548 hard to find a TV repairman who makes house calls. 1072 01:06:17,848 --> 01:06:21,185 BRINKLEY (over TV): Unemployment rose in March faster than any time in 1073 01:06:21,268 --> 01:06:26,273 10 years, and now 4.4% of the country's workforce is out of work. 1074 01:06:27,441 --> 01:06:30,736 Some of the new unemployment is in the automobile industry, because the cars aren't 1075 01:06:30,820 --> 01:06:33,823 selling too well and in the space industries, 1076 01:06:33,906 --> 01:06:35,866 because after the first Moon landing, 1077 01:06:35,950 --> 01:06:38,327 the money was cut back. 1078 01:06:38,411 --> 01:06:40,788 GUIDE: Over towards your left you'll notice two of these. 1079 01:06:40,871 --> 01:06:43,624 REPORTER (off screen): Guided tours of the Michoud rocket assembly plant in New Orleans 1080 01:06:43,708 --> 01:06:45,209 may soon come to an end. 1081 01:06:45,292 --> 01:06:47,878 Because of the big cutback in the space program, 1082 01:06:47,962 --> 01:06:50,214 the plant is almost out of business. 1083 01:06:50,631 --> 01:06:54,176 GUIDE (off screen): During 1965, our total employment was 12,000. 1084 01:06:54,260 --> 01:06:57,430 We are presently working with 2,600. 1085 01:06:58,848 --> 01:07:01,392 CHANCELLOR (off screen): You've now been in the space program for some time. 1086 01:07:01,475 --> 01:07:05,021 Do you think that there's as much popular support for the space program in the country 1087 01:07:05,104 --> 01:07:07,440 today as there was, say, just a few years ago? 1088 01:07:08,649 --> 01:07:12,570 LOVELL: Certainly, with the goal of landing on the Moon being so prominent in people's 1089 01:07:12,653 --> 01:07:16,741 minds, they tended to focus the Space program towards that area, but right now I think 1090 01:07:16,824 --> 01:07:21,662 that the country is realizing the broad implications of what can really be accomplished by 1091 01:07:21,746 --> 01:07:25,291 a diversified, well-organized space program. 1092 01:07:26,459 --> 01:07:27,460 WOMAN: I think it's ridiculous! 1093 01:07:27,543 --> 01:07:28,711 REPORTER (off screen): Why's that? 1094 01:07:28,794 --> 01:07:30,212 WOMAN: Spending all that money. 1095 01:07:30,296 --> 01:07:33,382 Here are all these poor people out of jobs, don't have enough to feed their children. 1096 01:07:33,466 --> 01:07:36,052 They're sending someone to the moon instead of helping the people here get jobs and 1097 01:07:36,135 --> 01:07:38,262 live like human beings. 1098 01:07:38,345 --> 01:07:41,932 REPORTER (off screen): The public interest in space flight seems to have waned and 1099 01:07:42,016 --> 01:07:46,020 proving that out is CBS news correspondent Bruce Morton in Houston. 1100 01:07:46,604 --> 01:07:48,439 MORTON (over TV): The space agency's budget has shrunk, 1101 01:07:48,522 --> 01:07:50,566 the number of people employed here has shrunk, 1102 01:07:50,649 --> 01:07:54,361 the number of contractors with people here has shrunk and public interest, 1103 01:07:54,445 --> 01:07:58,115 at least as reflected in news media attention has shrunk, too. 1104 01:08:09,126 --> 01:08:12,671 ♪ ♪ 1105 01:08:19,178 --> 01:08:21,806 CAPCOM (over radio): Okay 13, we've got Freddo on TV. 1106 01:08:22,973 --> 01:08:25,684 HAISE (over radio): Right under Jim, now he's actually standing on a 1107 01:08:25,768 --> 01:08:27,812 what looks to be a can here. 1108 01:08:27,895 --> 01:08:31,816 Housed inside this can is the LM ascent engine. 1109 01:08:31,899 --> 01:08:35,611 Here, hopefully you can see my hand resting on top of right now... 1110 01:08:35,694 --> 01:08:39,198 the engine that we use to get off of the Moon. 1111 01:08:40,116 --> 01:08:42,034 CAPCOM (over radio): Okay, it's been a real good TV show, 1112 01:08:42,118 --> 01:08:44,036 we think we ought to conclude it from here now. 1113 01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:45,412 What do you think? 1114 01:08:45,955 --> 01:08:47,748 LOVELL (over radio): Roger, sounds good. 1115 01:08:47,832 --> 01:08:53,337 This is the crew of Apollo 13 wishing everybody there a nice evening, 1116 01:08:54,380 --> 01:08:57,299 and we're just about ready to close out our inspection 1117 01:08:57,383 --> 01:09:01,470 of Aquarius and get back for a pleasant evening in Odyssey. 1118 01:09:01,554 --> 01:09:02,763 Good night. 1119 01:09:03,514 --> 01:09:06,267 KRANZ (over radio): Okay, GNC, you got any configuration items now? 1120 01:09:06,350 --> 01:09:07,893 MAN (over radio): Negative, flight. 1121 01:09:07,977 --> 01:09:11,230 KRANZ (over radio): Capcom, it looks like the last item we need here is a 1122 01:09:11,313 --> 01:09:13,941 stir on the H2 and O2 at their convenience. 1123 01:09:14,525 --> 01:09:15,693 CAPCOM (over radio): Okay. 1124 01:09:15,776 --> 01:09:17,611 13, we've got one more item for you, when you get a chance. 1125 01:09:17,695 --> 01:09:20,030 We'd like you to stir up your cryo-tanks. 1126 01:09:20,489 --> 01:09:22,575 SWIGERT (over radio): Okay. Stand by. 1127 01:09:24,034 --> 01:09:26,036 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): You guys, look at your O2 quantities to see if you 1128 01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:27,746 see a big change. 1129 01:09:29,832 --> 01:09:31,125 (explosion) 1130 01:09:41,135 --> 01:09:43,470 SWIGERT (over radio): Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here. 1131 01:09:45,347 --> 01:09:47,099 CAPCOM (over radio): This is Houston. Say again, please. 1132 01:09:52,730 --> 01:09:55,107 LOVELL (over radio): Uh, Houston, we've had a problem. 1133 01:09:56,942 --> 01:09:58,944 We've had a Main B Bus Undervolt. 1134 01:10:01,322 --> 01:10:02,448 LIEBERGOT (over radio): We've got more than a problem here. 1135 01:10:02,531 --> 01:10:04,033 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Okay, listen, listen, you guys. 1136 01:10:04,116 --> 01:10:07,161 We've lost fuel cell 1, N2 pressure. 1137 01:10:07,244 --> 01:10:10,039 CAPCOM (over radio): Okay, standby, 13. We're looking at it. 1138 01:10:10,956 --> 01:10:13,375 HAISE (over radio): We had a pretty large bang associated with the 1139 01:10:13,459 --> 01:10:15,336 Caution and Warning there. 1140 01:10:16,253 --> 01:10:17,213 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): We got a Main B Undervolt. 1141 01:10:17,296 --> 01:10:18,714 Okay, listen, listen you guys. 1142 01:10:18,797 --> 01:10:20,674 We've lost fuel cell 1 N2 pressure. 1143 01:10:20,758 --> 01:10:22,509 ECS, what do you got? 1144 01:10:22,593 --> 01:10:24,303 MAN (over radio): He's flipping the fuel cells around. 1145 01:10:24,386 --> 01:10:26,597 MAN 2 (over radio): O2 tank one is fluctuating. 1146 01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:28,724 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Okay, is that pressure coming down? 1147 01:10:28,807 --> 01:10:30,809 MAN (over radio): 373, it hasn't moved. 1148 01:10:30,893 --> 01:10:32,353 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Is that reflected anywhere? 1149 01:10:32,436 --> 01:10:34,438 MAN 2 (over radio): Negative. Negative. 1150 01:10:34,521 --> 01:10:36,106 I want to site job with those fuel cells. 1151 01:10:36,190 --> 01:10:38,067 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Yeah, if you believe that N2 pressure we blew a. 1152 01:10:38,150 --> 01:10:40,069 MAN (over radio): Okay. Go ahead. 1153 01:10:40,152 --> 01:10:42,780 We're short low engine pressure on fuel cell one. 1154 01:10:42,863 --> 01:10:44,573 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): EPS, EECOMM. 1155 01:10:44,657 --> 01:10:48,035 Why don't we just try fuel cell 1 on Main B by itself? 1156 01:10:48,118 --> 01:10:49,119 CAPCOM (over radio): 13, Houston. 1157 01:10:49,203 --> 01:10:51,622 We'd like you to open circuit fuel cell one. 1158 01:10:51,705 --> 01:10:53,916 Leave two and three as is. 1159 01:10:54,416 --> 01:10:56,377 HAISE (over radio): Okay, I'll get to work on that. 1160 01:10:56,460 --> 01:11:01,215 LOVELL (over radio): And Jack our O2 quantity number 2 tank is reading zero. 1161 01:11:01,298 --> 01:11:02,633 Did you get that? 1162 01:11:03,050 --> 01:11:04,593 CAPCOM (over radio): O2 quantity number two is zero. 1163 01:11:05,552 --> 01:11:07,263 LOVELL (over radio): Yes. That's good AC 1164 01:11:07,346 --> 01:11:09,515 and it looks to me, looking out the hatch, 1165 01:11:09,598 --> 01:11:10,808 that we are venting something. 1166 01:11:13,519 --> 01:11:16,188 We are venting something out into the- 1167 01:11:16,272 --> 01:11:17,606 into space. 1168 01:11:20,025 --> 01:11:21,860 CAPCOM (over radio): Roger, we copy you're venting. 1169 01:11:29,952 --> 01:11:32,204 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Crew thinks they're venting. 1170 01:11:32,746 --> 01:11:34,665 KRANZ (over radio): Okay, let's everybody think of the kind of things 1171 01:11:34,748 --> 01:11:35,916 we'd be venting. 1172 01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:37,960 GNC, you got anything that looks abnormal in your system? 1173 01:11:38,419 --> 01:11:40,337 LOVELL (over radio): It's a gas of some sort. 1174 01:11:41,046 --> 01:11:42,923 PA OFFICER (over radio): This is Apollo Control at 1175 01:11:43,007 --> 01:11:45,384 57 hours, 46 minutes ground elapsed time. 1176 01:11:45,467 --> 01:11:49,722 The Black team of flight controllers is looking at possible alternate missions. 1177 01:11:50,556 --> 01:11:54,393 As we have an apparent serious oxygen leak in the cryogenic oxygen in the 1178 01:11:54,476 --> 01:11:56,061 Service Module. 1179 01:11:56,145 --> 01:11:58,856 KRANZ (over radio): Look I'd prefer not make any unnecessary maneuvers 1180 01:11:58,939 --> 01:12:00,941 until we nail down what our problem is. 1181 01:12:01,692 --> 01:12:04,611 ANNOUNCER (over TV): Here is a special report on Apollo 13. 1182 01:12:05,529 --> 01:12:08,699 Here is ABC science editor, Jules Bergman. 1183 01:12:09,491 --> 01:12:12,536 BERGMAN: The Apollo 13 spacecraft has suffered a major electrical failure. 1184 01:12:13,203 --> 01:12:16,915 Seconds after inspecting the Aquarius lunar module, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise 1185 01:12:16,999 --> 01:12:21,211 had crawled back into their Command Module, and then reported hearing a loud bang 1186 01:12:21,295 --> 01:12:24,256 followed by a power loss in two of their three fuel cells. 1187 01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:28,385 They also reported seeing fuel, apparently oxygen and nitrogen, leaking from the 1188 01:12:28,469 --> 01:12:32,264 spacecraft and reported the gauges for those gasses were reading zero. 1189 01:12:33,265 --> 01:12:36,185 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): The pressure in O2 tank one is all the way down to 297, 1190 01:12:36,268 --> 01:12:37,853 we better think about getting in the LM. 1191 01:12:37,936 --> 01:12:39,355 Or using the LM systems. 1192 01:12:39,438 --> 01:12:40,689 SWIGERT (over radio): Okay, Jack. 1193 01:12:40,773 --> 01:12:45,652 It looks like O2 tank one pressure is just a hair over 200. 1194 01:12:46,070 --> 01:12:49,323 CAPCOM (over radio): We confirm that here and the temperature also confirms it. 1195 01:12:49,406 --> 01:12:52,201 SWIGERT (over radio): Okay, does it look like it's still going down? 1196 01:12:52,284 --> 01:12:55,746 CAPCOM (over radio): It's slowly going to zero, and we're starting to think 1197 01:12:55,829 --> 01:12:58,082 about the LM lifeboat. 1198 01:13:01,794 --> 01:13:04,671 STANLEY (over TV): The word is from the technicians at North American Aircraft, 1199 01:13:04,755 --> 01:13:07,049 who manufacture the command module, 1200 01:13:07,132 --> 01:13:10,803 that using only one of the three available fuel cells, 1201 01:13:11,470 --> 01:13:15,182 insufficient power would be available to fire the booster aboard the command 1202 01:13:15,265 --> 01:13:17,518 module to make that switch in trajectory. 1203 01:13:18,519 --> 01:13:20,104 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): We're thinking about using 1204 01:13:20,187 --> 01:13:21,397 the LM as a lifeboat. 1205 01:13:21,480 --> 01:13:22,898 We have some procedures here. 1206 01:13:22,981 --> 01:13:26,568 REPORTER (over radio): So, now a procedure called LM lifeboat using the booster 1207 01:13:26,652 --> 01:13:29,029 engine aboard the LM is being contemplated. 1208 01:13:29,822 --> 01:13:31,990 CAPCOM (over radio): We figure we've got about 15 minutes worth of power 1209 01:13:32,074 --> 01:13:33,283 left in the Command Module, 1210 01:13:33,367 --> 01:13:35,828 so we want you to start getting over in the LM and getting 1211 01:13:35,911 --> 01:13:37,955 some power on that. 1212 01:13:38,330 --> 01:13:41,500 BERGMAN: Without all three fuel cells, any lunar landing is ruled out, 1213 01:13:41,583 --> 01:13:43,043 and the problem then becomes 1214 01:13:43,127 --> 01:13:46,046 getting enough electrical power to fire up the spacecraft onboard engine 1215 01:13:46,130 --> 01:13:48,340 to get them back to Earth. 1216 01:13:48,674 --> 01:13:50,634 SCHIRRA: One of the things that we've seen, 1217 01:13:50,717 --> 01:13:52,803 of course now and it's become almost traditional, 1218 01:13:52,886 --> 01:13:55,556 is to show mission control that control center room, 1219 01:13:55,931 --> 01:13:57,808 where the flight controllers themselves are. 1220 01:13:57,891 --> 01:14:01,395 But there are, oh I'd say 10 times that many people around that room 1221 01:14:01,478 --> 01:14:03,230 in support rooms. 1222 01:14:03,313 --> 01:14:05,274 Probably about, yeah, 1223 01:14:05,357 --> 01:14:08,527 I would guess, probably 1,000 people working directly, right now, 1224 01:14:09,069 --> 01:14:10,779 on each facet of this mission. 1225 01:14:11,238 --> 01:14:13,699 AARON (over radio): We ought to get off entry battery and do it through with voice line, 1226 01:14:13,782 --> 01:14:14,867 through the LM. 1227 01:14:14,950 --> 01:14:16,076 COMM. 1228 01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:17,494 It's going to kill COMM and everything. 1229 01:14:17,578 --> 01:14:18,996 LUNNEY (over radio): Yeah, you're ready to do that. 1230 01:14:19,079 --> 01:14:20,706 Is everybody ready to kill COMM in the CSM, GNC? 1231 01:14:20,789 --> 01:14:22,875 NEAL (off screen): The center of activity is the flight director's position, 1232 01:14:22,958 --> 01:14:24,251 where at the moment 1233 01:14:24,334 --> 01:14:27,796 Glynn Lunney and two other flight directors, Gerry Griffin and Milton Windler, 1234 01:14:28,213 --> 01:14:32,217 are running the operation, checking all the points to see what can be done to best 1235 01:14:32,301 --> 01:14:35,053 advantage to correct situations as they develop. 1236 01:14:38,474 --> 01:14:39,475 BURKE (off screen): At this moment, 1237 01:14:39,558 --> 01:14:42,019 about 30,000 miles out from the Moon and accelerating fast in 1238 01:14:42,102 --> 01:14:46,690 towards it, the crew are aiming to curve in behind the Moon and out of contact with 1239 01:14:46,773 --> 01:14:51,111 Earth, fire the only engine they have left, the Lunar Module's descent engine. 1240 01:14:52,988 --> 01:14:56,200 The situation is extremely critical and we're monitoring it at all times. 1241 01:15:06,543 --> 01:15:08,212 REPORTER (off screen): The question is, "What happened?" 1242 01:15:08,295 --> 01:15:11,215 What was the big bang which blew out the fuel cells and wrecked the 1243 01:15:11,298 --> 01:15:12,841 command ship's Service Module? 1244 01:15:12,925 --> 01:15:14,801 And will we ever find out? 1245 01:15:14,885 --> 01:15:18,430 The Service Module is to be jettisoned and will burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. 1246 01:15:21,016 --> 01:15:23,644 BERGMAN (off screen): Lovell and Haise had just crawled back from the Lunar Module. 1247 01:15:23,727 --> 01:15:26,146 As they got back in they heard a loud bang. 1248 01:15:26,230 --> 01:15:28,023 It was an explosion. 1249 01:15:28,106 --> 01:15:32,110 It happened back here in the Service Module which contains their breathing oxygen, 1250 01:15:32,736 --> 01:15:34,112 it contains the hydrogen, 1251 01:15:34,196 --> 01:15:36,865 the oxygen, for the fuel cells, the electrical supply that 1252 01:15:36,949 --> 01:15:39,993 powers up this engine that give them radios, lighting, everything else they 1253 01:15:40,077 --> 01:15:42,454 need to live with inside the Command Module. 1254 01:15:43,789 --> 01:15:47,751 LUNNEY: Let me start off by saying that we in the business have probably had 1255 01:15:47,834 --> 01:15:50,170 the longest night we've had in the space program in a while. 1256 01:15:51,129 --> 01:15:56,301 Uh, my team came on duty last night, we got to the, we're supposed to come on 1257 01:15:56,385 --> 01:16:00,514 about 10 pm, and we got to the control center as usual, about an hour ahead of time. 1258 01:16:01,223 --> 01:16:06,436 And we had just finished the television show when we found out we had a problem. 1259 01:16:07,062 --> 01:16:10,440 Now, I wasn't on the console nor did I hear the air to ground when we exactly 1260 01:16:10,524 --> 01:16:12,234 had the problem. 1261 01:16:12,317 --> 01:16:17,114 And let me say that since that time, my team has been primarily concerned with not 1262 01:16:17,197 --> 01:16:21,702 what happened back there, but what it is we were going to do about it. 1263 01:16:22,578 --> 01:16:28,542 We're looking to do a burn at 79 plus 30, in order to accomplish 1264 01:16:29,084 --> 01:16:31,837 a faster return to Earth with the Lunar Module engine. 1265 01:16:33,422 --> 01:16:35,757 REPORTER (off screen): Apollo 13 has swung around the back of the Moon, 1266 01:16:35,841 --> 01:16:39,761 hitting its fastest clip since the disaster aboard the Service Module last night. 1267 01:16:40,304 --> 01:16:43,932 It's back in contact with Houston getting ready for the next big step: 1268 01:16:44,016 --> 01:16:46,768 A firing of the descent propulsion engine once again. 1269 01:16:46,852 --> 01:16:50,522 This one, a four minute and twenty second burn designed to speed the 1270 01:16:50,606 --> 01:16:54,151 returning astronauts to a Friday, midday landing in the South Pacific 1271 01:16:54,985 --> 01:16:56,778 southeast of Samoa. 1272 01:16:56,862 --> 01:16:58,196 KRANZ (over radio): Guidance from Flight. 1273 01:16:58,280 --> 01:16:59,781 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Go ahead, Flight. 1274 01:16:59,865 --> 01:17:02,868 KRANZ (over radio): Roger, when during this activation checklist do we want to 1275 01:17:02,951 --> 01:17:05,329 collapse D bend to 1.4 degrees? 1276 01:17:06,121 --> 01:17:08,206 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Just prior to the maneuver. 1277 01:17:08,290 --> 01:17:11,418 Yeah, we'd like to probably see it a good time frame before flight, 1278 01:17:12,127 --> 01:17:14,212 let's say 20 minutes or so. 1279 01:17:14,796 --> 01:17:17,799 BURKE: Uh, can I borrow that? 1280 01:17:17,883 --> 01:17:19,426 Geoffrey, you sit there. 1281 01:17:19,509 --> 01:17:22,095 I'll start with the model and I'll pass it to you for the theory. 1282 01:17:22,846 --> 01:17:25,891 Pass me the model, mate. That model. 1283 01:17:26,558 --> 01:17:28,435 WOMAN (off screen): 30 seconds! 1284 01:17:28,518 --> 01:17:30,020 BURKE: Quick, quick. 1285 01:17:30,103 --> 01:17:32,898 KRANZ (over radio): Okay, all Flight Controllers, we're on page 12 of the activation. 1286 01:17:33,273 --> 01:17:35,942 BURKE: Let's look at why they have to burn the engine that they have to. 1287 01:17:36,026 --> 01:17:40,864 First of all, the only engine that is working onboard this entire spacecraft at the 1288 01:17:41,323 --> 01:17:43,492 moment is that one there. 1289 01:17:43,575 --> 01:17:45,744 The Lunar Module Descent Engine. 1290 01:17:46,453 --> 01:17:50,624 They're only going to burn this engine for four minutes and 24 seconds. 1291 01:17:50,707 --> 01:17:52,292 That's the engine they have to use. 1292 01:17:52,376 --> 01:17:55,379 This engine here is absolutely unusable. 1293 01:17:56,129 --> 01:17:59,508 They cannot now risk using this engine, because they don't know what condition the 1294 01:17:59,591 --> 01:18:01,176 controls in here are in. 1295 01:18:05,180 --> 01:18:07,057 CAPCOM (over radio): Jim you are a go for the burn. 1296 01:18:07,140 --> 01:18:09,309 LOVELL (over radio): Roger, I understand. Go for the burn. 1297 01:18:10,602 --> 01:18:11,687 THORSON (over radio): We have ignition. 1298 01:18:11,770 --> 01:18:14,189 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Rog. Ground confirms ignition. 1299 01:18:14,272 --> 01:18:15,732 BURKE (off screen): Engines on. 1300 01:18:16,274 --> 01:18:17,901 LOVELL (over radio): We're burning forty percent. 1301 01:18:18,652 --> 01:18:20,570 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): CO2 is on low bit rate. 1302 01:18:20,654 --> 01:18:21,780 How about all the other data? 1303 01:18:21,863 --> 01:18:24,282 All the ECS parameters are on low bit rate. 1304 01:18:24,366 --> 01:18:26,451 Oxygen, water, and CO2. 1305 01:18:27,494 --> 01:18:29,663 BURKE (off screen): Under three minutes to go. 1306 01:18:30,706 --> 01:18:31,665 KRANZ (over radio): How you looking, Guidance? 1307 01:18:31,748 --> 01:18:32,958 GUIDANCE (over radio): Looking good. 1308 01:18:33,041 --> 01:18:35,168 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Rog, Capcom. Looking good here. 1309 01:18:35,252 --> 01:18:39,381 KRANZ (over radio): How you looking, Control? 1310 01:18:39,715 --> 01:18:41,675 Is it stable, Control? 1311 01:18:41,758 --> 01:18:44,094 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Looks good now, Flight. 1312 01:18:44,177 --> 01:18:46,638 Descent reg 1 off in 10 seconds. 1313 01:18:47,389 --> 01:18:50,684 KRANZ (over radio): Capcom, reminder descent reg 1 off. 1314 01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:53,478 BURKE: 10 seconds to go. 1315 01:18:55,897 --> 01:18:57,399 LOVELL (over radio): Shutdown. 1316 01:18:57,774 --> 01:18:59,276 CAPCOM (over radio): Roger, shutdown. 1317 01:18:59,735 --> 01:19:00,736 MISSION CONTROL (over radio): Engine off. 1318 01:19:00,819 --> 01:19:02,362 KRANZ (over radio): Rog, engine off. 1319 01:19:02,446 --> 01:19:04,281 PA OFFICER (over radio): That was Commander Jim Lovell, 1320 01:19:04,364 --> 01:19:06,616 reporting shutdown, engine is off. 1321 01:19:07,075 --> 01:19:09,411 LOVELL (over radio): I'd say that was a good burn. 1322 01:19:10,203 --> 01:19:12,831 MOORE: All I can say at the moment is thank goodness for that, 1323 01:19:12,914 --> 01:19:14,499 and I think it bares on what we said earlier on, 1324 01:19:14,583 --> 01:19:16,626 that if anyone can get back, it's going to be these three. 1325 01:19:16,710 --> 01:19:20,172 I think the main danger now is if something else goes wrong. 1326 01:19:32,559 --> 01:19:34,519 HUNTLEY (off screen): The House and Senate passed resolutions calling 1327 01:19:34,603 --> 01:19:37,564 on the American people to pray tonight for the astronauts. 1328 01:19:39,691 --> 01:19:43,528 REID (off screen): Earlier in the day the men got rid of the unnecessary equipment. 1329 01:19:44,237 --> 01:19:48,200 They jettisoned the damaged Service Module, photographed the damage to that. 1330 01:19:49,075 --> 01:19:53,038 Then just a short time ago they got rid of the Aquarius, the thing that had given them 1331 01:19:53,121 --> 01:19:57,167 life through all those long days and nights coming down from that disaster 1332 01:19:57,709 --> 01:19:59,836 aloft Monday night. 1333 01:20:02,380 --> 01:20:04,758 CHANCELLOR (off screen): While the men in the spacecraft are still alright and the 1334 01:20:04,841 --> 01:20:09,638 ship is on its way home, Apollo 13 is still walking a tightrope far out in space. 1335 01:20:11,515 --> 01:20:13,934 CRONKITE (off screen): The Command Module they believe to be intact, 1336 01:20:14,017 --> 01:20:15,894 but there must be some concern as to 1337 01:20:15,977 --> 01:20:19,189 whether that explosion could have done any damage to the heat shield in which they 1338 01:20:19,272 --> 01:20:22,359 must depend to get through the 5,000 degree heat of re-entry. 1339 01:20:35,789 --> 01:20:38,416 BURKE (off screen): And we'll only known whether or not that heat shield was damaged by the 1340 01:20:38,500 --> 01:20:43,421 explosion three days ago when they come out of radio blackout in just 1341 01:20:43,505 --> 01:20:45,549 over two minutes. 1342 01:20:47,175 --> 01:20:51,888 After a trip that has included a number of technical miracles, throwing the flight 1343 01:20:52,264 --> 01:20:55,308 book out of the window, relying totally on the men on the ground, 1344 01:20:55,392 --> 01:20:57,853 flying in a sense blind up there. 1345 01:20:58,562 --> 01:21:01,940 They've come to within the last few minutes of being alive and well on 1346 01:21:02,023 --> 01:21:03,984 the surface of the Earth. 1347 01:21:04,317 --> 01:21:07,696 And they face ahead of them those last few vital tests. 1348 01:21:11,491 --> 01:21:14,369 We tend to get wrapped up in listening to the crew, listening to the fact that 1349 01:21:14,452 --> 01:21:18,290 these men at certain points throughout the mission, have come very close to death. 1350 01:21:18,373 --> 01:21:22,127 Now as they come down to this re-entry back into the Earth's atmosphere, 1351 01:21:22,210 --> 01:21:24,963 it doesn't matter how many people have done it before you. 1352 01:21:25,046 --> 01:21:28,216 When you're in the capsule and you're coming down it only matters to you whether 1353 01:21:28,300 --> 01:21:30,427 you come out alive. 1354 01:21:33,054 --> 01:21:36,558 PA OFFICER (over radio): One minute to go now from time of end of blackout. 1355 01:21:37,601 --> 01:21:38,643 REID (off screen): This is Reid Collins, 1356 01:21:38,727 --> 01:21:40,562 CBS News Space Headquarters in New York, 1357 01:21:40,645 --> 01:21:42,230 where within the next 30 seconds we should 1358 01:21:42,314 --> 01:21:45,275 restore communications with the returning Apollo 13, 1359 01:21:45,650 --> 01:21:47,944 as it races down through the Earth's atmosphere, 1360 01:21:48,028 --> 01:21:51,114 hopefully slowing down in the proper fashion. 1361 01:21:51,907 --> 01:21:54,993 PA OFFICER (over radio): Apollo 13 should be out of blackout at this time. 1362 01:21:55,076 --> 01:21:58,663 We're standing by for any reports of Orion acquisition. 1363 01:21:59,998 --> 01:22:02,125 BURKE (off screen): And they are coming in faster than predicted. 1364 01:22:02,208 --> 01:22:06,546 They're coming in just about as fast as any spacecraft has returned from space before. 1365 01:22:07,422 --> 01:22:11,092 REID (off screen): They should just be dipping into the atmosphere now. 1366 01:22:13,762 --> 01:22:16,932 MICHELMORE (off screen): We're now coming to the moment, the last moments of Apollo 13 1367 01:22:17,641 --> 01:22:20,435 as it comes in, as it begins its re-entry. 1368 01:22:20,936 --> 01:22:24,397 The best thing we can do now is just to listen and hope. 1369 01:22:33,073 --> 01:22:39,496 ♪ ♪ 1370 01:22:44,209 --> 01:22:46,628 CAPCOM (over radio): Odyssey, Houston. Standing by, over. 1371 01:23:03,603 --> 01:23:05,605 CAPCOM (over radio): Odyssey, Houston. Standing by, over. 1372 01:23:18,785 --> 01:23:20,370 SWIGERT (over radio): Okay Joe. 1373 01:23:20,745 --> 01:23:23,039 (cheering) 1374 01:23:23,123 --> 01:23:25,250 PA OFFICER (over radio): A report of two good drogues. 1375 01:23:25,834 --> 01:23:27,210 CAPCOM (over radio): Okay, we read you Jack. 1376 01:23:27,585 --> 01:23:29,212 PA OFFICER (over radio): Coming up now for main chutes. 1377 01:23:29,295 --> 01:23:30,630 BURKE (off screen): There they are! 1378 01:23:30,714 --> 01:23:32,757 MICHELMORE (off screen): There they are. They've made it. 1379 01:23:32,841 --> 01:23:35,885 REPORTER (off screen): Now the three chutes have opened up. 1380 01:23:35,969 --> 01:23:39,431 And gliding ever so quietly down. 1381 01:23:39,514 --> 01:23:42,100 Just a beautiful site to see. 1382 01:23:42,600 --> 01:23:46,062 RECOVERY (over radio): Apollo 13 and recovery passing through 1,000 feet. 1383 01:23:56,656 --> 01:23:58,742 Passing 500 feet. 1384 01:24:02,037 --> 01:24:04,914 Photo 1 observes splashdown at this time. 1385 01:24:11,087 --> 01:24:14,507 WOMAN: All I can say is that I'm very relieved that they're home safe and sound. 1386 01:24:15,008 --> 01:24:19,471 Because I know people all over the world were very worried about them being 1387 01:24:19,554 --> 01:24:23,308 up there and they're all just as happy as I am, I'm sure. 1388 01:24:26,311 --> 01:24:29,355 MAN: I think it's one of the most thrilling sites I have ever seen watching 1389 01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:32,233 these men come down after the experience they went through. 1390 01:24:37,530 --> 01:24:39,908 RECOVERY (over radio): The dumbwaiter is at the crew access hatch. 1391 01:24:39,991 --> 01:24:43,495 Appears to be getting ready to open the access hatch. 1392 01:24:45,038 --> 01:24:48,249 The first astronaut is climbing out of the Command Module and 1393 01:24:48,333 --> 01:24:50,335 is in the egress raft. 1394 01:24:52,587 --> 01:24:55,465 The first astronaut is climbing aboard. 1395 01:24:55,548 --> 01:24:58,593 Ready for lift. 1396 01:25:00,303 --> 01:25:02,764 The first astronaut is on his way up. 1397 01:25:02,847 --> 01:25:05,058 PAINE (over radio): This is Doctor Paine speaking. 1398 01:25:05,141 --> 01:25:08,228 I'd like to pass a message to all hands in mission control, 1399 01:25:08,311 --> 01:25:09,938 which has just come in to me, 1400 01:25:10,021 --> 01:25:11,773 from the President of the United States. 1401 01:25:11,856 --> 01:25:16,402 He wishes to tell all of you tremendous appreciation that he has, 1402 01:25:16,486 --> 01:25:18,822 and the entire nation has 1403 01:25:18,905 --> 01:25:22,742 for the wonderful teamwork that you have shown here in Mission Control, 1404 01:25:23,535 --> 01:25:26,371 and to give you a hearty well done. 1405 01:25:27,831 --> 01:25:32,669 (applause) 1406 01:25:48,101 --> 01:25:54,357 ♪ ♪ 1407 01:26:07,579 --> 01:26:13,793 ♪ ♪ 1408 01:26:14,669 --> 01:26:16,546 REPORTER (over radio): Today is the first anniversary of man's 1409 01:26:16,629 --> 01:26:21,092 landing on the Moon and the space program has slowed considerably since then. 1410 01:26:39,736 --> 01:26:42,280 REPORTER (over radio): There is concern among some astronauts that 1411 01:26:42,363 --> 01:26:45,450 Americans have taken space travel for granted now. 1412 01:26:45,992 --> 01:26:49,746 Recent cutbacks of NASA personnel has left the feeling here that perhaps 1413 01:26:49,829 --> 01:26:53,124 Congress is taking space travel for granted, too. 1414 01:26:54,626 --> 01:26:57,545 CHANCELLOR: The Apollo 15 astronauts spent more than six hours 1415 01:26:57,629 --> 01:27:01,758 riding and walking on the moon today in the most exciting excursion 1416 01:27:01,841 --> 01:27:04,344 in the history of Earth's involvement in space. 1417 01:27:11,976 --> 01:27:15,063 When they got there, they had trouble with the front wheels of their car, 1418 01:27:15,146 --> 01:27:17,398 but the back wheels worked, 1419 01:27:17,482 --> 01:27:20,985 and they bumped and swooped over five miles on the Moon's surface. 1420 01:27:21,819 --> 01:27:24,155 The views were breathtaking. 1421 01:27:26,032 --> 01:27:28,201 IRWIN (over radio): Boy, I can't get over those lineations, 1422 01:27:28,284 --> 01:27:30,578 that layering at Mount Hadley. 1423 01:27:30,662 --> 01:27:32,455 SCOTT (over radio): Boy, I can't either. that's really spectacular. 1424 01:27:32,538 --> 01:27:35,416 IRWIN (over radio): That's really beautiful. Talk about organization! 1425 01:27:36,042 --> 01:27:37,293 SCOTT (over radio): Yeah, man. 1426 01:27:37,377 --> 01:27:39,587 IRWIN (over radio): That's the most organized mountain I've ever seen. 1427 01:28:01,150 --> 01:28:03,653 CHANCELLOR (off screen): Gene Cernan the Commander of Apollo 17, 1428 01:28:03,736 --> 01:28:06,906 the last of the manned Moon flights, said recently, 1429 01:28:06,990 --> 01:28:09,325 "This is not the end of space flight. 1430 01:28:10,034 --> 01:28:13,538 We're just beginning to understand and accept the challenge that 1431 01:28:13,621 --> 01:28:15,373 the universe has for us." 1432 01:28:15,456 --> 01:28:19,335 Yet, even Cernan admits that his is perhaps the last Moon flight 1433 01:28:19,419 --> 01:28:21,045 of this century. 1434 01:28:21,838 --> 01:28:24,674 CERNAN (over radio): Okay, LRV equipment check. Blankets are open 100 percent. 1435 01:28:24,757 --> 01:28:27,093 TGE - I've got three measurements complete; 1436 01:28:27,176 --> 01:28:28,970 I've got the drill, the bag, and the neutron flux. 1437 01:28:29,053 --> 01:28:31,347 The TV camera - I'm taking it away from you. 1438 01:28:32,223 --> 01:28:33,766 CAPCOM (over radio): Okay, Roger. 1439 01:28:33,850 --> 01:28:36,811 SCHMITT (over radio): Watch it, Gene. This is the other chip. 1440 01:28:37,937 --> 01:28:39,355 SCHMITT (over radio): Right. 1441 01:28:40,523 --> 01:28:41,983 Got it. 1442 01:28:45,153 --> 01:28:49,198 SCHMITT (over radio): Oh, hey! There is orange soil! 1443 01:28:50,158 --> 01:28:52,076 CERNAN (over radio): Well, don't move it until I see it. 1444 01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:55,121 SCHMITT (over radio): It's all over! 1445 01:28:58,291 --> 01:29:00,918 CERNAN (over radio): Hey, it is! I can see it from here! 1446 01:29:01,377 --> 01:29:03,379 SCHMITT (over radio): It's orange! 1447 01:29:03,796 --> 01:29:05,631 CERNAN (over radio): How can there be orange soil on the Moon? 1448 01:29:06,007 --> 01:29:08,051 MAN (over radio): I'll tell you how there can be, we've got oxidation. 1449 01:29:10,053 --> 01:29:11,763 CERNAN (over radio): It's been oxidized. 1450 01:29:11,846 --> 01:29:13,848 Tell Ron to get the lunar sounder over here. 1451 01:29:13,931 --> 01:29:15,516 SCHMITT (over radio): It looks just like a... 1452 01:29:15,600 --> 01:29:19,103 ...an oxidized desert soil, that's exactly right. 1453 01:29:28,780 --> 01:29:32,700 CERNAN (over radio): I'd just like to say that any part of Apollo 17, or... 1454 01:29:34,202 --> 01:29:40,375 any part of Apollo that has been a success thus far is probably, 1455 01:29:40,792 --> 01:29:43,628 for the most part, due to the thousands of 1456 01:29:43,711 --> 01:29:47,423 people in the aerospace industry who have given a great deal, 1457 01:29:48,091 --> 01:29:52,804 besides dedication and besides effort and besides professionalism 1458 01:29:52,887 --> 01:29:54,847 to make it all a reality. 1459 01:29:57,100 --> 01:29:58,935 CERNAN (over radio): Well, we're just two little, 1460 01:29:59,018 --> 01:30:01,646 two little sets of twinkle toes here. 1461 01:30:01,729 --> 01:30:07,443 There's a lot that goes to getting this rover running out here that we 1462 01:30:07,527 --> 01:30:09,737 don't have much to do with. 1463 01:30:11,739 --> 01:30:15,493 KRAFT: Like all of us in the Apollo program, I'm sure we're very nostalgic 1464 01:30:15,576 --> 01:30:18,788 about this being the last flight to the Moon. 1465 01:30:19,288 --> 01:30:23,292 We, I think most of us realize that it'll probably be out of our lifetime 1466 01:30:23,376 --> 01:30:25,461 before we land on the Moon again. 1467 01:30:26,754 --> 01:30:30,383 CERNAN (over radio): And as I take man's last steps from the surface, 1468 01:30:30,466 --> 01:30:35,179 we leave as we came and God willing as we shall return. 1469 01:30:37,723 --> 01:30:41,894 With peace and hope for all mankind. 1470 01:30:44,689 --> 01:30:45,773 Engine arm is in. 1471 01:30:45,857 --> 01:30:48,067 SCHMITT (over radio): Okay, I'm going to get the probe. 1472 01:30:48,151 --> 01:30:49,527 99, proceeded. 1473 01:30:49,610 --> 01:30:52,196 3, 2, 1. Ignition. 1474 01:30:53,698 --> 01:30:56,742 CERNAN: We're on our way, Houston. 1475 01:30:58,744 --> 01:31:00,413 KENNEDY (off camera): But in a very real sense, 1476 01:31:00,496 --> 01:31:03,541 it will not be one man going to the Moon. 1477 01:31:03,624 --> 01:31:07,545 If we make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation. 1478 01:31:09,505 --> 01:31:12,175 BRAUN (off screen): It is no longer a dream, but a reality. 1479 01:31:12,258 --> 01:31:16,429 For at last, man has in his possession a rocket powerful enough to 1480 01:31:16,512 --> 01:31:19,640 carry him into deep space. 1481 01:31:20,266 --> 01:31:23,686 In the near future, an giant Apollo Saturn V rockets will thunder from 1482 01:31:23,769 --> 01:31:26,522 the Earth to carry men to the Moon. 1483 01:31:26,939 --> 01:31:29,275 CRIM (off screen): There's the flame from those five first stage engines. 1484 01:31:29,358 --> 01:31:30,860 What a tremendous sight. 1485 01:31:30,943 --> 01:31:33,863 The brilliant orange flame blowing out in all directions from under. 1486 01:31:33,946 --> 01:31:38,451 CHAFFEE: It's a stepping stone to deeper space, man has always been plagued with an 1487 01:31:39,076 --> 01:31:44,540 intense curiosity and I think we have to go up there and look and see what it is. 1488 01:31:45,082 --> 01:31:48,961 We need to gather this information before we can go any further. 1489 01:31:52,298 --> 01:31:54,842 CRONKITE (off screen): Through all times, the Moon has endured out there. 1490 01:31:54,926 --> 01:31:59,055 Pale and distant, determining the tides, tugging of the heart. 1491 01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:02,892 A symbol, a beacon, a goal. 1492 01:32:06,812 --> 01:32:09,190 ANDERS (off screen): As we departed from the Earth on our way to the Moon, 1493 01:32:09,273 --> 01:32:12,276 I was particularly impressed by the relative 1494 01:32:12,360 --> 01:32:15,404 insignificance of this planet that we live on. 1495 01:32:15,780 --> 01:32:20,409 We all tend to think that it is a mammoth place, that it goes on forever, and here is 1496 01:32:20,493 --> 01:32:26,374 this one very small, colorful body against this black backdrop that goes on forever. 1497 01:32:27,583 --> 01:32:32,213 I think that it impressed me with the thought that man should strive very hard to 1498 01:32:32,296 --> 01:32:36,050 learn to live with his brothers, and learn how to take care of this very small 1499 01:32:36,133 --> 01:32:38,886 and fragile planet that he lives on. 1500 01:32:40,805 --> 01:32:43,516 BRINKLEY (off screen): With this last Moon landing, the primary job given the 1501 01:32:43,599 --> 01:32:46,978 national space agency is done, and done well. 1502 01:32:47,478 --> 01:32:52,149 And now, it has dreamed up a multi-million dollar plan for a space shuttle. 1503 01:32:52,233 --> 01:32:55,278 A sort of flying truck to be put in orbit around the Earth and 1504 01:32:55,361 --> 01:32:58,114 kept there for long periods. 1505 01:33:07,582 --> 01:33:13,629 ♪ ♪ 1506 01:33:13,713 --> 01:33:15,756 BRADBURY (off screen): At the center of all our religions, 1507 01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:17,925 all of our sciences all of our thinking over a good period 1508 01:33:18,009 --> 01:33:19,927 of years has been the question of death. 1509 01:33:20,011 --> 01:33:23,931 And if we stay here on Earth we are all of us doomed, 1510 01:33:24,015 --> 01:33:27,560 because someday the Sun will either explode or go out. 1511 01:33:28,185 --> 01:33:34,066 So in order to ensure the entire race existing a million years from today, 1512 01:33:34,859 --> 01:33:36,235 a billion years from today, 1513 01:33:36,319 --> 01:33:38,863 we're going to take our seed out into space and we're going to plant 1514 01:33:38,946 --> 01:33:41,324 it on other worlds. 1515 01:33:41,407 --> 01:33:42,950 CERNAN: This isn't the end. 1516 01:33:43,034 --> 01:33:46,579 This is, you know, we've just begun to crawl with the Apollo program. 1517 01:33:49,915 --> 01:33:54,253 We're just now hoping that we can learn to begin to walk and press on to the future. 1518 01:33:58,924 --> 01:34:01,093 It's not just the end. 1519 01:34:01,177 --> 01:34:03,638 We're not putting our rockets in a barn and closing the doors. 1520 01:34:03,721 --> 01:34:08,601 We're just beginning to understand and accept the challenges that this 1521 01:34:08,684 --> 01:34:10,728 universe has for us. 1522 01:34:10,811 --> 01:34:15,399 It's not the end but it truly is a beginning. 1523 01:34:18,944 --> 01:34:19,945 Captioned by Cotter Captioning Services. 130798

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