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We choose to go to the moon.

We choose to go the moon.

We choose to go to the moon
in this decade and do the other things,

not because they are easy
but because they are hard.

- Look at that.
- That's beautiful.

It's gotta be one of the most proud moments
of my life, I guarantee you.

Along with the physical demands made
of those who fly into space,

other more particular demands
were made of the men who went to the moon.

They not only had to have the acumen
of pilots and engineers,

they also had to have knowledge and practice
as physicists, astronomers, geologists,

and, if possible,
as historians and even poets and artists.

The reasons to demand such disciplines
of the astronauts was simple -

you will find no better record
of what it is like to be on the moon

than in the experiences and recollections
of the men who went there.

If God is found in the details of our world

then the details must be
discovered and interpreted

by the men who make the voyage
from the Earth to the moon.

Here's another one of the same stuff.

Why don't you get a sample of the soil?
Let me take a picture.

- OK.
- Just scoop in between them.

Yes, sir.

This is a big frag here.
The part that it hit.

These pieces are roughly the same.

- Not much soil here, really.
- There really isn't.

Is it your impression you're sampling on
the ejecta blanket of Spur crater now?

Yeah, probably from the deepest part
because we're on the rim.

- Sounds good.
- Would you agree with that, Jim?

Yeah.

OK, let's go down and...

- Get the unusual one?
- Get the unusual one.

There's another unusual one. Look at the
little crater here, the one that's facing us.

There is a little white
corner to the thing.

OK, Dave, get as many of those as you can.

You might be watching for a place
where you think the rake might help you.

Yeah, I think we could probably
do a rake here, Joe.

OK. Sounds like a good place.

There's a big boulder
over there down sun of us

that I'm sure you can see, which is Grey.

There's some very outstanding
Grey clasts and white clasts.

Oh, boy, it's a beaut.

We're gonna get ahold of that one
in a minute.

OK, I have my pictures, Dave.

What do you think
the best way to sample it would be?

I think probably to break up
a piece of clod underneath it.

Or I guess you could probably
lift that top fragment right off.

Let me try.

Yeah, sure can, and it's a white clast.

- It's about...
- Oh, man.

Oh, boy. I got...

- Look at that.
- Look at that glint.

Oh, boy.

- Almost see twinning in there.
- Guess what we just found.

Guess what we just found!

The xenolith is an aggregate of rocks formed
as slow-cooling crystals at great depth

and brought to the surface
by impact or a volcanic eruption.

When silica content is
low in plutonic magma,

a cyanide-like rock is likely to be formed,
thus producing a feldspathoid.

The third axis is minute.

An examination of its twinning
will confirm this is plagioclase,

thus producing a feldspathoid.

Is this what you had to sit through
for eight years?

They're not all like this.

Low-silicon environments are perfect nurseries
for nepheline, sodalite, hackmanite...

No, that is not true. I have nothing
against Dr Pemberton personally

or any of his teachers.

- It's just time to step things up.
- Now the classroom time isn't enough?

It was hard for me to get that approved.

We appreciate it, Deke.
I agree things are not perfect.

- But I think we have a good system in place.
- You do?

Yes, I do. And I think that the astronauts
have to take some responsibility.

Your colleagues - no offence, Deke -
are just pilots.

They're the best pilots in the world,
but they don't have scientific minds.

- So they're a lost cause?
- Let me back up.

Some of them show great promise.

But we haven't had a commander yet
who really took the lead in this area.

What's your idea, Jack?

Find a teacher who can bring out
the scientific mind in all of them.

Professor?

Professor Silver?

- Lee, you up there?
- Who's that down there?

It's Jack Schmitt, Professor.

- Jack Schmitt.
- Yeah.

I had a student named
Harrison Schmitt once.

Promising young field geologist.
Pity he didn't decide to pursue it.

Yeah, I know.
He got himself a little sidetracked.

Come on up here, Jack Schmitt.

Thank you.

Tell me, my little friend, where did
you acquire such interesting garnet?

- What do you make of this?
- Granite.

And the far side?

Green grains.

- Olivine?
- Which is unlikely.

But what a mystery to ponder, no?

What a journey that little xenolith
must have taken.

Professor, I've come to
offer you a challenge.

Uh-oh.

I want you to help train the astronauts
to be field observers.

You must be desperate.
I'm not a lunar geologist.

Have they all resigned in protest?

I realise that NASA hasn't been exactly
popular within the scientific community.

- True, although they did hire you, didn't they?
- Yes.

But what are they doing with you?

I'm backup on the Apollo 15 crew

and I stand a decent shot
at flying on Apollo 18, or so they tell me.

- Congratulations.
- Thank you.

Until Apollo 18, may I recommend
robots for gathering samples?

Cheaper, safer,

and the good ones have very small egos.

Professor, my colleagues are serious.
They're motivated and very smart.

We have people to teach them the moon.

What they need is to learn
how to really see it.

You can give them that.

I'm flattered, Jack, but I
already have a job. Full time.

I do wish you the best, though.

It's a real pleasure seeing you again.

- Thanks.
- Good luck.

- But what if you found one of these?
- What?

What if you taught an astronaut
how to find one of these on the moon?

What a journey that little rock
would have taken.

Let me put it this way. Doing field geology
is like solving the mystery of the dead cat.

If you bring me a dead cat, all I can
tell you is it's dead, and it was a cat.

But if you hand me a dead cat and you tell
me you found it in the middle of the road...

Ha. What killed it?

- Car?
- Truck?

Heat exhaustion.

Now you're getting it. OK.

You find a dead cat in the kitchen of your
favourite restaurant. What killed it?

The chef?

What are we talking about here, Jack?

- Context.
- Context?

Context. The difference between roadkill
and a meal.

The Orocopias, gentlemen.

This is Disneyland to a field geologist.

Up here, it's all about context.

Jack, you've been through this before,
so you need to keep quiet.

Jim, tell me about that.

- What?
- Just start with what you see.

- Granite.
- Good.

- Which is an igneous rock.
- Right.

Now, what do you think
would make it smooth like that?

- Water.
- Could be. Most likely.

But we don't really know yet.
Let's look around.

I don't see any granite here.

Not exposed, anyway.

So, do you think that rock came from here?

- No, I guess not.
- OK, toss him back to me.

Just a rock, the kind you'd kick
without giving it a second glance.

Where did you come from,
my little friend? Huh?

Back this a-way.

Come on, Dave. Don't worry.
I'll try not to waste your time.

- I know you're busy men.
- Come on, buddy.

OK, this is a painting.

Not the Mona Lisa,
but for us it's just as compelling.

There's a story here,
a story about what happened to this area.

- You recognise this, Jim?
- Granite again?

- Yup. And where does granite get made?
- Down below, slowly.

Very slowly, like a big soup.

The kind my mother would make.

Which is why we didn't have
many dinner guests in our home.

But gosh, if granite gets made
way down below,

how the heck did it get here?

Uplift, and transported
down the river wash.

The same kind of uplift that created
the Rocky Mountains and Himalayas.

Now look at this. More uplift.

Where did this come from?

These layers, broken off,

tilted in different directions.

This isn't the same kind of uplift
that created our granite here.

Not even close.

Something happened.

Something big.

You see the story yet?

It's all pretty much here.

In a language you can't yet understand,
but it's here.

A tale of upheaval

and battles won and lost.

Gothic tales of sweeping change,

peaceful times,

and then great trauma again.

And it all connects to our little friend.

That's what we are, we geologists.

Storytellers.

Interpreters, actually.

That's what you gentlemen
are going to become.

And how does this relate to the moon?

From 240,000 miles away

you have to give the most complete possible
description of what you're seeing.

Not just which rocks you plan to bring back

but their context.

That and knowing
which ones to pick up in the first place

is what might separate you guys
from those little robots.

You know, the ones some jaded souls
think should have your job.

You see, you have to become
our eyes and ears out there.

And for you to do that,

you first have to learn the language

of this little rock here.

Ever since Galileo and his telescope

the moon has been getting
closer and closer.

And now that men like yourselves
are actually walking around up there,

we're getting more familiar
with its surface characteristics.

But we still haven't
answered the big question.

How did it get up there?

Maybe billions of years ago,
just as the Earth was forming,

a big blob of its original molten core

spun itself off as a
kind of daughter planet.

Or maybe the moon is more like a sister

formed alongside the Earth

out of the same magical dust.

Or perhaps a big old stray asteroid
made the mistake

of wandering a bit too close
to our gravitational influence

and doomed itself to
circle us for all eternity

like some faithful dog.

Thanks to the data coming out of NASA
over the last five years

we have some idea of the moon's age

and its chemical composition.

But as for its genesis,

we're still in the dark.

Maybe Apollo 15 will shed some light.

Gentlemen, I must catch some shuteye.

Sleep well.

What are you grinnin' at?

Hello? Mr El-Baz?

Lieutenant Colonel! Mr Alfred Worden.

Farouk El-Baz.

I've been expecting you.

Have you ever seen
the inside of a human brain?

I'll show you mine. Come.

By the time you reach the lunar orbit

your brain should look much the same.

This, Colonel Worden,

is what the inside of my brain looks like.

Crater Alphonsus.

Dark halo craters, narrow rilles.

Suspected volcanic eruptions.
Important word - "suspected".

You will tell us for sure.

Schröter's Valley, maybe
formed by lava flow.

Tranquillity Base. Perhaps
you've heard of it?

Mostly just a bunch of bumps,
squiggles and circles to me.

You will learn.

Don't worry. I won't leave your side.

Perfect.

The crater Theophilus.

Now, how far out into the ejecta blanket

does the hummocky area extend?

Oh, boy.

I'm lost.

Imagine it here. While your crew mates
are down, digging into the lunar surface,

you will be floating high up,
seeing how all the pieces fit together.

Do you see?

I'm not sure.

240 kilometres east.

46 kilometres from the surface.

This rille is seven kilometres wide.

Now, how deep is this crater?

- About 3,000 feet.
- Yes!

Colonel Worden,
you are gonna make a brilliant student.

Call me Al.

Now, we can,

if we're very clever,

we can figure out a lot
about an area like this

by putting together what
we call "the suite".

What the hell is he talking about?
The suite.

I'm talking about a dozen hand-sized rocks

that tell the story of this place

in all of its diversity

from the typical, right to the exotic.

You got ten minutes.

Thought you could escape me, huh?

You got it, Jimmy?

I'm getting there. How about you?

Yeah, I think so.

Ho!

Don't look so sure.

I'm feeling good.

I would be nervous if I was you.

Oh, I'm nervous, Jimmy. I'm real nervous.

Oh, yeah. It's a pretty
decent collection, Dick.

You know what to look for next time, right?

- Good Lord.
- Well.

Let's see what you guys have got.

You first, Jimbo.

OK.

Not...

bad.

Dave.

Yeah. All right.

Fine. Good...

first try.

Interesting.

OK, Jack, let's see what you found.

How sweet it is.

Oh, yeah.

Wow.

I thought the twinning
on that one was pretty distinctive.

How about that?

- You don't see much of that here.
- I was surprised.

Well done. Good diversity.

Tells the story.

- Heard any more, Dave?
- I told you.

A mission's been cancelled
and Deke wants to see us.

Here we go.

Hey, guys, come on in.

We knew that cutbacks were inevitable,
that Congress might cut us short.

Well, they've done it.

The Apollo 15 mission as we know it
has been scrubbed.

We're moving straight into the J Missions

which, as you know,
mean longer stays on the surface,

an upgraded LEM,
better suits and backpacks

and ultimately more science.

And, of course, the lunar rover.

There's one going with the next flight.
I want you two to be the first to drive it.

Apollo 15 will be the first J Mission.

I've pushed back all the crews
to accommodate the switch.

You'll need more training time.

I don't know how you'll fit it in
but we'll give you the support you need.

We'll make it work, Deke.

So, you'll have Apollo 15

and that'll be followed by 16 and 1 7.

But that's it.

They've cancelled Apollo 18 and 19.

OK, guys.

Bad luck, Jack.

No.

Are you kidding? That makes what we're
doing that much more important.

We're inventing a whole new science here.

Lunar field geology.

And we'll need to work it out together.
Time is everything, gentlemen.

And preparation is the key to success.

So when we're confronted
with a new survey site, what do we do?

We go to the highest place we can find

and figure out the big picture.

Quickly.

That mound.

That's where the LEM just landed.

Dave, head on up there.
Tell me what you see.

Now, Jim, what I need you to do
is sketch out what Dave is describing

and then it'll be your turn.

OK, Houston. The albatross has landed.

OK, Dave, start with the 12 o'clock,

Work your way around,
tell us what you see.

Well, let's see.

My 12 o'clock is...

OK...

A bunch of layers on the
far wall of the canyon.

To the right, there's a lot of dirt

with green stuff sloping down.

Over to my right is a large...
well, it's a huge...

Breccia... No, no, it's a, it's a...

Like a huge breccia-like boulder...

right in the side of the wall.

At my three o'clock, there's a...

A...

layer of rock about...

one quarter up from the bottom of the wall.

I don't think so.

At my four o'clock is a large block
of granite on the top of the hill

which contains at least four vertical dykes

protruding out to the uplift.

OK.

At my six o'clock, open end of the canyon,
there's a ridge...

OK, Houston, at my nine
o'clock is a thick layer

of uniform, horizontal beds.

Middle ground sloping to the right.

...superimposed over a variety of about
20 layers of light and dark material.

Looking down,
the range of mountains in the background.

About 20 degrees.

Yeah.

He's cookin'.

First of all, we have this idea for
a stand-up EVA right after landing.

What's that?

Basically sticking my head out
of the LEM and having a look around.

- Why?
- To survey the site.

Geologically.

OK, so we risk a fifth
cabin repressurization,

we spend money and manpower
on a revised checklist and procedures,

and we add weight
in the form of consumables,

all so we can add another
time-consuming item

to a flight plan and training schedule
that's already filled beyond capacity?

I think you'd see the value if you
joined us on a field trip sometime.

- I would, would I?
- Absolutely. You'd have a ball, Deke.

There's this neat rake
that the professor devised.

It would help us
get a comprehensive suite

of pebble-sized rocks in the regolith.

And we'd like another telephoto lens.

- We're at our weight limit. You know that.
- I've thought of that.

With the new, shorter rendezvous
maybe we could trade some abort propellant.

Abort propellant?

For a rake?

A rake and a lens.

There. The big picture.

- You must tell me the big picture first.
- Well, there's...

- Quickly!
- Basalt lava flows.

No, too specific. The big picture first.

A cinder cone with lots of lava.

From where is the lava flowing?

- Damn! I don't know.
- There is a breach in the cone.

Do you see?

- I can't.
- Of course not.

We've passed it already.

All right, all right. Let's try again.

I'm the new guy here.

- We need you to weigh in on this.
- Gentlemen.

We are not leaving this room
or breaking for lunch

until we agree on a landing
site for Apollo 15.

Now, then...

we have a deadlock between
Marius Hills on the one hand

and Hadley Rille in the Apennine Mountains
on the other.

We have been barking over this bone
for six months now...

with absolutely no movement or,
I might add, accommodation.

If we're going to launch in July,
we must know today.

Now, then, let's start at the beginning.

Chet.

I stand by my position. Marius Hills.

We should stick with what we know. We're
just getting equatorial landings down.

Fooling around with anything else,
in an area we don't even have pictures...

- What about the guidance trajectory?
- The propulsion system is much more efficient.

I don't care about the new guidance
trajectory or propulsion system.

Do you know how big those mountains are?

- They're 18,000 feet.
- That's right.

- 18,000 feet.
- We're aware of that.

Trying to land among those peaks
just scares the hell out of me.

- Why go where we've already gone?
- The moon's the moon.

How can you say that?
How can you say, "The moon's the moon?"

I don't believe...

Now, look, samples are what count,
in my opinion.

Marius Hills presents
an adequately unique site

for testing any of the Genesis theories,

and it seems a safer landing site.

Dr Pemberton, the Apennines, first of all,

should be a great source
of deeper and older imbrium ejecta,

and we may even find material there
from the original lunar crust.

But it's huge.

How do you expect the astronauts to explore
such a wide, expansive site?

Well, Dave?

That's where the rover comes in.

Assuming that it's ready in time
and Hadley isn't covered with boulders

as radar shows,
which would render the rover non-navigable.

So you see, gentlemen,

Marius is so much more reasonable a site.

Marius Hills is attractive

only for its allegedly rare volcanic rocks,

and for being the easy, safe choice.

Well, fine.
Then we might as well consider Tycho.

All right, let's consider it.

I got reasons why
Tycho would make the ideal landing site.

Come on, Jason. That is just nuts.

Astronauts collecting enough regolith
to bury NASA headquarters is nuts.

Gentlemen.

Gentlemen, we are getting
absolutely nowhere here.

In fact...

we are moving backward.

Gentlemen, it's getting late.

And we still have this decision to make.

Marius Hills or Hadley Rille?

Help us out here, Dave.

You're the commander and you haven't
said a word all day. What do you think?

Well, let's see.

No offence, Chet, but we feel pretty
confident we can land at either site.

Dr Pemberton,
I'm one who respects hedging bets.

But from what I've learned in the field,

Hadley-Apennine with its complex variety
of features, both impact and volcanic,

is the best choice for putting together
a picture of how the moon came to be.

- It may be a little riskier.
- Not a little.

But also...

Also the Apennines have something else.

Grandeur.

And I believe there's something to be said
for exploring beautiful places.

It's good for the spirit.

Then it's Hadley, gentlemen.

Yes!

- Well?
- One pass.

Let me see.

- There were 16 volcanoes.
- Very good. Yes, yes, yes.

Oh, my God. It's perfect.

- Viewing angle?
- Thirty-four degrees.

Oh, my friend.

It will be as if I am
going to the moon myself.

God, I don't believe it.

Farouk, last night I had a dream,
and I actually saw it.

What did you see?

I'm orbiting around,
and I'm hit by a meteor shower.

I'm heading straight down
to Tsiolkovsky Crater.

It's a lot deeper than the photo showed.

And when I reached the moment of impact,

I'm cushioned by this blanket of dust.

Volcanic dust.

And I'm OK.

What does that mean?

It means you are ready.

You know the moon
as you know your own planet.

You've become as crazy as me.

Grand Canyon.

No.

Right.

- Meteor Crater!
- Wow. Brilliant.

Grand Canyon.

No kidding.

Hadley Rille, my kind of place.

All right, flip the lights
on, if you would, Stan.

This will be our last visit together.

- Glad you could make it, Deke.
- I wouldn't have missed it.

I know, I know. I'll miss you too.

Now, when you get up there,
you're going to see a lot of this.

Basalt.

- And you'll be seeing a lot of this.
- Breccia.

Breccia.

But while I have your
attention one last time,

I want to make a plea for this fellow here.

Now, we really don't know what we're
going to find on the lunar surface.

Pete Conrad's car keys?

Maybe.

But what we'd really like to find is this.

Anorthosite.

It's important because it may unlock
a stack of mysteries

about the origins of the moon.

Because if you find this,

you have probably found
a piece of the moon's primordial crust.

It would be a shame if it was up there

and we missed it.

25 and two.

Seven per cent fuel. 20 and one.

1 5 and one. Minus one.

Ten feet. Eight feet. Minus one. Contact.

Yes!

- The Falcon is on the plain at Hadley.
- Roger, Falcon.

OK, overhead hatch, full open and latched.

OK, coming full open.

See if we can give our friends in the Geology
Backroom something to get excited about.

I'm pulling myself up
through the hatch now.

Oh, boy, what a view.

What a view! Oh!
If the professor could see this.

All right, I'm looking
off here to the north.

I can see Pluton, Icarus and Chain.

I'm getting my camera out.
Start at my 12 o'clock position.

As I come out around to Mount Hadley

there are no sharp, jagged peaks
or large boulders anywhere.

Boy, the telephoto lens is great for this.

To the eastern lineations
are layers dipping about 30 degrees.

There's one bright, fresh crater right
next to St George on the eastern side,

which is almost white in albedo.

It's got an ejecta blanket
about a crater diameter away.

This is really gonna
help us when we get out there.

Roger, Dave. It sure will.

OK, Endeavor, this is Houston.
You're at T-2 now.

OK, Houston, ready for some words
on Tsiolkovsky Crater?

Great. We're listening.

First off, the central peak.

The central peak is a very large spur peak
on the south and east sides.

Getting blocky on the north side.

There appears to be some layering
visible on the south and west

exposed scarp of the peak.

- You getting this?
- You're coming in loud and clear.

Loud and clear, my friend.

OK. Give me a word any time.

- OK, Dave.
- Ready?

Ready.

OK, over the rail here. Down she comes.

All righty. Everything looks
like it's in good shape.

Here we go. Attaboy. A little more.

A little more. It's comin'.

- It's comin' OK.
- OK, we're movin' forward, Joe.

Gotta get a feel for this thing.
It's nine miles an hour.

I can see I'm gonna have to keep my eyes
on the road. I can manoeuvre pretty well.

I'm up a little rise.

There's no dust at all.

Steering is responsive, even with only the rear
steering. There doesn't seem to be much slip.

If you make a turn sharply,
it responds quite well.

Look at that.

There's a nice little
round one-metre crater.

Whoa! Hang on. Feels like we need
seat belts, doesn't it, Jim?

Yeah, really do.
It's a buckin' bronco. Yeah, man.

Cut back on the power,
it keeps right on going.

OK, I've got it to the floor here,
and we're up to 12.

Glad I've got this great suspension system
for this thing.

This is really a rockin', rollin' ride.

There's an elongated depression here...

Got to get to our drill site.

I'm pushing,
but the damn thing's bottomed out.

Look, we're not gonna get it out.

Let me give you a hand, Dave.
We'll get this drill out.

I don't know what we've hit here
but this thing is really stuck.

All right, Dave. Here we go.

You ready?

One, two,

three.

Damn.

Dave, let's take a breather.

We want you to break it loose and let the
stem and the drill sit in the surface.

We'll come back and pull it out later.

- Let me finish it off, Joe.
- Dave, Jim.

We want you to end your tasks here.
We want you back on the rover, please.

Make sure they get back to the
drilling site in the morning.

We're gonna blow the north complex.

North complex was always a maybe.
We need those core samples.

No, they can't get them out. That's obvious.
Are you gonna blow the whole EVA on them?

If that's what it takes.

God, that was tough.

I never would have thought.
That drill didn't budge an inch in an hour.

- Are you all right?
- I just need some water, that's all.

The darn line kinked up in the suit.

- Why didn't you say anything, Jim?
- I didn't wanna pull in the plug.

Get some water in you now.

Houston, Falcon.

Yeah, Falcon, this is Houston.
Go ahead.

Joe, we're heading back to the site.

How long do you want us to work on
getting this drill out?

We're spending a lot of time on this thing.

Tell me you really want it this bad.

That's hard for me to say, Dave.

Stand by.

What's it gonna be? We're cutting
into the drive to Hadley Rille.

- Let's forget this thing.
- That is not an option.

- The rille, Lee. We can't mess that up.
- Just a second.

- You wouldn't know a basalt...
- How dare you?

Hey, we're wasting time.
Now, here's the thing.

I'd like nothing more
than to abandon the core

- and get on with the observation.
- Absolutely.

But the fact is, if we don't get that core out the
whole world will look at it as a mission failure.

- But Lee...
- I don't think we can afford that.

So we're gonna give it a couple more tries,
and then move on.

Regardless. Fair enough?

Good. Tell them to keep trying.

Dave and Jim.
Just go ahead and give it one more try.

And then we want you
to continue on with the grand prix.

Good enough. Let's put some muscle into it.

Yeah, Houston, I hope that freeze-dried
spinach we had for breakfast pays off.

- Dang it!
- Hang on. This bit looks like it's gonna break.

What the heck is this in anyway?

All right, I'm gonna get
down low and grab it.

OK, hang on for a second.
I'm gonna get a better grip.

One, two, three.

OK, troops. Let's move on to the rille.

Roger that, Joe.

OK, Houston,
we're moving to the second site.

The patterns of the landscape
seem consistent with photographs from 1 4.

I see a large concentration
of enormous boulders.

This one boulder's very angular.

It's got glass on one side,
with lots of bubbles.

Looks fairly recent. Give me your hammer.

I can see several larger blocks
that rolled downslope.

They're angular and the same colour
and texture.

I see the linear patterns Dave commented
on before with the dip and everything.

OK, eight kilometers up a little rise.

- Look at this baby climb the hill.
- We're heading about 165 right now.

- This is the Elbow right here.
- We're on the east rim.

There's a fragment here.

It's a rough surface texture.

It looks like a very fine-grain,
Grey, rather solid frag.

Could this be Rhysling here?

We're on the edge of the spur crater.

There's the usual basalt regolith
with a corona of light albedo ejecta.

Get the unusual one.

Oh, boy.

It's a beaut.

- And it's a white clast. And it's about...
- Oh, man, look at that.

I can almost see twinning in there.

Guess what we just found.

Guess what we just found.

I think we found what we came for.

I think we found ourselves
some anorthosite.

That's it!

It's like being back
at the old San Gabriel mountains.

Roger, Dave.

Make this bag 1 96 a special bag.

Did you see that? Did you see that?

I doubt a random surface sample
would have ever pulled that out of the hat.

Really. Give me guys in the field any day.

Yes, sir. That is science.

I stand corrected, Dr Silver.

Ah, well,

I can't wait to get it home and...

see what you guys can make of it.

We're trying to drive straight ahead
and stay on a fairly level contour.

We don't want to go down.

Yeah, I think I'm going
to park right up here.

This would be a good picture for Houston.

Joe, if you want to swing
the TV around here,

you're going to see a spectacular place.

Boy, oh, boy. Look at that rille.

- How about that?
- How about that, geology fans?

I can see from up at the top of the
rille down there's debris all the way.

Looks like some outcrops directly
at about 1 1 o'clock to the sun line.

Looks like a layer, about five per cent of
the rille wall with a vertical face on it.

Beautiful, Dave. Beautiful.

As the space poet Rhysling would say,

"We're ready for you to come back again

"To the homes of men

"On the cool, green hills of Earth."

Thank you, Joe. We're ready, too.

But it's been great.

Dave and Jim, I've noticed a very slight
smile on the face of the professor.

You very well may have passed
your final exam.

We're glad to hear that. Tell the professor
that we couldn't have done it without him.

OK, Joe, if you could swing
the camera toward the LEM here.

Hope you have a good picture there.

Well, in my left hand I have a feather.

In my right hand, a hammer.

I guess one of the reasons
we got here today

was because of a gentleman named Galileo
a long time ago

who made a rather significant discovery
about falling objects and gravity fields.

We thought, where would be a better place
to confirm his findings

than on the moon?

And so, we thought we'd
try it here for you.

The feather happens to be,
appropriately, a falcon feather.

For our Falcon.
And I'll drop the two of them here.

Hopefully, they'll hit the ground
at the same time.

How about that?

That proves that Mr Galileo
was correct in his findings.

Superb, Dave.

I always say, "There's nothing like
a little science on the moon."

Gentlemen.

- Proud of those boys.
- Brilliant management on your part.

Joe.

Dave and Jim, we have a very special guest
with us right now

if he'd care to say a word or two.

Roger that, Joe.

Hey there, Dave.

You've done a lovely job.

You just don't know
how we're jumping up and down, down here.

That's because I happen to have
a very good professor.

A whole bunch of them, Dave.

We sure appreciate everything you did
in getting us ready for this thing.

There's an awful lot
to be seen and done up there.

I'll bet.

We think you defined the first site
to be revisited on the moon.

Professor.

I hope someday we can get you up here too.

That would be...

an amazing adventure.

But I feel as if I've already been there,
thanks to you.

Oh, you were with us, Professor,
every step of the way.

We went to the moon as trained observers
in order to gather data

not only with our instruments on board,
but with our minds.

I'd like to quote a statement from Plutarch

which I think expresses our feelings
since we've come back.

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled

"but a fire to be lighted."

That's it.

Wow.

Sample #15415.

They're calling it the Genesis Rock.

It may be as old as the
solar system itself.

Since I was five years old,

all I ever wanted to be was a pilot.

And flying to the moon...

seemed the ultimate adventure.

- Understand?
- I think I do.

Nothing seemed more important.

But finding this little fellow,

understanding what it represents,
what it could tell us,

will probably be the most satisfying thing
I'll ever do.

Well, I suspect there's more to come
from Dave Scott.

In the meantime,
"Brought back original crust of the moon"

should weigh pretty impressively
in your résumé.

You know?