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We choose to go to the moon.
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We choose to go to the moon in
this decade and do the other things...
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not because they are easy,
but because they are hard.
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- Look at that.
- That's beautiful.
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This has gotta be one of the most
proud moments of my life, I guarantee.
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The AmpCo Corporation
in Lowell, Massachusetts...
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employed about a dozen people,
predominantly middle-aged women...
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to pump a special epoxy resin
by hand with caulking guns...
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into 380,000 one-inch-square holes...
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in the ablative heat shield
of the Apollo command module.
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If X-ray inspection showed
a bubble in one of the cells...
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they cleaned it out with a dental drill
and tried again...
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for their product had to work perfectly
for all of six minutes...
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during the fiery reentry
of the spacecraft...
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into the Earth's atmosphere
at the end of the mission.
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Anything less than perfection
could mean the death of the crew.
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It was up to these employees
at AmpCo Corporation...
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and hundreds of thousands like them
at other companies...
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in almost every state of the Union
to deliver without fail...
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the goods that would make possible
a voyage from the Earth to the moon.
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I believe that this nation should
commit itself to achieving the goal...
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of landing a man on the moon
and returning him safely to the Earth.
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We recognize there are unknowns...
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and things can happen
that we haven't planned for.
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People might look at our work
as being perhaps dangerous or risky.
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This is Walter Cronkite.
Three astronauts have been killed.
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Died tonight in a launch-pad fire--
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Rehearsal of the countdown
and launch of the Apollo 1--
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Apollo astronauts Gus Grissom,
Ed White and Roger Chaffee died--
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Ready, aim, fire!
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Aim, fire!
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Capt. Walter Schirra salutes his
fallen comrade, Virgil "Gus" Grissom...
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in the first of three services held
for the crew of Apollo 1...
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who tragically died
during a routine test on a launch pad.
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Grissom and Roger Chaffee
are being laid to rest...
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here at Arlington Cemetery.
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Edward White will be buried
at West Point later today.
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Schirra, commander
of the backup crew for Apollo 1....
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will be heading
the next manned Apollo mission...
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now scheduled for next October.
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Yeah. That's good, don't you think?
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- Pretty good.
- Yeah. What?
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No. They're not gonna want us
to start with this.
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Truth. Said to give us free rein,
you know?
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Uh-huh. Yeah.
Well, I'll believe that when I see it.
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They've never let in
an outside crew before.
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Hell, they've got to let us in.
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They got too much ridin' on this thing.
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They gotta prove to the whole damn
country they know what they're doin'.
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Plus, you know, this mission fails,
then it's over.
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So I think we'll be cool.
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I still don't think we're gonna get
the access you think we are.
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Let's wait and see what happens
when we get there.
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Just tell me your name
and what you do here.
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Skip Chauvin. I'm from the S.T.C.,
the Space-vehicle Test Conductor.
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Ready here
for primary ascend data transfer.
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Stand by for transfer.
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On my mark in three, two, one, mark.
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Okay, this is just the introduction.
Your name, what you do.
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My name is Guenter Wendt.
I am pad leader here at Cape Kennedy.
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We've heard some people call you
the "Pad Fuhrer."
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Yes, this is true.
We like to joke around, you know?
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We always try to keep it light
when we're doing dangerous things.
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One year they gave me
a Colonel Klink helmet.
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So we have to joke around some,
you know?
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Oh! Hey, let's go!
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Go!
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Apollo 7, egress the spacecraft!
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Apollo 7! Wally! Do you copy?
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The elevator's malfunctioning!
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I'm gettin' too old for this shit.
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Not so bad, gentlemen.
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S.T.C., this is the pad leader.
Crew egress successful.
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Roger that, Pad Leader.
Time was 4 minutes and 40 seconds.
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Better than I expected.
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By the way, fellas...
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this is my best side.
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Cut.
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The work you're doing is--
it's very difficult work.
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Very precise, very exacting work.
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Very little margin for error.
Perhaps none.
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- Do you feel you're prepared this time?
- Yes.
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But can you ever really prepare
for work that's this risky?
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Well, of course. We drill.
We drill the hell out of everything.
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We drill and we drill
until we know every step in our sleep...
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and then we drill some more.
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Pretty good acting there. I thought
maybe the elevator really was broken.
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- No, it's fine.
- You oughta join us on the slide wire.
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I'm not a crazy person.
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- We did pretty good there.
- Ten seconds less from last time.
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Very good!
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Just as long as you line 'em up
when we suit up.
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- Ounce of prevention.
- I got you.
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Watch the shoulder.
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Clyde, this left glove
is feelin' awfully stiff.
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Damn. This is the third seal
we've gone through.
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- I can't turn my wrist.
- It's gotta move freely.
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- I gotta be able to scratch my nuts.
- I'll get it fixed, Captain.
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Until that time, may I suggest
you scratch them righty?
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All right! Go!
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At the first sign of trouble--
like the booster's gonna fail--
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we get the hell
outta the command module.
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- Usually, we take the elevator.
- The slide wire's just a backup.
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That's a pretty cool ride.
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If you like to feel
your heart crawl up your throat.
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Let me just-- Why would you abort?
What would cause you to abort?
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Until we clear the tower,
everything's pretty much up for grabs.
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How do you mean?
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There's 450 tons of liquid fuel
underneath the command module.
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- Wow.
- Right next to us is this steel tower.
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- We're right up against it, okay?
- Right.
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If the guidance software's
this much off, we run into it.
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- Wow.
- If the booster fails...
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if there's a premature ignition--
any one of a dozen system failures--
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it's a bad day for all of us.
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- Amen to that.
- Could we talk about somethin' else?
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Miss O'Hara. Hi. Frank Burns.
Nice to meet you.
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They told you we were coming
to ask a few questions.
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- Is this a good time?
- Yeah. Sure.
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Relax. We're gonna ask
a couple questions. Rollin'?
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Mark it. Okay. Ready?
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Okay. Just tell us about yourself.
Who are you?
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I'm Dee O'Hara,
and I'm their nurse.
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Okay. Can you tell us
about Captain Schirra at all?
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"Jolly Wally" is what
we've always called him.
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Always a jokester. I'm sure you know
about the tricks he's played on us.
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Well, he's got these "gotcha" games
he always plays.
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Like the time he dropped off
his urine sample on my desk...
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in a five-gallon jar.
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That's good. Do you have
a favorite astronaut?
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No? But you're pretty close
to Captain Schirra, right?
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I've known all the Mercury astronauts
since the beginning of the program.
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Would you say that Schirra has lost that
famous sense of humor on this mission?
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Well, everyone gets a little nervous
before one of these things.
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But I think Wally-- This'll be
his third mission, after all.
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I think he's pretty calm about it,
or seems to be.
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I do know that he got a little hot...
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when the mission planners
were suggesting that the astronauts...
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have all their hair shaved
from head to toe.
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I'd have to get a gold earring
if I was gonna look like Mr. Clean.
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Seriously, I just hinted to them
that if the danger...
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was such that my own hair
was going to be a hazard...
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maybe I'd just as soon stay home.
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We've spoken with Schirra. He told us
about the water-skiing incident.
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We heard his side of the story.
We thought we'd get yours.
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The water-skiin' thing?
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I mean, here we are, what?
A month before launch?
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Walt's out hot-dogging
on water skis.
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Did he tell you that he nearly
got canned on his Mercury flight...
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because he hurt himself water skiing?
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Someone's gonna bring up that I got
myself in the same kind of trouble...
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on Mercury, but the difference is that
that was a freak accident.
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I mean, Walt's problem is that...
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he's never gonna be
as good on skis as I am.
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Because I'm better.
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Did he tell you I took up skiin' because
he didn't want me playin' handball?
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He was playing like a lunatic.
I didn't want him hurt.
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'Cause he was afraid
I was gonna beat him.
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- How am I doin'?
- Just fine.
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And this is the biomed belt.
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And this is the U.C.D.,
the urine collection device.
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How's that work?
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Well, the astronaut would attach--
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Never mind.
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Why don't you tell them about
the fecal containment system, Clyde?
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So really stay ready, okay?
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Oh, wait. Here he is now.
This is Deke Slayton.
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Mr. Slayton. Hi. Frank Burns.
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We spoke on the phone
about doing an interview.
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- Now?
- Is that okay?
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- Is it a good time?
- It's fine.
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Why don't you just tell us
what you do here. What's your job?
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I'm director
of flight-crew operations here.
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And what does that mean?
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That means that I oversee
all aspects of the missions...
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that pertain to the individual
flight-crew members, the astronauts.
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Ah. Yeah.
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We've been hearing
a rumor around here...
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that Captain Schirra
is thinking of retiring.
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- Have you heard that?
- You've heard that, huh?
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- Yeah. I'm privy to that rumor.
- What do you think about it?
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Well, Wally Schirra is one of our best
and most experienced astronauts...
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and I'm sorry to lose him.
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You were one of the Mercury Seven,
one of the originals.
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How's it feel to be retiring?
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I'm okay with retirement.
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I think a man should have some idea
of his future before he turns 45.
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- I'm gettin' pretty close to that mark.
- It must make your wife happy.
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This must've been tough on her
all these years.
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Jo? She's Navy, born and bred.
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She knows the drill.
She knows what we're doin' here.
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That's not to say that this
astronaut stuff has been easy for her.
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It has not.
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Mrs. Schirra, tell me--
This must have been tough for you.
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How have you two kept your marriage
together for so long?
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Well, I think the reason
we've been married for so long...
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is because Wally's been away
half the time.
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He walked into the house the other day.
I thought we were being robbed.
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I almost called the cops.
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- That's nice.
- It's true.
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Very nice.
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What the hell kind of bait
are you usin', Deke?
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It's not bait. That is pure skill.
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That's skill? That's luck.
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- Pure luck.
- Yeah, yeah.
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The fish is smaller than the bait.
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- That's enough, isn't it?
- Yeah, that's fine.
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Let's cut it. We just need to get
a wide shot, then we'll be done. Okay?
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Be careful of the line. Thank you.
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So you're gonna be doin'
a lot of fishin', huh?
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I'm retiring from NASA, not from life.
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Not gonna sit and whittle wood.
There are business opportunities.
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Hey, the time has come.
I'm a test pilot.
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And after this,
the testing'll pretty much be done.
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It's not as if I'm gonna make
the big test. Right?
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Not as if I'm goin' to the moon.
Right?
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Hey, everyone thinks
that I got this big master plan...
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for all the crews, but I don't.
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People don't understand. They look
at Glenn and Carpenter and Gordo.
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They think they're crazy
for not stickin' around for Apollo.
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I know why they bailed out.
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I have been completely devoured
by this business.
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You know.
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But you're stayin'.
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I don't know what else I'd do.
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Soon as they finish their
little movie here, I gotta get goin'.
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Got a fit-and-function test at noon.
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I'll take it from here.
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We haven't spoken with the
least experienced of your crew, Eisele.
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Donn Eisele. He's smart.
231
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He's funny.
232
00:19:03,107 --> 00:19:06,543
I love this one thing he says.
He says, "I'm the navigator.
233
00:19:06,677 --> 00:19:10,169
I've got the right to know
where I'm goin'."
234
00:19:10,314 --> 00:19:11,747
That's funny.
235
00:19:15,653 --> 00:19:17,018
You got it?
236
00:19:17,155 --> 00:19:20,022
- Got it.
- You're sure you got film?
237
00:19:26,898 --> 00:19:29,458
Hank, come over this way.
There you go.
238
00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:34,401
We're speaking with Donn Eisele,
C.M. pilot for Apollo 7.
239
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You were supposed to be
on the first Apollo crew. What happened?
240
00:19:38,643 --> 00:19:41,111
I had injured my shoulder...
241
00:19:41,245 --> 00:19:45,306
in the KC-135 training mission,
you know, the Vomit Comet.
242
00:19:45,449 --> 00:19:48,907
How'd you feel about the fire?
243
00:19:56,561 --> 00:20:00,930
First I felt relief,
to be perfectly honest.
244
00:20:01,065 --> 00:20:04,125
I mean, you know,
relief that it wasn't me.
245
00:20:04,268 --> 00:20:08,227
But I think that's just
kind of a natural reaction.
246
00:20:09,674 --> 00:20:13,371
Then sadness, you know. It--
247
00:20:13,511 --> 00:20:17,914
Losin' such good men.
Really just great men.
248
00:20:19,050 --> 00:20:21,109
And then finally guilt.
249
00:20:21,252 --> 00:20:22,617
Guilt?
250
00:20:22,753 --> 00:20:27,417
Yeah. That I wasn't there, you know?
251
00:20:27,558 --> 00:20:30,118
Like I should've been.
252
00:20:30,261 --> 00:20:33,253
Some say that if you'd been around...
253
00:20:33,397 --> 00:20:36,264
they wouldn't have lost Grissom
and his crew in the fire.
254
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,892
No, that's not true at all. The men
on the pad did the best they could.
255
00:20:40,037 --> 00:20:43,837
It was the design of the hatch,
the 100-percent oxygen environment...
256
00:20:43,975 --> 00:20:46,944
the wiring, a lot of little things.
257
00:20:47,078 --> 00:20:49,205
It had nothing to do
with the pad crew.
258
00:20:49,347 --> 00:20:53,010
You're confident you've solved enough
of the problems to make this one safe?
259
00:20:53,150 --> 00:20:58,645
Listen, fellas, we always wonder,
"What are we missing here?
260
00:20:58,789 --> 00:21:02,953
What little thing has slipped
through the cracks here?"
261
00:21:03,094 --> 00:21:04,959
We don't know.
262
00:21:05,096 --> 00:21:07,860
So we're staying on our toes.
263
00:21:07,999 --> 00:21:10,524
- Caught me at an awkward time.
- I understand.
264
00:21:10,668 --> 00:21:14,126
Can we go? You going?
Let's go. Are you rolling?
265
00:21:14,272 --> 00:21:16,968
See? Great.
266
00:21:17,108 --> 00:21:21,511
So you and Captain Schirra
have always gotten along?
267
00:21:21,646 --> 00:21:25,173
No, I'd say at the beginning, Wally and
his crew were quite a pain in the butt.
268
00:21:25,316 --> 00:21:27,807
Don Healy and I were
like two roosters in a pit.
269
00:21:27,952 --> 00:21:31,217
This is the most complicated machine
I've ever seen, and I've seen plenty.
270
00:21:31,355 --> 00:21:33,323
There are subsystems inside subsystems.
271
00:21:33,457 --> 00:21:36,426
There's more cable
than AT&T laid out in Manhattan.
272
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,893
We did not need a bunch of spacemen
runnin' roughshod over the plant.
273
00:21:40,031 --> 00:21:43,762
I told him, "Look, I'm a test pilot,
I've got a degree in engineering...
274
00:21:43,901 --> 00:21:47,359
I've been in space,
and I'm in command of this mission."
275
00:21:47,505 --> 00:21:51,737
There were critical deadlines. Wally
was demanding to be in every decision.
276
00:21:51,876 --> 00:21:56,540
Did that surprise you, though,
considering the Apollo 1 situation?
277
00:21:56,681 --> 00:21:59,582
Wally and I went through
what you might call a "process."
278
00:21:59,717 --> 00:22:03,448
You see, a pilot depends
on his guys on the line.
279
00:22:03,587 --> 00:22:08,115
Until we're in orbit, the most I can do
is abort the mission. That's it.
280
00:22:08,259 --> 00:22:11,695
We began to understand
each other's needs.
281
00:22:12,897 --> 00:22:14,262
Such as?
282
00:22:15,499 --> 00:22:18,935
We all understand
the astronauts' lives are in our hands.
283
00:22:19,070 --> 00:22:20,935
We never forget that.
284
00:22:22,606 --> 00:22:23,971
Ever.
285
00:22:26,944 --> 00:22:29,310
That was great.
286
00:22:39,457 --> 00:22:43,894
I know this is a difficult question.
It's inevitable.
287
00:22:44,028 --> 00:22:46,223
Tell me about Apollo 1.
288
00:22:51,635 --> 00:22:53,000
Apollo 1.
289
00:22:56,374 --> 00:22:59,241
What can you say? It's all been said.
290
00:22:59,377 --> 00:23:01,743
Well, you were the backup crew, right?
291
00:23:03,247 --> 00:23:05,112
How did you find out?
292
00:23:07,184 --> 00:23:11,518
We'd all done the full-up tests
in the spacecraft the day before.
293
00:23:11,655 --> 00:23:14,522
And we flew back to Houston
the next afternoon, while...
294
00:23:17,061 --> 00:23:20,428
Gus and Roger and Ed did
the plugs-out tests.
295
00:23:21,766 --> 00:23:24,326
We found out
when we landed at Ellington.
296
00:23:24,468 --> 00:23:29,872
You had spoken to Gus the day before
about the problems with the spacecraft.
297
00:23:30,007 --> 00:23:31,474
Is that right?
298
00:23:31,609 --> 00:23:35,045
Look, everyone knew
there were problems with the spacecraft.
299
00:23:35,179 --> 00:23:38,671
Gus knew it. I knew it.
Everyone knew it.
300
00:23:38,816 --> 00:23:41,182
But no one ever imagined...
301
00:23:45,056 --> 00:23:46,921
what happened could happen.
302
00:23:48,459 --> 00:23:51,394
How do you feel about it?
303
00:23:53,664 --> 00:23:55,529
We're all test pilots.
304
00:23:57,101 --> 00:24:01,265
We're accustomed
to things going wrong at times.
305
00:24:03,274 --> 00:24:07,142
You're sad. You mourn the loss.
306
00:24:09,814 --> 00:24:12,681
But you don't wear
the black armband forever.
307
00:24:20,825 --> 00:24:24,158
This is the command module simulator.
308
00:24:24,295 --> 00:24:27,162
People ask
what it's gonna be like...
309
00:24:27,298 --> 00:24:32,065
being cooped up in a phone booth
with two guys for 11 days.
310
00:24:32,203 --> 00:24:36,071
Well, we've been in that thing
for six months, and we've survived.
311
00:24:38,509 --> 00:24:40,534
This is the lunar module simulator.
312
00:24:42,379 --> 00:24:45,212
If our mission is successful...
313
00:24:45,349 --> 00:24:48,216
the crews that're workin'
in there right now...
314
00:24:50,121 --> 00:24:51,986
go to the moon.
315
00:24:54,859 --> 00:24:58,454
I just need to ask you a couple
of questions about your pad crew.
316
00:24:59,697 --> 00:25:01,130
Guenter Wendt.
317
00:25:01,265 --> 00:25:06,760
Wally Schirra put in a word for me
after-- when his crew came on board.
318
00:25:06,904 --> 00:25:08,769
I don't know, but I've heard...
319
00:25:08,906 --> 00:25:11,875
they told him they'd give him anything
to keep him happy.
320
00:25:12,009 --> 00:25:16,002
They said, "We'll give you a piggy doll
if it'll make you comfortable."
321
00:25:16,147 --> 00:25:20,743
And I said, "Wrong."
They were missin' the point.
322
00:25:20,885 --> 00:25:23,251
I'm not a piggy doll.
323
00:25:23,387 --> 00:25:28,017
But Wally Schirra is no fool.
He knows damn well I'm hard-nosed.
324
00:25:28,159 --> 00:25:30,525
Guenter is excellent at his job.
325
00:25:30,661 --> 00:25:34,893
We're gonna need everyone to be
excellent if we're gonna pull this off.
326
00:25:35,032 --> 00:25:38,968
If this mission is successful, you feel
confident you'll be going to the moon?
327
00:25:39,103 --> 00:25:42,436
That you'll be going sometime soon?
328
00:25:42,573 --> 00:25:46,441
We're gonna be playin' golf on the moon
in the next ten years.
329
00:25:49,613 --> 00:25:52,081
Questions. We're doin'
a bunch of these around here. So--
330
00:25:52,216 --> 00:25:54,650
All right. He's rollin' it? Okay.
331
00:25:54,785 --> 00:25:58,118
This is Tim Messick, data specialist.
Mark.
332
00:25:59,557 --> 00:26:03,721
All right, tell me
how all this stuff works.
333
00:26:03,861 --> 00:26:05,852
Oh, man.
334
00:26:05,996 --> 00:26:08,988
This stuff is so complicated.
You have no idea.
335
00:26:10,768 --> 00:26:12,633
The problem is just trying...
336
00:26:12,770 --> 00:26:15,705
to fit all of this
into a little bitty onboard computer.
337
00:26:15,839 --> 00:26:19,172
I mean, we've done it. The core-rope
technology makes it possible.
338
00:26:19,310 --> 00:26:23,576
But still, it's like trying to fit
a rhinoceros into a Volkswagen...
339
00:26:23,714 --> 00:26:26,877
and then hoping he knows how to drive.
340
00:26:27,017 --> 00:26:29,884
Do you think NASA's bitten off
a little more than it can chew again?
341
00:26:30,020 --> 00:26:32,511
Tried to do too much too fast?
342
00:26:32,656 --> 00:26:35,625
Well, we don't have a choice.
I mean...
343
00:26:35,759 --> 00:26:39,752
without an inertial guidance system--
I mean a sophisticated one...
344
00:26:39,897 --> 00:26:43,697
that can accurately navigate
and control a lunar orbit...
345
00:26:43,834 --> 00:26:46,701
or reentry to earth--
we'll never make it.
346
00:26:46,837 --> 00:26:49,931
I mean, you can't just throttle up...
347
00:26:50,074 --> 00:26:53,168
point the nose of your aircraft
and head that away, you know?
348
00:26:53,310 --> 00:26:55,904
- You can't.
- But Apollo 7's not going to the moon.
349
00:26:56,046 --> 00:26:57,411
It's not.
350
00:26:57,548 --> 00:27:00,779
What we're doing is, we're shaking
all the little bugs out of the system.
351
00:27:00,918 --> 00:27:04,445
They'll be taking fixes
on various stars and continents.
352
00:27:04,588 --> 00:27:07,284
We'll get a chance to see
if the computers can identify them...
353
00:27:07,424 --> 00:27:09,790
and then see if they can navigate
with them.
354
00:27:09,927 --> 00:27:14,455
- Sounds like a big job.
- Big job? It's an enormous job.
355
00:27:14,598 --> 00:27:16,463
Maybe an impossible job.
356
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,468
It's gotta be successful, though, or
we're never leaving the Earth's orbit.
357
00:27:22,339 --> 00:27:24,466
Good. That's great.
You're a natural.
358
00:27:24,608 --> 00:27:26,542
- Thanks.
- Point right at the camera.
359
00:27:29,813 --> 00:27:32,043
The important thing is that we get up...
360
00:27:32,182 --> 00:27:34,514
prove that this spacecraft can work
and get down again.
361
00:27:34,652 --> 00:27:38,349
That's it, gentlemen.
That's the mission, in my mind.
362
00:27:38,489 --> 00:27:41,049
Anything else spells danger.
363
00:27:41,191 --> 00:27:44,627
- So how can we help?
- We've already got a full flight plan.
364
00:27:44,762 --> 00:27:48,926
I got two rookies on board, seven major
maneuvers, a new navigation computer.
365
00:27:49,066 --> 00:27:52,365
This is a brand-new
and very complex spacecraft.
366
00:27:52,503 --> 00:27:56,132
Don't go crowdin' the flight plan
with a lot of egghead experiments.
367
00:27:56,273 --> 00:28:00,232
It's wild enough that we're gonna
broadcast live television up there.
368
00:28:00,377 --> 00:28:02,868
Eleven days. That's a lot of time.
369
00:28:03,013 --> 00:28:05,140
In Earth time.
370
00:28:05,282 --> 00:28:08,774
You'd be surprised
how fast everything goes up there.
371
00:28:10,287 --> 00:28:13,814
I wanna keep things straightforward.
372
00:28:13,957 --> 00:28:16,858
No deviations.
373
00:28:21,765 --> 00:28:23,232
All right.
374
00:28:23,367 --> 00:28:26,131
I'll review the requests, and
I'll take that into consideration...
375
00:28:26,270 --> 00:28:28,135
when I make my recommendation.
376
00:28:43,354 --> 00:28:45,379
Master Sergeant Russ Lawrence.
377
00:28:45,522 --> 00:28:48,889
I'm the meteorologist
with the 45th Weather Squadron.
378
00:28:49,026 --> 00:28:50,653
Great.
379
00:28:50,794 --> 00:28:54,855
Can you tell us about all this equipment
you've got here? What's this all about?
380
00:28:54,998 --> 00:28:56,932
Well, we're fortunate to have...
381
00:28:57,067 --> 00:29:01,936
the most sophisticated weather
data-gathering tools available to us.
382
00:29:02,072 --> 00:29:05,508
Our worldwide satellite system,
for example.
383
00:29:05,642 --> 00:29:09,703
We've had the TIROS system
worldwide since '66.
384
00:29:09,847 --> 00:29:14,045
And with that we can see
local cloud changes on a 24-hour basis.
385
00:29:14,184 --> 00:29:18,518
We now have our next-generation
weather satellite. That's Nimbus Two.
386
00:29:18,655 --> 00:29:20,919
And on top of that...
387
00:29:21,058 --> 00:29:25,222
we have our Doppler radar system,
and we have some of the finest...
388
00:29:25,362 --> 00:29:29,355
meteorologists that the Air Force has
to offer right here on our base.
389
00:29:31,034 --> 00:29:32,399
Ultimately, though...
390
00:29:32,536 --> 00:29:36,734
the most important tool available to us
for predicting the local weather...
391
00:29:36,874 --> 00:29:39,968
is this window.
392
00:29:40,110 --> 00:29:43,204
Uh, Don, can we have
the next slide up, please?
393
00:29:43,347 --> 00:29:46,578
With the minor retrofitting
we've just discussed...
394
00:29:46,717 --> 00:29:48,582
we should have
little difficulty adapting...
395
00:29:48,719 --> 00:29:51,187
the block one couches
to the block two mounts.
396
00:29:53,524 --> 00:29:54,991
Hello.
397
00:29:55,125 --> 00:29:59,152
Don't let me interrupt. I'm fascinated
to hear why we're not using new couches.
398
00:29:59,296 --> 00:30:03,460
They won't be ready for 7. I'm sorry.
There just isn't enough time.
399
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,067
I see.
400
00:30:06,203 --> 00:30:11,732
And the old model here, the block one
couches-- How do they test on landing?
401
00:30:11,875 --> 00:30:14,537
Shouldn't be any problem,
provided we have a standard landing.
402
00:30:14,678 --> 00:30:18,114
- Meaning an ocean landing.
- Yeah, that's right.
403
00:30:19,483 --> 00:30:23,180
Okay. What are the stats
on a land landing?
404
00:30:25,322 --> 00:30:28,883
If there's a launch abort,
and the winds are strong enough...
405
00:30:29,026 --> 00:30:31,460
we could be blown back onto land.
406
00:30:31,595 --> 00:30:36,328
The stats aren't too good on that,
I'm afraid. I suspect you know that.
407
00:30:36,467 --> 00:30:41,530
Indeed, I do.
We need a mission rule on the winds.
408
00:30:41,672 --> 00:30:43,037
What kind?
409
00:30:45,876 --> 00:30:48,811
We don't launch
unless the winds are favorable.
410
00:30:51,849 --> 00:30:53,214
All right.
411
00:30:57,387 --> 00:30:59,582
You would scrub the mission
for the wind?
412
00:30:59,723 --> 00:31:03,250
A landing on actual land
could be dangerous.
413
00:31:03,393 --> 00:31:06,521
- What do you mean?
- Picture this.
414
00:31:06,663 --> 00:31:08,858
In an abort on the pad...
415
00:31:08,999 --> 00:31:12,127
a mini rocket yanks
the command module...
416
00:31:12,269 --> 00:31:14,362
off the top of the Saturn 1B booster.
417
00:31:14,505 --> 00:31:16,439
Parachutes deploy.
418
00:31:16,573 --> 00:31:19,440
If the winds are just about...
419
00:31:19,576 --> 00:31:23,478
oh, 18 knots, we'd be carried
right back onto shore.
420
00:31:23,614 --> 00:31:26,913
And bam!
421
00:31:27,050 --> 00:31:31,384
We'd be tumbling 'round and 'round
like monkeys in a barrel.
422
00:31:31,522 --> 00:31:33,649
We might hit the ground
at some squirrely angle.
423
00:31:33,790 --> 00:31:38,454
Maybe those couches could sustain
a beating like that.
424
00:31:38,595 --> 00:31:42,463
But if not, I call that an "Ouch!"
425
00:31:44,568 --> 00:31:47,264
- Did you get that?
- Yeah. Perfect.
426
00:31:51,508 --> 00:31:53,499
Yeah. Are we rollin'?
427
00:31:53,644 --> 00:31:56,875
- Mark it. There we go.
- Yeah.
428
00:31:57,014 --> 00:32:00,541
Okay. Just tell us who you are.
429
00:32:00,684 --> 00:32:02,049
I'm John Young.
430
00:32:02,185 --> 00:32:06,315
I'm the command-module pilot
on the backup crew for the Apollo 7.
431
00:32:06,456 --> 00:32:08,549
What does it mean to be the backup crew?
432
00:32:08,692 --> 00:32:11,490
Well, the backup crew
sort of shadows...
433
00:32:11,628 --> 00:32:13,960
the actual crew during training.
434
00:32:14,097 --> 00:32:16,361
When they work on the simulator
on a maneuver...
435
00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:19,060
we follow right in behind 'em
and do the same.
436
00:32:19,202 --> 00:32:22,603
What about the launch, though?
What are your duties then?
437
00:32:22,739 --> 00:32:25,640
Well, to prepare the module
for Wally and his boys.
438
00:32:25,776 --> 00:32:29,007
I mean, I know these systems here
like the back of my hand.
439
00:32:29,146 --> 00:32:32,912
So if anything were to happen,
your crew would be ready...
440
00:32:33,050 --> 00:32:35,518
and, in fact, willing to step right in
for Wally and his crew.
441
00:32:35,652 --> 00:32:37,620
Is that right?
442
00:32:37,754 --> 00:32:40,552
Well, sure.
443
00:32:40,691 --> 00:32:43,854
But the point is,
Wally wants everything set and ready...
444
00:32:43,994 --> 00:32:46,326
by someone as qualified as himself...
445
00:32:46,463 --> 00:32:49,921
someone who could fly
that mission now, today.
446
00:32:50,067 --> 00:32:53,161
And, you know,
I'd want that on my flight too.
447
00:32:53,303 --> 00:32:55,430
Make sure we have
the card sequencing correct.
448
00:32:55,572 --> 00:32:57,836
You mean the initialization deck?
449
00:32:57,975 --> 00:33:01,035
No, Mr. Bonehead, the active deck.
This isn't a simulation tomorrow.
450
00:33:01,178 --> 00:33:05,274
I know, but last week's test uncovered
a major bug in the uplink subroutine.
451
00:33:05,415 --> 00:33:07,280
A continuous loop.
452
00:33:07,417 --> 00:33:09,783
There wasn't a jump command
to the endogenous events.
453
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,980
I want to make sure I get a return
to subroutine D-SYS when toss is called.
454
00:33:13,123 --> 00:33:15,990
- Of course.
- That's what I'm saying.
455
00:33:16,126 --> 00:33:20,654
So at T minus 10:35,
we begin the abort light verification.
456
00:33:20,797 --> 00:33:24,289
- Just before D.M.S.S. is clear?
- Roger.
457
00:33:24,434 --> 00:33:27,528
Like being the only cowboy
in a team ropin' competition.
458
00:33:27,671 --> 00:33:31,004
I wouldn't know, John.
The rodeo rarely came to Berlin.
459
00:33:32,309 --> 00:33:35,745
Okay, we're sitting here
with Walt Cunningham...
460
00:33:35,879 --> 00:33:39,110
who is the lunar module pilot
of Apollo 7.
461
00:33:39,249 --> 00:33:43,049
You're now less than 24 hours away
from your first launch into space.
462
00:33:43,186 --> 00:33:44,813
Feel ready?
463
00:33:44,955 --> 00:33:46,616
Sure, I'm ready.
464
00:33:46,757 --> 00:33:48,122
Excited?
465
00:33:49,493 --> 00:33:52,724
You bet! Look, let me
tell you something.
466
00:33:52,863 --> 00:33:55,855
We have the best spacecraft.
We have the best crew.
467
00:33:55,999 --> 00:33:58,399
The public is urging us on 100 percent.
468
00:33:58,535 --> 00:34:01,402
I think we're gonna show everybody
what Apollo 7 can do.
469
00:34:13,383 --> 00:34:15,248
Workin' hard or hardly workin'?
470
00:34:15,385 --> 00:34:18,877
Good to see you.
I was wondering when you'd stop by.
471
00:34:19,022 --> 00:34:23,254
It's an old habit. Checkin' out the boat
the night before we ship out.
472
00:34:23,393 --> 00:34:27,261
I remember well.
Please step into my office.
473
00:34:31,935 --> 00:34:34,335
- She's a beauty, don't you think?
- Oh, yeah.
474
00:34:34,471 --> 00:34:36,336
Yeah, she's sweet.
475
00:34:39,342 --> 00:34:42,402
I'm sorry there will be
no pinup posters this time.
476
00:34:42,546 --> 00:34:44,639
I couldn't even sneak in
a deck of cards.
477
00:34:44,781 --> 00:34:47,011
So I heard.
478
00:34:47,150 --> 00:34:50,347
Well, I've got some paperwork
I have to catch up on.
479
00:34:50,487 --> 00:34:52,352
Sure. I'll let you know
when I leave.
480
00:34:52,489 --> 00:34:54,889
Ja. That's fine.
481
00:35:02,699 --> 00:35:04,564
How's it look?
482
00:35:04,701 --> 00:35:08,762
Geez. You scared the hell outta me,
John Patrick.
483
00:35:08,905 --> 00:35:12,636
I'm sorry. I came to check on her
before I hit the sack.
484
00:35:12,776 --> 00:35:16,212
Yeah, same here. Great minds, you know?
485
00:35:17,247 --> 00:35:18,612
You bet.
486
00:35:23,053 --> 00:35:24,418
Well.
487
00:35:28,759 --> 00:35:30,624
Good luck tomorrow.
488
00:35:30,761 --> 00:35:34,253
You know, bon voyage. Have a nice trip.
489
00:35:34,397 --> 00:35:37,560
- What do they say before a launch?
- Lift off!
490
00:36:01,591 --> 00:36:05,357
So it's the night before the launch.
You've sacrificed a lot to get here.
491
00:36:05,495 --> 00:36:09,261
- How do you feel?
- It's a lot of hard work.
492
00:36:09,399 --> 00:36:12,630
It's great, you know?
I mean, I love it, but...
493
00:36:12,769 --> 00:36:14,703
there's a price you pay.
494
00:36:14,838 --> 00:36:17,170
Is it hard on your family?
495
00:36:17,307 --> 00:36:21,437
Oh, yeah. I mean,
I try to get home most weekends.
496
00:36:21,578 --> 00:36:25,947
Not so much the last couple months,
as we've gotten close up to the launch.
497
00:36:26,082 --> 00:36:28,448
But it's hard, you know?
I mean, we--
498
00:36:31,254 --> 00:36:33,722
Well, we're doin' great.
499
00:36:33,857 --> 00:36:37,224
I mean, Harriet's been wonderful.
500
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:41,296
I think we all know what's involved
in gettin' this thing done.
501
00:36:46,303 --> 00:36:49,170
Let me talk to your mom again, son.
502
00:36:50,307 --> 00:36:53,674
Thank you. Me too.
503
00:36:56,379 --> 00:36:57,744
Hey, buddy.
504
00:37:02,152 --> 00:37:03,517
Same here.
505
00:37:04,688 --> 00:37:07,816
Yeah. You take care, Jo.
506
00:37:07,958 --> 00:37:09,323
Sleep tight.
507
00:37:11,328 --> 00:37:13,193
I love you too.
508
00:37:23,173 --> 00:37:25,903
Good morning, Apollo 7.
S.T.C. Do you read?
509
00:37:26,042 --> 00:37:28,408
Roger, S.T.C. Five by.
510
00:37:28,545 --> 00:37:30,638
John, we gonna have
a launch today, or what?
511
00:37:30,780 --> 00:37:33,943
I say that's affirmative, Skip.
Lookin' good up here. How about you?
512
00:37:34,084 --> 00:37:36,712
Yeah. We're as good to go
as go can get.
513
00:37:36,853 --> 00:37:42,689
S.T.C., Apollo 7.
Verifying C.S.M. S-band transponder.
514
00:37:42,826 --> 00:37:47,024
Roger, Apollo 7. Verification,
S-band transponder is off.
515
00:37:47,163 --> 00:37:51,361
V.C.M.P.: panel two, caution and warning
power switch, position one.
516
00:37:51,501 --> 00:37:56,063
S.T.C., V.C.M.P. Caution and warning
power switch to one.
517
00:37:56,206 --> 00:37:59,039
No gags today?
518
00:37:59,175 --> 00:38:03,202
I did consider putting chattering teeth
in my underwear but decided against it.
519
00:38:03,346 --> 00:38:06,577
- What makes you think I'd have checked?
- You always do.
520
00:38:06,716 --> 00:38:08,741
- You always do.
- Stop it.
521
00:38:08,885 --> 00:38:10,978
Hello, Dee. Good morning, Wally.
522
00:38:13,590 --> 00:38:15,490
Eisele show his face yet?
523
00:38:17,193 --> 00:38:20,060
I don't know what he's thinkin',
the night before a launch.
524
00:38:20,196 --> 00:38:22,061
Hasn't he seen her enough this week?
525
00:38:22,198 --> 00:38:25,065
He's got a family back in Houston,
for Christ's sake.
526
00:38:26,703 --> 00:38:31,037
An adjustment to the situation
should've been made a long time ago.
527
00:38:31,174 --> 00:38:34,041
I thought I made that clear to him.
528
00:38:34,177 --> 00:38:36,372
He's in love.
529
00:38:36,513 --> 00:38:41,280
It's an affair of the heart.
530
00:38:41,418 --> 00:38:43,283
- Yeah.
- Mornin'.
531
00:38:45,322 --> 00:38:47,688
I'll see you two at breakfast.
532
00:38:51,094 --> 00:38:53,221
Your fly is down.
533
00:38:55,732 --> 00:38:57,962
Pretty good.
534
00:38:59,970 --> 00:39:02,996
Yeah. Shepard's always talkin'--
535
00:39:03,139 --> 00:39:06,836
My name, Jose Jimenez.
536
00:39:06,977 --> 00:39:09,343
Mr. Jimenez, could you tell us...
537
00:39:09,479 --> 00:39:12,971
what's the most important thing
in rocket travel?
538
00:39:13,116 --> 00:39:16,313
To me, the most important thing
in rocket travel...
539
00:39:16,453 --> 00:39:18,512
is the blastoff.
540
00:39:18,655 --> 00:39:22,056
I always take a blast
before I take off.
541
00:39:22,192 --> 00:39:25,059
Otherwise, I wouldn't get in that thing.
542
00:39:26,629 --> 00:39:28,119
Pretty good.
543
00:39:28,264 --> 00:39:31,893
Walt, give Eisele his bon voyage gift.
544
00:39:32,035 --> 00:39:33,502
Say what?
545
00:39:38,842 --> 00:39:41,003
Well, I guess it's official, then.
546
00:39:41,144 --> 00:39:44,477
I can just see Cronkite sayin'...
547
00:39:44,614 --> 00:39:47,981
"And as the brave crew
of Apollo 7 blasts off...
548
00:39:48,118 --> 00:39:51,178
we bid our fond farewell to Wally...
549
00:39:51,321 --> 00:39:53,846
Walt and What's His Name."
550
00:39:59,462 --> 00:40:02,795
The start of Apollo 7,
one of the most critical milestones...
551
00:40:02,932 --> 00:40:05,833
since this country embarked
on the road to the moon.
552
00:40:07,637 --> 00:40:10,037
America last flew astronauts
on the two-man flight of Gemini 12...
553
00:40:10,340 --> 00:40:12,069
in November, 1966.
554
00:40:12,208 --> 00:40:15,405
It was to be followed
in February of 1967...
555
00:40:15,545 --> 00:40:18,343
by the first three-man Apollo flight.
556
00:40:18,481 --> 00:40:21,416
But then the fire on Pad 34.
557
00:40:33,096 --> 00:40:35,587
We're all test pilots.
558
00:40:35,732 --> 00:40:38,257
We're accustomed...
559
00:40:38,401 --> 00:40:41,165
to things going wrong at times.
560
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,837
You're sad. You mourn the loss.
561
00:40:50,647 --> 00:40:53,013
But you don't wear
the black armband forever.
562
00:41:19,609 --> 00:41:21,474
Good luck. We're so proud.
563
00:41:29,619 --> 00:41:34,079
An engineer at the cape points out that
there are two million working parts...
564
00:41:34,224 --> 00:41:36,715
in the Apollo spacecraft.
565
00:41:36,860 --> 00:41:40,626
Achieving 99.9% perfection
still would not be good enough.
566
00:41:40,763 --> 00:41:44,893
That would leave 2,000 parts
to go wrong.
567
00:41:45,034 --> 00:41:48,868
Well, that won't happen. But any part
that goes wrong could be critical...
568
00:41:49,005 --> 00:41:52,532
and deadly in a game
as risky as this one.
569
00:41:59,015 --> 00:42:02,178
Pad Leader, S.T.C.
570
00:42:02,318 --> 00:42:04,183
Crew has departed O.N.C.
571
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,379
I understand.
They're on their way.
572
00:42:06,523 --> 00:42:09,515
All right. Just checkin' the ol'
reservoirs and the cryo levels.
573
00:42:09,659 --> 00:42:12,389
We're closing
the cryo sequence now.
574
00:42:15,632 --> 00:42:19,329
Apollo 7 starts
the final American push to the moon.
575
00:42:19,469 --> 00:42:22,529
Failure on this flight
would all but finish U.S. chances...
576
00:42:22,672 --> 00:42:25,505
of reaching the moon
by the end of next year.
577
00:42:25,642 --> 00:42:28,805
The schedule is close.
No question about that.
578
00:42:28,945 --> 00:42:32,142
Any significant failure could make
impossible meeting the goal...
579
00:42:32,282 --> 00:42:35,843
of man on the moon by the end of
this decade, and also make doubtful...
580
00:42:35,985 --> 00:42:39,443
the unannounced goal
of getting there before the Russians.
581
00:42:39,589 --> 00:42:42,285
Pad Leader, S.T.C.
Flight crew has arrived.
582
00:42:42,425 --> 00:42:44,757
Roger, S.T.C. We are ready.
583
00:42:44,894 --> 00:42:48,261
All personnel, stand by to verify
the following switch positions:
584
00:42:48,398 --> 00:42:50,263
logic BUS, safe light, on.
585
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,732
Confirmed. Light on.
586
00:42:52,869 --> 00:42:55,201
Pyro-BUS, safe light, on.
587
00:42:55,338 --> 00:42:56,999
Light on. Check.
588
00:42:57,140 --> 00:43:00,234
Caution and warning
master alarm light, off.
589
00:43:00,376 --> 00:43:04,278
- Confirmed. Light off.
- S.C.S. control mode light, on.
590
00:43:04,414 --> 00:43:08,145
Standing there on Pad 34,
ready to blast off into space...
591
00:43:08,284 --> 00:43:11,253
the Saturn 1B is potentially
far more dangerous...
592
00:43:11,387 --> 00:43:13,252
than anything imaginable.
593
00:43:13,389 --> 00:43:16,449
An explosion or the sudden,
uncontrolled burning...
594
00:43:16,593 --> 00:43:20,825
of its 565 tons of liquid fuels...
595
00:43:20,964 --> 00:43:23,728
and oxidizers
would almost surely destroy...
596
00:43:23,866 --> 00:43:27,427
everything on the pad, including
the Apollo spacecraft and its crew.
597
00:43:27,570 --> 00:43:29,936
Attitude minimum, light on.
598
00:43:30,073 --> 00:43:32,473
Minimum, light on. Check.
599
00:43:35,812 --> 00:43:38,747
Remove boot protectors
and C.S.C. protective Velcro from boots.
600
00:43:38,881 --> 00:43:43,545
Boot protectors and C.S.C.
protective Velcro from boots removed.
601
00:43:43,686 --> 00:43:45,745
Ingress into couch.
602
00:43:45,888 --> 00:43:48,254
Connect C.C.U. to P.G.A.
603
00:43:48,391 --> 00:43:51,087
C.C.U. to P.G.A. Connected.
604
00:43:51,227 --> 00:43:53,923
A.C. performs following. Panel 9.
605
00:43:54,063 --> 00:43:57,191
- Suit power switch.
- Suit power switch, on.
606
00:43:57,333 --> 00:43:59,528
Roll B mat, rate 2, light on.
607
00:43:59,669 --> 00:44:02,661
Metro, C.E.T.S.
How are the winds looking?
608
00:44:02,805 --> 00:44:06,070
C.E.T.S., Metro. We're within limits,
but the wind is increasing.
609
00:44:06,209 --> 00:44:07,767
Roger, Metro.
610
00:44:09,112 --> 00:44:12,047
It's less than one hour from launch.
611
00:44:12,181 --> 00:44:15,150
The feeling here is one of awe,
'cause there's this sense...
612
00:44:15,285 --> 00:44:18,220
that we've arrived at one of those
defining moments in history.
613
00:44:19,322 --> 00:44:21,119
Is this the end of an era?
614
00:44:21,257 --> 00:44:25,523
Is this the final moment in man's
failed attempt to reach the stars?
615
00:44:25,662 --> 00:44:28,825
Or is this the beginning
of something new?
616
00:44:28,965 --> 00:44:32,731
At last, a chance to put
the Apollo 1 tragedy behind us...
617
00:44:32,869 --> 00:44:37,465
to define ourselves with
a slightly naive but inspired sense...
618
00:44:37,607 --> 00:44:41,634
that we are unlimited beings,
that we can do anything.
619
00:44:51,254 --> 00:44:54,621
Roger that.
Suit C.K.T. interconnect removed.
620
00:45:00,963 --> 00:45:03,898
Test. Test.
Hear me, Wally?
621
00:45:04,033 --> 00:45:07,093
- Five square.
- How do you think Navy's gonna do?
622
00:45:07,236 --> 00:45:09,500
Figure them to beat Air Force's ass.
623
00:45:11,207 --> 00:45:16,076
S.T.C., V.C.M.P.
Internal com check is complete.
624
00:45:16,212 --> 00:45:18,077
- C.D.R. is on.
- C.D.R., S.T.C.
625
00:45:18,214 --> 00:45:21,240
- How do you read?
- S.T.C., C.D.R. Loud and clear.
626
00:45:21,384 --> 00:45:23,375
- How do we look, Skip?
- Just fine.
627
00:45:23,519 --> 00:45:27,387
Your ship's in great shape. Stand by.
Houston's ready for a com check.
628
00:45:27,523 --> 00:45:31,482
- Houston, Apollo 7. How do we read?
- Five by, Apollo 7.
629
00:45:33,296 --> 00:45:36,231
S.T.C., C.D.R. Hope you guys
are keepin' an eye on the winds.
630
00:45:36,366 --> 00:45:38,061
They looked pretty strong
comin' up here.
631
00:45:38,201 --> 00:45:41,102
Roger that, Apollo 7.
We're still in the window for launch.
632
00:45:41,237 --> 00:45:43,432
Go fever.
633
00:45:43,573 --> 00:45:47,168
C.D.R., T.H.C. neutral and locked.
634
00:45:47,310 --> 00:45:49,107
Rog. Neutral and locked.
635
00:45:49,245 --> 00:45:52,681
Panel one verified: manual attitude
roll switch break command.
636
00:45:52,815 --> 00:45:55,477
- Roger.
- Pitch switch acceleration command.
637
00:45:55,618 --> 00:45:57,347
Pitch accel. command.
638
00:45:57,487 --> 00:45:59,216
- Yaw switch rate command.
- Yaw rate command.
639
00:45:59,355 --> 00:46:03,883
C.D.R., S.T.C. S.C.S., T.V.C.
pitch switch rate command.
640
00:46:04,026 --> 00:46:06,688
- Pitch switch rate command.
- Yaw switch rate command.
641
00:46:06,829 --> 00:46:08,626
Yaw switch rate command.
642
00:46:08,765 --> 00:46:11,325
L.M.P., S.T.C.
Panel three, verify.
643
00:46:11,467 --> 00:46:13,401
- Rog, S.T.C. Panel three.
- L.M.P.
644
00:46:13,536 --> 00:46:16,164
VHFantenna select. S.M. left.
645
00:46:16,305 --> 00:46:19,240
VHFantenna select. S.M. left.
646
00:46:19,375 --> 00:46:21,104
Main BUS A reset switch, center.
647
00:46:21,244 --> 00:46:24,680
Rog. Main BUS A reset, center.
648
00:46:24,814 --> 00:46:27,146
S.P.S. helium valve one switch, auto.
649
00:46:27,283 --> 00:46:29,114
Helium one, auto.
650
00:46:29,252 --> 00:46:32,744
- Helium valve two switch, auto.
- Rog. Helium two, auto.
651
00:46:32,889 --> 00:46:36,188
- VHFbeacon switch, off.
- VHFbeacon switch, off.
652
00:46:36,325 --> 00:46:38,555
AC BUS one reset switch, center.
653
00:46:38,694 --> 00:46:41,424
Rog. AC one reset, center.
654
00:46:41,564 --> 00:46:43,156
AC BUS two reset, center.
655
00:46:43,299 --> 00:46:46,097
Rog. AC two reset, center.
656
00:46:47,837 --> 00:46:49,566
All right, Captain.
657
00:46:49,705 --> 00:46:51,536
- They're swabbed out.
- Thank you.
658
00:46:51,674 --> 00:46:54,165
Have a good flight. Fellas.
659
00:46:54,310 --> 00:46:58,440
S.T.C., Pad Leader.
Request permission to close the hatch.
660
00:46:58,581 --> 00:47:00,173
Pad Leader, S.T.C. You have a go.
661
00:47:02,084 --> 00:47:05,178
Well, you flyboys all set?
662
00:47:05,321 --> 00:47:07,380
Can I get you anything? A magazine?
663
00:47:07,523 --> 00:47:09,718
- A cocktail?
- Good-bye, Guenter.
664
00:47:13,362 --> 00:47:15,922
Stand by for sequence verification.
665
00:47:16,065 --> 00:47:17,794
Roger. Standing by.
666
00:47:17,934 --> 00:47:21,028
Roger. Forward handle
is neutral and locked.
667
00:47:21,170 --> 00:47:24,264
T.H.C. power off.
668
00:47:24,407 --> 00:47:26,739
Roger. T.H.C. power is off.
669
00:47:26,876 --> 00:47:29,367
C.D.R. verify,
abort lights on and off.
670
00:47:29,512 --> 00:47:31,673
Standing by for abort lights.
671
00:47:31,814 --> 00:47:35,511
S.T.C., C.D.R. Abort light is on.
672
00:47:35,651 --> 00:47:38,142
Abort light is off.
673
00:47:38,287 --> 00:47:41,222
Roger, C.D.R. Abort sequence verified.
674
00:47:41,357 --> 00:47:44,622
C.D.R., S.T.C.
Abort handle unlocked and armed.
675
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:50,164
Roger, S.T.C. Abort handle
is unlocked and armed.
676
00:47:52,535 --> 00:47:56,596
S.T.C., Pad Leader.
Hatch closed and locked.
677
00:47:56,739 --> 00:47:59,264
Ready for cabin leak check.
678
00:47:59,408 --> 00:48:04,072
Seal indicators positive,
and we're beginning pressurization now.
679
00:48:04,213 --> 00:48:06,078
Roger. Pressurization.
680
00:48:07,617 --> 00:48:09,482
Lock it up.
681
00:48:11,454 --> 00:48:12,887
Dump the pressure.
682
00:48:16,592 --> 00:48:18,059
Disconnect the hoses.
683
00:48:20,429 --> 00:48:21,794
Got it.
684
00:48:27,670 --> 00:48:30,366
S.T.C., Pad Leader.
685
00:48:30,506 --> 00:48:33,475
Cabin leak check
and O2 check complete...
686
00:48:33,609 --> 00:48:38,273
and we're preparing to close
the P.P.C. hatch. Close the hatch.
687
00:48:45,321 --> 00:48:50,349
P.P.C. hatch is closed.
White room closeout complete.
688
00:48:50,493 --> 00:48:52,927
We're ready to clear the pad.
689
00:48:53,062 --> 00:48:56,828
- Roger, Pad Leader. Clear to roadblock.
- Roger. Clearing the pad.
690
00:48:56,966 --> 00:49:00,561
Okay, guys, let's get
the hell out of here...
691
00:49:00,703 --> 00:49:03,570
and let these gentlemen do their job.
692
00:49:18,287 --> 00:49:20,152
It's so quiet.
693
00:49:21,924 --> 00:49:25,655
Yeah. I wonder where Guenter went.
694
00:49:29,231 --> 00:49:31,096
I'm gonna steal that.
695
00:49:51,053 --> 00:49:52,350
Press.
696
00:49:54,156 --> 00:49:58,092
C.V.T.S., this is the pad leader.
Closeout crew is at Roadblock 11.
697
00:49:58,227 --> 00:50:01,890
Roger, Pad Leader. The pad is clear.
Preparing to retract the white room.
698
00:50:02,031 --> 00:50:04,158
Roger, S.T.C. We're goin' for launch.
699
00:50:04,300 --> 00:50:08,464
Apollo 7, this is S.T.C.
The flight director in Houston is ready.
700
00:50:08,604 --> 00:50:11,937
We're ready.
Gentlemen, we are go for launch.
701
00:50:41,003 --> 00:50:46,031
We seem to be experiencing some
fairly strong winds here at the cape.
702
00:50:46,175 --> 00:50:49,167
But NASA officials say
they're still optimistic...
703
00:50:49,311 --> 00:50:52,610
that weather conditions will be
within mission parameters.
704
00:50:52,748 --> 00:50:56,775
If the wind speed should top
18 knots, however...
705
00:50:56,919 --> 00:50:59,888
the possibility of a hold
on this count...
706
00:51:00,022 --> 00:51:01,887
becomes far more likely.
707
00:51:04,493 --> 00:51:07,257
S.T.C., Apollo 7.
708
00:51:07,396 --> 00:51:11,025
Either our rate needles are
way out of whack, or we're gettin'...
709
00:51:11,167 --> 00:51:13,101
some pretty substantial wind up here.
710
00:51:13,235 --> 00:51:17,729
Roger, Apollo 7. It's not
your rate needles. You've got wind.
711
00:51:27,450 --> 00:51:30,044
Okay, then.
712
00:51:30,186 --> 00:51:33,212
I'm recommending a hold on the count.
713
00:51:36,992 --> 00:51:40,655
These winds appear to be
way out of the mission rule parameters.
714
00:51:48,604 --> 00:51:50,902
Did you copy that, Skip?
715
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,975
We're not happy
about the wind situation here.
716
00:51:54,110 --> 00:51:57,011
Roger that.
717
00:51:57,146 --> 00:52:00,479
Do you mean a possible
scrub situation here?
718
00:52:00,616 --> 00:52:05,781
I hope not.
I just don't like the situation.
719
00:52:12,561 --> 00:52:14,825
Wally, Deke here.
720
00:52:14,964 --> 00:52:17,990
We have been assured
by Meteorological...
721
00:52:18,134 --> 00:52:20,659
that we have
an acceptable launch condition.
722
00:52:20,803 --> 00:52:25,604
But if you want to hold, we'll hold.
It's up to you.
723
00:53:00,743 --> 00:53:04,975
If you say we're in the ballpark...
724
00:53:05,114 --> 00:53:07,548
then I guess we're a go.
725
00:53:09,118 --> 00:53:11,143
Roger that.
726
00:53:14,924 --> 00:53:16,892
Go fever, huh?
727
00:53:18,794 --> 00:53:22,594
Okay, final telemetry uplink
for primary ascent guidance data.
728
00:53:22,731 --> 00:53:26,861
That's a go for P.A.G.D.
We are transmitting now.
729
00:53:27,002 --> 00:53:30,494
We are go for launch
and will begin chill down on my mark.
730
00:53:30,639 --> 00:53:34,405
In five, four, three...
731
00:53:34,543 --> 00:53:37,740
two, one, mark.
732
00:53:43,552 --> 00:53:48,353
Begin S-1B fuel tank pressurization
at T minus two minutes, 44 seconds.
733
00:53:48,490 --> 00:53:50,890
On my mark. Five...
734
00:53:51,026 --> 00:53:54,189
four, three...
735
00:53:54,330 --> 00:53:57,390
two, one, mark.
736
00:54:00,736 --> 00:54:06,038
LH-2 tank pressurization at T minus
one minute, 53 seconds. On my mark.
737
00:54:06,175 --> 00:54:09,804
Five, four, three...
738
00:54:09,945 --> 00:54:13,938
two, one, mark.
739
00:54:14,083 --> 00:54:16,745
And we're a go
for main engine start.
740
00:54:16,886 --> 00:54:20,219
Ten, nine, eight...
741
00:54:20,356 --> 00:54:24,520
seven, six, five...
742
00:54:24,660 --> 00:54:26,491
four, three...
743
00:54:26,629 --> 00:54:28,824
two, one.
744
00:55:35,931 --> 00:55:38,024
Lift off, and clock's running.
745
00:56:08,163 --> 00:56:11,428
- We have cleared the tower.
- Roger.
746
00:56:11,567 --> 00:56:14,764
We're clear of the tower.
You got it, Houston.
747
00:56:23,912 --> 00:56:25,573
And she's tracking good.
748
00:56:25,714 --> 00:56:27,909
Roger, Apollo 7.
You're lookin' good at 5,000.
749
00:56:28,050 --> 00:56:29,415
Roger that.
750
00:56:37,826 --> 00:56:40,590
All right! Yes!
751
00:57:02,017 --> 00:57:06,181
Roll complete. We're on our way.
752
00:57:06,321 --> 00:57:09,119
Roger that.
Godspeed, Apollo 7.
753
00:57:09,258 --> 00:57:10,623
Godspeed.
754
00:57:10,632 --> 00:57:13,762
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