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NARRATOR: Previously on The Right Stuff...

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GLYNN: Just got a stack of requests
for press credentials, 300 of 'em.

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Kennedy is putting the launch
on national TV live.

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BOB: And John, it's been decided
that you're the backup for this mission.

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-When do I go up?
-Two weeks.

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(ALL LAUGH)

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-You're gonna be an astronaut?
-I hope so.

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REPORTER 1: What do you men think
about the idea of female astronauts?

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-We sent up a chimp, didn't we?
-(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

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GORDON:
May as well send up a lady someday.

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(REPORTERS LAUGHING)

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But my husband, he wasn't the one
that got caught with some tart in Tijuana.

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There were photos, Alan.

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I'm going back home.

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You think it was God's plan for you
to send those letters?

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I didn't write a thing in those letters
that isn't true.

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You want something bad to happen to me,
because then you'd be first.

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I can find love for you in my heart, Al.

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I want you to know that.

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ROY: Got storms up and down the coast.

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If we get this wrong,
the program is finished for good.

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You know the problem
with playing it safe, Bob?

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BOB: You never know if you got it right.

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Bad news, Al.

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(INTENSE MUSIC BUILDUP)

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(CLINKING)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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MALE VOICE: We have to do that
final test on the suit.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)

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He's ready.

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-He'll be okay.
-(DEE SIGHS)

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-He's a jerk sometimes.
-(LAUGHS)

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Yeah, I know.

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But I hope he doesn't blow up.

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Yeah. Me, too.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

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MALE VOICE: (THROUGH RADIO)
And we are, uh, docked, FIDO.

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He's in the van.

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CHRIS: Flight copies.

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Relay to Grand Bahama.
Shepard has arrived at transport.

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Weather, proceed with briefing.

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Balloon data's showing moderate
wind speed, upper and lower levels.

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We are green for LOX loading.

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It's a good day for a launch.

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Yes, it is.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO CONTINUES)

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(STEAM HISSING)

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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(HISSING CONTINUES)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)

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(CLANGING)

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(THUDS)

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-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

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JOHN: Al...

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she's all yours.

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Put it the same way.

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(CLANKING)

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(JOHN CLEARS THROAT)

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-You?
-(CHUCKLES)

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Well, I could get you the whole magazine

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if you're gonna want some reading material
while you're up there.

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Comin' in. (GRUNTS)

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(CLANKING)

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(JOHN GRUNTS)

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-John?
-Yeah?

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See you soon.

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Happy landings, Commander.

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-All right. Let's close her up.
-(THUMPING)

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-(SHUTTLE CLANKING, SHUTS)
-(HISSING)

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(ALARM BLARING)

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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SHORTY: We're about to push
into the second hour of delay.

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The latest hold stems
from a small technical problem,

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and I'm being told there is nothing
to be concerned about.

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-(EXHALES)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

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CHRIS: How long?

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How long does it take to get
a damn inverter swapped out?

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HOST: (OVER TV)
Mr. Powers, Americans have seen

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a number of NASA's test rockets
fail catastrophically.

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Should we be concerned
for Astronaut Shepard?

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SHORTY:
Well, most of the spectacular malfunctions

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-have concerned the Atlas rocket.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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SHORTY: Now, the Atlas won't be in use,
and the Redstone rocket,

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upon which Astronaut Shepard
will be riding,

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so far, it has proven
to be relatively reliable.

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LAURA: Relatively?

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Is Dad going to be okay?

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LOUISE: Well, of course.

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He'll be just fine.

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-WOMAN 1: Would you like another slice?
-SHORTY: (OVER TV) Now, the Redstone,

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which is the one that Astronaut Shepard
will be riding upon...

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REPORTER 1: Mrs. Shepard,
can I get you to look this way, please?

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REPORTER 2:
And how are the kids holding up?

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REPORTER 3:
How many folks do you have inside?

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LOUDON: Louise?

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LOUISE: God, you people are relentless.

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Oh, well it's a big story.
They just wanna get a piece of it.

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They want him to blow up.

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That's what they want.

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That's the big story.

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-REPORTER 1: ...for a photo?
-REPORTER 2: Mrs. Shepard, what are the...

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Show's about to start.

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You're on.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER FROM REPORTERS)

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(INHALES, EXHALES DEEPLY)

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FEMALE VOICE:
Dave, you wanna get closer to me?

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DAVE: No, no, no.
This is a good spot right here, honey.

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-(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
-(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER PA)

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(BREATHES DEEPLY)

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Goddamn it.

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Hey, Gordo.

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-(RADIO CRACKLING)
-GORDO: Go ahead, Al.

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I have a problem.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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All right. Uh, Wernher.

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-Alan's gotta go pee real bad.
-(WERNHER CLEARS THROAT)

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Okay.

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There are two options.

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We remove the astronaut,
allow him to urinate...

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rebuild the white room,
and risk hours of delay

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that will imperil a safe recovery
due to limited daylight.

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Okay.

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Or...

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we scrub the launch.

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(SIGHS)

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-(RADIO CRACKLES)
-Flight, this is Stoney.

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We got two bad options.

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Hey, Flight?

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Alan's gotta pee.

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-Pure oxygen environment?
-Short circuit could cause a fire.

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GLYNN: Biomedical sensors everywhere,
all hooked up to electrical leads.

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-If they get wet...
-Could be a disaster.

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Could end our careers.

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But...

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you know the problem
with playing it safe, Bob.

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You don't get to send a man
into space soaked in his own urine?

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Tell him to go in his suit.

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(GROANS)

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-(RADIO CRACKLES)
-DEKE: Hey, Al? Let it rip.

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Uh...

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Okay, Deke.

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But you do know
I have an electric thermometer up my ass.

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I sure do.

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Gonna power down now. Good luck, Al.

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(POWER SHUTS OFF)

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Well, here goes. (CLEARS THROAT)

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(SIGHS)

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-Okay.
-(RADIO CRACKLES)

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-Blockhouse, let's power back up.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

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(ENGINE REVVING)

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I'm good.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO CONTINUES)

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TC, resume the countdown.

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-That wasn't in the procedures manual.
-No.

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The inverter has been swapped out,
and now we stand at T-minus

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two minutes and thirty-nine seconds,
and counting.

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If there are no further delays,
the launch sequence will begin shortly.

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CHRIS:
This is the real deal. Around the horn.

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-Network.
-NASA COMMUNICATION AGENT: Go, Flight.

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-Recovery.
-NASA CONTROL AGENT 1: Go.

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-RSO.
-NASA CONTROL AGENT 2: Go.

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-Missile systems.
-NASA CONTROL AGENT 3: Go, Flight.

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-Capsule systems.
-NASA CONTROL AGENT 4: Go, Flight.

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-FIDO.
-NASA CONTROL AGENT 5: Go.

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-Surgeon.
-Heart rate is hitting 200, Flight.

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(HEART THUMPING)

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But Surgeon is go.

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TC, this is Flight. We're go.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

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Let's go on and light this candle.

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WALTER: He has been in his capsule
for some four hours now,

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waiting for this takeoff.

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It has been delayed

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-by numerous small problems...
-(BREATHES DEEPLY)

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-MALE VOICE: Now they're good to go.
-WALTER: ...some technical,

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and some weather.

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Thirty seconds.

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WALTER: Redstone rocket is ready.
The Mercury capsule is ready.

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This is America's effort
after two and a half years of preparation,

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two and a half years since the go-ahead
was given to Project Mercury.

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Ten, nine,

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eight, seven...

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Six, five, four...

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three, two...

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-One.
-(INTENSE MUSIC BUILDUP)

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(ENGINE REVS)

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Roger, liftoff.

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And the clock has started.

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Go, Al, go.

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Go.

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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Come on, Al.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

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Go, Alan.

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Go, sweetheart.

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Look at your dad go.

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-(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER TV)
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)

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ALAN: Fuel is go.

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1.8 G.

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-Eight PSI cabin and the oxygen is go.
-CHRIS: FIDO?

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NASA CONTROL AGENT 5:
Trajectory normal, Flight.

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(CAPSULE RUMBLING)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

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-Where is he?
-(RUMBLING CONTINUES)

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Well, I guess your dad
is a real spaceman now.

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-ALAN: ...5.5 cabin.
-NASA CONTROL AGENT 6: Roger.

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-(RUMBLING)
-(EXHALES)

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DEKE: Max Q, through the gate.

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-Okay.
-(RUMBLING SLOWS DOWN)

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A lot smoother now.

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Engine cut-off in three, two, one.

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-(ENGINE SHUTS OFF)
-(THUDDING)

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Cut off.

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Tower jettison green. Disarm.

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(ENGINE HISSING)

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Cap sep is green.

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(RUMBLES)

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ALAN: Periscope is coming out
and the turnaround has started.

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(WHIRRING)

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ALAN: Switching to manual pitch.

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Switching to manual yaw.

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Yaw is okay.

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And Astronaut Shepard is acting
like a real test pilot now,

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as he flies the capsule manually.

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(HISSING)

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DEKE:
Al, what do you see out the periscope?

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(RUMBLING)

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Come on.

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(RUMBLING STOPS)

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On periscope.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

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ALAN: Damn.

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What a beautiful view.

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I'll bet it is.

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NASA CONTROL AGENT 7: Okay, go.
Normal readings. All is nominal.

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PAYING)

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SHORTY:
Now, at this point, Astronaut Shepard

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has almost reached the apex of his flight.

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He's on manual controls as he begins
his descent back to Earth.

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And when the capsule does reenter
the atmosphere,

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Astronaut Shepard will endure
the most difficult portion of his flight,

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as g-forces build up.

246
00:17:31,526 --> 00:17:33,653
DEKE: Seven, initiate retro sequence.

247
00:17:33,987 --> 00:17:37,073
Start retro sequence,
retro attitude on green.

248
00:17:37,782 --> 00:17:39,450
All three retros are fired.

249
00:17:40,076 --> 00:17:42,829
Reentry attitude,
switching to ASCS normal.

250
00:17:43,871 --> 00:17:45,790
-ASCS okay.
-(ENGINE REVVING)

251
00:17:51,170 --> 00:17:52,672
(RUMBLING)

252
00:17:56,467 --> 00:17:57,468
ALAN: G buildup.

253
00:17:57,927 --> 00:17:58,928
Three.

254
00:18:02,181 --> 00:18:03,182
Six.

255
00:18:06,019 --> 00:18:07,020
Nine.

256
00:18:08,146 --> 00:18:09,147
(VOICE BREAKING) Okay.

257
00:18:11,733 --> 00:18:12,734
(VOICE BREAKING) Okay.

258
00:18:17,322 --> 00:18:19,532
-CHRIS: Flight?
-Ten Gs.

259
00:18:19,824 --> 00:18:20,867
Environment?

260
00:18:20,950 --> 00:18:23,161
NASA CONTROL AGENT 8:
Capsule temperature, 110 and rising.

261
00:18:23,828 --> 00:18:25,288
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

262
00:18:28,166 --> 00:18:29,834
Freedom Seven, how do you read?

263
00:18:35,757 --> 00:18:37,091
Come on, Al, come on.

264
00:18:40,094 --> 00:18:41,638
Freedom Seven, do you copy?

265
00:18:48,186 --> 00:18:50,229
(BREATHES SHAKILY)

266
00:18:51,064 --> 00:18:52,857
(BIRDS CHIRPING)

267
00:19:06,079 --> 00:19:07,705
Freedom Seven, do you copy?

268
00:19:13,336 --> 00:19:18,466
-(RADIO CRACKLES)
-ALAN: This is Seven. Okay.

269
00:19:18,675 --> 00:19:21,344
MALE VOICE: Oh, yeah. You did so good.

270
00:19:21,886 --> 00:19:23,554
ALAN: Switching to ASCS.

271
00:19:25,890 --> 00:19:27,517
I'm back on ASCS.

272
00:19:28,768 --> 00:19:31,187
-Drogue deploy.
-Roger.

273
00:19:31,729 --> 00:19:33,481
(RUSTLING)

274
00:19:37,318 --> 00:19:39,404
Rescue copters are looking for a visual.

275
00:19:45,118 --> 00:19:47,578
Copters have a visual.
The main chute is out.

276
00:19:47,745 --> 00:19:49,372
Capsule is A-okay.

277
00:19:51,207 --> 00:19:53,292
Card File 23, this is Seven.

278
00:19:53,751 --> 00:19:57,755
Relay to CAPCOM, please,
1,500 feet now, chute still looks good.

279
00:19:58,172 --> 00:19:59,590
CARD FILE 23 OVER RADIO: Uh... Roger.

280
00:20:00,216 --> 00:20:01,384
Preparing for impact.

281
00:20:07,765 --> 00:20:09,517
(CHEERING, LAUGHING)

282
00:20:11,102 --> 00:20:12,103
(EXHALES)

283
00:20:13,229 --> 00:20:15,982
Rescue to manual, preparing for egress.

284
00:20:16,149 --> 00:20:18,693
(ALL CHEER)

285
00:20:27,827 --> 00:20:29,412
(CHEERING CONTINUES)

286
00:20:33,958 --> 00:20:36,919
-It worked, you crazy kraut.
-Of course it did. It's German!

287
00:20:37,336 --> 00:20:38,546
MALE VOICE: Congratulations.

288
00:20:39,046 --> 00:20:40,298
(ALL LAUGH)

289
00:20:54,270 --> 00:20:55,354
That was perfect.

290
00:20:55,855 --> 00:20:56,898
Congrats, Bob.

291
00:20:57,607 --> 00:20:58,608
You, too.

292
00:20:58,941 --> 00:21:00,067
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

293
00:21:03,112 --> 00:21:04,113
Deke.

294
00:21:07,950 --> 00:21:10,995
-Good job.
-Thanks, Chris. You, too.

295
00:21:11,954 --> 00:21:13,414
(SIGHS, CLEARS THROAT)

296
00:21:18,252 --> 00:21:19,378
(JOHN SNIFFLING)

297
00:21:21,547 --> 00:21:23,508
Don't worry. You'll go up soon enough.

298
00:21:24,383 --> 00:21:26,469
Well, you could leave
the aircraft carriers out there,

299
00:21:26,552 --> 00:21:27,929
and just set up a new rocket for me.

300
00:21:31,390 --> 00:21:32,683
Congratulations, Bob.

301
00:21:34,018 --> 00:21:35,144
Thank you.

302
00:21:43,194 --> 00:21:45,404
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

303
00:21:54,163 --> 00:21:55,289
NURSE: Hello, Mr. Shepard.

304
00:21:56,791 --> 00:21:59,335
(SINGING)
Ooh, would you like to swing on a star...

305
00:21:59,544 --> 00:22:01,170
(ALL CHEERING, LAUGHING)

306
00:22:01,963 --> 00:22:03,381
WALLY: You may have had the best seat
in the house, Al,

307
00:22:03,464 --> 00:22:06,175
but trailing in that F-106
is a hell of a close second.

308
00:22:06,259 --> 00:22:08,678
Yeah, when Gus goes up,
you should beg him to let you fly chase.

309
00:22:08,761 --> 00:22:10,680
-You smell like space piss.
-Do I? (CHUCKLES)

310
00:22:11,097 --> 00:22:12,974
Two days of R&R,
you think you can handle that?

311
00:22:13,057 --> 00:22:15,017
Oh, well there's only
one way to find out. Gus.

312
00:22:18,688 --> 00:22:20,189
Couldn't have done it better myself.

313
00:22:20,398 --> 00:22:21,983
-Congratulations, Al.
-Thanks, John.

314
00:22:23,276 --> 00:22:25,111
Uh... To hard work and dumb luck.

315
00:22:25,903 --> 00:22:27,113
-Cheers!
-Hear, hear.

316
00:22:28,531 --> 00:22:29,657
WALLY: Hey, Dee.

317
00:22:30,741 --> 00:22:32,034
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

318
00:22:43,504 --> 00:22:45,590
CHRIS: Uh... Deke, hang back a second.

319
00:22:47,633 --> 00:22:48,926
(SIGHS)

320
00:22:50,553 --> 00:22:51,721
What's up, Chris?

321
00:22:52,013 --> 00:22:53,431
We found something for you.

322
00:22:54,223 --> 00:22:56,642
-A job. A position.
-Okay?

323
00:22:57,602 --> 00:22:59,562
We would like you to be a liaison

324
00:22:59,770 --> 00:23:02,356
between the astronauts
and the rest of the Space Task Group.

325
00:23:02,815 --> 00:23:06,027
Like CAPCOM, but all the time.

326
00:23:07,153 --> 00:23:08,279
What's it called?

327
00:23:09,071 --> 00:23:11,866
I don't... I don't... I don't know, Deke.
Uh...

328
00:23:12,783 --> 00:23:15,411
-Astronaut Communicator.
-Ass Com?

329
00:23:17,121 --> 00:23:18,497
All right, wise guy.

330
00:23:19,081 --> 00:23:20,625
You come up with something.

331
00:23:23,210 --> 00:23:24,211
Chris...

332
00:23:26,964 --> 00:23:27,965
thank you.

333
00:23:30,426 --> 00:23:32,094
GUS:
I don't know. Was it... was it lighter?

334
00:23:32,303 --> 00:23:34,013
Was it like the parabolic flights,

335
00:23:34,180 --> 00:23:37,308
or was the weightless feeling...
different?

336
00:23:37,725 --> 00:23:40,519
Well, um, you know,
you're strapped down pretty tight.

337
00:23:40,770 --> 00:23:42,021
-Yeah.
-So, uh...

338
00:23:47,401 --> 00:23:49,528
It's spectacular. Just you wait.

339
00:23:50,154 --> 00:23:52,782
-(CHUCKLES) I'm not sure I can.
-(CHUCKLES)

340
00:23:54,367 --> 00:23:55,534
(LAUGHS)

341
00:23:57,787 --> 00:23:58,829
Gus seems excited.

342
00:24:01,874 --> 00:24:03,125
Well, he should enjoy it now.

343
00:24:03,250 --> 00:24:06,295
Oh, come on. Don't tell me
the bloom's already falling off the rose.

344
00:24:06,879 --> 00:24:08,756
Well, there wasn't much bloom
to begin with.

345
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,968
You know the traffic jam
I got stuck in this morning

346
00:24:12,051 --> 00:24:13,344
was longer than my actual flight?

347
00:24:14,303 --> 00:24:16,263
Fifteen minutes, you go up
and you come back down.

348
00:24:16,430 --> 00:24:20,685
Come on. You're telling me 350,000 pounds
of thrust under your keister

349
00:24:20,810 --> 00:24:22,144
didn't give you a kick?

350
00:24:23,938 --> 00:24:25,064
Being weightless?

351
00:24:26,065 --> 00:24:28,734
-Seeing the stars?
-I didn't see any stars.

352
00:24:30,152 --> 00:24:31,696
I didn't see pretty much anything.

353
00:24:33,823 --> 00:24:37,535
I knocked the goddamn
neutral density filter over the periscope

354
00:24:37,702 --> 00:24:39,620
and couldn't get the bastard unstuck.

355
00:24:40,621 --> 00:24:42,415
Everything was just a big gray blur.

356
00:24:43,207 --> 00:24:44,250
Nah.

357
00:24:44,959 --> 00:24:46,794
No, I think you're in comedown mode.

358
00:24:46,919 --> 00:24:48,004
Hell, you told the press

359
00:24:48,129 --> 00:24:50,172
it was the greatest ride
of your entire life.

360
00:24:50,256 --> 00:24:51,590
Yeah. What did you expect?

361
00:24:52,633 --> 00:24:53,718
It's a story.

362
00:24:54,552 --> 00:24:55,928
I learned that trick from you.

363
00:24:58,764 --> 00:25:00,349
Yeah, the truth is...

364
00:25:02,768 --> 00:25:05,312
the simulator felt more real
than the real thing.

365
00:25:07,273 --> 00:25:09,984
And, yeah, it's a big accomplishment.
It is.

366
00:25:12,194 --> 00:25:14,280
But I bet it looked a whole lot better
on television

367
00:25:14,363 --> 00:25:15,698
than inside the capsule.

368
00:25:17,742 --> 00:25:18,784
(SCOFFS)

369
00:25:22,371 --> 00:25:24,331
What'd you expect to feel up there, Al?

370
00:25:26,125 --> 00:25:27,251
I don't know.

371
00:25:28,961 --> 00:25:30,129
Not nothing.

372
00:25:32,715 --> 00:25:33,716
Nothing?

373
00:25:36,510 --> 00:25:38,054
Al, you went to space.

374
00:25:39,930 --> 00:25:41,474
You're the first American to do it.

375
00:25:41,557 --> 00:25:43,601
Not to mention, you came home
to a wonderful wife

376
00:25:43,726 --> 00:25:46,395
and three sweet girls who love you.
I mean...

377
00:25:48,064 --> 00:25:51,692
that's a hell of a lot for one man.
A hell of a lot. That's not nothing.

378
00:25:53,527 --> 00:25:55,905
That's not just something, either.
I mean, that's everything.

379
00:25:58,783 --> 00:26:01,160
-You really believe that?
-Of course I do.

380
00:26:02,828 --> 00:26:03,954
(CHUCKLES)

381
00:26:04,872 --> 00:26:05,873
What else is there?

382
00:26:07,166 --> 00:26:08,250
The next thing.

383
00:26:10,878 --> 00:26:12,004
Whatever that is.

384
00:26:15,216 --> 00:26:16,258
You know, John...

385
00:26:16,592 --> 00:26:19,470
I've been thinking a lot
about what I said in San Diego,

386
00:26:19,804 --> 00:26:20,930
at the seance...

387
00:26:22,681 --> 00:26:24,892
about these appetites.

388
00:26:26,310 --> 00:26:28,395
These hungers, how they control me.

389
00:26:31,023 --> 00:26:32,358
I think I got it wrong.

390
00:26:34,944 --> 00:26:36,821
I think I am my hunger.

391
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:39,865
And if you take that away...

392
00:26:42,076 --> 00:26:43,661
there's not much left. It's the truth.

393
00:26:45,704 --> 00:26:46,914
That's not true, Al.

394
00:26:48,165 --> 00:26:50,376
-It is true.
-No, it can't be.

395
00:26:52,419 --> 00:26:54,213
Because that's no way to go
through your life.

396
00:26:55,422 --> 00:26:57,842
But you don't choose it. (EXHALES)

397
00:26:58,843 --> 00:27:00,136
It's not the kind of thing...

398
00:27:01,220 --> 00:27:03,681
you can choose. (SNIFFS)

399
00:27:04,223 --> 00:27:06,016
Remember when you said
you didn't wanna be me?

400
00:27:07,393 --> 00:27:08,394
Yup.

401
00:27:10,062 --> 00:27:12,439
-This is why.
-It doesn't matter what you want, John.

402
00:27:14,984 --> 00:27:16,068
You are me.

403
00:27:17,236 --> 00:27:18,571
You are your hunger.

404
00:27:20,322 --> 00:27:22,533
And you know it. Stop kidding yourself.

405
00:27:27,163 --> 00:27:28,372
(DOOR OPENS)

406
00:27:31,625 --> 00:27:32,835
(DOOR SHUTS)

407
00:27:48,392 --> 00:27:50,227
(CAR DRIVING AWAY)

408
00:28:06,869 --> 00:28:09,580
-Trudy, what I...
-We're staying in the area for now.

409
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,292
We'll decide what happens next
when the school year's over.

410
00:28:15,669 --> 00:28:17,796
-Because of the press conference?
-Yes.

411
00:28:18,380 --> 00:28:20,257
I'm leaving because of one thing you said.

412
00:28:20,507 --> 00:28:22,259
-You know me so well.
-Then what?

413
00:28:24,345 --> 00:28:26,222
How would I explain to my daughters

414
00:28:26,722 --> 00:28:28,599
why I stay with a man
who disrespects me so much?

415
00:28:28,682 --> 00:28:30,976
-For God's sake, it was just a joke.
-It wasn't funny.

416
00:28:31,185 --> 00:28:32,853
It was in the moment. I wasn't...

417
00:28:34,063 --> 00:28:36,106
Trudy, come on. Wh... what are you doing?

418
00:28:37,274 --> 00:28:38,275
I love you.

419
00:28:39,443 --> 00:28:42,029
I know you do.
That's what makes this so hard.

420
00:28:42,488 --> 00:28:46,158
But... you just play to whatever room
you're in, Gordo.

421
00:28:46,992 --> 00:28:47,993
That's the problem.

422
00:28:48,619 --> 00:28:50,329
That's why you say dumb stuff
on television,

423
00:28:50,412 --> 00:28:52,581
or you end up in a cheap motel
with Lurlene.

424
00:28:56,043 --> 00:28:57,253
All I wanted...

425
00:28:58,128 --> 00:28:59,505
all I asked...

426
00:29:00,297 --> 00:29:04,218
was for this, you and me,
to be the one constant.

427
00:29:08,097 --> 00:29:09,598
I would've gone anywhere with you.

428
00:29:14,144 --> 00:29:15,396
I would've done anything.

429
00:29:15,688 --> 00:29:17,940
-I did, I came here.
-Just keep it down.

430
00:29:18,023 --> 00:29:19,692
The girls aren't home. They're next door.

431
00:29:23,988 --> 00:29:25,823
So you, um, you got a whole plan, I see.

432
00:29:30,744 --> 00:29:34,832
Trudy... this could affect my place
on the program.

433
00:29:34,957 --> 00:29:36,709
I wish for one moment
you would finally worry

434
00:29:36,792 --> 00:29:38,127
about how it affects me.

435
00:29:41,964 --> 00:29:42,965
(SCOFFS)

436
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,140
This is real. I'm leaving.

437
00:29:51,223 --> 00:29:54,351
I'm going to join Jerrie Cobb's program,
and I'm gonna make my girls proud.

438
00:29:55,019 --> 00:29:57,229
And I'm sorry if that complicates things
for you, but...

439
00:29:57,771 --> 00:29:59,398
guess I'll just have to live with that.

440
00:30:20,377 --> 00:30:22,796
You know, I didn't know
if you'd be here when I got back.

441
00:30:27,343 --> 00:30:28,344
Here I am.

442
00:30:44,985 --> 00:30:45,986
I'm sorry.

443
00:30:48,530 --> 00:30:50,616
That's what I should have said
at Canaveral...

444
00:30:52,201 --> 00:30:53,452
and I'm sorry I didn't.

445
00:30:57,581 --> 00:30:58,832
(ALAN SIGHS)

446
00:31:02,252 --> 00:31:03,337
I'm...

447
00:31:05,798 --> 00:31:07,591
-proud of you, Alan.
-(ALAN CHUCKLES)

448
00:31:08,050 --> 00:31:09,051
No, I am.

449
00:31:11,053 --> 00:31:12,596
But you also hurt me.

450
00:31:23,190 --> 00:31:24,483
(CHUCKLES)

451
00:31:26,318 --> 00:31:28,570
And if I left, I think that it...

452
00:31:29,905 --> 00:31:32,157
-would probably kill me.
-(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

453
00:31:34,827 --> 00:31:37,246
But that doesn't mean
that I would never do it.

454
00:31:42,084 --> 00:31:45,879
KENNEDY: The dramatic achievements
in space which occurred in recent weeks...

455
00:31:46,463 --> 00:31:48,215
should have made clear to us all,

456
00:31:48,799 --> 00:31:51,343
as did the Sputnik in 1957,

457
00:31:52,094 --> 00:31:54,888
the impact of this adventure...

458
00:31:55,514 --> 00:31:57,474
on the minds of men everywhere,

459
00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:00,602
who are attempting to make a determination

460
00:32:00,769 --> 00:32:02,771
of which road they should take.

461
00:32:03,147 --> 00:32:06,024
Now it is time to take longer strides.

462
00:32:06,567 --> 00:32:09,111
Time for a great new American enterprise.

463
00:32:09,653 --> 00:32:11,363
Time for this nation to take

464
00:32:11,447 --> 00:32:14,908
a clearly leading role
in space achievement,

465
00:32:15,576 --> 00:32:19,580
which, in many ways,
may hold the key to our future on Earth.

466
00:32:20,998 --> 00:32:23,500
I, therefore, ask the Congress,

467
00:32:23,667 --> 00:32:24,918
above and beyond the increases

468
00:32:25,085 --> 00:32:27,588
I have earlier requested
for space activities,

469
00:32:28,005 --> 00:32:31,717
to provide the funds which are needed
to meet the following national goals.

470
00:32:31,925 --> 00:32:35,846
First, I believe that this nation
should commit itself

471
00:32:35,971 --> 00:32:37,473
to achieving the goal,

472
00:32:37,848 --> 00:32:39,683
before this decade is out,

473
00:32:39,975 --> 00:32:43,854
of landing a man on the Moon
and returning him safely to the Earth.

474
00:32:44,563 --> 00:32:49,693
No single space project in this period
will be more impressive to mankind,

475
00:32:49,860 --> 00:32:53,322
or more important
for the long-range exploration of space,

476
00:32:53,906 --> 00:32:57,367
and none will be so difficult
or expensive to accomplish.

477
00:32:57,951 --> 00:32:59,870
-We propose to accel...
-(TV SHUTS OFF)

478
00:33:02,289 --> 00:33:03,373
The Moon?

479
00:33:03,749 --> 00:33:04,750
Holy shit.

480
00:33:06,919 --> 00:33:08,795
He just kited a damn check.

481
00:33:09,087 --> 00:33:10,380
On our account.

482
00:33:12,090 --> 00:33:15,135
He just promised to do by 1970

483
00:33:15,302 --> 00:33:19,056
something we don't know if we can do
till 1980, or even '90.

484
00:33:19,181 --> 00:33:20,182
Chris.

485
00:33:20,641 --> 00:33:22,392
We don't know that we can ever do it.

486
00:33:31,193 --> 00:33:32,194
JIM: No.

487
00:33:33,737 --> 00:33:34,738
No?

488
00:33:34,905 --> 00:33:36,198
It's premature, John.

489
00:33:37,199 --> 00:33:40,911
NASA is a scientific organization,
not a game of five-card stud.

490
00:33:40,994 --> 00:33:42,704
-Does the president know that?
-(JIM LAUGHING)

491
00:33:42,829 --> 00:33:43,914
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

492
00:33:43,997 --> 00:33:46,416
Because he just pushed our chips
into the middle of the table.

493
00:33:46,667 --> 00:33:48,043
Presidents say a lot of things.

494
00:33:48,502 --> 00:33:49,878
It's a headline, not a policy.

495
00:33:49,962 --> 00:33:52,464
Right. Well, you can call me naive
if you want, but...

496
00:33:53,507 --> 00:33:56,093
I don't think he's gonna let the Soviets
beat us to the punch again.

497
00:33:56,510 --> 00:33:58,428
Patience, John. Please.

498
00:33:58,887 --> 00:33:59,888
Patience.

499
00:34:00,556 --> 00:34:02,891
With all due respect, sir,
I think I've been plenty patient.

500
00:34:03,016 --> 00:34:05,519
You astronauts... (GROANS)
...you're all the same.

501
00:34:06,144 --> 00:34:07,646
Out for your own glory.

502
00:34:08,355 --> 00:34:11,233
-Bunch of hotshots.
-No, sir. I'm not a hotshot.

503
00:34:13,110 --> 00:34:14,820
I am a God-fearing American.

504
00:34:16,196 --> 00:34:18,865
And this country is made up
of people just like me.

505
00:34:20,909 --> 00:34:23,495
People who were told they're crazy
for wanting more,

506
00:34:23,662 --> 00:34:27,499
that it's folly to keep trying,
keep pushing to do the impossible.

507
00:34:28,917 --> 00:34:30,460
People who are hungry, Jim.

508
00:34:34,172 --> 00:34:36,049
People who stay hungry.

509
00:34:38,343 --> 00:34:39,511
No, my glory...

510
00:34:40,971 --> 00:34:43,724
My glory is just this nation's glory.
My success...

511
00:34:44,433 --> 00:34:45,475
is its success.

512
00:34:46,226 --> 00:34:48,729
You realize there are
no television cameras in here, John.

513
00:34:48,812 --> 00:34:50,355
That's how you know it's the real thing.

514
00:34:50,439 --> 00:34:52,649
I'm not here to give you
no dog and pony show.

515
00:34:57,362 --> 00:34:58,614
The Redstone is a toy.

516
00:35:00,449 --> 00:35:02,117
It's not big enough
and it's not fast enough.

517
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,202
And Kennedy wants to go to the Moon
in eight years?

518
00:35:04,286 --> 00:35:05,912
That means we need to go faster.

519
00:35:07,456 --> 00:35:09,875
The Atlas is faster.

520
00:35:11,501 --> 00:35:13,211
And we need to pull up
the orbital flights.

521
00:35:13,337 --> 00:35:16,256
We need to start flying the Atlas now.

522
00:35:17,466 --> 00:35:18,508
The country deserves it,

523
00:35:18,592 --> 00:35:20,510
the marching orders
from our president demand it,

524
00:35:20,677 --> 00:35:22,429
and I'm the one to do it first.

525
00:35:24,389 --> 00:35:25,390
We can't, John.

526
00:35:26,266 --> 00:35:27,309
There's no way.

527
00:35:28,477 --> 00:35:31,813
We'll never get to the damn Moon
if they shut down this program

528
00:35:31,897 --> 00:35:33,982
because all our astronauts are dead.

529
00:35:35,108 --> 00:35:36,526
The Atlas keeps blowing up.

530
00:35:37,361 --> 00:35:39,905
It's just too damn dangerous.

531
00:35:40,447 --> 00:35:41,531
I know.

532
00:35:43,533 --> 00:35:44,826
And I don't care.

533
00:35:47,287 --> 00:35:48,747
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(BELL CHIMING)

534
00:35:48,872 --> 00:35:50,415
(MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO)

535
00:35:52,876 --> 00:35:54,336
-(DOOR SHUTS)
-TRUDY: Okay. Let's go.

536
00:35:56,922 --> 00:35:59,716
Hi. Two vanilla milkshakes, please. Okay.

537
00:36:02,094 --> 00:36:05,514
(CLEARS THROAT) Sorry.
Just a lot of moving parts right now.

538
00:36:05,681 --> 00:36:07,683
-Thank you for coming.
-TRUDY: Of course.

539
00:36:09,935 --> 00:36:13,105
My psych evaluations have been sent.
I'm just waiting on my medical records...

540
00:36:13,188 --> 00:36:16,274
Trudy, I have to rescind the invitation.

541
00:36:18,318 --> 00:36:20,153
You can't be a part of the program.

542
00:36:22,364 --> 00:36:23,782
Oh. What?

543
00:36:24,616 --> 00:36:25,742
Why?

544
00:36:26,535 --> 00:36:28,620
-I'm passing all my flight eval...
-It's not about you.

545
00:36:28,829 --> 00:36:30,330
It's about your husband.

546
00:36:30,539 --> 00:36:32,999
And what he said on national television.

547
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:35,794
You understand,
we've got to distance ourself

548
00:36:35,877 --> 00:36:37,003
from that kind of thinking.

549
00:36:40,424 --> 00:36:41,508
I've left him.

550
00:36:44,428 --> 00:36:45,470
We're separated for now.

551
00:36:46,096 --> 00:36:48,432
I've been living at a friend's house
with the kids for three weeks.

552
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,267
What would NASA think of that?

553
00:36:52,060 --> 00:36:55,105
There's no way that they're gonna let
the first woman in space be a divorcée.

554
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,358
You know that as well as I do.

555
00:37:00,277 --> 00:37:01,653
So, I can't be married...

556
00:37:03,697 --> 00:37:05,031
and I can't be divorced?

557
00:37:08,285 --> 00:37:10,454
I'm a good pilot.
That is all that matters.

558
00:37:11,371 --> 00:37:12,789
(SIGHS, CHUCKLES)

559
00:37:13,457 --> 00:37:15,167
I wish that were true.

560
00:37:16,877 --> 00:37:18,003
(JERRIE CLEARS THROAT)

561
00:37:18,670 --> 00:37:20,213
Look, I'm sorry, Trudy.

562
00:37:21,131 --> 00:37:22,215
It's not fair.

563
00:37:22,841 --> 00:37:24,593
But it's the world that we live in.

564
00:37:25,969 --> 00:37:28,013
That's part of what I'm trying to change.

565
00:37:29,765 --> 00:37:32,768
But... we're just not there yet.

566
00:37:36,104 --> 00:37:37,355
(BELL CHIMING)

567
00:37:40,108 --> 00:37:41,359
(DOOR SHUTS)

568
00:38:00,378 --> 00:38:01,379
(SIGHS)

569
00:38:12,891 --> 00:38:14,017
LURLENE: What are you doing?

570
00:38:14,267 --> 00:38:16,770
(SIGHS) Um... I don't know.

571
00:38:18,104 --> 00:38:19,105
(SCOFFS)

572
00:38:19,898 --> 00:38:20,899
I don't know.

573
00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:23,527
(INHALES, EXHALES)

574
00:38:24,486 --> 00:38:25,612
Come back to bed.

575
00:38:32,953 --> 00:38:33,995
(OPENS FRIDGE DOOR)

576
00:38:34,579 --> 00:38:36,623
(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

577
00:38:37,207 --> 00:38:38,500
ANNIE: Looks like some parade.

578
00:38:39,835 --> 00:38:42,629
They're really going to do...
do that after every flight?

579
00:38:43,004 --> 00:38:44,005
Nope.

580
00:38:44,923 --> 00:38:47,259
They won't even do it after Gus
in the next one.

581
00:38:48,426 --> 00:38:49,636
(CLEARS THROAT)

582
00:38:50,387 --> 00:38:51,388
(MOANS)

583
00:38:51,847 --> 00:38:53,807
Ah. Jeez, Louise. That's good.

584
00:38:54,641 --> 00:38:58,979
You seem to be handling
this... (STUTTERS) ...aw... awfully well.

585
00:38:59,187 --> 00:39:00,522
JOHN: Don't sound so surprised.

586
00:39:01,982 --> 00:39:03,024
(CHUCKLES)

587
00:39:04,234 --> 00:39:06,570
It's like you said down in Cocoa,
you know, it's just...

588
00:39:07,571 --> 00:39:09,114
easier now that people know.

589
00:39:09,823 --> 00:39:13,118
Al went up, and I didn't. So what?
(CHUCKLES)

590
00:39:13,660 --> 00:39:16,288
-It's... (STUTTERS) ...funny.
-JOHN: What?

591
00:39:16,997 --> 00:39:19,040
Well, you look... (STUTTERS)
...ju... just

592
00:39:19,124 --> 00:39:20,917
-like my husband.
-Mm-hmm.

593
00:39:21,585 --> 00:39:22,961
-ANNIE: But... Mm.
-But?

594
00:39:23,128 --> 00:39:24,296
(BOTH LAUGH)

595
00:39:27,173 --> 00:39:28,508
MALE VOICE: (OVER RADIO)
Well, that certainly put us

596
00:39:28,592 --> 00:39:29,968
in a romantic mood...

597
00:39:31,136 --> 00:39:32,137
(CLEARS THROAT)

598
00:39:36,099 --> 00:39:37,684
That's what makes it all easier.

599
00:39:38,852 --> 00:39:40,478
Coming home to you and the kids.

600
00:39:42,856 --> 00:39:46,151
There's nothing I could find in space
that compares to what I got right here.

601
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,362
("TWILIGHT TIME" BY THE PLATTERS
PLAYING OVER RADIO)

602
00:39:50,447 --> 00:39:53,575
Heavenly shades of night are falling

603
00:39:53,992 --> 00:39:56,202
It's twilight time

604
00:39:56,578 --> 00:39:59,873
-Out of the mist, your voice is calling
-(MUSIC GETS LOUDER)

605
00:40:00,081 --> 00:40:02,459
It's twilight time

606
00:40:03,209 --> 00:40:06,880
When purple colored curtains
Mark the end of day...

607
00:40:07,047 --> 00:40:08,924
-JOHN: Come on.
-(CHUCKLES)

608
00:40:09,090 --> 00:40:10,926
Come on. Come on, pretty lady.

609
00:40:11,801 --> 00:40:12,969
ANNIE: Hmm.

610
00:40:15,347 --> 00:40:18,600
(SINGING)
Deepening shadows gather splendor

611
00:40:18,892 --> 00:40:21,436
As day is done

612
00:40:21,561 --> 00:40:25,065
Fingers of night will soon surrender

613
00:40:25,273 --> 00:40:27,609
The setting sun

614
00:40:28,401 --> 00:40:33,865
I count the moments, darling
Till you're here with me

615
00:40:34,032 --> 00:40:39,579
Together at last at twilight time

616
00:40:40,622 --> 00:40:42,374
Here

617
00:40:42,958 --> 00:40:46,336
In the afterglow of day

618
00:40:46,503 --> 00:40:51,257
We keep our rendezvous beneath the blue...

619
00:40:51,383 --> 00:40:53,802
(HIGH PITCHED SOUND RINGING)

620
00:41:02,936 --> 00:41:03,937
LOUISE: Alan!

621
00:41:05,522 --> 00:41:06,648
Alan...

622
00:41:07,232 --> 00:41:09,651
What's wrong? Alan, what's happening?

623
00:41:10,068 --> 00:41:11,277
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

624
00:41:11,403 --> 00:41:14,781
(SINGING)
Lighting the spark of love that fills me

625
00:41:15,198 --> 00:41:17,701
With dreams untold

626
00:41:18,326 --> 00:41:19,744
Each day I pray...

627
00:41:19,911 --> 00:41:20,912
GUS: Not bad, huh?

628
00:41:21,705 --> 00:41:22,706
Congrats, my friend.

629
00:41:23,957 --> 00:41:29,087
(SINGING)
Together at last at twilight time

630
00:41:30,005 --> 00:41:31,047
(GROANS)

631
00:41:31,214 --> 00:41:37,804
(SINGING)
Together at last at twilight time

632
00:41:39,014 --> 00:41:40,098
(AIRCRAFT WHIRRING)

633
00:41:41,141 --> 00:41:42,892
TRUDY: So, this tells you
where your wings are

634
00:41:42,976 --> 00:41:44,936
in relationship to the horizon, right?

635
00:41:45,020 --> 00:41:46,980
This is our speed. That's the clock.

636
00:41:47,105 --> 00:41:48,648
-CAM: Hmm.
-TRUDY: This is the altitude,

637
00:41:49,065 --> 00:41:50,150
which is how high we are up.

638
00:41:51,026 --> 00:41:53,653
So... when we get up there...

639
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:56,406
if I do this,

640
00:41:57,032 --> 00:41:58,616
you're gonna see the wings dip.

641
00:41:59,534 --> 00:42:00,994
-See that?
-Mm-hmm.

642
00:42:03,621 --> 00:42:05,999
Cool, huh? Okay, so try yours.

643
00:42:06,541 --> 00:42:09,878
Wherever you move it,
the plane's gonna follow, right?

644
00:42:10,503 --> 00:42:13,423
(CHUCKLES) So... Okay, careful. Careful.

645
00:42:15,175 --> 00:42:16,384
You're a daredevil.

646
00:42:16,968 --> 00:42:18,595
All right. Gentle.

647
00:42:20,013 --> 00:42:22,015
Good. There you go. That's it.

648
00:42:25,268 --> 00:42:27,062
-Okay.
-Why are you telling me all this stuff?

649
00:42:28,229 --> 00:42:29,981
So you can take the controls
when we go up.

650
00:42:33,568 --> 00:42:34,611
Would you like that?

651
00:42:36,780 --> 00:42:37,822
(CHUCKLES)

652
00:42:39,032 --> 00:42:40,158
That's what I thought.

653
00:42:45,955 --> 00:42:47,499
Are we gonna move back in with Dad?

654
00:42:54,380 --> 00:42:55,507
I don't know.

655
00:43:00,804 --> 00:43:03,473
Hey. Let's get up there.

656
00:43:04,432 --> 00:43:05,433
You ready?

657
00:43:06,059 --> 00:43:07,143
(SPEAKS SOFTLY) Yes.

658
00:43:08,645 --> 00:43:10,730
TRUDY: (CHUCKLES) All right.

659
00:43:11,606 --> 00:43:14,317
So, no. No, don't touch that.
Don't touch that.

660
00:43:14,484 --> 00:43:17,278
Okay, so, first thing we need to do
is we're gonna turn this one on.

661
00:43:17,362 --> 00:43:18,655
Right? You do this.

662
00:43:19,405 --> 00:43:21,574
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

663
00:44:07,579 --> 00:44:10,206
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)