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Alexei Leonov,
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the first man to set foot on the moon.
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Just last month you sent Apollo 10
all the way to the moon
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for what you called a "dress rehearsal"
for the landing.
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We stopped taking risks at NASA.
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And that's why we lost the moon.
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Von Braun wants you reassigned
to the Apollo Applications Project
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effective immediately.
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If we succeed
in putting Apollo 11 on the moon,
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we're still in this thing.
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We did it.
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We're on the moon.
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This is the elliptical path
which our rocket ship will follow
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going out and coming back.
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And then you will use
its primary system,
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the AGS instead of the PGNCS,
for separation and ascent.
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Copy all that, Tranquility Base?
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Guidance control AGS. Roger, Houston.
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We are definitely
concerned about stability
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once we fire the ascent engine
from this canted position.
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In the meantime,
we're losing extra weight.
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I don't like the margins, Wernher.
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Getting back to vertical's gonna cost him
a lot of ascent fuel.
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I mean, they may not be able
to rendezvous with Columbia.
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The plan is sound, Gene.
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Tranquility, you have go for liftoff.
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Okay, Buzz. Engine Arm on.
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Mike, we'll see you in a bit.
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Keep our beers cold for us.
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Copy that, Tranquility Base.
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Abort Stage.
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- Engine Arm, Ascent.
- Engine Arm, Ascent.
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Here goes nothing.
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Ignition.
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Houston, we're definitely
picking up a little shimmy.
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We're leveling out.
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The Eagle has wings.
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Excuse me...
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Good morning, sir.
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Green suits you, Emma.
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Administrator Paine just arrived, sir.
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Hope he's got good news.
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- Could use that.
- Deke.
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I'll catch up.
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How much longer do I have to eat shit
before you put me back on flight status?
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I've been cooling my heels
for two damn months now.
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Look, it's not only up to me.
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You pissed off a lot of people.
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I'm never going back up, am I?
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Not as long as von Braun's director.
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I'm sorry. But you made your bed.
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So, what the hell am I supposed to do,
just keep pushing paper?
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There are worse things.
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Yeah, I guess you'd know, wouldn't ya?
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Watch it, Ed.
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It's from a trusted source in the Kremlin.
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And if this is even close to ready...
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It's merely blueprints.
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I have hundreds of blueprints.
It means nothing.
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We can't afford to be cautious now,
Wernher.
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This is the new front in the Cold War.
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If the Soviets are gonna build
a lunar military outpost up there,
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the president wants one too,
and he wants it first.
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He can't be serious.
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Frankly, I've never seen him more serious.
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We're talking a major realignment
of priorities here.
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We may have lost the moon, but we can...
We can still win the race for the base.
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"Race for the base"?
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Catchy, right?
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Your testimony before the committee
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is the perfect time
to unveil NASA's new strategy.
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Beginning with Apollo 12,
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we will be scouting for the location
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of a permanent military installation
on the moon.
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Absolutely not.
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We're a scientific program,
not a playground for G.I. Joe.
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Wernher. This is a good thing.
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Nixon's doubling down on the program.
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Our budgets will go up exponentially.
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We can bring in three,
four more classes of astronauts.
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What do you think, Deke?
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Well, I could sure use the extra manpower,
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but I don't know,
12's flight is right around the corner.
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Yeah. We may need to move that up a tad.
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Thomas, listen to me.
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We cannot allow this encroachment.
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I've seen it before.
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My Aggregat 4,
it was designed for low-Earth orbit.
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When the Wehrmacht saw its potential,
it became the V-2, a terrible weapon.
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We cannot allow space
to become another battlefield.
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It already is.
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If we don't respond in kind,
we'll be sitting ducks.
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I will not watch, yet again,
as my work is defiled by men with guns.
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This isn't Germany, Wernher.
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Dick Nixon's been fighting communists
for 30 years,
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and a red moon isn't something
our nation can accept.
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Red moon, blue moon, green moon.
Enough with this nonsense.
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This is happening.
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I suggest you get on the train
before it runs you over.
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Who does he think he is,
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to say "no"
to the President of the United States?
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If I say put a military base on the moon,
that's it.
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End of story.
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I want that Kraut bastard gone.
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I'm afraid he is quite untouchable,
Mr. President.
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A beloved figure...
he taught the country about space travel.
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Well, then,
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we'll have to get creative now, won't we?
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I miss the barbecue back in Huntsville.
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Maybe it's time to retire.
Go back to Alabama.
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Yeah. You could sit on your porch.
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Smoke your pipe.
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Maybe take up painting?
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Besides, who would I eat lunch with?
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I don't know.
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Perhaps a handsome young suitor?
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We're doing this again?
You know I don't have time.
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Yes. You're a very busy young woman.
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I heard about this interview of yours
with Gene.
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I was going to tell you. I just wanted...
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Wanted to do it yourself. I know.
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You worry too much
about what others might think, Margo.
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You always have.
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The boys couldn't stop talking
about that Apollo 11 landing.
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Good old-fashioned controlled crash.
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Yeah, Neil's a good stick.
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Though I still think
your landing on the Kearsarge,
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outta that Dutch roll, takes the cake.
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So when you going back up, Ed? 15, right?
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Well. It's unclear at the moment.
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Sort of why I asked you
to come grab a beer.
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I've been thinking about
maybe moving back navy side.
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Yeah, right.
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Now why on God's green earth
would you wanna do something like that?
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Pilots become astronauts, Ed.
Not the other way around.
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Well, the only thing
I've been flying lately is a desk.
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This about that article?
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Yeah.
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You always did have a way
of pissing off your superior officers.
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Present company included.
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But you're also one of the best aviators
I've ever seen.
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"One of"?
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Don't be a smart-ass.
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Navy would just about shit themselves
though to get a guy like you back.
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Especially now.
We're making a big push in Vietnam.
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Could be the turning point in the war.
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And that means commanding a squadron or...
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Squadron?
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You'd probably get command
of an entire air wing.
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And wait till you fly this new Phantom.
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Puts those Panthers
we flew in Korea to shame.
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It's a fire-breathing beast, Ed.
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I'm sorry, Ed.
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It's just, I can't.
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Ed. I can't get another phone call
that your plane was shot down.
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I mean, every time the phone rang,
my heart just fell.
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I coulda gotten killed
just as easily going up on 10.
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Yeah. Well, at least
you weren't being shot at.
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It's what I signed up for, Karen.
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No, Ed. It's what we signed up for.
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Remember?
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Oh, my God, would you just...
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Cut that out.
You're making a mess of things.
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While in Washington, the political fallout
from the Soviet moon landing continues,
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as a joint congressional committee
looks deeper
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into the alleged failures
of the space program.
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Administrator Thomas Paine grilled
by Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts,
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who's quickly established himself
as a leading voice on the committee
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questioning President Nixon's leadership.
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And how, sir,
do you justify canceling production
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of the Saturn V rocket
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a full year before Apollo 11?
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It was part of a broader...
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These were drastic reductions
of NASA's funding by President Nixon.
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Excuse me. That's not accurate, Senator.
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The president is fully committed
to the space program.
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Yeah.
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Hey.
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Where'd you put those vacuum tubes?
TV's fritzing again.
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Jesus.
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Um... I don't know. Maybe...
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What time is it?
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Tell me you're not still drunk.
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Hey, no, baby, I'm... just beat, is all.
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They're really working us down here.
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You know I hate
being away from you and the kiddos.
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Yeah. I'm sure it's just torture.
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Mine, give it back!
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Hey! Daniel, Jimmy!
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Anything you put on that floor,
you will pick up. Are we clear?
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Hey, you tell Danny that I said...
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Um...
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Uh, listen to his mom, yeah.
Tell-Tell him I said that, hon.
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Okay.
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Guess I'll see you soon.
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Hey, Trace.
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I love you.
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Look, I know you're smart, Margo.
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But it gets intense down there.
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They call it the trench for a reason.
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I need to know you're not some pogue
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who's gonna wilt
at the first sign of pressure.
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No, sir. That wouldn't be...
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I've had guys on FIDO, solid guys,
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damn near piss their pants
during a rocky re-entry.
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Well, sir...
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I don't wear pants.
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That is a fact.
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Dr. von Braun sure thinks
the world of you.
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How do you two know each other?
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I've known him most of my life, actually.
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My father, he taught at the university
over in Huntsville.
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Dr. von Braun would come over for dinners
and regale us with stories
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about rockets to outer space,
journeys to the moon.
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Mars.
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I'd never even been outside of Huntsville.
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But he made me think
anything was possible.
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He's the reason I became an engineer.
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Huh.
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I'm sorry. Am I rambling?
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No. It's nice.
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Tell me a bit more about yourself.
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What do you do for fun?
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Um... I...
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Relax. Margo, it's not a test.
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Astronauts aren't the only ones
allowed to have fun around here.
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But you are not exactly a spring chicken.
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I give you this job, you're not gonna
run off on me to start a family, are you?
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I don't think kids are in the cards, sir.
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Really? You don't want kids?
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I mean... uh...
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it's not that I don't,
it's just, right now...
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It's okay.
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Not every woman is cut out to be a mother.
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Seen Aleida?
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Aleida.
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Papa is home.
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Octavio.
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I caught her doing it again.
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Livi almost burned her hand.
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You have to get her under control
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or find someplace else to live.
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No. No, Cata. Cata, wait.
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Where is she?
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Aleida!
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Aleida, you need to stop doing this.
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It's dangerous. You know that.
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Why do you do it? Talk to me.
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I don't know. I like it.
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- English.
- I don't want to.
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Aleida...
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you need to talk to me.
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Do you remember
how we used to talk all the time?
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Look, I know this is hard. I know.
255
00:18:29,401 --> 00:18:31,361
It's a new home, a new country, a...
256
00:18:34,114 --> 00:18:35,532
But we can help each other.
257
00:18:37,618 --> 00:18:39,161
Just leave me alone.
258
00:19:09,816 --> 00:19:11,985
Oh... Thank God.
259
00:19:12,069 --> 00:19:13,403
I'm so glad you called.
260
00:19:14,404 --> 00:19:15,614
How's she doing?
261
00:19:15,697 --> 00:19:16,823
How do you think?
262
00:19:17,241 --> 00:19:18,242
All right. Here.
263
00:19:18,325 --> 00:19:19,326
- Okay.
- Give this to me.
264
00:19:19,409 --> 00:19:20,410
Are you sure?
265
00:19:20,494 --> 00:19:22,329
I will take it from here. You can go.
266
00:19:22,412 --> 00:19:23,956
- All right.
- I'll get it. Thank you, Doris.
267
00:19:24,039 --> 00:19:25,040
Yeah.
268
00:19:25,123 --> 00:19:26,625
- Bye-bye.
- Bye.
269
00:19:33,841 --> 00:19:34,842
Trace?
270
00:19:36,343 --> 00:19:37,594
Hon, it's Karen. I...
271
00:19:37,678 --> 00:19:39,304
Don't you dare make excuses for him.
272
00:19:40,013 --> 00:19:42,224
Gordo can stay with that Cape cookie
for all I care.
273
00:19:42,307 --> 00:19:43,851
- Okay.
- I'm not letting him back in this home.
274
00:19:43,934 --> 00:19:45,227
Yes, let's calm down, all right?
275
00:19:45,310 --> 00:19:46,645
I could hear her!
276
00:19:47,855 --> 00:19:49,648
She was in the room with him.
277
00:19:50,691 --> 00:19:54,027
Maybe some of you other wives
can grin and bear it for the program,
278
00:19:54,111 --> 00:19:56,530
but... fuck the program!
279
00:20:00,450 --> 00:20:01,451
Trace...
280
00:20:02,995 --> 00:20:03,996
...come here.
281
00:20:17,426 --> 00:20:18,594
You know...
282
00:20:19,928 --> 00:20:22,598
I have this fantasy
I'm married to another man.
283
00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:25,642
Yeah?
284
00:20:26,143 --> 00:20:27,561
Yeah, his name's Bert.
285
00:20:30,147 --> 00:20:35,110
He's an accountant, 9:00 to 5:00,
drives a Buick.
286
00:20:36,486 --> 00:20:37,946
Does Bert have a brother?
287
00:20:38,614 --> 00:20:40,490
Come on. Ed's a rock.
288
00:20:42,201 --> 00:20:44,828
Believe you me, being married
to Edward Baldwin is no picnic.
289
00:20:46,330 --> 00:20:47,873
I'm not saying our problems are the same,
290
00:20:47,956 --> 00:20:50,042
but that doesn't mean
we don't have problems.
291
00:21:01,303 --> 00:21:02,346
You know...
292
00:21:03,972 --> 00:21:05,432
I think I always knew.
293
00:21:08,018 --> 00:21:09,102
I was just...
294
00:21:12,147 --> 00:21:16,652
I fooled myself into... to feeling like a...
295
00:21:19,446 --> 00:21:21,490
Christ, he's not even trying
to hide it anymore.
296
00:21:21,573 --> 00:21:24,701
I do everything for that man, Karen.
297
00:21:24,785 --> 00:21:25,786
I know.
298
00:21:25,869 --> 00:21:27,996
I know it's not easy, I do.
299
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,126
Divorce.
300
00:21:35,045 --> 00:21:37,339
I mean, that's what we're talking about.
301
00:21:37,422 --> 00:21:39,132
That's where this leads.
302
00:21:42,636 --> 00:21:45,097
I mean, it's...
it is hard enough for any woman.
303
00:21:45,180 --> 00:21:47,182
But for women like us, it's...
304
00:21:49,685 --> 00:21:51,311
Do you remember Harriet and Don?
305
00:21:51,812 --> 00:21:54,523
There were reporters
camped out in their front lawn.
306
00:21:54,606 --> 00:21:56,608
Their kids' photos were in magazines.
307
00:21:56,692 --> 00:21:59,528
I mean, Trace,
you gotta think about those things.
308
00:22:00,362 --> 00:22:03,866
You know, I mean,
a divorced single mother of two. I...
309
00:22:03,949 --> 00:22:07,870
How do you support yourself?
I mean, what do you tell your kids?
310
00:22:07,953 --> 00:22:09,079
Your-Your parents?
311
00:22:09,872 --> 00:22:13,584
I mean, you're not just leaving Gordo,
you're leaving your entire life.
312
00:22:15,460 --> 00:22:16,545
I'm sorry. I...
313
00:22:18,172 --> 00:22:20,299
Trace, I want what's best for you, I do.
314
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,472
Look me in the eye
and tell me you don't love him.
315
00:22:39,943 --> 00:22:40,944
Well...
316
00:22:44,198 --> 00:22:45,199
shit.
317
00:22:58,337 --> 00:22:59,338
Margo.
318
00:23:00,005 --> 00:23:01,757
I thought you'd already left for DC.
319
00:23:02,466 --> 00:23:04,051
I am disappointed in you.
320
00:23:04,885 --> 00:23:06,970
Why? What happened?
321
00:23:07,387 --> 00:23:09,598
You've made me look very bad.
322
00:23:10,307 --> 00:23:11,683
I was second to the moon.
323
00:23:11,767 --> 00:23:17,397
And now you, you will be the first woman
in Mission Control.
324
00:23:25,614 --> 00:23:27,491
You didn't have to convince him, did you?
325
00:23:27,574 --> 00:23:28,909
I did not say a word.
326
00:23:29,660 --> 00:23:33,121
Gene is a smart man.
He could see how talented you are.
327
00:23:33,622 --> 00:23:35,624
No, this is you alone.
328
00:23:37,584 --> 00:23:39,711
No, it wasn't.
329
00:23:40,170 --> 00:23:41,463
Yes.
330
00:23:44,132 --> 00:23:45,175
Well, I...
331
00:23:46,802 --> 00:23:50,347
I've had this for over 20 years.
332
00:23:50,430 --> 00:23:54,935
And now I would like you to have it.
333
00:24:05,737 --> 00:24:07,281
I was hoping for cognac.
334
00:24:40,272 --> 00:24:41,690
Welcome to the trench,
335
00:24:41,773 --> 00:24:43,275
- Eva von Braun!
- Eva von Braun!
336
00:24:46,403 --> 00:24:49,656
All right, people.
Let's get those handover briefs started.
337
00:24:50,324 --> 00:24:53,035
White Team is on-console in 35 minutes.
338
00:24:59,958 --> 00:25:01,210
Don't take it personal.
339
00:25:01,752 --> 00:25:03,712
They pull this stuff
with all the new guys.
340
00:25:17,059 --> 00:25:21,522
Feeling like we should, uh,
make a little detour here, Freddie.
341
00:25:22,105 --> 00:25:23,690
Aw, come on, Gordo.
342
00:25:24,274 --> 00:25:26,235
Don't you remember
the ass-chewing we got last time?
343
00:25:27,277 --> 00:25:30,531
Ellington Tower, NASA 963.
344
00:25:39,206 --> 00:25:42,251
Boys, Daddy's home.
345
00:26:08,110 --> 00:26:09,152
Hello.
346
00:26:10,362 --> 00:26:11,363
Hey.
347
00:26:11,446 --> 00:26:12,489
- Daddy!
- Daddy!
348
00:26:12,573 --> 00:26:13,991
Yeah!
349
00:26:16,869 --> 00:26:19,788
I got you something. I got you this.
350
00:26:19,872 --> 00:26:21,790
It's the biggest
because you're the biggest.
351
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,294
Smelling good, Trace. What you cooking?
352
00:26:25,752 --> 00:26:28,881
It's just some casserole.
Hands off. It's for the barbecue.
353
00:26:28,964 --> 00:26:30,007
- Barbecue?
- Mm-hmm.
354
00:26:30,090 --> 00:26:31,258
All right!
355
00:26:36,180 --> 00:26:37,306
It's good to see you.
356
00:26:40,142 --> 00:26:41,643
- You too.
- Okay.
357
00:26:43,604 --> 00:26:45,230
- That's the casserole.
- Yeah.
358
00:26:57,117 --> 00:26:58,243
Guys.
359
00:26:59,828 --> 00:27:02,039
Hey, you. Glad you could make it.
360
00:27:02,122 --> 00:27:03,916
Yeah, well, wouldn't miss it.
361
00:27:07,669 --> 00:27:09,713
- Come here. Come here!
- He loves those boys.
362
00:27:10,756 --> 00:27:12,841
Yeah, I know.
But this would be great for the...
363
00:27:13,717 --> 00:27:15,302
Come on. Come on over here. Come on...
364
00:27:15,385 --> 00:27:19,223
That's great. Great! That's great.
Up here! Big smiles.
365
00:27:19,306 --> 00:27:21,350
Uh, Buzz, take a bite of the hamburger.
366
00:27:23,393 --> 00:27:25,562
There we go! Nice. Excellent.
367
00:27:29,483 --> 00:27:32,736
I'm just saying,
word is we're putting a base up there.
368
00:27:32,819 --> 00:27:34,196
We wanna be on the crew, Deke.
369
00:27:34,279 --> 00:27:37,741
Guys, drink some beer.
Eat some dogs. Enjoy yourselves.
370
00:27:42,371 --> 00:27:44,081
Her niece just got back from London,
371
00:27:44,164 --> 00:27:48,460
and apparently all the kids over there
were wearing hammer and sickle T-shirts.
372
00:27:49,419 --> 00:27:50,504
Can you imagine?
373
00:27:50,587 --> 00:27:53,757
Karen, I cannot believe
how well you put this all together,
374
00:27:53,841 --> 00:27:55,759
what with all you and Ed
are going through.
375
00:27:57,052 --> 00:27:58,595
Well, we do what we can.
376
00:28:00,514 --> 00:28:03,183
Gordo! Stop it!
377
00:28:04,935 --> 00:28:06,395
You got me all wet.
378
00:28:09,189 --> 00:28:11,608
I wish Harry and me
still had that kind of passion.
379
00:28:21,910 --> 00:28:22,953
Ed.
380
00:28:29,501 --> 00:28:30,752
Plotting your escape too?
381
00:28:31,670 --> 00:28:33,130
Yeah. Something like that.
382
00:28:43,515 --> 00:28:47,269
Look, I know you came out here
to get away from all the questions,
383
00:28:47,352 --> 00:28:49,479
but it's still my backyard.
384
00:28:49,563 --> 00:28:51,607
So, spit it out.
385
00:28:52,524 --> 00:28:55,068
Did they really make you
go through customs when you came back?
386
00:28:58,030 --> 00:28:59,406
I got the receipt to prove it.
387
00:28:59,489 --> 00:29:01,867
Jesus.
388
00:29:03,493 --> 00:29:04,620
Ah...
389
00:29:08,457 --> 00:29:12,586
That was... a hell of a landing, Neil.
390
00:29:12,669 --> 00:29:14,213
If you can call it that.
391
00:29:16,673 --> 00:29:18,675
Maintaining attitude control was no joke.
392
00:29:18,759 --> 00:29:19,801
I bet.
393
00:29:21,762 --> 00:29:22,846
Tell you the truth?
394
00:29:24,598 --> 00:29:26,183
I can't believe I didn't abort.
395
00:29:26,975 --> 00:29:28,769
Well, you pulled it off.
It was a good call.
396
00:29:29,269 --> 00:29:31,146
Easy to say that looking back.
397
00:29:31,647 --> 00:29:33,732
Couple things go different,
398
00:29:33,815 --> 00:29:36,068
we drift a little bit further
into those rocks...
399
00:29:37,402 --> 00:29:38,403
we're a smoking hole
400
00:29:38,862 --> 00:29:41,698
and I got my name
on the biggest disaster in NASA history.
401
00:29:44,535 --> 00:29:46,036
Then why'd you go for it?
402
00:29:46,119 --> 00:29:49,414
I don't know. You're in flight test...
403
00:29:51,875 --> 00:29:53,252
and, every once in a while,
404
00:29:53,335 --> 00:29:56,588
you get to that point where
part of your brain is saying, "Eject."
405
00:29:57,756 --> 00:30:00,342
But another part of your brain is saying,
"Go for it."
406
00:30:03,595 --> 00:30:05,264
And you just have to make the call...
407
00:30:07,558 --> 00:30:08,767
and hope you're not wrong.
408
00:30:16,149 --> 00:30:17,234
There he is.
409
00:30:17,317 --> 00:30:19,862
Ed, I want you to meet
Congressman Charles Sandman.
410
00:30:19,945 --> 00:30:23,198
He's on the committee looking at this
whole mess, and he's a big fan of yours.
411
00:30:23,282 --> 00:30:25,409
You know,
before I headed back to Washington,
412
00:30:25,492 --> 00:30:28,245
I told Tom here I had to meet the man
who almost won the moon for us.
413
00:30:28,328 --> 00:30:30,497
I watched Apollo 10 on TV, Commander.
414
00:30:30,581 --> 00:30:34,001
I mean, you boys, you came so damn close.
Must have just about killed you.
415
00:30:34,084 --> 00:30:36,295
Eh, not exactly a secret these days, huh?
416
00:30:37,379 --> 00:30:40,215
You know, I would love for you
to come talk to the committee,
417
00:30:40,299 --> 00:30:41,758
hear what you have to say about all this.
418
00:30:43,677 --> 00:30:46,930
With all due respect, sir,
I think my mouth has done enough damage.
419
00:30:47,598 --> 00:30:48,682
You see?
420
00:30:49,558 --> 00:30:51,643
The fact that you were punished
for speaking the truth...
421
00:30:51,727 --> 00:30:55,063
I mean, if they'd listened to you before,
we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
422
00:30:55,147 --> 00:30:56,231
We're at war here.
423
00:30:56,732 --> 00:30:58,567
Well, you, you know what I'm saying,
you're navy.
424
00:30:58,650 --> 00:31:01,111
All you astronauts,
you're all military, aren't you?
425
00:31:01,195 --> 00:31:03,030
Well, technically, yes, sir. But...
426
00:31:03,113 --> 00:31:05,240
They're on loan to NASA.
427
00:31:05,991 --> 00:31:09,244
Still military, but they can't
even wear their uniforms in public.
428
00:31:10,204 --> 00:31:11,705
See? What a disgrace.
429
00:31:11,788 --> 00:31:15,417
That is exactly the kinda ticky-tack crap
that's undermining our fight for the moon.
430
00:31:16,460 --> 00:31:18,420
I know you're not happy, Ed.
431
00:31:19,046 --> 00:31:21,882
And I've spoken with the president.
He's not happy either.
432
00:31:22,758 --> 00:31:25,969
He wants to make some big changes
at the agency, and he needs your help.
433
00:31:26,053 --> 00:31:30,015
Come on up to DC and tell my colleagues
exactly what you told that reporter.
434
00:31:30,557 --> 00:31:32,809
That von Braun is too cautious.
That he cost us the moon.
435
00:31:36,230 --> 00:31:37,773
Uh...
436
00:31:37,856 --> 00:31:38,857
I don't know.
437
00:31:41,944 --> 00:31:46,532
Look, I don't always see eye to eye
with von Braun. But I respect him.
438
00:31:47,032 --> 00:31:49,076
- You know, he built the Saturn V.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
439
00:31:49,159 --> 00:31:53,163
No, Wernher is a great man.
Don't get me wrong.
440
00:31:53,830 --> 00:31:57,417
But men like him, they don't see the tide
till they're drowning in it.
441
00:31:57,501 --> 00:32:00,879
The president is clear-eyed
about the threat we're facing here.
442
00:32:00,963 --> 00:32:03,423
He thinks astronauts
should be running things.
443
00:32:03,507 --> 00:32:06,301
Men who actually know
what it feels like to be in a dogfight.
444
00:32:06,385 --> 00:32:08,136
You astronauts,
you're holding all the cards.
445
00:32:08,220 --> 00:32:11,598
I mean, hell, you're already the face
of the program. Why not be the voice too?
446
00:32:13,016 --> 00:32:14,893
The president's real keen on this, Ed.
447
00:32:15,936 --> 00:32:17,604
And he remembers his friends.
448
00:32:18,438 --> 00:32:20,357
Could be your ticket back up there.
449
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:21,525
So, what do you say?
450
00:32:35,330 --> 00:32:38,750
Maybe if you do what they want, things
will go back to the way they were before.
451
00:32:40,586 --> 00:32:41,628
Yeah.
452
00:32:42,296 --> 00:32:43,922
I'd be back on 15...
453
00:32:45,048 --> 00:32:47,176
headed for the Apennine Highlands.
454
00:32:49,553 --> 00:32:51,597
Yeah. No desk duty.
455
00:32:53,682 --> 00:32:54,933
No Vietnam.
456
00:33:01,273 --> 00:33:06,612
You know, you said yourself that
NASA could use a good kick in the rear.
457
00:33:07,529 --> 00:33:08,822
That's true.
458
00:33:13,243 --> 00:33:14,620
But von Braun, he...
459
00:33:16,121 --> 00:33:17,122
he would be...
460
00:33:18,749 --> 00:33:19,917
Yeah.
461
00:33:58,789 --> 00:34:02,125
Now, Commander Baldwin,
if I'm not mistaken...
462
00:34:03,377 --> 00:34:06,630
both Apollo 10 and Apollo 11
lunar modules,
463
00:34:06,713 --> 00:34:09,174
they had almost the same
amount of fuel, correct?
464
00:34:09,257 --> 00:34:10,509
Yes, sir.
465
00:34:10,592 --> 00:34:13,512
A little shy of 18,000 pounds
in the descent stage,
466
00:34:13,594 --> 00:34:14,972
and 5,000 in the ascent.
467
00:34:15,054 --> 00:34:17,599
{\an8}Okay. Were there any other differences
in the spacecraft?
468
00:34:17,683 --> 00:34:19,351
{\an8}Anything that would prevent you
from landing.
469
00:34:20,393 --> 00:34:21,728
Well, Snoopy was...
470
00:34:21,812 --> 00:34:24,940
Wait. I'm sorry. Snoopy?
471
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,694
Yes, sir. We named our LEM Snoopy.
472
00:34:30,112 --> 00:34:33,614
And the command module was Charlie Brown.
473
00:34:35,951 --> 00:34:37,202
Okay.
474
00:34:37,286 --> 00:34:39,161
Our LEM was heavier than Eagle,
475
00:34:39,246 --> 00:34:44,293
so the concern was whether we'd have
enough thrust to re-enter lunar orbit.
476
00:34:45,543 --> 00:34:46,795
You share in that concern?
477
00:34:46,879 --> 00:34:49,547
Well, it-it wasn't
within NASA's safety margins.
478
00:34:50,299 --> 00:34:51,300
Uh-huh.
479
00:34:51,382 --> 00:34:55,637
You were a naval test pilot,
were you not, Commander? At Pax River.
480
00:34:56,388 --> 00:34:57,389
I was, sir.
481
00:34:57,472 --> 00:35:00,767
And when was playing it safe
part of being a test pilot?
482
00:35:02,394 --> 00:35:03,395
Never, sir.
483
00:35:04,688 --> 00:35:08,775
You pushed and you pushed for Apollo 10
to land on the moon, didn't you?
484
00:35:08,859 --> 00:35:12,487
Well, during planning, yes, sir.
I pushed for us to land.
485
00:35:12,571 --> 00:35:15,407
And you were overruled
by Wernher von Braun.
486
00:35:15,866 --> 00:35:17,910
Well, it was ultimately his decision
487
00:35:17,993 --> 00:35:22,039
to view Apollo 10 as a trial run for 11.
488
00:35:22,456 --> 00:35:23,916
But were it not for him,
489
00:35:24,291 --> 00:35:27,252
you would've been the first man
to set foot on the moon, right?
490
00:35:38,222 --> 00:35:39,264
Hmm?
491
00:35:40,182 --> 00:35:42,017
It's not that simple, sir.
492
00:35:45,938 --> 00:35:47,731
It's not... I'm sorry?
493
00:35:50,025 --> 00:35:53,654
Well, it's true von Braun made the call
on the ground, but...
494
00:35:56,740 --> 00:35:58,492
when we were up in lunar orbit...
495
00:36:00,035 --> 00:36:02,955
I knew I could bring the LEM
safely down to the surface.
496
00:36:12,172 --> 00:36:13,590
I mean, we were so close.
497
00:36:14,132 --> 00:36:18,178
Snoopy, Houston. We put you
one minute ahead of the timeline.
498
00:36:18,554 --> 00:36:20,889
Take a minute
and enjoy the view, gentlemen.
499
00:36:20,973 --> 00:36:24,226
Roger that, Houston.
We got the best seat in the house.
500
00:36:26,228 --> 00:36:29,898
All I had to do was
hit Engine Arm, Descent...
501
00:36:31,233 --> 00:36:33,235
let the burn run
all the way to completion.
502
00:36:33,986 --> 00:36:36,321
Except that wasn't your mission,
Commander.
503
00:36:36,405 --> 00:36:39,491
I mean, von Braun, you know,
he made it very clear that that was not...
504
00:36:39,575 --> 00:36:42,703
After launch, it's my ship to command.
505
00:36:45,497 --> 00:36:47,749
There's boulders
in every one of those little...
506
00:36:48,959 --> 00:36:50,669
little craters. You see that?
507
00:36:50,752 --> 00:36:51,962
On the ridge.
508
00:36:52,504 --> 00:36:56,550
Boulders are black, but whatever's
ejected out of them is white.
509
00:36:56,633 --> 00:37:00,971
White, but...
still some black around them.
510
00:37:01,471 --> 00:37:04,433
It almost looks windblown
down there, right?
511
00:37:04,516 --> 00:37:05,559
Uh-huh.
512
00:37:06,852 --> 00:37:07,978
What a place.
513
00:37:10,397 --> 00:37:12,149
Snoopy, Houston.
514
00:37:12,232 --> 00:37:15,527
Hate to rain on your parade,
but that's as close as you get this trip.
515
00:37:15,611 --> 00:37:16,945
Time to head for the barn.
516
00:37:17,446 --> 00:37:19,072
Roger that.
517
00:37:19,156 --> 00:37:20,490
Heading for the barn.
518
00:37:21,116 --> 00:37:25,704
I wanna just reach down there
and scoop up a handful of moon dust.
519
00:37:29,041 --> 00:37:31,376
Engine Arm, Ascent.
520
00:37:31,460 --> 00:37:33,128
Engine Arm, Ascent.
521
00:37:33,754 --> 00:37:35,672
Abort Descent Stage.
522
00:37:36,798 --> 00:37:39,718
Three, two, one...
523
00:37:45,724 --> 00:37:46,850
Skipper?
524
00:37:50,562 --> 00:37:52,272
And if I would've said we can land,
525
00:37:52,356 --> 00:37:54,316
I knew Gene would've backed me.
526
00:37:54,942 --> 00:37:56,693
Just like he backed Neil on 11.
527
00:38:01,990 --> 00:38:03,617
It was maybe a few seconds...
528
00:38:07,329 --> 00:38:09,998
but I knew I could've flown her
right down to the deck.
529
00:38:24,054 --> 00:38:25,806
Abort Descent Stage.
530
00:38:25,889 --> 00:38:28,934
Three, two, one...
531
00:38:42,406 --> 00:38:43,574
And I almost did.
532
00:38:49,955 --> 00:38:51,665
But I pulled back.
533
00:38:53,917 --> 00:38:55,335
And it was my call...
534
00:38:57,004 --> 00:38:58,213
no one else's.
535
00:39:10,934 --> 00:39:12,603
Hang on, now.
536
00:39:12,686 --> 00:39:14,313
You-You said...
537
00:39:14,396 --> 00:39:16,106
Just hang on a minute.
538
00:39:17,232 --> 00:39:18,525
You said... Here! Right here.
539
00:39:18,609 --> 00:39:23,530
You said, "We don't have guts at NASA
anymore. That's why we lost the moon."
540
00:39:24,072 --> 00:39:25,240
Now what are you saying?
541
00:39:25,324 --> 00:39:28,118
Now you're saying,
"I could've landed. I just didn't"?
542
00:39:31,288 --> 00:39:33,123
I think about it every day, sir.
543
00:39:33,957 --> 00:39:35,792
Whether it was the right call or not.
544
00:39:37,252 --> 00:39:40,297
Ten years ago when I was in flight test,
545
00:39:41,173 --> 00:39:42,716
maybe I would've said, "Hell with it."
546
00:39:44,134 --> 00:39:45,135
Brought the LEM down.
547
00:39:45,219 --> 00:39:51,183
But up there I wasn't just some test pilot
trying to break another record.
548
00:39:54,394 --> 00:39:56,271
I was the commander of Apollo 10.
549
00:40:00,817 --> 00:40:03,362
So if this committee
is looking for someone to blame...
550
00:40:04,571 --> 00:40:09,159
don't look to von Braun or Neil
or anyone else.
551
00:40:11,078 --> 00:40:12,287
You look to me.
552
00:40:15,165 --> 00:40:16,458
I lost the moon.
553
00:40:28,053 --> 00:40:29,096
Right.
554
00:40:29,179 --> 00:40:31,598
Thank you, Commander.
That'll be all for today. Thank you.
555
00:40:32,558 --> 00:40:33,767
Thank you, everyone.
556
00:40:54,162 --> 00:40:58,500
The new rocket can carry
over one million pounds into Earth orbit.
557
00:40:58,584 --> 00:41:01,795
Nearly four times
the payload of the Saturn V.
558
00:41:03,630 --> 00:41:04,882
This is possible...
559
00:41:04,965 --> 00:41:06,550
So you just weren't gonna tell me?
560
00:41:10,554 --> 00:41:13,390
- What do you want me to say, Gordo?
- It wasn't just your decision to make, Ed.
561
00:41:13,473 --> 00:41:14,683
I was up there too.
562
00:41:17,102 --> 00:41:19,438
Did it ever even occur to you
to ask me what I thought?
563
00:41:19,813 --> 00:41:21,648
Pushing the envelope.
That's what all this is about.
564
00:41:21,732 --> 00:41:23,442
Or did you just forget that?
565
00:41:23,859 --> 00:41:26,778
Right now it should be you and me
doing all these ticker tape parades.
566
00:41:26,862 --> 00:41:29,323
Instead I'm backing up Pete Conrad on 12.
567
00:41:30,616 --> 00:41:33,368
Hey, don't blame every bad decision
you've ever made on me.
568
00:41:34,119 --> 00:41:36,038
'Cause you do enough damage yourself.
569
00:41:36,121 --> 00:41:39,583
What do you think it says
when you wander into sim an hour late
570
00:41:39,666 --> 00:41:41,418
just reeking of booze and pussy?
571
00:41:41,502 --> 00:41:43,587
That the American dream is alive and well.
572
00:41:44,588 --> 00:41:46,965
Yeah. Everything's
a goddamn joke to you, huh?
573
00:41:50,677 --> 00:41:52,262
At least I own what I did.
574
00:41:52,763 --> 00:41:54,431
And what the hell's that supposed to mean?
575
00:41:55,390 --> 00:41:56,475
I resigned.
576
00:41:59,061 --> 00:42:00,270
I'm going back to the navy.
577
00:42:01,188 --> 00:42:02,272
You for real?
578
00:42:06,860 --> 00:42:09,279
What are you doing drinking beer?
579
00:42:09,363 --> 00:42:11,073
- Hey, Pam.
- Hmm?
580
00:42:12,115 --> 00:42:13,659
We're gonna need a couple of whiskeys.
581
00:42:22,251 --> 00:42:23,377
All right, all right, all right.
582
00:42:23,460 --> 00:42:27,965
NASA will be pressing forward.
Pursuing more ambitious projects.
583
00:42:28,048 --> 00:42:29,883
Journeys to Mars, to Jupiter,
584
00:42:29,967 --> 00:42:34,096
and perhaps,
even deeper into the solar system.
585
00:42:34,179 --> 00:42:37,432
Right, yeah. That's a very
impressive presentation, Director.
586
00:42:37,891 --> 00:42:40,269
But while we sit here,
587
00:42:40,894 --> 00:42:42,271
the Soviets are pushing ahead
588
00:42:42,354 --> 00:42:45,649
with their plans
for a lunar military foothold.
589
00:42:45,732 --> 00:42:48,735
We cannot cede the beachhead!
590
00:42:49,528 --> 00:42:51,363
I mean, it's not a time
for pie in the sky ideas
591
00:42:51,446 --> 00:42:52,823
about Mars and the solar system...
592
00:42:52,906 --> 00:42:56,451
Respectfully, Congressman.
Now is precisely the time.
593
00:42:56,535 --> 00:42:59,371
We cannot allow fear to drive us
from our purpose.
594
00:42:59,454 --> 00:43:02,249
What we are seeking
is the key to our future.
595
00:43:02,875 --> 00:43:05,002
We are expanding the mind of man.
596
00:43:05,085 --> 00:43:09,423
Extending this God-given brain and these
God-given hands to their outermost limits.
597
00:43:09,506 --> 00:43:13,385
And in so doing,
everyone will reap the harvest.
598
00:43:13,468 --> 00:43:14,469
He's good.
599
00:43:14,928 --> 00:43:18,015
Well, for someone who claims
not be guided by fear,
600
00:43:18,098 --> 00:43:23,312
your leadership created a culture
of caution after the Apollo 1 fire, right?
601
00:43:23,395 --> 00:43:26,148
Yes, of course. We were more cautious.
602
00:43:26,648 --> 00:43:28,233
Lives were lost.
603
00:43:28,317 --> 00:43:31,528
We test, we retest, and we prepare.
604
00:43:31,612 --> 00:43:32,988
Because, unlike the Soviets,
605
00:43:33,447 --> 00:43:35,824
we care about the lives of our astronauts.
606
00:43:35,908 --> 00:43:40,621
You must understand, Congressman,
that this is not the end of the race.
607
00:43:41,079 --> 00:43:42,456
It's simply the first stage.
608
00:43:42,539 --> 00:43:45,334
We must keep our eyes to the future.
609
00:43:45,417 --> 00:43:48,045
As Mr. Armstrong so aptly put it,
610
00:43:48,128 --> 00:43:50,380
"We pick ourselves up
and go back to work."
611
00:43:51,215 --> 00:43:53,634
Well, if you had... If you...
612
00:43:59,306 --> 00:44:00,307
Come here.
613
00:44:04,394 --> 00:44:07,064
Okay. Sorry. Just one more thing,
Director.
614
00:44:07,147 --> 00:44:10,692
Now, you're such a familiar face
to Americans.
615
00:44:10,776 --> 00:44:13,028
Honestly, if I didn't know any better,
I'd say you were born in Alabama.
616
00:44:13,111 --> 00:44:16,031
Unfortunately my accent gives me away,
Congressman.
617
00:44:20,911 --> 00:44:23,497
And most people know
that during World War II,
618
00:44:23,997 --> 00:44:25,958
you built the German V-2 rocket...
619
00:44:27,167 --> 00:44:30,003
that killed thousands
of innocent Londoners.
620
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,093
Well... I, of course...
621
00:44:37,427 --> 00:44:39,888
have great regret that my rockets,
622
00:44:39,972 --> 00:44:45,477
which were born of idealism,
much like the Saturn V,
623
00:44:46,270 --> 00:44:48,564
had joined in the business of killing.
624
00:44:48,647 --> 00:44:52,192
Then why...
why didn't you stop manufacturing it?
625
00:44:54,236 --> 00:44:56,405
If I may, Mr. Chairman,
626
00:44:56,488 --> 00:44:59,491
I'm not sure how any of this
is relevant to the hearing.
627
00:44:59,575 --> 00:45:00,576
There is...
628
00:45:00,659 --> 00:45:04,162
Congressman, I was not a soldier,
merely an engineer.
629
00:45:04,955 --> 00:45:06,415
Well, that's interesting.
630
00:45:07,541 --> 00:45:09,960
Because what most people don't know,
631
00:45:11,003 --> 00:45:12,212
since, until very recently,
632
00:45:12,296 --> 00:45:14,298
it was classified
as part of Operation Paperclip,
633
00:45:14,381 --> 00:45:16,466
is that you were also a member
634
00:45:16,550 --> 00:45:19,511
of the elite Nazi organization
known as the SS.
635
00:45:24,349 --> 00:45:27,186
That was a matter
in which I had no choice.
636
00:45:28,729 --> 00:45:32,274
Not everybody gets invited
to a photo op with the Führer.
637
00:45:33,317 --> 00:45:36,653
Dr. von Braun, only a few minutes ago,
638
00:45:37,154 --> 00:45:40,490
you stated that, uh,
639
00:45:40,574 --> 00:45:44,536
"We care about the lives
of our astronauts."
640
00:45:44,620 --> 00:45:45,704
Yes.
641
00:45:45,787 --> 00:45:48,749
And what about the lives of the workers
from the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp
642
00:45:48,832 --> 00:45:50,375
that were, in fact, building your rockets?
643
00:45:50,459 --> 00:45:52,211
Do you care about their lives?
644
00:45:52,294 --> 00:45:55,631
I saw no camp
or any sort of thing like this...
645
00:45:55,714 --> 00:45:59,051
You did visit the Mittelwerk
factory, yeah, quite a few times.
646
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:01,678
I visited the factory, yes.
647
00:46:01,762 --> 00:46:04,556
Did you not wonder
where all these workers came from?
648
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,184
I didn't know. This was handled by others.
649
00:46:07,267 --> 00:46:10,103
You must understand
that I had no real authority in...
650
00:46:10,187 --> 00:46:13,440
I'm sorry. Are you saying you had
no authority over your own rocket factory?
651
00:46:14,024 --> 00:46:17,611
Well, yes.
I had authority insomuch as I was chief...
652
00:46:17,694 --> 00:46:21,156
But I never worked there.
I had only visited.
653
00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:24,743
The camp was less than half a mile
654
00:46:24,826 --> 00:46:27,037
from the factory
where you made your rockets.
655
00:46:27,829 --> 00:46:30,374
So, how could you not know?
656
00:46:35,629 --> 00:46:40,801
You know, over 20,000 men and women
died building your V-2.
657
00:46:41,927 --> 00:46:45,305
Ten times more
than were killed by it as a weapon.
658
00:46:46,265 --> 00:46:48,267
They were worked to death,
659
00:46:48,350 --> 00:46:52,312
starved, hung from machinery, shot.
660
00:46:52,396 --> 00:46:53,689
That photograph?
661
00:46:54,648 --> 00:46:56,733
That was taken by American soldiers
662
00:46:57,484 --> 00:47:00,153
upon their arrival at Dora Camp.
663
00:47:00,612 --> 00:47:05,534
That's the camp that supplied
your workers, Director von Braun.
664
00:47:05,617 --> 00:47:06,660
I...
665
00:47:07,703 --> 00:47:08,704
I...
666
00:47:09,830 --> 00:47:15,127
They paid for your scientific pursuits
with their lives, sir.
667
00:47:17,379 --> 00:47:22,509
You knew exactly what was going on,
didn't you?
668
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,889
And you did nothing.
669
00:47:29,016 --> 00:47:30,017
I, uh...
670
00:47:32,436 --> 00:47:35,272
I had no authority.
671
00:47:36,815 --> 00:47:39,318
I was... limited.
672
00:47:39,401 --> 00:47:40,402
You...
673
00:47:41,278 --> 00:47:42,529
You must understand...
674
00:49:00,858 --> 00:49:02,192
Margo.
675
00:49:03,569 --> 00:49:07,155
Apparently,
the Soviets have launched another N1...
676
00:49:08,740 --> 00:49:10,576
right ahead of Apollo 12.
677
00:49:11,368 --> 00:49:15,956
Imagine both of them on the moon
at the same time.
678
00:49:18,417 --> 00:49:19,626
Margo.
679
00:49:22,212 --> 00:49:23,380
Did you know?
680
00:49:26,300 --> 00:49:27,926
It was an ambush.
681
00:49:28,886 --> 00:49:31,638
Nixon and his lackeys,
they laid a trap for me. I...
682
00:49:31,722 --> 00:49:32,723
But...
683
00:49:34,850 --> 00:49:36,310
is it true?
684
00:49:38,061 --> 00:49:39,605
How can you ask me this?
685
00:49:43,192 --> 00:49:44,276
Sit down, Margo.
686
00:49:48,780 --> 00:49:52,075
I had to keep my work moving forward.
687
00:49:52,159 --> 00:49:54,244
You of all people must understand this...
688
00:49:54,328 --> 00:49:55,454
Your work?
689
00:49:58,790 --> 00:50:00,292
What do you expect me to say?
690
00:50:01,543 --> 00:50:02,628
"I don't know.
691
00:50:03,212 --> 00:50:05,088
Maybe I could have done more."
692
00:50:06,298 --> 00:50:09,843
But then I would probably be dead.
693
00:50:11,803 --> 00:50:14,723
And all the things
I have spent my life building,
694
00:50:15,599 --> 00:50:17,851
they would never have come to pass.
695
00:50:19,811 --> 00:50:22,814
You can't know that, what might have been.
696
00:50:23,565 --> 00:50:26,443
Something is or it isn't.
697
00:50:28,612 --> 00:50:29,821
Remember?
698
00:50:31,782 --> 00:50:33,033
When the war was ending...
699
00:50:34,326 --> 00:50:35,827
we gathered everything...
700
00:50:36,912 --> 00:50:40,916
schematics, calculations, designs...
701
00:50:42,292 --> 00:50:44,711
and buried it in the hills
above Peenemünde
702
00:50:44,795 --> 00:50:46,463
so the Soviets couldn't find it.
703
00:50:49,383 --> 00:50:54,263
I chose America to give my life's work.
704
00:50:54,346 --> 00:50:57,099
I gave them everything.
705
00:50:58,100 --> 00:51:02,271
And now I'm an old man
and no longer indispensable.
706
00:51:03,939 --> 00:51:05,816
They throw me to the wolves.
707
00:51:08,777 --> 00:51:11,071
Did you know?
708
00:51:18,495 --> 00:51:21,373
Progress is never free, Margo.
709
00:51:25,085 --> 00:51:26,670
There's always a cost.
710
00:52:12,174 --> 00:52:13,175
Aleida?
711
00:52:14,134 --> 00:52:15,135
Aleida!
712
00:52:16,595 --> 00:52:17,721
Aleida!
713
00:52:20,974 --> 00:52:21,975
Are you okay?
714
00:52:23,644 --> 00:52:26,230
What is wrong with you?!
What were you thinking?!
715
00:52:27,272 --> 00:52:28,857
I could have put it out...
716
00:52:29,399 --> 00:52:31,485
- It's fine.
- No, it's not fine!
717
00:52:32,027 --> 00:52:33,987
Tell me,
why do you keep setting these fires?
718
00:52:38,534 --> 00:52:39,535
Aleida...
719
00:52:41,161 --> 00:52:42,287
Tell me.
720
00:52:44,706 --> 00:52:45,707
I want...
721
00:52:47,292 --> 00:52:48,293
I want...
722
00:52:49,586 --> 00:52:51,964
I want to be inside the fire.
723
00:52:58,095 --> 00:52:59,096
But...
724
00:52:59,721 --> 00:53:01,682
Why would you want to be inside the fire?
725
00:53:01,765 --> 00:53:02,766
I don't know.
726
00:53:06,478 --> 00:53:07,479
I don't know.
727
00:53:07,563 --> 00:53:08,981
It's okay, it's okay...
728
00:53:20,325 --> 00:53:22,077
I want to show you something.
729
00:53:46,143 --> 00:53:47,394
Tu mamá...
730
00:53:49,813 --> 00:53:52,399
she had a dream
of what your future could be.
731
00:53:53,233 --> 00:53:54,610
That's why we came here.
732
00:53:57,112 --> 00:53:58,238
I miss her.
733
00:53:59,198 --> 00:54:00,282
I know.
734
00:54:01,575 --> 00:54:02,951
I miss her too, mija.
735
00:54:21,386 --> 00:54:26,225
You know, maybe one day, Aleida,
you'll build a fire inside one of these.
736
00:54:38,487 --> 00:54:41,490
{\an8}I have been informed
by Dr. Kissinger that,
737
00:54:41,573 --> 00:54:45,202
thanks to our recent military operations,
we may be within reach
738
00:54:45,285 --> 00:54:48,455
of an honorable peace
with the North Vietnamese.
739
00:54:48,539 --> 00:54:51,959
I have instructed him
to begin negotiations with Lê Ðuc Tho
740
00:54:52,543 --> 00:54:55,170
so that we may focus
our efforts and resources
741
00:54:55,796 --> 00:54:57,840
on the new challenges facing our nation.
742
00:54:58,632 --> 00:55:03,178
And on this momentous day,
as Apollo 12 readies to begin the search
743
00:55:03,262 --> 00:55:06,181
for the location
of the first American lunar base,
744
00:55:06,723 --> 00:55:09,685
I commit that we will do
whatever it takes.
745
00:55:09,768 --> 00:55:13,230
We will bear any burden
to secure our place in the heavens,
746
00:55:13,313 --> 00:55:16,233
and bring the fight for freedom
to the new frontier.
747
00:55:16,316 --> 00:55:21,280
We are on time for our planned
liftoff of 32 minutes past the hour.
748
00:55:21,363 --> 00:55:24,116
Test supervisor now
going through some status checks.
749
00:55:24,575 --> 00:55:25,993
Okay. Here we go.
750
00:55:26,076 --> 00:55:27,619
Give me status, people.
751
00:55:27,703 --> 00:55:29,204
- Booster?
- Go.
752
00:55:29,621 --> 00:55:31,164
- Retro.
- Go, Flight.
753
00:55:31,248 --> 00:55:32,249
- FIDO.
- Go.
754
00:55:32,332 --> 00:55:34,042
- GUIDO.
- Go, Flight.
755
00:55:34,126 --> 00:55:35,294
- EECOM.
- Go.
756
00:55:36,795 --> 00:55:38,630
- GNC.
- Good to go, Flight.
757
00:55:38,964 --> 00:55:42,718
Launch control, this is Houston.
We are go for launch of Apollo 12.
758
00:55:43,135 --> 00:55:44,219
Go for launch.
759
00:55:45,512 --> 00:55:49,892
Ten, nine, eight,
ignition sequence has started,
760
00:55:49,975 --> 00:55:55,022
six, five, four, three, two, one.
761
00:55:59,026 --> 00:56:00,611
All engines running.
762
00:56:07,075 --> 00:56:09,328
Liftoff. We have a liftoff!
763
00:56:09,411 --> 00:56:11,622
Thirty-two minutes past the hour.
764
00:56:19,755 --> 00:56:21,006
Tower cleared!
765
00:56:27,513 --> 00:56:28,931
Yeah, we got a roll program.
766
00:56:29,806 --> 00:56:33,727
Roger! I've got the pitch and roll
program, and this baby's really going.
767
00:56:34,311 --> 00:56:36,730
Roger, Pete. Forty seconds.
768
00:56:36,813 --> 00:56:38,273
Mark one, bravo.
769
00:56:38,357 --> 00:56:41,068
First stage tank pressures, all nominal.
770
00:56:41,151 --> 00:56:43,278
Altitude a mile and a half.
771
00:56:48,075 --> 00:56:49,284
FIDO, how we looking?
772
00:56:49,368 --> 00:56:51,828
FIDO is good, Flight.
Right down the middle.
773
00:56:53,372 --> 00:56:54,373
Good.
774
00:57:33,412 --> 00:57:35,706
- Here you go.
- Thanks, Karen.
775
00:57:35,789 --> 00:57:36,790
Mm-hmm.
776
00:57:46,300 --> 00:57:47,509
How you holding up?
777
00:57:48,218 --> 00:57:51,722
Just fine. And how's everybody at MSC?
778
00:57:53,599 --> 00:57:56,101
This whole von Braun mess
was a real black eye.
779
00:57:57,102 --> 00:58:01,023
And now Nixon's got us putting all hands
on deck for this military lunar outpost.
780
00:58:01,857 --> 00:58:02,941
Dark days.
781
00:58:05,944 --> 00:58:07,487
What can I do for you, Deke?
782
00:58:09,072 --> 00:58:10,282
I brought you something.
783
00:58:14,494 --> 00:58:16,955
Couldn't figure out
what to do with the damn thing.
784
00:58:25,297 --> 00:58:27,090
Huh.
785
00:58:27,716 --> 00:58:32,846
I almost threw it away when Leonov landed,
but I couldn't quite bring myself to.
786
00:58:34,348 --> 00:58:37,809
"Here men from the planet Earth
first set foot upon the moon.
787
00:58:38,685 --> 00:58:41,230
We came in peace for all mankind."
788
00:58:47,569 --> 00:58:51,698
Presidents come and go, Ed,
but we're the ones carrying the fire.
789
00:58:54,701 --> 00:58:57,246
It took a lot of guts,
what you did up there in DC.
790
00:58:59,414 --> 00:59:02,417
I need guys like you around
for what's coming down the pike.
791
00:59:02,835 --> 00:59:04,878
I'm not coming back to sit behind a desk.
792
00:59:05,337 --> 00:59:07,005
No, you're not.
793
00:59:10,843 --> 00:59:12,177
What exactly does that mean?
794
00:59:12,761 --> 00:59:14,513
It means you're back on Apollo 15.
795
00:59:15,556 --> 00:59:16,765
Wait... Are you...
796
00:59:16,849 --> 00:59:19,601
Ed, maybe just once, shut the fuck up.
797
00:59:19,685 --> 00:59:21,937
You're going back to the moon.
798
00:59:30,404 --> 00:59:31,405
Yes, sir.
799
00:59:34,616 --> 00:59:35,826
Thank you, sir.
800
00:59:36,994 --> 00:59:39,413
I'm sorry. Hon, Deke,
801
00:59:40,205 --> 00:59:41,790
you guys should come and see this.
802
00:59:46,253 --> 00:59:49,923
And even now, while Apollo 12
is hurtling towards the moon,
803
00:59:50,007 --> 00:59:53,802
the Soviets have upped the ante
in the space race once again.
804
00:59:54,511 --> 00:59:56,847
The video is coming in now.
805
00:59:58,056 --> 01:00:02,686
There's the cosmonaut now,
descending the ladder.
806
01:00:04,688 --> 01:00:05,939
There we have it.
807
01:00:06,481 --> 01:00:09,776
The cosmonaut is now on the lunar surface.
808
01:00:13,864 --> 01:00:14,865
It's a woman.
809
01:00:16,491 --> 01:00:19,620
Ladies and gentlemen,
it's been confirmed that it's a woman.
810
01:00:19,703 --> 01:00:23,248
Her name is Anastasia Belikova,
811
01:00:23,624 --> 01:00:27,836
a former pilot in the Soviet Air Forces.
812
01:00:28,921 --> 01:00:34,593
What a truly, truly historic moment
for women watching across the world.
813
01:00:35,427 --> 01:00:37,846
The 32-year-old Soviet cosmonaut