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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,266 --> 00:00:04,292 History tells us that the year 1937... 2 00:00:04,436 --> 00:00:06,734 was not a good one for the planet Earth. 3 00:00:06,939 --> 00:00:08,065 Japan invaded China. 4 00:00:08,207 --> 00:00:11,301 In Germany, concentration camps were already operating. 5 00:00:11,443 --> 00:00:14,071 A bloody civil war was escalating in Spain. 6 00:00:14,213 --> 00:00:16,909 In the United States, President Roosevelt had cause to say... 7 00:00:17,049 --> 00:00:20,780 that one-third of his people were ill-housed, ill-clad and ill-nourished. 8 00:00:21,553 --> 00:00:23,817 And yet, in 1937... 9 00:00:23,956 --> 00:00:26,550 Picasso painted his masterpiece "Guernica"... 10 00:00:26,692 --> 00:00:28,887 John Steinbeck published "Of Mice and Men"... 11 00:00:29,027 --> 00:00:31,689 and the Golden Gate Bridge was opened. 12 00:00:31,830 --> 00:00:35,322 1937, then, was not the cataclysmic year of the century. 13 00:00:35,467 --> 00:00:37,799 There would be others, including one... 14 00:00:37,936 --> 00:00:40,370 when, in the midst of worldwide unrest... 15 00:00:40,506 --> 00:00:42,872 Americans were hoping to send three human beings... 16 00:00:43,008 --> 00:00:46,375 on the very first voyage from the Earth to the moon. 17 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,074 Subtitles downloaded from www.OpenSubtitles.org 18 00:02:00,686 --> 00:02:03,746 232 G.I.s killed and 900 wounded... 19 00:02:03,889 --> 00:02:07,017 makes for one of the heaviest weeks of the Vietnam War. 20 00:02:07,159 --> 00:02:11,027 And it is not a week. It is just over two days, the past two days. 21 00:02:11,196 --> 00:02:14,165 There are two forces that are trying to push them out this way... 22 00:02:14,299 --> 00:02:16,767 but he's heavily fortified, he's got a lot of ammo. 23 00:02:16,902 --> 00:02:18,767 Fires still coming from buildings-- 24 00:02:21,139 --> 00:02:24,131 Here we are, right in the center of Saigon. 25 00:02:24,276 --> 00:02:29,145 In fact, just opposite the presidential palace. 26 00:02:29,281 --> 00:02:32,910 C.l.A. men and M.P.s have gone into the embassy... 27 00:02:33,051 --> 00:02:36,214 and are trying to get the snipers out. 28 00:02:41,026 --> 00:02:45,486 We've got two more forces that are trying to push them out this way. 29 00:02:45,631 --> 00:02:48,930 But they got more arms, grenade launcher, hand grenades. 30 00:02:49,067 --> 00:02:51,433 Have you lost any men here? 31 00:02:51,570 --> 00:02:54,630 I've got five, six-- six people I've got wounded. 32 00:02:59,945 --> 00:03:04,006 The enemy very deceitfully has taken advantage... 33 00:03:04,149 --> 00:03:05,548 of the troops... 34 00:03:05,684 --> 00:03:08,551 in order to create maximum-- 35 00:03:08,687 --> 00:03:11,713 I'd point out to you the time has come... 36 00:03:11,857 --> 00:03:13,882 when we ought to unite... 37 00:03:14,026 --> 00:03:16,859 when we ought to stand up and be counted... 38 00:03:16,995 --> 00:03:20,123 when we ought to support our leaders, our government... 39 00:03:20,265 --> 00:03:23,564 our men and our allies until aggression is stopped. 40 00:03:27,272 --> 00:03:30,207 542 U.S. troops were killed in Vietnam last week... 41 00:03:30,342 --> 00:03:32,333 the second highest week-- 42 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,917 All right. Let's go. What assumptions are we making? 43 00:03:45,057 --> 00:03:46,922 That the cabin is pressurized. 44 00:03:47,059 --> 00:03:50,290 - This is an emergency evac on the pad? - Yes, Mr. Borman. 45 00:03:50,429 --> 00:03:51,987 Walk me through it. 46 00:03:52,130 --> 00:03:55,190 Release the lock pins. Unlatch the gear box. 47 00:03:55,334 --> 00:03:57,325 Set the actuator handle to "unlock." 48 00:03:57,469 --> 00:03:59,664 Pump the actuator five or six times. 49 00:03:59,805 --> 00:04:04,572 Stow the handle. Open the hatch. The whole procedure takes 20 seconds. 50 00:04:04,710 --> 00:04:06,905 Twenty seconds? 51 00:04:07,045 --> 00:04:08,740 Close the hatch, please. 52 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:10,575 I need a chair. 53 00:04:12,284 --> 00:04:14,980 Let me see if I've got this. 54 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,987 It takes 20 seconds to open this hatch. 55 00:04:18,123 --> 00:04:21,149 That's you standing upright on the factory floor. 56 00:04:22,527 --> 00:04:26,258 This is me, strapped to the side of the spacecraft. 57 00:04:26,398 --> 00:04:28,958 Everything's upside down above me and behind me. 58 00:04:29,101 --> 00:04:32,127 Something goes wrong, I don't wanna have to look at a checklist. 59 00:04:32,270 --> 00:04:34,534 I can't wait 20 seconds to evac. 60 00:04:34,673 --> 00:04:37,267 Something's gotta open that hatch in a heartbeat. 61 00:04:37,409 --> 00:04:40,537 We could try a gaseous nitrogen cartridge. 62 00:04:40,679 --> 00:04:42,772 That could blow the hatch instantly. 63 00:04:44,449 --> 00:04:47,145 What are we waiting for? Let's do it. 64 00:04:47,285 --> 00:04:50,254 I have not come 65 00:04:50,389 --> 00:04:53,756 Yet 66 00:04:55,627 --> 00:04:57,094 We simply cannot afford... 67 00:04:57,229 --> 00:05:00,221 to stop in the midst of a shooting war... 68 00:05:00,365 --> 00:05:02,424 and take time out to debate... 69 00:05:02,567 --> 00:05:05,092 whether our past action was sound or unsound. 70 00:05:05,237 --> 00:05:07,228 Ho Chi Minh! 71 00:05:07,372 --> 00:05:10,569 I want, more than any human being in all the world... 72 00:05:12,811 --> 00:05:14,676 to see the killing stopped. 73 00:05:14,813 --> 00:05:17,475 To be killed and to kill... 74 00:05:17,616 --> 00:05:20,915 in fighting which is not in the interest of the country... 75 00:05:21,053 --> 00:05:23,749 it represents is the ultimate tragedy. 76 00:05:24,890 --> 00:05:27,859 Save our national honor. 77 00:05:27,993 --> 00:05:29,722 Stop the bombing... 78 00:05:29,861 --> 00:05:31,624 and stop the war. 79 00:05:35,133 --> 00:05:37,601 It is the biggest rocket anyone has ever seen... 80 00:05:37,736 --> 00:05:42,139 a behemoth intended to transport men beyond the influence of the Earth. 81 00:05:42,274 --> 00:05:45,402 Not 1968 but, God willing, next year... 82 00:05:45,544 --> 00:05:48,911 a rocket just like the one out on pad 39A... 83 00:05:49,081 --> 00:05:51,777 will be taking men to the moon. 84 00:05:51,917 --> 00:05:55,284 Today, of course, it will be taking nobody anywhere. 85 00:05:56,922 --> 00:06:01,859 This unmanned test is simply to see if the great machine works... 86 00:06:01,993 --> 00:06:03,654 if its engines ignite... 87 00:06:03,795 --> 00:06:07,891 if it goes where it's supposed to when it is supposed to. 88 00:06:08,033 --> 00:06:11,332 As a veteran of every manned launch of America's space program... 89 00:06:11,470 --> 00:06:14,405 I can tell you that the mood here at the Cape... 90 00:06:14,539 --> 00:06:16,302 is a bit subdued. 91 00:06:16,441 --> 00:06:19,672 But the fireworks display we are about to see... 92 00:06:19,811 --> 00:06:21,676 promises to be a good one. 93 00:06:26,918 --> 00:06:29,182 15, 14... 94 00:06:29,321 --> 00:06:30,618 13. 95 00:06:30,755 --> 00:06:32,313 Ready for ignition. 96 00:06:32,457 --> 00:06:35,620 11, 10, 9. 97 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:37,421 Ignition sequence. 98 00:06:37,562 --> 00:06:40,998 7, 6, 5... 99 00:06:41,133 --> 00:06:43,067 4, 3. 100 00:06:45,337 --> 00:06:46,964 1, liftoff. 101 00:06:51,643 --> 00:06:54,669 - Liftoff. - I can feel the shock wave in my chest. 102 00:06:54,813 --> 00:06:56,474 The windows are rattling. 103 00:06:56,615 --> 00:06:59,243 Oh, my God! Look at that thing! 104 00:06:59,384 --> 00:07:02,251 Look at that thing go! 105 00:07:03,522 --> 00:07:06,389 It was confirmed that Martin Luther King has been shot... 106 00:07:06,525 --> 00:07:08,720 on the balcony of a hotel in Memphis. 107 00:07:08,860 --> 00:07:11,226 It really doesn't matter with me now... 108 00:07:11,363 --> 00:07:13,957 because I've been to the mountaintop. 109 00:07:15,133 --> 00:07:16,657 I don't mind. 110 00:07:19,871 --> 00:07:24,706 Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. 111 00:07:24,843 --> 00:07:28,609 Longevity has its place. 112 00:07:31,516 --> 00:07:35,043 But I'm not concerned about that now. 113 00:07:35,187 --> 00:07:37,485 I just want to do God's will. 114 00:07:39,291 --> 00:07:42,351 And He has allowed me to go up to the mountain. 115 00:07:42,494 --> 00:07:43,859 I've looked over-- 116 00:07:43,995 --> 00:07:48,398 Scattered violence broke out in some sections of the city... 117 00:07:48,533 --> 00:07:50,865 within two hours of Dr. King's death. 118 00:07:51,002 --> 00:07:53,596 I may not get there with you... 119 00:07:53,738 --> 00:07:56,206 but I want you to know tonight... 120 00:07:56,341 --> 00:08:00,402 that we as a people will get to the Promised Land. 121 00:08:02,180 --> 00:08:04,740 Martin Luther King... 122 00:08:04,883 --> 00:08:06,908 dedicated his life... 123 00:08:09,321 --> 00:08:12,085 to love and to justice... 124 00:08:12,224 --> 00:08:14,624 between fellow human beings. 125 00:08:14,793 --> 00:08:16,886 For those of you who are black... 126 00:08:17,028 --> 00:08:20,225 you can be filled with bitterness... 127 00:08:20,365 --> 00:08:21,957 and with hatred... 128 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:24,000 or we can make an effort... 129 00:08:24,135 --> 00:08:26,467 and replace that violence... 130 00:08:26,605 --> 00:08:28,470 with an effort to understand... 131 00:08:30,609 --> 00:08:33,237 compassion and love. 132 00:08:54,065 --> 00:08:55,930 Who do you think's gonna win? 133 00:08:57,168 --> 00:08:59,762 McCarthy. He'll definitely take Chicago. 134 00:08:59,904 --> 00:09:03,670 What, are you crazy? The guy hasn't won in two or three weeks. 135 00:09:03,808 --> 00:09:05,708 Who do you think's gonna win? 136 00:09:05,844 --> 00:09:08,472 Definitely Kennedy. He's definitely taking the nomination. 137 00:09:08,613 --> 00:09:11,480 Are you kidding? Bobby Kennedy lost the Oregon primary. 138 00:09:11,616 --> 00:09:14,346 - So? - No Kennedy's lost anything before. 139 00:09:14,486 --> 00:09:17,944 If he lost last night in California, then he can lose in Chicago too. 140 00:09:18,089 --> 00:09:21,058 - Can I have the paper? - He was leading last night. 141 00:09:21,192 --> 00:09:24,525 There's no way the democrats won't nominate a Kennedy. 142 00:09:24,663 --> 00:09:27,826 It's gonna be Kennedy and Nixon all over again. 143 00:09:30,969 --> 00:09:32,834 How much did he win by? 144 00:09:34,272 --> 00:09:35,603 Mom. 145 00:09:40,011 --> 00:09:41,444 Oh, my Lord. 146 00:09:51,790 --> 00:09:52,984 Frank Borman. 147 00:09:53,124 --> 00:09:56,287 - Frank, did you hear the news? - Susan? 148 00:09:56,428 --> 00:09:58,225 - They shot Kennedy. - What? 149 00:09:58,363 --> 00:10:01,855 Bobby Kennedy was shot last night at the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. 150 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,366 Oh, no. My God. 151 00:10:06,771 --> 00:10:09,638 - Who did it? - I don't know. They arrested somebody. 152 00:10:09,774 --> 00:10:12,971 He had so many children. What is going wrong this year? 153 00:10:13,111 --> 00:10:15,875 What is happening? He should have never run for president. 154 00:10:16,014 --> 00:10:17,879 He should've known somebody would do this. 155 00:10:18,016 --> 00:10:20,211 - He was aware of the risks. - Someone should've stopped him. 156 00:10:20,352 --> 00:10:22,217 His wife, mother, brother, somebody. 157 00:10:22,354 --> 00:10:25,255 I can't talk right now. Let's talk again tonight. 158 00:10:25,390 --> 00:10:28,791 I'll call you as soon as I get back to the hotel. 159 00:10:30,061 --> 00:10:31,585 - All right. - Bye. 160 00:10:42,173 --> 00:10:45,631 May the angels take you into paradise... 161 00:10:45,777 --> 00:10:50,043 and the martyrs come to welcome you on your way.... 162 00:10:50,181 --> 00:10:54,049 and lead you into the holy city, Jerusalem. 163 00:10:57,589 --> 00:10:59,648 My brother need not be idealized... 164 00:11:00,792 --> 00:11:04,023 or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life... 165 00:11:05,196 --> 00:11:08,222 but to be remembered simply as a good and decent man... 166 00:11:09,434 --> 00:11:12,835 who saw wrong and tried to right it... 167 00:11:13,004 --> 00:11:15,131 who saw suffering and tried to heal it... 168 00:11:16,274 --> 00:11:18,538 saw war and tried to stop it. 169 00:11:20,645 --> 00:11:22,636 Those of us who loved him... 170 00:11:22,781 --> 00:11:25,147 and who take him to his rest today... 171 00:11:26,284 --> 00:11:28,809 pray that what he was to us... 172 00:11:28,953 --> 00:11:31,012 what he wished for others... 173 00:11:31,156 --> 00:11:34,683 will someday come to pass for all the world. 174 00:11:34,826 --> 00:11:37,420 As he said many times... 175 00:11:37,562 --> 00:11:40,156 in many parts of this nation... 176 00:11:40,298 --> 00:11:43,665 "some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' 177 00:11:44,803 --> 00:11:48,603 I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?"' 178 00:11:48,740 --> 00:11:51,607 For the third straight day, American jets have attacked targets... 179 00:11:51,743 --> 00:11:54,268 near Hanoi and Haiphong in North Vietnam. 180 00:11:54,412 --> 00:11:55,970 The U.S. is now dropping a daily average... 181 00:11:57,449 --> 00:12:00,111 of 3,000 pounds of explosives on-- 182 00:12:03,087 --> 00:12:05,647 This is what we think is their rocket. 183 00:12:05,790 --> 00:12:08,281 They began rolling it out three days ago. 184 00:12:08,426 --> 00:12:09,757 It's probably on the pad. 185 00:12:09,894 --> 00:12:11,452 Completely new design. 186 00:12:11,596 --> 00:12:14,463 Not Vostok or Voskhod. 187 00:12:14,599 --> 00:12:16,794 The Russians have never built a launch vehicle this large. 188 00:12:16,935 --> 00:12:20,564 It's four stages in a clustered engine configuration. 189 00:12:20,705 --> 00:12:22,673 Multiple engines and multiple stages. 190 00:12:22,807 --> 00:12:26,675 They'll have to test it, which means they've built more than one. 191 00:12:28,279 --> 00:12:30,941 Any information how fast they can get the next one up? 192 00:12:31,082 --> 00:12:34,051 If they're actually attempting a flight to the moon... 193 00:12:34,185 --> 00:12:36,517 they'll have a window in early October. 194 00:12:36,654 --> 00:12:38,622 Eight, maybe nine weeks? 195 00:12:38,756 --> 00:12:40,246 Exactly. 196 00:12:44,195 --> 00:12:46,060 MIT and Raytheon are still fighting... 197 00:12:46,197 --> 00:12:47,824 over the LEM computer system. 198 00:12:47,966 --> 00:12:50,901 It has over a hundred defects. It's still too heavy. 199 00:12:51,035 --> 00:12:53,435 It won't be ready to fly at least until early spring... 200 00:12:53,605 --> 00:12:55,334 and even that's a maybe. 201 00:12:55,473 --> 00:12:57,373 - So we don't take it. - What? 202 00:12:58,676 --> 00:13:01,702 Leave the LEM here. Fly to the moon without it. 203 00:13:01,846 --> 00:13:04,041 There's a launch window in December. 204 00:13:04,182 --> 00:13:07,049 Just bypass the whole emission with the LEM in Earth orbit. 205 00:13:07,185 --> 00:13:10,211 Take only the command and the service module to the moon... 206 00:13:10,355 --> 00:13:13,449 and back before the new year. 207 00:13:14,659 --> 00:13:18,857 In one Hail Mary pass, we'd accomplish so many mission objectives that-- 208 00:13:23,601 --> 00:13:26,729 Tom Paine's gonna think we've lost our minds. 209 00:13:26,871 --> 00:13:29,635 I see the logic of it. If the Soviets fly around the moon first... 210 00:13:29,774 --> 00:13:31,503 they've done it; we lose. 211 00:13:32,777 --> 00:13:34,369 Still, no easy task. 212 00:13:35,847 --> 00:13:38,111 This is the proposition. 213 00:13:38,249 --> 00:13:40,444 Swap missions with Jim McDivitt. 214 00:13:40,585 --> 00:13:44,715 He, Rusty and Dave test-fly the LEM in Earth orbit when it's ready... 215 00:13:44,856 --> 00:13:49,816 and your crew takes spacecraft 103 into lunar orbit in December. 216 00:13:51,029 --> 00:13:53,896 That sound like something you'd be willing to do? 217 00:13:55,700 --> 00:13:57,600 Absolutely. 218 00:13:57,769 --> 00:14:00,897 It's important for the program, and it's important for the country. 219 00:14:02,206 --> 00:14:06,336 I wouldn't take this mission if I didn't have every confidence in its success. 220 00:14:06,477 --> 00:14:09,002 You'll be flying around the moon at Christmas? 221 00:14:09,147 --> 00:14:10,546 That sounds cool. 222 00:14:10,682 --> 00:14:12,582 Yeah. Can I go with you? 223 00:14:12,717 --> 00:14:14,582 Maybe next time. 224 00:14:18,656 --> 00:14:21,819 Now give me a moment alone with your mother. 225 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:23,655 Yes, sir. 226 00:14:34,072 --> 00:14:36,233 There you have it. All right? 227 00:14:36,374 --> 00:14:39,275 Frank, of course. This is your career. 228 00:14:39,410 --> 00:14:40,934 It's your decision. 229 00:14:41,079 --> 00:14:44,810 It's always been that way, so all right. 230 00:14:46,250 --> 00:14:49,276 I'd turn down the flight if I didn't have every confidence. 231 00:14:49,420 --> 00:14:52,116 Every confidence in the spacecraft, the flight plan, the training. 232 00:14:52,256 --> 00:14:55,123 You're a pilot. You'd never turn down a mission like this. 233 00:14:55,259 --> 00:14:57,250 You always have every confidence. 234 00:15:01,432 --> 00:15:04,299 I just want you to come home. 235 00:15:06,971 --> 00:15:08,632 You know our deal. 236 00:15:09,974 --> 00:15:12,670 You worry about the custard. I'll worry about the flying. 237 00:15:15,947 --> 00:15:17,642 Let's not go off half-cocked on this. 238 00:15:17,782 --> 00:15:19,477 Once more around the table. 239 00:15:19,617 --> 00:15:21,983 Not long ago, you all were debating if it was safe... 240 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,714 to put men on top of the Saturn 5. 241 00:15:24,856 --> 00:15:29,156 Pardon my playing devil's advocate, but what changed everybody's minds? 242 00:15:29,293 --> 00:15:32,660 Why the sudden faith that Apollo 8 will fly to the moon... 243 00:15:32,797 --> 00:15:34,856 in less than five months from now? 244 00:15:34,999 --> 00:15:36,398 Wernher? 245 00:15:36,534 --> 00:15:39,560 The next booster will show the results of all the tests. 246 00:15:39,704 --> 00:15:43,003 Once we decide to man it, it does not matter how far it goes. 247 00:15:43,141 --> 00:15:44,665 It will get there. 248 00:15:44,809 --> 00:15:47,676 Where? We have no plans, no priorities, no mission rules. 249 00:15:47,812 --> 00:15:50,838 There's no software yet. We can't even simulate it. 250 00:15:50,982 --> 00:15:54,577 That may be true, but when it comes to the rocket, I have no reservations. 251 00:15:54,719 --> 00:15:56,243 No reservations here, either. 252 00:15:56,387 --> 00:15:58,753 It'll be tight, but we'll be ready to launch in December. 253 00:15:58,890 --> 00:16:01,484 This is assuming Apollo 7 is a success. 254 00:16:01,626 --> 00:16:03,992 If we're going to send a crew to the moon without the LEM... 255 00:16:04,128 --> 00:16:05,993 it means we have only one engine. 256 00:16:06,130 --> 00:16:09,759 If the SPS goes bust, there's no way home. 257 00:16:09,901 --> 00:16:12,495 Come on, Chris. That's a worst-case scenario. 258 00:16:12,637 --> 00:16:15,435 We can make sure the flight plan has several decision points... 259 00:16:15,573 --> 00:16:17,336 go or no-go's that will minimize the risks. 260 00:16:17,475 --> 00:16:21,809 It may sound strange, but this is the least risky of any Apollo flight. 261 00:16:21,946 --> 00:16:23,345 The least risky? 262 00:16:23,481 --> 00:16:26,041 We're talking about putting three astronauts in one spacecraft... 263 00:16:26,184 --> 00:16:28,379 with only the SPS to get them back home. 264 00:16:28,519 --> 00:16:30,544 That's the risk with any lunar mission. 265 00:16:30,688 --> 00:16:32,553 If we're gonna land on the moon next year... 266 00:16:32,690 --> 00:16:34,715 we have to know if we can get there now. 267 00:16:34,859 --> 00:16:38,693 I appreciate your concerns, but I'd like this to be unanimous, Chris. 268 00:16:43,835 --> 00:16:45,894 Okay, let's go. Let's do it. 269 00:16:46,037 --> 00:16:48,232 If we're gonna send these boys to the moon... 270 00:16:48,372 --> 00:16:51,068 let's not just make a circumlunar flight to beat the Soviets. 271 00:16:51,209 --> 00:16:54,178 We have to stay in lunar orbit for a while. 272 00:16:54,312 --> 00:16:56,837 There's a lot to be done if we're going to make a landing next year. 273 00:16:59,050 --> 00:17:03,384 Jesus, if word gets out we're planning to go to the moon for Christmas... 274 00:17:03,521 --> 00:17:05,045 people are gonna go nuts. 275 00:17:05,189 --> 00:17:07,680 Up against the wall, motherfucker! 276 00:17:09,327 --> 00:17:11,022 I been run down 277 00:17:11,162 --> 00:17:13,392 I've been lied to 278 00:17:16,100 --> 00:17:18,261 I don't know why 279 00:17:18,402 --> 00:17:21,633 I let that mean woman make me a fool 280 00:17:23,541 --> 00:17:25,736 Took all my money 281 00:17:27,245 --> 00:17:29,372 Wrecked my new car 282 00:17:30,882 --> 00:17:33,214 Now she's with one of my 283 00:17:33,351 --> 00:17:34,545 Good-time buddies 284 00:17:34,685 --> 00:17:37,051 They're drinking in some crosstown bar 285 00:17:37,188 --> 00:17:40,089 Sometimes I feel 286 00:17:45,596 --> 00:17:48,121 Like I've been tied 287 00:17:48,266 --> 00:17:50,666 To the whipping post 288 00:17:58,976 --> 00:18:00,637 Oh, Lord, I feel 289 00:18:00,778 --> 00:18:04,805 Like I'm dying 290 00:18:11,122 --> 00:18:13,989 Good evening. This is The World. 291 00:18:14,125 --> 00:18:15,888 The Soviet news agency TASS... 292 00:18:16,027 --> 00:18:18,325 announced the recovery of the Zond 5... 293 00:18:18,462 --> 00:18:21,260 an unmanned spacecraft that landed in the Indian Ocean... 294 00:18:21,399 --> 00:18:23,731 three days after circumnavigating the moon. 295 00:18:23,868 --> 00:18:26,735 The first to send an unmanned spacecraft around the moon... 296 00:18:26,871 --> 00:18:28,668 and return it safely to Earth. 297 00:18:28,806 --> 00:18:31,673 The recent success of Apollo 7's shakedown flight... 298 00:18:31,809 --> 00:18:33,572 has turned this command module... 299 00:18:33,711 --> 00:18:36,305 from a space capsule into a moon ship. 300 00:18:36,447 --> 00:18:40,747 Russians do feel that Zond 5 prepared them for a manned orbit of the moon. 301 00:18:40,885 --> 00:18:42,716 They could go as early as-- 302 00:18:42,854 --> 00:18:46,381 ...Russian technology is the dress rehearsal for a team of cosmonauts-- 303 00:18:46,524 --> 00:18:50,517 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders are on the verge of making-- 304 00:18:50,661 --> 00:18:53,186 ...an historic flight in late December. 305 00:18:53,331 --> 00:18:55,196 This is a NASA bombshell... 306 00:18:55,333 --> 00:18:58,530 an electrifying announcement that, while only made today... 307 00:18:58,669 --> 00:19:02,230 has obviously been in the planning stages for quite some time. 308 00:19:02,373 --> 00:19:06,503 The American spacecraft will not merely go around the moon and return... 309 00:19:06,644 --> 00:19:08,942 but rather, using a series of maneuvers... 310 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:13,210 the crew will park themselves in lunar orbit for a day. 311 00:19:13,351 --> 00:19:15,751 Ten orbits around the moon... 312 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:18,514 enough time to map out possible landing sites... 313 00:19:18,656 --> 00:19:21,784 and approach vectors for future Apollo missions... 314 00:19:21,926 --> 00:19:26,420 before firing their single massive engine to return home. 315 00:19:26,564 --> 00:19:27,929 Apollo 8-- 316 00:19:28,065 --> 00:19:30,295 Apollo 8-- three men in one craft... 317 00:19:30,434 --> 00:19:32,629 traveling over half a million miles. 318 00:19:32,770 --> 00:19:34,397 The challenge is daunting. 319 00:19:34,538 --> 00:19:36,028 God willing, an achievement... 320 00:19:36,173 --> 00:19:39,438 that will equal those of Columbus, Magellan, Lindbergh and-- 321 00:19:43,614 --> 00:19:45,707 This will be an open administration. 322 00:19:45,850 --> 00:19:47,977 Open to new ideas... 323 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:50,747 open to men and women of both parties... 324 00:19:50,888 --> 00:19:53,652 open to the critics as well as those who support us. 325 00:19:53,791 --> 00:19:55,418 We want to bridge the generation gap. 326 00:19:55,559 --> 00:19:58,790 We want to bridge the gap between the races. 327 00:19:58,930 --> 00:20:01,455 We want to bring America together and... 328 00:20:01,599 --> 00:20:04,227 I am confident that this task... 329 00:20:04,368 --> 00:20:06,233 is one that we can undertake... 330 00:20:06,370 --> 00:20:08,429 and one in which we will be successful. 331 00:20:48,412 --> 00:20:50,937 CDR, STC. We're good down here. 332 00:20:51,082 --> 00:20:53,073 You guys all set? 333 00:20:53,217 --> 00:20:54,548 Go. 334 00:21:00,224 --> 00:21:01,623 Mrs. Borman? 335 00:21:07,999 --> 00:21:09,728 I'll be right there. 336 00:21:18,442 --> 00:21:21,570 - And here I am. - Great. The camera crew is all set. 337 00:21:21,712 --> 00:21:24,579 They promised not to turn this thing into an interview. 338 00:21:24,715 --> 00:21:27,240 - Believe me, they won't. - They just want to film your reaction. 339 00:21:27,385 --> 00:21:30,513 - If they start asking questions-- - I have discussed this with Frank. 340 00:21:30,654 --> 00:21:32,349 I know what to do. 341 00:21:32,490 --> 00:21:34,014 Yes, ma'am. 342 00:21:43,901 --> 00:21:45,698 Thirty-five seconds and counting. 343 00:21:45,836 --> 00:21:49,602 We'll lead up to a mission sequence start at 3.9 seconds. 344 00:21:49,740 --> 00:21:51,605 Would anybody like some more coffee? 345 00:21:53,177 --> 00:21:54,906 ...if all goes well at 0. 346 00:21:55,046 --> 00:21:58,538 We've just passed the 25-second mark on the count. 347 00:21:58,682 --> 00:22:00,741 Twenty seconds. All aspects. We are still go... 348 00:22:00,885 --> 00:22:02,512 at this time. 349 00:22:03,654 --> 00:22:06,555 T minus 15, 14, 13... 350 00:22:06,690 --> 00:22:08,555 12, 11... 351 00:22:08,692 --> 00:22:10,717 10, 9. 352 00:22:10,861 --> 00:22:14,888 We have ignition sequence armed. The engines are armed. 353 00:22:15,032 --> 00:22:18,559 4, 3, 2, 1. 354 00:22:23,274 --> 00:22:26,766 I want, more than any human being in all the world... 355 00:22:28,879 --> 00:22:31,040 to see the killing stopped. 356 00:22:31,182 --> 00:22:33,241 They must move on... 357 00:22:34,218 --> 00:22:35,776 or be destroyed-- 358 00:22:36,921 --> 00:22:40,084 Two Americans were killed in action. 359 00:22:40,224 --> 00:22:41,987 When I become the president... 360 00:22:42,126 --> 00:22:45,493 I'll give you a passport to Hanoi-- 361 00:22:47,998 --> 00:22:50,762 I am announcing today my candidacy-- 362 00:22:50,901 --> 00:22:52,801 ...take him to his rest today. 363 00:22:52,937 --> 00:22:56,703 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord! 364 00:22:59,710 --> 00:23:01,541 Looking good at two minutes. 365 00:23:01,679 --> 00:23:04,614 All engines running at 10 miles altitude... 366 00:23:04,782 --> 00:23:07,012 60 miles downrange. 367 00:23:07,151 --> 00:23:08,880 Roger, Houston. 368 00:23:31,442 --> 00:23:33,774 S-2 ignition, Houston. 369 00:23:33,911 --> 00:23:35,469 Roger that, 8. 370 00:23:35,613 --> 00:23:38,639 Trajectory and guidance is looking good at... 371 00:23:38,782 --> 00:23:40,147 three minutes. 372 00:23:40,284 --> 00:23:42,309 Thank you, Houston. Apollo 8 is go. 373 00:23:43,654 --> 00:23:46,452 First stage was very smooth. This one's smoother. 374 00:23:46,590 --> 00:23:48,820 Understand. Smooth and smoother. 375 00:23:48,959 --> 00:23:50,756 Looks good here, guys. 376 00:23:50,895 --> 00:23:53,386 "Smooth and smoother"? Who are you kiddin'? 377 00:23:53,531 --> 00:23:56,864 I feel like we'd been in a train wreck. 378 00:23:57,001 --> 00:23:58,730 Kick in the pants, huh? 379 00:24:05,543 --> 00:24:09,138 Predicted cutoff is 11 plus 28. Over. 380 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,113 Understand. Eleven plus 28. 381 00:24:23,227 --> 00:24:25,821 Secondary glycol pump, off. 382 00:24:25,963 --> 00:24:27,897 Cabin air pressure return valve, on. 383 00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:31,024 Cabin pressure, Bill? 384 00:24:40,010 --> 00:24:42,240 I don't want you looking out the window. We got work. 385 00:24:42,379 --> 00:24:44,939 - Proceed to the check list. - Right. 386 00:24:45,082 --> 00:24:47,346 Cabin pressure is 5.2 p.s.i. 387 00:24:50,554 --> 00:24:54,081 Aw, shoot! I must've caught it on the couch. 388 00:24:54,225 --> 00:24:55,658 You won't drown now. 389 00:24:55,826 --> 00:24:59,887 You can't deflate that in the cabin. It'll use up our air scrubbers. 390 00:25:00,030 --> 00:25:04,330 Well, maybe I can rig it up to the urine dump. 391 00:25:04,468 --> 00:25:05,867 Yeah, do that. 392 00:25:07,071 --> 00:25:08,732 Navy man. 393 00:25:18,716 --> 00:25:20,877 - FIDO, Flight. - Go, Flight. 394 00:25:21,018 --> 00:25:22,883 Are you happy with the maneuver? 395 00:25:23,020 --> 00:25:25,386 Yes. We're getting just what we wanted to see. 396 00:25:25,522 --> 00:25:27,888 All flight controllers, I want go, no-go... 397 00:25:28,025 --> 00:25:29,925 for a translunar injection burn. 398 00:25:30,060 --> 00:25:31,652 - RETRO. - Go flight. 399 00:25:31,795 --> 00:25:33,285 - Control. - Go. 400 00:25:33,430 --> 00:25:35,057 - Guidance. INCO. - Go. 401 00:25:35,199 --> 00:25:36,666 EECOM. 402 00:25:36,834 --> 00:25:38,529 GNC. 403 00:25:38,669 --> 00:25:41,035 FAO. Network. 404 00:25:41,171 --> 00:25:42,536 Surgeon. 405 00:25:42,673 --> 00:25:45,267 CAPCOM. We are go for translunar injection. 406 00:25:48,545 --> 00:25:52,174 Apollo 8, Houston. You are go for TLI. 407 00:25:54,084 --> 00:25:56,279 You are go for the moon. 408 00:25:56,420 --> 00:25:59,253 Roger, Houston. Apollo 8 is go. 409 00:26:45,235 --> 00:26:49,729 Chestnuts roasting on an open fire 410 00:26:52,643 --> 00:26:56,340 Jack Frost nipping at your nose 411 00:26:59,216 --> 00:27:01,810 Yuletide carols 412 00:27:01,952 --> 00:27:04,147 Being sung by a choir 413 00:27:04,288 --> 00:27:06,017 Jim, what are you doing? 414 00:27:07,725 --> 00:27:11,024 Trying to figure out where we are, Frank. 415 00:27:11,161 --> 00:27:14,358 Antares, I have you right where I want you. 416 00:27:14,498 --> 00:27:16,989 A turkey and some mistletoe 417 00:27:18,802 --> 00:27:21,999 Are we clear of that debris from the S-4B? 418 00:27:22,139 --> 00:27:25,199 Yeah. I just gotta identify Sirius... 419 00:27:25,342 --> 00:27:27,742 and get our optical calibration. 420 00:27:27,878 --> 00:27:31,712 Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow 421 00:27:33,083 --> 00:27:36,450 Will find it hard to sleep 422 00:27:36,620 --> 00:27:38,281 Tonight 423 00:27:39,289 --> 00:27:40,881 How's it goin'? 424 00:27:41,024 --> 00:27:42,821 Well, Buzz has my eye patch. 425 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,860 Santa's on his way 426 00:27:48,298 --> 00:27:50,266 Let's see. What's my score? 427 00:27:52,536 --> 00:27:55,369 What do you know, sports fans? Five balls. 428 00:27:55,506 --> 00:27:56,905 Nice work, Jim. 429 00:27:57,074 --> 00:27:58,939 Thanks, Mike. I do my best. 430 00:27:59,076 --> 00:28:01,943 I have just been informed that your accuracy at navigation... 431 00:28:02,079 --> 00:28:04,240 has reached the theoretical limits of the system. 432 00:28:04,381 --> 00:28:06,144 Well, that's very flattering. 433 00:28:06,283 --> 00:28:09,411 Best guess is you must be cheating somehow. 434 00:28:09,553 --> 00:28:11,384 Mike, you caught me. 435 00:28:11,522 --> 00:28:14,389 I came up here by myself last week to practice. 436 00:28:14,525 --> 00:28:17,585 We knew there had to be an explanation. 437 00:28:20,030 --> 00:28:22,931 I nailed it. That new system is-- 438 00:28:30,541 --> 00:28:32,065 Oh, man. 439 00:28:35,746 --> 00:28:37,338 Here you go. 440 00:28:44,621 --> 00:28:47,488 Those are supposed to be for emergencies. 441 00:28:53,130 --> 00:28:54,563 Never mind. 442 00:28:54,731 --> 00:28:58,098 Apollo 8, this is Houston. Do you copy? 443 00:28:59,236 --> 00:29:04,105 We had a little food spill. We're gonna need a few minutes to clean up. 444 00:29:04,241 --> 00:29:05,868 Roger that, Apollo 8. 445 00:29:15,886 --> 00:29:18,548 - Do you want me to tell them? - No. 446 00:29:18,689 --> 00:29:20,486 I think we have to. 447 00:29:20,624 --> 00:29:24,754 I don't want the whole world to know I've got the damn 24-hour flu. 448 00:29:27,030 --> 00:29:30,295 We could put a message in the tape dump. 449 00:29:30,434 --> 00:29:33,733 It might take them a little longer to listen to it, but... 450 00:29:33,871 --> 00:29:36,169 it'd be more private. 451 00:29:37,441 --> 00:29:38,965 Good idea, Bill. 452 00:29:41,645 --> 00:29:44,341 Number one window is clean but has some lint on it. 453 00:29:44,481 --> 00:29:47,678 This is no time to be listening to a "how to speak French" tape. 454 00:29:47,818 --> 00:29:49,945 I wish. It's the tape dump. 455 00:29:52,556 --> 00:29:54,148 One other thing. 456 00:29:54,291 --> 00:29:56,020 Frank's had some vomiting. 457 00:29:57,227 --> 00:30:01,095 He's resting now, but he had some queasiness about 30 minutes ago. 458 00:30:03,267 --> 00:30:04,825 Flight, EECOM. 459 00:30:04,968 --> 00:30:07,129 - Go, EECOM. - We've got a-- 460 00:30:10,841 --> 00:30:12,536 It can't be the flu. 461 00:30:12,676 --> 00:30:15,201 The crew was inoculated against it before launch. 462 00:30:15,345 --> 00:30:17,575 We don't want a sick crew going into lunar orbit. 463 00:30:17,714 --> 00:30:20,080 Borman took one second off for his last sleep period. 464 00:30:20,217 --> 00:30:21,650 Maybe it's a reaction to that. 465 00:30:21,818 --> 00:30:24,685 - What'd he eat last? - His last meal was day two, meal C. 466 00:30:24,821 --> 00:30:28,154 Beef stew with peas and gravy, corn niblets, whole wheat bread, tea... 467 00:30:28,292 --> 00:30:29,691 chocolate pudding. 468 00:30:29,826 --> 00:30:32,727 If we have contaminated food, we have a very serious problem. 469 00:30:32,863 --> 00:30:35,730 We aren't going to abort the mission because of some bad pudding. 470 00:30:35,866 --> 00:30:39,199 - Let's see if he gets better. - It's not the vomiting that worries me. 471 00:30:39,336 --> 00:30:42,965 If Borman has diarrhea, that could very quickly lead to dehydration. 472 00:30:43,106 --> 00:30:46,007 Frank'll kill us if we bring him back now. 473 00:30:46,143 --> 00:30:49,772 We can make a decision well before lunar orbit insertion. 474 00:30:49,913 --> 00:30:52,780 If he's still upchucking then, we'll know what to do. 475 00:30:52,916 --> 00:30:55,908 Quarter million miles into outer space, diarrhea's nothing to sneeze at. 476 00:30:57,054 --> 00:30:58,453 I know. 477 00:31:01,158 --> 00:31:03,524 Man, it's gotta smell bad up there. 478 00:31:04,895 --> 00:31:08,126 Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels 479 00:31:10,634 --> 00:31:15,230 Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles 480 00:31:15,372 --> 00:31:20,173 Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings 481 00:31:20,310 --> 00:31:24,644 These are a few of my favorite things 482 00:31:24,781 --> 00:31:27,682 I just want to tell you all that the commander... 483 00:31:27,851 --> 00:31:29,478 feels just fine. 484 00:31:29,620 --> 00:31:32,714 Very good, Apollo 8. We are happy to hear that. 485 00:31:32,856 --> 00:31:34,483 I feel great. 486 00:31:34,625 --> 00:31:36,684 Bill Anders is our cameraman today. 487 00:31:40,330 --> 00:31:43,959 Before he tapes all of our filters... 488 00:31:44,101 --> 00:31:47,002 over the lens where I look back at you all... 489 00:31:47,170 --> 00:31:50,765 Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell has a message for a special someone. 490 00:31:52,409 --> 00:31:54,172 Happy birthday, Mother. 491 00:31:54,311 --> 00:31:56,973 Cut to Borman. Show Dad again. 492 00:31:57,114 --> 00:31:59,981 Only if he takes off that Snoopy cap. 493 00:32:01,451 --> 00:32:03,749 Boys. 494 00:32:03,887 --> 00:32:06,481 And the Earth is now... 495 00:32:06,623 --> 00:32:08,420 passing through my window. 496 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,887 It's about the size of the end of my thumb. 497 00:32:12,029 --> 00:32:13,428 Oh, my God. 498 00:32:16,867 --> 00:32:18,994 The water's sort of a royal blue. 499 00:32:19,136 --> 00:32:20,501 Dad's far away. 500 00:32:20,637 --> 00:32:23,162 The clouds, of course, are bright white. 501 00:32:23,306 --> 00:32:25,706 - Are they gonna show the moon? - No. 502 00:32:25,842 --> 00:32:28,436 Dad can't see it yet. Something about the angle of their flight path. 503 00:32:28,578 --> 00:32:31,445 They'll have to show it tomorrow night when they're in orbit. 504 00:32:31,581 --> 00:32:34,209 If I was a lonely traveler from some other planet... 505 00:32:34,351 --> 00:32:37,218 what would I think about the Earth from this altitude... 506 00:32:37,354 --> 00:32:40,152 whether or not I think it was inhabited? 507 00:32:40,290 --> 00:32:41,882 I know we're here. 508 00:32:42,025 --> 00:32:45,517 What I'm curious about is whether I'd land on the blue... 509 00:32:45,662 --> 00:32:47,994 or the brown part of the Earth. 510 00:32:48,131 --> 00:32:50,531 I hope we land on the blue part. 511 00:33:02,779 --> 00:33:04,371 Houston, Apollo 8. 512 00:33:04,514 --> 00:33:06,379 We've got a little time here. 513 00:33:06,516 --> 00:33:09,280 I'd like to jump ahead in our flight plan and get us oriented... 514 00:33:09,419 --> 00:33:11,046 for lunar orbit insertion. 515 00:33:11,188 --> 00:33:12,883 Roger that, Apollo 8. 516 00:33:13,023 --> 00:33:17,050 Frank, before you get started, I have a message here from Susan. 517 00:33:17,194 --> 00:33:20,994 She says, "The custard is in the oven at 350." Over. 518 00:33:22,599 --> 00:33:24,794 No comprende, Houston. Over. 519 00:33:24,935 --> 00:33:27,802 Your wife says, "The custard is in the oven." 520 00:33:31,875 --> 00:33:33,365 Roger that. 521 00:33:33,543 --> 00:33:35,443 Thank you for the message, Michael. 522 00:33:37,514 --> 00:33:39,175 Frank is doing just fine. 523 00:33:39,316 --> 00:33:42,683 I've seen a lot of women lose their husbands and become widows. 524 00:33:42,853 --> 00:33:46,345 And you know what? I think I may be next. 525 00:33:46,490 --> 00:33:50,654 - I have a feeling this is my turn. - We all share similar feelings. 526 00:33:50,794 --> 00:33:52,523 I won't lie to you. 527 00:33:52,662 --> 00:33:55,597 Anytime we send human beings into space, the bottom line is it's a risk. 528 00:33:56,900 --> 00:33:59,596 Well, I appreciate your honesty, Chris... 529 00:33:59,736 --> 00:34:02,398 but I know what a free return trajectory is. 530 00:34:02,539 --> 00:34:05,599 Just slingshot them around the moon. Don't stop them in orbit. 531 00:34:05,742 --> 00:34:08,734 It'd be a waste to go all the way to the moon and not go into orbit. 532 00:34:08,879 --> 00:34:10,904 That's the mission Frank signed up for. 533 00:34:11,047 --> 00:34:13,914 Frank is a pilot. He'd take any mission he's given. 534 00:34:15,085 --> 00:34:19,351 If you're worried about the spacecraft, I'll tell you it is working perfectly. 535 00:34:19,489 --> 00:34:22,083 - So far. - We're not staying in orbit... 536 00:34:22,225 --> 00:34:24,250 any longer than we have to-- ten orbits, less than a day. 537 00:34:24,394 --> 00:34:27,261 Then the moment comes when the engine has to fire. 538 00:34:27,397 --> 00:34:30,093 You say everything is working fine, but what happens if it doesn't? 539 00:34:30,233 --> 00:34:33,760 We've already done a course correction with the engine. It's working perfectly. 540 00:34:33,904 --> 00:34:36,338 Do you realize what will happen if you put those men into lunar orbit... 541 00:34:36,506 --> 00:34:37,939 and you can't get them out? 542 00:34:38,942 --> 00:34:40,876 Have you thought about that? 543 00:34:41,044 --> 00:34:42,807 You'll ruin the moon forever. 544 00:34:42,946 --> 00:34:47,246 No one will look at it again without thinking of those dead astronauts. 545 00:34:47,384 --> 00:34:50,911 Valves open inside the service module. That's all that has to happen. 546 00:34:51,054 --> 00:34:54,046 The engine doesn't have to spark or ignite or light up. 547 00:34:54,191 --> 00:34:57,718 It's hypergolic. The hydrazine mixes with the nitrogen tetroxide... 548 00:34:57,861 --> 00:34:59,726 and it can't keep from burning. 549 00:34:59,863 --> 00:35:01,922 We open the valves, and Frank comes home. 550 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,090 If you're wrong... 551 00:35:06,303 --> 00:35:09,602 I won't even have his body to bury. 552 00:35:14,411 --> 00:35:15,708 Apollo 8, this is Houston. 553 00:35:16,713 --> 00:35:19,580 Stand by for go on lunar orbit insertion. 554 00:35:19,716 --> 00:35:24,210 A loss of signal is expected in 37 seconds. 555 00:35:24,354 --> 00:35:27,653 Roger, Houston. We're standing by for that go. 556 00:37:03,420 --> 00:37:05,581 "To whom it may concern. 557 00:37:05,722 --> 00:37:08,623 In the event that Apollo 8 does not return from the moon... 558 00:37:08,758 --> 00:37:10,623 I have prepared the following statement... 559 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,853 to accompany the official NASA press release: 560 00:37:14,264 --> 00:37:17,631 Frank Borman was everything a man was supposed to be. 561 00:37:17,767 --> 00:37:19,667 He was a caring husband... 562 00:37:19,836 --> 00:37:21,599 a loving father... 563 00:37:21,738 --> 00:37:23,296 a career pilot... 564 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,135 and a dedicated astronaut. 565 00:37:26,409 --> 00:37:29,139 He did not fly for the glory or thrill. 566 00:37:29,279 --> 00:37:33,238 He flew for the achievement found in a job well-done... 567 00:37:33,416 --> 00:37:35,976 and because his country needed him. 568 00:37:36,119 --> 00:37:38,986 That the moon has taken his life and the lives of his friends... 569 00:37:39,122 --> 00:37:41,317 Jim Lovell and Bill Anders saddens us... 570 00:37:41,458 --> 00:37:44,154 and makes this world a lesser place. 571 00:37:44,294 --> 00:37:47,991 It is better that he is gone now for he could not have lived with... 572 00:37:48,131 --> 00:37:51,999 the knowledge that the mission that was his command had failed so tragically." 573 00:39:18,154 --> 00:39:20,418 Oh, my God. 574 00:39:37,373 --> 00:39:38,897 Wow, that's pretty. 575 00:39:50,753 --> 00:39:54,553 Are you getting any of this? Hurry up. Get a picture of it. 576 00:39:54,691 --> 00:39:56,659 Hey, that picture's not scheduled. 577 00:39:59,629 --> 00:40:01,893 Have you got it? 578 00:40:02,031 --> 00:40:05,899 Take several of them now. Where's that other camera? 579 00:40:06,069 --> 00:40:07,764 Calm down, Lovell. 580 00:40:07,904 --> 00:40:10,737 Get the film. Take your time. 581 00:40:10,874 --> 00:40:12,899 Let me take one. 582 00:40:22,919 --> 00:40:25,820 Oh, darn. I'm out of film. 583 00:40:29,425 --> 00:40:30,790 You got it? 584 00:40:32,028 --> 00:40:33,552 It'll come up again. 585 00:40:35,965 --> 00:40:39,457 All right, Anders. Let's get some film in these cameras. 586 00:40:42,872 --> 00:40:45,306 Apollo 8, Houston. Do you copy? 587 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,513 8, this is Houston. Do you copy? 588 00:40:57,387 --> 00:40:59,355 Houston, this is Apollo 8. 589 00:40:59,522 --> 00:41:01,353 We are now in lunar orbit. 590 00:41:30,119 --> 00:41:33,213 What does the old moon look like from 60 miles? 591 00:41:34,891 --> 00:41:36,654 The moon is essentially gray... 592 00:41:36,793 --> 00:41:38,158 no color. 593 00:41:38,294 --> 00:41:41,354 Looks like plaster of paris. 594 00:41:41,497 --> 00:41:42,896 Or a beach. 595 00:41:43,032 --> 00:41:45,933 A sort of grayish beach sand. 596 00:41:47,103 --> 00:41:49,936 We're seeing a lot of detail right now. 597 00:41:51,808 --> 00:41:55,107 I think the moon is a different thing to each one of us. 598 00:41:55,245 --> 00:41:58,214 I know my own impression is that it's... 599 00:41:58,381 --> 00:42:01,578 a vast, lonely... 600 00:42:01,718 --> 00:42:04,516 forbidding-type existence... 601 00:42:04,654 --> 00:42:06,383 or expanse of nothing. 602 00:42:07,690 --> 00:42:10,124 It certainly would not appear to be... 603 00:42:10,293 --> 00:42:13,285 a very inviting place to live or work. 604 00:42:14,731 --> 00:42:17,598 Jim, what have you thought most about? 605 00:42:17,734 --> 00:42:21,033 Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. 606 00:42:21,170 --> 00:42:22,899 The vast loneliness... 607 00:42:23,039 --> 00:42:27,135 of the moon up here is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize... 608 00:42:27,277 --> 00:42:30,041 just what you have back there on Earth. 609 00:42:30,179 --> 00:42:34,309 The Earth from here is a grand oasis from the big vastness of space. 610 00:42:35,752 --> 00:42:39,085 The sky up here is also rather forbidding. 611 00:42:40,723 --> 00:42:44,420 An expanse of blackness with no stars visible when... 612 00:42:45,628 --> 00:42:48,688 we're flying over the moon in daylight. 613 00:42:48,831 --> 00:42:50,628 We understand, Apollo 8. 614 00:42:50,767 --> 00:42:53,292 We have a magnificent picture here. 615 00:43:00,276 --> 00:43:02,972 For all the people back on Earth... 616 00:43:03,112 --> 00:43:07,481 the crew of Apollo 8 has a message we would like to send to you. 617 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,181 "In the beginning... 618 00:43:12,322 --> 00:43:15,189 God created the heaven and the Earth... 619 00:43:15,325 --> 00:43:17,088 and the Earth was without form... 620 00:43:17,226 --> 00:43:18,818 and void... 621 00:43:18,961 --> 00:43:22,522 and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 622 00:43:22,665 --> 00:43:26,396 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters... 623 00:43:26,536 --> 00:43:29,369 and God said, 'Let there be light.' 624 00:43:31,641 --> 00:43:33,609 And there was light. 625 00:43:33,776 --> 00:43:35,801 And God saw the light... 626 00:43:35,945 --> 00:43:38,004 and that it was good... 627 00:43:38,147 --> 00:43:41,241 and God divided the light from the darkness. 628 00:43:53,129 --> 00:43:54,994 And God called the light 'day'... 629 00:43:55,131 --> 00:43:57,190 and the darkness he called 'night.' 630 00:43:57,333 --> 00:44:00,427 And the evening and the morning were the first day. 631 00:44:01,938 --> 00:44:03,337 And God said... 632 00:44:03,473 --> 00:44:06,340 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters... 633 00:44:06,476 --> 00:44:09,343 and let it divide the waters from the waters.' 634 00:44:09,479 --> 00:44:11,174 And it was so. 635 00:44:12,448 --> 00:44:15,611 And God called the firmament heaven. 636 00:44:16,619 --> 00:44:19,679 And the evening and the morning were the second day. 637 00:44:27,697 --> 00:44:30,791 And God said, 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together... 638 00:44:30,933 --> 00:44:32,958 unto one place... 639 00:44:33,102 --> 00:44:35,798 and let the dry land appear,' and it was so. 640 00:44:36,939 --> 00:44:39,840 And God called the dry land Earth. 641 00:44:41,110 --> 00:44:45,206 And the gathering together of the waters, called He seas. 642 00:44:45,348 --> 00:44:47,339 And God saw that it was good." 643 00:44:50,987 --> 00:44:52,852 And from the crew of Apollo 8... 644 00:44:54,357 --> 00:44:56,222 we close with good night... 645 00:44:57,660 --> 00:44:59,059 good luck... 646 00:45:00,430 --> 00:45:01,863 a merry Christmas... 647 00:45:03,366 --> 00:45:05,266 and God bless all of you... 648 00:45:06,502 --> 00:45:09,369 all of you on the good Earth. 649 00:45:15,445 --> 00:45:17,140 Apollo 8, Houston. 650 00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:17,746 Go ahead, Houston. 651 00:45:18,781 --> 00:45:22,615 We've reviewed all your systems, and you are go for TEI. 652 00:45:22,752 --> 00:45:25,619 That's good news. Apollo 8 is go. 653 00:45:25,755 --> 00:45:29,623 Everything looks good going over the hill. Good luck, guys. 654 00:45:29,759 --> 00:45:31,249 Roger, Houston. Thank you. 655 00:45:43,873 --> 00:45:47,468 After ten revolutions around the moon, one task will remain for the crew... 656 00:45:47,610 --> 00:45:49,578 upon which their lives depend-- 657 00:45:49,745 --> 00:45:51,474 the firing of the engine. 658 00:45:51,614 --> 00:45:54,310 The crucial four-minute burn of the SPS engine... 659 00:45:54,450 --> 00:45:58,318 to begin astronauts Borman, Lovell and Anders on their long voyage home... 660 00:45:58,454 --> 00:46:01,321 takes place here on the far side of the moon. 661 00:46:01,457 --> 00:46:04,790 out of sight but certainly not out of the minds of Mission Control... 662 00:46:04,927 --> 00:46:06,588 and all of us here. 663 00:46:06,729 --> 00:46:09,630 We will not know Apollo 8's status until the spacecraft... 664 00:46:09,799 --> 00:46:12,666 comes from around the far side of the moon... 665 00:46:12,802 --> 00:46:15,862 and acquisition of signal is achieved. 666 00:46:16,005 --> 00:46:19,839 If the astronaut radio voices, telemetry data... 667 00:46:19,976 --> 00:46:22,945 comes later than 38 minutes after loss of signal... 668 00:46:23,112 --> 00:46:26,980 it means quite simply that the engine did not get a good burn... 669 00:46:27,116 --> 00:46:30,313 and Apollo 8 is still in orbit around the moon. 670 00:46:30,453 --> 00:46:32,318 The SPS engine must fire. 671 00:46:32,455 --> 00:46:35,151 There is no backup, there is no contingency... 672 00:46:35,291 --> 00:46:36,883 in case of its failure. 673 00:46:38,094 --> 00:46:40,324 All we can do is wait. 674 00:47:44,527 --> 00:47:45,926 Houston, Apollo 8. 675 00:47:47,129 --> 00:47:50,690 Please be advised, there is a Santa Claus. 676 00:47:50,833 --> 00:47:52,300 Thank you, Apollo 8. 677 00:47:52,468 --> 00:47:54,527 You'd be the best to know. 678 00:48:16,192 --> 00:48:17,557 Apollo 8, Houston. 679 00:48:17,693 --> 00:48:19,126 Go ahead, Houston. 680 00:48:19,295 --> 00:48:22,628 We received a number of congratulatory telegrams in the past few hours. 681 00:48:22,765 --> 00:48:25,734 If you don't mind, I'd like to read a couple to you. 682 00:48:25,901 --> 00:48:27,630 That sounds good. Go ahead. 683 00:48:27,770 --> 00:48:30,238 Here's one that reads... 684 00:48:30,406 --> 00:48:34,206 "Congratulations on one of the greatest achievements made by man. 685 00:48:34,343 --> 00:48:37,710 You have turned into reality the dream of Robert Goddard." 686 00:48:39,215 --> 00:48:43,083 It's signed "Charles Lindbergh and Ann Morrow Lindbergh." 687 00:48:44,887 --> 00:48:48,721 This one is addressed to Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders. 688 00:48:50,326 --> 00:48:52,419 "Good luck and godspeed." 689 00:48:52,561 --> 00:48:54,290 And it's from Lyndon Baines Johnson. 690 00:48:56,565 --> 00:48:59,534 And you got one from a Mrs. Valerie Pringle. 691 00:48:59,702 --> 00:49:02,603 I'm sure that's not a name any of you recognize. 692 00:49:02,772 --> 00:49:05,639 It's just a telegram that one of the public affairs officials at NASA... 693 00:49:05,775 --> 00:49:07,640 picked up because he liked it. 694 00:49:08,811 --> 00:49:10,676 Mrs. Pringle writes, very simply... 695 00:49:12,148 --> 00:49:14,514 "You saved 1968." 696 00:52:10,893 --> 00:52:14,761 Translated And Subtitled By Captions, Inc. 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