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We choose to go to the moon.

We choose to go to the moon.

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

not because they are easy,
but because they are hard.

- Look at that.
- That's beautiful.

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

The AmpCo Corporation in Lowell,
Massachusetts,

employed about a dozen people,
predominantly middle-aged women,

to pump a special epoxy resin
by hand with caulking guns

into 380,000 one-inch square holes

in the ablative heat shield
of the Apollo command module.

If X-ray inspection showed
a bubble in one of the cells,

they cleaned it out and tried again,

for their product had to work perfectly
for all of six minutes

during the fiery re-entry of the spacecraft

into the Earth's atmosphere.

Anything less than perfection
could mean the death of the crew.

It was up to these employees
at the AmpCo Corporation

and hundreds of thousands like them
at other companies in almost every state,

to deliver without fail
the goods that would make possible

a voyage from the Earth to the moon.

I believe that this nation should
commit itself to achieving the goal

of landing a man on the moon
and returning him safely.

We recognise there are unknowns

and things can happen
that we haven't planned for.

People might look at our work
as being perhaps dangerous or risky...

This is Walter Cronkite.
Three astronauts have been killed.

Died tonight in a launch-pad fire...

Rehearsal of the countdown
and launch of the Apollo 1...

Apollo astronauts Gus Grissom,
Ed White and Roger Chaffee died...

Aim and fire!

Aim, fire!

Captain Walter Schirra salutes his
fallen comrade, Virgil "Gus" Grissom,

in the first of three services held
for the crew of Apollo 1,

who tragically died
during a routine test on a launch pad.

Grissom and Roger Chaffee are being
laid to rest here at Arlington Cemetery.

Edward White will be buried
at West Point later today.

Schirra, commander
of the backup crew for Apollo 1,

will be heading the next manned Apollo
mission, now scheduled for next October.

Yeah. That's good, don't you think?

- Pretty good.
- Yeah.

What?

No. They're not gonna want us
to start with this.

Truth. Said to give us free rein, you know?

Yeah. Well, I'll believe
that when I see it.

They've never let an
outside crew in before.

Hell, they've got to let us in. They got
too much riding on this thing not to.

They gotta prove to the whole damn country
they know what they're doing.

Plus, you know, this mission fails,
then it's over.

So I think we'll be cool.

I still don't think we're gonna get
the access you think we are.

Let's wait and see what happens
when we get there.

Tell me your name and what you do here.

Skip Chauvin. I'm from the STC,
the Space-vehicle Test Conductor.

Ready here for primary
ascend data transfer.

Stand by for transfer.

On my mark in three, two, one, mark.

This is just the introduction.
Your name, what you do.

My name is Guenter Wendt.
I am pad leader here at Cape Kennedy.

We've heard some people call you
the "Pad Führer".

Yes, this is true.
We like to joke around, you know?

We always try to keep it light
when we're doing dangerous things.

One year they gave me
a Colonel Klink helmet.

We have to joke around some, you know?

Let's go!

Go, go, go!

Apollo 7, egress the spacecraft!

Apollo 7! Do you copy?

The elevator's malfunctioning!

I'm getting too old for this shit.

Not so bad, gentlemen.

STC, this is the pad leader.
Crew egress successful.

Roger that.
Time was four minutes and 40 seconds.

Better than I expected.

By the way, fellas, this is my best side.

Cut.

The work you're doing is...
It's very difficult work.

Very precise, very exacting work.

Very little margin for error. Perhaps none.

- Do you feel you're prepared this time?
- Yes.

But can you ever really prepare
for work that's this risky?

Of course. We drill.
We drill the hell out of everything.

We drill and we drill
until we know every step in our sleep

and then we drill some more.

Good acting.
I thought the elevator was broken.

- No, it's fine.
- You ought to join us on the slide wire.

I'm not a crazy person, Wally.

- We did pretty good there.
- Ten seconds less from last time.

Very good!

Just as long as you line 'em up
when we suit up.

- Ounce of prevention.
- I got you.

Watch the shoulder.

This left glove is feeling awfully stiff.

Damn. This is the third seal
we've gone through.

- I can't turn my wrist.
- It's gotta move.

- I gotta be able to scratch my nuts.
- I'll fix it.

Until that time, may I suggest
you scratch them righty?

All right! Go!

At the first sign of trouble,
like the booster's gonna fail,

we get the hell outta the command module.

- Usually, we take the elevator.
- The slide wire's just a backup.

That's a pretty cool ride.

If you like to feel
your heart crawl up your throat.

What would cause you to abort?

Until we clear the tower,
everything's pretty much up for grabs.

How do you mean?

There's 450 tons of liquid fuel
underneath the command module.

Right next to us is a steel tower.

- We're right up against it, OK?
- Right.

If the guidance software's
this much off, we run into it.

If the booster fails,

if there's a premature ignition,
any one of a dozen system failures,

- it's a bad day for all of us.
- Amen to that.

Could we talk about something else?

Miss O'Hara. Hi. Frank Burns.
Nice to meet you.

They told you we were coming
to ask a few questions, yeah?

- Is this a good time?
- Yeah. Sure.

Relax. We're gonna ask
a couple questions. Rolling?

Mark it. OK. Ready?

OK. Just tell us about yourself.
Who are you?

I'm Dee O'Hara, and I'm their nurse.

OK. Can you tell us
about Captain Schirra at all?

"Jolly Wally" is what
we've always called him.

Always a jokester. I'm sure you know
about the tricks he's played on us.

No.

Well, he's got these "gotcha" games
he always plays.

Like the time he dropped off his urine
sample on my desk in a five-gallon jar.

That's good.
Do you have a favourite astronaut?

Oh, no.

No? But you're pretty close
to Captain Schirra, right?

I've known all the Mercury astronauts
since the beginning of the programme.

Would you say that Schirra has lost that
famous sense of humour on this mission?

Everyone gets nervous
before one of these things.

But I think Wally...
This'll be his third mission, after all.

I think he's pretty calm about it,
or seems to be.

I do know that he got a little hot
when the mission planners were suggesting

that the astronauts have all their
hair shaved from head to toe.

I'd have to get a gold earring
if I was gonna look like Mr Clean.

Seriously, I just hinted to them
that if the danger was such

that my own hair was going to be a hazard,

maybe I'd just as soon stay home.

We've spoken with Captain Schirra.
He told us about the water-skiing incident.

We thought we'd get your side of the story.

The water-skiing thing?

I mean, here we are, what?
A month before launch?

Walt's out hot-dogging on water-skis.

Did he tell you he nearly
got canned on his Mercury flight

because he hurt himself water-skiing?

Someone's gonna bring up that I got
myself in the same kind of trouble,

but the difference is that
that was a freak accident.

I mean, Walt's problem is that he's
never gonna be as good on skis as I am.

Because I'm better.

Did he tell you I took up skiing
because he didn't want me playing handball?

I didn't want him to get hurt.

Cos he was afraid I was gonna beat him.

- How am I doing?
- Just fine.

And this is the biomed belt.

And this is the UCD,
the urine collection device.

- How's that work?
- The astronaut would attach...

Never mind.

Why don't you tell them about
the faecal containment system, Clyde?

So really stay ready, OK? Wait.
Here he is now. This is Deke Slayton.

- Mr Slayton, hi. Frank Burns.
- Oh, yes.

We spoke on the phone
about doing an interview.

- You want to do it now?
- Is that OK?

- Is it a good time?
- It's fine.

Why don't you just tell us what
you do here. What's your job?

I'm director of flight
crew operations here.

And what does that mean?

Basically, that means that I oversee
all aspects of the missions

that pertain to the individual
flight crew members, the astronauts.

We've been hearing a rumour that Captain
Schirra is thinking of retiring.

- Have you heard that?
- You've heard that?

- Yeah. I'm privy to that rumour.
- What do you think about it?

Well...

Wally Schirra is one of our best
and most experienced astronauts

and I'm sorry to lose him.

You were one of the Mercury Seven,
one of the originals.

How's it feel to be retiring?

I'm OK with retirement.

I think a man should have some idea
of his future before he turns 45.

- I'm gettin' pretty close to that mark.
- It must make your wife happy.

This must've been tough on her
all these years.

Jo? She's Navy, born and bred.

She knows the drill.
She knows what we're doing here.

That's not to say that this astronaut stuff
has been easy for her.

It has not.

Mrs Schirra, tell me...
This must have been tough for you.

How have you two kept your marriage
together for so long?

Well, I think the reason
we've been married for so long

is because Wally's been away half the time.

He walked into the house the other day.
I thought we were being robbed.

I almost called the cops.

- That's nice.
- It's true.

Very nice.

What the hell kind of bait are you using?

It's not bait, Wally. That is pure skill.

That's skill? That's luck.

- Pure luck.
- Yeah, yeah.

The fish is smaller than the bait.

- That's enough, isn't it?
- Yeah, that's fine.

Let's cut it. We just need to get
a wide shot, then we'll be done. OK?

Be careful of the line. Thank you.

So you're gonna be doing a lot of fishing,
Wally?

I'm retiring from NASA,
Deke, not from life.

Not gonna sit and whittle wood.
There are business opportunities.

The time has come.

I'm a test pilot. And after this,
the testing'll pretty much be done.

It's not as if I'm gonna
make the big test. Right?

It's not as if I'm going to the moon.
Right? Deke?

Everyone thinks that I
got this big master plan

for all the crews, but I don't.

People don't understand.
They look at Glenn and Carpenter and Gordo.

They think they're crazy for not sticking around
for Apollo. But I know why they bailed out.

I have been completely devoured
by this business.

You know.

But you're staying?

I don't know what else I'd do.

Soon as they finish their
little movie here, I gotta get going.

Got a fit-and-function test at noon.

I'll take it from here.

We haven't spoken with
the least experienced of your crew, Eisele.

Donn Eisele. He's smart.

He's funny.

I love this one thing he says.
He says, "I'm the navigator.

"I've got the right to
know where I'm going."

That's funny.

You got it?

- Got it.
- You're sure you got film?

Hank, come over this way. There you go.

We're speaking with Donn Eisele,
CM pilot for Apollo 7.

You were supposed to be
on the first Apollo crew. What happened?

I had injured my shoulder

in the KC-135 training mission,
you know, the vomit comet.

How did you feel about the fire?

First I felt relief, to
be perfectly honest.

I mean, you know, relief that it wasn't me.

But I think that's just
kind of a natural reaction.

Then sadness, you know. It...

Losing such good men.
Really just great men.

- And then finally guilt.
- Guilt?

Yeah. That I wasn't there, you know?

Like I should've been.

Some say that if you'd been around

they wouldn't have lost Grissom
and his crew in the fire.

No, that's not true at all.
The men on the pad did the best they could.

It was the design of the hatch,
the 100% oxygen environment,

the wiring, a lot of little things.

It had nothing to do with the pad crew.

You've solved enough
of the problems to make this one safe?

Listen, fellas, we always wonder,
"What are we missing here?

"What little thing has slipped
through the cracks here?"

We don't know. So we're
staying on our toes.

- Caught me at an awkward time.
- I understand.

Can we go? You going?
Let's go. Are you rolling?

Great.

So you and Captain Schirra
have always gotten along?

No, Wally and his crew
were quite a pain in the butt.

John Healey and I were
like two roosters in a pit.

This is the most complicated machine
I've ever seen.

There are subsystems inside subsystems.

There's more cable
than AT&T laid out in Manhattan.

We did not need spacemen
running roughshod over the plant.

I told him, "I'm a test pilot,
I've got a degree in engineering.

"I've been in space,
and I'm in command of this mission."

There were critical deadlines. Wally
was demanding to be in every decision.

Did that surprise you, though,
considering the Apollo 1 situation?

Wally and I went through
what you might call a "process".

You see, a pilot depends
on his guys on the line.

Until we're in orbit, the most I can do
is abort the mission. That's it.

We began to understand each other's needs.

Such as?

We all understand
the astronauts' lives are in our hands.

We never forget that.

Ever.

That was great.

I know this is a difficult question.
It's inevitable.

Tell me about Apollo 1.

Apollo 1?

What can you say? It's all been said.

You were the backup crew, right?

How did you find out?

We'd all done the full-up tests
in the spacecraft the day before.

And we flew back to Houston
the next afternoon while...

Gus and Roger and Ed did
the plugs-out tests.

We found out when we landed at Ellington.

You had spoken to Gus the day before
about the problems with the spacecraft.

Is that right?

Look, everyone knew
there were problems with the spacecraft.

Gus knew it. I knew it. Everyone knew it.

But no one ever imagined...

what happened could happen.

How do you feel about it?

We're all test pilots.

We're accustomed
to things going wrong at times.

You're sad. You mourn the loss.

But you don't wear the
black armband forever.

This is the command module simulator.

People ask what it's gonna be like

being cooped up in a phone booth
with two guys for eleven days.

Well, we've been in that thing
for six months and we've survived.

This is the lunar module simulator.

If our mission is successful

the crews that are working
in there right now...

go to the moon.

I just need to ask you a couple
of questions about your pad crew.

Guenter Wendt.

Wally Schirra put in a word for me after...
when his crew came on board.

I don't know, but I heard they told him
they'd give him anything to keep him happy.

They said, "We'll give you a rubber piggy
doll if it'll make you comfortable."

And I said, "Wrong."
They were missing the point.

I'm not a piggy doll.

But Wally Schirra is no fool.
He knows damn well I'm hard-nosed.

Guenter is excellent at his job.

We're gonna need everyone to be excellent
if we're gonna pull this off.

If this mission is successful, you feel
confident you'll be going to the moon?

That you'll be going sometime soon?

We're gonna be playing golf on the moon
in the next ten years.

We're doing a bunch of these around here.

All right. He's rolling it? OK.

This is Tim Messick, data specialist. Mark.

All right, Tim, tell me
how all this stuff works.

Oh, man.

This stuff is so complicated.
You have no idea.

The problem is just trying to fit all of
this into a little bitty onboard computer.

We've done it - the core-rope
technology makes it possible -

but still, it's like trying to fit
a rhinoceros into a Volkswagen

and then hoping he knows how to drive.

Has NASA bitten off
a little more than it can chew again?

Tried to do too much too fast?

We don't have a choice. I mean,
without an inertial guidance system -

a sophisticated one that can accurately
navigate and control a lunar orbit

or re-entry to Earth - we'll never make it.

I mean, you can't just throttle up,

point the nose of your aircraft
and head thataway, you know?

But Apollo 7's not going to the moon.

No, it's not. We're shaking
all the little bugs out of the system.

They'll be taking fixes
on various stars and continents.

We'll see if the computers
can identify them

and then see if they can
navigate with them.

- Sounds like a big job.
- Big job? It's an enormous job.

Maybe an impossible job.

It's gotta be successful, though,
or we're never leaving the Earth's orbit.

That's good. You're a natural.

- Thanks.
- Point right at the camera.

No. We need to get up, prove that this
spacecraft can work and get down again.

That's it, gentlemen.
That's the mission, in my mind.

Anything else spells danger.

- So how can we help?
- We've already got a full flight plan.

I got two rookies on board, seven major
manoeuvres, a new navigation computer.

This is a brand-new
and very complex spacecraft.

Don't go crowding the flight plan
with a lot of egghead experiments.

It's wild enough that we're gonna
broadcast live television up there.

Eleven days. That's a lot of time.

In Earth time, Deke.

You'd be surprised
how fast everything goes up there.

I wanna keep things straightforward.

No deviations.

All right. I'll review the requests
and I'll take that into consideration

when I make my recommendation.

Master Sergeant Russ Lawrence.

I'm a meteorologist
with the 45th Weather Squadron.

Great.

Can you tell us about all this equipment
you've got here? What's this all about?

Well, we're fortunate to have

the most sophisticated weather
data-gathering tools available to us.

Our worldwide satellite
system, for example.

We've had the TIROS system
worldwide since '66.

And with that we can see local
cloud changes on a 24-hour basis.

We now have our next-generation
weather satellite. That's Nimbus Two.

And on top of that
we have our Doppler radar system,

and we have some of the finest meteorologists
that the Air Force has to offer.

Ultimately, though, the most important tool
available to us for predicting the local weather

is this window.

Don, can we have the next slide up, please?

With the minor retrofitting
we've just discussed,

we should have little difficulty adapting the
block one couches to the block two mounts.

- Hello, Wally.
- Don't let me interrupt.

I'm fascinated to hear
why we're not using new couches.

They won't be ready for Seven.
I'm sorry. There just isn't enough time.

I see.

And the old model here, the block one
couches. How do they test on landing?

Should be fine,
provided we have a standard landing.

- Meaning an ocean landing.
- Yeah, that's right.

What are the stats on a land landing?

If there's a launch abort,
and the winds are strong enough,

we could be blown back onto land.

The stats aren't too good on that,
I'm afraid. I suspect you know that.

Indeed, I do.
We need a mission rule on the winds.

What kind of a rule?

We don't launch
unless the winds are favourable.

All right.

You would scrub the mission for the wind?

A landing on actual land
could be dangerous.

What do you mean?

Picture this.

In an abort on the pad,

a mini rocket yanks the command module

off the top of the Saturn 1 B booster.

Parachutes deploy.

If the winds are just about... 18 knots,
we'd be carried right back onto shore.

And...

We'd be tumbling round and round
like monkeys in a barrel.

We might hit the ground
at some squirrelly angle.

Maybe those couches
could sustain a beating like that.

But if not, I call that "ouch".

- Did you get that?
- Yeah. Perfect.

Yeah. Are we rolling?

- Mark it. There we go.
- Yeah.

Just tell us who you are.

I'm John Young.

I'm the command-module pilot
on the backup crew for the Apollo 7.

What does it mean to be the backup crew?

Well, the backup crew sort of shadows
the actual crew during training.

When they work on the simulator
on a manoeuvre

we follow right in behind 'em
and do the same.

What about the launch, though?
What are your duties then?

Well, to prepare the module
for Wally and his boys.

I know these systems here
like the back of my hand.

So if anything were to happen,
your crew would be ready and willing

to step right in for Wally's crew,
is that right?

Well...

Sure.

But Wally wants everything set and ready
by someone as qualified as himself,

someone who could fly
that mission now, today.

And, you know, I'd want
that on my flight too.

Make sure we have the
card sequencing right.

- You mean the initialization deck?
- No, the active deck.

This isn't a simulation tomorrow.

I know, but last week's test uncovered
a major bug in the uplink subroutine.

- A continuous loop.
- Like there wasn't a jump command.

I want to make sure I get a return
to subroutine D-SYS when toss is called.

- Of course.
- That's what I'm saying.

So at T minus 10:35,
we begin the abort light verification.

- Just before DMSS is clear?
- Roger.

Like being the only cowboy
in a team roping competition.

I wouldn't know, John.
The rodeo rarely came to Berlin.

OK, we're sitting here
with Walt Cunningham,

who is the lunar module pilot of Apollo 7.

You're now less than 24 hours away
from your first launch into space.

- Feel ready?
- Sure, I'm ready.

- Excited?
- Excited?

You bet! Look, let me tell you something.

We have the best spacecraft.
We have the best crew.

The public is urging us on 100%.

We're gonna show everybody
what Apollo 7 can do.

Working hard or hardly working?

Good to see you.
I was wondering when you'd stop by.

It's an old habit. Checking out the boat
the night before we ship out.

I remember well. Please
step into my office.

She's a beauty, don't you think?

Yeah, she's sweet.

I'm sorry there will be
no pinup posters this time.

I couldn't even sneak in a deck of cards.

So I heard.

Well, I've got some paperwork
I have to catch up on.

Sure. I'll let you know when I leave.

That's fine.

How's it look?

You scared the hell outta me, John Patrick.

I'm sorry. I came to check on her
before I hit the sack.

Same here. Great minds, you know?

You bet.

Well...

Well...

Good luck tomorrow.

You know, bon voyage. Have a nice trip.

- What do they say before a launch?
- Liftoff!

So it's the night before the launch.
You've sacrificed a lot to get here.

- How do you feel?
- It's a lot of hard work.

It's great, you know? I mean, I love
it, but there's a price you pay.

Is it hard on your family?

Yeah. I mean,
I try to get home most weekends.

Not so much the last couple of months,
as we've gotten close up to the launch.

But it's hard, you know? I mean, we...

We're doing great.

I mean, Harriet's been wonderful.

I think we all know what's involved
in getting this thing done.

Let me talk to your mom again, son.

Thank you. Me too.

Hey, buddy.

Same here.

Yeah. You take care, Jo.

Sleep tight.

I love you too.

Good morning, Apollo 7. S TC. Do you read?

Roger, S TC. Five by.

John, we gonna have a launch today,
or what?

That's affirmative.
Looking good up here. How about you?

Yeah. We're as good to go as go can get.

S TC, Apollo 7.
Verifying CSM SBAND transponder.

Roger, Apollo 7.
Verification, SBAND transponder is off.

VCMP, panel two, caution and warning
power switch, position one.

STC, VCMP.
Caution and warning power switch to one.

No gags today?

I considered putting chattering teeth
in my underwear but decided against it.

- What makes you think I'd have checked?
- You always do.

- You always do.
- Stop it.

Hello, Dee. Good morning, Wally.

- Eisele show his face yet?
- No.

I don't know what he's thinking,
the night before a launch.

Hasn't he seen her enough this week?

He's got a family back in Houston,
for Christ's sake.

An adjustment to the situation
should've been made a long time ago.

I thought I made that clear to him.

He's in love.

It's... an affair of the heart.

- Yeah.
- Morning.

I'll see you two at breakfast.

Your fly is down.

Shepard's always talking about Bill...

My name, José Jimenez.

Mr Jimenez, could you tell us what's
the most important thing in rocket travel?

To me, the most important thing
in rocket travel

is the blastoff.

I always take a blast before I take off.

Otherwise, I wouldn't get in that thing.

Give Eisele his bon voyage gift.

Say what?

Well, I guess it's official, then.

I can just see Cronkite saying,

"And as the brave crew
of Apollo 7 blasts off,

"we bid our fond farewell
to Wally, Walt and...

"Whatshisname."

The start of Apollo 7,
one of the most critical milestones

since this country embarked
on the road to the moon.

America last flew astronauts on the two-man
flight of Gemini 1 2 in November, 1 966.

It was to be followed in February of 1 967

by the first three-man Apollo flight.

But then the fire on Pad 34.

We're all test pilots.

We're accustomed to things
going wrong at times.

You're sad. You mourn the loss.

But you don't wear
the black armband forever.

Good luck. We're so proud.

An engineer at the Cape points out
that there are two million working parts

in the Apollo spacecraft.

Achieving 99.9% perfection
still would not be good enough.

That would leave 2,000 parts to go wrong.

Well, that won't happen.
But any one part that goes wrong

could be critical and deadly
in a game as risky as this one.

Pad Leader, S TC. Crew has departed ONC.

I understand. They're on their way.

Just checking the old reservoirs
and the cryo levels.

We're closing the cryo sequence now.

Apollo 7 starts
the final American push to the moon.

Failure on this flight
would all but finish US chances

of reaching the moon
by the end of next year.

The schedule is close.
No question about that.

Any failure could make impossible
meeting the goal

of man on the moon
by the end of this decade,

and also make doubtful the unannounced
goal of getting there before the Russians.

Pad Leader, S TC. Flight crew has arrived.

Roger, S TC. We are ready.

Stand by to verify
the following switch positions -

logic BUS, safe light, on.

Confirmed. Light on.

Pyro-BUS, safe light, on.

Light on. Check.

Caution and warning
master alarm light, off.

- Confirmed. Light off.
- SCS control mode light, on.

Standing there on Pad 34,
ready to blast off into space,

the Saturn 1 B is potentially far more
dangerous than anything imaginable.

An explosion or the sudden burning of its
565 tons of liquid fuels and oxidizers

would surely destroy everything on the pad,
including the spacecraft and its crew.

- Attitude minimum, light on.
- Minimum, light on. Check.

Remove boot protectors
and CSC protective Velcro.

Boot protectors and CSC
protective Velcro from boots removed.

Ingress into couch.

Connect CCU to PGA.

CCU to PGA. Connected.

AC performs following. Panel 9.

- Suit power switch.
- Suit power switch, on.

Roll B mat, rate 2, light on.

Metro, CETS. How are the winds looking?

CETS, Metro. We're within limits,
but the wind is increasing.

Roger, Metro.

It's less than one hour from launch.

The feeling here is one of awe.

There's a sense that we've arrived
at a defining moment in history.

Is this the end of an era?

Is this the final moment
in man's failed attempt to reach the stars?

Or is this the beginning of something new?

At last, a chance to put
the Apollo 1 tragedy behind us,

to define ourselves
with a slightly naive but inspired sense

that we are unlimited beings,
that we can do anything.

Roger that. Suit CKT interconnect removed.

Test. Hear me, Wally?

- Five square.
- How do you think Navy's gonna do?

Figure them to beat Air Force's ass.

STC, VCMP. Internal comm check is complete.

- CDR is on.
- CDR, S TC. How do you read?

STC, CDR. Loud and clear.

- How do we look, Skip?
- Just fine.

Your ship's in great shape. Stand by.
Houston's ready for a comm check.

- Houston, Apollo 7. How do we read?
- Five by, Apollo 7.

STC, CDR.

Hope you guys
are keeping an eye on the winds.

They looked pretty strong coming up here.

Roger that.
We're still in the window for launch.

Go fever.

CDR, THC neutral and locked.

Rog. Neutral and locked.

Panel one verified.
Manual attitude roll switch break command.

Pitch switch acceleration command.

Pitch accel command.

- Yaw switch rate command.
- Yaw rate command.

CDR, S TC, SCS, TVC.
Pitch switch rate command.

- Pitch switch rate command.
- Yaw switch rate command.

Yaw switch rate command.

LMP, S TC. Panel three, verify.

- Rog, STC. Panel three.
- LMP.

VHF antenna select. SM left.

VHF antenna select. SM left.

Main BUS A reset switch, centre.

Rog. Main BUS A reset, centre.

- SPS helium valve one switch, auto.
- Helium one, auto.

- SPS helium valve two switch, auto.
- Rog. Helium two, auto.

- VHF beacon switch, off.
- VHF beacon switch, off.

AC BUS one reset switch, centre.

Rog, AC one reset, centre.

- AC BUS two reset, centre.
- Rog, AC two reset, centre.

- All right, Captain. They're swabbed out.
- Thank you.

Have a good flight. Fellas.

STC, Pad Leader.
Request permission to close the hatch.

Pad Leader, S TC. You have a go.

Well, you flyboys all set?

Can I get you anything? A magazine?

- A cocktail?
- Goodbye, Guenter.

Stand by for sequence verification.

Standing by.

Roger, Forward handle
is neutral and locked.

THC power off.

Roger, THC power is off.

CDR verify, abort lights on and off.

Standing by for abort lights.

STC, CDR. Abort light is on.

STC, CDR. Abort light is off.

Roger, CDR. Abort sequence verified.

CDR, S TC.
Abort handle unlocked and armed.

Roger STC.
Abort handle is unlocked and armed.

STC, Pad Leader. Hatch closed and locked.

Ready for cabin leak check.

Seal indicators positive
and we're beginning pressurization now.

Roger. Pressurization.

Lock it up.

Dump the pressure.

Disconnect the hose.

Got it.

STC, Pad Leader.

Cabin leak check and O2 check complete

and we're preparing to close
the PPC hatch - close the hatch.

PPC hatch is closed.
White room closeout complete.

We're ready to clear the pad.

- Roger, Pad Leader. Clear to roadblock.
- Roger. Clearing the pad.

OK, guys, let's get the hell out of here

and let these gentlemen do their job.

It's so quiet.

I wonder where Guenter went.

I'm gonna steal that.

Press.

CVTS, this is the pad leader.
Closeout crew is at Roadblock 1 1.

Roger, Pad Leader.
Preparing to retract the white room.

Roger, S TC. We're going for launch.

Apollo 7, this is STC.
The flight director in Houston is ready.

We're ready.
Gentlemen, we are go for launch.

We seem to be experiencing
some fairly strong winds here at the Cape.

But NASA officials say
they're still optimistic

that weather conditions will be
within mission parameters.

If the wind speed should top 1 8 knots,
however,

the possibility of a hold on this count
becomes far more likely.

STC, Apollo 7.

Either our rate needles
are way out of whack,

or we're getting
some pretty substantial wind up here.

Roger, Apollo 7. It's not your
rate needles. You've got wind.

OK, then.

I'm recommending a hold on the count.

These winds appear to be
way out of the mission rule parameters.

Did you copy that, Skip?

We're not happy about the
wind situation here.

Roger that, Wally.

Do you mean a possible
scrub situation here?

I hope not. I just don't
like the situation.

Wally, Deke here.

We have been assured by Meteorological

that we have
an acceptable launch condition.

But if you want to hold, we'll hold.
It's up to you.

If you say we're in the ballpark,

then I guess we're a go.

Roger that, Wally.

Go fever, huh?

OK, final telemetry uplink
for primary ascent guidance data.

That's a go for PAGD.
We are transmitting now.

We are go for launch
and will begin chill down on my mark.

In five, four, three...

two, one, mark.

Begin S-1 B fuel tank pressurization
at T minus two minutes, 44 seconds.

On my mark. Five...

four, three...

two, one, mark.

LH-2 tank pressurization at T minus
one minute, 53 seconds. On my mark.

Five, four, three...

two, one, mark.

And we're a go for main engine start.

Ten, nine, eight...

seven, six, five...

four, three...

two, one.

Liftoff and clock's running.

- We have cleared the tower.
- Roger.

We have cleared the tower.
You got it, Houston.

And she's tracking good.

- Roger. You're lookin' good at 5,000.
- Roger that.

All right! Yes!

Roll complete. We're on our way.

Roger that. Godspeed, Apollo 7.

Godspeed.