All language subtitles for Destination Moon (1950)

Five Nights at Freddy's.

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>> Here it is, General. This is your

vindication. I'm glad you're here today.

>> Prophet without honor, eh?

Well, at least I'm still alive to see

this.

>> They'll break their necks to get you

back and raise your rank when they see

what this will do. [music]

>> 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13,

12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,

fire.

>> Sweetie,

stay in here. There may be more

explosions.

>> [music]

>> What happened, Charles? What went wrong?

>> I don't know. I don't know.

>> There couldn't have been anything wrong

with the design aeronautically.

>> No, it was the motor.

>> [music]

>> Why?

Why after 4 years of development tests?

Seems impossible, but I can figure only

one [music] thing.

>> What?

>> Somebody tampered.

>> Sabotaged.

>> That's for intelligence to find out, but

we build another.

>> Afraid you won't, Charles.

>> Of course we will.

>> Do [music] you think this failure is

going to make it easier to get new

appropriations?

Things like this mean military cuts,

boy. [music]

Research is going back to the

laboratories.

>> Then I will, too.

I'm not quit.

For it, I want to reintroduce myself to

my wife and kids.

Mow lawns, fix leaky faucets, [music]

paint fences, and

read a few detective stories in the

bathtub.

Then get on with the problem and a few

others I've had to neglect these last

few years.

Satellite to circle the earth forever,

12,000 mi above sea level.

>> [music]

>> What did I call it a while back just

before I was [music] fired? Your

vindication, General.

I'm sorry. I'm sorrier about that than

anything else.

After your years of crusading, all I've

succeeded in giving you is the

most expensive pile of junk in history.

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>> General Ferris here, Mr. Barnes.

>> Oh, fine. Send him in.

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>> Don't forget to wash behind your ears.

>> How was the trip, General?

>> Very smooth. I flew in on one of your

Skyliners. Nice ship, Jimmy. Very nice.

>> Uh-oh. Whenever you start with a

compliment, you're after something.

>> That's hardly civil, Jim. I haven't seen

you for the better part of 2 years. Did

I ask you for something the last time I

saw you?

>> You certainly did. You wanted a shoulder

to cry on because Cargraves' rocket

fizzled.

Glad to see you anyway, General.

>> I'm not wasting my time crying about

that anymore.

>> After the way you sold me,

quote, "The rocket is an absolute

necessity.

If any other power gets one out into

space before we do, we'll no longer be

the United States, we'll be the

disunited world, etc., etc." Unquote.

>> That's twice as true today.

>> Look, you proved that a satellite rocket

isn't practical. It blew up, didn't it?

>> Did it blow up, Jimmy?

Or was it blown up?

Blown up?

>> Well, why ask me?

Army Intelligence might know.

>> They know.

>> What's your pitch, General?

>> I'll tell you.

>> Wait a minute.

I think I can put this together myself.

You're a satellite rocket man.

You crusaded yourself right out of the

service, then you kept on crusading.

Finally, they took up the Cargraves

project, it fizzled.

Now, following the course of old

established habit,

you'd like to drop it in my lap.

Well, I love you, General,

but I'm just a plain manufacturer, not

the Department of Defense. The answer's

no. N-O, no. Don't like the cigar, we're

going to lunch.

>> Who said you were anything but a

manufacturer? That's why I came to you.

>> Look, General, building rocket

satellites is big stuff. I couldn't

begin to finance one of those.

>> asking you to rebuild the satellite.

Cargraves spent 4 years on that project.

That rocket could have and should have

done everything we anticipated. There's

no time, no need to repeat that

experiment.

>> What in blazes you're driving at now?

>> The moon.

>> Okay.

I listen, tell me.

>> I did tell you. The next rocket we build

is going to the moon.

>> Let's go to lunch.

>> I'm serious, Jim.

>> No, you can't be. It's too fantastic.

The moon? Impossible.

>> Even with an atomic energy engine

exhaust velocity potential of 30,000 ft

a second?

Thrust of 3 million pounds?

>> Why, even just Spuley's atomic engine

has only limited use. He hasn't come

close to designing a mobile unit.

>> Cargraves has spent the past 2 years on

it. He's not only designed it, he's

tested it. His scale model ran for an

hour and 23 minutes before it blew up.

>> [sighs]

>> That's incredible.

>> I saw it, Jim.

>> Good grief, man. And the government

hasn't taken that over?

>> It's peacetime, Jim. The government

isn't making that kind of

appropriations. Well, they'll need the

rocket one of these days, and if it's

not ready, the government will do the

job, and they'll turn to you, to private

industry, to do it. Government always

does that when it gets in a jam. It has

to. This time, I figured we might be

ready for the government.

Preparedness isn't all military, Jim.

>> What about the money?

>> That's not the problem. It's production.

That's why I came to you. You're a

production man. The problem right now is

one of research, designing special

materials,

the pooling of resources, specialized

skills, engineering brains, industrial

capacity.

No single company could possibly do it.

But combined American industry, sparked

by Jim Barnes,

could put a rocket on the moon within a

year.

Huh?

What do you say, Jim?

Do we go to lunch?

Or do we go to the moon?

Moon, huh?

>> Here's the control room. All this space

below carries the working fluid, the

reaction mass. It's water heated to dry

steam by the atomic pile and expelled

through this jet.

Here we have the shielding to protect

the crew from radioactivity.

Here are the gyros behind the water

tanks and they can be used to turn the

ship to any desired attitude.

>> I admit, gentlemen, this enterprise

appeals to me.

I've always been attracted by uh shall I

say progressive forms of transportation.

I've not been noted as a horse-and-buggy

man.

>> [laughter]

>> Now I I'd rather like to have a finger

in this new go-devil,

though nothing in the world would tempt

me to ride in it. But

can we afford it?

>> Well, I've been told you can, Mr.

Laporte.

>> [laughter]

>> Do you mind?

>> Allison, fella, I've known you from way

back.

Two-engine planes weren't fast enough.

You had to go in for four. Then props

weren't fast enough. You had to go in

for jets. Now you've got to hold on to

something else, something that'll go

higher and faster than anything that

ever existed before.

You can't swing it alone,

so you're trying to rope us in on it.

Well, before we go along with you,

you'll have to tell us

what's the payoff?

>> Allison Sands, I don't know.

I want to do this job because it's never

been done, because I don't know.

It's research, it's pioneering. What's

the moon? Another North Pole, another

South Pole. Our only satellite, our

nearest neighbor in the sky.

>> But why go there, Jim?

>> We'll know when we get there. We'll tell

you when we get back.

It's a venture I don't want to be left

out of.

>> I like your viewpoint, Jim, but there

are a good many men here who won't see

it. They don't even understand it.

>> I got a first reader lesson all drawn up

for them.

Sit down, will you fellows? Let's see

how this stake seats.

Gentlemen,

Gentlemen, may I have your

Gentlemen, may I have your attention,

please?

If you'll all be seated, I'd like to

show you a motion picture we had

prepared for this meeting.

We have one of Hollywood's best-known

actors to play for you.

All right, Sam.

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>> I'm a busy man. Dragging me all the way

down here to talk about a rocket to the

moon.

It's ridiculous.

Comic book stuff.

>> Comic book stuff, eh? Life magazine

doesn't think so.

Nor Look, nor Pic,

nor Collier's, nor your biggest daily

newspapers.

>> It'll never get off the ground.

Hm, no propellers.

>> Rockets do not employ propellers. They

use jets.

>> So do gas stoves, but they don't fly to

the moon.

>> [laughter]

>> Obviously, you know nothing about

rockets.

Now, let's pretend that umbrella of

yours is a shotgun.

Shoot it.

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>> My first me?

>> The gun Woody. The charge not only fired

out of the muzzle, it kicked back with

equal force against the barrel.

>> Ah, it wouldn't happen again in a

hundred times.

>> Shoot it at the ground a few times in

rapid succession and see what happens.

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>> That same principle applies to rockets.

It is the same shotgun kick [music] of

the explosives that throws the rocket

forward.

That kick incidentally is quite [music]

independent of the air around the

rocket.

It works just as well in a vacuum or in

outer space, which is a vacuum.

The moon is a great deal easier to reach

than you realize.

>> Oh, sure. It's a cinch.

Only 240,000 miles.

Pave highway all the way and a gas

station at every intersection.

>> Fuel is no problem Woody.

The engines do not have to blast all the

time. Just long enough to get you away

from the gravitational pull of the

earth.

Following which you fall wherever you

are headed for.

Get in and I'll demonstrate.

>> [music]

>> Hey, let me out of here. Help! Help!

>> At the start, the jets [music] blast

powerfully enough to counteract the

gravitational pull of the earth.

Once out of the earth's atmosphere,

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the rocket just keeps on going

encountering no resistance to slow it

up.

The rocket does not appear to be

traveling. But the high speed

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>> or escape velocity as we call it is

about 7 miles a second.

It keeps falling in outer space

>> [music]

>> in the direction in which it was

started.

Now, as it nears the moon, that planet's

gravitational field [music] begins to

pull it toward it.

>> Can't hear you, Woody. No air, remember?

Turn on your aerial.

>> [music]

>> Hey, no brakes on this thing. I'm going

to crash.

How do I land?

>> Very simple. Just reverse the takeoff.

>> Yeah, but what about the wings?

>> Can't use them. The moon has no air.

>> Now he tells me.

>> Turn the ship around. Use the shotgun

kick of the exhaust [music]

to break the speed and set her gently on

her tail.

>> [music]

>> So, we made it.

But how do we get home from this piece

of cheese?

>> Shooting a rocket from the moon to the

Earth is a great [music] deal easier

than shooting from the Earth to the moon

because it's downhill almost all the

way.

The V-2 rocket could do it today.

On the return trip, we use the wings to

glide in.

And for economy's sake, finish the

landing like this.

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>> Sensational.

I'm sold. I'll back it to the hill.

Here's my two bucks.

Well, when do we start building?

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[applause]

>> Well, gentlemen,

when do we start building?

You've examined our model. You've seen

our little picture.

I hope by now we've succeeded in

dispelling some of your original

skepticism.

>> Mr. Barnes, can you imagine me going

before a meeting of my stockholders and

reporting that I'd put millions into a

trip to the moon?

Why son, they'd lynch me.

>> I doubt it even in Texas when you tell

them why.

It just happens we have no choice. If we

want to stay in business, we have to

build this ship.

>> Did you say have to build it, Jim?

>> That's what I said.

>> If it's that important a project, why

doesn't the government undertake it?

>> Well, here's the reason.

The vast amount of brains, talent,

special skills, and research facilities

necessary for this project are not in

the government. Nor can they be

mobilized by the government in peacetime

without fatal delay.

Only American industry can do this job.

And American industry must get to work

now, just as we did in the last war.

>> Yes, but the government footed the

bills.

>> And they'll foot this bill, too, if

we're successful. You know that. If we

fail, we'll take a colossal beating. So,

we can't fail.

Not only is this the greatest adventure

awaiting mankind, but it's the greatest

challenge ever hurled at American

industry.

And General Thayer is going to tell you

why.

>> The reason is quite simple.

We are not the only ones who know that

the moon can be reached.

We're not the only ones who are planning

to go there.

The race is on,

and we'd better win it because there is

absolutely no way to stop an attack from

outer space.

The first country that can use the moon

for the launching of missiles

will control the Earth.

That, gentlemen,

is the most important military fact of

this century.

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>> Gentlemen,

>> [music]

>> I see no need for further discussion.

It's our job.

>> Well, all I got to say is we'd better

build it in Texas. [music]

It's the only state big enough to hold

it.

>> [laughter]

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>> If you can increase the initial velocity

only six hundredths of a mile per

second, you can make the trip in two

days instead of four.

>> We'll have to compute what that means in

reaction mass.

>> Too heavy.

This is a case where pounds [music] of

ship cost many pounds of reaction mass.

Try titanium.

>> It's exactly right as far as appearance

[music] goes.

All that remains now is to test it.

>> It goes for a start on speed chamber

this afternoon.

>> I've added one detail, Charles.

>> What in thunder is that for?

>> The chafing suits we wear over our

pressure suits I've had made up in

colors.

>> Why?

>> For identification. We use these four

colors for the four crew members and

then nobody can get lost from the

others. The moonscape's pretty drab, you

told me. Well, these bright colors will

give us high visibility.

>> Well, maybe you're right if nobody minds

looking a little bit like a carnival

balloon.

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>> Hey Brownie.

>> [music]

>> What do you want?

>> Have you taken a look down from here?

>> No, I never liked high places. Why?

>> You're halfway to the moon already.

>> It's the other half that's tough.

>> I wouldn't worry about that.

>> How come?

>> What do you think you're kidding? This

thing is as close to the moon as it will

ever get.

I never felt so silly in my life as I

have since you sent for me. You showed

me all your nice plans for instruments

to navigate a ship to the moon. I helped

you build them. We installed them. You

teach me how they work. I say yes, I

understand and take my word, I do. But

nobody tells me how the ship works. This

thing is built like Washington Monument.

You could stick an atom bomb under and

it wouldn't go.

>> What's the matter, Brownie?

>> It's nothing. It's just a belly ache.

Comes and goes.

>> You believe in green apples?

>> I haven't been able to eat anything.

Hi Doc.

>> Hello Jim, General.

I tried to get you before you left

Washington.

>> You look worried. Is anything wrong?

>> That's not the engine, is it? Have you

tested it?

>> Not yet. Doesn't look like we're going

to. Listen to this.

I am directed to inform you that your

petition to test an atomic energy

reaction engine at the scene of the

construction of your rocket ship is

regretfully denied.

>> Denied?

>> It is the opinion of the commission that

a possible danger exists should the

engine fail structurally and the

resultant dispersal of radioactive

materials around the neighborhood of the

test area.

>> Well, we've told them a dozen times we

cleared the area out for 10 miles

around.

>> While it is admitted that no real danger

of atomic explosion exists, a belief in

such danger does exist in the public

mind. It is the policy of the commission

>> Policy my foot. Somebody's throwing a

monkey wrench.

>> Oh, wait, there's more. Test is

authorized at the special weapons

testing center in the South Pacific.

>> South Pacific?

That's doggone nice of them. What's the

matter with the North Pole or or Little

America? What's a few months delay one

way or the other?

>> They're merely trying to protect their

own necks. You can't buck public

opinion, I've tried.

You seen this?

>> That isn't public opinion.

It's a job of propaganda.

>> You're almighty right it is.

Manufactured and organized with money

and brains.

Somebody's out to get us.

>> Stop sassing our tracks anyway.

We'll have to reschedule.

>> With what?

>> What do you mean?

>> What are we going to use for money?

We've pushed our resources to the limit.

Every day of delay costs.

Say doc.

The ship's about ready to take off,

isn't she?

>> Except for tests and minor adjustments.

>> What's the next favorable time?

>> About a month from now.

>> I don't mean that.

What's the next favorable time this

month?

>> The only favorable time this month is

about 17 hours from now.

>> All right, that's it then.

We take off in 17 hours.

>> Are you out of your mind?

>> I will be if we run into any more red

tape. Now look, there's no law against

taking off a spaceship. It's never been

done, so they haven't gotten around to

prohibiting it. If we ask for

permission, they'll find a way to block

us. So we go now, as soon as we can.

>> In an untested ship?

>> How do you test a thing of this kind? It

either works or it doesn't. It's a

one-time deal. Ash, have you any worries

about the engine?

>> Well, none, but we haven't trained a

crew.

>> So we don't. The take-off is fully

automatic.

The General and I will run the ship.

You'll be the engineer. Brown has known

from the beginning that he'll handle the

radio and radar.

What about ballistics?

>> Well, that's where we're stuck.

The take-off wasn't planned for this

month. It's a week's work.

>> You think Dr. Hastings is pretty good,

don't you?

>> Best in the world.

>> Give him the job. A pot of black coffee

and all the assistance he can use. You

all set, General?

>> All set.

>> Great, then it's settled. We'll all be

heroes or angels, so what can we lose?

>> We'll take off tomorrow morning, before

dawn.

>> We've got a lot to do in 17 hours.

>> Get me my home. I'd like to talk to Mrs.

Cargraves.

>> All roads have been blocked.

Because of the danger of radioactivity,

the area [music] is being cleared of

spectators.

Do not attempt to approach the site

[music] of the spaceship.

The public is asked to stay away.

I shall repeat this [music] warning.

Do not attempt to approach the site of

the spaceship.

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>> 452.6

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>> 22.78

Am I a correction, 22.79.

>> 22.79?

>> 32.1.

Yes?

>> Mr. Brown still cannot be located, Mr.

Barnes.

>> Well, check with the main gate, the

store, everywhere. Keep calling me back.

What was the last one?

>> 32.1.

>> Check.

>> 219.9.

>> Check.

>> Uh,

404.05.

>> 404.05?

>> Yes?

>> Mr. Sweeney is here to see General

Thayer.

>> All right, send him in.

>> [music]

>> Uh, 404.05

uh, 0.5.

>> [music]

>> 214.9.

>> All right. What's up, Joe?

>> It's [music] Brown, sir.

They've taken him to the hospital.

>> The hospital?

Is he all right? [music]

>> He will be after they cut out his

appendix.

>> Oh, no.

>> [music]

>> Now, what do we do?

Hey, Joe. Joe.

You can handle the ship's radio and

radar equipment, can't you?

>> Yeah.

>> You know as much about it as Brown. Will

you take his place?

>> To the moon?

>> Yes.

>> What's the moon got that this desert

ain't? Besides

>> Besides what, Joe?

>> Well, I got a date with a nice little

chick tomorrow. No, thanks.

>> Joe,

unless you come along with us, we're

sunk. You're the only man left who knows

how to handle the equipment.

>> Mr. Barnes, mind if I sound off a

little?

>> What do you mean?

>> You're pretty smart men,

you and Dr. Cargraves and the General. I

don't set myself up to know as much as

you do, but well

>> What's on your mind?

>> You're all wet.

>> In what way?

>> The The won't work. It can't. It's

crazy. Figure all that weight. It won't

budge an inch. And what do I see them

putting in the fuel tanks? Water. You're

all going to look like a bunch of

dummies.

>> If you'd believe that, you'd come along.

>> Yeah, but I don't want to look like a

dummy.

>> You wouldn't. We're entirely responsible

for the whole thing.

>> You don't think it could blow up?

>> We'd never get in it if we thought that.

Joe,

you have confidence in Dr. Cargraves,

me, the general.

We wouldn't ask you to do anything we

didn't believe in.

Would you like to go?

>> Okay.

I'll sit up there with you and twiddle

the knobs. Just relax.

>> Fine, Joe.

>> It'll never budge.

>> Be sure you twiddle the right knobs.

>> Okay, then.

Hey, you guys are really serious, ain't

you?

>> Dead serious.

>> [music]

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>> Hey, wait a minute. I've got to get

through.

>> Sorry, nobody passes here.

>> I tell you you have to take me through.

I've got a court order here forbidding

them to take off.

>> [music]

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>> I'm sorry you couldn't bring the boys,

Emily.

>> I couldn't, darling. You gave me so

little time.

They're all right.

>> Like to go in my place, Mrs. Cargraves?

>> Who, me?

Oh,

do you know?

>> [music]

>> Don't worry, ma'am. We won't get very

far.

>> Coming, Doc?

>> In a moment.

>> It's about time, Charles.

Bye, Mrs. Cargraves.

>> We'll take good care of your husband,

Mrs. Cargraves.

Try not to worry.

>> Mr. Bond, there's a joker back there

trying to crash the gate. He has a court

order that says you can't take off.

>> Darling.

>> Come back to me, Charles.

>> Oh, come on.

>> Bless things.

>> I wish you had room for me in the ship.

>> You've got to stay here and see we get

back home.

>> Goodbye. Good luck.

>> All right, take it away.

>> [music]

>> Bond! Cargraves! Stop! Come back here!

>> Can't hear a word you say.

>> All right, Jim. Here's the skipper. Take

over.

>> First time I've ever outranked a full

general.

>> First time I've heard you admit you were

ever outranked by anybody.

Hey, am I the only one that's scared

this thing might work?

>> We're all scared, but at the moment

All right, gentlemen, take off stations.

>> Communications.

>> Have it all cooking in a minute.

>> As soon as your television screen's

operating, [music] check clearance of

base of ship, then phone check tracking

center at Dry Wells.

>> Get in the boys at our own traffic

shack.

>> Calling traffic [music] shack, over.

>> Traffic the ship, over.

>> Official designation of ship is Luna, L

U N A, Luna, over.

>> Luna, roger.

>> Tell them to clear for firing.

>> Clear firing area in preparation for the

launch, over.

>> Roger.

>> I'm reading spaceship Luna, calling Dry

Wells airfield, over.

>> Dry Wells to Luna,

over.

>> I'm making preparations for firing,

over.

>> Dry Wells is ready for tracking,

over.

>> Dry Wells reported, traffic reported.

>> Power station reported.

>> Power station ready for firing.

>> Communications.

>> Everything's

just dandy, skipper.

>> Go pilot.

>> Instruments okay, automatic pilot

tracking.

>> Give the warning signal.

>> Read time on the integrating computer.

03 47 58.

>> 2 minutes to go.

>> Traffic controller,

all clear. Over.

>> Roger.

Go on standby for count off and firing.

>> Standby for count off and firing.

>> Roger.

>> The check, 3 4 8 40.

>> Check.

Pick up count off at 3 4 9 30.

>> Count off at 3 4 9 30.

>> Check dry wells.

>> Dry well, Roger. Going off at 3 4 9 30.

Over.

>> Able, firing dry wells. 30 seconds

coming up.

Standby.

30 seconds.

29.

28. 27. 26. 25. 24. 23. 22. 21. 20. 19.

18. 17. 16. 15. 14. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9.

8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3.

2. Fire.

What's happening?

What's the matter?

What

matter?

Just

being sound.

No.

Switch off. Feel half.

I can't move a muscle.

I'm froze solid.

Damn it.

>> We're falling.

>> It's all right, Joe. We're in

weightlessness, free orbit, that's all.

>> Weightless?

>> Free orbit.

>> Just where are we?

You mean this thing is working?

Where Where No, sir. Not me.

Nobody ever told me this was practical.

Turn this thing around you here. Take me

back. I ain't going to no moon. That's

just to look at.

I'm sick.

>> Grab hold.

Hang on.

>> [clears throat]

>> What happened?

>> To me?

You're all right.

Free orbit, everything is falling at the

same speed. So, anything unfastened just

floats. There's no up

or down.

>> Tell it my stomach. It says there's

nothing but up.

Oh, boy.

Am I seasick?

>> You're not seasick, you're space sick.

>> I'm sick of that, too.

>> Take one of these pills

on an empty stomach.

>> I can't swallow. It won't go down.

>> It'll take a little practice without

gravity to help. You'll manage.

General?

How you feeling?

>> Have you got another one of those pills?

>> There's a whole box full.

>> Let's see if I can swallow better than

Sweeney.

I know one thing, unless these pills

work, space travel isn't going to be

popular.

Don't.

Think of the condition of my stomach.

Oh.

>> Shoes, General.

>> Thank you.

>> Let's get these on you. They've got

magnets in the soles.

How do you feel now?

>> Just the way I did when I tried my voice

smoke.

>> You'll be all right in a minute.

Put that one on and try to get Dry

Wells.

>> Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells.

Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells. Over.

>> Dry Wells to Spaceship Luna.

Man alive, I can't believe it. Takeoff

checked out according to flight plan. We

are now tracking you by radar. You are

in your calculated orbit to the limit of

the accuracy of our instruments. We will

continue to track you as long as we can.

Good luck. Over.

>> Thank you, Dry Wells, and roger.

>> Doc, General.

You've got to see this.

>> Gosh.

I thought I'd seen everything.

Just look at those cities.

Is that Los Angeles or San Francisco?

>> Sure. That's Los Angeles.

That's New York.

>> Can you see Brooklyn?

>> Sure, that's Brooklyn.

>> I wonder who's pitching.

>> [music]

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>> That's coffee, General.

>> [music]

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>> Joe.

Joe.

I want to test the piloting radar. I

tried to crank out the antenna. It seems

to be stuck.

>> Stuck?

I don't understand it. I was

particularly careful when I greased it.

>> Greased it? No wonder it's stuck. It's

exposed to outer space, frozen solid.

You should know better than that,

Sweeney.

>> Why, I'm no scientist.

>> covered in the engineering instructions,

or didn't you bother to read them?

>> All right, hold it. Hold it, Doc.

Arguing won't get us anywhere.

That piloting radar has to be fixed.

Try to land blind and be our finish.

>> How do we fix it, Doc?

>> Somebody has to go outside and free it.

>> Outside? You mean go outside the ship?

>> It can't be done any other way.

>> But we'd be swept off.

>> No, you won't. You can't fall.

Outside, you'll be in the same orbit,

the same trajectory as the ship, moving

right along with it.

Worst could happen, you'll drift away

from the side.

We can avoid that by using safety lines.

Well, it has to be done. Let's do it.

>> No, Jim, I'll go.

I want to inspect the throat of the

rocket jet anyway, see how it stood up

under the takeoff.

>> All right.

I'll tag along.

>> Me, too. I follow this up, and if you

guys go out, so do I.

>> You coming, General?

>> No, I'm not a bit curious. You boys go

and have your fun. I'll stand right up

the log.

>> Green's just the color for you, Sweeney.

Ready to put on the helmets?

>> I won't be able to breathe in here.

>> You won't be able to breathe without it.

Hook up your air hose. Forget there's no

air outside.

Plenty of room for it.

>> I check radios.

Check instruments. Check air.

All right, let's go.

>> I'm going to get another line.

>> Outer open.

>> [music]

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>> What if skipper will fall out?

>> Get this through your head, Joe.

We're in the same orbit as the ship. You

can't fall.

>> [music]

>> Let's go.

>> [music]

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>> Hey, we're stuck up here. We ain't

moving.

>> It only seems that way. Matter of fact,

we're traveling thousands of miles per

hour.

>> [music]

>> Here in space, all comparisons are lost.

Take a look behind you.

>> [music]

>> Wow.

The geography books are right.

>> How do you feel now, Joe?

>> We hit

thousands of miles an hour and not a

breeze.

>> Uh, it's more beautiful than I ever

dreamed.

I'll never be able to describe it to

anyone.

>> [music]

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>> I'm going aft. I'll see you shortly.

>> [music]

>> When will we finish this?

>> I'll go with you.

>> You stay here and take care of the

radar. Sweeney, give me [music] your

rope.

>> Help yourself.

>> I'll be back in a minute.

>> [music]

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>> Help!

Joe!

Help!

I'm adrift.

I can't get back.

>> Sweeney,

>> [music]

>> you got knocked off the ship.

>> Where?

>> Off the stern. Come on.

>> Jim!

Jim! Joe! Help!

Do you hear me, Jim? I'm adrift.

>> Coming, Doc.

>> It's only a few feet, Jim. Hurry.

Only Christmas if we can't get him. He's

lost forever. Make it easy, Sweeney.

>> Who are [music] you?

>> Get him a rope, Sweeney.

>> Back here, Jim! Off the stern!

>> We're working towards you, Doc.

>> [music]

>> We can see you.

>> Jim, Joe, is he all right? Can you get

him?

>> We've got to get him.

>> I'm coming out.

>> [music]

>> Steady, Doc. We're trying to get a rope

to you.

>> [music]

>> Steady, Doc. Here it comes.

>> [music]

>> Catch it!

I can't reach it!

>> We're trying again.

>> [music]

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>> General!

General, can you hear me?

Bring out an oxygen bottle. Hurry.

>> [music]

>> Hurry, General!

General, hurry!

>> [music]

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>> General, that oxygen tank. Hurry!

>> Where is [music] he?

Way out there.

What are you going to do?

>> Get him.

>> [music]

>> I hope it's got enough kick.

>> General, grab him. Grab him. We'll lose

him, too.

>> [music]

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>> I almost didn't make it.

Can we get back? If we don't, we'll tear

the universe together. Hang on.

>> [music]

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>> Wait, there's enough gas to get us back.

>> He's got him. [music]

>> [music]

>> Give me the hold.

>> [music]

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>> You okay, Doc?

>> Thanks. Thanks. I didn't think we'd make

it. God, you're safe. [music]

>> Come on, boys. Let's go inside.

>> [music]

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>> Getting close.

>> Standing by, ready to fire.

>> Here goes the turn. [music]

>> [music]

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>> The plane power going backwards.

We'll land backwards. We'll adjust the

direction of our fall and use the firing

as brakes.

>> [music]

>> Land by acceleration.

Tracking is predicted.

Good.

Radar report.

Altitude 108,000.

Closing is predicted. Power.

Flight okay.

That didn't slow us. We're going faster

than ever. No, we're not. It seems that

way because we're close and heading in.

Look. I just decided I don't want to go

through with this thing. Let's go home.

What about Joe?

Give me the view aft.

View aft.

Power back.

On manual.

Ready now.

Holy smoke, you can't land in that we'd

be splattered. Quit worrying. We're

landing in the smooth plain short of

there.

I'm going to kill our forward speed.

Stand by.

Acceleration.

You missed, Jim. I know it. Emergency.

>> Pick her up, Jim. Give her some lateral.

>> Too late. Got to land her in the next

few seconds of firing or we won't have

enough to get home. I'll have to use the

thruster gas.

>> You're going to chance

>> it, Jim? Got to.

Doc,

automatic landing.

Automatic it is. Co-pilot,

tracking in on automatic.

>> Right.

>> Tracking now.

Cover me at 830 ft.

>> Cover at 830.

>> Correction, cover at 870.

>> 870, right. Can you miss those peaks?

>> Got to burn your pocket. Correction,

860.

>> 860.

>> Tracking steady.

All hands, brace for crash.

Fire.

>> [music]

>> Jacks down.

>> [music]

>> Jacks are down.

Cut out your gyros.

>> Okay.

>> Fine landing, Jim.

>> That was a terrible landing, you know

it.

>> I mean, for a first one.

>> I wasted reaction mass. We'll need to

get back.

If we get back.

>> Worry about that later. We just got

here.

Here.

>> On the moon.

Jim.

>> Doc.

>> We're on the moon.

And we're alive.

Holy cow. General, the next time you

tell me you can get to the moon, I'll

believe you.

You waited a long time for this, Doc.

>> All my life.

>> Sweeney, how about trying to raise

Washington?

>> You bet. Wait till I tell them.

Spaceship Luna in the lead, way out in

front.

>> Doc, Jim, you two go down and set foot

on the surface.

>> That's something I want to enter in my

log.

>> No, no. I think we should all go

together.

>> Nonsense. You two made this trip

possible.

>> Spaceship Luna calling NAA Washington.

>> Come on then, Doc.

>> Spaceship Luna.

>> This is your moment.

>> Calling NAA Washington.

>> Let's get to our spacesuits.

>> Over.

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>> Let's go.

>> [music]

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>> Come on.

>> [music]

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>> Claim it, Doc. I'm your witness. Claim

it officially.

By the grace of God

and the name of the United States of

America,

I take possession of this planet on

behalf of and for the benefit of all

mankind.

>> [music]

>> Dr. Cargraves, Mr. Barnes.

>> Yes?

>> I'm in contact with Washington. There's

terrific excitement on Earth. We're

hooked up to all the networks. They just

interviewed the General. They want to

interview you and Mr. Barnes, Doc. I

patched your walkie-talkie in on the

transmitter. I've hooked up our

receiver, too. You can have a two-way

conversation with them.

>> Okay.

Go ahead, O'Hara.

>> Hello. Hello on the moon.

This is Clarence Durski greeting you

from the Earth. Our people of the world

congratulate you for your epic-making

achievement.

>> Thank you. Thank you.

>> I must explain to the listeners that the

lag between my voice and those from the

moon is due to the vastness of space. It

takes 3 seconds, even at the speed of

light, for radio waves to travel between

the Earth and moon. Mr. Barnes, can you

tell us where you landed? The

astronomers at Palomar say they could

see you if they knew where to point the

big eye.

>> We landed in the crater Harpalus,

which is in the upper left-hand quadrant

of the moon as seen from North America.

>> Is Dr. Cargraves hooked in?

>> Yes.

>> Can you give us your first impressions

of the moon, Dr. Cargraves?

>> Well, I'll try.

The first impression

one of utter barrenness and desolation.

And the silence.

As there is no air, the only sounds we

hear come through our radios.

The sky is

black, velvet black and pierced by the

most intensely brilliant stars anyone

ever dreamed of.

Hanging over the mountains in the

distance, I can see our own planet

Earth,

many times larger than the harvest moon.

I see most of the Western Hemisphere,

and I can also see it's about sunrise in

San Francisco.

It's afternoon here

and will be for a couple of more days.

Now, perhaps Jim Barnes can add

something.

As a matter of record,

may I report the moment he set foot on

the moon,

Dr. Cargraves claimed possession in the

name of the United States for the

benefit of all mankind.

>> This is great and wonderful news for the

people of Earth.

>> Thank you.

>> The naval station NAA at Washington will

stand by 24 hours a day for further

signals from you. Goodbye and good luck.

>> Roger.

>> [music]

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>> Doc, I'll never get used to this.

I'll say this must weigh 5-600 lb.

>> On Earth it does.

Gravity up here is about 1/6 as much.

That means things weigh 1/6 as much.

>> [music]

>> I know it, but I can't believe it.

General, look.

Whee!

>> Pretty, cut that out.

>> What's the matter?

If I could do that back home, I'd be an

acrobat.

>> All right, Joe. We've got too much to do

and too little time for any more

clowning. Let's get on with our

schedule.

>> I'm supposed to help you with the

astronomical photographs, Doc.

>> I can't forbid. I've got to contact

Earth and get Hastings to give us

revised figures for our trip back.

>> Well, I'll just have to wait for you.

>> Joe, you help him.

I can handle the radio.

>> Joe is going to help me with the

mineralogical survey.

>> You can get along without him. You've

only got one Geiger counter.

But don't lose sight of the ship.

That's a standing rule for everybody.

>> Okay, skipper.

I'll help you later, General.

I'm for seeing what there is to see.

I don't figure on staying here too long,

anyway.

And you know why?

>> Uh, no beer, no babes, no baseball.

>> You got it.

Well, Doc, I'll pack this little gadget.

>> I'll join you after I talk to Hastings.

>> [music]

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>> Say, Doc,

>> [music]

>> there is just one thing I'd like as a

souvenir of the trip.

How about taking a picture of up here?

Say alongside the camera.

>> Sure, Joe. That's not too much to ask.

Give me the little camera.

>> [music]

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>> What about our closer?

>> [music]

>> That's it.

Now, wait a minute. I have a better

idea.

>> [music]

>> Over here.

Now, turn around.

>> [music]

>> Now, hold your arm up.

Now, bend your elbow as though you were

holding a heavy weight.

>> [music]

>> Now, your hand.

That's it.

Hold it.

>> [music]

>> Okay.

That'll be something to show.

>> What is it, Doc?

>> You and the Earth.

Holding it up like a modern Atlas.

>> Hey, that's something, Doc.

There's only one [music] thing.

>> What's that?

>> Nobody will know it's me in this diving

suit.

>> Hey, Doc.

Joe.

>> [music]

>> Over here.

Behind you.

>> [music]

>> Charles, I've picked up clicks.

Here, hold this.

I picked them up a few yards back and

they seem to get a little stronger in

this direction. Listen to this.

There's a trace, eh?

>> What is it, Doc?

>> I'm not sure. These mountains may have a

real deposit.

>> Uranium?

>> It's possible.

>> Then you could blow up the moon, too.

>> Ain't that dandy?

>> Check your reaction mass.

>> .8672

>> What?

Repeat that.

>> Yes, .8672.

I wasted power making a very bad

landing.

>> I'll have to compute it, but it looks

bad.

We have to get you back.

Jettison every ounce. All your forward

tanks are empty. Can you rip them out?

>> Not without tearing the ship apart.

She wasn't built for it.

>> I'll call at the same time 24 hours from

now.

I'll give you the answers.

Be able to tell me then how much you've

been able to lighten ship and I'll tell

you if you can make it.

>> I'll stand by 24 hours from now.

Just get us back home, that's all I ask.

>> [music]

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>> Hello, Jim.

Hey, Jim, we've got news for you.

>> I have for you, too, all of you.

>> This is right up your alley, Jim.

>> Go to general. [music]

>> Turn on the camera, Joe. Doc.

No use to us.

>> I haven't shot more than a half a dozen

plates.

>> That's all you'll be able to shoot.

>> [music]

>> What's the matter?

>> I just talked with Dr. Hastings at Dry

Wells.

I gave him our instrument readings,

reaction mass, mass ratio. [music]

Checked our time with him.

>> Well?

>> Our time is okay.

Nothing else is.

>> What are you talking about, Skipper?

Everything on the board is ticking.

I checked every instrument, all alive.

>> So, we

for a while.

>> I don't get it.

>> We have to wait ship. Our job for the

next 24 hours is to unload everything we

can and leave it here. Stay here

ourselves.

Hastings will give me the answers at

07:30 tomorrow.

>> Well, let's not get into a panic until

we've talked to him again.

Meanwhile,

>> we go back to the ship and strip off

everything we can.

>> [music]

>> Acceleration couch pad number four,

serial number 706, schedule B.

>> [music]

>> Number 706, schedule B, check.

>> And the schedule itself.

>> That's everything that you can get out?

>> Three of the space suits will be dropped

before we take off. We have to keep one

so we can open the airlock to drop the

others.

>> [music]

>> Skipper, I'll dump the stuff.

>> It'll take me 15 minutes to check and

add.

I'll give you the answer as soon as I

can.

>> [music]

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>> Here's the wash.

>> [music]

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>> 36 hours.

>> 36 hours what?

>> From takeoff [music] time.

So then or a month from then.

>> That means never.

>> Spaceship Luna, spaceship Luna.

>> Spaceship Luna, Barnes speaking.

>> Here's the total.

You've taken out almost 2 tons.

>> Before takeoff, you can drop all your

oxygen except 70 hours supply to get

back on.

Before takeoff, you can drop your

remaining food.

You can hold yourselves to a pint of

water each a day and turn the rest of

your drinking water into the reaction

tanks. You got it?

>> Right.

>> You'll have to get out another 1,000

lbs.

>> Another 1,000 of what? Tell us that.

We're stripped.

>> Don't make me say this.

You'll have to what?

>> You don't have to say it.

We know.

Or we don't get back.

>> [music]

>> I'm standing by.

You've got to work it out.

>> [music]

[music]

>> Hey Sweeney.

Is this thing bolted or welded?

>> Bolted.

>> Let's get to work. Give me a wrench.

>> [music]

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>> I guess we used this one up.

Doc.

We'll be able to take off, won't we?

>> Probably. Take off at least.

>> What do you mean at least?

>> [music]

>> We're too heavy, we'll drop back on the

moon and crash or else fall into an

orbit around the moon.

>> You mean just keep on going around?

>> That's it.

>> Hey skipper, that's my radar. We won't

need it to land on Earth. We're a glider

then.

>> You don't know how much weight I did put

in this together.

>> Now, anybody anything in his pockets?

>> This too?

>> Everything.

>> [music]

>> The three space suits then come back.

>> [music]

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>> How much time we got?

>> [music]

>> 27 minutes.

Another 110 lbs.

>> What?

>> [music]

>> Another 110 lbs and you can coast home.

>> We're stripped absolutely. We'll have to

take a chance as we are.

>> [music]

>> That's suicide.

You haven't enough power to pull free of

the moon.

>> You could be wrong, couldn't you?

>> I could.

I don't think the computer could.

Ask Dr. Carmichael.

>> We'll let you know, Roger.

>> [music]

>> Well, Charles,

is he right?

>> I'm afraid so.

>> [music]

>> We're stuck here.

Who got me here?

>> I didn't want to come.

>> You can blame me, Joe.

You didn't think it would work.

Well,

in a way you were right.

What a sucker.

What a dumb, stupid blockhead I am.

I could have blown my brains out at

Niagara Falls in a barrel, or found some

other decent way to die.

>> All right, Joe. We're all in this

together.

>> [music]

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>> It's as simple as that.

>> [music]

>> One of us stays.

Of course.

I weigh 180.

>> More than enough.

>> No, General.

>> No, listen to me.

>> Look here, I'm the oldest. I've done my

job. I'm skipper of the ship.

>> That's got nothing to do with

>> It's got everything to do with it.

I give the orders on this ship. That was

agreed.

>> [music]

>> I'm giving the orders now.

>> Jim, nobody gives orders.

>> That definitely don't. This is the

order.

Doctor's the engineer. He goes back to

his work.

>> [music]

>> The General pilots the ship when you

reach the Earth's atmosphere.

I can be spared on this trip. I can be

spared back home. I have no family. My

job gets on without me.

>> Jim, listen to me. This is not a ship at

sea, and it's not a plane, and we're not

mutineers. This has been a joint

undertaking. The three of us did it

together from the beginning.

It's no one's duty more than the others

to give his [music] life.

I've had my day, a great one. I've shown

that this could be done.

And that's enough to make me glad I

lived, and content to stay.

>> It's very noble, Doc. It's philosophy.

>> Skip philosophy. I'm the one who stays.

Why? Because I'm the oldest. You two can

tell them back home what we've seen much

better than I could.

Tell them how we looked up and saw the

Earth

vulnerable, exposed forever,

>> [music]

>> never setting in this lunar sky.

>> You know what you just proved, General?

You're the one man that must go back.

>> Jim, General.

>> Are we going to have this whole thing

end in futility because we can't reach a

simple decision? I reached my decision.

I'm standing by it.

>> Skipper, look here. Stay out of this,

Sweeny.

>> Don't worry, you'll get back.

>> Right now it looks like nobody gets

back. I was just going to say if you

brains can't make up your minds, why

don't you do what kids do? Match for it.

You know, draw lots.

>> All right.

>> Right.

>> No.

>> Jim, two against one.

>> What do we use?

>> Anyone have some paper?

>> No.

>> Matches, and coins?

>> Everything's overboard.

>> [music]

>> You got buttons on your coveralls. Match

them.

>> Spaceship Luna.

Spaceship Luna.

Dry Wells calling Spaceship Luna.

>> Spaceship Luna, Dry Wells, listen.

We're working it out. One of us will

stay behind. We're going to draw lots.

>> [music]

>> Only 110 lb? There must be something

more.

>> Check time.

>> 9:31:50.

18 minutes to zero hour.

>> Check.

We'll take off with three men.

Hey, where's Joel?

>> He's gone. What's wrong? You're not

coming in?

>> It won't open. It's cycling.

He's not in there. Then he

Oh, he can't do that.

>> Spaceship Luna. Spaceship Luna.

>> He's left the ship.

>> We're here. Stand by. Something's

happened. Sweeny's left the ship.

>> His helmet's gone.

>> I can't see him. The angle's too great.

Wait a minute. There he is. He's

dragging something. Sweeny!

>> [music]

>> Sweeny!

Sweeny, can you hear me?

>> Sure I hear you.

>> Come back, Joel. Come back.

>> And die in that steel death trap?

>> You won't die, Joel. Not you. You're

going home.

>> Not a chance. Goodbye, fellas. Remember

me to the gals. Any gals. [music]

>> Spaceship Luna, you're not coming in.

>> Here, Dad. talk to him.

Something's happened. Sweeney's left the

ship.

>> Joe, you've got to come back.

>> Are you taking off?

>> I don't know. I don't know. Stand by.

We've got to think of something. Joe,

you've got to come back. We can't let

you do this.

>> What do you mean let me?

You can't stop me.

I lightened your ship.

I gave you your chance and I get going.

Don't make a monkey out of me.

>> Come back, Joe. Come back. You've got

to. We're all in this together. If you

don't, we can't take off.

>> You've got to. You've got to or you'll

be killing me and for nothing.

>> Are you seeing Goon? It's not up to you.

Nobody's asking you. You're killing

yourself.

>> How did it shoot? Will you take off? I

want to see it.

>> Joe.

>> A ship going back from the moon to the

earth.

>> Joe, [music] I just thought of

something. I thought of a way.

>> A way to what?

>> To take off. All of us. We're all going

back. Do you hear me? All of us. But

hurry.

>> What do you mean all of us?

>> You've got to do just as I tell you. I

think we can make it.

>> You wouldn't kid me.

>> Don't be a fool. It's our lives, too. We

We We've less than 15 minutes.

>> What's the deal?

>> Get back in the airlock as fast as you

can. Bring a screwdriver, a knife, and a

rat tail file, and a weight, and oxygen

tank. Tie the tank to the end of your

safety line. I'll tell you the rest when

you're in the airlock. Is he coming?

He's picking up the things.

>> [music]

>> Yes, he's heading toward us.

>> What's your plan, Captain?

>> Just [music] this. Sweeney's space suit

weighs what? 70 lb. The radios weigh all

of 50. There's 110 lb with a little

margin. We can't open the door of the

airlock without a space suit. So, we

won't open it when he gets his space

suit off. But he can drill a small hole

between the door and the casing big

enough for a safety line to get through.

He ties the oxygen tank to the end of

the safety line. It hangs outside. The

line passes through the small hole.

There's a slow leak, but Sweeney can

take off his suit, tie it to the inside

end of the line, and come up here. We

decompress the airlock. The door opens.

The suit is dragged out. General, watch

for him.

>> [music]

>> He must be in the airlock. It's cycling.

>> He's in there watching the indicator.

>> [music]

>> Pressure's up. I can open it.

>> [music]

[music]

>> What do you want, Mr. Dragon?

>> General, unscrew the radio.

Sweetie, I want you to listen carefully.

I want Wait a minute.

Hey Steens. Hey Steens, we're coming

home, all of us. You won't hear from us

again until you see us. I'm junking the

radio. That's all. Goodbye. Ripper out,

General.

Sweetie,

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>> listen carefully.

I want you to put on the helmet. Go to

the airlock. Decompress it. Open the

outer door.

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>> Sweetie,

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Straps okay here.

Parklands,

all ready to go.

No time for count all stations.

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>> Fire!

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