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A wild new cowboy
on the move.

He placed last night, second.
Going for first.

How many y'all
wanna see that replay?

Following cowboy
in hot water.

Come on Big Jake,
show 'em how.

Yeah.

Mission sequence start.

Engines on five, four...

three, two...

I'm the luckiest human being
in the world.

There... fire going.

I don't go around
living in the past,

for the most part.

But ever once in while

you let yourself
go back in time.

I'll look up there...

And I might just reflect

for a half
a minute or so.

I can take myself there
at the speed of thought.

Okay, stand by
for pitchover.

Oh, are we coming in?

Pitchover.

There it is. Proceeded.

And there it is Houston.

There's Camelot.
Right on target.

I see it.

We got 'em all.

25 feet per second
through 400.

That's a little high,
Geno.

Okay.

Very little dust.

40 feet.
Going down at three.

Stand by for touchdown.

Stand by.

20 feet.

Going down at two.

10 feet.

And contact.

Stop, push.
Engine stop.

Engine arm, proceed.
Command override, off.

As soon as you hit
the surface,

the dust is gone,
engine is shut down.

There's no noise.

You are magically
in another world.

It was the ultimate

quiet moment in my life.

Pure silence.

Absolutely incredible.

I spent
a lot of time growing up

on my grandparents' farm
in Wisconsin.

No electricity.

No tractors,
just horses.

So my desire
in life was

to sometime
have a ranch.

It's where I can just
be who I am.

I keep thinking,
"my dad always would
have loved this."

He was
a Jack of all trades,

he could fix--
rewire your house
or build you a garage,

or fix the plumbing
in your bathroom,

and that's why
I learned to do all
those things with him.

He said, "I don't care
whether you're in a classroom,

on a football field,
or whatever you do..."

Barron?

"Just do your best.

And someday,
I promise you.

You're gonna
surprise yourself."

It's like coming
down the L.E.M.

Only if I fall here,
I break my butt.

1170 KCBQ, the legendary
Gene Cernan is with us.

Now about the Navy,
talk a little bit about--

because this
is a big Navy town,
as you know,

and you spent time here.

I tell ya, San Diego is--

is like another home.

I spent my best years
coming out of Pensacola

here in San Diego.

From the time I was 22

until I was 27,
this was my life.

In and out of San Diego,

flying off
aircraft carriers.

This is where
it all started for me.

At that point, 22, 25,

you're invincible
and you're bulletproof.

There isn't anything
you can't do,

you know,
risk be damned.

The fact of life is,

naval aviation
is a risky process.

You don't have
much room for error.

If you get sloppy,
you're gonna kill yourself.

You live within
that environment,

you live
within that culture,

but you love it,
and you keep doing it,

and it doesn't
discourage you,

'cause it's not gonna
happen to me.

You know,
it isn't gonna happen--

it's always gonna
happen to the other guy.

He screwed up.
I'm not gonna screw up.

That was the attitude
you had to have.

- Is that you?
- Course it is.

That is you.
- Red hot
naval aviator.

Invincible, invisible,
and bulletproof.

- Remember?
- That's a stretch.

There we are.
That's it.

The stingers. Here we go,
up over the top.

- The diamond roll
- There it is.

- God, that was fun, baldy.
- Yeah, we were flying.

I made my first cruise
with Gene

on the old
U.S.S. Shangri-La.

It was constant competition.

Who could land better
on the carrier.

Who could bomb better
on the carrier.

We used to grab airplanes

and go up and tail chase
around the clouds.

We were-- we were pretty
impressed with ourselves.

We have big egos.

But I think you have
to have a big ego

to be able to do
the intense type of flying

that we were
trained to do.

When you land a plane
on a carrier

in the daytime
is tricky enough.

But when you do it
at night,

you're not thinking
about your girlfriend.

Well, Gene might have been,
but I wasn't.

I was--
I was dead serious.

Now, Cernan, who knows?

Uh, he's kinda loose
sometimes that way.

Jesus.
Now we got a fire.

If you think back

when you and I were
in 113 together, okay?

We flew together
all the time,

but were we competitive
with each other?

I was a hell of a lot better
left wing man,

than you were
right wing man.

No. No, but I was
a hell of a lot better
bomber than you were.

You were lucky
if you even hit
the damn ground.

Why were you so weak
in bombing, Gene?

You were the weapons
training officer.

Baldy,
it's 240,000 miles away.

Anybody could hit that.

And my C.E.P. Was 50 miles.

You were average
in bombing.

You were pretty good
at getting aboard the boat.

I knew you had
a little fear at night.

Do I have to listen
to this crap?

Do-- if I have
to listen to this...

I'm gonna make a circle
over the field.

But I'll come in
behind you.

Flying is a big part
of my life.

You got to have
a passion,

a love for what
you're doing,

or you shouldn't
be doing it.

I was an airline
stewardess

for Continental Airlines
and I lived in Los Angeles.

And I was in the airport
and he was in the line.

I did not remember him,

but he said
I smiled at him

and he just thought
that I was great.

And I thought later--

I thought
what he doesn't know,

I have to smile
at everybody

because that was
part of my job.

The first time
he came to my house.

He had a--
I think it was, like,
a '56 Chevrolet

and it had kind of
loud mufflers on it.

I thought,
"oh, my lord,

he's a hot rod
of some sort."

She says she heard that

when I pulled
into the driveway.

And she said,
"oh, my God, what have
I gotten into?"

Well...

We were very much in love.

He was everything
I could have asked for.

And so we bought a home,

and I started working.

And I worked
and then I worked

up until I had Tracy,

and that was two years
after we were married.

He was great with her.

He was really--
he was good,

and crazy about her.

He still is.

That's his "punk."

He calls her "punk."

Man had his first great
success in space,

when the Russians
pushed a man across
the threshold.

He was Yuri Gagarin,

the astronaut
the Russians lionized

as the first
to orbit the Earth.

It was the propaganda
coup of the year.

After the Russian flight,
U.S. plans were accelerated.

Commander
Alan B. Shepard

was sent
into suborbital flight.

Unlike
the Russian venture,

this took place
in the white hot glare

of world-wide publicity.

It was period of time

when America needed
a hero desperately,

and Alan became that hero
of the astronauts.

The Mercury seven
were the real pathfinders

of what was to happen
in the future,

which none of us
really fully anticipated,

especially me.

Many years ago,

the great British explorer
George Mallory,

who was to die
on mount Everest,

was asked
why did he want
to climb it.

He said,
"because it is there."

Well, space is there.

And we're going to climb it.

And the Moon
and the planets
are there.

And new hopes for knowledge
and peace are there.

And therefore,
as we set sail,

we ask God's blessing

on the most hazardous,
and dangerous,

and greatest adventure

on which man has
ever embarked.

Thank you.

I had two reactions.

The man just placed

a hell
of a responsibility

on we in
the space program,

but I was pleased
to hear that--

very pleased
to hear that.

On the other hand,

if I looked
at what had to be done
to get there,

I thought he was crazy.

We had a total
of 20 minutes

manned spaceflight
experience.

We had never
been to orbit,

and when were challenged
to go to the Moon.

And our president
had the confidence

to issue this challenge

and he had the confidence
that we would do it.

I remember he was
so enthralled with that,

and I said to him,
"would you like to do
something like that?"

And he said,
"oh, I'd love it."

I'd love to do it.
Just give me the chance.

But by the time
I get good enough,

by the time
I get qualified,

by the time I meet
all of their requirements,

there won't be anything
left to do.

All the pioneering
will be over.

Don't ever
shortchange yourself,

you never ever know
what fate has in store.

I got a call
out of the blue

that NASA was looking
for new astronauts

and was I interested
in applying?

You bet I was.

I was invited to Houston,

but cautioned
not to speak to anybody.

I jumped into a cab,
drove downtown.

Checked into
the Old Rice Hotel
under a fake name.

It was like
I just stepped

into some
crazy spy movie.

And who did I meet
in the hotel bar,

but a whole bunch

of the greatest test pilots
in the country

all checked in
under the same name--

Max Peck.

For the next few days,
they threw mountains
of paperwork at us,

and asked us questions
I knew nothing about.

The next step
was a physical at
San Antonio.

I've never been subject
to anything like that

in my entire life.

Every cavity
in your body

had something
stuck into it.

They put cold water
in our ears

and spun us around
like a top.

I was dizzier
than a grasshopper.

Then they put us
in this idiot box

to see how we could react
to the unknown.

Up was no longer up,
it was down.

Red was green,
green was red.

Left was right.

They did
everything possible
to confuse us.

And at the end
of it all,

all we were told
to do was go home.

"Don't call us.
We'll call you."

When the phone rang,
it was my future boss,

Deke Slayton.

He said,
"Geno, we've got
a job for you

in Houston
if you still want it."

And of course
from that point on,

my life was
changed forever.

I just was selected
for the space program.

Wow.

🎵Zoom a little zoom
in a rocket ship🎵

🎵Off we go on a trip🎵

🎵Heading for the Moon
at a rocket clip🎵

🎵We're gonna zoom zoom🎵

🎵Rocket🎵

🎵Zoom a little zoom🎵

🎵Now we're almost free🎵

🎵From the Earth's gravity🎵

🎵Zooming to the Moon
at terrific speed...🎵

We did all the General
training going in

before we ever got
assigned to a flight.

We had desert survival.

We did a little
water survival.

We did jungle survival.

They gave us
a fishhook and a machete

and dropped us
in a helicopter

somewhere
out in the middle
of the jungle

in Panama.

All that survival training,

it teaches you something
about yourself.

Most of us had
technical engineering
backgrounds

of one kind or another,

but we were starting
school all over again.

Orbital mechanics,
which I knew absolutely
nothing about.

Geology,
which I really knew little
or nothing about.

We were doing
something somewhere
all the time.

They'd go to work
in the mornings

and come home late.

And this was before
they were training
for a mission.

They were just getting
their feet wet

at that particular time.

And we were bombarded

with photographers
and press,

and, you know,
it was like a whirlwind.

It was fame.

Wasn't necessarily fortune,
but it was fame,

and you had to learn
how to deal with it.

I mean,
you walked around with--

with a halo
over your head.

You were special.

One day, they say
very confidentially,

we're gonna set up
an appointment for you
to get fitted

for a suit...

For a space suit.

I mean,
all of a sudden.

Wow.

You don't know what
that's going to lead to,

but you know what it means.

In the fall of 1965,

the Gemini 9 crew
was announced.

Charlie Bassett was
going to be the prime pilot

with Elliot see,

and Tom Stafford
and I were gonna be
the backup crew.

And Charlie and I were
doing the same thing.

We flew together.
We went places together.

We trained together.

We did everything together

that our side
of the spacecraft
had to do.

So we got to be
pretty good friends.

And then in February of '66

the totally
unexpected happened.

I heard this big crash.

And then
a few seconds later,
this big explosion,

a big black cloud
mushroomed up

and parts from the airplane
just flew everywhere.

No chance
to do anything
for the two men?

No. None. Not at all.

Minutes after the crash,

the Gemini 9
backup crew

of Eugene Cernan
and Thomas Stafford

came in safely
from Houston

in a similar jet.

And tonight NASA announces

they now become
the prime crew

for the Gemini 9 flight.

That was just
a devastating time.

It was just horrible.

You just realized
then I guess

how close it can be.

Aim.

Aim.

Aim.

It was very traumatic
at the time.

But then we had
a job to do,

to go on and fly
the mission.

And we had a short period
of time to do it.

I'd had a lot
of experience in Gemini.

Gene had
no experience in Gemini.

So we had
to concentrate

on getting him
up to speed

on all the procedures
and techniques

and the duties he had.

Suddenly,
after this accident,

I found myself
on my very first flight.

This is Gemini launch control.

T-minus ten...

nine... eight...

seven... six...

five... four...

three...

one... zero.

We have ignition.

The real world's got
a lot of surprises

and we found
a great many of them
on Gemini 9.

When I stepped out
of that spacecraft,

we were really headed out
into the unknown.

The umbilical was
about 25 feet long

and it was--
it was like a snake.

If it brought me back
to the spacecraft,

I'd hit it
with my foot or my arm

or my helmet
or whatever,

and I'd go
tumbling back out.

I mean,
I was upside down,
sideways--

the Earth might
have been up here,

it might
have been down there.
I don't know.

I was just helpless.

I'm trying to figure out
what I'm doing

and it isn't working.

And it isn't going to go away
unless something--

I do something about it,

and I wasn't sure
what the next step
was going to be.

Once I got
behind the spacecraft,

the umbilical
was not my problem.

My task was to basically
assemble the jetpack.

I had to turn
oxygen valves on

and fuel valves.

And every time
I turned them,

off I would go
back into space.

We had no proper handholds.

The foot restraints,

tethers--
any of that.

I was working pretty hard.

My heart rate was 160, 170.

I knew it.
The ground knew it.

I knew I was driving
the doctors bananas down there

because they've never
confronted this type
of thing before.

Don't forget,
the spacecraft is going
around the world

once every 90 minutes.

And the moment
the sun went down,

he fogged over,

so he could not see.

It was very frustrating
here on the ground,

listening to Gene
and knowing he was
in trouble,

but there was nothing
I could do about it.

His body temperature
was increasing.

Deep core temperature
was increasing.

Okay, we have that. Roger.

We concur on the no-go.

It was the process
of really coming to grips

for the first time

that there was something

about this element
of space flight

that we did not have
a good handle on yet.

We had many lessons
to learn along the way.

I was really disappointed,

because I was
sent up to do a job

and I didn't get it done.

Tom Stafford did
a great job.

Cernan himself did
a great job,

but they did have
some tough moments,

and we learned
a lot from that.

It was Cernan's failures

that caused us
to eventually do it right.

We moved in this house

when Tracy
was nine months old...

In 1964.

House is almost

this neighborhood's
almost 50 years old.

There wasn't much here.

On the corner
was Mike Collins.

Charlie Bassett, Al Bean
lived down the street.

Rusty Schweickart
lived here.

That little house
right there

has a lot of history
in the walls,

if they could only talk.

🎵Here we are again🎵

🎵Happy as can be🎵

🎵All good pals🎵

🎵And jolly good company🎵

We were all pretty close,

but I think I was probably
closer to Martha Chaffee.

She lived next door to me,

and she and I
were very close.

Oh, we were always
back and forth,

I mean,
between our houses.

And we did go to the same
hairdresser,

and we'd have lunch,

and the normal things
that women do.

We were like sisters.

🎵Whoops we go again🎵

🎵La-di-da-di-da🎵

We were already close,
I think.

We're all vying
to be first guy

to land on the Moon,
obviously.

But we were very close
in our social activities,

our training activities,

and so it was
a small band of brothers.

🎵Jolly good company🎵

We'd have a drink together
occasionally.

I won't go
into any more details.

🎵Such good company🎵

🎵La-di-da-di-da🎵

🎵Hey, la-di-da-di-Dee🎵

I don't want to sound
like they were wild,

but they were
a little crazy.

Oh, I don't know about
"the wild bunch" or not,

but I'd like to think

we worked hard
and we played hard.

🎵Jolly good company, hey🎵

🎵Jolly good company🎵

🎵Jolly good company🎵

🎵Jolly good company, hey🎵

🎵Jolly good company🎵

We all got along well.

We liked some people
better than others,

just like any group.

We were all trying
to do the same thing.

We were willing
to make sacrifices

to achieve the dream
of getting to the Moon.

But we knew going in

that some people
weren't gonna make it.

We do everything
we possibly can

to make sure
that it is as safe

as we can possibly make it.

But one of these days,

there are going to be
some mistakes made,

either in the systems design
or we on the ground,

which result in
an accident

and maybe a fatal one.

We interrupt this program

to bring you
a special report
from ABC news.

There's been
a fire on the pad.

What happened?
They're dead.

Top space agency officials

are flying
to Cape Kennedy tonight

to begin the official
investigation

into what caused
the flash fire

that killed
the nation's first three
Apollo astronauts

earlier tonight.

Lieutenant Colonel
Gus Grissom, 42;

Lieutenant Colonel
Ed White, 36;

and Lieutenant Commander
Roger Chaffee, 31;

all died in moments,

helplessly trapped
inside their spacecraft.

I was sitting
at that console right there

when Grissom, Chaffee,
and White were killed.

I listened to them die.

That evening,
January 27th, a Friday,

I was giving
my kids hot dogs...

And then somebody said
there'd been an accident.

So when Mike Collins
finally came...

To the door
and I saw him, I knew.

I knew already.

I said,
"I know, Mike, but...

You've got to tell me."

And he did.

And I took
my children into the--

I'm sorry.

I took my children
into the bedroom,

and trying to tell...

An eight-year-old
and a five-year-old

that they're dad
wasn't coming home,

it's hard.

And I went home and...

Pulled in my driveway,

still in the flight suit.

Cars all over the street.

NASA security around.

Walked right
across the lawn

to Martha's house.

I dreaded--

I dreaded the moment.

Arlington.

Cold January day.

I wasn't sure whether
we were burying
three of our colleagues

or whether we were
burying the entire
Apollo program.

Because we knew
the Chaffees so well,

I was asked
to stay with Martha.

And I did.

Sat next to her
at the cemetery.

How she held
her composure,

I don't know.

Good-bye, my friend.

The Apollo 1 fire
changed us forever...

And we've never
forgotten it.

In our business
of space flight,

risk is the price
of progress.

🎵And the sign said🎵

🎵Long-haired
freaky people🎵

🎵Need not apply...🎵

The world was in a mess,

the country was in a mess,

but this was going on
out there somewhere.

Maybe we were
a little cocoon

in the middle
of this big world of ours.

🎵So I took off my hat
and said imagine that...🎵

You know, we had
a mission to do--

astronauts, engineers,

all sorts of people
working for NASA,

all working towards
the same goal.

🎵Can't you read the sign🎵

Man, I was working
my butt off,

and I never
really appreciated

what was going on
at home.

I think the wives played
an important part

because we did everything
when they weren't there,

which they weren't there
most of the time.

I think he'd be
the first to tell you

that I pulled
my share of the load.

They'd been home
taking care of the kids.

Paying the bills,

seeing the kids
get to school

and do their homework.

We were unfair.
We were selfish.

We were not
very good husbands.

We weren't very good
fathers either.

And sometimes
you can't balance things

like work and family.

Like, we had--
this is how the work is

and the family
is way down here.

If you didn't do this,

you weren't gonna stay
as an astronaut.

That's simple.

We weren't
interested in this.

We were interested in this.

We're gonna be
the second flight

to ever go to the Moon--

Stafford, Young,
and myself.

We're gonna get
on a big ol' Saturn V.

It was a big chunk
to swallow.

You're sitting on the top

of 2,740 tons
of equivalent TNT.

Do you know fear
or apprehension?

I didn't before you told me
it was that much TNT.

The last couple of days
before launch

get pretty intense.

It is a very personal time,

and it was
a very loving time.

You realize that
unless God's willing,

I might not ever
see you again,

or he might not
see us again.

What if doesn't come back?

The night before I flew,

I wrote a letter to Tracy
just in case.

"To my dar--
darling daughter, Tracy.

Trace, you're almost
too young to understand

what it means
to have your daddy
go to the Moon.

But someday,

you'll have the feeling
of excitement and pride

that mommy and daddy do.

Punk, we have
lots of camping

and horseback riding to do
when I get back.

I want you
to look at the Moon,

because when
you are reading this,

daddy is almost there.

I love you Tracy.

My wonderful...

And beautiful daughter.

All my love."

You don't sleep that well,

you get up fairly early
in the morning.

You have your
traditional breakfast.

Then you go down
and get suited up.

You've been suited up
a thousand times before

for all kinds of tests
and what have you.

This is for real.

The worst part of it all
is just waiting.

And then at last it's--
it's time to go.

Your adrenaline
is pumping pretty strong

at that point in time.

You know, you can
hear yourself breathe
inside that suit.

T-minus 33 minutes
and 30 seconds.

33 minutes until
the scheduled liftoff
of Apollo 10.

This Saturn V, by the way,

is the most powerful
Saturn V ever to fly,

with 7,700,000 pounds
of first stage power...

Two minutes and counting.

Our status board indicates

here in the control room...

It's no longer something
you're gonna do.

It's something
that's happening.

It's happening
right now to you.

Everything intensifies.

...Seconds and counting.

We are go for our mission
to the Moon at this time...

But the clock keeps going.

All systems are performing
satisfactorily.

All the last minute
countdown checks
are proceeding okay.

This is it.
This is for real.

That thing's gonna
light off under you

and you're gonna
head on out to the Moon.

13... 12... 11...

ten... nine...

We have ignition
sequence start.

And five... four...

three... two...

All engines running.

Launch,
commence liftoff.

We have liftoff,
49 minutes past the hour.

You're go staging 10.

Roger. 10 is go.

Inboard shutdown.

What a ride. What a ride.

That's Gene Cernan reporting,
"what a ride."

It was America that was
going to the Moon,

but the fact of life,
it was 20th century humanity

that was going
to the Moon.

The entire world
was on board

that spacecraft with us.

- Station point one.
- Roger.

Looking good
intermediate zone.

Apollo 10,
Houston, do you read?

Roger.

10, you're go for pyro arm
and go for Sep.

Roger.

We have Sep.

The world is incredible.

I sure hope
we can show it to you,
I really do.

You're part of this big thing
that's going on,

and yet you don't realize

how big a thing it is,
quite frankly.

You don't fully
comprehend it all.

22 looks good to us.

I gotta check
the thrusters here now.

You look out the window,

your whole window
is filled up with the Earth.

How's that for
the front porch?

Oh, boy, that's beautiful.

10, it's looking
real stable to us.

We show you
closing slightly.

Charlie, we can't be more
than about 5, 10 feet away.

Roger.

Snap, snap, and we're there.

- Got two grays.
- Roger.

You capture
that lunar module

and we're on our way.

You now regain consciousness
as to where you are

and where you're going.

ABC news presents
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for astronauts in outer space.

Good morning
or good evening,

depending on where
you are in the country.

From ABC space headquarters
in New York...

I guess, after one mission

you feel a little bit
more confident,

because you think,
"oh, well,

I've been there,
done that.

So maybe I'll be
better this time.

I'll do-- I know kind of
what to expect."

You had all these people
in your home.

You had all these press
out there.

It's trying, believe me.

It's very, very trying.

You do sweat it out
till they're home.

Apollo 10 is reported
to be maneuvering

to burn attitude
at this time.

Its distance from the Moon
is 681 nautical miles.

Apollo 10, Houston.
Two minutes to L.O.S.

Everybody here says
Godspeed.

Okay, we'll see them

right on the other side
in orbit.

We wouldn't see the Moon
until we got there.

And finally,
we got close.

We could finally see

a little scimitar
of the Moon,

that was all.

And then the Sun went
and disappeared.

The Moon is between
you and the Sun,

and it blocks out
that light.

You are now immersed,
yourself, in this blackness.

And then all of a sudden...

Boom...

Someone turns on
the lights.

There's the Moon.

Roger, Houston, Apollo 10.

You can tell the world
that we have arrived.

As you come out, you're
still in sunlight.

You come around
the horizon of the Moon,

and here comes the Earth.

Earth rise.

Charlie, it might
sound corny,

but the view is really
out of this world.

Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
You're going over the hill.

All the systems are go.

We're all go here
on the ground.

It's looking great.
Over.

Roger. 56, 22, 55.
Snoopy going.

We is go,
and we is down
among them, Charlie.

Roger. I hear you weaving
your way up the freeway.

Can you give me
a post-burn report? Over.

Yeah, as soon
as I get my breath.

As we circled the Moon

in a lunar lander--
Snoopy--

we knew we were vulnerable

to a whole host
of unknown problems.

And our goal was to identify
and then solve those problems

so that Neil
and his crew would have

just that much less
to worry about.

And one of the problems
we encountered

was pilot induced.

We were going to simulate
from 47,000 feet,

as if we were on the Moon,

lift off
from the assent stage,

and then go up
into a rendezvous mode
with the mothership.

But in preparing to do so,

Tom and I
misplaced a switch,

Snoop, Houston,

we have you go
for staging. Over.

Okay, Tom.

What's that?

Okay, let's...

God damn.

Son of a bitch.

We're in trouble.

I saw that lunar horizon
go by my window

eight times
in some 15 seconds.

Snoop, Houston...

The thing spun around
at max rate

to this new attitude.

That got our attention
in mission control.

And we got--
certainly got his attention

as he relayed it over the--
over the comm.

Tom got this
rotation stopped.

How we did it,

I don't know.

Yeah, okay.
Something went wild
there on that staging.

We're all set.
We didn't lock it.

We're going ahead
to the auto maneuver.

It was frightening
when they did have

that one mishap.

If you think going
to the Moon is hard,

you ought
to try staying home.

Apollo 10 really came home
in a Blaze of glory.

Rolling,
twisting, turning--

these flecks of fire
were just snapping at us.

We're on our backs
coming in backwards.

The heat shield's behind us.

It would just come over
the top of my window,

and just come
over there

right in front
of my eyes and snap.

A sheet of fire
completely immerses you
and surrounds you.

I know what it's like
to be that comet.

The shooting star.

It is a spectacular
fireworks show.

It--

I wish it had happened
on Fourth of July.

We had just been
to the Moon.

So you can imagine
how it felt to come home.

Home. Your real home.

Not just your home
away from--

this home. Your family.

And the response of people

you have known a lifetime

was so overwhelming.

You could tell it meant
something to them.

Nothing but pride.

Nothing but pride.

And so proud of him,

so proud of him
that he could go out

and do something
like that.

And proud of the country.

Not many people
remember Apollo 10,

but I do.

And I'll tell you someone else
who remembered it,

and that's Neil Armstrong.

Okay, Neil,

we can see you coming
down the ladder now.

I'm gonna step off
the lander now.

That's one
small step for man,

one giant leap
for mankind.

Would I have liked to been
at a first landing?

You bet your life
I would've.

But as it turned out,

I think fate shined
down upon us,

and got the right people

in the right place
at the right time.

How does one,

adequately express
his feelings

about a special friend

when that friend
is also a world icon

whose name will live
in history long after

all here today
have been forgotten.

Neil, you can now finally

put out your hands

and touch
the face of God.

Farewell, my friend.

You have left us
far too soon.

God bless you, Neil.

Oh!

Hey, daddy.

How are you?

- Okay, here.
- Come here, baby.

- Remember when
I came back from--
- mm-hmm.

Apollo 10 and I tried
to impress you?

- Yeah.
- You know, daddy's
been to the Moon.

- Been here, done this.
- He flew Snoopy closer,

and was way out in the--

in-- in the heavens
where God lives.

And I never will forget it,

you just stood,
and listened to me.

I brought you
back down to earth.

All the sudden,
it got quiet

and I had
nothing else to say,

and you looked up,
and said,

"daddy, now that you've been
to the Moon and back,

- when you gonna
take me camping...
- Camping.

- We used to go camping.
- ...Like you promised me."

That's right.

And you know
what that brought home?

All the times,

during that period
of our lives together

that I couldn't take
you camping,

that I was gone.

I was gone somewhere.

I was gone and gone,
and gone and gone.

It was a very selfish
life on my part,

and on the part
of all the guys.

The rim on this
little crater

seems to be all white.

This is gonna be some
kind of different ride.

Dick Gordon
had a crew with Jack Schmitt.

Jack Schmitt
was a lunar geologist.

It made sense,
at least to me,

and I was afraid
it made a lot of sense

to too many other people,

that they should keep
that crew together.

Well, the National
Academy of Sciences

wanted a geologist
to fly to the Moon.

They've always wanted that.

So here's their last
opportunity

To put a PhD geologist
on a flight crew.

And so it was gonna
come down

to Dick's crew or my crew,

and he had
an ace in a hole.

He had Jack Schmitt.

I knew if I had
any chance at all,

I'd better not
do something stupid.

We do a lot of training
in simulators,

and we had
this lunar landing
training vehicle.

We also used
the helicopter.

I had an urge to fly low

over the Indian River,

and the little skid
that you land on
with this helicopter

touched the water.

This is the helmet
that I was wearing

when I was flying
that helicopter,

and when I unstrapped it,

it floated
to the surface,

and it picked
an equilibrium position.

Probably floated,
I guess about like that,

and everything
above the surface
is charcoal.

I thought he'd,
as the saying goes
in the Navy,

that he'd screwed the pooch.

I thought
he'd done it to himself,

because,
you know, hell,

nobody flies
a damn helicopter
into the water

unless there's
a couple bikinis there
you're looking at.

How can anyone do something

so dumb as I just did

and be given
the responsibility

of flying
a jillion-dollar spacecraft
to the Moon--

being responsible
for the crew,

the safety,
the success of the mission?

And I knew, absolutely,

when the time came,
it would not be me.

Scene four, take one.

Sound for Apollo 17
astronaut Cernan.

Gene Cernan,
Harrison Schmitt,
and Ronald Evans

have been named for
the finish Apollo flight,
Apollo 17.

Schmitt is a first
among flying astronauts.

He's primarily a geologist
rather than a pilot.

When we made
the final selection
of the crew

for Apollo 17,

that was done in concert
with Deke Slayton,

who was head
of the flight crew

operations at the time.

And I was never too pleased
with the process

that was followed there,

because I thought
it was too much

in the hands
of Mr. Slayton.

Jack was taken off of my crew

and assigned to Apollo 17.

I didn't think
that was very fair.

And I said,
"they can't take
Jack Schmitt off my crew

and give him
to somebody else."

He may have had a right
to be somewhat bitter

I got the flight
and he didn't.

And, uh, you know,
he said--

tells me that today,

because he said,
"you took my flight."

And I may have.

You know,
sitting on a pad

waiting for launch,

it's a long time to--
to contemplate

where you've come from,

where you're going.

It's one of those
real moments

that you take
an introspective look

at what is now
in front of you.

This is what I asked for.

This was
my personal moment
of reckoning.

When it lifted off,

it was just-- I mean,
I'll never, ever, forget

how that was because
the whole ground rumbled
underneath your feet

and all the fish jumped
out of the lake.

The entire sky
just totally lit up.

It was just beautiful.

Oh, my golly!

Unbelievable.

Unbelievable,

but it is bright
in the Sun.

It was
the most proud moment

of my entire life.

I had proved to myself
that I was capable

of coming this far.

I couldn't get out
of my mind--

this almost
science fiction world

I was living in.

Now we had
a little more
than three days

to make use of the time
we had on the Moon,

and that's when
the work really began.

So we set experiments
out there,

seismic experiments,

experiments of all kinds.

The next thing we did
was unload the lunar rover.

We had the rover
to facilitate our ability
to move around,

and try to explore
this entire valley.

We never would have been able
to do that on foot.

It didn't go very fast,

but it went fast enough
on the Moon in 1/6 gravity.

Okay, and Gene,
you might get the--

Okay, now shove it.

That's too much.
Wait a minute.

But our major objective
was to try and establish

the history of that valley.

- Oh, hey!
Wait a minute.
- What?

There is orange soil!

Well, don't move it
until I see it.

It's all over.

Orange!

Don't move it
until I see it.

I've stirred it up
with my feet.

How can there be orange
soil on the Moon?

Look at it.

I'll be a son of a--

that's the volcanic...

...they're up against
a constraint anyways,

so they gotta leave
at a certain time
regardless of what we got.

I'm willing to give up all
the light mantle stuff,

and stay up another--

that's the priority
right up there, huh?

There it is.
Look at that.

That change at all?

Oh, thank you, Geno.
It looks much better.

When you get out there
and look back...

As small as it is
compared to the Earth,

when you're the only
two guys out there,

it can be pretty lonely
at times.

Once we got in,
we took our suits off

and we had to dry
them out.

We had to eat.

We had to rest.

I remember specifically
pulling up the shade

before we tried
to get some rest

and looking out
at the Earth.

Maybe I just
had to make sure
it was still there.

Oh, that ought to be
a beautiful shot

if I can see what
my settings are.

That whole period of time,
that's the time I call

sitting on God's
front porch.

I was out there somewhere
with the opportunity

to see something
and be somewhere

and do something
that only 12 human beings

in the history of mankind

have been able to do,
or be, or see.

Tracy,
did he promise to bring
you anything back?

Well, I asked him
to bring a rock back
from the Moon.

But he said if he could,

he'd bring me one back.

And he said if he could,
he'd bring me a moonbeam.

- A what?
- A moonbeam.

A moonbeam?

He's either pulling your leg

or you're pulling mine.

That's what he said.

I parked the rover

about 3/4 of a mile
behind the l.E.M.

So that they could operate
the television camera

and watch our liftoff.

And I don't know
what possessed me to do it,

I just scratched
Tracy's initials
in the lunar surface.

I put "T.D.C."

And someday, sometime,

I can only believe--

not just hope,
but believe--

that someone will go back,

and that's
what they'll find.

I guess you appreciate
things the older you get.

Always.

You understand them better,
you appreciate them more.

And you know,
the older I get,

probably
the more meaningful
it gets to me.

I'm gonna roll it downhill
so we can work on it,

well,
I'll document it first.

Walking up the ladder,

was probably one
of the most memorable
moments for me,

because I looked down
at my footprints

and I knew
I wasn't coming
this way again.

Why we were here?
What did it mean?

I looked over my shoulder,
and there's the Earth,

there's reality.
There's home.

I wanted to press
the freeze button.

I wanted to stop time.

I really wanted
to reach out,

put it in my hand,
stick it in my spacesuit,

and bring it home
and show it to everybody.

This is what it feels like.
This is what it looks like.

This is Apollo control
and 187 hours, 31 minutes.

Now approaching
30 minutes until time
for lunar liftoff.

The countdown toward liftoff
going very smoothly.

Control, Telmu,
G.N.C, Eecomm,

Surgeon, Inco.

I was the flight director
on this console

for Gene Cernan's
liftoff from the Moon.

Rog. We're go for
liftoff here, Capcom.

So that when it came time,

we recognized
the triumph of the work
that we had done,

but we also lost
some very good friends.

So it was
a celebratory mood,

but it was also one
that we looked very
somberly at our past.

And we hoped that somewhere,
somehow, someday,

we would be able
to carry the work
that we had been doing

into the future.

Three, two, one,
ignition.

Burn away, Houston.

Could I have imagined
that it would come to this?

I don't want to remember
it this way.

I'm just disappointed.

I almost wish
I didn't come here today.

You go to the Moon
and you're everybody's hero.

You're sort of caught up
in it yourself.

People everywhere
of every color,
of every religion,

every ethnic background
were overwhelmed.

"Let me touch you.
Let me talk to you."

And you live
that kind of activity

for four or five years,

that's a big change
in your life.

Our life did change a lot.

He was so engrossed
in all of this notoriety,

and traveling, and speaking,

and I got so tired of it.

And I thought,
"I just want a normal life.

I want to be
a normal housewife."

And I remember when Gene and I
were on a private jet,

I was sitting in one aisle,

he was sitting
across the aisle from me.

And I looked at him,
and I thought,

"you know, Cernan,
this is your life,
this is what you want.

But I don't want it."

I guess a couple years
after that

we ended up separating,

and going our different ways.

Some 60% of us got divorced,

and I'm not proud of it.

We were so tunnel-visioned

when we were going
to the Moon,

that we never had time
to get off

that big white horse
we were riding

until it was too late.

I lived a single life for,
I don't know,

seven or eight years.

And that sounds like
a lot of fun

when you're 40,

but sooner or later,
you've gotta come to grips
with who you are

and what's important in life.

I was invited to
a friend's home

for a cocktail party,

and Gene happened
to be there.

And I just happened to see
the best looking chick

at the party,
and it was her,

and someone said,
"would you take her home?"

And I said,
"well, I'd be glad to."

But after taking her home,

I'm not sure
I was ever gonna see
her again.

That's true.

I just liked Gene's--

I thought he was more
down to earth

than a lot
of the other ones.

Mm-hmm.

And at that time,
I didn't think he had
such a big ego.

- Give me a break.
- But I have since--

I'm learning more about me.

Give me a break.

You know we're gonna be
married 25 years?

- 24.
- Five.

It's five.

Jan became something
very special in my life.

And from
that relationship,

came a family again,
and grandkids.

Kids.

- Give me a break.
- Take a seat. Come on.

This is a beautiful--

someone take a picture.

We are!
Sit down, come on.

- Okay.
- Fix your hair.

- Ow.
- You're about to
sit on me?

Ow. That's--
you put me in the middle.

Wait.
You're sitting on me.

Ow, my shirt.

- Okay, am I all right?
- Yes.

Okay.

...1.6 billion dollars.

I'm here for a couple days and
I'm going to San Diego,

so I could do something...

Oh, brother.

It's a very high energy level.

He-- you know,
he just doesn't stop.

He doesn't take a moment
to catch his breath.

He's got a million things
on his mind at one time.

I don't know
that retirement is really
in his vocabulary.

And there are people here
that are listening today

who will see humans
walk on Mars.

I won't, but they will.

While we're still here,

and there's
an opportunity to share

what the space program
has meant,

particularly in
this day and age

when we're talking
to a generation

who weren't even around
when we went to the Moon,

we have an obligation
to do that.

Okay. We get it?

You came all the way
from France?

Yes.

Oh, boy.

Oh, yeah.
That's a good one.

Thank you. Thank you.

Take care.

Whew!

All of the fame,
and the speeches,

- and the traveling...
- What's your name?

I'm on him a lot now.
"Gene, shut it down."

Shut down your schedule.

This is October.

Here was September.
Here was August.

Throttle back, you know?
Slow down, baby.

You gotta smell
the roses a little bit.

But he drives himself.

The bad part about it is,

I'm realizing that,

like when we were
in the space program,

when we're going full bar,
eight days a week,

I ignored my family.

We-- we all did.

But I'm finding
I'm getting innuendos
from my family,

from the grandkids,
from my wife,

that I'm doing
the same thing now.

And maybe--

maybe I'm finally
coming to a realization

that I gotta think
of somebody else.

I do. I--
I don't think I'm selfish.

I think I do think
of somebody else.

I think of those people
who want a piece of you,

who you somehow owe
a piece to,

but there is a limit.

Now I think maybe I owe
a piece of me to my family.

- You got-- okay.
- Here you go.

You know,
this is a lot of work

- for old guys like us.
- Tell me about it.

These two horses together
can go like the wind.

We ain't gonna do that today.

I know damn well
I'm not.

You fly right wing,
I'll fly left wing.

Okay.

We're gonna go across

and go back in
through that gate.

- Okay.
- Unless you want
to run the barrel?

No. I don't want to run
any barrels.

Hey, baldy,
are you ready to admit

we ain't got
what we used to got?

Yeah.

Easy, now.
Let's not have a wreck here.

I got it.
I'll get it.

If I can get my leg
over this saddle, anyway.

There.

All right,
I think we survived.

Come on. Oh, shit.

Oh, baldy!
I can't walk!

I can't either.

We're still here.

- That's right.
- How many more years?

We got a pact
to make it to 85

and then we'll reevaluate.

I gotta pact--
I gotta pact with my dog.

You know what?
When we got him, I said,

"if you go ten,
I'll go ten."

That was Barron,

and I've gotta
renegotiate with him.

We only got three and a half
of those ten years left.

- I'm not ready!
- Well, bless.

- I love you, babe.
- I love you, too, man.

Just standing here,

getting a little nostalgic.

Sort of gives me a chance

to wonder whether
this all happened in my life.

Whether it was a reality

or whether it was a dream.

Is that dummy in there
with my name on really me?

And I also stand here
and I'm wondering

what people
are gonna think,

not in another 40 years,
but maybe another 100 years.

Who knows?
Maybe another 1,000 years.

I often tell young kids,

and particularly my grandkids,

don't ever count
yourself out.

You'll never know
how good you are
unless you try.

Dream the impossible,

and go out
and make it happen.

I walked on the Moon.

What can't you do?