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We choose to go to the moon.
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We choose to go to the moon
in this decade and do the other things.
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Not because they are easy,
but because they are hard.
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- Look at that.
- That's beautiful.
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This is one of the most thrilling
moments of my life I guarantee you.
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The great adventure of going to the
moon may never happen again in our life.
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Manned space flight will continue...
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and there is adventure to be found
in high Earth orbit.
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Robots have already gone
to other worlds:
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the valleys of Mars, the clouds
and moons of Jupiter.
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There is a brand of adventure
to be had...
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in such a long-distance mode
of human participation.
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But the satisfaction and the sudden
emptiness of an adventure completed...
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are intangible human concepts.
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The argument can be made that mankind
cannot bear witness to an event...
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unless one of mankind has
experienced the adventure firsthand.
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Not necessarily first, mind you,
just firsthand.
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It is certainly not necessary
to be Neil Armstrong...
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to have experienced
the great adventure found...
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in a voyage
from the Earth to the moon.
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Hey, Beano, turn around
and give me a big smile!
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My name is Al Bean.
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That's me, standing in the Ocean
of Storms on November 21, 1969.
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There I am again,
five very heady days later...
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aboard our recovery ship where they
set up a quarantine trailer...
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for me and my two crewmates:
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Pete Conrad, my skipper...
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and Dick Gordon,
our command module pilot.
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They were Gemini veterans
who are about as cool as they come.
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Everyone knew they'd be going
to the moon, unlike me.
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This was my first space flight.
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I would be forever known as the fourth
man to set foot on the lunar surface.
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Pete and Dick wanted to be
on the first landing...
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but I'd have been happy
to be on the 93rd.
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Funny, Beano. You're a dead man!
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Crying out loud, I had the President
of the United States calling me.
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Good morning, Mr. President.
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Me, Al Bean. Last guy
in his astronaut group to even fly.
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- We take our jobs very seriously.
- The commander in chief...
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promoted all three of us
to Navy captains.
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Thank you very much, sir.
Yes, sir.
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Congratulations, Captain Bean.
Captain Gordon.
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- Captain Conrad. Captain Bean.
- Captain Conrad. Captain Gordon.
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People were treating me
with great care...
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making sure we hadn't come home
with any alien diseases.
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Careful not
to puncture his brain, Doc.
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That is very funny, Dick.
You're a very funny pilot.
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We hadn't, but one of the cameras
conked me pretty good during splashdown.
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It was my own damn fault.
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I was supposed to remove it
and put it under my seat...
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like it said on the checklist.
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I guess I was so happy the parachutes
had worked that I said...
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"I'll just leave it there
on its window mount."
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That is stupid.
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If it had hit me
in the center of the forehead...
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it would have
probably killed me...
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which would have been
a really sad situation.
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- Hit the breakers.
- I'm doing it.
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- What?
- Are you okay?
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Yeah, I think so.
I'm fine.
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- Did you get knocked out?
- What?
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Actually, I had,
but I didn't realize it until later.
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Hell, the whole trip I didn't have
too much luck with cameras.
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I'll explain that later.
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Bump or not, I was alive and well.
So were my friends.
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We made it,
and we made it well.
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- Let me disinfect that for you.
- Ow!
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Maybe we weren't dignified enough
to be heroes. lt wouldn't matter.
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'Cause we were the second mission
to land on the moon.
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History's ultimate anticlimax.
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Somehow, I fit right in.
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Flying with Pete and Dick was the
sweetest thing about the mission for me.
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We were a true team.
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At one point,
I even kind of saved the day.
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I didn't know what to expect.
I was a complete rookie.
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We'd done countless
simulated launches...
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so I did the same things
I did during all of those.
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Roger, STC. Main bus tie bat
B/C switch, on, up.
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I kept busy checking the console...
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making sure our command module,
Yankee Clipper, was ready to go.
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Looks like this launch
is gonna be a wet one.
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No big deal for an all-Navy crew.
We can handle it.
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The rain was considered a bother,
but nothing to worry about.
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Apollo 12,
you are go for launch.
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Roger. Go for launch.
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Me and my best buddies were ready
for the adventure of a lifetime.
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Al Bean,
you are going to the moon.
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Y'all can come along
if you like.
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13, 12, 11...
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ten, nine--
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We have ignition sequence start.
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The engines are on.
Four, three...
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two, one, zero.
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The first few moments after liftoff,
you're vibrating pretty good.
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- The clock is running.
- Then you really start to move.
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- Clear the tower.
- Roger. Clear the tower.
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I got a pitch-and-roll program,
and this baby is really going.
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Roll complete.
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- Mark one bravo.
- Got you on that.
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This thing moves, doesn't it?
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Baby!
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We had just over half a minute
of trouble-free launch...
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and then all hell busted loose.
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- What the hell was that?
- I just lost a whole bunch of stuff.
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We just had a whole bunch
of buses drop out.
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What have we got here?
A/C bus 1 light, all the fuel cells.
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Okay, Houston,
we just lost the platform, gang.
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I don't know what happened.
We had everything drop out.
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I got three fuel cell lights, an A/C bus
light, a fuel cell disconnect...
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A/C bus overload 1 and 2,
main bus A and B out.
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We had some big glitch here.
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- I got A/C.
- You got A/C? Maybe it's the indicator.
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- What's on the main bus?
- 24 volts. That's low.
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We've got a short of some kind,
but I can't believe that's accurate.
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- Flight, EECOM.
- Go, EECOM.
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I think it's a fuel cell bus failure.
They've been thrown off-line somehow.
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That must be why we're
getting garbage here.
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Can they try SCE to aux?
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Gerry Griffin had never heard
that command before.
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Most of the people
in Mission Control hadn't.
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Tell them.
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Apollo 12, Houston.
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Try SCE to auxiliary.
Over.
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FCE to auxiliary?
What the hell is that?
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I'm not sure even Pete knew
what that was, but one person did.
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I know what that is.
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SCE to aux.
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We're getting good telemetry again.
Try to reset your fuel cells.
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- Reset fuel cells.
- Wait for staging.
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Hang on.
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Okay, Houston.
GDC is good.
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We got a good S-2, gang.
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We copy that, Pete.
You're looking good.
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Poor Gerry Griffin.
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We were his first mission
as flight director...
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and he had dealt with more malfunctions
than anybody had ever seen.
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Now we'll straighten out
our problems here.
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I don't know what happened. I'm not sure
we didn't get hit by lightning.
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That's exactly what had happened.
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Before our first stage
had finished doing its job...
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observers back on the ground
later reported...
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that not just one...
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but two bolts of lightning
rode our exhaust contrail...
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all the way back down to the pad
and hit the tower.
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That was a hell of a simulation.
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I think we need a little more
all-weather testing, guys.
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Al's got all the buses back on-line.
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We'll square up our platform
when we get into orbit.
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So I had done my part
to help out in a crisis.
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Of course, we owe a lot
to that EECOM fella, John Aaron.
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But to me,
the real hero was Pete Conrad.
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He kept his hand on the abort handle
the entire time.
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But he kept his cool
and he never used it.
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Once I got into Earth's orbit...
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I found space flight was everything
it was supposed to be.
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Take a look at this.
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Those are campfires down there.
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- That's something, isn't it?
- Yes.
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Beautiful.
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Down there, people were gathered
around man's most primitive discovery.
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Here the three of us were...
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riding 250,000 miles into space
on a flame.
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Man, that sky is black.
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Yes, it is.
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How we looking, Dickie?
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You all finished
realigning the platform?
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- I is finished.
- Outstanding.
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That will give them something
to write about tonight.
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I bet all our wives fainted.
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I'll bet they did when they heard you
call about 18 lights.
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Every time I close my eyes,
all I see are those damn lights.
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- What a way to start.
- Terrible way to break in Al Bean.
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That's okay.
I don't mind.
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Not everybody was thinking about how
Al Bean was enjoying the mission.
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In Houston, unbeknownst to us,
there was serious concern...
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that the lightning had damaged
our pyrotechnic system...
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that would deploy our parachutes.
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If we run the TEI checklist...
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we test everything
they need to get home...
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except one big item:
deployment of the chutes.
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Yeah, but if the barometric switches
and timers have failed...
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the crew
can deploy the chutes manually.
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But if the pyros
had already been fired--
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Once they're gone, pushing the deploy
button won't do anything at all.
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- Is there any way to check the pyros?
- Only visual inspection, from outside.
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All right,
I'll let you know.
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They finally decided
that if it had...
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we'd be just as dead splashing down now
as ten days from now.
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So they might as well
send us to the moon.
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Sugar
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Ah, honey, honey
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You are my candy, girl
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And you got me wanting you
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Come on now!
Honey
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- Honey?
- Yeah.
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Oh, sugar, sugar
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Damn it!
I wish I could shit.
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I don't have the slightest inclination,
but I know what will happen.
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It's gonna be the first shit
on the lunar surface.
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- Okay, Al, your turn.
- Excuse me?
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I don't want to take
any time out on the moon.
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Go down there
and try to make a poop.
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Why are you laughing?
You're next.
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I didn't know that as commander
you had that kind of authority.
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He thinks he can control
our bowel movements.
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On family trips, didn't your mother
make you go before you left?
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This is the longest damn vacation
you boys have ever been on...
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and in this vehicle
I am your mother.
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I want you to work at it.
I'm serious.
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I'll see what I can do.
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Fortunately, at this point,
we had time to debate such issues.
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I'm sure you're dying to know
how it all turned out.
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Once again, this is Emmett Seaborn.
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Those of you who have been
with us all night...
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are going to see
quite a treat.
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No, they didn't broadcast
my bowel movement around the world.
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In fact,
they didn't broadcast much at all.
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Here's where my bad luck
with the TV cameras comes in.
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The color camera aboard Apollo 12
is a substantial improvement...
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over the black-and-white unit
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had...
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at the Sea of Tranquility.
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Conrad and Bean are setting up now.
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Oh, boy.
Look at that.
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I was in charge of setting up
the TV camera on the tripod...
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so that those people who stayed up
all night to see a rerun...
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could watch us on the moon.
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This would have worked out great
had I not accidentally done something...
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that I wasn't supposed to do.
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In all our months of training,
we never had the actual camera.
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All we had was a block of wood.
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This procedure needs to be completed
in four minutes.
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I knew where I was supposed to put it
and where the sun would be.
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Someone probably told me
to keep the lens shaded or something.
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Don't point it at the sun.
Set the focus at infinity.
236
00:17:08,020 --> 00:17:11,649
But there were so many things to digest
in training to walk on the moon...
237
00:17:11,723 --> 00:17:14,317
I guess I just forgot it.
238
00:17:14,393 --> 00:17:16,293
We have a pretty bright image
on the TV.
239
00:17:16,361 --> 00:17:20,058
Can you move it or stop it down?
240
00:17:20,132 --> 00:17:22,794
I'll stop it down.
241
00:17:22,868 --> 00:17:27,134
That's as far as it goes, Houston.
How does it look to you?
242
00:17:27,206 --> 00:17:30,937
Still looks the same.
Why don't you try shifting the scene.
243
00:17:32,377 --> 00:17:35,005
- How's that?
- Looks the same.
244
00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,241
We have a bright image
at the top...
245
00:17:37,316 --> 00:17:39,716
and then blacked out
about eighty percent at the bottom.
246
00:17:42,054 --> 00:17:45,854
That's coming in better.
What change did you make?
247
00:17:45,924 --> 00:17:49,155
I hit on the top with my hammer.
We didn't have a thing to lose.
248
00:17:50,562 --> 00:17:54,692
- Skillful fix.
- Yeah. I hit it with this hammer.
249
00:17:54,766 --> 00:17:57,667
That's skilled craftsmanship.
Let me try it again.
250
00:18:09,581 --> 00:18:13,608
We're still not getting a good picture,
and you're running a tad behind.
251
00:18:13,685 --> 00:18:17,018
Press on and we'll try to get back
to it later if we have time.
252
00:18:17,089 --> 00:18:21,685
Houston, let me move it around
so the back is to the sun.
253
00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:23,352
Maybe that will help.
254
00:18:23,428 --> 00:18:25,453
When all was said and done,
nothing happened.
255
00:18:25,530 --> 00:18:30,024
It's hard to get a TV repairman
to make a house call in Anytown, USA...
256
00:18:30,102 --> 00:18:33,469
and impossible,
of course, on the moon.
257
00:18:33,538 --> 00:18:35,028
The vidicon tube
was fried beyond repair...
258
00:18:35,107 --> 00:18:39,203
so that was the end of color TV
from the Ocean of Storms.
259
00:18:39,278 --> 00:18:42,076
They probably knew on the ground
exactly what I had done wrong...
260
00:18:42,147 --> 00:18:44,206
but nobody wanted
to say anything.
261
00:18:44,283 --> 00:18:48,379
From Houston,
this is Emmett Seaborn.
262
00:18:48,453 --> 00:18:50,887
I just hope
I didn't disappoint anyone.
263
00:18:52,124 --> 00:18:54,183
What the fuck happened up there?
264
00:18:57,629 --> 00:18:59,392
Forget it. Let's go.
265
00:18:59,464 --> 00:19:01,898
What happened was
I had screwed up.
266
00:19:01,967 --> 00:19:05,232
No one would ever get to see
any more of us walking on the moon.
267
00:19:05,304 --> 00:19:08,899
Not even Dick, who was stuck in orbit
while we explored the surface.
268
00:19:08,974 --> 00:19:11,738
I felt bad about that...
269
00:19:11,810 --> 00:19:14,244
but flying solo in Yankee Clipper
was considered more important...
270
00:19:14,313 --> 00:19:17,407
than being the commander's sidekick
on the moon.
271
00:19:17,482 --> 00:19:19,916
Got it. Lock inner mast.
Lock outer mast.
272
00:19:19,985 --> 00:19:22,249
Extend locked legs.
We've done that.
273
00:19:24,823 --> 00:19:28,657
I clearly remember the last moments
we spent before we separated.
274
00:19:30,495 --> 00:19:34,932
We could have never gotten down there or
home again if it weren't for that man.
275
00:19:44,209 --> 00:19:46,609
In all the time
we trained together...
276
00:19:46,678 --> 00:19:49,613
Dick Gordon never once showed resentment
when people would introduce me...
277
00:19:49,681 --> 00:19:52,844
as "the guy who was going
to the moon with Pete Conrad."
278
00:19:55,020 --> 00:19:59,286
Never a trace of sarcasm.
Never an ironic remark.
279
00:19:59,358 --> 00:20:01,292
He was in line
for a command of his own.
280
00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:04,158
He was holding out
to walk on the moon on Apollo 18.
281
00:20:06,531 --> 00:20:09,125
Unfortunately,
there never was an Apollo 18...
282
00:20:09,201 --> 00:20:11,761
so this was as close
as he ever got.
283
00:20:24,716 --> 00:20:27,810
I guess we gotta close her up now.
284
00:20:27,886 --> 00:20:30,650
I wish this son of a bitch
fit three people.
285
00:20:30,722 --> 00:20:33,816
At that moment,
with all the challenges ahead of us...
286
00:20:33,892 --> 00:20:36,156
all I could think was one thought:
287
00:20:36,228 --> 00:20:38,992
Sure hope I see you again.
288
00:20:39,064 --> 00:20:41,999
Of course,
I never said it out loud.
289
00:21:09,928 --> 00:21:11,361
Nervous?
290
00:21:12,764 --> 00:21:14,391
How did we get out here anyway?
291
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,034
I just hope I can find
a place to land.
292
00:21:18,103 --> 00:21:20,071
And I hope I can
set it down all right.
293
00:21:20,138 --> 00:21:22,197
You'll do fine.
294
00:21:22,274 --> 00:21:23,741
You'll do just fine.
295
00:21:26,945 --> 00:21:29,846
Just don't bring her in
too low, too fast.
296
00:21:32,818 --> 00:21:34,877
Thanks a lot.
297
00:21:34,953 --> 00:21:37,547
- I'm just trying to help.
- Thanks very much.
298
00:21:37,622 --> 00:21:41,752
- You know I'm here for you.
- I know you are. Big help.
299
00:21:41,827 --> 00:21:43,727
Unlike Neil and Buzz...
300
00:21:43,795 --> 00:21:46,730
our mission called for us not just
to land wherever the ground looked good.
301
00:21:46,798 --> 00:21:50,757
On 11, they were lucky to land almost
three miles from where they had planned.
302
00:21:50,836 --> 00:21:53,236
But we had a target...
303
00:21:53,305 --> 00:21:56,900
which had been waiting for us
in the Ocean of Storms for two years:
304
00:21:58,143 --> 00:22:01,909
an unmanned probe
named Surveyor 3.
305
00:22:01,980 --> 00:22:05,575
If future missions were gonna
explore the moon in depth...
306
00:22:05,650 --> 00:22:10,485
Apollo 12 would have to demonstrate
a precise touchdown was possible.
307
00:22:10,555 --> 00:22:14,116
Forty-two feet. Coming down at three.
Start the clock.
308
00:22:17,996 --> 00:22:19,463
Forty. Coming down at two.
309
00:22:19,531 --> 00:22:22,864
Looking good.
Thirty-two.
310
00:22:22,934 --> 00:22:24,925
Thirty feet. Down at two.
311
00:22:29,207 --> 00:22:31,835
Plenty of gas, babe.
Hang in there. Eighteen feet.
312
00:22:31,910 --> 00:22:34,401
Coming down at two.
He's got it made.
313
00:22:36,348 --> 00:22:38,612
Come on in there.
Twenty-four feet.
314
00:22:44,956 --> 00:22:46,480
Contact light.
315
00:22:46,558 --> 00:22:48,526
Shit.
316
00:23:00,071 --> 00:23:02,403
- Pro!
- Yeah!
317
00:23:02,474 --> 00:23:04,806
Okay, engine arm off.
318
00:23:07,312 --> 00:23:09,337
- You got your commander light off?
- Yep.
319
00:23:09,414 --> 00:23:11,348
- I'll cycle the main shutoff valve.
- Okay.
320
00:23:11,416 --> 00:23:13,384
Good landing. Outstanding.
321
00:23:13,451 --> 00:23:14,975
That was incredible.
322
00:23:16,054 --> 00:23:17,487
Yeah!
323
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,323
Houston,
we're in real good shape.
324
00:23:25,397 --> 00:23:27,490
You guys did outstanding targeting.
325
00:23:27,566 --> 00:23:30,262
That thing was right down the middle.
Beautiful!
326
00:23:30,335 --> 00:23:33,998
It was a real pleasure riding
with the number one aviator.
327
00:23:34,072 --> 00:23:35,505
Way to go.
328
00:23:35,574 --> 00:23:38,168
- Look out there. Isn't it beautiful?
- Man, that's beautiful.
329
00:23:38,243 --> 00:23:40,211
That is something else.
That is amazing.
330
00:23:40,278 --> 00:23:42,178
- Unbelievable.
- Oh, my God.
331
00:23:42,247 --> 00:23:46,513
- You want to ask them?
- Yeah. All right.
332
00:23:47,752 --> 00:23:49,185
Houston, lntrepid.
333
00:23:50,589 --> 00:23:52,022
Go, Intrepid.
334
00:23:52,090 --> 00:23:53,717
Where are we?
335
00:23:53,792 --> 00:23:56,022
By all the numbers and delta vectors
and crater sightings...
336
00:23:56,094 --> 00:23:58,858
it looked like we were
right where we wanted to be.
337
00:24:00,799 --> 00:24:02,699
But it wasn't until Dick
made a flyover pass...
338
00:24:02,767 --> 00:24:06,203
that we found out how good a job
Pete had done bringing us down.
339
00:24:09,941 --> 00:24:11,875
Houston, I have Snowman.
340
00:24:13,445 --> 00:24:17,347
I believe I have the LEM
on the northwest corner of--
341
00:24:17,415 --> 00:24:18,848
I have Intrepid.
342
00:24:23,288 --> 00:24:26,280
He's the only thing
that casts a shadow down there.
343
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,657
He's on the Surveyor crater...
344
00:24:29,728 --> 00:24:32,561
about a third of the way
on the Surveyor crater...
345
00:24:32,631 --> 00:24:34,565
to the head of the snowman.
346
00:24:34,633 --> 00:24:36,100
And I have Surveyor.
347
00:24:38,303 --> 00:24:41,238
Roger, Clipper.
Good eyeball. Well done.
348
00:24:41,306 --> 00:24:44,400
Ed, it's almost as good
as being there.
349
00:24:46,144 --> 00:24:47,873
Almost.
350
00:24:48,947 --> 00:24:50,574
Pete had done it.
351
00:24:50,649 --> 00:24:52,583
With the help of the targeting people
on the ground...
352
00:24:52,651 --> 00:24:57,418
he had proven that pinpoint accuracy
was possible when landing on the moon.
353
00:24:57,489 --> 00:25:00,754
He had set down our lunar module
a stone's throw away...
354
00:25:00,825 --> 00:25:03,089
from our primary mission objective--
355
00:25:03,161 --> 00:25:06,096
A short moon walk
of about 200 yards--
356
00:25:06,164 --> 00:25:08,325
just like he said he would.
357
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,334
Not long after that...
358
00:25:10,402 --> 00:25:13,428
sometime very early in the morning
back in Houston...
359
00:25:13,505 --> 00:25:15,769
Pete Conrad proved something else.
360
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:20,277
He proved to me and the world
just how eloquent a man he can be.
361
00:25:20,345 --> 00:25:23,109
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.
362
00:25:23,181 --> 00:25:27,117
Only the third human being
to set foot on the moon.
363
00:25:27,185 --> 00:25:30,814
Who can forget Neil Armstrong's
immortal words.
364
00:25:30,889 --> 00:25:33,790
Let's watch and listen to the words
Conrad has chosen...
365
00:25:33,858 --> 00:25:36,588
to mark this moment in history.
366
00:25:39,030 --> 00:25:42,966
That may have been a small one for Neil,
but it's a long one for me.
367
00:25:47,205 --> 00:25:49,298
There you have it.
368
00:25:50,875 --> 00:25:53,810
After training with him for months,
we'd all become accustomed...
369
00:25:53,878 --> 00:25:56,438
to Pete's colorful use of language.
370
00:25:58,950 --> 00:26:00,645
You stupid--
371
00:26:00,719 --> 00:26:02,880
This thing's about to piss me off.
372
00:26:02,954 --> 00:26:05,980
I finally get the cocksucker turning,
then it locks up again.
373
00:26:06,057 --> 00:26:10,494
I'm spending more time trying to turn
these frigging bolts...
374
00:26:10,562 --> 00:26:12,655
than any goddamn else thing.
375
00:26:15,567 --> 00:26:19,469
Goddamn. Son of a--
Cocksucker. Goddamn it.
376
00:26:20,905 --> 00:26:23,806
Turn around
and give me a big smile.
377
00:26:28,413 --> 00:26:33,009
I had a special moment for myself
to mark my getting to the moon.
378
00:26:33,084 --> 00:26:36,053
When you are selected to become
a member of the astronaut corps...
379
00:26:36,121 --> 00:26:38,521
you wear a special silver pin.
380
00:26:40,759 --> 00:26:43,660
It gets replaced by a gold pin
when you actually fly a mission.
381
00:26:44,763 --> 00:26:47,197
I had worn my silver pin
for six years.
382
00:26:47,265 --> 00:26:51,463
Being selected for Apollo 12,
I wouldn't be needing it anymore.
383
00:26:51,536 --> 00:26:55,529
I wanted to put it in a special place
where it would rest forever.
384
00:26:55,607 --> 00:26:59,202
What better place
than in the Ocean of Storms.
385
00:26:59,611 --> 00:27:03,877
I joined NASA in the third group
of 14 astronauts in 1963.
386
00:27:03,948 --> 00:27:07,611
So did Dick Gordon
who flew with Pete in Gemini 11.
387
00:27:07,685 --> 00:27:09,880
While he and the rest of the group
were jockeying for seats...
388
00:27:09,954 --> 00:27:11,546
on lunar landing flights...
389
00:27:11,623 --> 00:27:14,558
I was assigned
to the Apollo Applications Program...
390
00:27:14,626 --> 00:27:17,561
the space station which came
to be known as Skylab.
391
00:27:17,629 --> 00:27:19,563
Pete called it "Tomorrowland."
392
00:27:19,631 --> 00:27:21,223
Planning things
so far in the future...
393
00:27:21,299 --> 00:27:24,393
who knew if they'd ever
become a reality or not.
394
00:27:24,469 --> 00:27:26,562
While I was tucked away
in some far-off corner...
395
00:27:26,638 --> 00:27:29,573
it seemed everyone else
was assigned mission after mission.
396
00:27:29,641 --> 00:27:32,576
I sort of felt
like the forgotten man.
397
00:27:32,644 --> 00:27:34,908
But I kept an eye
on what my peers were doing...
398
00:27:34,979 --> 00:27:38,107
all the guys I used to commiserate with
about not getting to fly.
399
00:27:38,183 --> 00:27:41,584
Walt Cunningham made the crew
of Apollo 7.
400
00:27:42,487 --> 00:27:44,682
Bill Anders, Apollo 8.
401
00:27:44,756 --> 00:27:47,088
Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9.
402
00:27:47,158 --> 00:27:48,921
That left just me.
403
00:27:48,993 --> 00:27:52,929
But there were others from our group
that were not so fortunate.
404
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,265
Ted Freeman was flying his T-38
at a couple hundred miles per hour...
405
00:27:59,337 --> 00:28:02,636
when a goose smashed in
the Plexiglas of his cockpit.
406
00:28:02,707 --> 00:28:04,265
He was killed.
407
00:28:06,010 --> 00:28:07,773
Charlie Basset died along with
Elliot See...
408
00:28:07,846 --> 00:28:12,442
when Elliot crashed into a building
at the McDonnell plant in St. Louis.
409
00:28:14,352 --> 00:28:17,617
Roger Chaffee was on the crew
of Apollo 1...
410
00:28:17,689 --> 00:28:20,283
killed in the fire
with Gus Grissom and Ed White.
411
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,122
Then there was C.C. Williams.
412
00:28:23,194 --> 00:28:26,630
He was supposed to be the original
lunar module pilot on Apollo 12...
413
00:28:26,698 --> 00:28:28,723
along with Pete and Dick.
414
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,291
He had spent the night before
our astronaut physicals...
415
00:28:31,369 --> 00:28:34,167
jumping up and down
to compress his spine.
416
00:28:34,239 --> 00:28:38,369
There was a six-foot height limit,
and C.C. was a shade over six feet even.
417
00:28:38,443 --> 00:28:43,676
He was a superb astronaut
who impressed everyone he met...
418
00:28:43,748 --> 00:28:45,716
but C.C. was killed
when his T-38...
419
00:28:45,783 --> 00:28:48,013
went into a spin over the swamps
of Tallahassee.
420
00:28:48,086 --> 00:28:51,647
He had been cruising at 24,000 feet
when his controls locked...
421
00:28:51,723 --> 00:28:53,987
and the plane went
into a steep dive.
422
00:28:54,058 --> 00:28:56,492
He didn't have time to bail out.
423
00:28:56,561 --> 00:28:59,655
At that point, I wasn't even hoping
to fly Apollo anymore.
424
00:28:59,731 --> 00:29:02,495
It just hurt too much
to think about it.
425
00:29:02,567 --> 00:29:05,001
But I guess somebody
was looking out for me.
426
00:29:05,069 --> 00:29:06,832
Somebody named Pete Conrad.
427
00:29:09,574 --> 00:29:11,735
Al, you got a minute?
428
00:29:11,809 --> 00:29:14,175
Hi, Pete. Sure.
What can I do for you?
429
00:29:14,245 --> 00:29:16,179
I just talked to Deke.
430
00:29:17,448 --> 00:29:19,746
How'd you like to go to the moon
with Dick and me?
431
00:29:21,419 --> 00:29:24,354
Do you think you can give up
all this excitement?
432
00:29:31,596 --> 00:29:33,029
You okay?
433
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,033
You're on board.
434
00:29:37,101 --> 00:29:38,534
Mm-hmm.
435
00:29:42,106 --> 00:29:44,370
It was such a shock...
436
00:29:44,442 --> 00:29:47,377
it took some time
to really sink in.
437
00:29:50,548 --> 00:29:54,507
Once on the moon, I had little time
to think about such things.
438
00:29:54,619 --> 00:29:56,883
I heard once the real cost
of us being there...
439
00:29:56,955 --> 00:29:59,389
was about a million dollars
for each minute.
440
00:29:59,457 --> 00:30:02,893
Pete and I did our best to stretch
every penny of America's money.
441
00:30:02,961 --> 00:30:04,553
We're not just astronauts.
442
00:30:04,629 --> 00:30:07,223
Suddenly, we're meteorologists,
seismologists...
443
00:30:07,298 --> 00:30:09,823
geologists, geochemists,
you name it.
444
00:30:09,901 --> 00:30:11,334
Pete and Al, Houston.
445
00:30:11,402 --> 00:30:13,893
Looks like you did your job.
We're getting data back.
446
00:30:13,972 --> 00:30:16,907
Houston, you don't know
how happy I am.
447
00:30:16,975 --> 00:30:21,071
We're picking up your heavy footsteps
going by the seismometer.
448
00:30:21,145 --> 00:30:23,978
- It's great.
- Our bosses couldn't see us...
449
00:30:24,048 --> 00:30:26,414
but now they knew
how fast we were working.
450
00:30:26,484 --> 00:30:29,612
Man, are you dirty.
This is dirt dirt.
451
00:30:29,687 --> 00:30:31,746
Remember how they took care
of these experiments?
452
00:30:31,823 --> 00:30:33,688
In training you needed gloves
to touch them.
453
00:30:33,758 --> 00:30:38,354
Tell them it's important
to keep the experiments free of dust.
454
00:30:38,429 --> 00:30:40,795
Dr. Wilson asks you guys
not to forget...
455
00:30:40,865 --> 00:30:44,767
to keep the connectors
and experiments free of dust.
456
00:30:49,540 --> 00:30:51,440
Roger.
457
00:30:53,845 --> 00:30:56,871
Dirt or no dirt,
everything worked fine.
458
00:30:56,948 --> 00:30:58,882
While we were laughing
and chatting away...
459
00:30:58,950 --> 00:31:01,282
poor Dick was trying
to get work done.
460
00:31:01,352 --> 00:31:05,118
Okay, Clipper. You did not copy
all of that PAD. ls that affirm?
461
00:31:05,189 --> 00:31:07,783
Ed, if you want to talk to me,
you'll have to take it off relay...
462
00:31:07,859 --> 00:31:09,952
so Pete and Al won't cut you out.
463
00:31:10,028 --> 00:31:12,792
It's impossible to hear anything
with those guys yakking.
464
00:31:15,199 --> 00:31:19,135
There were so many things for us
to remember to do on the moon...
465
00:31:19,203 --> 00:31:23,196
that we needed some kind of cheat sheet
that would always be within reach.
466
00:31:23,274 --> 00:31:27,142
Both of us had drafted
a checklist to wear on our sleeves...
467
00:31:27,211 --> 00:31:30,647
but the actual flight item was made up
by the ground crew just before launch...
468
00:31:30,715 --> 00:31:32,706
and put in our suits
without our even seeing them...
469
00:31:32,784 --> 00:31:35,981
until we were on the moon.
470
00:31:36,054 --> 00:31:39,581
Thanks to Dave Scott
and the rest of our backup crew...
471
00:31:39,657 --> 00:31:42,217
we had a little extra
reading to do.
472
00:31:47,732 --> 00:31:49,495
Look at your checklist.
473
00:31:59,243 --> 00:32:01,336
That's the terrain for me!
474
00:32:03,915 --> 00:32:05,849
With a 30-minute extension
to our EVA...
475
00:32:05,917 --> 00:32:09,512
I was able to get the core sample tube
in and out of the ground.
476
00:32:09,587 --> 00:32:12,852
Pete and I got up
our first load of moon rocks.
477
00:32:12,924 --> 00:32:17,520
We dusted each other off,
then I started back up the ladder.
478
00:32:17,595 --> 00:32:23,033
Just like that, the first of my two
four-hour moon walks was over.
479
00:32:24,602 --> 00:32:28,868
It's impossible to truly appreciate
something when it's happening.
480
00:32:28,940 --> 00:32:33,206
I suppose I had flashes of thought like:
"How did I get to the moon?"
481
00:32:33,277 --> 00:32:35,211
But if you put yourself
in my place...
482
00:32:35,279 --> 00:32:37,873
your head would be filled with so many
checklists and procedures...
483
00:32:37,949 --> 00:32:41,385
that all you could do, really,
was look at the panel readouts...
484
00:32:41,452 --> 00:32:43,545
upon which your life depends...
485
00:32:43,621 --> 00:32:46,715
feeling bad
about that lost TV camera.
486
00:32:46,791 --> 00:32:49,225
It wasn't the reason
we came to the moon.
487
00:32:49,293 --> 00:32:51,727
I know we're all human
and we mess up...
488
00:32:51,796 --> 00:32:53,889
but I sure felt bad about it.
489
00:32:55,967 --> 00:33:01,200
I seem to be a bit more sensitive
about such things than my colleagues.
490
00:33:03,975 --> 00:33:08,241
Pete and Dick are more typical
of the astronaut personality:
491
00:33:08,312 --> 00:33:11,907
unflappable, confident,
fun loving.
492
00:33:11,983 --> 00:33:16,181
As for me,
one out of three ain't bad.
493
00:33:16,254 --> 00:33:18,245
We did have fun together.
494
00:33:18,322 --> 00:33:20,916
We were the most close-knit
of any crew that ever flew.
495
00:33:22,660 --> 00:33:24,150
Pete even got us
matching gold Corvettes...
496
00:33:24,228 --> 00:33:27,095
customized for our positions
on the crew:
497
00:33:27,165 --> 00:33:28,928
CDR for commander...
498
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,991
CMP for command module pilot...
499
00:33:31,068 --> 00:33:34,003
and LMP for me,
the lunar module pilot.
500
00:33:35,406 --> 00:33:39,172
Those men were then and still are
my best friends.
501
00:33:39,243 --> 00:33:43,009
If you're gonna do all this work
to get to the moon, it should be fun.
502
00:33:57,028 --> 00:34:01,294
I probably should have taken
a sleeping pill, but that wasn't manly.
503
00:34:01,365 --> 00:34:03,458
Finally, I was able
to put work aside...
504
00:34:03,534 --> 00:34:08,130
allow myself a moment of peace,
a moment of calm.
505
00:34:08,206 --> 00:34:10,640
Finally, I got to sleep.
506
00:34:13,544 --> 00:34:15,637
That doesn't sound right.
507
00:34:15,713 --> 00:34:17,305
It's okay.
508
00:34:17,381 --> 00:34:19,576
No warning lights.
509
00:34:19,650 --> 00:34:21,811
- The cabin pressure is okay.
- It's the cooling pump.
510
00:34:21,886 --> 00:34:24,753
Helium regulator's nominal.
It's not the burst disk.
511
00:34:24,822 --> 00:34:27,985
- It's the cooling pump. lt's okay.
- Yeah?
512
00:34:29,126 --> 00:34:31,993
- Cooling pump?
- Yeah.
513
00:34:32,063 --> 00:34:34,054
I guess you're right.
514
00:34:35,066 --> 00:34:36,499
I am.
515
00:34:40,571 --> 00:34:42,334
Back to sleep.
516
00:34:51,849 --> 00:34:54,909
- Since you're up--
- Yeah? What?
517
00:34:56,254 --> 00:34:58,449
- I've been awake for a while.
- You have?
518
00:34:58,522 --> 00:35:01,218
-Why didn't you say anything?
-This neck ring is cutting into my neck.
519
00:35:01,292 --> 00:35:03,351
The cocksucker is killing me.
520
00:35:03,427 --> 00:35:07,193
They snugged up my boot too tight,
and it's pulling on the one side.
521
00:35:08,599 --> 00:35:10,226
We have to re-lace it.
522
00:35:14,772 --> 00:35:18,902
Now that we were up, I started
thinking about the EVA to come:
523
00:35:18,976 --> 00:35:21,376
our second and last.
524
00:35:21,445 --> 00:35:23,276
We were planning to take
a very historic photo...
525
00:35:23,347 --> 00:35:27,078
using a special timer
we had snuck on board.
526
00:35:27,151 --> 00:35:28,743
- Hurry up.
- Let's go.
527
00:35:29,987 --> 00:35:33,047
- Come on. Sit down.
- You got it set up?
528
00:35:35,459 --> 00:35:39,555
All the photographs from Apollo 11
were of Buzz taken by Neil...
529
00:35:39,630 --> 00:35:43,122
one astronaut with maybe the other guy
reflected in his visor.
530
00:35:44,635 --> 00:35:46,262
We had the idea
to use this timer...
531
00:35:46,337 --> 00:35:48,897
and get both me and Pete
in the picture...
532
00:35:48,973 --> 00:35:51,737
and not tell anyone about it
until the film was developed.
533
00:35:51,809 --> 00:35:55,006
- It was a great idea.
- Electric man.
534
00:35:55,079 --> 00:35:59,573
The trick was finding the right moment
so Houston wouldn't catch on.
535
00:36:02,153 --> 00:36:03,745
By the time we made it
to the Surveyor...
536
00:36:03,821 --> 00:36:07,757
we had less than an hour left outside
in the Ocean of Storms.
537
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,323
Our first order of business
was that secret photo.
538
00:36:12,396 --> 00:36:16,594
I had practiced finding the timer
plenty of times and never had trouble.
539
00:36:18,369 --> 00:36:21,463
I had the whole procedure down
to a few seconds.
540
00:36:21,539 --> 00:36:23,632
The result
would have been magnificent.
541
00:36:38,522 --> 00:36:41,150
Had I been able
to find the damn thing.
542
00:36:46,030 --> 00:36:47,691
I'll be darned.
543
00:36:49,033 --> 00:36:52,127
- Isn't it in there?
- Let me look one more time.
544
00:36:54,205 --> 00:36:55,695
Wait. What's in your bag here?
545
00:36:57,208 --> 00:37:01,167
- It's just a film magazine.
- I'll try at this end.
546
00:37:01,245 --> 00:37:04,305
I knew I was wasting
precious time.
547
00:37:04,382 --> 00:37:08,318
If it didn't turn up quick, it would be
criminal to continue the search.
548
00:37:08,386 --> 00:37:11,378
- So--
- I've had it.
549
00:37:11,455 --> 00:37:14,754
- Forget it.
- All right.
550
00:37:14,825 --> 00:37:18,591
Let's mosey down there
and grab what we came here for.
551
00:37:18,662 --> 00:37:22,655
In 1967,
Surveyor's TV camera had broadcast...
552
00:37:22,733 --> 00:37:27,329
the first-ever television pictures
from the surface of the moon.
553
00:37:27,405 --> 00:37:29,339
We aimed
to take that camera home...
554
00:37:29,407 --> 00:37:32,035
so they could study
the long-term effects of the moon...
555
00:37:32,109 --> 00:37:34,441
on manmade machines.
556
00:37:34,512 --> 00:37:39,006
Getting it would mean we had completed
all of our mission objectives.
557
00:37:39,083 --> 00:37:40,516
We got her.
558
00:37:46,757 --> 00:37:49,351
I got it.
559
00:37:49,427 --> 00:37:50,860
Got something for you.
560
00:37:50,928 --> 00:37:53,192
After more than three hours
of hard work on the moon...
561
00:37:53,264 --> 00:37:56,859
I probably wasn't
the most imaginative person.
562
00:37:56,934 --> 00:37:58,595
Had I been thinking fully...
563
00:37:58,669 --> 00:38:02,230
that's when we would have taken
the picture with that timer.
564
00:38:02,306 --> 00:38:06,037
We could have shook hands
standing in front of lntrepid.
565
00:38:06,110 --> 00:38:11,878
It would have been a great picture,
but I didn't think of it.
566
00:38:13,617 --> 00:38:16,211
There was just one last thing to do.
567
00:38:16,287 --> 00:38:19,552
None of us had forgotten the reason
I was privileged enough to be there.
568
00:38:19,623 --> 00:38:21,784
We made it, C.C.
569
00:38:23,127 --> 00:38:26,722
We left C.C.'s wings
on the lunar surface.
570
00:38:26,797 --> 00:38:30,893
He's the reason there's four stars
on our mission patch, not just three.
571
00:38:34,805 --> 00:38:36,739
Then that was it.
572
00:38:36,807 --> 00:38:39,571
Our walk on the moon
was officially over.
573
00:38:43,647 --> 00:38:49,085
I had spent seven hours and 45 minutes
walking on the moon.
574
00:38:49,153 --> 00:38:51,747
In a person's lifetime,
that's nothing but a blink.
575
00:38:53,157 --> 00:38:56,752
But what my eyes witnessed there
at the Ocean of Storms...
576
00:38:56,827 --> 00:38:59,091
still fuels me...
577
00:38:59,163 --> 00:39:02,929
still fills me with a sense of wonder
that is hard to put into words.
578
00:39:11,675 --> 00:39:13,609
What a neat ride!
579
00:39:13,677 --> 00:39:16,111
Al said it was okay.
So was the flag.
580
00:39:16,180 --> 00:39:19,616
Neil and Buzz's ascent had knocked
the crap out of their flag.
581
00:39:19,683 --> 00:39:22,151
They could send a man to the moon,
but they couldn't think...
582
00:39:22,219 --> 00:39:24,278
to place the flag 50 feet away
from a rocket engine...
583
00:39:24,355 --> 00:39:25,947
so it wouldn't get blown over.
584
00:39:26,023 --> 00:39:29,117
- Check our range and range rate.
- Okay.
585
00:39:35,533 --> 00:39:37,023
Intrepid, Houston.
586
00:39:37,101 --> 00:39:38,728
You are ten seconds to LOS.
587
00:39:38,802 --> 00:39:43,501
We'll pick you up again
at 142:21:31 through honeysuckle.
588
00:39:43,574 --> 00:39:46,771
Roger, Houston.
We'll see you on the other side.
589
00:39:59,056 --> 00:40:00,489
What do you say?
590
00:40:03,894 --> 00:40:06,727
Want to take a minute
and fly this vehicle?
591
00:40:08,065 --> 00:40:10,829
Even though I was called
the lunar module pilot...
592
00:40:10,901 --> 00:40:13,597
the only way
I'm supposed to fly the LEM...
593
00:40:13,671 --> 00:40:15,229
is in an emergency.
594
00:40:15,306 --> 00:40:17,240
- You got it.
- I got it.
595
00:40:27,084 --> 00:40:30,019
Some people might want the commander
to fly all the time.
596
00:40:30,087 --> 00:40:32,555
Some commanders might do just that.
597
00:40:33,757 --> 00:40:36,555
- How's it feel?
- It feels real good.
598
00:40:36,627 --> 00:40:40,859
- Oh, man. lt's better than the sim.
- A lot better.
599
00:40:40,931 --> 00:40:43,422
Yeah. lt really feels great.
600
00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:45,695
It's unbelievable.
Man.
601
00:40:45,769 --> 00:40:49,205
I don't know if anyone in Houston
would have criticized Pete...
602
00:40:49,273 --> 00:40:52,367
but we were
on the far side of the moon.
603
00:40:52,443 --> 00:40:55,207
and they had no way of knowing.
604
00:40:56,780 --> 00:41:01,376
So, for a few moments
on Apollo 12...
605
00:41:01,452 --> 00:41:05,912
the lunar module pilot
actually piloted the lunar module...
606
00:41:05,990 --> 00:41:08,925
thanks to my good friend,
Pete Conrad.
607
00:41:11,695 --> 00:41:13,424
Howdy, fellows!
608
00:41:14,832 --> 00:41:18,734
Jesus! Did you have to bring back
half the moon with you?
609
00:41:20,037 --> 00:41:22,062
You ain't messing up
my nice, clean spacecraft.
610
00:41:22,139 --> 00:41:25,734
Strip down and wipe yourselves off
before you come in here.
611
00:41:25,809 --> 00:41:28,403
I mean it. Go.
612
00:41:28,479 --> 00:41:30,242
He's right. You're filthy.
613
00:41:36,487 --> 00:41:37,920
Welcome home, fellows.
614
00:41:37,988 --> 00:41:42,118
Can I get you anything to drink?
Water? Any beverage at all?
615
00:41:45,996 --> 00:41:49,261
Careful not to flip any breakers
with anything hanging out.
616
00:41:49,333 --> 00:41:50,925
Attitude: dead minimum.
617
00:41:51,001 --> 00:41:52,764
When we were out of our suits...
618
00:41:52,836 --> 00:41:55,270
we had to strap in
and jettison the lunar module.
619
00:41:55,339 --> 00:41:57,933
- Spacecraft control SCS.
- All right.
620
00:41:58,008 --> 00:42:00,602
We're all set to jettison the LEM
in about a minute.
621
00:42:01,845 --> 00:42:06,782
You know,
if we were to lose the hatch...
622
00:42:06,850 --> 00:42:08,784
when we blow the LEM...
623
00:42:08,852 --> 00:42:13,448
and one day someone was to find us
floating around up here like this...
624
00:42:13,524 --> 00:42:15,617
they might be pretty confused.
625
00:42:18,529 --> 00:42:21,623
At least we'll go out of this world
the same way we came in.
626
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:24,633
You two.
627
00:42:26,203 --> 00:42:28,637
You didn't come into the world
in that suit?
628
00:42:28,706 --> 00:42:31,140
Man, I hope not.
629
00:42:31,408 --> 00:42:33,137
After a day
of lunar orbit photography...
630
00:42:33,210 --> 00:42:37,806
getting stereo photos of possible
landing sights for Apollo 13 and 14...
631
00:42:37,881 --> 00:42:39,644
and when every piece
of equipment was stowed...
632
00:42:39,717 --> 00:42:42,982
and checked off the flight plan...
633
00:42:43,053 --> 00:42:46,147
we prepared for the big burn
that would take us home.
634
00:42:46,223 --> 00:42:48,987
HRB forward, check.
635
00:42:49,059 --> 00:42:52,825
All right.
We're just waiting for the DSKY.
636
00:43:06,744 --> 00:43:09,508
I feel sort of like that song:
637
00:43:09,580 --> 00:43:11,343
Is That All There ls?
638
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,354
I was just thinking
the exact same thing.
639
00:43:23,093 --> 00:43:25,527
Not that it wasn't amazing.
640
00:43:25,596 --> 00:43:28,531
Just that the whole experience
didn't feel like a headline.
641
00:43:28,599 --> 00:43:31,534
It was real,
and I had lived it.
642
00:43:33,003 --> 00:43:35,198
Falling through the sky
after a trip to the moon...
643
00:43:35,272 --> 00:43:39,368
is no more surreal an experience
than getting there in the first place...
644
00:43:39,443 --> 00:43:41,377
or walking on its surface.
645
00:43:44,782 --> 00:43:47,046
It's just one more step,
one more planned event...
646
00:43:47,117 --> 00:43:51,747
that comes about because of science
and imagination and effort.
647
00:43:54,324 --> 00:43:57,555
You can go through all the manuals...
648
00:43:57,628 --> 00:43:59,926
all the procedures
and checklists...
649
00:43:59,997 --> 00:44:04,559
all the graphs and blueprints that show
how it's possible to do what we did...
650
00:44:04,635 --> 00:44:06,967
to go where we had gone.
651
00:44:07,037 --> 00:44:11,633
You might be impressed that such
a complicated thing was even attempted.
652
00:44:11,708 --> 00:44:13,335
So impressed even that you...
653
00:44:13,410 --> 00:44:16,573
wouldn't realize that the three people
who made the journey...
654
00:44:16,647 --> 00:44:18,911
and undertook all the challenges
contained within it...
655
00:44:18,982 --> 00:44:20,472
were, in essence...
656
00:44:20,551 --> 00:44:23,748
not that much different
from yourself.
657
00:44:23,821 --> 00:44:27,757
- Damn, that shower feels good.
- When it doesn't feel that good...
658
00:44:27,825 --> 00:44:31,158
you'll know you're officially home
from the moon.
659
00:44:31,228 --> 00:44:35,096
They should let us out of here.
I don't have any diseases.
660
00:44:35,165 --> 00:44:40,762
Me neither. I just want to grab me
some cajun food and a couple of beers.
661
00:44:40,838 --> 00:44:44,103
How about you, Al?
You back from the moon yet?
662
00:44:45,175 --> 00:44:48,110
Yeah, I'm back.
663
00:44:48,178 --> 00:44:50,112
I'm back from the moon.
664
00:44:56,854 --> 00:44:59,789
- What are you laughing at?
- Yeah. What's so funny?
665
00:44:59,857 --> 00:45:01,950
I don't think I'll ever forget...
666
00:45:02,025 --> 00:45:04,459
when all that good stuff
was lighting up...
667
00:45:04,528 --> 00:45:08,794
and then CAPCOM called up
SCE to auxiliary.
668
00:45:08,866 --> 00:45:10,458
I didn't know
what the hell that meant...
669
00:45:10,534 --> 00:45:12,968
and you were awfully quiet,
I might add.
670
00:45:13,036 --> 00:45:16,130
All I hear is Al Bean's voice,
two octaves higher than normal...
671
00:45:16,206 --> 00:45:19,642
saying, "I know what it is."
672
00:45:19,710 --> 00:45:22,975
The best record of what it was like
to have gone to the moon and return...
673
00:45:23,046 --> 00:45:25,981
is not in the tangible evidence
of the endeavor.
674
00:45:26,049 --> 00:45:31,487
It's not in the things we took
or brought back.
675
00:45:31,555 --> 00:45:34,649
It wouldn't have been
in the TV footage we never got...
676
00:45:34,725 --> 00:45:37,990
which I beat myself up over
for half the mission.
677
00:45:38,061 --> 00:45:40,825
It's in the individual
consciousness and vision...
678
00:45:40,898 --> 00:45:43,332
of the human beings
who made the trip.
679
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:47,837
People like Dick Gordon,
Pete Conrad and even me.
680
00:45:49,006 --> 00:45:52,339
My, that sun is bright.
681
00:45:52,409 --> 00:45:53,842
It feels good.
682
00:45:57,414 --> 00:45:59,746
- Let's go.
- Yeah.
683
00:46:00,884 --> 00:46:04,752
In the end,
what I have left are memories.
684
00:46:05,923 --> 00:46:07,857
Almost like it was a trip
to the seashore...
685
00:46:07,925 --> 00:46:09,859
or a drive in the country.
686
00:46:09,927 --> 00:46:11,952
They mix together
in a constant stream...
687
00:46:12,029 --> 00:46:14,190
of thoughts and images
that come and go...
688
00:46:14,264 --> 00:46:16,027
like all memories do.
689
00:46:19,269 --> 00:46:21,533
The most precious things
I brought back with me...
690
00:46:21,605 --> 00:46:23,869
were the same things
I left with:
691
00:46:23,941 --> 00:46:25,704
my two best friends.
692
00:46:27,311 --> 00:46:31,042
I realize when you go through
any endeavor, any journey...
693
00:46:31,114 --> 00:46:34,743
whether across town
or to the moon and back...
694
00:46:34,818 --> 00:46:38,720
all that matters is sharing the
experience with people that you love.
695
00:46:40,290 --> 00:46:42,724
That's what makes life special.
696
00:46:42,793 --> 00:46:45,887
Because, ultimately,
that's all there is.
697
00:46:45,963 --> 00:46:47,396
That's really all there is.
698
00:46:47,464 --> 00:46:50,900
There's a place up ahead
and I'm going
699
00:46:50,968 --> 00:46:53,562
Just as fast
as my feet can fly
700
00:46:54,638 --> 00:46:58,233
Come away
Come away if you're going
701
00:46:58,308 --> 00:47:01,072
Leave the sinking ship behind
702
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,072
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