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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,074 Subtitles downloaded from www.OpenSubtitles.org 2 00:00:57,992 --> 00:01:00,324 For century upon century... 3 00:01:00,394 --> 00:01:02,259 to explore the moon was considered... 4 00:01:02,329 --> 00:01:05,196 the dream of the addlebrained or foolhardy. 5 00:01:05,266 --> 00:01:07,496 Only divine beings, or supermen... 6 00:01:07,568 --> 00:01:11,595 could withstand the rigors and distance of such a journey. 7 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,936 But then, early in the 20th century... 8 00:01:16,010 --> 00:01:19,502 mortal humans went aloft on mechanical wings... 9 00:01:19,580 --> 00:01:24,210 defying gravity and redefining the realm of possibility. 10 00:01:24,285 --> 00:01:25,718 Forever after... 11 00:01:25,786 --> 00:01:29,847 the moon became a goal within the grasp of those on Earth. 12 00:01:29,924 --> 00:01:33,360 For if man could build a machine to make him fly... 13 00:01:33,427 --> 00:01:36,828 he would eventually build one to take him to the moon. 14 00:01:36,897 --> 00:01:38,956 When and how and who... 15 00:01:39,033 --> 00:01:41,228 was only a matter of time. 16 00:01:41,302 --> 00:01:46,239 From December of 1968 to December of 1972... 17 00:01:46,307 --> 00:01:48,969 24 representatives of the human race... 18 00:01:49,043 --> 00:01:50,806 voyaged to the moon... 19 00:01:50,878 --> 00:01:53,711 and half as many walked upon its surface. 20 00:01:53,781 --> 00:01:55,908 In all, nine voyages... 21 00:01:55,983 --> 00:01:58,611 across the quarter-million-mile distance... 22 00:01:58,686 --> 00:02:01,917 from earthly safety to lunar emptiness. 23 00:02:01,989 --> 00:02:05,720 Each one of them dangerous and expensive. 24 00:02:05,793 --> 00:02:08,728 The requirements to make the voyage a reality... 25 00:02:08,796 --> 00:02:11,788 were the qualities that make humankind unique. 26 00:02:11,865 --> 00:02:13,856 Our desire to achieve... 27 00:02:13,934 --> 00:02:16,334 our wherewithal and perseverance... 28 00:02:16,403 --> 00:02:20,999 our willingness to sacrifice time, energy and even life... 29 00:02:21,075 --> 00:02:24,567 in the long labor needed to solve the problems one by one... 30 00:02:24,645 --> 00:02:26,579 over the course of the endeavor. 31 00:02:28,649 --> 00:02:32,176 Most important of all was humankind's tendency... 32 00:02:32,253 --> 00:02:35,416 to imagine things that are not possible. 33 00:02:35,489 --> 00:02:39,687 Imagining that it could be done was the very first step taken... 34 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,194 in the journey from the Earth to the moon. 35 00:02:53,274 --> 00:02:56,607 I was very energetic in 1902... 36 00:02:56,677 --> 00:02:58,941 and I was working for the great George Melies... 37 00:02:59,013 --> 00:03:01,777 who I had met at the Theatre Houdin in Paris. 38 00:03:05,286 --> 00:03:07,777 He was beginning, then, to work with film... 39 00:03:07,855 --> 00:03:11,552 and I was in love with the magic that came out of his camera... 40 00:03:11,625 --> 00:03:13,388 which wasn't all that different from the ones... 41 00:03:13,460 --> 00:03:15,325 you use right now. 42 00:03:15,396 --> 00:03:17,421 Films had been of ordinary things... 43 00:03:17,498 --> 00:03:20,433 like a train coming into a station... 44 00:03:22,269 --> 00:03:24,703 or a wall being torn down. 45 00:03:27,941 --> 00:03:31,138 He came to me one day and said... 46 00:03:31,211 --> 00:03:32,644 "Jean-Luc... 47 00:03:32,713 --> 00:03:36,342 I want to tell an amazing story with my camera. 48 00:03:36,417 --> 00:03:40,148 I want to take people on the most amazing trip." 49 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:42,984 I thought he meant a trip to someplace literal. 50 00:03:43,057 --> 00:03:45,855 To Lyon or Marseille. 51 00:03:45,926 --> 00:03:47,587 Then he said... 52 00:03:47,661 --> 00:03:50,095 "Let's take a voyage to the moon." 53 00:03:51,465 --> 00:03:52,898 And I said... 54 00:03:54,068 --> 00:03:56,502 "How about Nice? It's closer." 55 00:04:05,346 --> 00:04:08,747 But the moon was in Monsieur Melies' eyes... 56 00:04:08,816 --> 00:04:11,785 and this is what he designed and built... 57 00:04:11,852 --> 00:04:13,945 at the Star Film Studios... 58 00:04:14,021 --> 00:04:15,454 in Montreal. 59 00:04:22,996 --> 00:04:25,055 Monsieur Melies had constructed... 60 00:04:25,132 --> 00:04:29,068 the largest film studio in the world at that time. 61 00:04:29,136 --> 00:04:33,698 Between 1896 and 1913, he produced over 100 films... 62 00:04:33,774 --> 00:04:36,106 each more magical and inventive than the other. 63 00:04:36,176 --> 00:04:38,201 Actors, visual effects specialists... 64 00:04:38,278 --> 00:04:40,041 carpenters, costumes... 65 00:04:40,114 --> 00:04:42,674 all under the direct supervision... 66 00:04:42,750 --> 00:04:44,183 of Monsieur Melies. 67 00:04:47,054 --> 00:04:48,851 Yes. 68 00:04:48,922 --> 00:04:51,049 Too much powder, and he burns my set down. 69 00:04:51,125 --> 00:04:53,059 I know. Don't use too much powder! 70 00:04:53,127 --> 00:04:54,617 And too little and it will not photograph. 71 00:04:54,695 --> 00:04:56,629 Too little and you're gonna waste all of our time. 72 00:04:56,697 --> 00:04:59,359 I will use as much as Monsieur Melies demands. 73 00:04:59,433 --> 00:05:01,094 - See a test? - Yes, please. 74 00:05:01,168 --> 00:05:03,659 Could you set it off, please? One, two, three, set it off. 75 00:05:04,738 --> 00:05:06,330 One, two and three. 76 00:05:09,476 --> 00:05:11,671 - Idiot! That's too much. - No, it's perfect. 77 00:05:11,745 --> 00:05:13,076 It's perfect. Do you hear? 78 00:05:13,147 --> 00:05:14,842 That much. No more, no less. 79 00:05:14,915 --> 00:05:18,612 Monsieur Melies oversaw every moment of the making of the film. 80 00:05:18,685 --> 00:05:20,619 He was also the lead actor... 81 00:05:20,687 --> 00:05:23,679 playing the professor, Barbenfouillis. 82 00:05:23,757 --> 00:05:25,850 - Is the grinder ready? - I will find out! 83 00:05:25,926 --> 00:05:28,690 One moment, sir. Is the grinder ready? Yes? 84 00:05:28,762 --> 00:05:30,491 No? Please, talk to me. Thank you. 85 00:05:30,564 --> 00:05:33,533 Look at this. We're already fighting the night. 86 00:05:35,169 --> 00:05:37,694 Monsieur Melies, we are almost ready. 87 00:05:37,771 --> 00:05:39,932 I know. I'm no longer George Melies. 88 00:05:40,007 --> 00:05:42,441 I'm Professor Barbenfouillis. 89 00:05:43,944 --> 00:05:45,377 Bring it up! 90 00:05:45,446 --> 00:05:47,380 Up high. High. 91 00:05:52,820 --> 00:05:55,254 - Is the grinder ready? - Grinder's ready. 92 00:05:55,322 --> 00:05:57,085 Start the grinder! 93 00:06:02,529 --> 00:06:04,690 Everyone is talking. 94 00:06:04,765 --> 00:06:06,756 Anticipation in the air. 95 00:06:06,834 --> 00:06:08,563 Come, the astronomers. 96 00:06:08,635 --> 00:06:10,660 You are sure of yourselves... 97 00:06:10,737 --> 00:06:13,467 accomplished and full of pride. 98 00:06:13,540 --> 00:06:15,872 You greet the assembled and bow. 99 00:06:15,943 --> 00:06:17,205 Very good. 100 00:06:17,277 --> 00:06:21,043 And now, the pages enter. 101 00:06:21,114 --> 00:06:23,947 Enter the pages. Please hand the telescopes to the astronomers. 102 00:06:25,152 --> 00:06:27,586 Admire the telescopes, astronomers. 103 00:06:27,654 --> 00:06:31,784 And exit the pages. Respectfully, nice. 104 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,824 And now comes Barbenfouillis. 105 00:06:38,332 --> 00:06:41,267 I bow to you, sausages. 106 00:06:41,335 --> 00:06:44,793 - Now I take my place above you all. - Get ready. 107 00:06:44,872 --> 00:06:46,897 And slowly... 108 00:06:46,974 --> 00:06:49,499 raise your telescopes above your head. 109 00:06:50,911 --> 00:06:53,573 Hold it there a moment. Stop the grinder! 110 00:06:56,850 --> 00:06:58,841 Melies would have us stop the film... 111 00:06:58,919 --> 00:07:00,819 and run in with whatever it was that was needed... 112 00:07:00,888 --> 00:07:02,321 to suddenly appear. 113 00:07:04,525 --> 00:07:06,254 We make the exchange... 114 00:07:06,326 --> 00:07:08,089 run back off... 115 00:07:08,161 --> 00:07:10,026 - start the camera and... - Lights. 116 00:07:10,097 --> 00:07:11,724 voila... 117 00:07:11,798 --> 00:07:14,699 the special effect of magic on the screen. 118 00:07:17,905 --> 00:07:21,102 Your telescopes have magically changed into stools. 119 00:07:22,609 --> 00:07:25,601 Sit, gentlemen, and here we are. 120 00:07:25,679 --> 00:07:28,978 We will create a huge cannon... 121 00:07:29,049 --> 00:07:30,983 which will fire... 122 00:07:31,051 --> 00:07:34,282 a hollow projectile containing myself and yourselves. 123 00:07:34,354 --> 00:07:36,515 This is beginning to sound strange to you... 124 00:07:36,590 --> 00:07:38,148 and you murmur about this. 125 00:07:38,225 --> 00:07:39,954 And I say, this projectile... 126 00:07:40,027 --> 00:07:42,222 will actually journey... 127 00:07:42,296 --> 00:07:45,823 all the way from the Earth to the moon. 128 00:07:45,899 --> 00:07:47,958 But you say to yourself, "This is madness"... 129 00:07:48,035 --> 00:07:49,832 and you act like this is madness! 130 00:07:49,903 --> 00:07:51,530 You say, "This is impossible." 131 00:07:51,605 --> 00:07:54,904 And I say, "No, it is not impossible." 132 00:07:56,710 --> 00:07:58,575 Come to me. Say I'm nuts. 133 00:07:58,645 --> 00:08:00,078 You're nuts. You're crazy. 134 00:08:00,147 --> 00:08:03,048 How dare you! I throw papers at you. 135 00:08:03,116 --> 00:08:05,209 Look at this chaos. 136 00:08:05,285 --> 00:08:08,584 Mayhem breaks out among the scientists... 137 00:08:08,655 --> 00:08:12,022 and all this because I propose a voyage... 138 00:08:12,092 --> 00:08:13,684 to the moon. 139 00:08:17,598 --> 00:08:19,259 How was it? 140 00:08:19,333 --> 00:08:21,233 I think it was a good one, no? 141 00:08:34,781 --> 00:08:37,113 I'm the last man to walk on the moon. 142 00:08:38,318 --> 00:08:41,446 Not that anyone gives a shit. 143 00:08:41,521 --> 00:08:43,955 Can I say "shit" or should I watch my language on this? 144 00:08:47,794 --> 00:08:50,456 I can make the claim of being the last person to set foot on the moon. 145 00:08:50,530 --> 00:08:52,395 It's really how you look at it, see? 146 00:08:52,466 --> 00:08:56,334 I got out of the LM after Gene did on the first E.V.A. 147 00:08:56,403 --> 00:08:59,634 So that would make me the twelfth and final person... 148 00:08:59,706 --> 00:09:01,640 to make footprints up there. 149 00:09:03,210 --> 00:09:07,772 It's not like I get stopped at restaurants because of it. 150 00:09:10,050 --> 00:09:13,281 I will bet you $50 and a box of donuts... 151 00:09:13,353 --> 00:09:16,413 no one knows the names of the last two men to walk on the moon. 152 00:09:16,490 --> 00:09:18,822 And I will tell you why. 153 00:09:18,892 --> 00:09:21,326 Because they didn't die up there. 154 00:09:21,395 --> 00:09:23,090 They flew a near-flawless mission. 155 00:09:23,163 --> 00:09:24,960 They did a hell of a job up there on the moon... 156 00:09:25,032 --> 00:09:26,761 and they came back in one piece. 157 00:09:26,833 --> 00:09:29,529 But if you didn't get a NASA paycheck... 158 00:09:29,603 --> 00:09:32,003 you never even knew their names. 159 00:09:32,072 --> 00:09:35,200 Eugene Cernan was a veteran astronaut... 160 00:09:35,275 --> 00:09:40,042 who walked in space on Gemini 9 in 1966. 161 00:09:40,113 --> 00:09:42,604 Exhausted and overheated in his pressure suit... 162 00:09:42,683 --> 00:09:45,015 he lost 15 pounds in the effort. 163 00:09:45,085 --> 00:09:47,747 Gambling that the Apollo program... 164 00:09:47,821 --> 00:09:49,755 would remain funded by Congress... 165 00:09:49,823 --> 00:09:53,281 he held out for command of Apollo 17... 166 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,090 rather than take the job of lunar module pilot... 167 00:09:56,163 --> 00:09:58,563 on John Young's 16 flight. 168 00:09:58,632 --> 00:10:01,362 Harrison Schmitt-- or "Jack," as he is known-- 169 00:10:01,435 --> 00:10:03,869 went to the moon with a special relish. 170 00:10:03,937 --> 00:10:06,599 The first and only scientist to go... 171 00:10:06,673 --> 00:10:08,800 he was a geologist by trade... 172 00:10:08,875 --> 00:10:11,002 and an astronaut by choice. 173 00:10:11,078 --> 00:10:13,740 He had also been instrumental in the training of every man... 174 00:10:13,814 --> 00:10:15,748 to walk on the moon before him. 175 00:10:15,816 --> 00:10:18,376 He almost didn't get to go himself. 176 00:10:19,820 --> 00:10:22,755 - Hey, ta da! - Congratulations. 177 00:10:22,823 --> 00:10:24,848 - What? - You're going to the moon! 178 00:10:24,925 --> 00:10:27,621 - What? - Apollo 17, you're on the crew. 179 00:10:27,694 --> 00:10:29,992 - Yeah. - I have not heard a thing. 180 00:10:30,063 --> 00:10:31,189 - Come on. - You will. 181 00:10:31,264 --> 00:10:33,323 They came to their senses over there. They're sending one of us. 182 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,334 You'll be the first egghead on the moon. 183 00:10:35,402 --> 00:10:37,734 Come on. Have a drink for once in your life. 184 00:10:37,804 --> 00:10:39,328 I don't celebrate rumors. 185 00:10:39,406 --> 00:10:41,340 - Oh, come on. - Come on. 186 00:10:46,346 --> 00:10:47,779 Harrison Schmitt. 187 00:10:50,417 --> 00:10:52,351 Yes. My sister. 188 00:10:52,419 --> 00:10:55,855 No! No, I haven't heard anything. I'll let you know when I do. 189 00:10:55,922 --> 00:10:57,184 Yeah. Bye. 190 00:10:57,257 --> 00:10:58,690 I don't know what they're waiting for. 191 00:10:58,759 --> 00:11:02,525 NASA stands for "Never absolutely sure of anything." 192 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,431 Harrison Schmitt. 193 00:11:15,509 --> 00:11:16,942 Yes, sir. 194 00:11:21,815 --> 00:11:23,248 Yes, sir. 195 00:11:24,317 --> 00:11:27,775 I will do the best job I possibly can. 196 00:11:30,957 --> 00:11:32,390 Thank you. 197 00:11:37,130 --> 00:11:38,722 Your drink, sir. 198 00:11:41,935 --> 00:11:43,368 Gentlemen... 199 00:11:44,805 --> 00:11:47,569 to the exploration of the moon. 200 00:11:52,579 --> 00:11:55,412 They might have rued the day that they made the change. 201 00:11:55,482 --> 00:11:57,473 I always had some strong ideas... 202 00:11:57,551 --> 00:11:59,678 about where we were going on the moon... 203 00:11:59,753 --> 00:12:01,584 and forcefully suggested them. 204 00:12:01,655 --> 00:12:03,680 Jack had no problem picking up the phone... 205 00:12:03,757 --> 00:12:06,385 and calling the President of the United States... 206 00:12:06,459 --> 00:12:08,586 if he had an idea about where or what... 207 00:12:08,662 --> 00:12:10,095 we should be doing with Apollo. 208 00:12:10,163 --> 00:12:12,825 - Like giving us that fourth E.V.A. - The fourth E.V.A. 209 00:12:12,899 --> 00:12:15,163 Where we should land. 210 00:12:15,235 --> 00:12:16,827 Flights rules were not going to be rewritten... 211 00:12:16,903 --> 00:12:19,929 just for me and Jack to make that last trip out. 212 00:12:20,006 --> 00:12:22,270 Chris Kraft stopped me in the hallway one day... 213 00:12:22,342 --> 00:12:25,436 and he pretty much told me exactly how it was going to be. 214 00:12:25,512 --> 00:12:27,946 - Gene-o. - Yes, boss. 215 00:12:28,014 --> 00:12:30,881 - Want to put the white scarf away? - Come again? 216 00:12:30,951 --> 00:12:33,385 Lose the throttle jockey act. 217 00:12:33,453 --> 00:12:36,684 I got all the memos I need on Apollo 17. 218 00:12:36,756 --> 00:12:38,781 All these ideas from you and your partner. 219 00:12:38,859 --> 00:12:40,690 You want an extra E.V.A. on the moon? 220 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,251 You're lucky you even have a mission. 221 00:12:43,330 --> 00:12:46,265 Look. A lot of people think we should quit while we're ahead. 222 00:12:46,333 --> 00:12:48,301 The system's already stretched to the limit. 223 00:12:48,368 --> 00:12:50,199 Jesus, we're so tight on weight constraints... 224 00:12:50,270 --> 00:12:52,534 we're talking about cutting the number of Band-Aids in the first aid kit. 225 00:12:52,606 --> 00:12:55,302 Six Band-Aids instead of 12. 226 00:12:55,375 --> 00:12:57,536 That's enough. 227 00:12:57,611 --> 00:12:59,408 Here's your number one mission rule. 228 00:12:59,479 --> 00:13:01,470 Tattoo this to your eyelids. 229 00:13:01,548 --> 00:13:04,415 Don't take any chances. Just come back alive. 230 00:13:18,732 --> 00:13:21,633 All right, nice and easy. With grace. 231 00:13:21,701 --> 00:13:24,568 As he did with his theatrical productions... 232 00:13:24,638 --> 00:13:26,833 Monsieur Melies designed every aspect of his film... 233 00:13:26,907 --> 00:13:29,398 and was quite fanatical. 234 00:13:29,476 --> 00:13:31,569 You must react with spirit and soul! 235 00:13:31,645 --> 00:13:33,977 When things went wrong... 236 00:13:34,047 --> 00:13:36,413 things went wrong, and he would scream. 237 00:13:37,250 --> 00:13:39,047 These girls! 238 00:13:39,119 --> 00:13:41,110 - Ladies, you were fine. - You're fired! 239 00:13:41,187 --> 00:13:42,814 I will. You guys are fired. 240 00:13:44,424 --> 00:13:46,688 When things were not so bad... 241 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:48,250 he was not so bad. 242 00:13:49,496 --> 00:13:53,193 This is how it is when you are working with a genius. 243 00:13:56,436 --> 00:13:58,495 But it was not during the filming... 244 00:13:58,571 --> 00:14:01,438 that Melies worked his true magic. 245 00:14:01,508 --> 00:14:02,941 It was later... 246 00:14:03,009 --> 00:14:05,603 in the laboratory and the projection room... 247 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:08,773 where I saw he was up to something incredible... 248 00:14:09,950 --> 00:14:12,214 something that had never been seen before. 249 00:14:16,122 --> 00:14:18,488 A complete, fantastic story... 250 00:14:18,558 --> 00:14:21,220 told in one marvelous film. 251 00:14:21,294 --> 00:14:24,457 I don't know, boss. So many cuts. 252 00:14:24,531 --> 00:14:26,999 So much glue, I hope it holds. 253 00:14:27,067 --> 00:14:29,001 If it doesn't work, no soup for you. 254 00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:33,964 Well, that's all right. It's lousy soup. 255 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:37,703 - How dare you? Is it ready? - Here goes. 256 00:14:45,051 --> 00:14:46,951 There we are. 257 00:14:47,020 --> 00:14:48,954 The intrepid voyagers. 258 00:14:50,690 --> 00:14:52,055 Yes. 259 00:14:52,125 --> 00:14:54,559 Wave to the assembled. 260 00:14:54,627 --> 00:14:57,994 Climb into the projectile. It is pushed into the cannon... 261 00:14:58,064 --> 00:15:00,828 by so many pretty maidens. 262 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:04,392 Yes, give us a wave. 263 00:15:07,941 --> 00:15:12,002 Dissolves, superimpositions, double exposures. 264 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,742 Monsieur Melies was a genius. 265 00:15:18,885 --> 00:15:20,614 Boss... 266 00:15:20,687 --> 00:15:22,348 you are a genius. 267 00:15:26,159 --> 00:15:27,683 The cannon... 268 00:15:27,761 --> 00:15:30,025 ready to be fired, and boom! 269 00:15:41,374 --> 00:15:44,070 Roger! The clock has started. 270 00:15:44,144 --> 00:15:46,078 We have liftoff. 271 00:15:46,146 --> 00:15:49,377 Apollo 17 has turned midnight into dawn. 272 00:15:49,449 --> 00:15:52,885 Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt... 273 00:15:52,952 --> 00:15:56,649 flying through the automated roll program of the spacecraft... 274 00:15:56,723 --> 00:15:59,453 begin America's-- and perhaps all of mankind's-- 275 00:15:59,526 --> 00:16:01,494 final voyage to the moon. 276 00:16:01,561 --> 00:16:04,860 Three men inside the command module America... 277 00:16:04,931 --> 00:16:07,900 with the lunar module Challenger in tow.... 278 00:16:07,967 --> 00:16:09,832 journey now to the moon. 279 00:16:09,903 --> 00:16:12,167 Most of the world and much of America... 280 00:16:12,238 --> 00:16:15,639 views Apollo 17 as an undertaking... 281 00:16:15,708 --> 00:16:18,472 either commonplace or wasteful. 282 00:16:19,579 --> 00:16:21,012 Regardless... 283 00:16:21,081 --> 00:16:23,379 to be here, once again, in the presence... 284 00:16:23,450 --> 00:16:26,146 of such glorious force... 285 00:16:26,219 --> 00:16:28,483 aimed at such a heavenly target as the moon... 286 00:16:28,555 --> 00:16:30,580 one can only marvel and ask... 287 00:16:30,657 --> 00:16:32,591 "How have we done this?" 288 00:16:32,659 --> 00:16:36,561 "How have we sent mankind to the moon?" 289 00:17:03,123 --> 00:17:04,715 Okay, Houston... 290 00:17:04,791 --> 00:17:07,817 as I step down to the surface at Taurus-Littrow-- 291 00:17:07,894 --> 00:17:10,624 No one on the planet Earth saw Gene Cernan... 292 00:17:10,697 --> 00:17:12,995 first set foot on the moon's surface. 293 00:17:14,534 --> 00:17:16,468 Nor Jack Schmitt. 294 00:17:16,536 --> 00:17:18,436 Unbelievable! 295 00:17:18,505 --> 00:17:21,633 The Apollo 17 TV camera would not be operative... 296 00:17:21,708 --> 00:17:24,734 until the lunar rover was deployed and powered up. 297 00:17:26,246 --> 00:17:27,577 When it was... 298 00:17:27,647 --> 00:17:31,208 crystal-clear video pictures from the surface of the moon... 299 00:17:31,284 --> 00:17:34,583 were transmitted to the world by way of a television camera... 300 00:17:34,654 --> 00:17:37,555 controlled from a console in Mission Control... 301 00:17:37,624 --> 00:17:39,592 by Ed Fendel. 302 00:17:39,659 --> 00:17:41,786 With a lag of six seconds... 303 00:17:41,861 --> 00:17:44,830 the time it took for his commands to reach the moon... 304 00:17:44,898 --> 00:17:47,389 and the picture to travel back to Earth... 305 00:17:47,467 --> 00:17:49,560 he was the director of arguably... 306 00:17:49,636 --> 00:17:53,436 the most unique television show of all time. 307 00:17:53,506 --> 00:17:56,942 The ratings were nonexistent. 308 00:17:57,010 --> 00:18:00,571 The networks didn't even want to cover the mission... 309 00:18:00,647 --> 00:18:03,377 except on the morning shows... 310 00:18:03,449 --> 00:18:05,383 and an occasional update. 311 00:18:06,486 --> 00:18:11,321 In July of 1969... 312 00:18:11,391 --> 00:18:14,019 the entire world stopped... 313 00:18:15,161 --> 00:18:17,391 to watch Buzz and Neil... 314 00:18:17,463 --> 00:18:19,954 and the one giant leap. 315 00:18:20,033 --> 00:18:23,332 The picture was so bad, a lot of people couldn't even make it out. 316 00:18:25,405 --> 00:18:28,704 12, the color camera went out so there was no TV. 317 00:18:29,976 --> 00:18:31,910 No matter what they tried. 318 00:18:33,446 --> 00:18:35,812 Apollo 13... 319 00:18:35,882 --> 00:18:39,318 was a news story unlike any other in history. 320 00:18:41,454 --> 00:18:42,887 But it... 321 00:18:44,591 --> 00:18:46,320 takes nearly another year... 322 00:18:46,392 --> 00:18:50,192 for Al Shepard to practice his golf swing. 323 00:18:52,031 --> 00:18:54,329 15 and 16 had the Rover... 324 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:55,833 and the color camera. 325 00:18:55,902 --> 00:18:58,132 But by this time... 326 00:18:59,739 --> 00:19:01,764 no one was watching. 327 00:19:01,841 --> 00:19:04,241 They'd moved on to other things. 328 00:19:05,378 --> 00:19:08,836 Color television from the moon... 329 00:19:09,916 --> 00:19:12,680 took a few moments of their time. 330 00:19:12,752 --> 00:19:14,185 Nothing more. 331 00:19:15,421 --> 00:19:17,855 Oh, bury me not 332 00:19:17,924 --> 00:19:21,189 On the lone prairie 333 00:19:21,261 --> 00:19:24,025 Where the coyotes howl 334 00:19:24,097 --> 00:19:26,031 And the winds blow free 335 00:19:26,366 --> 00:19:28,527 Okay, let's see. Where am l? 336 00:19:29,402 --> 00:19:33,896 In a geologist's paradise, if I ever saw one. 337 00:19:33,973 --> 00:19:36,908 I just snuck a quick peek at the drill, and it does work. 338 00:19:38,578 --> 00:19:42,446 I just took time out for a snack of a little water. 339 00:19:42,515 --> 00:19:45,006 - What's that? - That must be Ron. 340 00:19:45,084 --> 00:19:48,212 Houston, you wanna tell Evans he's got his VHF on. 341 00:19:50,123 --> 00:19:53,422 Oh, no, you won't believe it. 342 00:19:53,493 --> 00:19:56,428 I did it again? Hit the wrong button on the gravimeter? 343 00:19:56,496 --> 00:19:58,487 No, there goes the fender. 344 00:19:58,564 --> 00:20:02,193 I caught it with my hammer. Oh, shoot. 345 00:20:02,268 --> 00:20:04,532 Oh, golly. Oh, boy. 346 00:20:04,604 --> 00:20:07,402 I couldn't stop myself before the damage was done. 347 00:20:07,473 --> 00:20:11,603 Oh, boy. I'm gonna deploy this package here. 348 00:20:11,678 --> 00:20:14,806 We're gonna have to stop here. Let me try to get that fender back on. 349 00:20:14,881 --> 00:20:17,475 Otherwise the dust will cover everything. 350 00:20:17,550 --> 00:20:20,542 - Is the tape under my seat? - Yeah. 351 00:20:26,659 --> 00:20:30,425 Oh, man. Hey, Jack. 352 00:20:30,496 --> 00:20:32,987 Just stop. You owe yourself 30 seconds... 353 00:20:33,066 --> 00:20:35,500 to take a look up over the south massif... 354 00:20:35,568 --> 00:20:37,092 and look at the Earth. 355 00:20:37,170 --> 00:20:39,104 You seen one Earth, you've seen them all. 356 00:20:39,172 --> 00:20:41,265 That's the biggest difference between Jack and me. 357 00:20:41,341 --> 00:20:43,434 Every spare second that I had... 358 00:20:43,509 --> 00:20:45,943 I was trying to take in everything that I was doing... 359 00:20:46,012 --> 00:20:48,412 everything that I was seeing. 360 00:20:48,481 --> 00:20:50,972 I'm trying to grab another look up at the Earth... 361 00:20:51,050 --> 00:20:54,850 focusing on this great adventure... 362 00:20:54,921 --> 00:20:58,880 that I was living in time, in space, in reality. 363 00:20:58,958 --> 00:21:01,119 I mean, there it was up there... 364 00:21:01,194 --> 00:21:02,627 surrounded by... 365 00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:05,863 nothingness. 366 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:10,892 The darkest black imaginable. 367 00:21:12,372 --> 00:21:16,365 I could see that it was nighttime in England and lunchtime in Texas... 368 00:21:16,442 --> 00:21:18,637 with just a casual glance... 369 00:21:18,711 --> 00:21:21,839 as though I were a passenger... 370 00:21:21,914 --> 00:21:25,475 on a time machine with a big picture window in it... 371 00:21:25,551 --> 00:21:27,781 just looking out. 372 00:21:27,854 --> 00:21:30,118 I just couldn't get enough of it. 373 00:21:30,189 --> 00:21:32,623 I was looking at the rocks. 374 00:21:32,692 --> 00:21:34,284 Our time was so limited.... 375 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:38,296 and the best instrument in the world for scientific observation... 376 00:21:38,364 --> 00:21:40,229 is a pair of trained eyes... 377 00:21:40,299 --> 00:21:42,790 and an educated brain to process information. 378 00:21:42,869 --> 00:21:44,496 There we were. 379 00:21:44,570 --> 00:21:47,562 This fantastic field site. 380 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,232 Well... 381 00:21:49,308 --> 00:21:51,003 I was looking at the rocks. 382 00:21:51,077 --> 00:21:55,673 I mean, when you can see the layers of geologic history... 383 00:21:58,684 --> 00:22:01,084 that's what I was there for. 384 00:22:03,423 --> 00:22:05,983 After extended problems with the gravimeter... 385 00:22:06,058 --> 00:22:08,424 and the lunar surface experiment package... 386 00:22:08,494 --> 00:22:10,291 and a time-consuming fix... 387 00:22:10,363 --> 00:22:12,729 to the broken fender of the Rover... 388 00:22:12,799 --> 00:22:15,768 Cernan and Schmitt were allowed to travel only half as far... 389 00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:18,770 as their first E.V.A. had originally called for. 390 00:22:22,675 --> 00:22:25,508 By the time they were back inside Challenger... 391 00:22:25,578 --> 00:22:28,172 and repressurized to five P.S.I... 392 00:22:28,247 --> 00:22:30,272 the two moon walkers had been outside... 393 00:22:30,349 --> 00:22:32,783 for seven hours and 12 minutes... 394 00:22:32,852 --> 00:22:34,786 almost three times longer... 395 00:22:34,854 --> 00:22:38,449 than all of Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's exploration... 396 00:22:38,524 --> 00:22:40,185 of the Sea of Tranquility. 397 00:22:40,259 --> 00:22:44,127 And Apollo 17 had two more moonwalks to go. 398 00:22:45,231 --> 00:22:48,564 Rehearsing. Here we are. 399 00:22:48,634 --> 00:22:50,727 We've touched down on the moon. 400 00:22:50,803 --> 00:22:53,271 Out, everyone. Out quickly. 401 00:22:53,339 --> 00:22:56,797 You're excited, can't believe where you are! 402 00:22:56,876 --> 00:22:59,777 It's amazing. Look at this amazing scene. 403 00:22:59,846 --> 00:23:02,280 - The mountains. - Out they come. Out. 404 00:23:02,348 --> 00:23:04,976 Now, over here. Raise your arm. 405 00:23:05,051 --> 00:23:07,485 Raise up. That's when we'll stop the grinder. 406 00:23:07,553 --> 00:23:10,147 - Stop the grinder there. - Can we move this? Come on! 407 00:23:10,223 --> 00:23:11,713 One, two, three. 408 00:23:12,992 --> 00:23:16,484 - Quickly, quickly. - Don't move. 409 00:23:16,562 --> 00:23:18,928 Out comes the projectile. It'll be faster, boss. Don't worry. 410 00:23:18,998 --> 00:23:21,660 All right, so raise your arm. Raise your arm. 411 00:23:21,734 --> 00:23:23,668 Good. 412 00:23:23,736 --> 00:23:25,203 Don't move. Keep up your arms. 413 00:23:25,271 --> 00:23:28,069 And we will then start the grinder. 414 00:23:28,140 --> 00:23:31,166 Get out of the way. We want the grinder to see the Earth. 415 00:23:31,244 --> 00:23:34,304 - We're turning again. - We want the Earth rising... 416 00:23:34,380 --> 00:23:35,574 slowly... 417 00:23:35,648 --> 00:23:37,843 and let's drop the mountains. 418 00:23:37,917 --> 00:23:39,441 Lower the first rail. 419 00:23:39,519 --> 00:23:41,783 No, first the Earth begins to rise. 420 00:23:41,854 --> 00:23:43,446 First the Earth rises! 421 00:23:43,523 --> 00:23:45,184 Then drop the mountains. 422 00:23:45,258 --> 00:23:47,522 Then the mountains lower. Earth rise, mountains lower. 423 00:23:47,593 --> 00:23:50,585 It'll be perfect tomorrow, boss. I guarantee it. 424 00:23:50,663 --> 00:23:54,599 And ready volcano? Volcano! 425 00:23:54,667 --> 00:23:56,100 Boom! 426 00:23:59,238 --> 00:24:03,004 The volcano should be a little farther offstage. Can you get it? 427 00:24:03,075 --> 00:24:06,101 Stop. You're doing a lousy job and bitching for nothing. 428 00:24:06,178 --> 00:24:09,113 We'll do that. Now get up. Stretch. 429 00:24:09,181 --> 00:24:11,877 Here they are. No, they will be, boss. 430 00:24:11,951 --> 00:24:13,782 I promise. I guarantee it. 431 00:24:13,853 --> 00:24:17,345 - They will be there. - Let will let us covers ourselves. 432 00:24:17,423 --> 00:24:19,482 Special blankets for the moon. 433 00:24:19,559 --> 00:24:22,653 Lay on the moon and dream of the star maidens. 434 00:24:22,728 --> 00:24:24,127 And out they come, the star maidens. 435 00:24:24,196 --> 00:24:28,758 When the sun is over the roof, we'll shoot the scene. 436 00:24:28,834 --> 00:24:31,826 If we have the sun, boss. 437 00:24:31,904 --> 00:24:33,838 Please, Lord, give us the sun. 438 00:24:38,144 --> 00:24:39,577 Good morning, Challenger. 439 00:24:39,645 --> 00:24:41,909 We have some special wake-up music for you... 440 00:24:41,981 --> 00:24:44,643 from the old folks of the LMP at Cal Tech. 441 00:24:46,919 --> 00:24:50,446 Eight miles high 442 00:24:50,523 --> 00:24:54,254 Being commander has some advantages. One of those is driving the Rover. 443 00:24:54,327 --> 00:24:58,229 Every time I'd go down a hill, I'd put Jack on the downslope side. 444 00:24:58,297 --> 00:25:01,425 Not once did Gene-o drive with me on the uphill side. 445 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,525 He usually only had three wheels on the surface... 446 00:25:03,603 --> 00:25:06,037 and me feeling like we were gonna tip over any minute. 447 00:25:07,106 --> 00:25:08,198 Good eye. 448 00:25:08,274 --> 00:25:10,071 For the second E.V.A... 449 00:25:10,142 --> 00:25:12,269 Cernan and Schmitt were well rested... 450 00:25:12,345 --> 00:25:15,109 and had the time-consuming chores behind them. 451 00:25:16,248 --> 00:25:18,113 I think we've got another one coming here. 452 00:25:18,184 --> 00:25:20,448 With ten stations scheduled... 453 00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:23,010 the pair drove off over five miles... 454 00:25:23,089 --> 00:25:24,784 from the safety of Challenger... 455 00:25:24,857 --> 00:25:27,348 with the single-minded task of doing as much work... 456 00:25:27,426 --> 00:25:30,190 in the allotted time as was humanly possible. 457 00:25:30,262 --> 00:25:33,789 While the astronauts were in transit on the moon... 458 00:25:33,866 --> 00:25:36,164 there was no television signal. 459 00:25:36,235 --> 00:25:38,726 In Houston, Flight Director Gerry Griffin... 460 00:25:38,804 --> 00:25:41,295 managed the activities through the voice contact... 461 00:25:41,374 --> 00:25:43,308 of Capcom Bob Parker... 462 00:25:43,376 --> 00:25:46,174 who tried to keep the astronauts on schedule. 463 00:25:46,245 --> 00:25:48,509 Roland pitch should be fairly flat. 464 00:25:50,116 --> 00:25:52,516 The F-stop for the 500 millimeter... 465 00:25:52,585 --> 00:25:54,143 should be the same as for the 70. 466 00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:57,212 Gene, you might want to take some shots of those massifs... 467 00:25:57,289 --> 00:25:59,052 if they look interesting. 468 00:25:59,125 --> 00:26:03,255 If they look interesting? What kind of thing is that to say? 469 00:26:03,329 --> 00:26:07,390 Bob, up frame count 36 is the outcrop... 470 00:26:07,466 --> 00:26:09,957 where the boulders at the top of the south massif-- 471 00:26:10,036 --> 00:26:12,334 Oh! Hey, here's something different. 472 00:26:12,405 --> 00:26:14,566 It's a chunk of yellow-brown rock... 473 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,767 that apparently has several spots behind it. 474 00:26:16,842 --> 00:26:18,366 To find a sample... 475 00:26:18,444 --> 00:26:20,912 with such a vivid color on the surface of the moon. 476 00:26:20,980 --> 00:26:23,073 That would be evidence of volcanic activity... 477 00:26:23,149 --> 00:26:26,346 the one-time presence of water or oxygen. 478 00:26:26,419 --> 00:26:28,614 It was exactly the kind of find... 479 00:26:28,688 --> 00:26:31,179 you'd want to make on a place like the moon. 480 00:26:31,257 --> 00:26:34,522 Of course, it turned out it was too good to be true. 481 00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:36,254 Oh, no. What is that? 482 00:26:36,328 --> 00:26:39,559 Oh, that's a reflection. Oh, that really fooled me. 483 00:26:39,632 --> 00:26:42,430 It's a reflection off the mylar on the Rover. 484 00:26:42,501 --> 00:26:45,197 I thought I had something there. Crazy. 485 00:26:45,271 --> 00:26:47,637 Well, what the heck? I'll sample it anyway. 486 00:26:47,707 --> 00:26:51,473 SCB 32 Easy is just another small fragment. 487 00:26:51,544 --> 00:26:54,638 "Just another small fragment." 488 00:26:54,714 --> 00:26:58,206 You bet that gave the guys in the geology backroom a jolt. 489 00:26:58,284 --> 00:27:01,151 Seeing as how Jack was one of us... 490 00:27:01,220 --> 00:27:03,154 we never thought he would lie to us. 491 00:27:03,222 --> 00:27:08,159 The hallmark of any geologist is impeccable integrity. 492 00:27:08,227 --> 00:27:10,821 But that little episode... 493 00:27:10,896 --> 00:27:13,387 that had us going for a bit. 494 00:27:13,466 --> 00:27:17,061 So what other things can reflect off the Rover up there? 495 00:27:17,136 --> 00:27:18,694 Does it have taillights? 496 00:27:18,771 --> 00:27:21,672 - Hubcaps. - Maybe he left the parking lights on. 497 00:27:21,741 --> 00:27:24,232 Don't do that to us again, Jack. 498 00:27:25,978 --> 00:27:30,347 Okay, Shorty is clearly a darker-rimmed crater. 499 00:27:30,416 --> 00:27:32,941 The inner wall is quite blocky... 500 00:27:33,018 --> 00:27:34,713 except for the western portion of it. 501 00:27:34,787 --> 00:27:37,585 The floor is hummocky... 502 00:27:37,656 --> 00:27:40,682 as we thought it was in the Apollo 15 photographs. 503 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,355 If it had been a perfect world for us geologists... 504 00:27:44,430 --> 00:27:47,456 Jack would've had his own TV camera... 505 00:27:47,533 --> 00:27:49,865 just for the ground science team. 506 00:27:49,935 --> 00:27:52,631 Come on, Gene. Turn on the TV. 507 00:27:52,705 --> 00:27:54,866 The central peak-- if you will-- 508 00:27:54,940 --> 00:27:56,874 or the central mound... 509 00:27:56,942 --> 00:27:59,433 is very blocky, very jagged. 510 00:27:59,512 --> 00:28:02,276 And the impression I have... 511 00:28:02,348 --> 00:28:04,748 of the other mounds in the bottom... 512 00:28:04,817 --> 00:28:08,514 is that they look like slump masses that may have come off the side. 513 00:28:08,587 --> 00:28:11,886 - We got it! - Thanks, Gene. Now get out of the way. 514 00:28:12,131 --> 00:28:13,708 Come on, Cernan. Move! 515 00:28:13,784 --> 00:28:17,517 Parade around, Jack. Grab us a sample of that sucker. 516 00:28:17,587 --> 00:28:22,210 A very large boulder of very intensely fractured rock... 517 00:28:22,283 --> 00:28:23,861 right on the rim. 518 00:28:23,938 --> 00:28:25,911 Where on the rim? We can't-- 519 00:28:25,987 --> 00:28:28,333 It looks like a finely vesicular version... 520 00:28:28,402 --> 00:28:30,116 of our clinopyroxene gabbro. 521 00:28:30,188 --> 00:28:33,357 It's obviously crystalline. Do you have TV? 522 00:28:33,429 --> 00:28:34,680 Yes! 523 00:28:36,935 --> 00:28:38,322 We have TV. 524 00:28:38,390 --> 00:28:40,397 And you might brush the lens for us... 525 00:28:40,474 --> 00:28:42,391 before you move out of the way. 526 00:28:50,072 --> 00:28:53,132 I'm gonna take a quick pan while I'm waiting for you. 527 00:28:53,208 --> 00:28:54,641 Okay. 528 00:29:01,783 --> 00:29:04,513 Oh, hey. 529 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,648 There is orange soil. 530 00:29:08,724 --> 00:29:12,490 There is orange soil here. 531 00:29:12,561 --> 00:29:15,223 I knew by the tone of Jack's voice... 532 00:29:15,297 --> 00:29:18,391 that this orange soil was the real thing. 533 00:29:19,701 --> 00:29:22,727 We just wanted to see it on the TV. 534 00:29:22,804 --> 00:29:24,738 It's all over. It's all over. 535 00:29:24,806 --> 00:29:27,036 - He said it's all over the place. - Zoom in! 536 00:29:27,109 --> 00:29:30,840 - Pan. Take a good look around. - Tell him to bring it to the camera. 537 00:29:30,912 --> 00:29:33,073 Make sure that the sunlight's hitting it at the right angle. 538 00:29:38,820 --> 00:29:42,916 - It is. I can see it from here. - It's orange. 539 00:29:42,991 --> 00:29:44,822 Wait a minute. Let me pull my visor up. 540 00:29:47,596 --> 00:29:49,723 It's still orange! 541 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:54,526 I'm gonna have to dig a trench here, Houston. 542 00:29:54,603 --> 00:29:59,438 Boy, it's almost the same color as the LMP decal on my camera. 543 00:29:59,508 --> 00:30:01,533 How can there be oxidized soil on the moon? 544 00:30:01,610 --> 00:30:04,511 It looks just like oxidized desert soil. 545 00:30:04,579 --> 00:30:05,944 That's exactly right. 546 00:30:06,014 --> 00:30:10,610 You know, that orange, it runs in a line, Gene-o. 547 00:30:10,685 --> 00:30:13,745 - Right along the rim crest. - What, circumferential? 548 00:30:13,822 --> 00:30:15,687 If there was anything that looked... 549 00:30:15,757 --> 00:30:17,622 like a fumarole alteration... 550 00:30:17,692 --> 00:30:19,125 this is it. 551 00:30:19,194 --> 00:30:21,185 That's it! 552 00:30:21,263 --> 00:30:22,696 That's the volcanic event! 553 00:30:22,764 --> 00:30:25,096 The bad news was that the orange was not... 554 00:30:25,167 --> 00:30:27,260 a fumarole alteration, nor was it oxidized. 555 00:30:27,335 --> 00:30:29,599 Now these were perfectly normal... 556 00:30:29,671 --> 00:30:31,605 preliminary assumptions to make... 557 00:30:31,673 --> 00:30:34,198 about an unexamined sample... 558 00:30:34,276 --> 00:30:37,177 but it turned out that it was orange volcanic glass... 559 00:30:37,245 --> 00:30:41,079 from a fire fountain that happened 3.5 billion years ago. 560 00:30:41,149 --> 00:30:44,141 But that did not diminish anyone's excitement... 561 00:30:44,219 --> 00:30:47,313 about that find, or, frankly, its importance. 562 00:30:47,389 --> 00:30:49,880 I think Jack and l did as solid an E.V.A... 563 00:30:49,958 --> 00:30:52,984 as anyone could have on that second time out. 564 00:30:53,061 --> 00:30:56,053 Some of the best work ever done in all of Apollo. 565 00:30:57,632 --> 00:31:01,693 There was one thing I really wanted to do out there though. 566 00:31:01,770 --> 00:31:03,761 Well, it had to do with my daughter, Tracy. 567 00:31:03,839 --> 00:31:06,330 Did he promise to bring you anything? 568 00:31:06,408 --> 00:31:09,866 Well, I asked him to bring a rock back from the moon... 569 00:31:09,945 --> 00:31:13,506 He said if he could, he would bring me one back. 570 00:31:13,582 --> 00:31:16,210 And he said if he couldn't, he'd bring me a moonbeam. 571 00:31:16,284 --> 00:31:18,309 - A what? - A moonbeam. 572 00:31:18,386 --> 00:31:19,819 A moonbeam. 573 00:31:21,923 --> 00:31:24,858 He's either pullin' your leg or you're pullin' mine. 574 00:31:24,926 --> 00:31:26,951 That's what he said. 575 00:31:27,028 --> 00:31:28,825 Before my father walked on the moon... 576 00:31:28,897 --> 00:31:32,025 he told me he was gonna do something very special up there. 577 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:35,900 He said he was going to carve my initials in the lunar dust... 578 00:31:35,971 --> 00:31:39,532 making me the only little girl with her name on the moon. 579 00:31:39,608 --> 00:31:44,238 And that it would last for thousands and thousands of years. 580 00:31:44,312 --> 00:31:46,940 Just like his footprints is what he'd say. 581 00:31:48,783 --> 00:31:51,047 Of course, I was nine years old at the time... 582 00:31:51,119 --> 00:31:54,020 and I had very little concept of what he was talking about. 583 00:31:54,089 --> 00:31:58,389 The moon is roughly five times the size of the continent of Africa. 584 00:31:58,460 --> 00:32:02,453 In all, the Apollo missions spent more than 12 days on its surface... 585 00:32:02,531 --> 00:32:06,661 but less than three-and-a-half days actually exploring its mysteries. 586 00:32:06,735 --> 00:32:11,069 In the 75 hours Challenger sat in the Taurus-Littrow Valley... 587 00:32:11,139 --> 00:32:14,836 the crew spent 24 hours of them in scheduled rest periods. 588 00:32:14,910 --> 00:32:17,378 No, I didn't do much sleeping on the moon. 589 00:32:17,445 --> 00:32:19,538 No. No more than catnaps, really. 590 00:32:19,614 --> 00:32:22,242 I was waking up every few hours. 591 00:32:22,317 --> 00:32:24,308 I just couldn't do it. 592 00:32:24,386 --> 00:32:27,082 Not that I sat up writing poetry or anything. 593 00:32:27,155 --> 00:32:29,385 But the knowledge of being where I was... 594 00:32:29,457 --> 00:32:31,220 kept me up and looking around. 595 00:32:31,293 --> 00:32:33,818 And it wasn't because I was scared or anything. 596 00:32:33,895 --> 00:32:36,864 It was just the fact that I was actually trying to do something so fantastic... 597 00:32:36,932 --> 00:32:38,991 it made it impossible. 598 00:32:39,067 --> 00:32:42,434 Jack, he slept like a baby... 599 00:32:42,504 --> 00:32:44,938 with the sweetest dreams you can imagine, I suppose. 600 00:33:06,661 --> 00:33:09,323 Mankind's final day on the moon... 601 00:33:09,397 --> 00:33:13,265 came with the Earth's face having waned by 15%. 602 00:33:13,335 --> 00:33:16,896 The day would bring the last seven hours of human footfall... 603 00:33:16,972 --> 00:33:18,405 on the face of another world. 604 00:33:18,473 --> 00:33:21,738 The longer you stay on the moon, minute by minute... 605 00:33:21,810 --> 00:33:24,142 the better the chances are for something to go wrong. 606 00:33:24,212 --> 00:33:27,010 Now I will tell you, without hesitation... 607 00:33:27,082 --> 00:33:29,482 even with there being nothing wrong at all... 608 00:33:29,551 --> 00:33:32,213 that last E.V.A. was as anxious a time... 609 00:33:32,287 --> 00:33:34,585 as I ever spent in NASA. 610 00:34:51,366 --> 00:34:55,462 - That's affirmed. - Okay, here comes the hatch. 611 00:34:56,538 --> 00:34:59,996 - I can see daylight through it. - Okay, the hatch is full open. 612 00:35:00,075 --> 00:35:04,171 With a stiff suit, I'm still at 4.5 P.S.I. 613 00:35:05,413 --> 00:35:08,780 Okay, but I am out here on the porch. 614 00:35:08,850 --> 00:35:11,683 Okay, I'm going down the ladder. 615 00:35:11,753 --> 00:35:14,347 Godspeed, the crew of Apollo 17. 616 00:35:40,648 --> 00:35:44,015 I remember my visit to Mission Control quite vividly... 617 00:35:44,085 --> 00:35:46,519 for it was the day I saw the impossible. 618 00:35:47,956 --> 00:35:50,254 Oh, I knew the Americans had walked on the moon. 619 00:35:50,325 --> 00:35:52,054 I had seen the pictures. 620 00:35:52,127 --> 00:35:55,358 But the immediacy... 621 00:35:55,430 --> 00:36:00,129 of actually being there in Houston at the same time... 622 00:36:00,201 --> 00:36:03,068 it did something to my consciousness that had not yet happened. 623 00:36:04,773 --> 00:36:06,536 It came at a moment... 624 00:36:06,608 --> 00:36:09,304 when the man operating the camera... 625 00:36:09,377 --> 00:36:10,969 turned it toward the Earth... 626 00:36:11,045 --> 00:36:13,605 and he zoomed in very slowly. 627 00:36:18,119 --> 00:36:22,215 And the picture was-- It was so good. 628 00:36:22,290 --> 00:36:24,087 I could actually make out the oceans... 629 00:36:24,159 --> 00:36:26,650 and the continents and the clouds. 630 00:36:30,231 --> 00:36:32,165 It suddenly hit me... 631 00:36:32,233 --> 00:36:34,667 that we were looking at ourselves. 632 00:36:34,736 --> 00:36:37,796 It was as if our own eyes were on the moon... 633 00:36:37,872 --> 00:36:40,340 and somehow we could turn them around... 634 00:36:40,408 --> 00:36:44,003 and look back down and see everything we have... 635 00:36:44,078 --> 00:36:46,012 everything we know, everything we are... 636 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,014 all at the same time. 637 00:36:50,652 --> 00:36:53,587 I wanted to run outside and wave at the moon... 638 00:36:53,655 --> 00:36:55,350 and run back inside. 639 00:36:55,423 --> 00:36:57,357 See if I could see myself. 640 00:37:00,628 --> 00:37:03,096 Turning Point Rock was so named... 641 00:37:03,164 --> 00:37:06,258 because it was the station farthest away from the Challenger... 642 00:37:06,334 --> 00:37:08,996 on the final E.V.A. of Apollo 17. 643 00:37:13,441 --> 00:37:16,376 What looked like in orbit to be one huge boulder... 644 00:37:16,444 --> 00:37:18,412 that had skidded to a stop in the valley... 645 00:37:18,479 --> 00:37:21,039 was, in fact, five different boulders... 646 00:37:21,115 --> 00:37:23,208 each the size of a house. 647 00:37:35,563 --> 00:37:38,464 The Turning Point is where I should have done it. 648 00:37:38,533 --> 00:37:42,469 I thought later on, "If I had just put Tracy's initials on a boulder... 649 00:37:42,537 --> 00:37:44,903 that would have been an incredible picture." 650 00:37:44,973 --> 00:37:48,670 You know? T.D.C. in the lunar dust up there for the rest of time... 651 00:37:48,743 --> 00:37:51,041 but hell, I was so tired and so busy... 652 00:37:51,112 --> 00:37:52,909 the opportunity got away from me. 653 00:37:54,182 --> 00:37:57,208 I don't think I can get to the top. 654 00:37:57,285 --> 00:37:59,515 I just gotta get to a place... 655 00:37:59,587 --> 00:38:01,817 where I can get a pan from. 656 00:38:03,324 --> 00:38:05,258 Okay, I think I'll save some water. 657 00:38:06,661 --> 00:38:08,094 All right. 658 00:38:09,330 --> 00:38:11,321 Back on intermediate. 659 00:38:14,202 --> 00:38:17,103 That cools you off real fast. 660 00:38:17,171 --> 00:38:20,629 Hey, there's Challenger. 661 00:38:20,708 --> 00:38:23,074 Holy smoley! 662 00:38:23,144 --> 00:38:25,772 The lunar module was three miles away... 663 00:38:25,847 --> 00:38:27,542 and that was our home. 664 00:38:27,615 --> 00:38:30,880 We were up on the side of the north massif working. 665 00:38:30,952 --> 00:38:33,682 Just two lunchbox-totin' Joes. 666 00:38:34,789 --> 00:38:37,349 You can talk all you want about what it's like to go to the moon... 667 00:38:37,425 --> 00:38:38,915 and to live and work on the moon. 668 00:38:38,993 --> 00:38:41,757 I can tell you, I already did that. 669 00:38:41,829 --> 00:38:43,558 I had a house up there. 670 00:38:43,631 --> 00:38:45,394 I had a job. 671 00:38:45,466 --> 00:38:48,401 I lived up there for three days. 672 00:38:49,704 --> 00:38:52,571 You know, Jack, when we finish with station eight... 673 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,972 we will have covered this whole valley from corner to corner. 674 00:38:55,043 --> 00:38:56,476 That was the idea. 675 00:38:56,544 --> 00:38:59,479 But I didn't think we'd ever really quite get to that far corner. 676 00:38:59,547 --> 00:39:01,879 But we are going to make it. 677 00:39:02,984 --> 00:39:05,976 Son of a gun, the commander just fell down. 678 00:39:06,054 --> 00:39:08,352 - You okay? - Yeah, Commander's okay. 679 00:39:08,423 --> 00:39:10,482 When you're tired, when you're close to being finished... 680 00:39:10,558 --> 00:39:13,356 and you think everything is going perfectly... 681 00:39:13,428 --> 00:39:15,225 and you got it made... 682 00:39:15,296 --> 00:39:18,060 that's when something terrible can happen. 683 00:39:18,132 --> 00:39:20,828 That's when disaster can strike. 684 00:39:20,902 --> 00:39:24,235 Another savage attacks and poof! 685 00:39:24,305 --> 00:39:26,603 And they escape the-- 686 00:39:26,674 --> 00:39:29,108 and are about to leave the lunar surface. 687 00:39:30,178 --> 00:39:31,975 Ah, danger. 688 00:39:32,046 --> 00:39:35,948 Will they survive? Yes! They are led by Professor Barbenfouillis. 689 00:39:37,418 --> 00:39:41,787 Monsieur Melies was on the precipice of celebrity and greatness... 690 00:39:41,856 --> 00:39:44,552 as well as getting very, very rich. 691 00:39:45,893 --> 00:39:48,794 Poof! A savage of the other world disappears. 692 00:39:48,863 --> 00:39:50,797 Poof again. Poof. And again. 693 00:39:51,866 --> 00:39:55,029 As was his due, he had created... 694 00:39:55,103 --> 00:39:58,266 La Voyage Dans La Lune. 695 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:03,376 But then, it all came crashing down. 696 00:40:07,849 --> 00:40:09,146 But they're on their way home... 697 00:40:09,217 --> 00:40:11,117 and splash in the ocean. 698 00:40:12,220 --> 00:40:16,816 It goes deep, deep, deep, deep, and they come up. 699 00:40:16,891 --> 00:40:18,825 Yes, they come up to the surface... 700 00:40:18,893 --> 00:40:22,556 and the navy brings them to safe harbor. 701 00:40:22,630 --> 00:40:25,497 I'm going to take my movie in America. 702 00:40:25,566 --> 00:40:28,501 Make a hundred prints of it, take them to the city of New York... 703 00:40:28,569 --> 00:40:31,402 book a theater and let words of my films spread... 704 00:40:31,472 --> 00:40:33,906 across this huge, rich land... 705 00:40:35,076 --> 00:40:37,636 and I will make a fortune out of this. 706 00:40:40,148 --> 00:40:42,082 Poor Monsieur Melies. 707 00:40:44,252 --> 00:40:46,686 He did not know that Le Voyage Dans La Lune... 708 00:40:46,754 --> 00:40:49,018 was already playing in America. 709 00:40:51,692 --> 00:40:54,354 And he was not ever going to see a penny from it. 710 00:40:58,166 --> 00:41:02,603 Agents of the American genius and thief, Monsieur Thomas Edison... 711 00:41:02,670 --> 00:41:04,604 had seen the film in London. 712 00:41:05,673 --> 00:41:07,937 They bribed the theater owner... 713 00:41:08,009 --> 00:41:09,943 took the film into a lab... 714 00:41:10,011 --> 00:41:12,980 and made copy after copy after copy of it. 715 00:41:18,252 --> 00:41:21,153 The film was a sensation in America. 716 00:41:21,222 --> 00:41:23,713 A fortune was made off its exhibition. 717 00:41:23,791 --> 00:41:26,487 None of it-- not a penny-- 718 00:41:26,561 --> 00:41:29,894 going into the pockets of Monsieur George Melies. 719 00:41:31,532 --> 00:41:33,625 Within a few years... 720 00:41:33,701 --> 00:41:35,635 he was broke. 721 00:41:41,109 --> 00:41:44,169 - We should have TV. - We're gettin' TV there, Gene-o. 722 00:41:44,245 --> 00:41:46,406 - You getting it? - We've got TV. 723 00:41:46,481 --> 00:41:48,915 Well, let me take a look. 724 00:41:48,983 --> 00:41:51,577 With the final E.V.A. nearly completed... 725 00:41:51,652 --> 00:41:53,415 Gene Cernan drove the Rover... 726 00:41:53,488 --> 00:41:55,547 a few hundred feet away from the Challenger... 727 00:41:55,623 --> 00:41:57,750 to its final resting place... 728 00:41:57,825 --> 00:42:00,692 a parking spot where it still sits today. 729 00:42:00,761 --> 00:42:04,595 He would need the clamps that held together the quick-fix fender... 730 00:42:04,665 --> 00:42:06,997 for inside the LM during ascent. 731 00:42:09,003 --> 00:42:11,597 A good fender, he took back as a souvenir. 732 00:42:12,907 --> 00:42:14,340 Pressed for time... 733 00:42:14,408 --> 00:42:16,842 and with a long walk back to the landing site... 734 00:42:16,911 --> 00:42:19,709 the commander of Apollo 17 stole the luxury... 735 00:42:19,780 --> 00:42:22,112 of a last look at his home on the moon... 736 00:42:25,019 --> 00:42:28,546 then performed one last, very personal task. 737 00:42:51,245 --> 00:42:54,874 With Mission Control reminding him time was running out... 738 00:42:54,949 --> 00:42:57,543 Jack Schmitt hurried to prepare the last bags... 739 00:42:57,618 --> 00:42:59,916 filled with priceless lunar samples... 740 00:42:59,987 --> 00:43:02,387 for the long transport to Earth. 741 00:43:02,456 --> 00:43:04,720 With the clock ticking and his life support... 742 00:43:04,792 --> 00:43:06,623 diminishing with every breath... 743 00:43:06,694 --> 00:43:09,458 the only scientist to ever walk on the moon... 744 00:43:09,530 --> 00:43:11,623 came to a melancholy realization. 745 00:43:11,699 --> 00:43:14,190 His time there was over. 746 00:43:14,268 --> 00:43:17,567 We need you in the LM in one-five minutes, 15 minutes... 747 00:43:17,638 --> 00:43:19,128 because of oxygen restraints. 748 00:43:19,207 --> 00:43:20,799 I copy that. 749 00:43:20,875 --> 00:43:23,366 I don't need my hammer anymore. 750 00:43:23,444 --> 00:43:26,174 Tell them to move it along. 751 00:43:26,247 --> 00:43:28,807 What we want you to do is dust and get in. 752 00:43:28,883 --> 00:43:31,351 We got one-four minutes. 753 00:43:31,419 --> 00:43:33,182 Let me throw the hammer. 754 00:43:33,254 --> 00:43:34,687 Okay. 755 00:43:35,756 --> 00:43:38,088 Let me throw the hammer, please. 756 00:43:38,159 --> 00:43:39,751 It's all yours. 757 00:43:39,827 --> 00:43:42,762 You deserve it. You're a geologist. 758 00:43:42,830 --> 00:43:45,355 You oughta be able to be the hammer thrower. 759 00:43:45,433 --> 00:43:48,732 - You ready? - Go ahead. Don't hit the LM. 760 00:44:04,352 --> 00:44:07,321 Bob, this is Gene, and I'm alone on the surface. 761 00:44:07,388 --> 00:44:10,380 That's why I'm the last man to walk on the moon. 762 00:44:10,458 --> 00:44:12,585 Jack was already inside Challenger... 763 00:44:12,660 --> 00:44:15,185 so it was just me out there. 764 00:44:15,263 --> 00:44:18,562 That last footprint on the moon, check it out. 765 00:44:18,633 --> 00:44:20,965 It just happens to be my boot size. 766 00:44:23,804 --> 00:44:27,069 And as I take man's last step from the surface... 767 00:44:27,141 --> 00:44:29,439 back home, for now... 768 00:44:29,510 --> 00:44:32,445 but we believe not too long into the future. 769 00:44:34,315 --> 00:44:37,079 I'd just like to say what I believe history will record. 770 00:44:39,754 --> 00:44:42,655 That America's challenge of today... 771 00:44:42,723 --> 00:44:45,783 has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. 772 00:44:46,861 --> 00:44:49,022 And as we leave the moon at Taurus-Littrow... 773 00:44:50,131 --> 00:44:51,826 we leave... 774 00:44:51,899 --> 00:44:53,799 as we came... 775 00:44:54,869 --> 00:44:57,303 and God willing, as we shall return... 776 00:44:58,973 --> 00:45:01,464 with peace and hope... 777 00:45:01,542 --> 00:45:03,737 for all mankind. 778 00:45:06,314 --> 00:45:08,782 Godspeed, the crew of Apollo 17. 779 00:45:34,208 --> 00:45:36,506 Descent engine override. Logic in. 780 00:45:36,577 --> 00:45:37,874 Okay. 781 00:45:37,945 --> 00:45:40,311 Rate scale: 25 degrees per second. 782 00:45:41,549 --> 00:45:43,881 Attitude translation: four jets. 783 00:45:43,951 --> 00:45:45,885 Four jets on. 784 00:46:11,045 --> 00:46:13,980 Take your final look at the valley at Taurus-Littrow. 785 00:46:21,622 --> 00:46:23,715 The TV camera on the Rover... 786 00:46:23,791 --> 00:46:25,759 was broadcasting live pictures... 787 00:46:25,826 --> 00:46:28,556 of Challenger's liftoff from the moon... 788 00:46:28,629 --> 00:46:30,324 making Ed Fendel... 789 00:46:30,398 --> 00:46:32,832 the most nervous man in all of NASA. 790 00:46:35,770 --> 00:46:38,739 The camera on Apollo 15 wouldn't tilt up... 791 00:46:38,806 --> 00:46:40,433 to follow the ascent... 792 00:46:40,508 --> 00:46:43,773 and its commands for keeping Apollo 16... 793 00:46:43,844 --> 00:46:45,277 were too slow. 794 00:46:46,347 --> 00:46:48,508 Now with one last chance... 795 00:46:48,582 --> 00:46:50,413 to televise the complete event... 796 00:46:50,484 --> 00:46:53,419 the pressure was on to pan and zoom the camera... 797 00:46:53,487 --> 00:46:55,421 several seconds before liftoff. 798 00:46:55,489 --> 00:46:57,423 Otherwise the world would never see... 799 00:46:57,491 --> 00:47:01,018 a perfect TV picture of Apollo leaving the moon. 800 00:47:01,095 --> 00:47:04,462 Engine arm is ascent. 801 00:47:04,532 --> 00:47:07,626 - I'm going to get the pro. - Roger. 802 00:47:09,937 --> 00:47:11,666 Ninety-nine... 803 00:47:11,739 --> 00:47:13,036 proceed. 804 00:47:16,210 --> 00:47:17,643 Three... 805 00:47:17,711 --> 00:47:20,441 two, one. 806 00:47:20,514 --> 00:47:21,947 Ignition. 807 00:47:38,165 --> 00:47:42,124 With the precision emblematic of its near flawless mission... 808 00:47:42,203 --> 00:47:45,468 Apollo 17 embarked from the moon for the sixth and final time... 809 00:47:45,539 --> 00:47:47,598 in the history of mankind. 810 00:47:48,676 --> 00:47:50,667 The exploration of another world... 811 00:47:50,744 --> 00:47:53,736 was successfully and safely completed... 812 00:47:53,814 --> 00:47:57,716 thanks to the efforts and attention of those on Earth... 813 00:47:57,785 --> 00:48:01,312 who could only look on as vicarious participants... 814 00:48:01,388 --> 00:48:04,016 as the fantastic voyages came... 815 00:48:04,091 --> 00:48:06,992 to a bittersweet end. 816 00:48:07,061 --> 00:48:09,689 When we were back inside the command module... 817 00:48:09,763 --> 00:48:11,492 President Nixon sent up a message... 818 00:48:11,565 --> 00:48:15,092 congratulating us on the last exploration of the moon... 819 00:48:15,169 --> 00:48:17,296 in this century. 820 00:48:17,371 --> 00:48:21,364 Boy, that made me mad because we were just getting good at it. 821 00:48:21,442 --> 00:48:24,377 The hardware had been proven, was getting even better... 822 00:48:24,445 --> 00:48:27,778 and yet we have not been back to the moon since 1972. 823 00:48:30,284 --> 00:48:31,774 We should've continued right along. 824 00:48:31,852 --> 00:48:36,482 The only reason we stopped going to the moon was politics. 825 00:48:36,557 --> 00:48:38,047 Sending men to the moon is dangerous. 826 00:48:38,125 --> 00:48:40,923 It's also expensive. It's hard to do. 827 00:48:40,995 --> 00:48:44,396 But we did it at the cost of more than just money. 828 00:48:44,465 --> 00:48:46,558 If you have the time, I can list off the names... 829 00:48:46,634 --> 00:48:48,363 of a couple of hundred thousand people... 830 00:48:48,435 --> 00:48:51,097 who gave of themselves to make it happen... 831 00:48:51,171 --> 00:48:55,232 along with the names of dozens of people who gave their lives. 832 00:48:55,309 --> 00:48:56,571 Understand... 833 00:48:56,644 --> 00:49:00,011 that the moon is what the Earth once was... 834 00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:03,413 before the ancient craters were erased by the wind... 835 00:49:03,484 --> 00:49:05,816 and the rain and the geologic forces. 836 00:49:07,121 --> 00:49:08,486 As such, the moon is a time machine... 837 00:49:08,556 --> 00:49:10,319 that can take us back... 838 00:49:10,391 --> 00:49:14,122 and tell us what our home was once like... 839 00:49:14,194 --> 00:49:15,786 what it was made out of... 840 00:49:15,863 --> 00:49:17,387 and how it came to be... 841 00:49:17,464 --> 00:49:20,092 that we're all living here. 842 00:49:20,167 --> 00:49:21,896 I wish... 843 00:49:21,969 --> 00:49:24,870 I had been living up there on the moon... 844 00:49:24,939 --> 00:49:26,702 these past 25 years... 845 00:49:26,774 --> 00:49:30,642 wandering around with my hammer and a sack... 846 00:49:30,711 --> 00:49:32,941 and a thermos or two of coffee. 847 00:49:33,013 --> 00:49:35,607 I'm very glad to have been alive when we went to the moon. 848 00:49:36,850 --> 00:49:40,217 I am of the generation that witnessed it... 849 00:49:40,287 --> 00:49:43,279 that actually saw it live on television. 850 00:49:44,892 --> 00:49:47,224 And what we saw on television... 851 00:49:47,294 --> 00:49:52,459 from the forbidding and desolate surface of the moon... 852 00:49:52,533 --> 00:49:54,330 was our own world... 853 00:49:54,401 --> 00:49:57,802 both beautiful and troubled. 854 00:49:57,871 --> 00:50:00,931 Standing on the moon, looking up at the Earth... 855 00:50:01,008 --> 00:50:05,672 you see that the promise and potential of our world... 856 00:50:05,746 --> 00:50:09,238 is as obvious as it is magnificent. 857 00:50:10,918 --> 00:50:14,479 And for the people who live on that green and blue ball... 858 00:50:16,290 --> 00:50:18,986 there is no difficulty they cannot overcome... 859 00:50:20,728 --> 00:50:22,923 no solution they cannot grasp... 860 00:50:24,665 --> 00:50:26,997 no distance that they cannot travel. 861 00:50:29,570 --> 00:50:32,334 Me standing in the valley of Taurus-Littrow... 862 00:50:33,507 --> 00:50:35,498 is proof of that. 863 00:50:35,576 --> 00:50:37,009 What we learned about the moon... 864 00:50:37,077 --> 00:50:40,012 is not nearly as important as our going there. 865 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:41,342 Apollo 8. 866 00:50:43,283 --> 00:50:46,377 Witnesses to the first earthrise... 867 00:50:46,453 --> 00:50:48,387 in the consciousness of man. 868 00:50:51,692 --> 00:50:54,024 Apollo 17. 869 00:50:54,094 --> 00:50:57,461 Gene Cernan takes that remarkable photo... 870 00:50:57,531 --> 00:50:59,465 of Jack Schmitt standing on the moon... 871 00:50:59,533 --> 00:51:02,195 with the Earth over his shoulder. 872 00:51:02,269 --> 00:51:04,430 See, that's why we went to the moon. 873 00:51:04,505 --> 00:51:06,735 To take those pictures. 874 00:51:06,807 --> 00:51:09,605 We didn't go there to conquer it or claim it... 875 00:51:09,677 --> 00:51:13,044 or simply beat the Russians to it. 876 00:51:13,113 --> 00:51:16,412 Sure, we wanted to find out what the moon was made of... 877 00:51:16,483 --> 00:51:19,714 to satisfy questions of science... 878 00:51:19,787 --> 00:51:22,950 that have plagued us since the dawn of man. 879 00:51:25,025 --> 00:51:27,289 But more than anything else... 880 00:51:27,361 --> 00:51:29,158 we went to the moon... 881 00:51:29,229 --> 00:51:31,493 to see if we could make the journey... 882 00:51:32,733 --> 00:51:34,667 because if we can do that... 883 00:51:35,736 --> 00:51:37,328 if we can voyage... 884 00:51:37,404 --> 00:51:39,998 from the Earth to the moon... 885 00:51:40,074 --> 00:51:42,008 then there's hope for all of us... 886 00:51:43,911 --> 00:51:47,005 because we can do anything. 887 00:51:50,417 --> 00:51:54,979 William Bradford, speaking in 1630... 888 00:51:55,055 --> 00:51:57,922 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay colony... 889 00:51:57,991 --> 00:52:00,721 said that all great and honorable actions... 890 00:52:00,794 --> 00:52:02,853 are accompanied with great difficulty. 891 00:52:03,597 --> 00:52:06,657 And both must be enterprised... 892 00:52:06,734 --> 00:52:08,326 and overcome... 893 00:52:08,402 --> 00:52:10,029 with answerable courage. 894 00:52:10,104 --> 00:52:13,164 If this capsule history of our progress... 895 00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:14,764 teaches us anything... 896 00:52:14,842 --> 00:52:16,275 it is that man... 897 00:52:16,343 --> 00:52:18,208 in his quest for knowledge and progress... 898 00:52:18,278 --> 00:52:21,372 is determined and cannot be deterred. 899 00:52:21,448 --> 00:52:24,679 The exploration of space will go ahead. 900 00:52:24,752 --> 00:52:27,778 Whether we join in it or not... 901 00:52:27,855 --> 00:52:29,914 we need to be a part of it. 902 00:52:29,990 --> 00:52:31,924 We need to lead it. 903 00:52:34,962 --> 00:52:37,260 For the eyes of the world... 904 00:52:37,331 --> 00:52:39,128 now look into space... 905 00:52:39,199 --> 00:52:41,997 to the moon and to the planets beyond. 906 00:52:44,872 --> 00:52:47,966 Our leadership in science and industry... 907 00:52:48,041 --> 00:52:51,033 our hopes for peace and security... 908 00:52:51,111 --> 00:52:53,136 our obligations to ourselves... 909 00:52:53,213 --> 00:52:55,044 as well as others... 910 00:52:55,115 --> 00:52:57,743 all require us to make this effort... 911 00:52:57,818 --> 00:53:00,252 to solve these mysteries... 912 00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,982 to solve them for the good of all men. 913 00:53:03,056 --> 00:53:06,719 There is no strife, no prejudice... 914 00:53:06,794 --> 00:53:10,628 no national conflict in outer space as yet. 915 00:53:10,697 --> 00:53:13,564 Its hazards are hostile to us all. 916 00:53:13,634 --> 00:53:17,593 Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind. 917 00:53:17,671 --> 00:53:20,071 We choose to go to the moon. 918 00:53:20,140 --> 00:53:23,007 We choose to go to the moon. 919 00:53:28,482 --> 00:53:31,178 We choose to go to the moon in this decade... 920 00:53:31,251 --> 00:53:32,843 and do the other things... 921 00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,649 not because they are easy... 922 00:53:34,721 --> 00:53:36,848 but because they are hard. 923 00:53:36,924 --> 00:53:40,792 Because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept... 924 00:53:40,861 --> 00:53:43,329 one we are unwilling to postpone... 925 00:53:43,397 --> 00:53:45,331 and one we intend to win. 926 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,115 Best watched using Open Subtitles MKV 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