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Hello the world.

I am speaking for the International Space Order,

in the first worldwide radio and telecast in history.

At this moment, over 2 billion people

in every part of the world

are focusing their attention on this program.

Every nation of the Earth in a magnificent effort

is contributing of its people

and resources in an attempt to reach the moon

and proclaim it international territory.

The rocket ship, Lunar Eagle No.1

represents the culminating achievement

of the world's leading scientists.

The men and women who would fly her

had been hand picked from the world's leading specialists.

They include Dr. Erich Heinrich, who personally designed

and supervised the construction of this rocket ship.

As Dr. Heinrich is the oldest member of the crew,

so Rod Murdoch is the youngest.

He holds a doctor's degree in mathematics at the age of 19.

Dr. Selim Hamid from Turkey, is an expert on space medicine.

Selected to work with him,

is Dr. Sigrid Bomark from Sweden, physician and physicist.

From France, Etienne Martel, engineer and technician.

Sir William Rochester, noted British geophysicist.

Tokyo born, Dr. Hideko Murata,

will be acting as astrophotographer and pharmacist.

Russia is represented by Dr. Feodor Orloff,

geologists and mapmaker.

From Nigeria, the chief navigator,

the great astronomer, Asmara Markonen.

From Israel, Polish born, Dr. David Ruskin,

this aeronautic engineer will serve

as the official recorder of this expedition.

The Brazilian Dr. Luis Vargas,

the ships first pilot will also be in charge

of communications.

The leader of this gigantic undertaking,

is John Anderson of the United States,

who has dedicated his life to man's conquest of space.

His three previous orbital flights

have made him world famous.

Because of his all around experience,

he was the unanimous choice of the International Space Order

to helm this project.

Within the next few minutes,

we expect to make world shattering history.

The newer powered Lunar Eagle will take off

with the liquid fuel method,

and outside the Earth's atmosphere

will convert to atomic power.

When the moon's orbit is reached, by retro power,

the first landing on the moon will be attempted.

If all goes as planned, touchdown on Lunar soil

should be 27 hours from X minus zero.

During the entire flight, as control will try to keep

in communication with the ship,

this worldwide network will bring you

bulletins on the flight and the news of the landing.

God be with them.

(light suspenseful music)

(radio chatter)

(tape clicks)

This is Dr. David Ruskin reporting his first entry

into the official log of the Lunar Eagle.

We will attempt to report salient information as it occurs.

It is now launched time, minus two minutes.

(speaks faintly)

[Operator] Status check, (indistinct) light on?

[Operator] Copy.

[Operator] Ranks ready?

[Operator] Ready.

(speaks faintly)

[Operator] T minus 27 seconds in counting,

all recorders in the (indistinct) graphs too fast.

Ready and start.

(rocket blasts)

(intense music)

Nine.

Eight.

(speaks faintly)

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

Clear all.

(rocket blasts)

(speaks faintly)

[Operator] Keep going baby.

(rocket shakes)

Crew check.

B deck, everybody okay?

All okay here.

A deck, everybody okay?

[A Deck] Yeah.

Yeah, it's going all right.

(Dr. Rochester sighs)

God side dunk.

(rocket blasts)

How far up we come, Stargazer?

1500 miles above Earth.

Present speed, 16,000 miles per hour.

Atmosphere content, 0.0004.

Three minutes from launch.

Booster power off.

(booster operates)

Transfer to atomic power accomplished.

On profile, gyro settings, equal.

(system beeps)

Doctors Bomark and Hamid proceed with medical checkup.

Oh, I'm fine, see the doctor Dr. Heinrich.

Very well captain, I'll come back to you later.

Looks as if old Earth is having

quite a rainstorm back there.

It's the first time I've seen a storm from the other end.

Well, they may be getting soaked with rain back on Earth,

but at least they are safe.

We are quite dry, but going far into the unknown

from which women never return.

Do you have any doubt that we will return?

Do you?

Me?

Of course not, I never doubted it.

One has to develop a bit of fatalism about all this.

I never doubted it for a moment that we will make it.

Well, well, well, for the first time in my life,

the Earth looks good to me.

Dr. Martel, don't you think we will make it either?

But of course, it's perfectly reasonable

that we should make it.

I trust the engines, I'd trust this ship,

but what will happen will happen.

That's right.

[Dr. Bomark] Right, you're next.

[Dr. Hamid] Please Martel, roll up your sleeve.

Oh, all these unimportant details.

I am in the best of health.

Well, we just want to make sure.

(rocket blasts)

Goodbye.

I'll see you below.

[Dr. Hamid] Good, I'll start on our pilot.

I've heard a lot about that new dual magnet camera.

How does it work?

Well, after taking motion pictures on magnetic tape,

I can with this button choose any frame I wish

from instance still.

Then, I'll show you.

(magnet camera operates)

There you are.

Just taking this picture of our receding Earth.

[Dr. Murdock] You're right.

And when next we have some free time,

I'll give you some points on using the camera.

[Dr. Murdock] Okay.

Physical condition of the entire group?

Excellent.

Except for Heinrich, whose age is showing.

Everyone acting artificially calm

to cover up their real excitement

about man's first trip to the moon?

Dr. Ruskin, I'll take you first fine.

Fine.

Busy so soon recording our trip?

We're scarcely on our way.

Well, I'm keeping the most accurate flight log possible.

And that way posterity will always remember

man's first flight to the moon.

The events you record in the next few days

will be milestones in history.

Oh yes.

What about Dr. Heinrich?

How is he?

Not very well.

It's only natural I suppose, he is the oldest.

Don't say anything to anybody else.

No ill effects were met.

Such a brilliant man.

If only someday I could be like him.

Brilliant design here, what brilliance.

Young man remember, who contributes most

to interplanetary travel?

Russia.

What?

Are you serious?

But of course.

Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2, Sputnik 8, 9, two dogs-

- Our dog will survive these experiments.

Gentleman, gentleman, we have much work ahead of us.

My work will start on the surface of the moon,

I'm a geologist and the best mapmaker in the world.

Yes, Poland is still on your Russian map.

But of course, it has already been liberated.

Don't get any ideas about liberating my country, Israel.

Dr. Orloff, your medical checkup, please.

Thank you (indistinct).

(Dr. Martel laughs)

You lucky people, nothing seems to worry you.

(rocket blasts)

Navigator to captain.

We're in an unusual magnetic field.

(system beeps)

(rocket blasts)

(meteor clusters shooting)

Meteor clusters ahead.

(intense music)

[Capt. John] How close?

You're on a collision course.

A collision course.

Changing over to auto reaction pilot.

Vargas, take over.

[Dr. Vargas] Check.

(system beeps)

Captain to navigator, autopilot change course.

Eight degrees to avoid meteors.

(intense music)

(rocket blasts)

(meteors crashing)

(monkeys screeching)

[Dr Murata] What was that?

Oh, just some stray meteors.

It's all right, Mimi, Rodolfo,

you still have eight lives left.

Profile change completed.

Back on original setting.

(indistinct)

It worked perfectly.

After all it was our invention.

With a little help from our gentleman scientist.

(rocket blasts)

Isn't it marvelous, Hideko?

Much more suiting and practical than water.

Clean by ultrasound, and massaged by air spreadsheets.

When I get back to Stockholm,

I'm gonna have one installed in my apartment.

[Dr. Murata] Me too, when I get back to Tokyo,

Oops, I'm sorry, ladies.

Well, you could have knocked.

Well, we're not at the Waldorf.

Well, Mimi, Rodolfo, some attic

you've climbed into isn't it?

(cat meows)

But don't worry, your work's gonna start on the moon.

They wanna see if procreation can take place up there.

So Mimi, maybe when we get back,

you'll have a litter of moon kittens?

(rocket blasts)

John, we are direct on course to orbit,

with the Kratos Manalayos.

Another hour and 37 minutes,

and we should begin retro procedure for landing.

(intense music)

[Dr. Markonen] Approaching meteoric dust cloud,

impossible to avoid.

Affirmative, breakthrough alert, signal condition red.

Prepare to set up for penetration rockets.

(rocket blasts)

Archer door open, ready to fire.

Reset timing fuels to 1.5, five minutes.

[Dr. Vargas] 1.55.

On setting, still ready.

We'll use a five second countdown.

Five and counting.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

Fire.

(rocket fires)

(rocket explodes)

Second setup, ready.

No time, have to make it as is,

all hands off metal surfaces,

interior could become electrically charged.

(intense music)

(rocket blasts)

Dr. Orloff, that was our invention.

(rocket blasts)

Old Mother Earth, from up here she looks rather small

and insignificant, doesn't she Stargazer?

Very small John.

Very insignificant.

I wonder what they're doing down there?

Probably watching us.

Well, I better get up those stairs

and get ready for a reversal.

(eerie music)

(rocket blasts)

Thank you.

It was my pleasure, Hideko.

Reversal accomplished without mishap.

Landing in one hour and 32 minutes.

(rocket blasts)

And now already, we need the formula

for our rate of deceleration for our landing on the moon.

That will be X over G minus three,

considering that the moon's gravitational pull

is one six of Earth.

That's absolutely right.

He's always right.

Amazing, Rod.

Of course, the original calculation

was determined 33 years ago by Bernauer in Vienna.

Ironic, isn't it?

That for all his brilliance,

Bernauer could have been such a Nazi beast.

Did you know he was directly responsible

for the extermination of more

than a hundred thousand of my people?

He killed my mother, my father,

my sisters, and my brothers.

[Dr. Murdock] But Dr. Heinrich is-

- Rod, come over here will you, we have a problem here.

Listen Rod, Ruskin doesn't know to Dr. Heinrich's

own father was Bernauer.

[Dr. Rochester] Heinrich was so ashamed

of what his father did that he changed his name.

Don't say anything, Roddy.

That should take care of it, shouldn't it?

Good.

They work so well together.

Yes, let's not wake up all old muck again.

(rocket blasts)

This is the latest shot of our moon landing area, captain.

[Capt. John] Captain Anderson to crew,

drop down for landing.

(system beeps)

Altitude, 500 feet.

(rocket blasts)

400.

(system beeps) 300.

200.

(rocket blasts)

100.

(rocket blasts)

Touch.

Down.

(rocket shaking)

We made it.

We made it.

(in foreign language)

[Dr. Hamid] Allah be praised.

[Dr. Orloff] Praise the ship, not Allah.

Lunar Eagle No.1 to Central Earth Control,

come in Central Earth Control.

[Control Operator] Earth Control to Lunar Eagle 1.

Over.

Lunar Eagle No.1, Captain Anderson speaking,

reporting successful landing on moon.

Time has calculated plus 37 minutes.

Preparing now for first Lunar disembarkation.

Next scheduled contact with Central Earth Control at 02H00.

[Control Operator] Congratulations Lunar Eagle 1.

Standby for secretary general of International Space Order.

[Bushman] Thank God you made it, captain.

Speaking for all the peoples of the Earth

whom you and your crew represent,

our heartiest congratulations for this first great step

in the exploration of space.

God speed.

(crew cheers)

We're preparing to leave the Lunar Eagle.

In a few minutes, man, for the first time

will set foot upon the moon.

The excitement is great,

but controlled because of its momentous importance.

I am now switching over to my helmet microphone.

Now I'm turning on my invisible electromagnetic ray screen

which forms a protective shield over our faces.

And I will continue my commentary

through my micro tape recorder.

Check everything with extreme care.

Double check your oxygen supply.

There's enough in each tank for two hours

stay up on the surface of the moon.

As you remember, you must develop

an additional reflex action.

Make sure your suit radio is in working order at all times.

Martel, while we were going,

keep all TV and radio channels open.

Check.

Also lower the equipment in the winch.

Check.

Equipment check, Markonen.

Anderson and Markonen, radio check.

Check.

[Capt. John] Vargas, you and Ruskin will carry

our magnetic meteorite deflectors.

Now remember, when we hit the surface of the moon

to establish a port point perimeter

at least a hundred yards from the ship.

Check.

Check.

William, you are carrying the air detector.

Yes, check.

Good.

Hideko, emergency equipment.

[Dr. Murata] Check.

All right, Vargas and I hit airlock first.

(airlock opens)

(light eerie music)

No air detected, no sound.

Soil seems to be promise dust,

two to three inches thick at this point.

(intense music)

(meteors shooting)

(meteor explodes)

(meteor explodes)

Six minutes after touching Lunar soil,

we were bombarded by meteors,

our magnets were strong enough to protect us.

(light ominous music)

(bright music)

The planting of this flag

symbolizes the internationalization of the moon

to prevent individual nations from any further dispute.

Now we shall continue with the second part of our mission,

scientific exploration.

(light ominous music)

(liquid bubbling)

(meteor shooting)

(meteor explodes)

(ground crumbling)

(meteor explodes)

We are constantly being bombarded by falling rocks

caused by the explosion of meteors hitting the moon surface.

[Capt. John] Vargas, stick out this area.

(radio statics)

Remember if you go outside this area,

to stay within the protection of the cliffs or rocks.

Orloff, this is where you take charge.

[Dr. Orloff] Everybody attend to their rearranged duties.

If any unusual mineral deposits are discovered,

please report them to me at once.

[Capt. John] Doctor's Bomark and Hamid,

you will search for signs of air and light.

(intense music)

(liquid bubbling)

(object ignites)

[Dr. Ruskin] Various minerals in the stones

have been collected, among them we have found

volcanic crystals and sharp coral-like formations,

which appear translucent.

[Dr. Vargas] Look at this gold, isn't it?

[Dr. Orloff] Yes, that's gold.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

There seems to be something unusual under here.

Clear these rocks away.

Careful you fools, careful, don't damage it.

What is it, Dr. Orloff?

[Dr. Heinrich] I have never seen anything like it.

Nor have I.

It's beautiful.

It's fire, like liquid fire,

we're the first people to set eyes on a stone like this.

It's beautiful but evil.

Evil and sharp like the jewel of Madeira?

The Madeira stone, very well named.

Very well named, I have named it.

(meteor shoots)

Markonen, what is it?

Are you listening for something?

I feel something.

(air detection device operates)

There must be air.

(exhales gently)

(light music)

[Dr. Orloff] Captain Anderson,

I'd like to search deeper, please.

There may be more precious to gems

like the Madeira stone here, then we have the explosion.

[Capt. John] Yes, but we must hurry,

we've only got about an hour supply of oxygen left.

[Dr. Orloff] At once then.

(rocket launcher fires)

What is it?

(Dr. Orloff shouts)

[Capt. John] Hideko, emergency kit.

I should've known.

Stupid unthinking fool, I deserve this.

[Capt. John] Will you see

that he gets back to the ship please?

[Dr. Murata] I'll stay with him.

[Dr. Rochester] Captain Anderson, Sigrid and Selim,

they're missing, they're not with us.

Oh, then we'll have to search,

but we must be quick because there's not much time.

Look, their footprints.

(suspenseful music)

There's air in this cave.

[Dr. Markonen] There could be life.

We have come to the end of the cave,

there's a solid wall of ice.

(knocking ice)

(William shouts)

[Dr. Rochester] Rod, here, take the camera.

Don't let yourselves get caught.

It's no use, I'm finish.

[Capt. John] Rod, get the magnet, boy.

The magnet, boy.

Don't let anyone else get caught.

Rod, Rod.

[Dr. Heinrich] Let's go.

(shouts loudly)

(suspenseful music)

Lost, everything lost.

What a fool, what a foolish waste.

Believe it or not, outside is 202 degrees below zero,

you return just in time.

And this is only the beginning of the Lunar night.

Yes.

Night here like day is equivalent to 15 days

and nights upon the Earth.

It will go up to approximately 250 below zero.

I'd rather be out there now than at the peak

of the Lunar day when it's hotter

than boiling water out there.

But have you led in Dr. Rochester's boots?

Contributed to his sinking into the promise dust.

These are the circumstances which contributed

to the death of Dr. William Rochester.

The first embarkation party returned to the Lunar Eagle

because of diminishing oxygen supply

and the necessity to normalize our bodily processes.

Poor Bill, such a tragic death for a man so dedicated.

I know we all feel terrible about it.

Sigrid, Selim.

Well, it's too cold to continue a prolonged search.

Do you think they'll get back to the ship?

If they're still alive.

Just keep praying.

I have been.

Despite the adverse circumstances,

we are according to plan photographing various parts

of our galaxy from which we hope to obtain

a new perspective.

Captain Anderson to entire personnel,

please assemble on the A deck.

All contact with Earth Control has been broken off.

All contact with Central Earth Control

has been broken off as I've told you.

We are in complete isolation.

The magnetic receiver seems to be working perfectly.

John, try to make contact again.

Lunar Eagle 1 to Central Earth Control.

Our magnetic receiver is working.

Do you hear us, Central Earth Control?

Do here us, Central Earth Control?

(system alert blaring)

Look.

There's something.

[Dr. Ruskin] What is it?

[Dr. Orloff] Looks like hieroglyphics.

[Dr. Markonen] It's not Egyptian, not African.

[Dr. Vargas] It looks like oriental picture writing.

Could it be Chinese?

Do you wanna see?

Hideko.

It's incredible.

[Capt. John] Do you recognize it, Hideko,

is it something you understand?

It impossibly can't be.

[Capt. John] You know what it is?

Can you translate it for us, Hideko?

I don't know, I'll try.

I speak for the great coordinator, the moon,

we advise and warn you, return to earth at once,

you have done enough damage.

[Capt. John] Go on, go on, it's moving again.

You have been bombarding us for years incessantly.

Leave us in peace.

We read your mind, we know your every thought,

cannot speak as you do, we communicate by thought waves.

Fantastic.

But how do they live?

Where?

We live in a great sealed city below,

we are not enslaved by your earthly emotions,

greed, lust, passions of conquest.

We cannot allow you to stay here,

for it would only contaminate our perfect form of harmony.

Sigrid, Selim, is their fate known?

They are here, they say they are in love.

We are studying this curious emotion.

If we find that love turns to evil,

we will destroy them, you and your kind.

Remember, we have a power to immobilize you at will.

Oh, this is impossible, it must be a hoax.

These symbols could have been sent by an earth power

already secretly here on the moon.

A power that wishes to scare us away.

How do you feel about that?

Why asked me?

How should I know?

I don't believe there are any moon people, do you?

I'm convinced it's possible.

Someone could have made it all up to frighten us off.

Ridiculous.

(heavy breathing)

[Dr. Murata] Dr. Heinrich.

Look to Dr. Heinrich.

Hurry.

Everybody go below please.

Dr. Heinrich suffered from a heart attack.

Father, why did you do it?

How can I ever live down your crime.

I hate the name of Bernauer.

I cannot go on being Hamish Bernauer any longer.

What are you saying?

What do you mean?

(Dr. Heinrich mumbling)

You are the son of Bernauer,

the man who wiped out my entire family?

Yes.

Oh my God.

It haunted me all my life.

I did everything humanly possible

to make good for my crime.

Can you understand?

Can you still be my friend?

[Dr. Ruskin] Rest now.

The same symbols, translate it, please Hideko.

Strangers from Earth, before we depart,

we must have one thing, we will leave behind the two cats.

Cats have the most unusual appeal for us,

but unfortunately we have none here on the moon.

They interest us almost as much

as the two human beings who joined us.

Turn off, Luis.

[Dr. Ruskin] Do you think it's wise

to open those doors again for the two cats.

Well, I think so.

I'll go.

I'll go with you.

(intense music)

(cats meowing)

(cat screams)

(rocket blasts)

We left the surface of the moon at 6,700.

This decision was based on the warning,

which emanated from those mysterious symbols.

Even though we were in doubt

of the survival of Selim and Sigrid,

we had to make our quick decision

in order not to jeopardize our mission.

(rocket blasts)

Three hours and 10 minutes on flight,

we're right on the button, with just passed a neutral line

operating towards the Earth's gravitational pull.

(intense music)

(dog barking)

Take over.

John.

(Dr. Murata shouts)

(extinguisher blasting)

[Dr. Vargas] Hideko, Hideko.

It can't burn in there, no oxygen, quick thinking Luis.

I think the dog should have the medal.

That was a close one,

I better get up and relieve Ruskin.

We'll name the Madeira stone.

The oxygen fused into fire

when it came in contact with a gold.

Let me fix it for you.

No, it's not too bad.

Thank you.

(rocket blasts)

Lunar Eagle 1 to Central Earth Control.

Do you hear us, Central Earth Control?

[Control Operator] Earth Control to Lunar Eagle 1,

we hear you, we hear you Lunar Eagle 1.

We have your position.

Why did you leave the moon?

We had an urgent departure, please give us our position.

[Control Operator] Your position-

- Come in Central Earth Control, we've lost you,

we've lost you, Central Earth Control.

Come in.

Come in, Central Control.

I don't understand it, we've lost Earth contact completely.

Remember what the people on the moon said.

They have the power to immobilize us at will.

Well, don't say that.

But they said it, and it could be true.

(indistinct)

Lie down, Dr. Heinrich, there's nothing you can do now.

We're on our way back to Earth.

I missed the take off?

I missed it?

Lie down, please.

Please.

Navigator to captain.

Meteor clusters directly head, 0.3, 4.3.

(intense music)

Check.

Rod.

(Meteors shooting)

0.10 minus XZ.

Two swarms of meteor clusters,

one horizontal 10 degrees, vertical, 22 degrees.

Direct point of contact Lunar Eagle 1.

Over here Rod.

It's, no wait, wait.

(rocket blasts)

Try-

- [Capt. John] I can only try once.

Okay, wait, wait.

(meteors shooting)

0.5, 0.7 and five 10ths, I hope.

(rocket blasts)

(rocket blasts)

(rocket blasts)

[Dr. Markonen] We are all clear.

(Rod sighs)

Roddy, you did better than you ever did

in any isolation booth.

Isolation booth?

I guess our invention didn't work so good this time.

Your German scientists did not perfect it.

He's absolutely right.

You are brilliant, my boy, you're much better than I,

you saved us all, including him.

Me, I must still put my faith in the electronic brain.

There is no substitute for such a human brain.

(system alert blaring)

Markonen report, Vargas, check radar.

[Dr. Markonen] An unidentified object.

Nothing registers on radar.

Check the mechanical equipment.

All equipment okay.

(rocket blasts)

Captain Anderson to entire personnel,

(indistinct) reversal accomplished,

we are on orbit at 500 miles above Earth,

assemble on A deck, please.

(rocket blasts)

Hideko, get the TV camera ready to photograph Earth force.

[Dr. Murata] Yes, captain.

Luis, get the radio again.

[Dr. Vargas] Check.

No, thank you, thank you, I'll be fine.

Let me stand on my own two feet.

See?

I told you it's only a passing thing.

John, I feel that I must advise you.

There is something wrong, something unexplainable.

I know, I know, Markonen,

but everything is working perfectly on the ship.

I'm cold.

[Dr. Murdock] Me too.

[Dr. Orloff] Most unusual.

That's what I wanted to tell you, John.

Outside temperature reading

is 245 degrees below and still falling.

It's no wonder it's cold in here, it's 55 degrees.

Vargas, check the heat.

[Dr. Vargas] Check.

[Dr. Markonen] Captain, quick.

(intense music)

Vargas.

[Dr. Vargas] Why, this thing is moving,

from the north pole towards New York.

Captain Anderson.

I'm getting a reception, Captain Anderson.

Good.

It's a little blurry, but I think I clear the picture.

Well, that's some picture, nothing's moving.

Something must be jammed in the TV.

Try New York.

(thunder rumbling)

There is something wrong with it.

No, I checked carefully, the machine's in perfect order.

(thunder rumbling)

Incredible.

(thunder rumbling)

This is flash freezing, you guy's agree?

I agree.

By some scientific means, whoever they are,

they've found a way to freeze all molecular activity.

Those whizzing noises?

Yes.

In other words, they have frozen the lower atmosphere

by extracting all of (indistinct).

But how could that be possible?

Sounds very simple.

It is the principle of the hydrogen bomb in reverse.

I agree with you.

Through some superior device,

they found the means of achieving a glacier phenomenon.

Implosion bombs, that must have been

that strange noise we heard.

I somehow feel it's an earthy power.

Gentlemen, let's make no mistake,

our situation is extremely serious.

We are caught in orbit.

In order to survive, we have to remain

at our present altitude.

How long?

I don't know, until we find a solution.

Let's go to work.

[Dr. Vargas] John, I'm getting London.

[Reporter] Nothing like this has ever happened before,

for the past 10 hours,

the North American continent remains

in an isolation of silence.

No contact can be established by any means of communication

with either Canada or United States or Mexico.

In spite of the intense cold gripping the world,

the governing bodies of every other nation

are at this moment in extraordinary session,

determining measures to be taken.

Standby, we will keep you informed.

We now return to our regular program.

No wonder all communication is shut off.

I don't think we could even come down

out of our final orbit.

I'm afraid you're right, Luis.

We are insulated, we are safe in here.

Yes, but for how long?

I don't know.

We're operating now under automatic control.

How about the engines, Martel?

The engines?

The engines are overworked, it's only a matter of time

before the terrapins give out.

To have come so close to success.

Yes, this may work, it simply has to.

Listen, our emergency space taxi works on the atomic power.

Right.

We must have fashion a powerful atom bomb by assembling

and uniting a number of bomblets,

such as we used on the moon.

Two men, drawn by lot,

should pilot the taxi over a live volcano,

I'm think Popocatepetl of course.

And drop the bomb into the crater,

the result of the explosion might thall the big freeze.

Yes, but how will the space taxi

crash through the frozen atmosphere?

Penetration rocket.

As it disperses, the micrometeorite clouds,

it should break an opening for the space taxi to go through.

Yes, it could be piloted through frozen space, but-

- But we have to inform you

that it might disintegrate in the explosion.

That's why I said the two men should be drawn by a lot

because the chances to return

to the Lunar Eagle are quite remote.

John, it is worth the risk to break up the big freeze,

which paralyzes not only the country,

but the whole continent.

You know as I, this is our duty, our only hope.

And gentlemen, it's our only chance to accomplish

our mission and bring the ship back Earth.

Very well, we will make the bomb.

Careful now, don't drop it.

(Dr. Martel laughs)

There, it's ready.

Shall I tell the others it's okay now?

Yes, go ahead.

What are you doing?

I merely finished it.

You disconnected it, you crazy man.

But you don't understand, this is our chance.

Think.

If the North American continent were to remain frozen,

your greatest rival would be powerless.

I am one with you, don't you see?

This way we control the West, and ultimately the world.

What do you mean we?

You're not one of us?

I'm not only a scientist,

I'm also a human being, not an insane murderer.

You traitor.

I betray no one, particularly not myself.

I want to live too.

(intense music)

(Dr. Orloff hits)

Anderson, Anderson.

Anderson.

Anderson, help.

(Capt. John hits)

(Dr. Martel crashes)

He tried to sabotage the bomb.

Is it all right now?

All I have to do is reset the fuse.

Good.

I am one to go.

And I am the other.

None of us is free to choose his ancestors

or his deeds, good or bad.

God bless you all.

Till we meet again.

(light classical music)

This may complete the last portion of our space log

as recorded by Dr. David Ruskin.

At 06H00, Universal Time,

a space taxi, piloted by Dr. Erich Heinrich and myself,

will leave the Lunar Eagle to drop

atomic bomblets into the crater of the volcano,

Popocatepetl, in an attempt to break the big freeze.

This is Dr. Ruskin signing off.

(dog moans)

You take care off him, will you?

(intense music)

Dr. Ruskin to Captain Anderson.

Cabin pressure equal.

Ready for launch.

Penetration rocket.

(rocket launcher fires)

Ready.

(rocket launcher fires)

Leave it.

We'll be over the target in one minute and 12 seconds.

It's the first time you called me David.

I'm sorry, you're my partner in this, David,

I'd hope that you will carry on my work.

(rocket blasts)

You don't think we'll survive this?

I don't know.

If the bomb works, if we pulled out in time.

(rocket blasts)

Set the bomb release, David.

The bomb's ready.

We'll be over the target in 12 seconds.

Hold, of course.

Holding steady.

(rocket blasts)

Ready for release.

Five.

Four.

(rocket blasts)

Two.

One.

Zero.

(rocket blasts)

They've dropped it, Captain Anderson.

(rocket blasts)

(missile explodes)

It worked.

It worked.

Pull out, David, pull out.

I can't, it's pulling us down, I can't.

The bomb wasn't strong enough.

They're in trouble.

(rocket blasts)

What are we gonna do?

God bless you, David.

(rocket explodes)

(in foreign language)

It was the will of God.

I was afraid they wouldn't make it,

even though I prayed.

(system signal blaring)

John, john, we are caught in the big freeze.

Reverse.

[Dr. Murdock] It's so cold.

Switching back to chemical fuel.

It's no use, it won't work.

[Dr. Murdock] The freeze, it's filling the ship.

Invisibility is almost zero.

John, look, look.

We're frozen in space.

Hideko.

Hideko, the same symbol.

Will you translate them.

Vargas.

Hideko, please, please.

It says, now you have seen our strength,

but we have seen your human strength

in the way your people have sacrificed

themselves to save the others.

For those you left behind, we have also learned

that all your earthy emotions

are not evil and poor-like,

that you have come to us in peace.

Your people on Earth have been in suspended animation

and have not been harmed.

Return to Earth at once

and someday when you come back, you will be welcomed.

(light classical music)

[Control Operator] Lunar Eagle 1.

Lunar Eagle 1.

Do you hear me?

Captain Anderson, standby for the director of the ISO.

[ISO Director] Captain, I have no words

to expressed our feelings that you made it back.

Something most unusual has happened to us

in the last 16 hours, we cannot explain it.

You were lucky to have escaped it all.

Prepare for landing.