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[P.A. Chatter]

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[Crowd chatter]

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[Announcer] A wild new
cowboy on the move.

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He placed last night, second.
Going for first.

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[Audience cheers]

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How many y'all wanna see that replay?

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[Crowd cheering]

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Following cowboy in hot water.

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[Crowd gasps]

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Come on big Jake, show 'em how.

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Yeah.

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[Man] Mission sequence start.

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Engines on five, four...

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Three, two...

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[Cernan] I'm the luckiest
human being in the world.

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There... fire going.

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I don't go around living in the past,

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for the most part.

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But ever once in while

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you let yourself go back in time.

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I'll look up there...

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And I might just reflect

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for a half a minute or so.

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I can take myself there
at the speed of thought.

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[Schmitt] Okay, stand by for pitchover.

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[Cernan] Oh, are we coming in?

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Pitchover.

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[Schmitt] There it is. Proceeded.

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[Cernan] And there it is Houston.

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There's Camelot. Right on target.

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[Schmitt] I see it.

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[Cernan] We got 'em all. 42 degrees.

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[Schmitt] 25 feet per
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That's a little high, geno.

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[Cernan] Okay.

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[Schmitt] Very little dust.

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40 feet. Going down at three.

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[Cernan] Stand by for touchdown.

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[Schmitt] Stand by.

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20 feet.

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Going down at two. 10 feet.

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10 feet.

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And contact.

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Stop, push. Engine stop.

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Engine arm, proceed.
Command override, off.

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[Cernan] As soon as you hit the surface,

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the dust is gone, engine is shut down.

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There's no noise.

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You are magically in another world.

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It was the ultimate

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quiet moment in my life.

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Pure silence.

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[Cernan] Absolutely incredible.

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I spent a lot of time growing up

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on my grandparents' farm in Wisconsin.

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No electricity.

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No tractors, just horses.

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So my desire in life was

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to sometime have a ranch.

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[Cows mooing]

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

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

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He was a jack of all trades,

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

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or fix the plumbing in your bathroom,

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

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

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

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Barron?

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[Cernan] "Just do your best.

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And someday, I promise you.

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You're gonna surprise yourself."

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

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Only if I fall here, I break my butt.

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[Radio DJ] 1170 KCBQ, the
legendary gene cernan is with us.

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

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Because this is a big
navy town, as you know,

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and you spent time here.

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[Cernan] I tell ya, San Diego is--

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Is like another home.

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I spent my best years
coming out of Pensacola

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here in San Diego.

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[Cernan] From the time I was 22

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until I was 27, this was my life.

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In and out of San Diego,

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flying off aircraft carriers.

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This is where it all started for me.

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At that point, 22, 25,

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you're invincible
and you're bulletproof.

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There isn't anything you can't do,

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you know, risk be damned.

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The fact of life is,

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naval aviation is a risky process.

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You don't have much room for error.

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

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You live within that environment,

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you live within that culture,

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but you love it, and you keep doing it,

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and it doesn't discourage you,

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'cause it's not gonna happen to me.

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You know, it isn't gonna happen--

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It's always gonna
happen to the other guy.

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

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That was the attitude you had to have.

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- [Man] Is that you?
- [Cernan] Course it is.

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- [Man] That is you.
- [Cernan] Red hot naval aviator.

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Invincible, invisible, and bulletproof.

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- Remember?
- That's a stretch.

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[Laughs]

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[Cernan] There we are. That's it.

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

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- The diamond roll.
- [Man] There it is.

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

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[Man] I made my first cruise with gene

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

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It was constant competition.

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Who could land better on the carrier.

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Who could bomb better on the carrier.

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We used to grab airplanes

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and go up and tail chase
around the clouds.

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We were-- we were pretty
impressed with ourselves.

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We have big egos.

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But I think you have to have a big ego

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to be able to do
the intense type of flying

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that we were trained to do.

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When you land a plane on a carrier

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in the daytime is tricky enough.

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But when you do it at night,

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you're not thinking
about your girlfriend.

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

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I was-- I was dead serious.

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Now, cernan, who knows?

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Uh, he's kinda loose sometimes that way.

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Jesus. Now we got a fire.

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[Baldwin] If you think back

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when you and I were
in 113 together, okay?

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We flew together all the time,

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but were we competitive with each other?

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

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than you were right wing man.

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

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You were lucky if you
even hit the damn ground.

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Why were you so weak in bombing, gene?

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You were the weapons training officer.

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Baldy, it's 240,000 miles away.

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Anybody could hit that.

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[Cernan] And my C.E.P. Was 50 miles.

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[Baldwin] You were average in bombing.

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You were pretty good
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I knew you had a little fear at night.

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- [Laughs]
- Do I have to listen to this crap?

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

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[Indistinct chatter]

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I'm gonna make a circle over the field.

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But I'll come in behind you.

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[Cernan] Flying is a
big part of my life.

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[Radio chatter]

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You got to have a passion,

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a love for what you're doing,

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or you shouldn't be doing it.

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[Woman] I was an airline stewardess

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for continental airlines
and I lived in Los Angeles.

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

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I did not remember him,

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but he said I smiled at him

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and he just thought that I was great.

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And I thought later--

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I thought what he doesn't know,

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I have to smile at everybody

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because that was part of my job.

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The first time he came to my house.

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

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and it had kind of loud mufflers on it.

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I thought, "oh, my lord,

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he's a hot rod of some sort."

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[Growls]

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[Chuckles] She says she heard that

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when I pulled into the driveway.

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And she said, "oh, my god,
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[Chuckles]

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Well...

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[Butler] We were very much in love.

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He was everything
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And so we bought a home,

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and I started working.

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And I worked and then I worked

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up until I had Tracy,

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and that was two years
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He was great with her.

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He was really-- he was good,

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and crazy about her.

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He still is.

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That's his "punk."

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He calls her "punk."

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[Announcer] Man had his first
great success in space,

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when the Russians pushed a
man across the threshold.

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He was Yuri Gagarin,

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the astronaut the Russians lionized

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as the first to orbit the earth.

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It was the propaganda coup of the year.

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

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Commander Alan B. Shepard

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was sent into suborbital flight.

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Unlike the Russian venture,

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this took place in the white hot glare

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of world-wide publicity.

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[Cernan] It was period of time

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when America needed a hero desperately,

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and Alan became that hero
of the astronauts.

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The mercury seven
were the real pathfinders

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of what was to happen in the future,

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which none of us
really fully anticipated,

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especially me.

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[Crowd cheering]

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Many years ago,

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the great British explorer
George Mallory,

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who was to die on mount Everest,

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was asked why did he want to climb it.

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He said, "because it is there."

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Well, space is there.

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And we're going to climb it.

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And the moon and the planets are there.

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And new hopes for knowledge
and peace are there.

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And therefore, as we set sail,

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we ask god's blessing

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on the most hazardous, and dangerous,

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and greatest adventure

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on which man has ever embarked.

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Thank you.

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[Crowd applauds]

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[Man] I had two reactions.

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The man just placed

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a hell of a responsibility

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on we in the space program,

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but I was pleased to hear that--

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Very pleased to hear that.

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On the other hand,

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

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I thought he was crazy.

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[Man] We had a total of 20 minutes

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manned spaceflight experience.

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We had never been to orbit,

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and when were challenged
to go to the moon.

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And our president had the confidence

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to issue this challenge

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and he had the confidence
that we would do it.

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[Butler] I remember he was
so enthralled with that,

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

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

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

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But by the time I get good enough,

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by the time I get qualified,

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by the time I meet
all of their requirements,

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there won't be anything left to do.

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All the pioneering will be over.

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Don't ever shortchange yourself,

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you never ever know
what fate has in store.

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[Rings]

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I got a call out of the blue

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that NASA was looking for new astronauts

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and was I interested in applying?

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You bet I was.

263
00:18:00,183 --> 00:18:02,418
I was invited to Houston,

264
00:18:02,518 --> 00:18:05,521
but cautioned not to speak to anybody.

265
00:18:08,291 --> 00:18:11,594
I jumped into a cab, drove downtown.

266
00:18:11,694 --> 00:18:17,267
Checked into the old rice
hotel under a fake name.

267
00:18:17,367 --> 00:18:19,101
It was like I just stepped

268
00:18:19,202 --> 00:18:22,438
into some crazy spy movie.

269
00:18:22,538 --> 00:18:24,607
And who did I meet in the hotel bar,

270
00:18:24,707 --> 00:18:26,276
but a whole bunch

271
00:18:26,376 --> 00:18:28,444
of the greatest test pilots
in the country

272
00:18:28,544 --> 00:18:31,614
all checked in under the same name--

273
00:18:31,714 --> 00:18:34,284
Max peck.

274
00:18:34,384 --> 00:18:37,787
For the next few days, they threw
mountains of paperwork at us,

275
00:18:37,887 --> 00:18:40,856
and asked us questions
I knew nothing about.

276
00:18:43,659 --> 00:18:48,798
The next step was a
physical at San Antonio.

277
00:18:48,898 --> 00:18:51,467
I've never been subject
to anything like that

278
00:18:51,567 --> 00:18:52,735
in my entire life.

279
00:18:55,338 --> 00:18:57,240
Every cavity in your body

280
00:18:57,340 --> 00:18:58,808
had something stuck into it.

281
00:18:58,908 --> 00:19:01,311
[Man grunts]

282
00:19:01,411 --> 00:19:03,313
[Cernan] They put cold water in our ears

283
00:19:03,413 --> 00:19:06,316
and spun us around like a top.

284
00:19:06,416 --> 00:19:08,584
I was dizzier than a grasshopper.

285
00:19:11,354 --> 00:19:13,656
Then they put us in this idiot box

286
00:19:13,756 --> 00:19:17,327
to see how we could react
to the unknown.

287
00:19:17,427 --> 00:19:19,329
Up was no longer up, it was down.

288
00:19:19,429 --> 00:19:21,163
Red was green, green was red.

289
00:19:21,264 --> 00:19:23,333
Left was right.

290
00:19:23,433 --> 00:19:26,602
They did everything
possible to confuse us.

291
00:19:29,372 --> 00:19:30,673
And at the end of it all,

292
00:19:30,773 --> 00:19:33,843
all we were told to do was go home.

293
00:19:33,943 --> 00:19:37,280
"Don't call us. We'll call you."

294
00:19:37,380 --> 00:19:38,848
[Rings]

295
00:19:38,948 --> 00:19:41,183
When the phone rang,
it was my future boss,

296
00:19:41,284 --> 00:19:42,852
Deke Slayton.

297
00:19:42,952 --> 00:19:45,855
He said, "geno, we've got a job for you

298
00:19:45,955 --> 00:19:48,791
in Houston if you still want it."

299
00:19:48,891 --> 00:19:53,529
And of course from that point on,

300
00:19:53,629 --> 00:19:57,199
my life was changed forever.

301
00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:00,870
I just was selected
for the space program.

302
00:20:00,970 --> 00:20:02,305
Wow.

303
00:20:06,576 --> 00:20:09,379
* zoom a little zoom in a rocket ship *

304
00:20:09,479 --> 00:20:12,214
* off we go on a trip

305
00:20:12,315 --> 00:20:14,917
* heading for the moon
at a rocket clip *

306
00:20:15,017 --> 00:20:16,852
* we're gonna zoom zoom

307
00:20:16,952 --> 00:20:17,887
* rocket

308
00:20:17,987 --> 00:20:19,255
* zoom a little zoom

309
00:20:19,355 --> 00:20:21,223
* now we're almost free

310
00:20:21,324 --> 00:20:23,893
* from the earth's gravity

311
00:20:23,993 --> 00:20:27,397
* zooming to the moon
at terrific speed... *

312
00:20:27,497 --> 00:20:30,300
[cernan] We did all the
general training going in

313
00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,002
before we ever got assigned to a flight.

314
00:20:33,102 --> 00:20:34,937
We had desert survival.

315
00:20:35,037 --> 00:20:36,572
We did a little water survival.

316
00:20:36,672 --> 00:20:39,342
We did jungle survival.

317
00:20:40,943 --> 00:20:43,313
They gave us a fishhook and a machete

318
00:20:43,413 --> 00:20:45,315
and dropped us in a helicopter

319
00:20:45,415 --> 00:20:46,782
somewhere out in the
middle of the jungle

320
00:20:46,882 --> 00:20:48,984
in panama.

321
00:20:49,084 --> 00:20:50,920
All that survival training,

322
00:20:51,020 --> 00:20:54,757
it teaches you something about yourself.

323
00:20:54,857 --> 00:20:57,660
Most of us had technical
engineering backgrounds

324
00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,295
of one kind or another,

325
00:20:59,395 --> 00:21:01,664
but we were starting
school all over again.

326
00:21:01,764 --> 00:21:05,801
Orbital mechanics, which I
knew absolutely nothing about.

327
00:21:05,901 --> 00:21:09,839
Geology, which I really knew
little or nothing about.

328
00:21:11,874 --> 00:21:17,046
We were doing something
somewhere all the time.

329
00:21:17,146 --> 00:21:18,581
[Butler] They'd go to
work in the mornings

330
00:21:18,681 --> 00:21:20,450
and come home late.

331
00:21:20,550 --> 00:21:21,817
And this was before they
were training for a mission.

332
00:21:21,917 --> 00:21:23,719
They were just getting their feet wet

333
00:21:23,819 --> 00:21:26,722
at that particular time.

334
00:21:26,822 --> 00:21:28,724
And we were bombarded

335
00:21:28,824 --> 00:21:31,861
with photographers and press,

336
00:21:31,961 --> 00:21:35,965
and, you know, it was like a whirlwind.

337
00:21:36,065 --> 00:21:37,667
[Cernan] It was fame.

338
00:21:37,767 --> 00:21:42,071
Wasn't necessarily fortune,
but it was fame,

339
00:21:42,171 --> 00:21:46,041
and you had to learn
how to deal with it.

340
00:21:46,141 --> 00:21:48,077
I mean, you walked around with--

341
00:21:48,177 --> 00:21:50,346
With a halo over your head.

342
00:21:50,446 --> 00:21:51,547
You were special.

343
00:22:29,184 --> 00:22:33,022
[Cernan] One day, they
say very confidentially,

344
00:22:33,122 --> 00:22:35,958
we're gonna set up an appointment
for you to get fitted

345
00:22:36,058 --> 00:22:37,793
for a suit...

346
00:22:37,893 --> 00:22:39,929
For a space suit.

347
00:22:40,029 --> 00:22:41,063
I mean, all of a sudden.

348
00:22:41,163 --> 00:22:42,965
Wow.

349
00:22:45,134 --> 00:22:46,969
You don't know what
that's going to lead to,

350
00:22:47,069 --> 00:22:48,638
but you know what it means.

351
00:22:52,942 --> 00:22:55,044
In the fall of 1965,

352
00:22:55,144 --> 00:22:58,013
the Gemini 9 crew was announced.

353
00:22:58,113 --> 00:23:02,452
Charlie Bassett was
going to be the prime pilot

354
00:23:02,552 --> 00:23:04,119
with Elliot see,

355
00:23:04,219 --> 00:23:06,956
and Tom Stafford and I were
gonna be the backup crew.

356
00:23:09,224 --> 00:23:12,027
And charlie and I were
doing the same thing.

357
00:23:12,127 --> 00:23:14,764
We flew together.
We went places together.

358
00:23:14,864 --> 00:23:16,499
We trained together.

359
00:23:16,599 --> 00:23:18,668
We did everything together

360
00:23:18,768 --> 00:23:22,738
that our side of the
spacecraft had to do.

361
00:23:22,838 --> 00:23:24,774
So we got to be pretty good friends.

362
00:23:31,180 --> 00:23:36,719
And then in February of '66

363
00:23:36,819 --> 00:23:39,522
the totally unexpected happened.

364
00:23:50,232 --> 00:23:52,167
[Man] I heard this big crash.

365
00:23:52,267 --> 00:23:54,704
And then a few seconds
later, this big explosion,

366
00:23:54,804 --> 00:23:57,039
a big black cloud mushroomed up

367
00:23:57,139 --> 00:23:59,642
and parts from the airplane
just flew everywhere.

368
00:23:59,742 --> 00:24:01,143
No chance to do anything
for the two men?

369
00:24:01,243 --> 00:24:02,812
No. None. Not at all.

370
00:24:05,648 --> 00:24:06,716
[Reporter] Minutes after the crash,

371
00:24:06,816 --> 00:24:08,017
the Gemini 9 backup crew

372
00:24:08,117 --> 00:24:10,219
of Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford

373
00:24:10,319 --> 00:24:11,587
came in safely from Houston

374
00:24:11,687 --> 00:24:12,788
in a similar jet.

375
00:24:12,888 --> 00:24:13,923
And tonight NASA announces

376
00:24:14,023 --> 00:24:15,858
they now become the prime crew

377
00:24:15,958 --> 00:24:17,092
for the Gemini 9 flight.

378
00:24:21,997 --> 00:24:25,034
[Butler] That was just
a devastating time.

379
00:24:25,134 --> 00:24:28,704
It was just horrible.

380
00:24:28,804 --> 00:24:30,005
You just realized then I guess

381
00:24:30,105 --> 00:24:31,774
how close it can be.

382
00:24:35,811 --> 00:24:38,047
- [Man] Aim.
- [Gunshots]

383
00:24:38,147 --> 00:24:39,048
[Man] Aim.

384
00:24:39,148 --> 00:24:40,516
- [Gunshots]
- Aim.

385
00:24:40,616 --> 00:24:42,852
[Gunshots continue]

386
00:24:45,054 --> 00:24:47,189
[Man] It was very traumatic at the time.

387
00:24:47,289 --> 00:24:49,892
But then we had a job to do,

388
00:24:49,992 --> 00:24:53,062
to go on and fly the mission.

389
00:24:53,162 --> 00:24:55,898
And we had a short period
of time to do it.

390
00:24:55,998 --> 00:24:58,033
I'd had a lot of experience in Gemini.

391
00:24:58,133 --> 00:25:01,503
Gene had no experience in Gemini.

392
00:25:01,604 --> 00:25:02,605
So we had to concentrate

393
00:25:02,705 --> 00:25:04,139
on getting him up to speed

394
00:25:04,239 --> 00:25:06,576
on all the procedures and techniques

395
00:25:06,676 --> 00:25:08,110
and the duties he had.

396
00:25:14,784 --> 00:25:19,555
Suddenly, after this accident,

397
00:25:19,655 --> 00:25:22,124
I found myself on my very first flight.

398
00:25:24,794 --> 00:25:28,263
[Launch control]
This is Gemini launch control.

399
00:25:28,363 --> 00:25:29,765
T-minus ten...

400
00:25:29,865 --> 00:25:31,667
Nine... eight...

401
00:25:31,767 --> 00:25:33,535
Seven... six...

402
00:25:33,636 --> 00:25:35,204
Five... four...

403
00:25:35,304 --> 00:25:37,072
Three...

404
00:25:37,172 --> 00:25:39,575
One... zero.

405
00:25:39,675 --> 00:25:41,043
We have ignition.

406
00:26:29,759 --> 00:26:32,962
[Cernan] The real world's
got a lot of surprises

407
00:26:33,062 --> 00:26:36,899
and we found a great many
of them on Gemini 9.

408
00:26:46,141 --> 00:26:49,044
When I stepped out of that spacecraft,

409
00:26:49,144 --> 00:26:51,714
we were really headed out
into the unknown.

410
00:26:55,685 --> 00:26:58,954
The umbilical was about 25 feet long

411
00:26:59,054 --> 00:27:01,123
and it was-- it was like a snake.

412
00:27:03,192 --> 00:27:05,160
If it brought me back to the spacecraft,

413
00:27:05,260 --> 00:27:07,763
I'd hit it with my foot or my arm

414
00:27:07,863 --> 00:27:10,132
or my helmet or whatever,

415
00:27:10,232 --> 00:27:13,002
and I'd go tumbling back out.

416
00:27:13,102 --> 00:27:15,137
I mean, I was upside down, sideways--

417
00:27:15,237 --> 00:27:16,906
The earth might have been up here,

418
00:27:17,006 --> 00:27:18,841
it might have been down there.
I don't know.

419
00:27:18,941 --> 00:27:22,011
I was just helpless.

420
00:27:22,111 --> 00:27:24,379
[Radio chatter]

421
00:27:37,326 --> 00:27:40,395
I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing

422
00:27:40,495 --> 00:27:43,933
and it isn't working.

423
00:27:44,033 --> 00:27:46,168
And it isn't going to go away
unless something--

424
00:27:46,268 --> 00:27:48,070
I do something about it,

425
00:27:48,170 --> 00:27:51,106
and I wasn't sure what the
next step was going to be.

426
00:27:54,043 --> 00:27:58,748
[Radio chatter]

427
00:28:02,818 --> 00:28:04,787
Once I got behind the spacecraft,

428
00:28:04,887 --> 00:28:08,690
the umbilical was not my problem.

429
00:28:08,791 --> 00:28:12,361
My task was to basically
assemble the jetpack.

430
00:28:14,229 --> 00:28:16,398
I had to turn oxygen valves on

431
00:28:16,498 --> 00:28:18,801
and fuel valves.

432
00:28:18,901 --> 00:28:22,872
And every time I turned them,

433
00:28:22,972 --> 00:28:25,207
off I would go back into space.

434
00:28:30,212 --> 00:28:32,481
[Stafford] We had no proper handholds.

435
00:28:32,581 --> 00:28:34,917
The foot restraints,

436
00:28:35,017 --> 00:28:36,385
tethers-- any of that.

437
00:28:36,485 --> 00:28:38,788
[Panting]

438
00:28:38,888 --> 00:28:41,056
[Cernan] I was working pretty hard.

439
00:28:41,156 --> 00:28:44,393
My heart rate was 160, 170.

440
00:28:45,928 --> 00:28:48,163
I knew it. The ground knew it.

441
00:28:48,263 --> 00:28:51,934
I knew I was driving
the doctors bananas down there

442
00:28:52,034 --> 00:28:55,070
because they've never confronted
this type of thing before.

443
00:28:57,807 --> 00:29:00,776
Don't forget, the spacecraft
is going around the world

444
00:29:00,876 --> 00:29:01,977
once every 90 minutes.

445
00:29:05,114 --> 00:29:07,182
[Stafford] And the moment
the sun went down,

446
00:29:07,282 --> 00:29:09,184
he fogged over,

447
00:29:09,284 --> 00:29:10,853
so he could not see.

448
00:29:21,196 --> 00:29:25,400
[Kranz] It was very frustrating
here on the ground,

449
00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:28,537
listening to gene and
knowing he was in trouble,

450
00:29:28,637 --> 00:29:32,107
but there was nothing
I could do about it.

451
00:29:32,207 --> 00:29:34,844
His body temperature was increasing.

452
00:29:34,944 --> 00:29:37,446
Deep core temperature was increasing.

453
00:29:50,459 --> 00:29:52,127
[Houston] Okay, we have that. Roger.

454
00:29:52,227 --> 00:29:55,865
We concur on the no-go.

455
00:29:55,965 --> 00:30:00,002
[Kranz] It was the process
of really coming to grips

456
00:30:00,102 --> 00:30:02,104
for the first time

457
00:30:02,204 --> 00:30:03,372
that there was something

458
00:30:03,472 --> 00:30:06,575
about this element of space flight

459
00:30:06,675 --> 00:30:10,846
that we did not have
a good handle on yet.

460
00:30:10,946 --> 00:30:14,083
We had many lessons
to learn along the way.

461
00:30:23,492 --> 00:30:28,197
[Cernan] I was really disappointed,

462
00:30:28,297 --> 00:30:32,534
because I was sent up to do a job

463
00:30:32,634 --> 00:30:35,437
and I didn't get it done.

464
00:30:40,342 --> 00:30:41,911
[Kraft] Tom Stafford did a great job.

465
00:30:42,011 --> 00:30:45,114
Cernan himself did a great job,

466
00:30:45,214 --> 00:30:47,917
but they did have some tough moments,

467
00:30:48,017 --> 00:30:49,451
and we learned a lot from that.

468
00:30:51,987 --> 00:30:54,523
It was Cernan's failures

469
00:30:54,623 --> 00:30:57,359
that caused us
to eventually do it right.

470
00:31:40,602 --> 00:31:42,071
[Cernan] We moved in this house

471
00:31:42,171 --> 00:31:45,907
when Tracy was nine months old...

472
00:31:46,008 --> 00:31:50,012
In 1964.

473
00:31:50,112 --> 00:31:52,347
House is almost 50 years old.

474
00:31:52,447 --> 00:31:54,583
This neighborhood's almost 50 years old.

475
00:31:54,683 --> 00:31:58,253
There wasn't much here.

476
00:31:58,353 --> 00:32:00,522
On the corner was Mike Collins.

477
00:32:00,622 --> 00:32:04,359
Charlie Bassett, Al Bean
lived down the street.

478
00:32:04,459 --> 00:32:08,063
Rusty Schweickart lived here.

479
00:32:08,163 --> 00:32:10,332
That little house right there

480
00:32:10,432 --> 00:32:11,933
has a lot of history in the walls,

481
00:32:12,034 --> 00:32:13,202
if they could only talk.

482
00:32:26,448 --> 00:32:28,717
* here we are again

483
00:32:28,817 --> 00:32:31,620
* happy as can be

484
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,122
* all good pals

485
00:32:33,222 --> 00:32:35,290
* and jolly good company

486
00:32:35,390 --> 00:32:37,059
[butler] We were all pretty close,

487
00:32:37,159 --> 00:32:39,628
but I think I was probably
closer to Martha Chaffee.

488
00:32:39,728 --> 00:32:40,962
She lived next door to me,

489
00:32:41,063 --> 00:32:42,197
and she and I were very close.

490
00:32:42,297 --> 00:32:44,499
Oh, we were always back and forth,

491
00:32:44,599 --> 00:32:47,469
I mean, between our houses.

492
00:32:47,569 --> 00:32:49,638
And we did go to the same hairdresser,

493
00:32:49,738 --> 00:32:51,106
and we'd have lunch,

494
00:32:51,206 --> 00:32:54,343
and the normal things that women do.

495
00:32:54,443 --> 00:32:56,011
We were like sisters.

496
00:32:56,111 --> 00:32:58,580
* whoops we go again

497
00:32:58,680 --> 00:32:59,748
* la-di-da-di-da

498
00:32:59,848 --> 00:33:02,584
we were already close, I think.

499
00:33:02,684 --> 00:33:04,686
We're all vying to be first guy

500
00:33:04,786 --> 00:33:07,022
to land on the moon, obviously.

501
00:33:07,122 --> 00:33:10,159
But we were very close
in our social activities,

502
00:33:10,259 --> 00:33:12,327
our training activities,

503
00:33:12,427 --> 00:33:16,331
and so it was a small band of brothers.

504
00:33:16,431 --> 00:33:17,999
* jolly good company

505
00:33:20,335 --> 00:33:23,405
we'd have a drink together occasionally.

506
00:33:23,505 --> 00:33:26,241
I won't go into any more details.

507
00:33:26,341 --> 00:33:28,443
* such good company

508
00:33:28,543 --> 00:33:30,445
* la-di-da-di-da

509
00:33:30,545 --> 00:33:34,216
* hey, la-di-da-di-dee

510
00:33:34,316 --> 00:33:37,319
[Chaffee] I don't want to
sound like they were wild,

511
00:33:37,419 --> 00:33:39,554
but they were a little crazy.

512
00:33:39,654 --> 00:33:41,156
[Chuckles]

513
00:33:41,256 --> 00:33:43,125
[Laughs]

514
00:33:43,225 --> 00:33:46,095
Oh, I don't know about
"the wild bunch" or not,

515
00:33:46,195 --> 00:33:47,362
but I'd like to think

516
00:33:47,462 --> 00:33:49,198
we worked hard and we played hard.

517
00:33:49,298 --> 00:33:51,333
* jolly good company, hey

518
00:33:51,433 --> 00:33:53,768
* jolly good company

519
00:33:53,868 --> 00:33:56,438
* jolly good company

520
00:33:56,538 --> 00:33:58,740
* jolly good company, hey

521
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,509
* jolly good company

522
00:34:02,811 --> 00:34:05,147
we all got along well.

523
00:34:05,247 --> 00:34:07,149
We liked some people better than others,

524
00:34:07,249 --> 00:34:08,650
just like any group.

525
00:34:08,750 --> 00:34:11,220
We were all trying to do the same thing.

526
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,722
We were willing to make sacrifices

527
00:34:13,822 --> 00:34:17,159
to achieve the dream
of getting to the moon.

528
00:34:17,259 --> 00:34:19,294
But we knew going in

529
00:34:19,394 --> 00:34:21,230
that some people weren't gonna make it.

530
00:34:31,173 --> 00:34:33,442
[Kraft] We do everything we possibly can

531
00:34:33,542 --> 00:34:35,144
to make sure that it is as safe

532
00:34:35,244 --> 00:34:36,778
as we can possibly make it.

533
00:34:36,878 --> 00:34:38,647
But one of these days,

534
00:34:38,747 --> 00:34:40,715
there are going to be
some mistakes made,

535
00:34:40,815 --> 00:34:44,419
either in the systems design
or we on the ground,

536
00:34:44,519 --> 00:34:46,421
which result in an accident

537
00:34:46,521 --> 00:34:48,357
and maybe a fatal one.

538
00:34:56,298 --> 00:34:57,766
[Announcer] We interrupt this program

539
00:34:57,866 --> 00:35:00,669
to bring you a special
report from ABC news.

540
00:35:00,769 --> 00:35:04,773
There's been a fire on the pad.

541
00:35:04,873 --> 00:35:07,209
What happened? They're dead.

542
00:35:11,746 --> 00:35:13,215
Top space agency officials

543
00:35:13,315 --> 00:35:15,184
are flying to cape Kennedy tonight

544
00:35:15,284 --> 00:35:16,651
to begin the official investigation

545
00:35:16,751 --> 00:35:18,587
into what caused the flash fire

546
00:35:18,687 --> 00:35:20,755
that killed the nation's first
three Apollo astronauts

547
00:35:20,855 --> 00:35:22,123
earlier tonight.

548
00:35:22,224 --> 00:35:25,227
Lieutenant colonel Gus Grissom, 42;

549
00:35:25,327 --> 00:35:27,362
Lieutenant colonel ed white, 36;

550
00:35:27,462 --> 00:35:30,131
And lieutenant commander
roger Chaffee, 31;

551
00:35:30,232 --> 00:35:31,766
All died in moments,

552
00:35:31,866 --> 00:35:34,403
helplessly trapped
inside their spacecraft.

553
00:35:40,542 --> 00:35:45,314
I was sitting
at that console right there

554
00:35:45,414 --> 00:35:49,651
when Grissom, Chaffee,
and white were killed.

555
00:35:49,751 --> 00:35:51,853
I listened to them die.

556
00:36:00,395 --> 00:36:04,333
[Chaffee] That evening,
January 27th, a Friday,

557
00:36:04,433 --> 00:36:08,937
I was giving my kids hot dogs...

558
00:36:09,037 --> 00:36:11,906
And then somebody said
there'd been an accident.

559
00:36:14,376 --> 00:36:18,413
So when Mike Collins finally came...

560
00:36:18,513 --> 00:36:22,751
To the door and I saw him, I knew.

561
00:36:22,851 --> 00:36:23,852
I knew already.

562
00:36:23,952 --> 00:36:28,957
I said, "I know, mike, but...

563
00:36:29,057 --> 00:36:30,425
You've got to tell me."

564
00:36:32,261 --> 00:36:33,862
And he did.

565
00:36:33,962 --> 00:36:37,532
And I took my children into the--

566
00:36:40,535 --> 00:36:42,304
I'm sorry.

567
00:36:44,373 --> 00:36:46,941
I took my children into the bedroom,

568
00:36:47,041 --> 00:36:49,210
and trying to tell...

569
00:36:51,780 --> 00:36:54,816
An eight-year-old and a five-year-old

570
00:36:54,916 --> 00:36:57,352
that they're dad wasn't coming home,

571
00:36:57,452 --> 00:36:58,887
it's hard.

572
00:37:03,057 --> 00:37:05,727
[Cernan] And I went home and...

573
00:37:05,827 --> 00:37:06,995
Pulled in my driveway,

574
00:37:07,095 --> 00:37:08,330
still in the flight suit.

575
00:37:08,430 --> 00:37:09,764
Cars all over the street.

576
00:37:12,934 --> 00:37:15,837
NASA security around.

577
00:37:15,937 --> 00:37:18,340
Walked right across the lawn

578
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:19,774
to Martha's house.

579
00:37:23,512 --> 00:37:26,581
I dreaded--

580
00:37:26,681 --> 00:37:28,783
I dreaded the moment.

581
00:37:48,102 --> 00:37:49,604
Arlington.

582
00:37:49,704 --> 00:37:54,343
Cold January day.

583
00:37:54,443 --> 00:37:57,579
I wasn't sure whether we were
burying three of our colleagues

584
00:37:57,679 --> 00:38:01,282
or whether we were burying
the entire Apollo program.

585
00:38:09,491 --> 00:38:11,926
Because we knew the Chaffees so well,

586
00:38:12,026 --> 00:38:16,931
I was asked to stay with Martha.

587
00:38:17,031 --> 00:38:20,034
And I did.

588
00:38:20,134 --> 00:38:23,805
Sat next to her at the cemetery.

589
00:38:23,905 --> 00:38:26,708
How she held her composure,

590
00:38:26,808 --> 00:38:28,042
I don't know.

591
00:38:49,030 --> 00:38:50,799
Good-bye, my friend.

592
00:39:07,616 --> 00:39:10,084
[Kranz] The Apollo 1 fire
changed us forever...

593
00:39:11,686 --> 00:39:14,923
And we've never forgotten it.

594
00:39:15,023 --> 00:39:17,792
In our business of space flight,

595
00:39:17,892 --> 00:39:20,462
risk is the price of progress.

596
00:39:58,567 --> 00:40:00,435
* and the sign said

597
00:40:00,535 --> 00:40:02,504
* long-haired freaky people *

598
00:40:02,604 --> 00:40:05,039
* need not apply...

599
00:40:05,139 --> 00:40:06,908
[Cernan] The world was in a mess,

600
00:40:07,008 --> 00:40:09,944
the country was in a mess,

601
00:40:10,044 --> 00:40:14,415
but this was going on
out there somewhere.

602
00:40:14,516 --> 00:40:16,084
Maybe we were a little cocoon

603
00:40:16,184 --> 00:40:17,919
in the middle of this big world of ours.

604
00:40:18,019 --> 00:40:21,623
* so I took off my hat
and said imagine that... *

605
00:40:21,723 --> 00:40:24,859
[Lovell] You know, we
had a mission to do--

606
00:40:24,959 --> 00:40:26,895
Astronauts, engineers,

607
00:40:26,995 --> 00:40:29,631
all sorts of people working for NASA,

608
00:40:29,731 --> 00:40:31,866
all working towards the same goal.

609
00:40:31,966 --> 00:40:37,539
* can't you read the sign

610
00:40:42,544 --> 00:40:45,547
[cernan] Man, I was working my butt off,

611
00:40:45,647 --> 00:40:47,982
and I never really appreciated

612
00:40:48,082 --> 00:40:50,919
what was going on at home.

613
00:40:51,019 --> 00:40:54,088
[Butler] I think the wives
played an important part

614
00:40:54,188 --> 00:40:56,958
because we did everything
when they weren't there,

615
00:40:57,058 --> 00:40:59,594
which they weren't there
most of the time.

616
00:40:59,694 --> 00:41:00,962
I think he'd be the first to tell you

617
00:41:01,062 --> 00:41:02,997
that I pulled my share of the load.

618
00:41:05,066 --> 00:41:07,235
[Cernan] They'd been home
taking care of the kids.

619
00:41:07,335 --> 00:41:08,703
Paying the bills,

620
00:41:08,803 --> 00:41:10,204
seeing the kids get to school

621
00:41:10,304 --> 00:41:12,941
and do their homework.

622
00:41:13,041 --> 00:41:17,245
We were unfair. We were selfish.

623
00:41:17,345 --> 00:41:19,914
[Bean] We were not very good husbands.

624
00:41:20,014 --> 00:41:22,751
We weren't very good fathers either.

625
00:41:22,851 --> 00:41:25,186
And sometimes you can't balance things

626
00:41:25,286 --> 00:41:27,021
like work and family.

627
00:41:27,121 --> 00:41:30,559
Like, we had-- this is how the work is

628
00:41:30,659 --> 00:41:32,694
and the family is way down here.

629
00:41:32,794 --> 00:41:34,128
If you didn't do this,

630
00:41:34,228 --> 00:41:36,798
you weren't gonna stay as an astronaut.

631
00:41:36,898 --> 00:41:38,132
That's simple.

632
00:41:38,232 --> 00:41:40,034
We weren't interested in this.

633
00:41:40,134 --> 00:41:42,036
We were interested in this.

634
00:42:16,871 --> 00:42:18,139
[Cernan] We're gonna
be the second flight

635
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,275
to ever go to the moon--

636
00:42:21,375 --> 00:42:24,012
Stafford, young, and myself.

637
00:42:24,112 --> 00:42:28,182
We're gonna get on a big ol' Saturn V.

638
00:42:28,282 --> 00:42:30,719
It was a big chunk to swallow.

639
00:42:32,754 --> 00:42:33,922
[Reporter] You're sitting on the top

640
00:42:34,022 --> 00:42:37,759
of 2,740 tons of equivalent TNT.

641
00:42:37,859 --> 00:42:40,995
Do you know fear or apprehension?

642
00:42:41,095 --> 00:42:44,298
I didn't before you told me
it was that much TNT.

643
00:43:06,187 --> 00:43:08,189
[Cernan] The last couple
of days before launch

644
00:43:08,289 --> 00:43:10,692
get pretty intense.

645
00:43:13,895 --> 00:43:15,897
[Butler] It is a very personal time,

646
00:43:15,997 --> 00:43:18,933
and it was a very loving time.

647
00:43:19,033 --> 00:43:21,703
You realize that unless god's willing,

648
00:43:21,803 --> 00:43:23,672
I might not ever see you again,

649
00:43:23,772 --> 00:43:27,241
or he might not see us again.

650
00:43:27,341 --> 00:43:29,043
What if doesn't come back?

651
00:43:35,116 --> 00:43:36,718
[Cernan] The night before I flew,

652
00:43:36,818 --> 00:43:40,321
I wrote a letter to Tracy just in case.

653
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:50,231
"To my dar-- darling daughter, Tracy.

654
00:43:50,331 --> 00:43:55,303
Trace, you're almost
too young to understand

655
00:43:55,403 --> 00:44:00,108
what it means to have your
daddy go to the moon.

656
00:44:00,208 --> 00:44:01,910
But someday,

657
00:44:02,010 --> 00:44:05,213
you'll have the feeling
of excitement and pride

658
00:44:05,313 --> 00:44:07,648
that mommy and daddy do.

659
00:44:07,749 --> 00:44:11,686
Punk, we have lots of camping

660
00:44:11,786 --> 00:44:16,424
and horseback riding to do
when I get back.

661
00:44:16,524 --> 00:44:18,893
I want you to look at the moon,

662
00:44:18,993 --> 00:44:21,395
because when you are reading this,

663
00:44:21,495 --> 00:44:26,067
daddy is almost there.

664
00:44:26,167 --> 00:44:28,002
I love you Tracy.

665
00:44:28,102 --> 00:44:31,139
My wonderful...

666
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,808
And beautiful daughter.

667
00:44:33,908 --> 00:44:35,076
All my love."

668
00:44:51,359 --> 00:44:52,794
You don't sleep that well,

669
00:44:52,894 --> 00:44:55,764
you get up fairly early in the morning.

670
00:44:55,864 --> 00:44:57,866
You have your traditional breakfast.

671
00:45:05,073 --> 00:45:06,474
Then you go down and get suited up.

672
00:45:09,510 --> 00:45:12,280
You've been suited up
a thousand times before

673
00:45:12,380 --> 00:45:16,284
for all kinds of tests
and what have you.

674
00:45:16,384 --> 00:45:18,119
This is for real.

675
00:45:29,097 --> 00:45:32,333
The worst part of it all
is just waiting.

676
00:45:41,175 --> 00:45:44,412
And then at last it's-- it's time to go.

677
00:45:48,817 --> 00:45:50,819
Your adrenaline is pumping pretty strong

678
00:45:50,919 --> 00:45:52,320
at that point in time.

679
00:45:56,090 --> 00:45:59,493
You know, you can hear yourself
breathe inside that suit.

680
00:46:08,336 --> 00:46:10,504
[Applause]

681
00:46:14,142 --> 00:46:17,211
[Man] T-minus 33 minutes and 30 seconds.

682
00:46:17,311 --> 00:46:21,182
33 minutes until the scheduled
liftoff of Apollo 10.

683
00:46:21,282 --> 00:46:22,550
This Saturn V, by the way,

684
00:46:22,650 --> 00:46:25,319
is the most powerful
Saturn V ever to fly,

685
00:46:25,419 --> 00:46:30,024
with 7,700,000 pounds
of first stage power...

686
00:46:30,124 --> 00:46:31,125
[Mission control]
Two minutes and counting.

687
00:46:31,225 --> 00:46:32,961
Our status board indicates

688
00:46:33,061 --> 00:46:35,063
here in the control room...

689
00:46:38,532 --> 00:46:41,836
[Cernan] It's no longer
something you're gonna do.

690
00:46:41,936 --> 00:46:45,139
It's something that's happening.

691
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:51,145
It's happening right now to you.

692
00:46:51,245 --> 00:46:54,415
[Radio chatter continues]

693
00:47:24,612 --> 00:47:27,515
Everything intensifies.

694
00:47:29,650 --> 00:47:31,519
[Mission control]
...Seconds and counting.

695
00:47:31,619 --> 00:47:34,923
We are go for our mission
to the moon at this time...

696
00:47:36,690 --> 00:47:39,027
[Cernan] But the clock keeps going.

697
00:47:39,127 --> 00:47:41,029
[Chatter continues]

698
00:47:41,129 --> 00:47:43,197
All systems are performing
satisfactorily.

699
00:47:43,297 --> 00:47:48,136
All the last minute countdown
checks are proceeding okay.

700
00:47:51,072 --> 00:47:53,307
[Cernan] This is it. This is for real.

701
00:47:56,077 --> 00:47:57,545
That thing's gonna light off under you

702
00:47:57,645 --> 00:47:59,613
and you're gonna
head on out to the moon.

703
00:48:01,649 --> 00:48:04,085
[Mission control] 15... 14...

704
00:48:04,185 --> 00:48:06,654
13... 12... 11...

705
00:48:06,754 --> 00:48:08,389
Ten... nine...

706
00:48:08,489 --> 00:48:11,892
We have ignition sequence start.

707
00:48:11,993 --> 00:48:13,661
And five... four...

708
00:48:13,761 --> 00:48:15,663
Three... two...

709
00:48:15,763 --> 00:48:18,266
All engines running.

710
00:48:18,366 --> 00:48:20,301
Launch, commence liftoff.

711
00:48:20,401 --> 00:48:24,005
We have liftoff,
49 minutes past the hour.

712
00:48:42,023 --> 00:48:43,191
[Mission control] You're go staging 10.

713
00:48:43,291 --> 00:48:45,559
[Stafford] roger. 10 is go.

714
00:48:45,659 --> 00:48:47,195
Inboard shutdown.

715
00:49:03,677 --> 00:49:07,115
[Cernan] What a ride. What a ride.

716
00:49:07,215 --> 00:49:10,251
[Mission control] That's gene
cernan reporting, "what a ride."

717
00:49:37,111 --> 00:49:38,679
[Cernan] It was America
that was going to the moon,

718
00:49:38,779 --> 00:49:42,516
but the fact of life,
it was 20th century humanity

719
00:49:42,616 --> 00:49:43,651
that was going to the moon.

720
00:49:43,751 --> 00:49:45,653
The entire world was on board

721
00:49:45,753 --> 00:49:47,288
that spacecraft with us.

722
00:49:49,557 --> 00:49:54,128
- [Man] Station point one.
- [Man] roger.

723
00:49:54,228 --> 00:49:56,164
Looking good intermediate zone.

724
00:50:07,741 --> 00:50:11,612
Apollo 10, Houston, do you read?

725
00:50:11,712 --> 00:50:14,748
[Houston] roger.

726
00:50:14,848 --> 00:50:17,585
10, you're go for pyro arm
and go for sep.

727
00:50:17,685 --> 00:50:20,154
[Young] roger.

728
00:50:22,523 --> 00:50:23,757
[Stafford] We have sep.

729
00:50:27,295 --> 00:50:29,663
The world is incredible.

730
00:50:29,763 --> 00:50:32,300
I sure hope we can show
it to you, I really do.

731
00:50:36,104 --> 00:50:40,341
[Cernan] You're part of this
big thing that's going on,

732
00:50:40,441 --> 00:50:42,376
and yet you don't realize

733
00:50:42,476 --> 00:50:44,278
how big a thing it is, quite frankly.

734
00:50:46,414 --> 00:50:49,117
You don't fully comprehend it all.

735
00:50:55,589 --> 00:50:58,659
[Radio chatter]

736
00:51:10,538 --> 00:51:14,442
[Man] 10, Houston, 22 looks good to us.

737
00:51:14,542 --> 00:51:17,511
I gotta check the thrusters here now.

738
00:51:27,155 --> 00:51:30,090
[Cernan] You look out the window,

739
00:51:30,191 --> 00:51:32,693
your whole window
is filled up with the earth.

740
00:51:34,895 --> 00:51:36,830
[Cernan] How's that for the front porch?

741
00:51:36,930 --> 00:51:38,332
[Houston] Oh, boy, that's beautiful.

742
00:51:46,407 --> 00:51:47,841
10, it's looking real stable to us.

743
00:51:47,941 --> 00:51:49,710
We show you closing slightly.

744
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:57,218
[Cernan] charlie, we can't be
more than about 5, 10 feet away.

745
00:51:57,318 --> 00:51:58,652
[Houston] roger.

746
00:52:05,759 --> 00:52:07,295
[Stafford] Snap, snap, and we're there.

747
00:52:07,395 --> 00:52:10,198
- Got two grays.
- [Houston] roger.

748
00:52:21,475 --> 00:52:24,545
[Cernan] You capture that lunar module

749
00:52:24,645 --> 00:52:26,547
and we're on our way.

750
00:52:31,585 --> 00:52:37,191
You now regain consciousness
as to where you are

751
00:52:37,291 --> 00:52:38,759
and where you're going.

752
00:52:45,466 --> 00:52:48,736
[Announcer] ABC news presents
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753
00:52:48,836 --> 00:52:50,704
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754
00:52:50,804 --> 00:52:51,905
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755
00:52:52,005 --> 00:52:54,908
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756
00:52:55,008 --> 00:52:57,945
Good morning or good evening,

757
00:52:58,045 --> 00:53:00,448
depending on where
you are in the country.

758
00:53:00,548 --> 00:53:03,351
From ABC space headquarters
in new york...

759
00:53:03,451 --> 00:53:04,585
[Butler] I guess, after one mission

760
00:53:04,685 --> 00:53:07,187
you feel a little bit more confident,

761
00:53:07,288 --> 00:53:08,356
because you think, "oh, well,

762
00:53:08,456 --> 00:53:09,857
I've been there, done that.

763
00:53:09,957 --> 00:53:11,359
So maybe I'll be better this time.

764
00:53:11,459 --> 00:53:13,261
I'll do-- I know kind of
what to expect."

765
00:53:13,361 --> 00:53:15,529
You had all these people in your home.

766
00:53:15,629 --> 00:53:18,699
You had all these press out there.

767
00:53:18,799 --> 00:53:20,734
It's trying, believe me.

768
00:53:20,834 --> 00:53:23,604
It's very, very trying.

769
00:53:23,704 --> 00:53:25,806
You do sweat it out till they're home.

770
00:53:28,409 --> 00:53:30,544
[Houston] Apollo 10 is
reported to be maneuvering

771
00:53:30,644 --> 00:53:33,447
to burn attitude at this time.

772
00:53:33,547 --> 00:53:38,719
Its distance from the moon
is 681 nautical miles.

773
00:53:38,819 --> 00:53:42,523
Apollo 10, Houston.
Two minutes to L.O.S.

774
00:53:42,623 --> 00:53:46,560
Everybody here says godspeed.

775
00:53:46,660 --> 00:53:47,728
[Stafford] Okay, we'll see them

776
00:53:47,828 --> 00:53:49,430
right on the other side in orbit.

777
00:53:51,965 --> 00:53:53,834
[Stafford] We wouldn't see
the moon until we got there.

778
00:53:55,436 --> 00:53:56,404
And finally, we got close.

779
00:53:56,504 --> 00:53:57,638
We could finally see

780
00:53:57,738 --> 00:54:00,240
a little scimitar of the moon,

781
00:54:00,341 --> 00:54:01,509
that was all.

782
00:54:03,477 --> 00:54:07,715
And then the sun went and disappeared.

783
00:54:11,752 --> 00:54:14,722
[Cernan] The moon is
between you and the sun,

784
00:54:14,822 --> 00:54:18,292
and it blocks out that light.

785
00:54:18,392 --> 00:54:22,696
You are now immersed,
yourself, in this blackness.

786
00:54:25,065 --> 00:54:28,001
And then all of a sudden...

787
00:54:28,101 --> 00:54:30,771
Boom...

788
00:54:30,871 --> 00:54:33,707
Someone turns on the lights.

789
00:54:33,807 --> 00:54:36,009
There's the moon.

790
00:54:37,578 --> 00:54:39,880
[Stafford] roger, Houston, Apollo 10.

791
00:54:39,980 --> 00:54:42,716
You can tell the world
that we have arrived.

792
00:54:45,686 --> 00:54:48,422
[Cernan] As you come out,
you're still in sunlight.

793
00:54:48,522 --> 00:54:51,959
You come around the horizon of the moon,

794
00:54:52,059 --> 00:54:53,694
and here comes the earth.

795
00:54:55,896 --> 00:54:57,865
Earth rise.

796
00:55:00,133 --> 00:55:01,702
[Cernan] charlie, it might sound corny,

797
00:55:01,802 --> 00:55:03,671
but the view is really
out of this world.

798
00:55:10,778 --> 00:55:12,946
[Houston] charlie brown and snoopy.
You're going over the hill.

799
00:55:13,046 --> 00:55:14,448
All the systems are go.

800
00:55:14,548 --> 00:55:16,016
We're all go here on the ground.

801
00:55:16,116 --> 00:55:18,452
It's looking great. Over.

802
00:55:22,490 --> 00:55:26,594
Roger. 56, 22, 55. Snoopy going.

803
00:55:28,996 --> 00:55:32,400
[Cernan] We is go, and we is
down among them, charlie.

804
00:55:32,500 --> 00:55:34,535
[Houston] roger. I hear you
weaving your way up the freeway.

805
00:55:34,635 --> 00:55:36,870
Can you give me
a post-burn report? Over.

806
00:55:39,907 --> 00:55:42,510
[Cernan] Yeah, as soon
as I get my breath.

807
00:55:50,584 --> 00:55:52,486
As we circled the moon

808
00:55:52,586 --> 00:55:54,455
in a lunar lander-- snoopy--

809
00:55:56,957 --> 00:55:58,892
We knew we were vulnerable

810
00:55:58,992 --> 00:56:01,028
to a whole host of unknown problems.

811
00:56:04,164 --> 00:56:08,902
And our goal was to identify
and then solve those problems

812
00:56:09,002 --> 00:56:10,871
so that Neil and his crew would have

813
00:56:10,971 --> 00:56:13,373
just that much less to worry about.

814
00:56:15,609 --> 00:56:18,479
And one of the problems we encountered

815
00:56:18,579 --> 00:56:21,449
was pilot induced.

816
00:56:25,686 --> 00:56:29,657
We were going to simulate
from 47,000 feet,

817
00:56:29,757 --> 00:56:31,391
as if we were on the moon,

818
00:56:31,492 --> 00:56:33,727
lift off from the assent stage,

819
00:56:33,827 --> 00:56:37,498
and then go up into a rendezvous
mode with the mother ship.

820
00:56:38,899 --> 00:56:40,901
But in preparing to do so,

821
00:56:41,001 --> 00:56:43,904
tom and I misplaced a switch,

822
00:56:44,004 --> 00:56:45,405
[Houston] Snoop, Houston,

823
00:56:45,506 --> 00:56:48,709
we have you go for staging. Over.

824
00:56:48,809 --> 00:56:50,010
[Man] Okay, tom.

825
00:56:53,614 --> 00:56:55,015
What's that?

826
00:56:55,115 --> 00:56:56,717
[Man] Okay, let's...

827
00:56:56,817 --> 00:57:00,087
[Stafford] god damn.

828
00:57:00,187 --> 00:57:01,889
[Cernan] Son of a bitch.

829
00:57:01,989 --> 00:57:04,458
[Man] We're in trouble.

830
00:57:04,558 --> 00:57:07,528
[Cernan] I saw that lunar
horizon go by my window

831
00:57:07,628 --> 00:57:10,163
eight times in some 15 seconds.

832
00:57:12,633 --> 00:57:13,601
[Houston] Snoop, Houston...

833
00:57:13,701 --> 00:57:15,035
[Radio chatter]

834
00:57:19,072 --> 00:57:21,875
[Duke] The thing spun around at max rate

835
00:57:21,975 --> 00:57:23,711
to this new attitude.

836
00:57:23,811 --> 00:57:26,446
That got our attention
in mission control.

837
00:57:26,547 --> 00:57:29,550
And we got-- certainly got his attention

838
00:57:29,650 --> 00:57:32,986
as he relayed it over the--
Over the comm.

839
00:57:35,055 --> 00:57:39,827
[Cernan] Tom got this rotation stopped.

840
00:57:39,927 --> 00:57:41,461
How we did it,

841
00:57:41,562 --> 00:57:43,597
I don't know.

842
00:57:43,697 --> 00:57:46,500
[Stafford] Yeah, okay. Something
went wild there on that staging.

843
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:48,001
We're all set. We didn't lock it.

844
00:57:48,101 --> 00:57:50,003
We're going ahead to the auto maneuver.

845
00:57:54,241 --> 00:57:55,776
[Butler] It was frightening
when they did have

846
00:57:55,876 --> 00:57:57,177
that one mishap.

847
00:57:59,312 --> 00:58:03,083
If you think going to the moon is hard,

848
00:58:03,183 --> 00:58:05,085
you ought to try staying home.

849
00:58:12,860 --> 00:58:16,997
[Cernan] Apollo 10 really came
home in a blaze of glory.

850
00:58:17,097 --> 00:58:20,200
Rolling, twisting, turning--

851
00:58:20,300 --> 00:58:26,206
These flecks of fire
were just snapping at us.

852
00:58:26,306 --> 00:58:27,841
We're on our backs coming in backwards.

853
00:58:27,941 --> 00:58:29,242
The heat shield's behind us.

854
00:58:29,342 --> 00:58:31,912
It would just come over
the top of my window,

855
00:58:32,012 --> 00:58:33,180
and just come over there

856
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:36,516
right in front of my eyes and snap.

857
00:58:36,617 --> 00:58:40,520
A sheet of fire completely
immerses you and surrounds you.

858
00:58:47,060 --> 00:58:50,998
I know what it's like to be that comet.

859
00:58:51,098 --> 00:58:53,667
The shooting star.

860
00:58:53,767 --> 00:58:57,571
It is a spectacular fireworks show.

861
00:58:57,671 --> 00:58:59,873
It--

862
00:58:59,973 --> 00:59:02,275
I wish it had happened
on fourth of July.

863
00:59:32,940 --> 00:59:35,342
We had just been to the moon.

864
00:59:35,442 --> 00:59:39,913
So you can imagine
how it felt to come home.

865
00:59:41,114 --> 00:59:42,916
Home. Your real home.

866
00:59:43,016 --> 00:59:44,051
Not just your home away from--

867
00:59:44,151 --> 00:59:47,220
This home. Your family.

868
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:49,990
And the response of people

869
00:59:50,090 --> 00:59:52,893
you have known a lifetime

870
00:59:52,993 --> 00:59:55,262
was so overwhelming.

871
00:59:55,362 --> 00:59:58,265
You could tell it meant
something to them.

872
00:59:59,900 --> 01:00:01,301
[Baldwin] Nothing but pride.

873
01:00:01,401 --> 01:00:03,704
Nothing but pride.

874
01:00:03,804 --> 01:00:05,739
And so proud of him,

875
01:00:05,839 --> 01:00:07,708
so proud of him that he could go out

876
01:00:07,808 --> 01:00:09,943
and do something like that.

877
01:00:12,079 --> 01:00:13,313
And proud of the country.

878
01:00:31,164 --> 01:00:35,102
[Cernan] Not many people
remember Apollo 10,

879
01:00:35,202 --> 01:00:36,837
but I do.

880
01:00:36,937 --> 01:00:38,839
And I'll tell you someone else
who remembered it,

881
01:00:38,939 --> 01:00:40,140
and that's Neil Armstrong.

882
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:42,676
- [Electronic beep]
- Okay, Neil,

883
01:00:42,776 --> 01:00:46,379
we can see you coming
down the ladder now.

884
01:00:46,479 --> 01:00:48,749
[Armstrong] I'm gonna
step off the lander now.

885
01:00:52,986 --> 01:00:56,423
That's one small step for man,

886
01:00:56,523 --> 01:00:59,927
one giant leap for mankind.

887
01:01:03,964 --> 01:01:08,168
Would I have liked to been
at a first landing?

888
01:01:08,268 --> 01:01:09,402
You bet your life I would've.

889
01:01:11,939 --> 01:01:13,340
But as it turned out,

890
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:16,276
I think fate shined down upon us,

891
01:01:16,376 --> 01:01:18,678
and got the right people

892
01:01:18,779 --> 01:01:19,880
in the right place at the right time.

893
01:01:35,295 --> 01:01:37,765
How does one,

894
01:01:37,865 --> 01:01:42,770
adequately express his feelings

895
01:01:42,870 --> 01:01:46,173
about a special friend

896
01:01:46,273 --> 01:01:51,812
when that friend is also a world icon

897
01:01:51,912 --> 01:01:55,715
whose name will live
in history long after

898
01:01:55,816 --> 01:01:59,386
all here today have been forgotten.

899
01:02:01,154 --> 01:02:05,392
Neil, you can now finally

900
01:02:05,492 --> 01:02:07,961
put out your hands

901
01:02:08,061 --> 01:02:11,832
and touch the face of god.

902
01:02:12,933 --> 01:02:15,735
Farewell, my friend.

903
01:02:15,836 --> 01:02:19,472
You have left us far too soon.

904
01:02:21,274 --> 01:02:22,843
God bless you, Neil.

905
01:02:59,212 --> 01:03:00,313
[Car horn honks]

906
01:03:12,025 --> 01:03:14,127
[Woman] Oh!

907
01:03:14,227 --> 01:03:16,496
Hey, daddy.

908
01:03:16,596 --> 01:03:18,298
How are you?

909
01:03:20,300 --> 01:03:23,403
[Chattering]

910
01:03:36,349 --> 01:03:39,252
- Okay, here.
- Come here, baby.

911
01:03:39,352 --> 01:03:41,288
- Remember when I came back from--
- Mm-hmm.

912
01:03:41,388 --> 01:03:43,556
Apollo 10 and I tried to impress you?

913
01:03:43,656 --> 01:03:46,126
- Yeah.
- You know, daddy's been to the moon.

914
01:03:46,226 --> 01:03:48,561
- Been here, done this.
- He flew snoopy closer,

915
01:03:48,661 --> 01:03:51,431
and was way out in the--

916
01:03:51,531 --> 01:03:53,400
In-- in the heavens where god lives.

917
01:03:53,500 --> 01:03:55,969
And I never will forget it,

918
01:03:56,069 --> 01:03:58,238
you just stood, and listened to me.

919
01:03:58,338 --> 01:03:59,406
I brought you back down to earth.

920
01:03:59,506 --> 01:04:01,909
All the sudden, it got quiet

921
01:04:02,009 --> 01:04:03,176
and I had nothing else to say,

922
01:04:03,276 --> 01:04:05,478
and you looked up, and said,

923
01:04:05,578 --> 01:04:09,049
"daddy, now that you've been
to the moon and back,

924
01:04:09,149 --> 01:04:11,518
- when you gonna take me camping...
- Camping.

925
01:04:11,618 --> 01:04:13,320
- We used to go camping.
- ...Like you promised me."

926
01:04:13,420 --> 01:04:14,554
That's right.

927
01:04:14,654 --> 01:04:16,890
And you know what that brought home?

928
01:04:16,990 --> 01:04:19,392
All the times,

929
01:04:19,492 --> 01:04:22,195
during that period of our lives together

930
01:04:22,295 --> 01:04:23,997
that I couldn't take you camping,

931
01:04:24,097 --> 01:04:24,998
that I was gone.

932
01:04:25,098 --> 01:04:26,299
I was gone somewhere.

933
01:04:26,399 --> 01:04:29,536
I was gone and gone, and gone and gone.

934
01:04:29,636 --> 01:04:34,341
It was a very selfish life on my part,

935
01:04:34,441 --> 01:04:36,977
and on the part of all the guys.

936
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:43,150
[Radio chatter]

937
01:04:48,421 --> 01:04:53,994
[Chatter continues]

938
01:05:02,435 --> 01:05:04,537
[Man] The rim on this little crater

939
01:05:04,637 --> 01:05:06,073
seems to be all white.

940
01:05:09,442 --> 01:05:12,980
[Man] This is gonna be some
kind of different ride.

941
01:05:37,004 --> 01:05:42,442
[Cernan] Dick Gordon
had a crew with Jack Schmitt.

942
01:05:42,542 --> 01:05:45,312
Jack Schmitt was a lunar geologist.

943
01:05:45,412 --> 01:05:47,280
It made sense, at least to me,

944
01:05:47,380 --> 01:05:48,948
and I was afraid it made a lot of sense

945
01:05:49,049 --> 01:05:50,617
to too many other people,

946
01:05:50,717 --> 01:05:53,153
that they should keep
that crew together.

947
01:05:53,253 --> 01:05:55,989
Well, the national academy of sciences

948
01:05:56,089 --> 01:05:58,125
wanted a geologist to fly to the moon.

949
01:05:58,225 --> 01:05:59,492
They've always wanted that.

950
01:05:59,592 --> 01:06:02,295
So here's their last opportunity

951
01:06:02,395 --> 01:06:07,034
to put a ph.D. Geologist
on a flight crew.

952
01:06:07,134 --> 01:06:08,468
[Cernan] And so it was gonna come down

953
01:06:08,568 --> 01:06:11,971
to dick's crew or my crew,

954
01:06:12,072 --> 01:06:13,273
and he had an ace in a hole.

955
01:06:13,373 --> 01:06:16,676
He had jack Schmitt.

956
01:06:16,776 --> 01:06:20,280
I knew if I had any chance at all,

957
01:06:20,380 --> 01:06:23,350
I'd better not do something stupid.

958
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,056
We do a lot of training in simulators,

959
01:06:29,156 --> 01:06:32,159
and we had this lunar
landing training vehicle.

960
01:06:34,194 --> 01:06:36,596
We also used the helicopter.

961
01:06:41,434 --> 01:06:43,603
I had an urge to fly low

962
01:06:43,703 --> 01:06:45,738
over the Indian river,

963
01:06:45,838 --> 01:06:50,243
and the little skid that you
land on with this helicopter

964
01:06:50,343 --> 01:06:51,444
touched the water.

965
01:06:59,819 --> 01:07:03,423
This is the helmet that I was wearing

966
01:07:03,523 --> 01:07:05,058
when I was flying that helicopter,

967
01:07:05,158 --> 01:07:07,594
and when I unstrapped it,

968
01:07:07,694 --> 01:07:09,262
it floated to the surface,

969
01:07:09,362 --> 01:07:13,400
and it picked an equilibrium position.

970
01:07:13,500 --> 01:07:16,136
Probably floated,
I guess about like that,

971
01:07:16,236 --> 01:07:21,241
and everything above the
surface is charcoal.

972
01:07:21,341 --> 01:07:25,645
I thought he'd, as the
saying goes in the navy,

973
01:07:25,745 --> 01:07:27,780
that he'd screwed the pooch.

974
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:30,350
I thought he'd done it to himself,

975
01:07:30,450 --> 01:07:32,085
because, you know, hell,

976
01:07:32,185 --> 01:07:34,621
nobody flies a damn
helicopter into the water

977
01:07:34,721 --> 01:07:37,590
unless there's a couple bikinis
there you're looking at.

978
01:07:39,426 --> 01:07:42,695
How can anyone do something

979
01:07:42,795 --> 01:07:46,166
so dumb as I just did

980
01:07:46,266 --> 01:07:48,568
and be given the responsibility

981
01:07:48,668 --> 01:07:53,840
of flying a gillion-dollar
spacecraft to the moon--

982
01:07:53,940 --> 01:07:56,143
Being responsible for the crew,

983
01:07:56,243 --> 01:07:58,845
the safety, the success of the mission?

984
01:07:58,945 --> 01:08:01,348
And I knew, absolutely,

985
01:08:01,448 --> 01:08:05,185
when the time came, it would not be me.

986
01:08:05,285 --> 01:08:06,553
[Man] Scene four, take one.

987
01:08:06,653 --> 01:08:10,323
Sound for Apollo 17 astronaut cernan.

988
01:08:12,459 --> 01:08:14,761
Gene Cernan, Harrison
Schmitt, and Ronald Evans

989
01:08:14,861 --> 01:08:18,131
have been named for the finish
Apollo flight, Apollo 17.

990
01:08:18,231 --> 01:08:20,633
Schmitt is a first
among flying astronauts.

991
01:08:20,733 --> 01:08:23,336
He's primarily a geologist
rather than a pilot.

992
01:08:25,938 --> 01:08:28,541
When we made the final
selection of the crew

993
01:08:28,641 --> 01:08:31,544
for Apollo 17,

994
01:08:31,644 --> 01:08:34,681
that was done in concert
with Deke Slayton,

995
01:08:34,781 --> 01:08:36,115
who was head of the flight crew

996
01:08:36,216 --> 01:08:37,517
operations at the time.

997
01:08:37,617 --> 01:08:40,320
And I was never too pleased
with the process

998
01:08:40,420 --> 01:08:42,322
that was followed there,

999
01:08:42,422 --> 01:08:44,123
because I thought it was too much

1000
01:08:44,224 --> 01:08:46,759
in the hands of Mr. Slayton.

1001
01:08:48,595 --> 01:08:50,530
[Gordon] jack was taken off of my crew

1002
01:08:50,630 --> 01:08:54,334
and assigned to Apollo 17.

1003
01:08:56,336 --> 01:08:59,406
I didn't think that was very fair.

1004
01:08:59,506 --> 01:09:02,442
And I said, "they can't take
jack Schmitt off my crew

1005
01:09:02,542 --> 01:09:05,245
and give him to somebody else."

1006
01:09:05,345 --> 01:09:07,614
[Cernan] He may have had a
right to be somewhat bitter

1007
01:09:07,714 --> 01:09:10,217
I got the flight and he didn't.

1008
01:09:10,317 --> 01:09:12,219
And, uh, you know, he said--

1009
01:09:12,319 --> 01:09:13,653
Tells me that today,

1010
01:09:13,753 --> 01:09:17,657
because he said, "you took my flight."

1011
01:09:17,757 --> 01:09:19,292
And I may have.

1012
01:09:49,522 --> 01:09:51,858
You know, sitting on a pad

1013
01:09:51,958 --> 01:09:53,860
waiting for launch,

1014
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:57,230
it's a long time to-- to contemplate

1015
01:09:57,330 --> 01:09:58,965
where you've come from,

1016
01:09:59,065 --> 01:10:00,467
where you're going.

1017
01:10:02,802 --> 01:10:05,705
It's one of those real moments

1018
01:10:05,805 --> 01:10:08,708
that you take an introspective look

1019
01:10:08,808 --> 01:10:11,978
at what is now in front of you.

1020
01:10:14,414 --> 01:10:16,349
This is what I asked for.

1021
01:10:16,449 --> 01:10:21,354
This was my personal
moment of reckoning.

1022
01:10:51,451 --> 01:10:52,985
[Butler] When it lifted off,

1023
01:10:53,085 --> 01:10:57,590
it was just-- I mean,
I'll never, ever, forget

1024
01:10:57,690 --> 01:11:01,761
how that was because the whole
ground rumbled underneath your feet

1025
01:11:01,861 --> 01:11:05,798
and all the fish jumped out of the lake.

1026
01:11:11,604 --> 01:11:15,875
[Tracy] The entire sky
just totally lit up.

1027
01:11:19,111 --> 01:11:22,014
It was just beautiful.

1028
01:11:59,819 --> 01:12:01,821
[Cernan] Oh, my golly!

1029
01:12:01,921 --> 01:12:04,357
Unbelievable.

1030
01:12:04,457 --> 01:12:05,425
Unbelievable,

1031
01:12:05,525 --> 01:12:06,559
but it is bright in the sun.

1032
01:12:09,095 --> 01:12:12,499
[Cernan] It was the most proud moment

1033
01:12:12,599 --> 01:12:14,767
of my entire life.

1034
01:12:17,570 --> 01:12:22,642
I had proved to myself
that I was capable

1035
01:12:22,742 --> 01:12:23,976
of coming this far.

1036
01:12:28,180 --> 01:12:31,818
I couldn't get out of my mind--

1037
01:12:31,918 --> 01:12:36,088
This almost science fiction world

1038
01:12:36,188 --> 01:12:37,824
I was living in.

1039
01:12:40,092 --> 01:12:43,730
Now we had a little more than three days

1040
01:12:43,830 --> 01:12:46,599
to make use of the time
we had on the moon,

1041
01:12:46,699 --> 01:12:50,102
and that's when the work really began.

1042
01:12:57,810 --> 01:13:00,947
So we set experiments out there,

1043
01:13:01,047 --> 01:13:02,148
seismic experiments,

1044
01:13:02,248 --> 01:13:05,051
experiments of all kinds.

1045
01:13:07,086 --> 01:13:10,990
The next thing we did
was unload the lunar rover.

1046
01:13:14,927 --> 01:13:17,864
We had the rover to facilitate
our ability to move around,

1047
01:13:17,964 --> 01:13:21,468
and try to explore this entire valley.

1048
01:13:21,568 --> 01:13:23,903
We never would have been able
to do that on foot.

1049
01:13:25,104 --> 01:13:26,739
It didn't go very fast,

1050
01:13:26,839 --> 01:13:31,177
but it went fast enough
on the moon in 1/6 gravity.

1051
01:13:31,277 --> 01:13:32,512
[Houston] Okay, and gene,
you might get the--

1052
01:13:32,612 --> 01:13:33,980
[cernan] Okay, now shove it.

1053
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:35,682
That's too much. Wait a minute.

1054
01:13:37,817 --> 01:13:42,989
But our major objective
was to try and establish

1055
01:13:43,089 --> 01:13:44,423
the history of that valley.

1056
01:13:44,524 --> 01:13:48,928
- Oh, hey! Wait a minute.
- What?

1057
01:13:49,028 --> 01:13:51,698
There is orange soil!

1058
01:13:51,798 --> 01:13:53,199
Well, don't move it until I see it.

1059
01:13:54,801 --> 01:13:56,803
It's all over.

1060
01:13:56,903 --> 01:13:58,070
Orange!

1061
01:13:58,170 --> 01:13:59,672
Don't move it until I see it.

1062
01:13:59,772 --> 01:14:03,109
I've stirred it up with my feet.

1063
01:14:03,209 --> 01:14:04,811
How can there be orange
soil on the moon?

1064
01:14:06,045 --> 01:14:07,747
Look at it.

1065
01:14:09,115 --> 01:14:10,783
I'll be a son of a--

1066
01:14:10,883 --> 01:14:13,720
That's the volcanic...

1067
01:14:13,820 --> 01:14:16,723
[Laughter]

1068
01:14:16,823 --> 01:14:18,791
...they're up against
a constraint anyways,

1069
01:14:18,891 --> 01:14:21,961
so they gotta leave at a certain
time regardless of what we got.

1070
01:14:22,061 --> 01:14:24,463
[Man] I'm willing to give up
all the light mantle stuff,

1071
01:14:24,564 --> 01:14:25,898
and stay up another--

1072
01:14:25,998 --> 01:14:27,534
That's the priority right up there, huh?

1073
01:14:27,634 --> 01:14:29,035
There it is. Look at that.

1074
01:14:30,737 --> 01:14:33,806
[Cernan] That change at all?

1075
01:14:33,906 --> 01:14:36,509
[Houston] Oh, thank you, geno.
It looks much better.

1076
01:14:39,712 --> 01:14:42,248
[Cernan] When you get out
there and look back...

1077
01:14:44,684 --> 01:14:48,020
As small as it is compared to the earth,

1078
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:50,056
when you're the only two guys out there,

1079
01:14:50,156 --> 01:14:53,492
it can be pretty lonely at times.

1080
01:14:57,897 --> 01:15:01,200
Once we got in, we took our suits off

1081
01:15:01,300 --> 01:15:04,771
and we had to dry them out.

1082
01:15:04,871 --> 01:15:06,873
We had to eat.

1083
01:15:06,973 --> 01:15:08,107
We had to rest.

1084
01:15:09,742 --> 01:15:13,212
I remember specifically
pulling up the shade

1085
01:15:13,312 --> 01:15:15,748
before we tried to get some rest

1086
01:15:15,848 --> 01:15:19,151
and looking out at the earth.

1087
01:15:21,020 --> 01:15:23,956
Maybe I just had to make
sure it was still there.

1088
01:15:31,831 --> 01:15:34,734
[Cernan] Oh, that ought
to be a beautiful shot

1089
01:15:34,834 --> 01:15:36,636
if I can see what my settings are.

1090
01:15:47,947 --> 01:15:52,218
That whole period of time,
that's the time I call

1091
01:15:52,318 --> 01:15:54,787
sitting on god's front porch.

1092
01:16:01,193 --> 01:16:05,564
I was out there somewhere
with the opportunity

1093
01:16:05,665 --> 01:16:08,234
to see something and be somewhere

1094
01:16:08,334 --> 01:16:13,039
and do something
that only 12 human beings

1095
01:16:13,139 --> 01:16:16,208
in the history of mankind

1096
01:16:16,308 --> 01:16:18,177
have been able to do, or be, or see.

1097
01:16:25,952 --> 01:16:28,821
Tracy, did he promise to
bring you anything back?

1098
01:16:28,921 --> 01:16:32,158
Well, I asked him to bring
a rock back from the moon.

1099
01:16:32,258 --> 01:16:33,960
But he said if he could,

1100
01:16:34,060 --> 01:16:35,795
he'd bring me one back.

1101
01:16:35,895 --> 01:16:38,665
And he said if he could,
he'd bring me a moonbeam.

1102
01:16:38,765 --> 01:16:40,633
- A what?
- A moonbeam.

1103
01:16:40,733 --> 01:16:42,769
A moonbeam?

1104
01:16:42,869 --> 01:16:44,003
[Laughs]

1105
01:16:44,103 --> 01:16:45,071
He's either pulling your leg

1106
01:16:45,171 --> 01:16:46,739
or you're pulling mine.

1107
01:16:46,839 --> 01:16:48,140
That's what he said.

1108
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:49,208
[Chuckles]

1109
01:17:02,955 --> 01:17:04,791
[Cernan] I parked the rover

1110
01:17:04,891 --> 01:17:08,294
about 3/4 of a mile behind the L.E.M.

1111
01:17:08,394 --> 01:17:10,096
So that they could operate
the television camera

1112
01:17:10,196 --> 01:17:12,164
and watch our liftoff.

1113
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:15,802
And I don't know
what possessed me to do it,

1114
01:17:15,902 --> 01:17:21,240
I just scratched Tracy’s
initials in the lunar surface.

1115
01:17:22,809 --> 01:17:24,110
I put "T.D.C."

1116
01:17:26,278 --> 01:17:29,348
And someday, sometime,

1117
01:17:29,448 --> 01:17:30,983
I can only believe--

1118
01:17:31,083 --> 01:17:32,651
Not just hope, but believe--

1119
01:17:32,752 --> 01:17:34,653
That someone will go back,

1120
01:17:34,754 --> 01:17:36,088
and that's what they'll find.

1121
01:17:41,894 --> 01:17:44,263
[Tracy] I guess you appreciate
things the older you get.

1122
01:17:44,363 --> 01:17:46,365
Always.

1123
01:17:46,465 --> 01:17:48,835
You understand them better,
you appreciate them more.

1124
01:17:48,935 --> 01:17:50,937
And you know, the older I get,

1125
01:17:51,037 --> 01:17:56,008
probably the more
meaningful it gets to me.

1126
01:17:56,108 --> 01:17:58,344
[Cernan] I'm gonna roll it
downhill so we can work on it,

1127
01:17:58,444 --> 01:18:00,412
well, I'll document it first.

1128
01:18:02,882 --> 01:18:05,017
Walking up the ladder,

1129
01:18:05,117 --> 01:18:07,353
was probably one of the most
memorable moments for me,

1130
01:18:07,453 --> 01:18:11,057
because I looked down at my footprints

1131
01:18:11,157 --> 01:18:14,861
and I knew I wasn't
coming this way again.

1132
01:18:14,961 --> 01:18:17,964
Why we were here? What did it mean?

1133
01:18:18,064 --> 01:18:21,033
I looked over my shoulder,
and there's the earth,

1134
01:18:21,133 --> 01:18:23,402
there's reality. There's home.

1135
01:18:26,538 --> 01:18:30,943
I wanted to press the freeze button.

1136
01:18:31,043 --> 01:18:33,813
I wanted to stop time.

1137
01:18:33,913 --> 01:18:36,448
I really wanted to reach out,

1138
01:18:36,548 --> 01:18:40,019
put it in my hand,
stick it in my spacesuit,

1139
01:18:40,119 --> 01:18:43,055
and bring it home
and show it to everybody.

1140
01:18:45,457 --> 01:18:48,494
This is what it feels like.
This is what it looks like.

1141
01:18:55,835 --> 01:19:00,807
[Houston] This is Apollo control
and 187 hours, 31 minutes.

1142
01:19:00,907 --> 01:19:05,778
Now approaching 30 minutes
until time for lunar liftoff.

1143
01:19:05,878 --> 01:19:09,181
The countdown toward liftoff
going very smoothly.

1144
01:19:09,281 --> 01:19:12,919
Control, telmu, G.N.C, eecomm,

1145
01:19:13,019 --> 01:19:15,221
surgeon, inco.

1146
01:19:15,321 --> 01:19:17,423
I was the flight director
on this console

1147
01:19:17,523 --> 01:19:21,327
for gene Cernan's liftoff from the moon.

1148
01:19:21,427 --> 01:19:24,330
Rog. We're go for liftoff here, capcom.

1149
01:19:24,430 --> 01:19:26,232
[Kranz] So that when it came time,

1150
01:19:26,332 --> 01:19:29,802
we recognized the triumph of
the work that we had done,

1151
01:19:29,902 --> 01:19:33,039
but we also lost some very good friends.

1152
01:19:33,139 --> 01:19:36,876
So it was a celebratory mood,

1153
01:19:36,976 --> 01:19:40,512
but it was also one that we
looked very somberly at our past.

1154
01:19:40,612 --> 01:19:45,117
And we hoped that somewhere,
somehow, someday,

1155
01:19:45,217 --> 01:19:48,087
we would be able to carry the
work that we had been doing

1156
01:19:48,187 --> 01:19:49,488
into the future.

1157
01:19:49,588 --> 01:19:53,459
[Houston] Three, two, one, ignition.

1158
01:19:53,559 --> 01:19:55,895
[Cernan] Burn away, Houston.

1159
01:20:46,678 --> 01:20:52,251
Could I have imagined
that it would come to this?

1160
01:21:04,096 --> 01:21:06,032
I don't want to remember it this way.

1161
01:21:06,132 --> 01:21:07,433
I'm just disappointed.

1162
01:21:07,533 --> 01:21:09,969
I almost wish I didn't come here today.

1163
01:21:27,519 --> 01:21:31,223
You go to the moon
and you're everybody's hero.

1164
01:21:33,092 --> 01:21:35,361
You're sort of caught up in it yourself.

1165
01:21:40,366 --> 01:21:43,435
People everywhere of every
color, of every religion,

1166
01:21:43,535 --> 01:21:46,405
every ethnic background
were overwhelmed.

1167
01:21:46,505 --> 01:21:48,340
"Let me touch you. Let me talk to you."

1168
01:21:49,741 --> 01:21:53,545
And you live that kind of activity

1169
01:21:53,645 --> 01:21:55,447
for four or five years,

1170
01:21:55,547 --> 01:21:57,016
that's a big change in your life.

1171
01:22:01,387 --> 01:22:04,423
[Butler] Our life did change a lot.

1172
01:22:04,523 --> 01:22:07,926
He was so engrossed
in all of this notoriety,

1173
01:22:08,027 --> 01:22:11,597
and traveling, and speaking,

1174
01:22:11,697 --> 01:22:14,967
and I got so tired of it.

1175
01:22:15,067 --> 01:22:17,269
And I thought,
"I just want a normal life.

1176
01:22:17,369 --> 01:22:19,671
I want to be a normal housewife."

1177
01:22:24,643 --> 01:22:29,115
And I remember when gene and I
were on a private jet,

1178
01:22:29,215 --> 01:22:30,449
I was sitting in one aisle,

1179
01:22:30,549 --> 01:22:32,284
he was sitting across the aisle from me.

1180
01:22:32,384 --> 01:22:34,286
And I looked at him, and I thought,

1181
01:22:34,386 --> 01:22:38,290
"you know, cernan, this is your
life, this is what you want.

1182
01:22:38,390 --> 01:22:40,059
But I don't want it."

1183
01:22:43,662 --> 01:22:45,631
I guess a couple years after that

1184
01:22:45,731 --> 01:22:48,300
we ended up separating,

1185
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:51,203
and going our different ways.

1186
01:22:57,743 --> 01:23:01,647
[Cernan] Some 60% of us got divorced,

1187
01:23:01,747 --> 01:23:03,682
and I'm not proud of it.

1188
01:23:03,782 --> 01:23:05,051
We were so tunnel-visioned

1189
01:23:05,151 --> 01:23:06,318
when we were going to the moon,

1190
01:23:06,418 --> 01:23:08,154
that we never had time to get off

1191
01:23:08,254 --> 01:23:11,157
that big white horse we were riding

1192
01:23:11,257 --> 01:23:12,691
until it was too late.

1193
01:23:16,062 --> 01:23:18,730
I lived a single life for, I don't know,

1194
01:23:18,830 --> 01:23:20,999
seven or eight years.

1195
01:23:21,100 --> 01:23:22,334
And that sounds like a lot of fun

1196
01:23:22,434 --> 01:23:25,104
when you're 40, 50 years old.

1197
01:23:27,539 --> 01:23:31,710
But sooner or later, you've gotta
come to grips with who you are

1198
01:23:31,810 --> 01:23:33,745
and what's important in life.

1199
01:23:39,485 --> 01:23:41,520
[Woman] I was invited to a friend's home

1200
01:23:41,620 --> 01:23:43,689
for a cocktail party,

1201
01:23:43,789 --> 01:23:48,026
and gene happened to be there.

1202
01:23:48,127 --> 01:23:50,196
And I just happened to see
the best looking chick

1203
01:23:50,296 --> 01:23:51,697
at the party, and it was her,

1204
01:23:51,797 --> 01:23:53,199
and someone said,
"would you take her home?"

1205
01:23:53,299 --> 01:23:55,201
And I said, "well, I'd be glad to."

1206
01:23:55,301 --> 01:23:57,035
But after taking her home,

1207
01:23:57,136 --> 01:23:59,037
I'm not sure I was ever
gonna see her again.

1208
01:23:59,138 --> 01:24:02,141
That's true.

1209
01:24:02,241 --> 01:24:04,042
I just liked gene's--

1210
01:24:04,143 --> 01:24:06,312
I thought he was more down to earth

1211
01:24:06,412 --> 01:24:08,214
than a lot of the other ones.

1212
01:24:08,314 --> 01:24:10,216
Mm-hmm.

1213
01:24:10,316 --> 01:24:12,551
And at that time, I didn't
think he had such a big ego.

1214
01:24:12,651 --> 01:24:16,555
- Give me a break.
- But I have since--

1215
01:24:16,655 --> 01:24:18,790
I'm learning more about me.

1216
01:24:20,192 --> 01:24:23,095
Give me a break.

1217
01:24:23,195 --> 01:24:25,731
You know we're gonna be
married 25 years?

1218
01:24:25,831 --> 01:24:28,567
- 24.
- Five.

1219
01:24:28,667 --> 01:24:29,501
It's five.

1220
01:24:37,609 --> 01:24:41,580
Jan became something
very special in my life.

1221
01:24:41,680 --> 01:24:43,081
And from that relationship,

1222
01:24:43,182 --> 01:24:47,686
came a family again, and grand kids.

1223
01:24:49,721 --> 01:24:51,490
Kids.

1224
01:24:51,590 --> 01:24:54,092
- Give me a break.
- Take a seat. Come on.

1225
01:24:54,193 --> 01:24:55,427
This is a beautiful--

1226
01:24:55,527 --> 01:24:57,095
Someone take a picture.

1227
01:24:57,196 --> 01:25:00,266
We are! Sit down, come on.

1228
01:25:00,366 --> 01:25:01,533
- Okay.
- Fix your hair.

1229
01:25:01,633 --> 01:25:03,802
- Ow.
- You're about to sit on me?

1230
01:25:03,902 --> 01:25:05,804
Ow. That's-- you put me in the middle.

1231
01:25:05,904 --> 01:25:06,838
Wait. You're sitting on me.

1232
01:25:06,938 --> 01:25:08,440
Ow, my shirt.

1233
01:25:08,540 --> 01:25:10,108
- Okay, am I all right?
- Yes.

1234
01:25:10,209 --> 01:25:11,177
Okay.

1235
01:25:15,281 --> 01:25:17,283
[Talking off mic]

1236
01:25:17,383 --> 01:25:20,386
...1.6 billion dollars.

1237
01:25:20,486 --> 01:25:23,189
I'm here for a couple days and
I'm going to San Diego,

1238
01:25:23,289 --> 01:25:25,291
so I could do something...

1239
01:25:25,391 --> 01:25:27,626
[Woman] Oh, brother.

1240
01:25:27,726 --> 01:25:29,795
It's a very high energy level.

1241
01:25:29,895 --> 01:25:33,131
He-- you know, he just doesn't stop.

1242
01:25:33,232 --> 01:25:36,635
He doesn't take a moment
to catch his breath.

1243
01:25:36,735 --> 01:25:40,806
He's got a million things
on his mind at one time.

1244
01:25:40,906 --> 01:25:45,277
I don't know that retirement
is really in his vocabulary.

1245
01:25:45,377 --> 01:25:47,646
And there are people here
that are listening today

1246
01:25:47,746 --> 01:25:50,582
who will see humans walk on mars.

1247
01:25:50,682 --> 01:25:51,883
I won't, but they will.

1248
01:25:54,853 --> 01:25:57,823
[Cernan] While we're still here,

1249
01:25:57,923 --> 01:25:59,825
and there's an opportunity to share

1250
01:25:59,925 --> 01:26:02,160
what the space program has meant,

1251
01:26:02,261 --> 01:26:03,829
particularly in this day and age

1252
01:26:03,929 --> 01:26:06,198
when we're talking to a generation

1253
01:26:06,298 --> 01:26:08,600
who weren't even around
when we went to the moon,

1254
01:26:08,700 --> 01:26:11,403
we have an obligation to do that.

1255
01:26:11,503 --> 01:26:13,605
Okay. We get it?

1256
01:26:15,341 --> 01:26:16,508
You came all the way from France?

1257
01:26:16,608 --> 01:26:17,443
Yes.

1258
01:26:19,010 --> 01:26:20,846
Oh, boy.

1259
01:26:20,946 --> 01:26:22,914
Oh, yeah. That's a good one.

1260
01:26:24,015 --> 01:26:25,317
Thank you. Thank you.

1261
01:26:25,417 --> 01:26:26,485
Take care.

1262
01:26:27,586 --> 01:26:29,388
Whew!

1263
01:26:29,488 --> 01:26:31,757
[Baldwin] All of the
fame, and the speeches,

1264
01:26:31,857 --> 01:26:34,693
- and the traveling...
- What's your name?

1265
01:26:34,793 --> 01:26:39,365
I'm on him a lot now.
"Gene, shut it down."

1266
01:26:39,465 --> 01:26:40,932
Shut down your schedule.

1267
01:26:42,801 --> 01:26:44,370
[Cernan] This is October.

1268
01:26:44,470 --> 01:26:48,874
Here was September. Here was august.

1269
01:26:48,974 --> 01:26:52,544
Throttle back, you know?
Slow down, baby.

1270
01:26:52,644 --> 01:26:55,381
You gotta smell the roses a little bit.

1271
01:26:55,481 --> 01:26:56,748
But he drives himself.

1272
01:27:07,759 --> 01:27:10,396
[Cernan] The bad part about it is,

1273
01:27:10,496 --> 01:27:11,730
I'm realizing that,

1274
01:27:11,830 --> 01:27:13,732
like when we were in the space program,

1275
01:27:13,832 --> 01:27:16,234
when we're going full bar,
eight days a week,

1276
01:27:16,335 --> 01:27:18,404
I ignored my family.

1277
01:27:18,504 --> 01:27:21,573
We-- we all did.

1278
01:27:21,673 --> 01:27:24,576
But I'm finding I'm getting
innuendos from my family,

1279
01:27:24,676 --> 01:27:27,413
from the grand kids, from my wife,

1280
01:27:27,513 --> 01:27:30,248
that I'm doing the same thing now.

1281
01:27:30,349 --> 01:27:34,586
And maybe--

1282
01:27:34,686 --> 01:27:38,757
Maybe I'm finally
coming to a realization

1283
01:27:38,857 --> 01:27:40,592
that I gotta think of somebody else.

1284
01:27:40,692 --> 01:27:42,761
I do. I-- I don't think I'm selfish.

1285
01:27:42,861 --> 01:27:44,596
I think I do think of somebody else.

1286
01:27:44,696 --> 01:27:47,265
I think of those people
who want a piece of you,

1287
01:27:47,366 --> 01:27:49,768
who you somehow owe a piece to,

1288
01:27:49,868 --> 01:27:51,437
but there is a limit.

1289
01:27:51,537 --> 01:27:53,872
Now I think maybe I owe
a piece of me to my family.

1290
01:28:04,483 --> 01:28:06,885
- You got-- okay.
- Here you go.

1291
01:28:09,721 --> 01:28:11,289
You know, this is a lot of work

1292
01:28:11,390 --> 01:28:13,024
- for old guys like us.
- Tell me about it.

1293
01:28:22,668 --> 01:28:25,971
These two horses together
can go like the wind.

1294
01:28:26,071 --> 01:28:28,974
We ain't gonna do that today.

1295
01:28:29,074 --> 01:28:30,909
I know damn well I'm not.

1296
01:28:34,980 --> 01:28:37,315
You fly right wing, I'll fly left wing.

1297
01:28:37,416 --> 01:28:38,417
Okay.

1298
01:28:56,868 --> 01:28:58,604
We're gonna go across

1299
01:28:58,704 --> 01:29:00,338
and go back in through that gate.

1300
01:29:00,439 --> 01:29:02,340
- Okay.
- Unless you want to run the barrel?

1301
01:29:02,441 --> 01:29:07,012
No. I don't want to run any barrels.

1302
01:29:07,112 --> 01:29:09,515
Hey, baldy, are you ready to admit

1303
01:29:09,615 --> 01:29:11,082
we ain't got what we used to got?

1304
01:29:12,718 --> 01:29:14,553
Yeah.

1305
01:29:21,427 --> 01:29:25,697
Easy, now. Let's not have a wreck here.

1306
01:29:25,797 --> 01:29:27,365
I got it. I'll get it.

1307
01:29:27,466 --> 01:29:30,702
If I can get my leg
over this saddle, anyway.

1308
01:29:30,802 --> 01:29:31,870
There.

1309
01:29:31,970 --> 01:29:33,371
All right, I think we survived.

1310
01:29:33,472 --> 01:29:36,107
Come on. Oh, shit.

1311
01:29:39,911 --> 01:29:42,714
Oh, baldy! I can't walk!

1312
01:29:42,814 --> 01:29:43,982
I can't either.

1313
01:29:48,587 --> 01:29:51,122
[Cernan] We're still here.

1314
01:29:51,222 --> 01:29:52,891
- That's right.
- How many more years?

1315
01:29:52,991 --> 01:29:55,060
We got a pact to make it to 85

1316
01:29:55,160 --> 01:29:57,062
and then we'll reevaluate.

1317
01:29:57,162 --> 01:29:59,898
I gotta pact-- I gotta pact with my dog.

1318
01:29:59,998 --> 01:30:02,568
You know what? When we got him, I said,

1319
01:30:02,668 --> 01:30:04,402
"if you go ten, I'll go ten."

1320
01:30:04,503 --> 01:30:05,737
That was Barron,

1321
01:30:05,837 --> 01:30:07,405
and I've gotta renegotiate with him.

1322
01:30:07,506 --> 01:30:09,741
We only got three and a half
of those ten years left.

1323
01:30:09,841 --> 01:30:12,911
- I'm not ready!
- Well, bless.

1324
01:30:13,011 --> 01:30:15,013
- I love you, babe.
- I love you, too, man.

1325
01:30:45,811 --> 01:30:48,947
[Cernan] Just standing here,

1326
01:30:49,047 --> 01:30:50,115
getting a little nostalgic.

1327
01:30:50,215 --> 01:30:52,117
Sort of gives me a chance

1328
01:30:52,217 --> 01:30:55,787
to wonder whether
this all happened in my life.

1329
01:30:55,887 --> 01:30:56,955
Whether it was a reality

1330
01:30:57,055 --> 01:31:02,794
or whether it was a dream.

1331
01:31:02,894 --> 01:31:08,133
Is that dummy in there
with my name on really me?

1332
01:31:08,233 --> 01:31:10,969
[Radio chatter]

1333
01:31:11,069 --> 01:31:13,905
And I also stand here and I'm wondering

1334
01:31:14,005 --> 01:31:16,141
what people are gonna think,

1335
01:31:16,241 --> 01:31:19,144
not in another 40 years,
but maybe another 100 years.

1336
01:31:19,244 --> 01:31:21,913
Who knows? Maybe another 1,000 years.

1337
01:31:24,683 --> 01:31:28,920
[Radio chatter]

1338
01:31:48,006 --> 01:31:49,507
I often tell young kids,

1339
01:31:49,608 --> 01:31:54,012
and particularly my grand kids,

1340
01:31:54,112 --> 01:31:56,848
don't ever count yourself out.

1341
01:31:56,948 --> 01:31:59,951
You'll never know how good
you are unless you try.

1342
01:32:02,621 --> 01:32:03,855
Dream the impossible,

1343
01:32:03,955 --> 01:32:06,958
and go out and make it happen.

1344
01:32:09,227 --> 01:32:10,962
I walked on the moon.

1345
01:32:13,064 --> 01:32:15,133
What can't you do?

1346
01:35:33,389 --> 01:35:37,310
And, as we leave the Moon
at Taurus-Littrow,

1347
01:35:38,100 --> 01:35:42,857
we leave as we came and God
willing, as we shall return,

1348
01:35:43,231 --> 01:35:48,197
with peace and hope for all mankind.