1 00:00:45,246 --> 00:00:47,047 A wild new cowboy on the move. 2 00:00:47,148 --> 00:00:51,552 He placed last night, second. Going for first. 3 00:00:53,321 --> 00:00:55,223 How many y'all wanna see that replay? 4 00:00:57,325 --> 00:01:00,728 Following cowboy in hot water. 5 00:01:04,832 --> 00:01:06,734 Come on big Jake, show 'em how. 6 00:01:06,834 --> 00:01:09,337 Yeah. 7 00:02:28,516 --> 00:02:31,652 Mission sequence start. 8 00:02:31,752 --> 00:02:33,921 Engines on five, four... 9 00:02:34,021 --> 00:02:35,856 Three, two... 10 00:03:26,574 --> 00:03:29,377 I'm the luckiest human being in the world. 11 00:03:29,477 --> 00:03:32,813 There... fire going. 12 00:03:32,913 --> 00:03:34,882 I don't go around living in the past, 13 00:03:34,982 --> 00:03:38,552 for the most part. 14 00:03:38,652 --> 00:03:40,354 But ever once in while 15 00:03:40,454 --> 00:03:42,923 you let yourself go back in time. 16 00:03:46,594 --> 00:03:49,397 I'll look up there... 17 00:03:49,497 --> 00:03:50,898 And I might just reflect 18 00:03:50,998 --> 00:03:54,268 for a half a minute or so. 19 00:03:55,769 --> 00:03:57,971 I can take myself there at the speed of thought. 20 00:04:05,913 --> 00:04:08,916 Okay, stand by for pitchover. 21 00:04:09,016 --> 00:04:12,753 Oh, are we coming in? 22 00:04:12,853 --> 00:04:13,921 Pitchover. 23 00:04:14,021 --> 00:04:15,423 There it is. Proceeded. 24 00:04:15,523 --> 00:04:16,757 And there it is Houston. 25 00:04:16,857 --> 00:04:18,792 There's Camelot. Right on target. 26 00:04:18,892 --> 00:04:20,328 I see it. 27 00:04:20,428 --> 00:04:21,995 We got 'em all. 42 degrees. 28 00:04:23,797 --> 00:04:25,766 25 feet per second through 400. 29 00:04:25,866 --> 00:04:26,767 That's a little high, geno. 30 00:04:26,867 --> 00:04:27,868 Okay. 31 00:04:29,970 --> 00:04:33,774 Very little dust. 32 00:04:33,874 --> 00:04:35,876 40 feet. Going down at three. 33 00:04:38,812 --> 00:04:39,947 Stand by for touchdown. 34 00:04:40,047 --> 00:04:41,715 Stand by. 35 00:04:44,485 --> 00:04:45,719 20 feet. 36 00:04:48,489 --> 00:04:50,724 Going down at two. 10 feet. 37 00:04:52,826 --> 00:04:54,294 10 feet. 38 00:04:54,395 --> 00:04:55,729 And contact. 39 00:04:58,832 --> 00:05:01,301 Stop, push. Engine stop. 40 00:05:01,402 --> 00:05:05,973 Engine arm, proceed. Command override, off. 41 00:05:06,073 --> 00:05:07,808 As soon as you hit the surface, 42 00:05:07,908 --> 00:05:12,312 the dust is gone, engine is shut down. 43 00:05:12,413 --> 00:05:14,815 There's no noise. 44 00:05:14,915 --> 00:05:17,751 You are magically in another world. 45 00:05:19,853 --> 00:05:22,823 It was the ultimate 46 00:05:22,923 --> 00:05:26,059 quiet moment in my life. 47 00:05:27,695 --> 00:05:30,431 Pure silence. 48 00:05:33,701 --> 00:05:35,769 Absolutely incredible. 49 00:05:52,052 --> 00:05:53,854 I spent a lot of time growing up 50 00:05:53,954 --> 00:05:57,858 on my grandparents' farm in Wisconsin. 51 00:05:57,958 --> 00:05:59,092 No electricity. 52 00:05:59,192 --> 00:06:02,863 No tractors, just horses. 53 00:06:02,963 --> 00:06:05,365 So my desire in life was 54 00:06:05,466 --> 00:06:08,368 to sometime have a ranch. 55 00:06:16,577 --> 00:06:19,980 It's where I can just be who I am. 56 00:06:31,091 --> 00:06:34,928 I keep thinking, "my dad always would have loved this." 57 00:06:35,028 --> 00:06:37,064 He was a jack of all trades, 58 00:06:37,164 --> 00:06:40,167 he could fix-- rewire your house or build you a garage, 59 00:06:40,267 --> 00:06:42,402 or fix the plumbing in your bathroom, 60 00:06:42,503 --> 00:06:44,772 and that's why I learned to do all those things with him. 61 00:06:47,941 --> 00:06:49,910 He said, "I don't care whether you're in a classroom, 62 00:06:50,010 --> 00:06:53,080 on a football field, or whatever you do..." 63 00:06:53,180 --> 00:06:54,414 Barron? 64 00:06:54,515 --> 00:06:57,017 "Just do your best. 65 00:06:58,786 --> 00:07:01,589 And someday, I promise you. 66 00:07:01,689 --> 00:07:03,524 You're gonna surprise yourself." 67 00:07:06,627 --> 00:07:09,429 It's like coming down the L.E.M. 68 00:07:09,530 --> 00:07:13,534 Only if I fall here, I break my butt. 69 00:07:17,571 --> 00:07:20,440 1170 KCBQ, the legendary gene cernan is with us. 70 00:07:20,541 --> 00:07:22,510 Now about the navy, talk a little bit about-- 71 00:07:22,610 --> 00:07:23,744 Because this is a big navy town, as you know, 72 00:07:23,844 --> 00:07:24,945 and you spent time here. 73 00:07:25,045 --> 00:07:26,747 I tell ya, San Diego is-- 74 00:07:26,847 --> 00:07:28,115 Is like another home. 75 00:07:28,215 --> 00:07:30,450 I spent my best years coming out of Pensacola 76 00:07:30,551 --> 00:07:31,885 here in San Diego. 77 00:07:53,173 --> 00:07:55,776 From the time I was 22 78 00:07:55,876 --> 00:07:59,179 until I was 27, this was my life. 79 00:08:01,849 --> 00:08:04,051 In and out of San Diego, 80 00:08:04,151 --> 00:08:06,086 flying off aircraft carriers. 81 00:08:08,321 --> 00:08:11,224 This is where it all started for me. 82 00:08:27,207 --> 00:08:29,910 At that point, 22, 25, 83 00:08:30,010 --> 00:08:33,814 you're invincible and you're bulletproof. 84 00:08:38,218 --> 00:08:41,188 There isn't anything you can't do, 85 00:08:41,288 --> 00:08:43,791 you know, risk be damned. 86 00:08:53,901 --> 00:08:55,202 The fact of life is, 87 00:08:55,302 --> 00:08:59,640 naval aviation is a risky process. 88 00:09:02,242 --> 00:09:05,545 You don't have much room for error. 89 00:09:05,646 --> 00:09:07,848 If you get sloppy, you're gonna kill yourself. 90 00:09:20,761 --> 00:09:22,730 You live within that environment, 91 00:09:22,830 --> 00:09:25,565 you live within that culture, 92 00:09:25,666 --> 00:09:27,901 but you love it, and you keep doing it, 93 00:09:28,001 --> 00:09:29,569 and it doesn't discourage you, 94 00:09:29,670 --> 00:09:31,905 'cause it's not gonna happen to me. 95 00:09:32,005 --> 00:09:33,641 You know, it isn't gonna happen-- 96 00:09:33,741 --> 00:09:35,242 It's always gonna happen to the other guy. 97 00:09:35,342 --> 00:09:37,778 He screwed up. I'm not gonna screw up. 98 00:09:37,878 --> 00:09:39,680 That was the attitude you had to have. 99 00:09:43,116 --> 00:09:45,085 - Is that you? - Course it is. 100 00:09:45,185 --> 00:09:48,121 - That is you. - Red hot naval aviator. 101 00:09:48,221 --> 00:09:50,090 Invincible, invisible, and bulletproof. 102 00:09:50,190 --> 00:09:52,760 - Remember? - That's a stretch. 103 00:09:54,394 --> 00:09:56,930 There we are. That's it. 104 00:09:57,030 --> 00:09:59,266 The stingers. Here we go, up over the top. 105 00:09:59,366 --> 00:10:01,168 - The diamond roll. - There it is. 106 00:10:01,268 --> 00:10:04,271 - God, that was fun, baldy. - Yeah, we were flying. 107 00:10:04,371 --> 00:10:05,839 I made my first cruise with gene 108 00:10:05,939 --> 00:10:08,608 on the old U.S.S. Shangri-la. 109 00:10:08,709 --> 00:10:11,945 It was constant competition. 110 00:10:12,045 --> 00:10:14,114 Who could land better on the carrier. 111 00:10:14,214 --> 00:10:16,283 Who could bomb better on the carrier. 112 00:10:16,383 --> 00:10:18,285 We used to grab airplanes 113 00:10:18,385 --> 00:10:23,156 and go up and tail chase around the clouds. 114 00:10:23,256 --> 00:10:26,126 We were-- we were pretty impressed with ourselves. 115 00:10:26,226 --> 00:10:28,128 We have big egos. 116 00:10:28,228 --> 00:10:32,132 But I think you have to have a big ego 117 00:10:32,232 --> 00:10:35,302 to be able to do the intense type of flying 118 00:10:35,402 --> 00:10:38,405 that we were trained to do. 119 00:10:38,505 --> 00:10:41,809 When you land a plane on a carrier 120 00:10:41,909 --> 00:10:43,977 in the daytime is tricky enough. 121 00:10:44,077 --> 00:10:45,979 But when you do it at night, 122 00:10:46,079 --> 00:10:47,981 you're not thinking about your girlfriend. 123 00:10:48,081 --> 00:10:50,150 Well, gene might have been, but I wasn't. 124 00:10:50,250 --> 00:10:52,820 I was-- I was dead serious. 125 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,155 Now, cernan, who knows? 126 00:10:55,255 --> 00:10:57,925 Uh, he's kinda loose sometimes that way. 127 00:11:04,364 --> 00:11:06,934 Jesus. Now we got a fire. 128 00:11:09,202 --> 00:11:10,838 If you think back 129 00:11:10,938 --> 00:11:13,941 when you and I were in 113 together, okay? 130 00:11:14,041 --> 00:11:16,009 We flew together all the time, 131 00:11:16,109 --> 00:11:18,345 but were we competitive with each other? 132 00:11:18,445 --> 00:11:20,147 I was a hell of a lot better left wing man, 133 00:11:20,247 --> 00:11:22,182 than you were right wing man. 134 00:11:22,282 --> 00:11:24,852 No. No, but I was a hell of a lot better bomber than you were. 135 00:11:24,952 --> 00:11:26,887 You were lucky if you even hit the damn ground. 136 00:11:29,222 --> 00:11:33,193 Why were you so weak in bombing, gene? 137 00:11:33,293 --> 00:11:36,196 You were the weapons training officer. 138 00:11:36,296 --> 00:11:38,999 Baldy, it's 240,000 miles away. 139 00:11:39,099 --> 00:11:40,200 Anybody could hit that. 140 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:43,036 And my C.E.P. Was 50 miles. 141 00:11:43,136 --> 00:11:45,705 You were average in bombing. 142 00:11:45,806 --> 00:11:48,208 You were pretty good at getting aboard the boat. 143 00:11:48,308 --> 00:11:51,211 I knew you had a little fear at night. 144 00:11:51,311 --> 00:11:53,413 Do I have to listen to this crap? 145 00:11:53,513 --> 00:11:56,984 Do-- if I have to listen to this... 146 00:12:12,833 --> 00:12:15,068 I'm gonna make a circle over the field. 147 00:12:15,168 --> 00:12:18,071 But I'll come in behind you. 148 00:12:18,171 --> 00:12:20,273 Flying is a big part of my life. 149 00:12:22,843 --> 00:12:24,912 You got to have a passion, 150 00:12:25,012 --> 00:12:28,081 a love for what you're doing, 151 00:12:28,181 --> 00:12:29,850 or you shouldn't be doing it. 152 00:12:42,996 --> 00:12:45,265 I was an airline stewardess 153 00:12:45,365 --> 00:12:47,267 for continental airlines and I lived in Los Angeles. 154 00:12:47,367 --> 00:12:51,104 And I was in the airport and he was in the line. 155 00:12:51,204 --> 00:12:52,472 I did not remember him, 156 00:12:52,572 --> 00:12:54,107 but he said I smiled at him 157 00:12:54,207 --> 00:12:56,276 and he just thought that I was great. 158 00:12:56,376 --> 00:12:57,777 And I thought later-- 159 00:12:57,878 --> 00:12:58,946 I thought what he doesn't know, 160 00:12:59,046 --> 00:13:00,047 I have to smile at everybody 161 00:13:00,147 --> 00:13:01,949 because that was part of my job. 162 00:13:05,318 --> 00:13:07,787 The first time he came to my house. 163 00:13:07,888 --> 00:13:10,958 He had a-- I think it was, like, a '56 Chevrolet 164 00:13:11,058 --> 00:13:14,127 and it had kind of loud mufflers on it. 165 00:13:14,227 --> 00:13:15,462 I thought, "oh, my lord, 166 00:13:15,562 --> 00:13:17,064 he's a hot rod of some sort." 167 00:13:20,267 --> 00:13:22,302 She says she heard that 168 00:13:22,402 --> 00:13:24,137 when I pulled into the driveway. 169 00:13:24,237 --> 00:13:26,806 And she said, "oh, my god, what have I gotten into?" 170 00:13:28,241 --> 00:13:29,943 Well... 171 00:13:48,028 --> 00:13:50,297 We were very much in love. 172 00:13:50,397 --> 00:13:52,933 He was everything I could have asked for. 173 00:14:03,043 --> 00:14:05,012 And so we bought a home, 174 00:14:05,112 --> 00:14:06,346 and I started working. 175 00:14:06,446 --> 00:14:07,847 And I worked and then I worked 176 00:14:07,948 --> 00:14:09,349 up until I had Tracy, 177 00:14:09,449 --> 00:14:11,952 and that was two years after we were married. 178 00:14:14,387 --> 00:14:16,023 He was great with her. 179 00:14:16,123 --> 00:14:17,357 He was really-- he was good, 180 00:14:17,457 --> 00:14:18,358 and crazy about her. 181 00:14:18,458 --> 00:14:20,060 He still is. 182 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,362 That's his "punk." 183 00:14:22,462 --> 00:14:24,131 He calls her "punk." 184 00:14:31,071 --> 00:14:33,540 Man had his first great success in space, 185 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,209 when the Russians pushed a man across the threshold. 186 00:14:36,309 --> 00:14:37,544 He was Yuri Gagarin, 187 00:14:37,644 --> 00:14:39,546 the astronaut the Russians lionized 188 00:14:39,646 --> 00:14:41,548 as the first to orbit the earth. 189 00:14:41,648 --> 00:14:44,151 It was the propaganda coup of the year. 190 00:14:46,553 --> 00:14:49,556 After the Russian flight, U.S. plans were accelerated. 191 00:14:49,656 --> 00:14:51,224 Commander Alan B. Shepard 192 00:14:51,324 --> 00:14:52,459 was sent into suborbital flight. 193 00:14:52,559 --> 00:14:54,394 Unlike the Russian venture, 194 00:14:54,494 --> 00:14:56,229 this took place in the white hot glare 195 00:14:56,329 --> 00:14:58,065 of world-wide publicity. 196 00:14:58,165 --> 00:14:59,399 It was period of time 197 00:14:59,499 --> 00:15:01,234 when America needed a hero desperately, 198 00:15:01,334 --> 00:15:04,404 and Alan became that hero of the astronauts. 199 00:15:04,504 --> 00:15:07,574 The mercury seven were the real pathfinders 200 00:15:07,674 --> 00:15:09,242 of what was to happen in the future, 201 00:15:09,342 --> 00:15:12,579 which none of us really fully anticipated, 202 00:15:12,679 --> 00:15:14,948 especially me. 203 00:15:17,184 --> 00:15:18,585 Many years ago, 204 00:15:18,685 --> 00:15:21,421 the great British explorer George Mallory, 205 00:15:21,521 --> 00:15:24,424 who was to die on mount Everest, 206 00:15:24,524 --> 00:15:27,094 was asked why did he want to climb it. 207 00:15:27,194 --> 00:15:29,096 He said, "because it is there." 208 00:15:29,196 --> 00:15:30,263 Well, space is there. 209 00:15:30,363 --> 00:15:31,664 And we're going to climb it. 210 00:15:31,764 --> 00:15:34,434 And the moon and the planets are there. 211 00:15:34,534 --> 00:15:37,437 And new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. 212 00:15:37,537 --> 00:15:39,939 And therefore, as we set sail, 213 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:41,941 we ask god's blessing 214 00:15:42,042 --> 00:15:44,444 on the most hazardous, and dangerous, 215 00:15:44,544 --> 00:15:45,945 and greatest adventure 216 00:15:46,046 --> 00:15:47,614 on which man has ever embarked. 217 00:15:47,714 --> 00:15:49,116 Thank you. 218 00:16:19,679 --> 00:16:22,082 I had two reactions. 219 00:16:22,182 --> 00:16:23,650 The man just placed 220 00:16:23,750 --> 00:16:25,485 a hell of a responsibility 221 00:16:25,585 --> 00:16:27,554 on we in the space program, 222 00:16:27,654 --> 00:16:30,157 but I was pleased to hear that-- 223 00:16:30,257 --> 00:16:32,159 Very pleased to hear that. 224 00:16:32,259 --> 00:16:33,993 On the other hand, 225 00:16:34,094 --> 00:16:37,664 if I looked at what had to be done to get there, 226 00:16:37,764 --> 00:16:40,333 I thought he was crazy. 227 00:16:40,433 --> 00:16:42,335 We had a total of 20 minutes 228 00:16:42,435 --> 00:16:44,337 manned spaceflight experience. 229 00:16:44,437 --> 00:16:45,672 We had never been to orbit, 230 00:16:45,772 --> 00:16:48,575 and when were challenged to go to the moon. 231 00:16:48,675 --> 00:16:51,344 And our president had the confidence 232 00:16:51,444 --> 00:16:53,012 to issue this challenge 233 00:16:53,113 --> 00:16:54,681 and he had the confidence that we would do it. 234 00:17:23,743 --> 00:17:26,713 I remember he was so enthralled with that, 235 00:17:26,813 --> 00:17:29,716 and I said to him, "would you like to do something like that?" 236 00:17:29,816 --> 00:17:31,318 And he said, "oh, I'd love it." 237 00:17:31,418 --> 00:17:33,386 I'd love to do it. Just give me the chance. 238 00:17:33,486 --> 00:17:35,388 But by the time I get good enough, 239 00:17:35,488 --> 00:17:37,224 by the time I get qualified, 240 00:17:37,324 --> 00:17:38,725 by the time I meet all of their requirements, 241 00:17:38,825 --> 00:17:41,728 there won't be anything left to do. 242 00:17:41,828 --> 00:17:44,397 All the pioneering will be over. 243 00:17:44,497 --> 00:17:46,065 Don't ever shortchange yourself, 244 00:17:46,166 --> 00:17:49,269 you never ever know what fate has in store. 245 00:17:52,172 --> 00:17:54,073 I got a call out of the blue 246 00:17:54,174 --> 00:17:57,244 that NASA was looking for new astronauts 247 00:17:57,344 --> 00:17:59,812 and was I interested in applying? 248 00:17:59,912 --> 00:18:03,082 You bet I was. 249 00:18:03,183 --> 00:18:05,418 I was invited to Houston, 250 00:18:05,518 --> 00:18:08,521 but cautioned not to speak to anybody. 251 00:18:11,291 --> 00:18:14,594 I jumped into a cab, drove downtown. 252 00:18:14,694 --> 00:18:20,267 Checked into the old rice hotel under a fake name. 253 00:18:20,367 --> 00:18:22,101 It was like I just stepped 254 00:18:22,202 --> 00:18:25,438 into some crazy spy movie. 255 00:18:25,538 --> 00:18:27,607 And who did I meet in the hotel bar, 256 00:18:27,707 --> 00:18:29,276 but a whole bunch 257 00:18:29,376 --> 00:18:31,444 of the greatest test pilots in the country 258 00:18:31,544 --> 00:18:34,614 all checked in under the same name-- 259 00:18:34,714 --> 00:18:37,284 Max peck. 260 00:18:37,384 --> 00:18:40,787 For the next few days, they threw mountains of paperwork at us, 261 00:18:40,887 --> 00:18:43,856 and asked us questions I knew nothing about. 262 00:18:46,659 --> 00:18:51,798 The next step was a physical at San Antonio. 263 00:18:51,898 --> 00:18:54,467 I've never been subject to anything like that 264 00:18:54,567 --> 00:18:55,735 in my entire life. 265 00:18:58,338 --> 00:19:00,240 Every cavity in your body 266 00:19:00,340 --> 00:19:01,808 had something stuck into it. 267 00:19:04,411 --> 00:19:06,313 They put cold water in our ears 268 00:19:06,413 --> 00:19:09,316 and spun us around like a top. 269 00:19:09,416 --> 00:19:11,584 I was dizzier than a grasshopper. 270 00:19:14,354 --> 00:19:16,656 Then they put us in this idiot box 271 00:19:16,756 --> 00:19:20,327 to see how we could react to the unknown. 272 00:19:20,427 --> 00:19:22,329 Up was no longer up, it was down. 273 00:19:22,429 --> 00:19:24,163 Red was green, green was red. 274 00:19:24,264 --> 00:19:26,333 Left was right. 275 00:19:26,433 --> 00:19:29,602 They did everything possible to confuse us. 276 00:19:32,372 --> 00:19:33,673 And at the end of it all, 277 00:19:33,773 --> 00:19:36,843 all we were told to do was go home. 278 00:19:36,943 --> 00:19:40,280 "Don't call us. We'll call you." 279 00:19:41,948 --> 00:19:44,183 When the phone rang, it was my future boss, 280 00:19:44,284 --> 00:19:45,852 Deke Slayton. 281 00:19:45,952 --> 00:19:48,855 He said, "geno, we've got a job for you 282 00:19:48,955 --> 00:19:51,791 in Houston if you still want it." 283 00:19:51,891 --> 00:19:56,529 And of course from that point on, 284 00:19:56,629 --> 00:20:00,199 my life was changed forever. 285 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:03,870 I just was selected for the space program. 286 00:20:03,970 --> 00:20:05,305 Wow. 287 00:20:09,576 --> 00:20:12,379 * zoom a little zoom in a rocket ship * 288 00:20:12,479 --> 00:20:15,214 * off we go on a trip 289 00:20:15,315 --> 00:20:17,917 * heading for the moon at a rocket clip * 290 00:20:18,017 --> 00:20:19,852 * we're gonna zoom zoom 291 00:20:19,952 --> 00:20:20,887 * rocket 292 00:20:20,987 --> 00:20:22,255 * zoom a little zoom 293 00:20:22,355 --> 00:20:24,223 * now we're almost free 294 00:20:24,324 --> 00:20:26,893 * from the earth's gravity 295 00:20:26,993 --> 00:20:30,397 * zooming to the moon at terrific speed... * 296 00:20:30,497 --> 00:20:33,300 We did all the general training going in 297 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,002 before we ever got assigned to a flight. 298 00:20:36,102 --> 00:20:37,937 We had desert survival. 299 00:20:38,037 --> 00:20:39,572 We did a little water survival. 300 00:20:39,672 --> 00:20:42,342 We did jungle survival. 301 00:20:43,943 --> 00:20:46,313 They gave us a fishhook and a machete 302 00:20:46,413 --> 00:20:48,315 and dropped us in a helicopter 303 00:20:48,415 --> 00:20:49,782 somewhere out in the middle of the jungle 304 00:20:49,882 --> 00:20:51,984 in panama. 305 00:20:52,084 --> 00:20:53,920 All that survival training, 306 00:20:54,020 --> 00:20:57,757 it teaches you something about yourself. 307 00:20:57,857 --> 00:21:00,660 Most of us had technical engineering backgrounds 308 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,295 of one kind or another, 309 00:21:02,395 --> 00:21:04,664 but we were starting school all over again. 310 00:21:04,764 --> 00:21:08,801 Orbital mechanics, which I knew absolutely nothing about. 311 00:21:08,901 --> 00:21:12,839 Geology, which I really knew little or nothing about. 312 00:21:14,874 --> 00:21:20,046 We were doing something somewhere all the time. 313 00:21:20,146 --> 00:21:21,581 They'd go to work in the mornings 314 00:21:21,681 --> 00:21:23,450 and come home late. 315 00:21:23,550 --> 00:21:24,817 And this was before they were training for a mission. 316 00:21:24,917 --> 00:21:26,719 They were just getting their feet wet 317 00:21:26,819 --> 00:21:29,722 at that particular time. 318 00:21:29,822 --> 00:21:31,724 And we were bombarded 319 00:21:31,824 --> 00:21:34,861 with photographers and press, 320 00:21:34,961 --> 00:21:38,965 and, you know, it was like a whirlwind. 321 00:21:39,065 --> 00:21:40,667 It was fame. 322 00:21:40,767 --> 00:21:45,071 Wasn't necessarily fortune, but it was fame, 323 00:21:45,171 --> 00:21:49,041 and you had to learn how to deal with it. 324 00:21:49,141 --> 00:21:51,077 I mean, you walked around with-- 325 00:21:51,177 --> 00:21:53,346 With a halo over your head. 326 00:21:53,446 --> 00:21:54,547 You were special. 327 00:22:32,184 --> 00:22:36,022 One day, they say very confidentially, 328 00:22:36,122 --> 00:22:38,958 we're gonna set up an appointment for you to get fitted 329 00:22:39,058 --> 00:22:40,793 for a suit... 330 00:22:40,893 --> 00:22:42,929 For a space suit. 331 00:22:43,029 --> 00:22:44,063 I mean, all of a sudden. 332 00:22:44,163 --> 00:22:45,965 Wow. 333 00:22:48,134 --> 00:22:49,969 You don't know what that's going to lead to, 334 00:22:50,069 --> 00:22:51,638 but you know what it means. 335 00:22:55,942 --> 00:22:58,044 In the fall of 1965, 336 00:22:58,144 --> 00:23:01,013 the Gemini 9 crew was announced. 337 00:23:01,113 --> 00:23:05,452 Charlie Bassett was going to be the prime pilot 338 00:23:05,552 --> 00:23:07,119 with Elliot see, 339 00:23:07,219 --> 00:23:09,956 and Tom Stafford and I were gonna be the backup crew. 340 00:23:12,224 --> 00:23:15,027 And charlie and I were doing the same thing. 341 00:23:15,127 --> 00:23:17,764 We flew together. We went places together. 342 00:23:17,864 --> 00:23:19,499 We trained together. 343 00:23:19,599 --> 00:23:21,668 We did everything together 344 00:23:21,768 --> 00:23:25,738 that our side of the spacecraft had to do. 345 00:23:25,838 --> 00:23:27,774 So we got to be pretty good friends. 346 00:23:34,180 --> 00:23:39,719 And then in February of '66 347 00:23:39,819 --> 00:23:42,522 the totally unexpected happened. 348 00:23:53,232 --> 00:23:55,167 I heard this big crash. 349 00:23:55,267 --> 00:23:57,704 And then a few seconds later, this big explosion, 350 00:23:57,804 --> 00:24:00,039 a big black cloud mushroomed up 351 00:24:00,139 --> 00:24:02,642 and parts from the airplane just flew everywhere. 352 00:24:02,742 --> 00:24:04,143 No chance to do anything for the two men? 353 00:24:04,243 --> 00:24:05,812 No. None. Not at all. 354 00:24:08,648 --> 00:24:09,716 Minutes after the crash, 355 00:24:09,816 --> 00:24:11,017 the Gemini 9 backup crew 356 00:24:11,117 --> 00:24:13,219 of Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford 357 00:24:13,319 --> 00:24:14,587 came in safely from Houston 358 00:24:14,687 --> 00:24:15,788 in a similar jet. 359 00:24:15,888 --> 00:24:16,923 And tonight NASA announces 360 00:24:17,023 --> 00:24:18,858 they now become the prime crew 361 00:24:18,958 --> 00:24:20,092 for the Gemini 9 flight. 362 00:24:24,997 --> 00:24:28,034 That was just a devastating time. 363 00:24:28,134 --> 00:24:31,704 It was just horrible. 364 00:24:31,804 --> 00:24:33,005 You just realized then I guess 365 00:24:33,105 --> 00:24:34,774 how close it can be. 366 00:24:38,811 --> 00:24:41,047 Aim. 367 00:24:41,147 --> 00:24:42,048 Aim. 368 00:24:42,148 --> 00:24:43,516 Aim. 369 00:24:48,054 --> 00:24:50,189 It was very traumatic at the time. 370 00:24:50,289 --> 00:24:52,892 But then we had a job to do, 371 00:24:52,992 --> 00:24:56,062 to go on and fly the mission. 372 00:24:56,162 --> 00:24:58,898 And we had a short period of time to do it. 373 00:24:58,998 --> 00:25:01,033 I'd had a lot of experience in Gemini. 374 00:25:01,133 --> 00:25:04,503 Gene had no experience in Gemini. 375 00:25:04,604 --> 00:25:05,605 So we had to concentrate 376 00:25:05,705 --> 00:25:07,139 on getting him up to speed 377 00:25:07,239 --> 00:25:09,576 on all the procedures and techniques 378 00:25:09,676 --> 00:25:11,110 and the duties he had. 379 00:25:17,784 --> 00:25:22,555 Suddenly, after this accident, 380 00:25:22,655 --> 00:25:25,124 I found myself on my very first flight. 381 00:25:27,794 --> 00:25:31,263 This is Gemini launch control. 382 00:25:31,363 --> 00:25:32,765 T-minus ten... 383 00:25:32,865 --> 00:25:34,667 Nine... eight... 384 00:25:34,767 --> 00:25:36,535 Seven... six... 385 00:25:36,636 --> 00:25:38,204 Five... four... 386 00:25:38,304 --> 00:25:40,072 Three... 387 00:25:40,172 --> 00:25:42,575 One... zero. 388 00:25:42,675 --> 00:25:44,043 We have ignition. 389 00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:35,962 The real world's got a lot of surprises 390 00:26:36,062 --> 00:26:39,899 and we found a great many of them on Gemini 9. 391 00:26:49,141 --> 00:26:52,044 When I stepped out of that spacecraft, 392 00:26:52,144 --> 00:26:54,714 we were really headed out into the unknown. 393 00:26:58,685 --> 00:27:01,954 The umbilical was about 25 feet long 394 00:27:02,054 --> 00:27:04,123 and it was-- it was like a snake. 395 00:27:06,192 --> 00:27:08,160 If it brought me back to the spacecraft, 396 00:27:08,260 --> 00:27:10,763 I'd hit it with my foot or my arm 397 00:27:10,863 --> 00:27:13,132 or my helmet or whatever, 398 00:27:13,232 --> 00:27:16,002 and I'd go tumbling back out. 399 00:27:16,102 --> 00:27:18,137 I mean, I was upside down, sideways-- 400 00:27:18,237 --> 00:27:19,906 The earth might have been up here, 401 00:27:20,006 --> 00:27:21,841 it might have been down there. I don't know. 402 00:27:21,941 --> 00:27:25,011 I was just helpless. 403 00:27:40,326 --> 00:27:43,395 I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing 404 00:27:43,495 --> 00:27:46,933 and it isn't working. 405 00:27:47,033 --> 00:27:49,168 And it isn't going to go away unless something-- 406 00:27:49,268 --> 00:27:51,070 I do something about it, 407 00:27:51,170 --> 00:27:54,106 and I wasn't sure what the next step was going to be. 408 00:28:05,818 --> 00:28:07,787 Once I got behind the spacecraft, 409 00:28:07,887 --> 00:28:11,690 the umbilical was not my problem. 410 00:28:11,791 --> 00:28:15,361 My task was to basically assemble the jetpack. 411 00:28:17,229 --> 00:28:19,398 I had to turn oxygen valves on 412 00:28:19,498 --> 00:28:21,801 and fuel valves. 413 00:28:21,901 --> 00:28:25,872 And every time I turned them, 414 00:28:25,972 --> 00:28:28,207 off I would go back into space. 415 00:28:33,212 --> 00:28:35,481 We had no proper handholds. 416 00:28:35,581 --> 00:28:37,917 The foot restraints, 417 00:28:38,017 --> 00:28:39,385 tethers-- any of that. 418 00:28:41,888 --> 00:28:44,056 I was working pretty hard. 419 00:28:44,156 --> 00:28:47,393 My heart rate was 160, 170. 420 00:28:48,928 --> 00:28:51,163 I knew it. The ground knew it. 421 00:28:51,263 --> 00:28:54,934 I knew I was driving the doctors bananas down there 422 00:28:55,034 --> 00:28:58,070 because they've never confronted this type of thing before. 423 00:29:00,807 --> 00:29:03,776 Don't forget, the spacecraft is going around the world 424 00:29:03,876 --> 00:29:04,977 once every 90 minutes. 425 00:29:08,114 --> 00:29:10,182 And the moment the sun went down, 426 00:29:10,282 --> 00:29:12,184 he fogged over, 427 00:29:12,284 --> 00:29:13,853 so he could not see. 428 00:29:24,196 --> 00:29:28,400 It was very frustrating here on the ground, 429 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,537 listening to gene and knowing he was in trouble, 430 00:29:31,637 --> 00:29:35,107 but there was nothing I could do about it. 431 00:29:35,207 --> 00:29:37,844 His body temperature was increasing. 432 00:29:37,944 --> 00:29:40,446 Deep core temperature was increasing. 433 00:29:53,459 --> 00:29:55,127 Okay, we have that. Roger. 434 00:29:55,227 --> 00:29:58,865 We concur on the no-go. 435 00:29:58,965 --> 00:30:03,002 It was the process of really coming to grips 436 00:30:03,102 --> 00:30:05,104 for the first time 437 00:30:05,204 --> 00:30:06,372 that there was something 438 00:30:06,472 --> 00:30:09,575 about this element of space flight 439 00:30:09,675 --> 00:30:13,846 that we did not have a good handle on yet. 440 00:30:13,946 --> 00:30:17,083 We had many lessons to learn along the way. 441 00:30:26,492 --> 00:30:31,197 I was really disappointed, 442 00:30:31,297 --> 00:30:35,534 because I was sent up to do a job 443 00:30:35,634 --> 00:30:38,437 and I didn't get it done. 444 00:30:43,342 --> 00:30:44,911 Tom Stafford did a great job. 445 00:30:45,011 --> 00:30:48,114 Cernan himself did a great job, 446 00:30:48,214 --> 00:30:50,917 but they did have some tough moments, 447 00:30:51,017 --> 00:30:52,451 and we learned a lot from that. 448 00:30:54,987 --> 00:30:57,523 It was Cernan's failures 449 00:30:57,623 --> 00:31:00,359 that caused us to eventually do it right. 450 00:31:43,602 --> 00:31:45,071 We moved in this house 451 00:31:45,171 --> 00:31:48,907 when Tracy was nine months old... 452 00:31:49,008 --> 00:31:53,012 In 1964. 453 00:31:53,112 --> 00:31:55,347 House is almost 50 years old. 454 00:31:55,447 --> 00:31:57,583 This neighborhood's almost 50 years old. 455 00:31:57,683 --> 00:32:01,253 There wasn't much here. 456 00:32:01,353 --> 00:32:03,522 On the corner was Mike Collins. 457 00:32:03,622 --> 00:32:07,359 Charlie Bassett, Al Bean lived down the street. 458 00:32:07,459 --> 00:32:11,063 Rusty Schweickart lived here. 459 00:32:11,163 --> 00:32:13,332 That little house right there 460 00:32:13,432 --> 00:32:14,933 has a lot of history in the walls, 461 00:32:15,034 --> 00:32:16,202 if they could only talk. 462 00:32:29,448 --> 00:32:31,717 * here we are again 463 00:32:31,817 --> 00:32:34,620 * happy as can be 464 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,122 * all good pals 465 00:32:36,222 --> 00:32:38,290 * and jolly good company 466 00:32:38,390 --> 00:32:40,059 We were all pretty close, 467 00:32:40,159 --> 00:32:42,628 but I think I was probably closer to Martha Chaffee. 468 00:32:42,728 --> 00:32:43,962 She lived next door to me, 469 00:32:44,063 --> 00:32:45,197 and she and I were very close. 470 00:32:45,297 --> 00:32:47,499 Oh, we were always back and forth, 471 00:32:47,599 --> 00:32:50,469 I mean, between our houses. 472 00:32:50,569 --> 00:32:52,638 And we did go to the same hairdresser, 473 00:32:52,738 --> 00:32:54,106 and we'd have lunch, 474 00:32:54,206 --> 00:32:57,343 and the normal things that women do. 475 00:32:57,443 --> 00:32:59,011 We were like sisters. 476 00:32:59,111 --> 00:33:01,580 * whoops we go again 477 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:02,748 * la-di-da-di-da 478 00:33:02,848 --> 00:33:05,584 we were already close, I think. 479 00:33:05,684 --> 00:33:07,686 We're all vying to be first guy 480 00:33:07,786 --> 00:33:10,022 to land on the moon, obviously. 481 00:33:10,122 --> 00:33:13,159 But we were very close in our social activities, 482 00:33:13,259 --> 00:33:15,327 our training activities, 483 00:33:15,427 --> 00:33:19,331 and so it was a small band of brothers. 484 00:33:19,431 --> 00:33:20,999 * jolly good company 485 00:33:23,335 --> 00:33:26,405 we'd have a drink together occasionally. 486 00:33:26,505 --> 00:33:29,241 I won't go into any more details. 487 00:33:29,341 --> 00:33:31,443 * such good company 488 00:33:31,543 --> 00:33:33,445 * la-di-da-di-da 489 00:33:33,545 --> 00:33:37,216 * hey, la-di-da-di-dee 490 00:33:37,316 --> 00:33:40,319 I don't want to sound like they were wild, 491 00:33:40,419 --> 00:33:42,554 but they were a little crazy. 492 00:33:46,225 --> 00:33:49,095 Oh, I don't know about "the wild bunch" or not, 493 00:33:49,195 --> 00:33:50,362 but I'd like to think 494 00:33:50,462 --> 00:33:52,198 we worked hard and we played hard. 495 00:33:52,298 --> 00:33:54,333 * jolly good company, hey 496 00:33:54,433 --> 00:33:56,768 * jolly good company 497 00:33:56,868 --> 00:33:59,438 * jolly good company 498 00:33:59,538 --> 00:34:01,740 * jolly good company, hey 499 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,509 * jolly good company 500 00:34:05,811 --> 00:34:08,147 we all got along well. 501 00:34:08,247 --> 00:34:10,149 We liked some people better than others, 502 00:34:10,249 --> 00:34:11,650 just like any group. 503 00:34:11,750 --> 00:34:14,220 We were all trying to do the same thing. 504 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,722 We were willing to make sacrifices 505 00:34:16,822 --> 00:34:20,159 to achieve the dream of getting to the moon. 506 00:34:20,259 --> 00:34:22,294 But we knew going in 507 00:34:22,394 --> 00:34:24,230 that some people weren't gonna make it. 508 00:34:34,173 --> 00:34:36,442 We do everything we possibly can 509 00:34:36,542 --> 00:34:38,144 to make sure that it is as safe 510 00:34:38,244 --> 00:34:39,778 as we can possibly make it. 511 00:34:39,878 --> 00:34:41,647 But one of these days, 512 00:34:41,747 --> 00:34:43,715 there are going to be some mistakes made, 513 00:34:43,815 --> 00:34:47,419 either in the systems design or we on the ground, 514 00:34:47,519 --> 00:34:49,421 which result in an accident 515 00:34:49,521 --> 00:34:51,357 and maybe a fatal one. 516 00:34:59,298 --> 00:35:00,766 We interrupt this program 517 00:35:00,866 --> 00:35:03,669 to bring you a special report from ABC news. 518 00:35:03,769 --> 00:35:07,773 There's been a fire on the pad. 519 00:35:07,873 --> 00:35:10,209 What happened? They're dead. 520 00:35:14,746 --> 00:35:16,215 Top space agency officials 521 00:35:16,315 --> 00:35:18,184 are flying to cape Kennedy tonight 522 00:35:18,284 --> 00:35:19,651 to begin the official investigation 523 00:35:19,751 --> 00:35:21,587 into what caused the flash fire 524 00:35:21,687 --> 00:35:23,755 that killed the nation's first three Apollo astronauts 525 00:35:23,855 --> 00:35:25,123 earlier tonight. 526 00:35:25,224 --> 00:35:28,227 Lieutenant colonel Gus Grissom, 42; 527 00:35:28,327 --> 00:35:30,362 Lieutenant colonel ed white, 36; 528 00:35:30,462 --> 00:35:33,131 And lieutenant commander roger Chaffee, 31; 529 00:35:33,232 --> 00:35:34,766 All died in moments, 530 00:35:34,866 --> 00:35:37,403 helplessly trapped inside their spacecraft. 531 00:35:43,542 --> 00:35:48,314 I was sitting at that console right there 532 00:35:48,414 --> 00:35:52,651 when Grissom, Chaffee, and white were killed. 533 00:35:52,751 --> 00:35:54,853 I listened to them die. 534 00:36:03,395 --> 00:36:07,333 That evening, January 27th, a Friday, 535 00:36:07,433 --> 00:36:11,937 I was giving my kids hot dogs... 536 00:36:12,037 --> 00:36:14,906 And then somebody said there'd been an accident. 537 00:36:17,376 --> 00:36:21,413 So when Mike Collins finally came... 538 00:36:21,513 --> 00:36:25,751 To the door and I saw him, I knew. 539 00:36:25,851 --> 00:36:26,852 I knew already. 540 00:36:26,952 --> 00:36:31,957 I said, "I know, mike, but... 541 00:36:32,057 --> 00:36:33,425 You've got to tell me." 542 00:36:35,261 --> 00:36:36,862 And he did. 543 00:36:36,962 --> 00:36:40,532 And I took my children into the-- 544 00:36:43,535 --> 00:36:45,304 I'm sorry. 545 00:36:47,373 --> 00:36:49,941 I took my children into the bedroom, 546 00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:52,210 and trying to tell... 547 00:36:54,780 --> 00:36:57,816 An eight-year-old and a five-year-old 548 00:36:57,916 --> 00:37:00,352 that they're dad wasn't coming home, 549 00:37:00,452 --> 00:37:01,887 it's hard. 550 00:37:06,057 --> 00:37:08,727 And I went home and... 551 00:37:08,827 --> 00:37:09,995 Pulled in my driveway, 552 00:37:10,095 --> 00:37:11,330 still in the flight suit. 553 00:37:11,430 --> 00:37:12,764 Cars all over the street. 554 00:37:15,934 --> 00:37:18,837 NASA security around. 555 00:37:18,937 --> 00:37:21,340 Walked right across the lawn 556 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:22,774 to Martha's house. 557 00:37:26,512 --> 00:37:29,581 I dreaded-- 558 00:37:29,681 --> 00:37:31,783 I dreaded the moment. 559 00:37:51,102 --> 00:37:52,604 Arlington. 560 00:37:52,704 --> 00:37:57,343 Cold January day. 561 00:37:57,443 --> 00:38:00,579 I wasn't sure whether we were burying three of our colleagues 562 00:38:00,679 --> 00:38:04,282 or whether we were burying the entire Apollo program. 563 00:38:12,491 --> 00:38:14,926 Because we knew the Chaffees so well, 564 00:38:15,026 --> 00:38:19,931 I was asked to stay with Martha. 565 00:38:20,031 --> 00:38:23,034 And I did. 566 00:38:23,134 --> 00:38:26,805 Sat next to her at the cemetery. 567 00:38:26,905 --> 00:38:29,708 How she held her composure, 568 00:38:29,808 --> 00:38:31,042 I don't know. 569 00:38:52,030 --> 00:38:53,799 Good-bye, my friend. 570 00:39:10,616 --> 00:39:13,084 The Apollo 1 fire changed us forever... 571 00:39:14,686 --> 00:39:17,923 And we've never forgotten it. 572 00:39:18,023 --> 00:39:20,792 In our business of space flight, 573 00:39:20,892 --> 00:39:23,462 risk is the price of progress. 574 00:40:01,567 --> 00:40:03,435 * and the sign said 575 00:40:03,535 --> 00:40:05,504 * long-haired freaky people * 576 00:40:05,604 --> 00:40:08,039 * need not apply... 577 00:40:08,139 --> 00:40:09,908 The world was in a mess, 578 00:40:10,008 --> 00:40:12,944 the country was in a mess, 579 00:40:13,044 --> 00:40:17,415 but this was going on out there somewhere. 580 00:40:17,516 --> 00:40:19,084 Maybe we were a little cocoon 581 00:40:19,184 --> 00:40:20,919 in the middle of this big world of ours. 582 00:40:21,019 --> 00:40:24,623 * so I took off my hat and said imagine that... * 583 00:40:24,723 --> 00:40:27,859 You know, we had a mission to do-- 584 00:40:27,959 --> 00:40:29,895 Astronauts, engineers, 585 00:40:29,995 --> 00:40:32,631 all sorts of people working for NASA, 586 00:40:32,731 --> 00:40:34,866 all working towards the same goal. 587 00:40:34,966 --> 00:40:40,539 * can't you read the sign 588 00:40:45,544 --> 00:40:48,547 Man, I was working my butt off, 589 00:40:48,647 --> 00:40:50,982 and I never really appreciated 590 00:40:51,082 --> 00:40:53,919 what was going on at home. 591 00:40:54,019 --> 00:40:57,088 I think the wives played an important part 592 00:40:57,188 --> 00:40:59,958 because we did everything when they weren't there, 593 00:41:00,058 --> 00:41:02,594 which they weren't there most of the time. 594 00:41:02,694 --> 00:41:03,962 I think he'd be the first to tell you 595 00:41:04,062 --> 00:41:05,997 that I pulled my share of the load. 596 00:41:08,066 --> 00:41:10,235 They'd been home taking care of the kids. 597 00:41:10,335 --> 00:41:11,703 Paying the bills, 598 00:41:11,803 --> 00:41:13,204 seeing the kids get to school 599 00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:15,941 and do their homework. 600 00:41:16,041 --> 00:41:20,245 We were unfair. We were selfish. 601 00:41:20,345 --> 00:41:22,914 We were not very good husbands. 602 00:41:23,014 --> 00:41:25,751 We weren't very good fathers either. 603 00:41:25,851 --> 00:41:28,186 And sometimes you can't balance things 604 00:41:28,286 --> 00:41:30,021 like work and family. 605 00:41:30,121 --> 00:41:33,559 Like, we had-- this is how the work is 606 00:41:33,659 --> 00:41:35,694 and the family is way down here. 607 00:41:35,794 --> 00:41:37,128 If you didn't do this, 608 00:41:37,228 --> 00:41:39,798 you weren't gonna stay as an astronaut. 609 00:41:39,898 --> 00:41:41,132 That's simple. 610 00:41:41,232 --> 00:41:43,034 We weren't interested in this. 611 00:41:43,134 --> 00:41:45,036 We were interested in this. 612 00:42:19,871 --> 00:42:21,139 We're gonna be the second flight 613 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,275 to ever go to the moon-- 614 00:42:24,375 --> 00:42:27,012 Stafford, young, and myself. 615 00:42:27,112 --> 00:42:31,182 We're gonna get on a big ol' Saturn V. 616 00:42:31,282 --> 00:42:33,719 It was a big chunk to swallow. 617 00:42:35,754 --> 00:42:36,922 You're sitting on the top 618 00:42:37,022 --> 00:42:40,759 of 2,740 tons of equivalent TNT. 619 00:42:40,859 --> 00:42:43,995 Do you know fear or apprehension? 620 00:42:44,095 --> 00:42:47,298 I didn't before you told me it was that much TNT. 621 00:43:09,187 --> 00:43:11,189 The last couple of days before launch 622 00:43:11,289 --> 00:43:13,692 get pretty intense. 623 00:43:16,895 --> 00:43:18,897 It is a very personal time, 624 00:43:18,997 --> 00:43:21,933 and it was a very loving time. 625 00:43:22,033 --> 00:43:24,703 You realize that unless god's willing, 626 00:43:24,803 --> 00:43:26,672 I might not ever see you again, 627 00:43:26,772 --> 00:43:30,241 or he might not see us again. 628 00:43:30,341 --> 00:43:32,043 What if doesn't come back? 629 00:43:38,116 --> 00:43:39,718 The night before I flew, 630 00:43:39,818 --> 00:43:43,321 I wrote a letter to Tracy just in case. 631 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:53,231 "To my dar-- darling daughter, Tracy. 632 00:43:53,331 --> 00:43:58,303 Trace, you're almost too young to understand 633 00:43:58,403 --> 00:44:03,108 what it means to have your daddy go to the moon. 634 00:44:03,208 --> 00:44:04,910 But someday, 635 00:44:05,010 --> 00:44:08,213 you'll have the feeling of excitement and pride 636 00:44:08,313 --> 00:44:10,648 that mommy and daddy do. 637 00:44:10,749 --> 00:44:14,686 Punk, we have lots of camping 638 00:44:14,786 --> 00:44:19,424 and horseback riding to do when I get back. 639 00:44:19,524 --> 00:44:21,893 I want you to look at the moon, 640 00:44:21,993 --> 00:44:24,395 because when you are reading this, 641 00:44:24,495 --> 00:44:29,067 daddy is almost there. 642 00:44:29,167 --> 00:44:31,002 I love you Tracy. 643 00:44:31,102 --> 00:44:34,139 My wonderful... 644 00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,808 And beautiful daughter. 645 00:44:36,908 --> 00:44:38,076 All my love." 646 00:44:54,359 --> 00:44:55,794 You don't sleep that well, 647 00:44:55,894 --> 00:44:58,764 you get up fairly early in the morning. 648 00:44:58,864 --> 00:45:00,866 You have your traditional breakfast. 649 00:45:08,073 --> 00:45:09,474 Then you go down and get suited up. 650 00:45:12,510 --> 00:45:15,280 You've been suited up a thousand times before 651 00:45:15,380 --> 00:45:19,284 for all kinds of tests and what have you. 652 00:45:19,384 --> 00:45:21,119 This is for real. 653 00:45:32,097 --> 00:45:35,333 The worst part of it all is just waiting. 654 00:45:44,175 --> 00:45:47,412 And then at last it's-- it's time to go. 655 00:45:51,817 --> 00:45:53,819 Your adrenaline is pumping pretty strong 656 00:45:53,919 --> 00:45:55,320 at that point in time. 657 00:45:59,090 --> 00:46:02,493 You know, you can hear yourself breathe inside that suit. 658 00:46:17,142 --> 00:46:20,211 T-minus 33 minutes and 30 seconds. 659 00:46:20,311 --> 00:46:24,182 33 minutes until the scheduled liftoff of Apollo 10. 660 00:46:24,282 --> 00:46:25,550 This Saturn V, by the way, 661 00:46:25,650 --> 00:46:28,319 is the most powerful Saturn V ever to fly, 662 00:46:28,419 --> 00:46:33,024 with 7,700,000 pounds of first stage power... 663 00:46:33,124 --> 00:46:34,125 Two minutes and counting. 664 00:46:34,225 --> 00:46:35,961 Our status board indicates 665 00:46:36,061 --> 00:46:38,063 here in the control room... 666 00:46:41,532 --> 00:46:44,836 It's no longer something you're gonna do. 667 00:46:44,936 --> 00:46:48,139 It's something that's happening. 668 00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:54,145 It's happening right now to you. 669 00:47:27,612 --> 00:47:30,515 Everything intensifies. 670 00:47:32,650 --> 00:47:34,519 ...Seconds and counting. 671 00:47:34,619 --> 00:47:37,923 We are go for our mission to the moon at this time... 672 00:47:39,690 --> 00:47:42,027 But the clock keeps going. 673 00:47:44,129 --> 00:47:46,197 All systems are performing satisfactorily. 674 00:47:46,297 --> 00:47:51,136 All the last minute countdown checks are proceeding okay. 675 00:47:54,072 --> 00:47:56,307 This is it. This is for real. 676 00:47:59,077 --> 00:48:00,545 That thing's gonna light off under you 677 00:48:00,645 --> 00:48:02,613 and you're gonna head on out to the moon. 678 00:48:04,649 --> 00:48:07,085 15... 14... 679 00:48:07,185 --> 00:48:09,654 13... 12... 11... 680 00:48:09,754 --> 00:48:11,389 Ten... nine... 681 00:48:11,489 --> 00:48:14,892 We have ignition sequence start. 682 00:48:14,993 --> 00:48:16,661 And five... four... 683 00:48:16,761 --> 00:48:18,663 Three... two... 684 00:48:18,763 --> 00:48:21,266 All engines running. 685 00:48:21,366 --> 00:48:23,301 Launch, commence liftoff. 686 00:48:23,401 --> 00:48:27,005 We have liftoff, 49 minutes past the hour. 687 00:48:45,023 --> 00:48:46,191 You're go staging 10. 688 00:48:46,291 --> 00:48:48,559 Roger. 10 is go. 689 00:48:48,659 --> 00:48:50,195 Inboard shutdown. 690 00:49:06,677 --> 00:49:10,115 What a ride. What a ride. 691 00:49:10,215 --> 00:49:13,251 That's gene cernan reporting, "what a ride." 692 00:49:40,111 --> 00:49:41,679 It was America that was going to the moon, 693 00:49:41,779 --> 00:49:45,516 but the fact of life, it was 20th century humanity 694 00:49:45,616 --> 00:49:46,651 that was going to the moon. 695 00:49:46,751 --> 00:49:48,653 The entire world was on board 696 00:49:48,753 --> 00:49:50,288 that spacecraft with us. 697 00:49:52,557 --> 00:49:57,128 - Station point one. - Roger. 698 00:49:57,228 --> 00:49:59,164 Looking good intermediate zone. 699 00:50:10,741 --> 00:50:14,612 Apollo 10, Houston, do you read? 700 00:50:14,712 --> 00:50:17,748 Roger. 701 00:50:17,848 --> 00:50:20,585 10, you're go for pyro arm and go for sep. 702 00:50:20,685 --> 00:50:23,154 Roger. 703 00:50:25,523 --> 00:50:26,757 We have sep. 704 00:50:30,295 --> 00:50:32,663 The world is incredible. 705 00:50:32,763 --> 00:50:35,300 I sure hope we can show it to you, I really do. 706 00:50:39,104 --> 00:50:43,341 You're part of this big thing that's going on, 707 00:50:43,441 --> 00:50:45,376 and yet you don't realize 708 00:50:45,476 --> 00:50:47,278 how big a thing it is, quite frankly. 709 00:50:49,414 --> 00:50:52,117 You don't fully comprehend it all. 710 00:51:13,538 --> 00:51:17,442 10, Houston, 22 looks good to us. 711 00:51:17,542 --> 00:51:20,511 I gotta check the thrusters here now. 712 00:51:30,155 --> 00:51:33,090 You look out the window, 713 00:51:33,191 --> 00:51:35,693 your whole window is filled up with the earth. 714 00:51:37,895 --> 00:51:39,830 How's that for the front porch? 715 00:51:39,930 --> 00:51:41,332 Oh, boy, that's beautiful. 716 00:51:49,407 --> 00:51:50,841 10, it's looking real stable to us. 717 00:51:50,941 --> 00:51:52,710 We show you closing slightly. 718 00:51:55,880 --> 00:52:00,218 Charlie, we can't be more than about 5, 10 feet away. 719 00:52:00,318 --> 00:52:01,652 Roger. 720 00:52:08,759 --> 00:52:10,295 Snap, snap, and we're there. 721 00:52:10,395 --> 00:52:13,198 - Got two grays. - Roger. 722 00:52:24,475 --> 00:52:27,545 You capture that lunar module 723 00:52:27,645 --> 00:52:29,547 and we're on our way. 724 00:52:34,585 --> 00:52:40,191 You now regain consciousness as to where you are 725 00:52:40,291 --> 00:52:41,759 and where you're going. 726 00:52:48,466 --> 00:52:51,736 ABC news presents the flight of Apollo 10, 727 00:52:51,836 --> 00:52:53,704 brought to you by tang, 728 00:52:53,804 --> 00:52:54,905 the energy breakfast drink 729 00:52:55,005 --> 00:52:57,908 for astronauts in outer space. 730 00:52:58,008 --> 00:53:00,945 Good morning or good evening, 731 00:53:01,045 --> 00:53:03,448 depending on where you are in the country. 732 00:53:03,548 --> 00:53:06,351 From ABC space headquarters in new york... 733 00:53:06,451 --> 00:53:07,585 I guess, after one mission 734 00:53:07,685 --> 00:53:10,187 you feel a little bit more confident, 735 00:53:10,288 --> 00:53:11,356 because you think, "oh, well, 736 00:53:11,456 --> 00:53:12,857 I've been there, done that. 737 00:53:12,957 --> 00:53:14,359 So maybe I'll be better this time. 738 00:53:14,459 --> 00:53:16,261 I'll do-- I know kind of what to expect." 739 00:53:16,361 --> 00:53:18,529 You had all these people in your home. 740 00:53:18,629 --> 00:53:21,699 You had all these press out there. 741 00:53:21,799 --> 00:53:23,734 It's trying, believe me. 742 00:53:23,834 --> 00:53:26,604 It's very, very trying. 743 00:53:26,704 --> 00:53:28,806 You do sweat it out till they're home. 744 00:53:31,409 --> 00:53:33,544 Apollo 10 is reported to be maneuvering 745 00:53:33,644 --> 00:53:36,447 to burn attitude at this time. 746 00:53:36,547 --> 00:53:41,719 Its distance from the moon is 681 nautical miles. 747 00:53:41,819 --> 00:53:45,523 Apollo 10, Houston. Two minutes to L.O.S. 748 00:53:45,623 --> 00:53:49,560 Everybody here says godspeed. 749 00:53:49,660 --> 00:53:50,728 Okay, we'll see them 750 00:53:50,828 --> 00:53:52,430 right on the other side in orbit. 751 00:53:54,965 --> 00:53:56,834 We wouldn't see the moon until we got there. 752 00:53:58,436 --> 00:53:59,404 And finally, we got close. 753 00:53:59,504 --> 00:54:00,638 We could finally see 754 00:54:00,738 --> 00:54:03,240 a little scimitar of the moon, 755 00:54:03,341 --> 00:54:04,509 that was all. 756 00:54:06,477 --> 00:54:10,715 And then the sun went and disappeared. 757 00:54:14,752 --> 00:54:17,722 The moon is between you and the sun, 758 00:54:17,822 --> 00:54:21,292 and it blocks out that light. 759 00:54:21,392 --> 00:54:25,696 You are now immersed, yourself, in this blackness. 760 00:54:28,065 --> 00:54:31,001 And then all of a sudden... 761 00:54:31,101 --> 00:54:33,771 Boom... 762 00:54:33,871 --> 00:54:36,707 Someone turns on the lights. 763 00:54:36,807 --> 00:54:39,009 There's the moon. 764 00:54:40,578 --> 00:54:42,880 Roger, Houston, Apollo 10. 765 00:54:42,980 --> 00:54:45,716 You can tell the world that we have arrived. 766 00:54:48,686 --> 00:54:51,422 As you come out, you're still in sunlight. 767 00:54:51,522 --> 00:54:54,959 You come around the horizon of the moon, 768 00:54:55,059 --> 00:54:56,694 and here comes the earth. 769 00:54:58,896 --> 00:55:00,865 Earth rise. 770 00:55:03,133 --> 00:55:04,702 Charlie, it might sound corny, 771 00:55:04,802 --> 00:55:06,671 but the view is really out of this world. 772 00:55:13,778 --> 00:55:15,946 Charlie brown and snoopy. You're going over the hill. 773 00:55:16,046 --> 00:55:17,448 All the systems are go. 774 00:55:17,548 --> 00:55:19,016 We're all go here on the ground. 775 00:55:19,116 --> 00:55:21,452 It's looking great. Over. 776 00:55:25,490 --> 00:55:29,594 Roger. 56, 22, 55. Snoopy going. 777 00:55:31,996 --> 00:55:35,400 We is go, and we is down among them, charlie. 778 00:55:35,500 --> 00:55:37,535 Roger. I hear you weaving your way up the freeway. 779 00:55:37,635 --> 00:55:39,870 Can you give me a post-burn report? Over. 780 00:55:42,907 --> 00:55:45,510 Yeah, as soon as I get my breath. 781 00:55:53,584 --> 00:55:55,486 As we circled the moon 782 00:55:55,586 --> 00:55:57,455 in a lunar lander-- snoopy-- 783 00:55:59,957 --> 00:56:01,892 We knew we were vulnerable 784 00:56:01,992 --> 00:56:04,028 to a whole host of unknown problems. 785 00:56:07,164 --> 00:56:11,902 And our goal was to identify and then solve those problems 786 00:56:12,002 --> 00:56:13,871 so that Neil and his crew would have 787 00:56:13,971 --> 00:56:16,373 just that much less to worry about. 788 00:56:18,609 --> 00:56:21,479 And one of the problems we encountered 789 00:56:21,579 --> 00:56:24,449 was pilot induced. 790 00:56:28,686 --> 00:56:32,657 We were going to simulate from 47,000 feet, 791 00:56:32,757 --> 00:56:34,391 as if we were on the moon, 792 00:56:34,492 --> 00:56:36,727 lift off from the assent stage, 793 00:56:36,827 --> 00:56:40,498 and then go up into a rendezvous mode with the mother ship. 794 00:56:41,899 --> 00:56:43,901 But in preparing to do so, 795 00:56:44,001 --> 00:56:46,904 tom and I misplaced a switch, 796 00:56:47,004 --> 00:56:48,405 Snoop, Houston, 797 00:56:48,506 --> 00:56:51,709 we have you go for staging. Over. 798 00:56:51,809 --> 00:56:53,010 Okay, tom. 799 00:56:56,614 --> 00:56:58,015 What's that? 800 00:56:58,115 --> 00:56:59,717 Okay, let's... 801 00:56:59,817 --> 00:57:03,087 god damn. 802 00:57:03,187 --> 00:57:04,889 Son of a bitch. 803 00:57:04,989 --> 00:57:07,458 We're in trouble. 804 00:57:07,558 --> 00:57:10,528 I saw that lunar horizon go by my window 805 00:57:10,628 --> 00:57:13,163 eight times in some 15 seconds. 806 00:57:15,633 --> 00:57:16,601 Snoop, Houston... 807 00:57:22,072 --> 00:57:24,875 The thing spun around at max rate 808 00:57:24,975 --> 00:57:26,711 to this new attitude. 809 00:57:26,811 --> 00:57:29,446 That got our attention in mission control. 810 00:57:29,547 --> 00:57:32,550 And we got-- certainly got his attention 811 00:57:32,650 --> 00:57:35,986 as he relayed it over the-- Over the comm. 812 00:57:38,055 --> 00:57:42,827 Tom got this rotation stopped. 813 00:57:42,927 --> 00:57:44,461 How we did it, 814 00:57:44,562 --> 00:57:46,597 I don't know. 815 00:57:46,697 --> 00:57:49,500 Yeah, okay. Something went wild there on that staging. 816 00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:51,001 We're all set. We didn't lock it. 817 00:57:51,101 --> 00:57:53,003 We're going ahead to the auto maneuver. 818 00:57:57,241 --> 00:57:58,776 It was frightening when they did have 819 00:57:58,876 --> 00:58:00,177 that one mishap. 820 00:58:02,312 --> 00:58:06,083 If you think going to the moon is hard, 821 00:58:06,183 --> 00:58:08,085 you ought to try staying home. 822 00:58:15,860 --> 00:58:19,997 Apollo 10 really came home in a blaze of glory. 823 00:58:20,097 --> 00:58:23,200 Rolling, twisting, turning-- 824 00:58:23,300 --> 00:58:29,206 These flecks of fire were just snapping at us. 825 00:58:29,306 --> 00:58:30,841 We're on our backs coming in backwards. 826 00:58:30,941 --> 00:58:32,242 The heat shield's behind us. 827 00:58:32,342 --> 00:58:34,912 It would just come over the top of my window, 828 00:58:35,012 --> 00:58:36,180 and just come over there 829 00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,516 right in front of my eyes and snap. 830 00:58:39,617 --> 00:58:43,520 A sheet of fire completely immerses you and surrounds you. 831 00:58:50,060 --> 00:58:53,998 I know what it's like to be that comet. 832 00:58:54,098 --> 00:58:56,667 The shooting star. 833 00:58:56,767 --> 00:59:00,571 It is a spectacular fireworks show. 834 00:59:00,671 --> 00:59:02,873 It-- 835 00:59:02,973 --> 00:59:05,275 I wish it had happened on fourth of July. 836 00:59:35,940 --> 00:59:38,342 We had just been to the moon. 837 00:59:38,442 --> 00:59:42,913 So you can imagine how it felt to come home. 838 00:59:44,114 --> 00:59:45,916 Home. Your real home. 839 00:59:46,016 --> 00:59:47,051 Not just your home away from-- 840 00:59:47,151 --> 00:59:50,220 This home. Your family. 841 00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:52,990 And the response of people 842 00:59:53,090 --> 00:59:55,893 you have known a lifetime 843 00:59:55,993 --> 00:59:58,262 was so overwhelming. 844 00:59:58,362 --> 01:00:01,265 You could tell it meant something to them. 845 01:00:02,900 --> 01:00:04,301 Nothing but pride. 846 01:00:04,401 --> 01:00:06,704 Nothing but pride. 847 01:00:06,804 --> 01:00:08,739 And so proud of him, 848 01:00:08,839 --> 01:00:10,708 so proud of him that he could go out 849 01:00:10,808 --> 01:00:12,943 and do something like that. 850 01:00:15,079 --> 01:00:16,313 And proud of the country. 851 01:00:34,164 --> 01:00:38,102 Not many people remember Apollo 10, 852 01:00:38,202 --> 01:00:39,837 but I do. 853 01:00:39,937 --> 01:00:41,839 And I'll tell you someone else who remembered it, 854 01:00:41,939 --> 01:00:43,140 and that's Neil Armstrong. 855 01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,676 Okay, Neil, 856 01:00:45,776 --> 01:00:49,379 we can see you coming down the ladder now. 857 01:00:49,479 --> 01:00:51,749 I'm gonna step off the lander now. 858 01:00:55,986 --> 01:00:59,423 That's one small step for man, 859 01:00:59,523 --> 01:01:02,927 one giant leap for mankind. 860 01:01:06,964 --> 01:01:11,168 Would I have liked to been at a first landing? 861 01:01:11,268 --> 01:01:12,402 You bet your life I would've. 862 01:01:14,939 --> 01:01:16,340 But as it turned out, 863 01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:19,276 I think fate shined down upon us, 864 01:01:19,376 --> 01:01:21,678 and got the right people 865 01:01:21,779 --> 01:01:22,880 in the right place at the right time. 866 01:01:38,295 --> 01:01:40,765 How does one, 867 01:01:40,865 --> 01:01:45,770 adequately express his feelings 868 01:01:45,870 --> 01:01:49,173 about a special friend 869 01:01:49,273 --> 01:01:54,812 when that friend is also a world icon 870 01:01:54,912 --> 01:01:58,715 whose name will live in history long after 871 01:01:58,816 --> 01:02:02,386 all here today have been forgotten. 872 01:02:04,154 --> 01:02:08,392 Neil, you can now finally 873 01:02:08,492 --> 01:02:10,961 put out your hands 874 01:02:11,061 --> 01:02:14,832 and touch the face of god. 875 01:02:15,933 --> 01:02:18,735 Farewell, my friend. 876 01:02:18,836 --> 01:02:22,472 You have left us far too soon. 877 01:02:24,274 --> 01:02:25,843 God bless you, Neil. 878 01:03:15,025 --> 01:03:17,127 Oh! 879 01:03:17,227 --> 01:03:19,496 Hey, daddy. 880 01:03:19,596 --> 01:03:21,298 How are you? 881 01:03:39,349 --> 01:03:42,252 - Okay, here. - Come here, baby. 882 01:03:42,352 --> 01:03:44,288 - Remember when I came back from-- - Mm-hmm. 883 01:03:44,388 --> 01:03:46,556 Apollo 10 and I tried to impress you? 884 01:03:46,656 --> 01:03:49,126 - Yeah. - You know, daddy's been to the moon. 885 01:03:49,226 --> 01:03:51,561 - Been here, done this. - He flew snoopy closer, 886 01:03:51,661 --> 01:03:54,431 and was way out in the-- 887 01:03:54,531 --> 01:03:56,400 In-- in the heavens where god lives. 888 01:03:56,500 --> 01:03:58,969 And I never will forget it, 889 01:03:59,069 --> 01:04:01,238 you just stood, and listened to me. 890 01:04:01,338 --> 01:04:02,406 I brought you back down to earth. 891 01:04:02,506 --> 01:04:04,909 All the sudden, it got quiet 892 01:04:05,009 --> 01:04:06,176 and I had nothing else to say, 893 01:04:06,276 --> 01:04:08,478 and you looked up, and said, 894 01:04:08,578 --> 01:04:12,049 "daddy, now that you've been to the moon and back, 895 01:04:12,149 --> 01:04:14,518 - when you gonna take me camping... - Camping. 896 01:04:14,618 --> 01:04:16,320 - We used to go camping. - ...Like you promised me." 897 01:04:16,420 --> 01:04:17,554 That's right. 898 01:04:17,654 --> 01:04:19,890 And you know what that brought home? 899 01:04:19,990 --> 01:04:22,392 All the times, 900 01:04:22,492 --> 01:04:25,195 during that period of our lives together 901 01:04:25,295 --> 01:04:26,997 that I couldn't take you camping, 902 01:04:27,097 --> 01:04:27,998 that I was gone. 903 01:04:28,098 --> 01:04:29,299 I was gone somewhere. 904 01:04:29,399 --> 01:04:32,536 I was gone and gone, and gone and gone. 905 01:04:32,636 --> 01:04:37,341 It was a very selfish life on my part, 906 01:04:37,441 --> 01:04:39,977 and on the part of all the guys. 907 01:05:05,435 --> 01:05:07,537 The rim on this little crater 908 01:05:07,637 --> 01:05:09,073 seems to be all white. 909 01:05:12,442 --> 01:05:15,980 This is gonna be some kind of different ride. 910 01:05:40,004 --> 01:05:45,442 Dick Gordon had a crew with Jack Schmitt. 911 01:05:45,542 --> 01:05:48,312 Jack Schmitt was a lunar geologist. 912 01:05:48,412 --> 01:05:50,280 It made sense, at least to me, 913 01:05:50,380 --> 01:05:51,948 and I was afraid it made a lot of sense 914 01:05:52,049 --> 01:05:53,617 to too many other people, 915 01:05:53,717 --> 01:05:56,153 that they should keep that crew together. 916 01:05:56,253 --> 01:05:58,989 Well, the national academy of sciences 917 01:05:59,089 --> 01:06:01,125 wanted a geologist to fly to the moon. 918 01:06:01,225 --> 01:06:02,492 They've always wanted that. 919 01:06:02,592 --> 01:06:05,295 So here's their last opportunity 920 01:06:05,395 --> 01:06:10,034 to put a ph.D. Geologist on a flight crew. 921 01:06:10,134 --> 01:06:11,468 And so it was gonna come down 922 01:06:11,568 --> 01:06:14,971 to dick's crew or my crew, 923 01:06:15,072 --> 01:06:16,273 and he had an ace in a hole. 924 01:06:16,373 --> 01:06:19,676 He had jack Schmitt. 925 01:06:19,776 --> 01:06:23,280 I knew if I had any chance at all, 926 01:06:23,380 --> 01:06:26,350 I'd better not do something stupid. 927 01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:32,056 We do a lot of training in simulators, 928 01:06:32,156 --> 01:06:35,159 and we had this lunar landing training vehicle. 929 01:06:37,194 --> 01:06:39,596 We also used the helicopter. 930 01:06:44,434 --> 01:06:46,603 I had an urge to fly low 931 01:06:46,703 --> 01:06:48,738 over the Indian river, 932 01:06:48,838 --> 01:06:53,243 and the little skid that you land on with this helicopter 933 01:06:53,343 --> 01:06:54,444 touched the water. 934 01:07:02,819 --> 01:07:06,423 This is the helmet that I was wearing 935 01:07:06,523 --> 01:07:08,058 when I was flying that helicopter, 936 01:07:08,158 --> 01:07:10,594 and when I unstrapped it, 937 01:07:10,694 --> 01:07:12,262 it floated to the surface, 938 01:07:12,362 --> 01:07:16,400 and it picked an equilibrium position. 939 01:07:16,500 --> 01:07:19,136 Probably floated, I guess about like that, 940 01:07:19,236 --> 01:07:24,241 and everything above the surface is charcoal. 941 01:07:24,341 --> 01:07:28,645 I thought he'd, as the saying goes in the navy, 942 01:07:28,745 --> 01:07:30,780 that he'd screwed the pooch. 943 01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:33,350 I thought he'd done it to himself, 944 01:07:33,450 --> 01:07:35,085 because, you know, hell, 945 01:07:35,185 --> 01:07:37,621 nobody flies a damn helicopter into the water 946 01:07:37,721 --> 01:07:40,590 unless there's a couple bikinis there you're looking at. 947 01:07:42,426 --> 01:07:45,695 How can anyone do something 948 01:07:45,795 --> 01:07:49,166 so dumb as I just did 949 01:07:49,266 --> 01:07:51,568 and be given the responsibility 950 01:07:51,668 --> 01:07:56,840 of flying a gillion-dollar spacecraft to the moon-- 951 01:07:56,940 --> 01:07:59,143 Being responsible for the crew, 952 01:07:59,243 --> 01:08:01,845 the safety, the success of the mission? 953 01:08:01,945 --> 01:08:04,348 And I knew, absolutely, 954 01:08:04,448 --> 01:08:08,185 when the time came, it would not be me. 955 01:08:08,285 --> 01:08:09,553 Scene four, take one. 956 01:08:09,653 --> 01:08:13,323 Sound for Apollo 17 astronaut cernan. 957 01:08:15,459 --> 01:08:17,761 Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ronald Evans 958 01:08:17,861 --> 01:08:21,131 have been named for the finish Apollo flight, Apollo 17. 959 01:08:21,231 --> 01:08:23,633 Schmitt is a first among flying astronauts. 960 01:08:23,733 --> 01:08:26,336 He's primarily a geologist rather than a pilot. 961 01:08:28,938 --> 01:08:31,541 When we made the final selection of the crew 962 01:08:31,641 --> 01:08:34,544 for Apollo 17, 963 01:08:34,644 --> 01:08:37,681 that was done in concert with Deke Slayton, 964 01:08:37,781 --> 01:08:39,115 who was head of the flight crew 965 01:08:39,216 --> 01:08:40,517 operations at the time. 966 01:08:40,617 --> 01:08:43,320 And I was never too pleased with the process 967 01:08:43,420 --> 01:08:45,322 that was followed there, 968 01:08:45,422 --> 01:08:47,123 because I thought it was too much 969 01:08:47,224 --> 01:08:49,759 in the hands of Mr. Slayton. 970 01:08:51,595 --> 01:08:53,530 Jack was taken off of my crew 971 01:08:53,630 --> 01:08:57,334 and assigned to Apollo 17. 972 01:08:59,336 --> 01:09:02,406 I didn't think that was very fair. 973 01:09:02,506 --> 01:09:05,442 And I said, "they can't take jack Schmitt off my crew 974 01:09:05,542 --> 01:09:08,245 and give him to somebody else." 975 01:09:08,345 --> 01:09:10,614 He may have had a right to be somewhat bitter 976 01:09:10,714 --> 01:09:13,217 I got the flight and he didn't. 977 01:09:13,317 --> 01:09:15,219 And, uh, you know, he said-- 978 01:09:15,319 --> 01:09:16,653 Tells me that today, 979 01:09:16,753 --> 01:09:20,657 because he said, "you took my flight." 980 01:09:20,757 --> 01:09:22,292 And I may have. 981 01:09:52,522 --> 01:09:54,858 You know, sitting on a pad 982 01:09:54,958 --> 01:09:56,860 waiting for launch, 983 01:09:56,960 --> 01:10:00,230 it's a long time to-- to contemplate 984 01:10:00,330 --> 01:10:01,965 where you've come from, 985 01:10:02,065 --> 01:10:03,467 where you're going. 986 01:10:05,802 --> 01:10:08,705 It's one of those real moments 987 01:10:08,805 --> 01:10:11,708 that you take an introspective look 988 01:10:11,808 --> 01:10:14,978 at what is now in front of you. 989 01:10:17,414 --> 01:10:19,349 This is what I asked for. 990 01:10:19,449 --> 01:10:24,354 This was my personal moment of reckoning. 991 01:10:54,451 --> 01:10:55,985 When it lifted off, 992 01:10:56,085 --> 01:11:00,590 it was just-- I mean, I'll never, ever, forget 993 01:11:00,690 --> 01:11:04,761 how that was because the whole ground rumbled underneath your feet 994 01:11:04,861 --> 01:11:08,798 and all the fish jumped out of the lake. 995 01:11:14,604 --> 01:11:18,875 The entire sky just totally lit up. 996 01:11:22,111 --> 01:11:25,014 It was just beautiful. 997 01:12:02,819 --> 01:12:04,821 Oh, my golly! 998 01:12:04,921 --> 01:12:07,357 Unbelievable. 999 01:12:07,457 --> 01:12:08,425 Unbelievable, 1000 01:12:08,525 --> 01:12:09,559 but it is bright in the sun. 1001 01:12:12,095 --> 01:12:15,499 It was the most proud moment 1002 01:12:15,599 --> 01:12:17,767 of my entire life. 1003 01:12:20,570 --> 01:12:25,642 I had proved to myself that I was capable 1004 01:12:25,742 --> 01:12:26,976 of coming this far. 1005 01:12:31,180 --> 01:12:34,818 I couldn't get out of my mind-- 1006 01:12:34,918 --> 01:12:39,088 This almost science fiction world 1007 01:12:39,188 --> 01:12:40,824 I was living in. 1008 01:12:43,092 --> 01:12:46,730 Now we had a little more than three days 1009 01:12:46,830 --> 01:12:49,599 to make use of the time we had on the moon, 1010 01:12:49,699 --> 01:12:53,102 and that's when the work really began. 1011 01:13:00,810 --> 01:13:03,947 So we set experiments out there, 1012 01:13:04,047 --> 01:13:05,148 seismic experiments, 1013 01:13:05,248 --> 01:13:08,051 experiments of all kinds. 1014 01:13:10,086 --> 01:13:13,990 The next thing we did was unload the lunar rover. 1015 01:13:17,927 --> 01:13:20,864 We had the rover to facilitate our ability to move around, 1016 01:13:20,964 --> 01:13:24,468 and try to explore this entire valley. 1017 01:13:24,568 --> 01:13:26,903 We never would have been able to do that on foot. 1018 01:13:28,104 --> 01:13:29,739 It didn't go very fast, 1019 01:13:29,839 --> 01:13:34,177 but it went fast enough on the moon in 1/6 gravity. 1020 01:13:34,277 --> 01:13:35,512 Okay, and gene, you might get the-- 1021 01:13:35,612 --> 01:13:36,980 Okay, now shove it. 1022 01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:38,682 That's too much. Wait a minute. 1023 01:13:40,817 --> 01:13:45,989 But our major objective was to try and establish 1024 01:13:46,089 --> 01:13:47,423 the history of that valley. 1025 01:13:47,524 --> 01:13:51,928 - Oh, hey! Wait a minute. - What? 1026 01:13:52,028 --> 01:13:54,698 There is orange soil! 1027 01:13:54,798 --> 01:13:56,199 Well, don't move it until I see it. 1028 01:13:57,801 --> 01:13:59,803 It's all over. 1029 01:13:59,903 --> 01:14:01,070 Orange! 1030 01:14:01,170 --> 01:14:02,672 Don't move it until I see it. 1031 01:14:02,772 --> 01:14:06,109 I've stirred it up with my feet. 1032 01:14:06,209 --> 01:14:07,811 How can there be orange soil on the moon? 1033 01:14:09,045 --> 01:14:10,747 Look at it. 1034 01:14:12,115 --> 01:14:13,783 I'll be a son of a-- 1035 01:14:13,883 --> 01:14:16,720 That's the volcanic... 1036 01:14:19,823 --> 01:14:21,791 ...they're up against a constraint anyways, 1037 01:14:21,891 --> 01:14:24,961 so they gotta leave at a certain time regardless of what we got. 1038 01:14:25,061 --> 01:14:27,463 I'm willing to give up all the light mantle stuff, 1039 01:14:27,564 --> 01:14:28,898 and stay up another-- 1040 01:14:28,998 --> 01:14:30,534 That's the priority right up there, huh? 1041 01:14:30,634 --> 01:14:32,035 There it is. Look at that. 1042 01:14:33,737 --> 01:14:36,806 That change at all? 1043 01:14:36,906 --> 01:14:39,509 Oh, thank you, geno. It looks much better. 1044 01:14:42,712 --> 01:14:45,248 When you get out there and look back... 1045 01:14:47,684 --> 01:14:51,020 As small as it is compared to the earth, 1046 01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:53,056 when you're the only two guys out there, 1047 01:14:53,156 --> 01:14:56,492 it can be pretty lonely at times. 1048 01:15:00,897 --> 01:15:04,200 Once we got in, we took our suits off 1049 01:15:04,300 --> 01:15:07,771 and we had to dry them out. 1050 01:15:07,871 --> 01:15:09,873 We had to eat. 1051 01:15:09,973 --> 01:15:11,107 We had to rest. 1052 01:15:12,742 --> 01:15:16,212 I remember specifically pulling up the shade 1053 01:15:16,312 --> 01:15:18,748 before we tried to get some rest 1054 01:15:18,848 --> 01:15:22,151 and looking out at the earth. 1055 01:15:24,020 --> 01:15:26,956 Maybe I just had to make sure it was still there. 1056 01:15:34,831 --> 01:15:37,734 Oh, that ought to be a beautiful shot 1057 01:15:37,834 --> 01:15:39,636 if I can see what my settings are. 1058 01:15:50,947 --> 01:15:55,218 That whole period of time, that's the time I call 1059 01:15:55,318 --> 01:15:57,787 sitting on god's front porch. 1060 01:16:04,193 --> 01:16:08,564 I was out there somewhere with the opportunity 1061 01:16:08,665 --> 01:16:11,234 to see something and be somewhere 1062 01:16:11,334 --> 01:16:16,039 and do something that only 12 human beings 1063 01:16:16,139 --> 01:16:19,208 in the history of mankind 1064 01:16:19,308 --> 01:16:21,177 have been able to do, or be, or see. 1065 01:16:28,952 --> 01:16:31,821 Tracy, did he promise to bring you anything back? 1066 01:16:31,921 --> 01:16:35,158 Well, I asked him to bring a rock back from the moon. 1067 01:16:35,258 --> 01:16:36,960 But he said if he could, 1068 01:16:37,060 --> 01:16:38,795 he'd bring me one back. 1069 01:16:38,895 --> 01:16:41,665 And he said if he could, he'd bring me a moonbeam. 1070 01:16:41,765 --> 01:16:43,633 - A what? - A moonbeam. 1071 01:16:43,733 --> 01:16:45,769 A moonbeam? 1072 01:16:47,103 --> 01:16:48,071 He's either pulling your leg 1073 01:16:48,171 --> 01:16:49,739 or you're pulling mine. 1074 01:16:49,839 --> 01:16:51,140 That's what he said. 1075 01:17:05,955 --> 01:17:07,791 I parked the rover 1076 01:17:07,891 --> 01:17:11,294 about 3/4 of a mile behind the L.E.M. 1077 01:17:11,394 --> 01:17:13,096 So that they could operate the television camera 1078 01:17:13,196 --> 01:17:15,164 and watch our liftoff. 1079 01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:18,802 And I don't know what possessed me to do it, 1080 01:17:18,902 --> 01:17:24,240 I just scratched Tracy’s initials in the lunar surface. 1081 01:17:25,809 --> 01:17:27,110 I put "T.D.C." 1082 01:17:29,278 --> 01:17:32,348 And someday, sometime, 1083 01:17:32,448 --> 01:17:33,983 I can only believe-- 1084 01:17:34,083 --> 01:17:35,651 Not just hope, but believe-- 1085 01:17:35,752 --> 01:17:37,653 That someone will go back, 1086 01:17:37,754 --> 01:17:39,088 and that's what they'll find. 1087 01:17:44,894 --> 01:17:47,263 I guess you appreciate things the older you get. 1088 01:17:47,363 --> 01:17:49,365 Always. 1089 01:17:49,465 --> 01:17:51,835 You understand them better, you appreciate them more. 1090 01:17:51,935 --> 01:17:53,937 And you know, the older I get, 1091 01:17:54,037 --> 01:17:59,008 probably the more meaningful it gets to me. 1092 01:17:59,108 --> 01:18:01,344 I'm gonna roll it downhill so we can work on it, 1093 01:18:01,444 --> 01:18:03,412 well, I'll document it first. 1094 01:18:05,882 --> 01:18:08,017 Walking up the ladder, 1095 01:18:08,117 --> 01:18:10,353 was probably one of the most memorable moments for me, 1096 01:18:10,453 --> 01:18:14,057 because I looked down at my footprints 1097 01:18:14,157 --> 01:18:17,861 and I knew I wasn't coming this way again. 1098 01:18:17,961 --> 01:18:20,964 Why we were here? What did it mean? 1099 01:18:21,064 --> 01:18:24,033 I looked over my shoulder, and there's the earth, 1100 01:18:24,133 --> 01:18:26,402 there's reality. There's home. 1101 01:18:29,538 --> 01:18:33,943 I wanted to press the freeze button. 1102 01:18:34,043 --> 01:18:36,813 I wanted to stop time. 1103 01:18:36,913 --> 01:18:39,448 I really wanted to reach out, 1104 01:18:39,548 --> 01:18:43,019 put it in my hand, stick it in my spacesuit, 1105 01:18:43,119 --> 01:18:46,055 and bring it home and show it to everybody. 1106 01:18:48,457 --> 01:18:51,494 This is what it feels like. This is what it looks like. 1107 01:18:58,835 --> 01:19:03,807 This is Apollo control and 187 hours, 31 minutes. 1108 01:19:03,907 --> 01:19:08,778 Now approaching 30 minutes until time for lunar liftoff. 1109 01:19:08,878 --> 01:19:12,181 The countdown toward liftoff going very smoothly. 1110 01:19:12,281 --> 01:19:15,919 Control, telmu, G.N.C, eecomm, 1111 01:19:16,019 --> 01:19:18,221 surgeon, inco. 1112 01:19:18,321 --> 01:19:20,423 I was the flight director on this console 1113 01:19:20,523 --> 01:19:24,327 for gene Cernan's liftoff from the moon. 1114 01:19:24,427 --> 01:19:27,330 Rog. We're go for liftoff here, capcom. 1115 01:19:27,430 --> 01:19:29,232 So that when it came time, 1116 01:19:29,332 --> 01:19:32,802 we recognized the triumph of the work that we had done, 1117 01:19:32,902 --> 01:19:36,039 but we also lost some very good friends. 1118 01:19:36,139 --> 01:19:39,876 So it was a celebratory mood, 1119 01:19:39,976 --> 01:19:43,512 but it was also one that we looked very somberly at our past. 1120 01:19:43,612 --> 01:19:48,117 And we hoped that somewhere, somehow, someday, 1121 01:19:48,217 --> 01:19:51,087 we would be able to carry the work that we had been doing 1122 01:19:51,187 --> 01:19:52,488 into the future. 1123 01:19:52,588 --> 01:19:56,459 Three, two, one, ignition. 1124 01:19:56,559 --> 01:19:58,895 Burn away, Houston. 1125 01:20:49,678 --> 01:20:55,251 Could I have imagined that it would come to this? 1126 01:21:07,096 --> 01:21:09,032 I don't want to remember it this way. 1127 01:21:09,132 --> 01:21:10,433 I'm just disappointed. 1128 01:21:10,533 --> 01:21:12,969 I almost wish I didn't come here today. 1129 01:21:30,519 --> 01:21:34,223 You go to the moon and you're everybody's hero. 1130 01:21:36,092 --> 01:21:38,361 You're sort of caught up in it yourself. 1131 01:21:43,366 --> 01:21:46,435 People everywhere of every color, of every religion, 1132 01:21:46,535 --> 01:21:49,405 every ethnic background were overwhelmed. 1133 01:21:49,505 --> 01:21:51,340 "Let me touch you. Let me talk to you." 1134 01:21:52,741 --> 01:21:56,545 And you live that kind of activity 1135 01:21:56,645 --> 01:21:58,447 for four or five years, 1136 01:21:58,547 --> 01:22:00,016 that's a big change in your life. 1137 01:22:04,387 --> 01:22:07,423 Our life did change a lot. 1138 01:22:07,523 --> 01:22:10,926 He was so engrossed in all of this notoriety, 1139 01:22:11,027 --> 01:22:14,597 and traveling, and speaking, 1140 01:22:14,697 --> 01:22:17,967 and I got so tired of it. 1141 01:22:18,067 --> 01:22:20,269 And I thought, "I just want a normal life. 1142 01:22:20,369 --> 01:22:22,671 I want to be a normal housewife." 1143 01:22:27,643 --> 01:22:32,115 And I remember when gene and I were on a private jet, 1144 01:22:32,215 --> 01:22:33,449 I was sitting in one aisle, 1145 01:22:33,549 --> 01:22:35,284 he was sitting across the aisle from me. 1146 01:22:35,384 --> 01:22:37,286 And I looked at him, and I thought, 1147 01:22:37,386 --> 01:22:41,290 "you know, cernan, this is your life, this is what you want. 1148 01:22:41,390 --> 01:22:43,059 But I don't want it." 1149 01:22:46,662 --> 01:22:48,631 I guess a couple years after that 1150 01:22:48,731 --> 01:22:51,300 we ended up separating, 1151 01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:54,203 and going our different ways. 1152 01:23:00,743 --> 01:23:04,647 Some 60% of us got divorced, 1153 01:23:04,747 --> 01:23:06,682 and I'm not proud of it. 1154 01:23:06,782 --> 01:23:08,051 We were so tunnel-visioned 1155 01:23:08,151 --> 01:23:09,318 when we were going to the moon, 1156 01:23:09,418 --> 01:23:11,154 that we never had time to get off 1157 01:23:11,254 --> 01:23:14,157 that big white horse we were riding 1158 01:23:14,257 --> 01:23:15,691 until it was too late. 1159 01:23:19,062 --> 01:23:21,730 I lived a single life for, I don't know, 1160 01:23:21,830 --> 01:23:23,999 seven or eight years. 1161 01:23:24,100 --> 01:23:25,334 And that sounds like a lot of fun 1162 01:23:25,434 --> 01:23:28,104 when you're 40, 50 years old. 1163 01:23:30,539 --> 01:23:34,710 But sooner or later, you've gotta come to grips with who you are 1164 01:23:34,810 --> 01:23:36,745 and what's important in life. 1165 01:23:42,485 --> 01:23:44,520 I was invited to a friend's home 1166 01:23:44,620 --> 01:23:46,689 for a cocktail party, 1167 01:23:46,789 --> 01:23:51,026 and gene happened to be there. 1168 01:23:51,127 --> 01:23:53,196 And I just happened to see the best looking chick 1169 01:23:53,296 --> 01:23:54,697 at the party, and it was her, 1170 01:23:54,797 --> 01:23:56,199 and someone said, "would you take her home?" 1171 01:23:56,299 --> 01:23:58,201 And I said, "well, I'd be glad to." 1172 01:23:58,301 --> 01:24:00,035 But after taking her home, 1173 01:24:00,136 --> 01:24:02,037 I'm not sure I was ever gonna see her again. 1174 01:24:02,138 --> 01:24:05,141 That's true. 1175 01:24:05,241 --> 01:24:07,042 I just liked gene's-- 1176 01:24:07,143 --> 01:24:09,312 I thought he was more down to earth 1177 01:24:09,412 --> 01:24:11,214 than a lot of the other ones. 1178 01:24:11,314 --> 01:24:13,216 Mm-hmm. 1179 01:24:13,316 --> 01:24:15,551 And at that time, I didn't think he had such a big ego. 1180 01:24:15,651 --> 01:24:19,555 - Give me a break. - But I have since-- 1181 01:24:19,655 --> 01:24:21,790 I'm learning more about me. 1182 01:24:23,192 --> 01:24:26,095 Give me a break. 1183 01:24:26,195 --> 01:24:28,731 You know we're gonna be married 25 years? 1184 01:24:28,831 --> 01:24:31,567 - 24. - Five. 1185 01:24:31,667 --> 01:24:32,501 It's five. 1186 01:24:40,609 --> 01:24:44,580 Jan became something very special in my life. 1187 01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:46,081 And from that relationship, 1188 01:24:46,182 --> 01:24:50,686 came a family again, and grand kids. 1189 01:24:52,721 --> 01:24:54,490 Kids. 1190 01:24:54,590 --> 01:24:57,092 - Give me a break. - Take a seat. Come on. 1191 01:24:57,193 --> 01:24:58,427 This is a beautiful-- 1192 01:24:58,527 --> 01:25:00,095 Someone take a picture. 1193 01:25:00,196 --> 01:25:03,266 We are! Sit down, come on. 1194 01:25:03,366 --> 01:25:04,533 - Okay. - Fix your hair. 1195 01:25:04,633 --> 01:25:06,802 - Ow. - You're about to sit on me? 1196 01:25:06,902 --> 01:25:08,804 Ow. That's-- you put me in the middle. 1197 01:25:08,904 --> 01:25:09,838 Wait. You're sitting on me. 1198 01:25:09,938 --> 01:25:11,440 Ow, my shirt. 1199 01:25:11,540 --> 01:25:13,108 - Okay, am I all right? - Yes. 1200 01:25:13,209 --> 01:25:14,177 Okay. 1201 01:25:20,383 --> 01:25:23,386 ...1.6 billion dollars. 1202 01:25:23,486 --> 01:25:26,189 I'm here for a couple days and I'm going to San Diego, 1203 01:25:26,289 --> 01:25:28,291 so I could do something... 1204 01:25:28,391 --> 01:25:30,626 Oh, brother. 1205 01:25:30,726 --> 01:25:32,795 It's a very high energy level. 1206 01:25:32,895 --> 01:25:36,131 He-- you know, he just doesn't stop. 1207 01:25:36,232 --> 01:25:39,635 He doesn't take a moment to catch his breath. 1208 01:25:39,735 --> 01:25:43,806 He's got a million things on his mind at one time. 1209 01:25:43,906 --> 01:25:48,277 I don't know that retirement is really in his vocabulary. 1210 01:25:48,377 --> 01:25:50,646 And there are people here that are listening today 1211 01:25:50,746 --> 01:25:53,582 who will see humans walk on mars. 1212 01:25:53,682 --> 01:25:54,883 I won't, but they will. 1213 01:25:57,853 --> 01:26:00,823 While we're still here, 1214 01:26:00,923 --> 01:26:02,825 and there's an opportunity to share 1215 01:26:02,925 --> 01:26:05,160 what the space program has meant, 1216 01:26:05,261 --> 01:26:06,829 particularly in this day and age 1217 01:26:06,929 --> 01:26:09,198 when we're talking to a generation 1218 01:26:09,298 --> 01:26:11,600 who weren't even around when we went to the moon, 1219 01:26:11,700 --> 01:26:14,403 we have an obligation to do that. 1220 01:26:14,503 --> 01:26:16,605 Okay. We get it? 1221 01:26:18,341 --> 01:26:19,508 You came all the way from France? 1222 01:26:19,608 --> 01:26:20,443 Yes. 1223 01:26:22,010 --> 01:26:23,846 Oh, boy. 1224 01:26:23,946 --> 01:26:25,914 Oh, yeah. That's a good one. 1225 01:26:27,015 --> 01:26:28,317 Thank you. Thank you. 1226 01:26:28,417 --> 01:26:29,485 Take care. 1227 01:26:30,586 --> 01:26:32,388 Whew! 1228 01:26:32,488 --> 01:26:34,757 All of the fame, and the speeches, 1229 01:26:34,857 --> 01:26:37,693 - and the traveling... - What's your name? 1230 01:26:37,793 --> 01:26:42,365 I'm on him a lot now. "Gene, shut it down." 1231 01:26:42,465 --> 01:26:43,932 Shut down your schedule. 1232 01:26:45,801 --> 01:26:47,370 This is October. 1233 01:26:47,470 --> 01:26:51,874 Here was September. Here was august. 1234 01:26:51,974 --> 01:26:55,544 Throttle back, you know? Slow down, baby. 1235 01:26:55,644 --> 01:26:58,381 You gotta smell the roses a little bit. 1236 01:26:58,481 --> 01:26:59,748 But he drives himself. 1237 01:27:10,759 --> 01:27:13,396 The bad part about it is, 1238 01:27:13,496 --> 01:27:14,730 I'm realizing that, 1239 01:27:14,830 --> 01:27:16,732 like when we were in the space program, 1240 01:27:16,832 --> 01:27:19,234 when we're going full bar, eight days a week, 1241 01:27:19,335 --> 01:27:21,404 I ignored my family. 1242 01:27:21,504 --> 01:27:24,573 We-- we all did. 1243 01:27:24,673 --> 01:27:27,576 But I'm finding I'm getting innuendos from my family, 1244 01:27:27,676 --> 01:27:30,413 from the grand kids, from my wife, 1245 01:27:30,513 --> 01:27:33,248 that I'm doing the same thing now. 1246 01:27:33,349 --> 01:27:37,586 And maybe-- 1247 01:27:37,686 --> 01:27:41,757 Maybe I'm finally coming to a realization 1248 01:27:41,857 --> 01:27:43,592 that I gotta think of somebody else. 1249 01:27:43,692 --> 01:27:45,761 I do. I-- I don't think I'm selfish. 1250 01:27:45,861 --> 01:27:47,596 I think I do think of somebody else. 1251 01:27:47,696 --> 01:27:50,265 I think of those people who want a piece of you, 1252 01:27:50,366 --> 01:27:52,768 who you somehow owe a piece to, 1253 01:27:52,868 --> 01:27:54,437 but there is a limit. 1254 01:27:54,537 --> 01:27:56,872 Now I think maybe I owe a piece of me to my family. 1255 01:28:07,483 --> 01:28:09,885 - You got-- okay. - Here you go. 1256 01:28:12,721 --> 01:28:14,289 You know, this is a lot of work 1257 01:28:14,390 --> 01:28:16,024 - for old guys like us. - Tell me about it. 1258 01:28:25,668 --> 01:28:28,971 These two horses together can go like the wind. 1259 01:28:29,071 --> 01:28:31,974 We ain't gonna do that today. 1260 01:28:32,074 --> 01:28:33,909 I know damn well I'm not. 1261 01:28:37,980 --> 01:28:40,315 You fly right wing, I'll fly left wing. 1262 01:28:40,416 --> 01:28:41,417 Okay. 1263 01:28:59,868 --> 01:29:01,604 We're gonna go across 1264 01:29:01,704 --> 01:29:03,338 and go back in through that gate. 1265 01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:05,340 - Okay. - Unless you want to run the barrel? 1266 01:29:05,441 --> 01:29:10,012 No. I don't want to run any barrels. 1267 01:29:10,112 --> 01:29:12,515 Hey, baldy, are you ready to admit 1268 01:29:12,615 --> 01:29:14,082 we ain't got what we used to got? 1269 01:29:15,718 --> 01:29:17,553 Yeah. 1270 01:29:24,427 --> 01:29:28,697 Easy, now. Let's not have a wreck here. 1271 01:29:28,797 --> 01:29:30,365 I got it. I'll get it. 1272 01:29:30,466 --> 01:29:33,702 If I can get my leg over this saddle, anyway. 1273 01:29:33,802 --> 01:29:34,870 There. 1274 01:29:34,970 --> 01:29:36,371 All right, I think we survived. 1275 01:29:36,472 --> 01:29:39,107 Come on. Oh, shit. 1276 01:29:42,911 --> 01:29:45,714 Oh, baldy! I can't walk! 1277 01:29:45,814 --> 01:29:46,982 I can't either. 1278 01:29:51,587 --> 01:29:54,122 We're still here. 1279 01:29:54,222 --> 01:29:55,891 - That's right. - How many more years? 1280 01:29:55,991 --> 01:29:58,060 We got a pact to make it to 85 1281 01:29:58,160 --> 01:30:00,062 and then we'll reevaluate. 1282 01:30:00,162 --> 01:30:02,898 I gotta pact-- I gotta pact with my dog. 1283 01:30:02,998 --> 01:30:05,568 You know what? When we got him, I said, 1284 01:30:05,668 --> 01:30:07,402 "if you go ten, I'll go ten." 1285 01:30:07,503 --> 01:30:08,737 That was Barron, 1286 01:30:08,837 --> 01:30:10,405 and I've gotta renegotiate with him. 1287 01:30:10,506 --> 01:30:12,741 We only got three and a half of those ten years left. 1288 01:30:12,841 --> 01:30:15,911 - I'm not ready! - Well, bless. 1289 01:30:16,011 --> 01:30:18,013 - I love you, babe. - I love you, too, man. 1290 01:30:48,811 --> 01:30:51,947 Just standing here, 1291 01:30:52,047 --> 01:30:53,115 getting a little nostalgic. 1292 01:30:53,215 --> 01:30:55,117 Sort of gives me a chance 1293 01:30:55,217 --> 01:30:58,787 to wonder whether this all happened in my life. 1294 01:30:58,887 --> 01:30:59,955 Whether it was a reality 1295 01:31:00,055 --> 01:31:05,794 or whether it was a dream. 1296 01:31:05,894 --> 01:31:11,133 Is that dummy in there with my name on really me? 1297 01:31:14,069 --> 01:31:16,905 And I also stand here and I'm wondering 1298 01:31:17,005 --> 01:31:19,141 what people are gonna think, 1299 01:31:19,241 --> 01:31:22,144 not in another 40 years, but maybe another 100 years. 1300 01:31:22,244 --> 01:31:24,913 Who knows? Maybe another 1,000 years. 1301 01:31:51,006 --> 01:31:52,507 I often tell young kids, 1302 01:31:52,608 --> 01:31:57,012 and particularly my grand kids, 1303 01:31:57,112 --> 01:31:59,848 don't ever count yourself out. 1304 01:31:59,948 --> 01:32:02,951 You'll never know how good you are unless you try. 1305 01:32:05,621 --> 01:32:06,855 Dream the impossible, 1306 01:32:06,955 --> 01:32:09,958 and go out and make it happen. 1307 01:32:12,227 --> 01:32:13,962 I walked on the moon. 1308 01:32:16,064 --> 01:32:18,133 What can't you do? 1309 01:35:36,389 --> 01:35:40,310 And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, 1310 01:35:41,100 --> 01:35:45,857 we leave as we came and God willing, as we shall return, 1311 01:35:46,231 --> 01:35:51,197 with peace and hope for all mankind.