1
00:00:12,070 --> 00:00:08,870
for all the people

2
00:00:13,910 --> 00:00:12,080
back on earth the crew of apollo 8

3
00:00:14,910 --> 00:00:13,920
has a message that we would like to send

4
00:00:17,430 --> 00:00:14,920
to

5
00:00:20,550 --> 00:00:17,440
you in the beginning

6
00:00:23,990 --> 00:00:20,560
god created the heaven and the earth

7
00:00:25,830 --> 00:00:24,000
and the earth was without form and void

8
00:00:27,349 --> 00:00:25,840
and darkness was upon the face of the

9
00:00:29,589 --> 00:00:27,359
deep

10
00:00:31,509 --> 00:00:29,599
and the spirit of god moved upon the

11
00:00:33,270 --> 00:00:31,519
face of the waters

12
00:00:34,950 --> 00:00:33,280
and god said

13
00:00:36,790 --> 00:00:34,960
let there be light

14
00:00:38,950 --> 00:00:36,800
and there was light

15
00:00:40,389 --> 00:00:38,960
and god saw the light

16
00:00:43,830 --> 00:00:40,399
there was good

17
00:00:46,069 --> 00:00:43,840
and god divided the light from the

18
00:00:48,470 --> 00:00:46,079
god called the light day

19
00:00:50,310 --> 00:00:48,480
and the darkness he called night

20
00:00:51,830 --> 00:00:50,320
and the evening and the morning was the

21
00:00:55,510 --> 00:00:51,840
first day

22
00:00:57,029 --> 00:00:55,520
in the beginning the void the darkness

23
00:00:58,869 --> 00:00:57,039
then light

24
00:01:00,229 --> 00:00:58,879
then life

25
00:01:01,830 --> 00:01:00,239
and from life

26
00:01:04,789 --> 00:01:01,840
came man

27
00:01:06,950 --> 00:01:04,799
joining the caravan for the long slow

28
00:01:11,429 --> 00:01:06,960
journey through a world of discovery

29
00:01:16,390 --> 00:01:14,630
his marks his milestones stretch out

30
00:01:18,390 --> 00:01:16,400
through the centuries

31
00:01:20,630 --> 00:01:18,400
his footsteps echo down through the

32
00:01:21,749 --> 00:01:20,640
corridors of time

33
00:01:24,230 --> 00:01:21,759
time

34
00:01:27,429 --> 00:01:24,240
july 1969

35
00:01:30,469 --> 00:01:27,439
in florida the footsteps the caravan

36
00:01:33,590 --> 00:01:30,479
quickened the corridor shortened as man

37
00:01:59,510 --> 00:01:33,600
reached outside his world into another

38
00:02:03,109 --> 00:02:01,990
today in florida they go about their

39
00:02:05,510 --> 00:02:03,119
lives

40
00:02:08,150 --> 00:02:05,520
taking only a sideways glance at the

41
00:02:20,949 --> 00:02:08,160
reminders of that milestone

42
00:02:26,869 --> 00:02:23,750
a planned memory time of 32 minutes past

43
00:02:29,190 --> 00:02:26,879
the hour the start of our launch window

44
00:02:30,070 --> 00:02:29,200
on this the mission to land men on the

45
00:02:31,750 --> 00:02:30,080
moon

46
00:02:33,910 --> 00:02:31,760
the countdown still proceeding very

47
00:02:36,630 --> 00:02:33,920
satisfactorily at this time

48
00:02:39,190 --> 00:02:36,640
time it plays tricks on us

49
00:02:40,390 --> 00:02:39,200
it smudges and blurs the sharp edges of

50
00:02:43,030 --> 00:02:40,400
reality

51
00:02:45,350 --> 00:02:43,040
but we turn the trick and summon up our

52
00:02:46,390 --> 00:02:45,360
own reality images

53
00:02:49,670 --> 00:02:46,400
sounds

54
00:02:52,150 --> 00:02:50,390
the remember

55
00:02:54,070 --> 00:02:52,160
all look good the next time we go

56
00:02:55,270 --> 00:02:54,080
internal will be at the 50 second mark

57
00:02:57,509 --> 00:02:55,280
with those batteries and they will

58
00:03:00,070 --> 00:02:57,519
remain of course on internal power

59
00:03:01,830 --> 00:03:00,080
during the flight the lunar module which

60
00:03:03,910 --> 00:03:01,840
has been rather inactive during these

61
00:03:06,550 --> 00:03:03,920
latter phases of account also is going

62
00:03:08,470 --> 00:03:06,560
on internal power at this time on the

63
00:03:09,990 --> 00:03:08,480
two batteries in the ascent stage and

64
00:03:12,390 --> 00:03:10,000
the four batteries of the decent stuff

65
00:03:15,030 --> 00:03:12,400
they came one million of them to this

66
00:03:17,270 --> 00:03:15,040
place drawn by the magnet of history in

67
00:03:19,430 --> 00:03:17,280
the making the astronauts the prime crew

68
00:03:21,350 --> 00:03:19,440
were awakened at 4 15 a.m eastern

69
00:03:23,030 --> 00:03:21,360
daylight and proceeded to have a

70
00:03:25,350 --> 00:03:23,040
physical examination in which they were

71
00:03:27,750 --> 00:03:25,360
declared flight ready they sat down for

72
00:03:29,750 --> 00:03:27,760
the normal astronaut fair on launch day

73
00:03:32,789 --> 00:03:29,760
as far as breakfast is concerned orange

74
00:03:34,949 --> 00:03:32,799
juice steaks scrambled eggs toast and

75
00:03:37,030 --> 00:03:34,959
coffee

76
00:03:39,430 --> 00:03:37,040
the target for the apollo 11 astronauts

77
00:03:40,910 --> 00:03:39,440
the moon at liftoff will be at a

78
00:03:44,149 --> 00:03:40,920
distance of

79
00:03:46,470 --> 00:03:44,159
218.96 miles away the astronauts

80
00:03:48,070 --> 00:03:46,480
departed from their crew quarters after

81
00:03:50,470 --> 00:03:48,080
checking out their suits they departed

82
00:03:53,270 --> 00:03:50,480
from the crew quarters at 6 27

83
00:03:55,110 --> 00:03:53,280
a.m and some 27 minutes later eight

84
00:03:57,670 --> 00:03:55,120
miles away from the crew quarters at the

85
00:04:01,990 --> 00:03:57,680
kennedy space center atop the launch pad

86
00:04:03,830 --> 00:04:02,000
at complex 39 6 54 am the commander

87
00:04:06,070 --> 00:04:03,840
astronaut neil armstrong was the first

88
00:04:08,550 --> 00:04:06,080
to board the spacecraft he was uh

89
00:04:10,710 --> 00:04:08,560
followed about five minutes later by

90
00:04:12,309 --> 00:04:10,720
mike collins and finally buzz alvin the

91
00:04:14,470 --> 00:04:12,319
man who's sitting in the middle seat

92
00:04:16,629 --> 00:04:14,480
during liftoff was the third astronaut

93
00:04:18,550 --> 00:04:16,639
to come aboard

94
00:04:20,069 --> 00:04:18,560
the weather is certainly go it's a

95
00:04:22,230 --> 00:04:20,079
beautiful morning for a launch to the

96
00:04:24,790 --> 00:04:22,240
moon we expect a temperature of about 85

97
00:04:29,189 --> 00:04:24,800
degrees in the kennedy space center area

98
00:04:33,909 --> 00:04:29,199
we'll still go on apollo 11 at this time

99
00:04:33,919 --> 00:04:37,749
20 seconds and counting

100
00:04:44,230 --> 00:04:41,350
t-minus 15 seconds guidance is internal

101
00:04:45,189 --> 00:04:44,240
12 11 10

102
00:04:47,590 --> 00:04:45,199
9

103
00:04:48,469 --> 00:04:47,600
ignition sequence starts

104
00:04:49,350 --> 00:04:48,479
6

105
00:04:50,230 --> 00:04:49,360
5

106
00:04:51,270 --> 00:04:50,240
4

107
00:04:52,230 --> 00:04:51,280
3

108
00:04:53,350 --> 00:04:52,240
2

109
00:04:57,430 --> 00:04:53,360
1

110
00:05:00,790 --> 00:04:57,440
0 all engine running liftoff we have a

111
00:05:03,110 --> 00:05:00,800
liftoff 32 minutes past the hour liftoff

112
00:05:18,790 --> 00:05:03,120
on apollo 11.

113
00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:50,870
so

114
00:05:54,230 --> 00:05:53,110
tranquility base here the eagle has

115
00:05:55,830 --> 00:05:54,240
landed

116
00:06:00,469 --> 00:05:55,840
you got a bunch of guys about to turn

117
00:06:00,479 --> 00:06:04,870
i'm going to step off the limb now

118
00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:17,909
that's

119
00:06:22,550 --> 00:06:19,430
apollo 11

120
00:06:24,710 --> 00:06:22,560
armstrong aldrin and collins they and

121
00:06:26,150 --> 00:06:24,720
millions of others reached out and in

122
00:06:41,670 --> 00:06:26,160
their own way

123
00:06:47,029 --> 00:06:44,390
the images remind us that it happened

124
00:06:48,469 --> 00:06:47,039
but not how it really was in the context

125
00:06:50,550 --> 00:06:48,479
of the times

126
00:06:53,189 --> 00:06:50,560
george lowe one of the architects of the

127
00:06:56,070 --> 00:06:53,199
apollo program does remember if you

128
00:06:57,830 --> 00:06:56,080
think back at the the period of the 60s

129
00:06:59,350 --> 00:06:57,840
they weren't very happy years in general

130
00:07:01,110 --> 00:06:59,360
we had uh

131
00:07:03,749 --> 00:07:01,120
well the ever deepening involvement in

132
00:07:06,070 --> 00:07:03,759
vietnam we had

133
00:07:09,110 --> 00:07:06,080
riots on the campuses riots and watson

134
00:07:11,110 --> 00:07:09,120
elsewhere three terrible assassinations

135
00:07:13,430 --> 00:07:11,120
a great deal of

136
00:07:17,029 --> 00:07:13,440
strife and turmoil in the country

137
00:07:18,710 --> 00:07:17,039
and yet all of this was overcome by

138
00:07:20,309 --> 00:07:18,720
one single event and there was apollo

139
00:07:23,029 --> 00:07:20,319
11.

140
00:07:25,189 --> 00:07:23,039
the decade ended with it it was a

141
00:07:27,830 --> 00:07:25,199
fantastic adventure that

142
00:07:30,550 --> 00:07:27,840
i believe helped overcome all of the bad

143
00:07:31,909 --> 00:07:30,560
things of the decade

144
00:07:33,990 --> 00:07:31,919
represented

145
00:07:35,670 --> 00:07:34,000
americans

146
00:07:37,270 --> 00:07:35,680
to ourselves and particularly to the

147
00:07:39,350 --> 00:07:37,280
rest of the world as

148
00:07:49,909 --> 00:07:39,360
we like to see ourselves and as we hope

149
00:07:49,919 --> 00:08:01,670
do

150
00:08:06,469 --> 00:08:04,150
the equipment of apollo

151
00:08:08,309 --> 00:08:06,479
some of it is now in museums artifacts

152
00:08:10,390 --> 00:08:08,319
from an age of discovery

153
00:08:13,270 --> 00:08:10,400
these strange looking objects they're

154
00:08:14,309 --> 00:08:13,280
there as reminders that after all it did

155
00:08:21,589 --> 00:08:14,319
happen

156
00:08:28,309 --> 00:08:24,830
the facilities of apollo now silent and

157
00:08:31,430 --> 00:08:28,319
still in houston mission control the

158
00:08:34,149 --> 00:08:31,440
nerve center of manned flight operations

159
00:08:36,790 --> 00:08:34,159
the chapters of space history first

160
00:08:38,550 --> 00:08:36,800
mercury then gemini then apollo were

161
00:08:42,389 --> 00:08:38,560
written by the people who sat at these

162
00:08:48,310 --> 00:08:44,550
and these chapters of history came at us

163
00:08:50,150 --> 00:08:48,320
with breakneck speed christmas eve 1968

164
00:08:56,389 --> 00:08:50,160
in the beginning

165
00:09:01,110 --> 00:08:59,030
a few months later apollo 9 the long

166
00:09:03,670 --> 00:09:01,120
years of preparation were contracting in

167
00:09:10,710 --> 00:09:03,680
today's hours minutes the first manned

168
00:09:14,949 --> 00:09:13,269
apollo 10 the dress rehearsal for the

169
00:09:17,670 --> 00:09:14,959
real thing

170
00:09:19,990 --> 00:09:17,680
in five months three missions and in the

171
00:09:50,710 --> 00:09:20,000
seventh month the payoff

172
00:09:50,720 --> 00:10:08,310
foreign

173
00:10:13,670 --> 00:10:10,230
the images and the sounds fade in our

174
00:10:17,350 --> 00:10:13,680
memories but some things we can't forget

175
00:10:23,829 --> 00:10:17,360
names apollo 11 armstrong aldrin and

176
00:10:29,190 --> 00:10:27,430
other names grissom white and chaffee

177
00:10:31,190 --> 00:10:29,200
they remind us that it wasn't all

178
00:10:33,590 --> 00:10:31,200
success and celebration

179
00:10:36,949 --> 00:10:33,600
there was failure tragedy

180
00:10:39,509 --> 00:10:36,959
early in 1967 the three crawled into the

181
00:10:40,630 --> 00:10:39,519
command module at cape kennedy for a

182
00:10:43,190 --> 00:10:40,640
test

183
00:10:44,829 --> 00:10:43,200
there was a flash fire

184
00:10:47,829 --> 00:10:44,839
all three

185
00:10:50,310 --> 00:10:47,839
died after the shock came the long

186
00:10:52,630 --> 00:10:50,320
painful job of picking up the pieces

187
00:10:54,150 --> 00:10:52,640
learning the lessons coming together for

188
00:10:56,470 --> 00:10:54,160
a common goal

189
00:10:58,790 --> 00:10:56,480
the remains of the launch structure

190
00:11:11,190 --> 00:10:58,800
stand as a reminder that the goal was

191
00:11:16,949 --> 00:11:13,990
these strange shapes what do they mean

192
00:11:18,230 --> 00:11:16,959
these towers of steel what are they

193
00:11:20,630 --> 00:11:18,240
monuments

194
00:11:22,470 --> 00:11:20,640
or leftovers from some earlier age of

195
00:11:25,030 --> 00:11:22,480
discovery

196
00:11:27,190 --> 00:11:25,040
in the long history of man in the slow

197
00:11:30,230 --> 00:11:27,200
journey of the caravan

198
00:11:33,190 --> 00:11:30,240
what point do these mark

199
00:11:35,910 --> 00:11:33,200
historian arthur schlesinger

200
00:11:38,790 --> 00:11:35,920
i have no doubt at all that if posterity

201
00:11:41,110 --> 00:11:38,800
remembers the 20th century for anything

202
00:11:42,550 --> 00:11:41,120
historians 500 years from now looking at

203
00:11:44,550 --> 00:11:42,560
the 20th century

204
00:11:45,990 --> 00:11:44,560
it will be because it will be the

205
00:11:48,069 --> 00:11:46,000
century

206
00:11:50,389 --> 00:11:48,079
when man first began to break his

207
00:11:54,069 --> 00:11:50,399
terrestrial bonds and began the

208
00:11:54,079 --> 00:12:03,910
so that's it

209
00:12:09,190 --> 00:12:06,470
as man learned moved on and discarded

210
00:12:11,990 --> 00:12:09,200
the earlier structures he came to these

211
00:12:14,629 --> 00:12:12,000
they're marked for further milestones

212
00:12:29,030 --> 00:12:14,639
reserved for future missions

213
00:12:34,550 --> 00:12:31,829
historians five centuries from now will

214
00:12:37,030 --> 00:12:34,560
mark this century this place and they

215
00:12:38,389 --> 00:12:37,040
will further note that from the void

216
00:12:41,350 --> 00:12:38,399
life man

217
00:12:42,870 --> 00:12:41,360
it took eons to reach this point

218
00:12:45,030 --> 00:12:42,880
but once there

219
00:12:58,870 --> 00:12:45,040
the centuries and years compressed into

220
00:13:03,910 --> 00:13:01,829
the wheel the engine the airplane they

221
00:13:07,910 --> 00:13:03,920
came slowly at first then with

222
00:13:10,550 --> 00:13:07,920
increasing velocity and then this

223
00:13:12,949 --> 00:13:10,560
so huge so powerful

224
00:13:15,030 --> 00:13:12,959
so different that no ordinary modern

225
00:13:17,350 --> 00:13:15,040
name would suffice

226
00:13:20,150 --> 00:13:17,360
they reached backward through antiquity

227
00:13:24,629 --> 00:13:20,160
to roman mythology and they named it

228
00:13:27,750 --> 00:13:25,910
saturn

229
00:13:41,430 --> 00:13:27,760
his father was heaven

230
00:13:46,230 --> 00:13:43,910
the complex organization the mammoth

231
00:13:49,509 --> 00:13:46,240
machines the incredibly detailed

232
00:13:51,189 --> 00:13:49,519
technical knowledge the dedication

233
00:13:53,430 --> 00:13:51,199
it was all harnessed

234
00:13:55,189 --> 00:13:53,440
sharpened to a fine edge

235
00:13:58,230 --> 00:13:55,199
and focused

236
00:14:01,269 --> 00:13:58,240
the program developed and matured

237
00:14:03,430 --> 00:14:01,279
apollo 17 was launched at night

238
00:14:05,990 --> 00:14:03,440
and even the old hands the hardened

239
00:14:07,910 --> 00:14:06,000
veterans of the space program couldn't

240
00:14:12,629 --> 00:14:07,920
help but feel the awe

241
00:14:17,670 --> 00:14:14,870
in the excitement of the split second of

242
00:14:20,150 --> 00:14:17,680
exploration man doesn't stop to freeze

243
00:14:21,750 --> 00:14:20,160
the moment in history to look at it and

244
00:14:24,069 --> 00:14:21,760
ask what it means

245
00:14:26,310 --> 00:14:24,079
he simply lives it out

246
00:14:28,790 --> 00:14:26,320
but in the apollo program on their way

247
00:14:31,269 --> 00:14:28,800
to the moon they found a way to live out

248
00:14:32,870 --> 00:14:31,279
their strange moments in those strange

249
00:14:34,870 --> 00:14:32,880
spacecraft

250
00:14:37,990 --> 00:14:34,880
it may be the peculiar nature of

251
00:14:56,069 --> 00:14:38,000
americans to make history and to have

252
00:14:56,079 --> 00:15:11,350
ah

253
00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:29,509
bye

254
00:15:37,670 --> 00:15:32,790
they relaxed and had fun because they we

255
00:15:44,069 --> 00:15:40,310
but the program teaches lessons

256
00:15:46,790 --> 00:15:44,079
confidence is a transitory thing

257
00:15:47,990 --> 00:15:46,800
apollo 13. hey you know we've had a

258
00:16:00,310 --> 00:15:48,000
problem here

259
00:16:04,069 --> 00:16:01,990
no one would see the problem for some

260
00:16:06,150 --> 00:16:04,079
time but they went to work on it

261
00:16:08,550 --> 00:16:06,160
the people of apollo coalesced into a

262
00:16:11,430 --> 00:16:08,560
single dedicated unit

263
00:16:13,670 --> 00:16:11,440
linked themselves with their technology

264
00:16:15,430 --> 00:16:13,680
and cheated tragedy

265
00:16:18,389 --> 00:16:15,440
a new chapter in space history was

266
00:16:20,310 --> 00:16:18,399
written in mission control eugene krantz

267
00:16:21,350 --> 00:16:20,320
was the flight director when the problem

268
00:16:23,509 --> 00:16:21,360
developed

269
00:16:25,590 --> 00:16:23,519
throughout this entire

270
00:16:28,230 --> 00:16:25,600
uh next several days

271
00:16:30,310 --> 00:16:28,240
there was one dominant plot

272
00:16:31,670 --> 00:16:30,320
in the minds of all of the flight

273
00:16:34,470 --> 00:16:31,680
controllers

274
00:16:36,790 --> 00:16:34,480
we teach them that between god country

275
00:16:39,030 --> 00:16:36,800
and your own capability

276
00:16:40,790 --> 00:16:39,040
that you can solve any problem that may

277
00:16:42,389 --> 00:16:40,800
occur in flight

278
00:16:44,230 --> 00:16:42,399
throughout the entire course of apollo

279
00:16:45,670 --> 00:16:44,240
13 there was never any death that we'd

280
00:16:47,749 --> 00:16:45,680
get the crew back

281
00:16:49,670 --> 00:16:47,759
so there was a very positive approach

282
00:16:51,430 --> 00:16:49,680
and with this kind of approach you can

283
00:16:56,230 --> 00:16:51,440
solve just about any problem that comes

284
00:17:01,269 --> 00:16:58,949
solve any problem country capability

285
00:17:03,910 --> 00:17:01,279
old-fashioned words during a time when

286
00:17:05,189 --> 00:17:03,920
some said the old-fashioned virtues were

287
00:17:09,750 --> 00:17:05,199
forgotten

288
00:17:12,069 --> 00:17:09,760
they were translated into action into

289
00:17:13,750 --> 00:17:12,079
programs which took man soaring above

290
00:17:15,189 --> 00:17:13,760
the surface of the moon

291
00:17:24,069 --> 00:17:15,199
away from earth

292
00:17:27,750 --> 00:17:26,069
these divided thoughts

293
00:17:29,990 --> 00:17:27,760
the moon the earth

294
00:17:31,350 --> 00:17:30,000
run through the apollo program a sort of

295
00:17:33,430 --> 00:17:31,360
theme

296
00:17:34,549 --> 00:17:33,440
they went there flying in their graceful

297
00:17:36,789 --> 00:17:34,559
machines

298
00:17:38,310 --> 00:17:36,799
but they always thought back to where

299
00:17:40,470 --> 00:17:38,320
they came from

300
00:17:43,190 --> 00:17:40,480
perhaps that's natural

301
00:18:00,470 --> 00:17:43,200
the moon is a strange place for men to

302
00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:31,669
so

303
00:18:37,669 --> 00:18:34,470
if it's strange for men for mankind it's

304
00:18:40,870 --> 00:18:37,679
stranger still for the individual man

305
00:18:42,390 --> 00:18:40,880
harrison schmidt dr harrison schmidt a

306
00:18:44,310 --> 00:18:42,400
geologist

307
00:18:47,430 --> 00:18:44,320
he touched the moon

308
00:18:50,390 --> 00:18:47,440
and remembers how it was when apollo 17

309
00:18:51,430 --> 00:18:50,400
was making its descent the last flight

310
00:18:53,750 --> 00:18:51,440
to the moon

311
00:18:55,110 --> 00:18:53,760
the last time that man walked on its

312
00:18:57,830 --> 00:18:55,120
surface

313
00:18:59,590 --> 00:18:57,840
schmidt remembers how it was once first

314
00:19:02,870 --> 00:18:59,600
feelings are a

315
00:19:05,669 --> 00:19:02,880
mixture a very complex mixture of

316
00:19:10,390 --> 00:19:07,590
excitement because of something you had

317
00:19:13,909 --> 00:19:10,400
planned to do was being accomplished

318
00:19:16,310 --> 00:19:13,919
but of a great attention to detail to do

319
00:19:19,029 --> 00:19:16,320
to the detail that you had thought about

320
00:19:22,150 --> 00:19:19,039
and learned about for so many years

321
00:19:24,070 --> 00:19:22,160
prior to the actual event

322
00:19:26,470 --> 00:19:24,080
that detail keeps you occupied with

323
00:19:27,430 --> 00:19:26,480
where your hands are and

324
00:19:29,510 --> 00:19:27,440
where

325
00:19:30,950 --> 00:19:29,520
your feet are which rung they might be

326
00:19:32,549 --> 00:19:30,960
you try to remember well am i at the

327
00:19:33,830 --> 00:19:32,559
bottom of the rung

328
00:19:36,549 --> 00:19:33,840
and then

329
00:19:38,630 --> 00:19:36,559
as one moves away and tests his way on

330
00:19:39,990 --> 00:19:38,640
the surface of the moon and

331
00:19:41,990 --> 00:19:40,000
looks around

332
00:19:43,750 --> 00:19:42,000
and in my case looked around a very

333
00:19:45,510 --> 00:19:43,760
magnificent valley

334
00:19:46,789 --> 00:19:45,520
you see a

335
00:19:48,950 --> 00:19:46,799
rolling

336
00:19:51,510 --> 00:19:48,960
hilly country that

337
00:19:53,430 --> 00:19:51,520
is interspersed with some blocky fields

338
00:19:55,430 --> 00:19:53,440
of rocks that you know because you've

339
00:19:57,830 --> 00:19:55,440
studied the photographs

340
00:20:00,470 --> 00:19:57,840
and you saw them as you descended

341
00:20:01,750 --> 00:20:00,480
surround large craters that have been

342
00:20:03,990 --> 00:20:01,760
formed in that

343
00:20:06,710 --> 00:20:04,000
rolling countryside

344
00:20:09,270 --> 00:20:06,720
these rolling dark hills merge in the

345
00:20:12,549 --> 00:20:09,280
distance a few kilometers away

346
00:20:15,029 --> 00:20:12,559
with the very smooth

347
00:20:17,190 --> 00:20:15,039
but very bright colored slopes of the

348
00:20:20,549 --> 00:20:17,200
massifs

349
00:20:22,870 --> 00:20:20,559
and they rise with a majesty to rocky

350
00:20:24,549 --> 00:20:22,880
tops that are

351
00:20:26,549 --> 00:20:24,559
almost beyond description because

352
00:20:34,710 --> 00:20:26,559
there's nothing like that that we have

353
00:20:38,390 --> 00:20:36,870
the sea of tranquility

354
00:20:40,470 --> 00:20:38,400
hadley rill

355
00:20:42,950 --> 00:20:40,480
taurus literal

356
00:20:44,149 --> 00:20:42,960
they were once strange names on the map

357
00:20:46,470 --> 00:20:44,159
of the moon

358
00:20:49,430 --> 00:20:46,480
but the men of apollo gave reality to

359
00:20:50,950 --> 00:20:49,440
the names by being there and showing us

360
00:20:53,990 --> 00:20:50,960
the places

361
00:20:56,230 --> 00:20:54,000
they explored 60 miles of its surface

362
00:20:59,750 --> 00:20:56,240
and their travels took them to craters

363
00:21:01,830 --> 00:20:59,760
foothills to explore to observe and to

364
00:21:04,789 --> 00:21:01,840
sample

365
00:21:06,630 --> 00:21:04,799
hard rock proof of apollo enshrined in

366
00:21:08,390 --> 00:21:06,640
the smithsonian institution in

367
00:21:10,630 --> 00:21:08,400
washington dc

368
00:21:12,310 --> 00:21:10,640
four seven eight point eight grams of

369
00:21:14,870 --> 00:21:12,320
micro breccia

370
00:21:16,630 --> 00:21:14,880
under glass for mere earthlings to see

371
00:21:19,669 --> 00:21:16,640
and whisper about

372
00:21:21,750 --> 00:21:19,679
other rocks from the moon 840 pounds are

373
00:21:24,070 --> 00:21:21,760
being studied and talked about by

374
00:21:25,190 --> 00:21:24,080
scientists in laboratories around the

375
00:21:26,710 --> 00:21:25,200
world

376
00:21:28,870 --> 00:21:26,720
not only rocks

377
00:21:31,510 --> 00:21:28,880
tens of thousands of photographs of

378
00:21:32,470 --> 00:21:31,520
those strange exotic features of the

379
00:21:34,070 --> 00:21:32,480
moon

380
00:21:37,110 --> 00:21:34,080
and telemetry

381
00:21:39,430 --> 00:21:37,120
data on tape facts figures the studies

382
00:21:42,070 --> 00:21:39,440
will go on for years and the answers

383
00:21:43,430 --> 00:21:42,080
will come slowly answers to questions

384
00:21:45,430 --> 00:21:43,440
about the moon

385
00:21:47,669 --> 00:21:45,440
and the solar system

386
00:21:49,590 --> 00:21:47,679
the science of apollo is not merely

387
00:21:52,390 --> 00:21:49,600
concerned with samples from past

388
00:21:55,029 --> 00:21:52,400
milestones yesterday's missions

389
00:21:57,909 --> 00:21:55,039
in a special room in houston men sit at

390
00:22:00,870 --> 00:21:57,919
consoles and command instruments on the

391
00:22:03,110 --> 00:22:00,880
moon to send them today's daughter

392
00:22:08,630 --> 00:22:03,120
and they receive it today

393
00:22:11,270 --> 00:22:09,830
science

394
00:22:13,430 --> 00:22:11,280
that's the key

395
00:22:15,350 --> 00:22:13,440
and technology

396
00:22:17,909 --> 00:22:15,360
and something else

397
00:22:20,230 --> 00:22:17,919
in the drama of the moment few stopped

398
00:22:23,190 --> 00:22:20,240
to think of the essential element the

399
00:22:25,350 --> 00:22:23,200
one thing that made it happen

400
00:22:27,350 --> 00:22:25,360
people came to this program

401
00:22:30,549 --> 00:22:27,360
government people university people

402
00:22:34,149 --> 00:22:30,559
contractor people they brought to apollo

403
00:22:37,029 --> 00:22:34,159
skills and knowledge and determination

404
00:22:39,430 --> 00:22:37,039
this source of human intellectual energy

405
00:22:40,870 --> 00:22:39,440
was marshaled focused

406
00:22:43,029 --> 00:22:40,880
challenged

407
00:22:45,909 --> 00:22:43,039
what came out of the effort was not just

408
00:22:55,909 --> 00:22:45,919
a very successful program but a rich

409
00:23:00,310 --> 00:22:58,310
crystals from the moon the symbols of

410
00:23:01,590 --> 00:23:00,320
the science of apollo

411
00:23:02,870 --> 00:23:01,600
behind it

412
00:23:05,350 --> 00:23:02,880
causing it

413
00:23:07,430 --> 00:23:05,360
was the spirit of apollo

414
00:23:09,510 --> 00:23:07,440
i was

415
00:23:10,630 --> 00:23:09,520
one day

416
00:23:12,950 --> 00:23:10,640
in april

417
00:23:16,310 --> 00:23:12,960
every month of december

418
00:23:18,630 --> 00:23:16,320
may may made the money that's right

419
00:23:21,430 --> 00:23:18,640
today is the year of the month

420
00:23:25,830 --> 00:23:21,440
when much to my surprise

421
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,350
that's the truth

422
00:23:34,149 --> 00:23:31,909
we saw something of this spirit

423
00:23:37,110 --> 00:23:34,159
we shared in the adventure the

424
00:23:39,029 --> 00:23:37,120
excitement the euphoria of being there

425
00:23:45,029 --> 00:23:39,039
we shared it with the men who bounced

426
00:23:50,870 --> 00:23:47,669
and the surprise of discovery we were

427
00:23:53,110 --> 00:23:50,880
there to all of us watching vicarious

428
00:23:55,669 --> 00:23:53,120
explorers

429
00:23:58,230 --> 00:23:55,679
okay we're headed that way

430
00:24:00,710 --> 00:23:58,240
you get the tongs uh john yep i carry

431
00:24:09,029 --> 00:24:00,720
the rake

432
00:24:12,950 --> 00:24:11,510
and the meaning the significance of an

433
00:24:14,789 --> 00:24:12,960
occasion

434
00:24:17,029 --> 00:24:14,799
that tube came to us

435
00:24:19,990 --> 00:24:17,039
flashed into our living rooms on our

436
00:24:21,830 --> 00:24:20,000
19-inch window on the universe

437
00:24:24,070 --> 00:24:21,840
throughout the world we hope that this

438
00:24:26,310 --> 00:24:24,080
will be a symbol

439
00:24:28,230 --> 00:24:26,320
of what our feelings are

440
00:24:29,269 --> 00:24:28,240
what the feelings of the apollo program

441
00:24:31,190 --> 00:24:29,279
are

442
00:24:39,830 --> 00:24:31,200
and the symbol of mankind that we can

443
00:24:43,510 --> 00:24:41,750
there was also pride

444
00:24:45,750 --> 00:24:43,520
they put up the flag

445
00:24:49,269 --> 00:24:45,760
and then posed for pictures as any

446
00:24:51,990 --> 00:24:49,279
visitor to a foreign place might do

447
00:24:54,390 --> 00:24:52,000
the flag of each mission stood there

448
00:24:56,310 --> 00:24:54,400
as a reminder that we had been there

449
00:24:57,350 --> 00:24:56,320
but there was the realization that in

450
00:25:00,230 --> 00:24:57,360
truth

451
00:25:07,269 --> 00:25:00,240
it belonged to all the people there are

452
00:25:11,430 --> 00:25:09,510
the focus was the moon

453
00:25:15,110 --> 00:25:11,440
that's what it was all about

454
00:25:16,710 --> 00:25:15,120
but by reaching up there we in a sense

455
00:25:20,470 --> 00:25:16,720
came back here

456
00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:20,480
as one stands and scans a 360 degree

457
00:25:24,470 --> 00:25:22,400
panorama of his own

458
00:25:25,590 --> 00:25:24,480
one of the first

459
00:25:28,710 --> 00:25:25,600
objects

460
00:25:31,190 --> 00:25:28,720
in the dark lunar sky that you see

461
00:25:33,510 --> 00:25:31,200
is a bright and beautiful bluish globe

462
00:25:36,149 --> 00:25:33,520
that we call earth

463
00:25:38,710 --> 00:25:36,159
this globe represented

464
00:25:41,510 --> 00:25:38,720
to all of us i think

465
00:25:44,310 --> 00:25:41,520
not only home

466
00:25:47,029 --> 00:25:44,320
but a very fragile place

467
00:25:48,950 --> 00:25:47,039
that we have come back and felt that

468
00:25:57,029 --> 00:25:48,960
needed not only protection but

469
00:26:04,230 --> 00:25:59,990
they first went there in 1969

470
00:26:06,630 --> 00:26:04,240
they last left there in late 1972.

471
00:26:09,750 --> 00:26:06,640
between the beginning and the conclusion

472
00:26:11,269 --> 00:26:09,760
they came to feel to dimly perceive what

473
00:26:13,430 --> 00:26:11,279
it was all about

474
00:26:14,789 --> 00:26:13,440
to come to a perspective on the meaning

475
00:26:16,950 --> 00:26:14,799
of it all

476
00:26:18,870 --> 00:26:16,960
poet archibald mcleish has said it

477
00:26:21,590 --> 00:26:18,880
better than most

478
00:26:24,710 --> 00:26:21,600
to see the earth as it truly is

479
00:26:27,430 --> 00:26:24,720
small and blue and beautiful in that

480
00:26:30,470 --> 00:26:27,440
eternal silence where it floats

481
00:26:31,990 --> 00:26:30,480
is to see ourselves as riders on the

482
00:26:34,390 --> 00:26:32,000
earth together

483
00:26:46,710 --> 00:26:34,400
brothers who know now

484
00:26:50,830 --> 00:26:48,870
the excitement of the mission the

485
00:26:53,269 --> 00:26:50,840
tension and drama of the

486
00:26:54,390 --> 00:26:53,279
splashdown they remain only in our

487
00:26:56,549 --> 00:26:54,400
memories

488
00:27:00,310 --> 00:26:56,559
and in time they'll be replaced in the

489
00:27:02,710 --> 00:27:00,320
future by other missions other memories

490
00:27:05,510 --> 00:27:02,720
the moments of apollo may be over but

491
00:27:07,110 --> 00:27:05,520
the understanding and the discovery

492
00:27:09,990 --> 00:27:07,120
they go on

493
00:27:12,870 --> 00:27:10,000
and the full meaning the real meaning

494
00:27:14,230 --> 00:27:12,880
may yet be in the future too

495
00:27:16,549 --> 00:27:14,240
but for now

496
00:27:19,510 --> 00:27:16,559
for the present the images and the

497
00:27:20,950 --> 00:27:19,520
sounds provide meaning enough to each in

498
00:27:46,230 --> 00:27:20,960
his own way