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Embark on a thrilling space adventure to the moon and beyond. This classic sci-fi journey takes you through the challenges and wonders of space exploration. Perfect for fans of vintage space movies and epic cosmic tales.
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00:00:00The End
00:02:30Five, four, three, two, one, fire.
00:02:33Five, four, three, two, one, fire.
00:03:03Sweetie, stay in here.
00:03:06There may be more explosions.
00:03:07What happened, Charles?
00:03:27What went wrong?
00:03:27I don't know.
00:03:28I don't know.
00:03:29There couldn't have been anything wrong with the design aeronautically.
00:03:32No, it was the motor.
00:03:34But why?
00:03:35Why?
00:03:35After four years of development tests?
00:03:38Seems impossible, but I can figure only one thing.
00:03:40What?
00:03:41Somebody tampered.
00:03:42It's a sabotage.
00:03:43That's for intelligence to find out when we build another.
00:03:46I'm afraid you won't, Charles.
00:03:47Of course we will.
00:03:48Do you think this failure is going to make it easier to get new appropriations?
00:03:52Things like this mean military cuts, boy.
00:03:55Research is going back to the laboratories.
00:03:57Then I will, too.
00:03:58I'm not good.
00:04:01First, I want to reintroduce myself to my wife and kids.
00:04:05Low lawns, fix leaky faucets, paint fences, and read a few detective stories in the bathtub.
00:04:12Then get on with the problem, and a few others I've had neglect these last few years.
00:04:18Satellite to circle the Earth forever, 12,000 miles above sea level.
00:04:21What did I call it a while back, just before I was fired?
00:04:29Your vindication, General?
00:04:32I'm sorry.
00:04:32I'm sorrier about that than anything else.
00:04:35After your years of crusading, all I've succeeded in giving you is the most expensive pilot junk in history.
00:04:51I'm sorrier about that than anything else.
00:05:21General Thayer is here, Mr. Barnes.
00:05:32Oh, fine.
00:05:33Send him in.
00:05:44Don't forget to wash behind your ears.
00:05:47How's the trip, General?
00:05:48Very smooth.
00:05:49I flew in on one of your skyliner's.
00:05:51Nice ship, Jimmy.
00:05:53Very nice.
00:05:54Uh-oh.
00:05:55Whenever you start with a compliment, you're after something.
00:05:57That's hardly civil, Jim.
00:05:59I haven't seen you for the better part of two years.
00:06:01Did I ask you for something the last time I saw you?
00:06:03You certainly did.
00:06:04You wanted a shoulder to cry on because Cargrave's rocket fizzled.
00:06:08Glad to see you anyway, General.
00:06:09I'm not wasting my time crying about that anymore.
00:06:12After the way you sold me.
00:06:14Quote, the rocket is an absolute necessity.
00:06:17If any other power gets one out into space before we do, it will no longer be the United States.
00:06:22It will be the disunited world, etc., etc., unquote.
00:06:25That's twice as true today.
00:06:28Look, you proved that a satellite rocket isn't practical.
00:06:30It blew up, didn't it?
00:06:32Did it blow up, Jimmy?
00:06:34Or was it blown up?
00:06:38Blown up?
00:06:41Why ask me?
00:06:43Army intelligence might know.
00:06:45They know.
00:06:47What's your pitch, General?
00:06:49I'll tell you.
00:06:50Wait a minute.
00:06:52I think I can put this together myself.
00:06:54You're a satellite rocket man.
00:06:57You crusaded yourself right out of the service.
00:06:59Then you kept on crusading.
00:07:01Finally, they took up the Cargrave's project.
00:07:02It fizzled.
00:07:04Now following a course of old established habit.
00:07:07You'd like to drop it in my lap.
00:07:10Well, I love you, General.
00:07:11But I'm just a plain manufacturer, not the Department of Defense.
00:07:15The answer's no.
00:07:16Dan, no, no.
00:07:17Don't light that cigar.
00:07:17We'll go to lunch.
00:07:18Who said you were anything but a manufacturer?
00:07:21That's why I came to you.
00:07:22Look, General.
00:07:23Building rocket satellites is big stuff.
00:07:25I couldn't begin to finance one of those.
00:07:26I'm not asking you to rebuild the satellite.
00:07:28Cargrave spent four years on that project.
00:07:31That rocket could have and should have done everything we anticipated.
00:07:35There's no time nor need to repeat that experiment.
00:07:37What in blazes are you driving at now?
00:07:39The moon.
00:07:43Okay.
00:07:44Now, listen.
00:07:45Tell me.
00:07:46I did tell you.
00:07:47The next rocket we build is going to the moon.
00:07:49Let's go to lunch.
00:07:53I'm serious, Jim.
00:07:54Oh, you can't be.
00:07:55It's too fantastic.
00:07:56The moon?
00:07:57Impossible.
00:07:58Even with an atomic energy engine, exhaust velocity potential of 30,000 feet a second,
00:08:04thrust of 3 million pounds.
00:08:06Why?
00:08:07Even just Spurey's atomic engine has only limited use.
00:08:10He hasn't come close to designing a mobile unit.
00:08:12Cargrave has spent the past two years on it.
00:08:14He's not only designed it, he's tested it.
00:08:16His scale model ran for an hour and 23 minutes before it blew up.
00:08:23That's incredible.
00:08:24I saw it, Jim.
00:08:25Good grief, man.
00:08:26And the government hasn't taken that over?
00:08:28It's peacetime, Jim.
00:08:29The government isn't making that kind of appropriations.
00:08:31Well, they'll need the rocket one of these days.
00:08:33And if it's not ready, the government will do the job.
00:08:35And they'll turn to you, to private industry, to do it.
00:08:38Government always does that when it gets in a jam.
00:08:40It has to.
00:08:41This time, I figured we might be ready for the government.
00:08:46Preparedness isn't all military, Jim.
00:08:51What about the money?
00:08:52That's not the problem.
00:08:53It's production.
00:08:54That's why I came to you.
00:08:55You're a production man.
00:08:56The problem right now is one of research.
00:08:59Designing special materials.
00:09:02The pooling of resources.
00:09:04Specialized skills.
00:09:05Engineering brains.
00:09:06Industrial capacity.
00:09:08No single company could possibly do it.
00:09:12But combined American industry, sparked by Jim Barnes,
00:09:16could put a rocket on the moon within a year.
00:09:20Well, what do you say, Jim?
00:09:23Do we go to lunch?
00:09:25Or do we go to the moon?
00:09:29The moon, huh?
00:09:44Here's the control room.
00:09:46And all this space below carries the working fluid, the reaction mass.
00:09:49It's water heated to dry steam by the atomic pile and expelled through this jet.
00:09:53Here we have the shielding to protect the crew from radioactivity.
00:09:57Here are the gyros behind the water tanks, and they can be used to turn the ship to any desired attitude.
00:10:01I admit, gentlemen, this enterprise appeals to me.
00:10:05I've always been attracted by, shall I say, progressive forms of transportation.
00:10:11I've not been noted as a horse and buggy man.
00:10:13Now, I'd rather like to have a finger in this new go-devil, though nothing in the world would tempt me to ride in it.
00:10:20But can we afford it?
00:10:23Well, I've been told you can, Mr. Laporte.
00:10:26Do you mind?
00:10:27Now, listen, fella, I've known you from way back.
00:10:30Two engine planes weren't fast enough.
00:10:31You had to go in for four.
00:10:33Then props weren't fast enough.
00:10:34You had to go in for jets.
00:10:36Now you've got a hold of something else.
00:10:37Something that'll go higher and faster than anything that ever existed before.
00:10:41You can't swing it alone.
00:10:43So you're trying to rope us in on it.
00:10:45Well, before we go along with you, you'll have to tell us.
00:10:48What's the payoff?
00:10:50Dollars and cents?
00:10:51I don't know.
00:10:52I want to do this job because it's never been done.
00:10:54Because I don't know.
00:10:56It's research.
00:10:56It's pioneering.
00:10:57What's the moon?
00:10:58Another north pole, another south pole.
00:11:00Our only satellite.
00:11:01Our nearest neighbor in the sky.
00:11:03But why go there, Jim?
00:11:04We'll know when we get there.
00:11:06We'll tell you when we get back.
00:11:07It's a venture I don't want to be left out of.
00:11:09I like your viewpoint, Jim.
00:11:11But there are a good many men here who won't see it.
00:11:13They don't even understand it.
00:11:15I've got a first reader lesson all drawn up for them.
00:11:18Sit down, will you, fellas?
00:11:19And ask the others to take seats.
00:11:20I'll take seats.
00:11:22Gentlemen.
00:11:25Gentlemen.
00:11:26Gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?
00:11:28If you'll all be seated, I'd like to show you a motion picture we had prepared for this meeting.
00:11:32We have one of Hollywood's best-known actors to play for you.
00:11:35All right, Sam.
00:11:36I'm a busy man.
00:11:54You're dragging me all the way down here to talk about a rocket to the moon.
00:11:57It's ridiculous.
00:11:59Comic book stuff.
00:12:00Comic book stuff, eh?
00:12:02Life magazine doesn't think so.
00:12:04Nor look, nor pick, nor colliers, nor your biggest daily newspapers.
00:12:09It'll never get off the ground.
00:12:20No propellers.
00:12:22Rockets do not employ propellers.
00:12:24They use jets.
00:12:25So do gas stoves.
00:12:27But they don't fly to the moon.
00:12:31Obviously, you know nothing about rockets.
00:12:34Now, let's pretend that umbrella of yours is a shotgun.
00:12:37Oh, yeah.
00:12:39Shoot it.
00:12:49Who pushed me?
00:12:51The gun would it.
00:12:52The charge not only fired out of the muzzle, it kicked back with equal force against the barrel.
00:12:58Ah, it wouldn't happen again in a hundred times.
00:13:01Shoot it at the ground a few times in rapid succession and see what happens.
00:13:07That same principle applies to rockets.
00:13:11It is the same shotgun kick of the explosives that throws the rocket forward.
00:13:16That kick, incidentally, is quite independent of the air around the rocket.
00:13:20It works just as well in a vacuum or in outer space, which is a vacuum.
00:13:37The moon is a great deal easier to reach than you realize.
00:13:40Oh, sure.
00:13:41It's a siege.
00:13:42Only 240,000 miles.
00:13:45Paved highway all the way and the gas station at every intersection.
00:13:49Fuel is no problem, Woody.
00:13:51The engines do not have to blast all the time.
00:13:54Just long enough to get you away from the gravitational pull of the Earth.
00:13:58Following which, you fall wherever you're headed for.
00:14:02Get in and I'll demonstrate.
00:14:07Hey, let me out of here.
00:14:09Help!
00:14:09Help!
00:14:10At the start, the jets blast powerfully enough to counteract the gravitational pull of the Earth.
00:14:19Once out of the Earth's atmosphere, the rocket just keeps on going, encountering no resistance to slow it up.
00:14:26The rocket does not appear to be traveling, but the high speed, or escape velocity as we call it, is about seven miles a second.
00:14:34It keeps falling in outer space in the direction in which it was started.
00:14:40Now, as it nears the moon, that planet's gravitational field begins to pull it toward it.
00:14:48Can't hear you, Woody.
00:14:49No air, remember.
00:14:51Turn on your aerial.
00:14:54Hey, no brakes on this thing.
00:14:56I'm going to crash.
00:14:58How do I land?
00:15:00Very simple.
00:15:01Just reverse the takeoff.
00:15:02Yeah, but what about the wings?
00:15:05Can't use them.
00:15:06The moon has no air.
00:15:08Now, he tells me.
00:15:10Turn the ship around.
00:15:12Use the shotgun kick of the exhaust to break the speed and set her gently on her tail.
00:15:21So we made it.
00:15:23But how do we get home from this piece of cheese?
00:15:25Shooting a rocket from the moon to the Earth is a great deal easier than shooting from the Earth to the moon.
00:15:30Because it's downhill almost all the way.
00:15:34The V-2 rocket could do it today.
00:15:37On the return trip, we use the wings to glide in.
00:15:41And for economy's sake, finish the landing like this.
00:15:44Sensational.
00:15:59I'm sold.
00:16:01I'll back it to the hill.
00:16:02Here's my two bucks.
00:16:04Well, when do we start building?
00:16:06Well, gentlemen, when do we start building?
00:16:17You've examined our model.
00:16:18You've seen our little picture.
00:16:20I hope by now we've succeeded in dispelling some of your original skepticism.
00:16:24Mr. Barnes, can you imagine me going before a meeting of my stockholders and reporting that I'd put millions into a trip to the moon?
00:16:31Why, son, they'd lynch me.
00:16:33I doubt it even in Texas when you tell them why.
00:16:37It just happens we have no choice.
00:16:39If we want to stay in business, we have to build this ship.
00:16:42Did you say have to build it, Jim?
00:16:45That's what I said.
00:16:46If it's that important a project, why doesn't the government undertake it?
00:16:49Here's the reason.
00:16:51The vast amount of brains, talents, special skills, and research facilities necessary for this project are not in the government.
00:16:57Nor can they be mobilized by the government in peacetime without fatal delay.
00:17:02Only American industry can do this job.
00:17:05And American industry must get to work now, just as we did in the last war.
00:17:09Yes, but the government footed the bills.
00:17:12And they'll foot this bill, too.
00:17:13If we're successful, you know that.
00:17:14If we fail, we'll take a colossal beating.
00:17:17So we can't fail.
00:17:18Not only is this the greatest adventure awaiting mankind,
00:17:22but it's the greatest challenge ever hurled at American industry.
00:17:26And General Thayer is going to tell you why.
00:17:31The reason is quite simple.
00:17:34We are not the only ones who know that the moon can be reached.
00:17:38We are not the only ones who are planning to go there.
00:17:41The race is on, and we'd better win it, because there is absolutely no way to stop an attack from outer space.
00:17:51The first country that can use the moon for the launching of missiles will control the earth.
00:17:58That, gentlemen, is the most important military fact of this century.
00:18:04Gentlemen, I see no need for further discussion.
00:18:24It's our job.
00:18:25Well, all I've got to say is we'd better build it in Texas.
00:18:30It's the only state big enough to hold it.
00:18:32If you can increase the initial velocity only six hundredths of a mile per second,
00:18:49you can make the trip in two days instead of four.
00:18:53We'll have to compute what that means in reaction mass.
00:18:55Too heavy.
00:19:01This is a case where pounds of ship cost many pounds of reaction mass.
00:19:05Try titanium.
00:19:10That's exactly right as far as occurrence goes.
00:19:13All that remains now is to test it.
00:19:15It goes for a stratosphere chamber this afternoon.
00:19:18I've added one detail, Charles.
00:19:20What in thunder is that for?
00:19:21The chafing suits we wear over our pressure suits I've had made up in colors.
00:19:25Why?
00:19:27For identification.
00:19:28We use these four colors for the four crew members,
00:19:31and then nobody can get lost from the others.
00:19:33The moonscape's pretty drab, you've told me.
00:19:35Well, these bright colors will give us high visibility.
00:19:37Maybe you're right.
00:19:38If nobody minds looking a little bit like a carnival balloon.
00:19:40Come on.
00:19:40Excuse me.
00:19:43Take him.
00:19:43Take him.
00:19:55Love you.
00:19:56Take him.
00:19:57Fire him.
00:19:58Come on.
00:19:59Come on.
00:20:00You've got the time.
00:20:01Let's goigan.
00:20:02Come on.
00:20:02Come on.
00:20:03Why?
00:20:04Come on.
00:20:04Come on.
00:20:05Come on.
00:20:06Come on.
00:20:37Hey, Brownie.
00:20:42What do you want?
00:20:46Have you taken a look down from here?
00:20:49No, I never like high places.
00:20:51Why?
00:20:52You're halfway to the moon already.
00:20:54It's the other half that's tough.
00:20:56I wouldn't worry about that.
00:20:58How come?
00:21:00Who do you think you're kidding?
00:21:01This thing is as close to the moon as it'll ever get.
00:21:04I never felt so silly in my life as I have since you sent for me.
00:21:08You show me all your nice plans for instruments to navigate a ship to the moon.
00:21:12I help you build them.
00:21:13We install them.
00:21:15You teach me how they work.
00:21:16I say yes, I understand and take my word.
00:21:18I do.
00:21:19But nobody tells me how the ship works.
00:21:21This thing is built like Washington Monument.
00:21:23You could stick an atom bomb under and it wouldn't go.
00:21:25What's the matter, Brownie?
00:21:30It's nothing.
00:21:31It's just a bellyache.
00:21:32It comes and goes.
00:21:33You believe in green apples?
00:21:35I haven't been able to eat anything.
00:21:36How are you, Doc?
00:21:55Hello, Jim.
00:21:55General.
00:21:56I tried to get you before you left Washington.
00:21:58I'm worried.
00:21:59Is anything wrong?
00:22:00It's not the engine, is it?
00:22:01Have you tested it?
00:22:02Not yet.
00:22:03It doesn't look like we're going to.
00:22:03Listen to this.
00:22:04I am directed to inform you that your petition to test an atomic energy reaction engine at the scene of the construction of your rocket ship is regretfully denied.
00:22:12Denied?
00:22:13It is the opinion of the commission that a possible danger exists should the engine fail structurally in the resultant dispersal of radioactive materials around the neighborhood of the test area.
00:22:21Now, we've told them a dozen times we've cleared the area out for ten miles around.
00:22:24While it is admitted that no real danger of atomic explosion exists, a belief in such danger does exist in the public mind.
00:22:31It is the policy of the commission...
00:22:32Policy my foot.
00:22:33Somebody's throwing a monkey wrench.
00:22:35Now, wait.
00:22:35There's more.
00:22:36The test is authorized at the Special Weapons Testing Center in the South Pacific.
00:22:40South Pacific?
00:22:42Well, that's doggone nice of them.
00:22:44What's the matter with the North Pole or Little America?
00:22:47What's a few months delay one way or the other?
00:22:48They're merely trying to protect their own necks.
00:22:50You can't buck public opinion.
00:22:52I've tried.
00:22:53Have you seen this?
00:22:54That isn't public opinion.
00:22:59It's a job of propaganda.
00:23:01You're almighty right it is.
00:23:03Manufactured and organized with money and brains.
00:23:07Somebody's out to get us.
00:23:08Stops us in our tracks anyway.
00:23:12We'll have to reschedule.
00:23:14With what?
00:23:15What do you mean?
00:23:17What are we going to use for money?
00:23:19We've pushed our resources to the limits.
00:23:20Every day a delay costs.
00:23:27Say, Doc.
00:23:31The ship's about ready to take off, isn't she?
00:23:34Except for tests and minor adjustments.
00:23:37What's the next favorable time?
00:23:40About a month from now.
00:23:41I don't mean that.
00:23:42What's the next favorable time this month?
00:23:44The only favorable time this month is about 17 hours from now.
00:23:57All right, that's it then.
00:23:59We take off in 17 hours.
00:24:01Are you out of your mind?
00:24:03I will be if we run into any more red tape.
00:24:05Now look, there's no law against taking off a spaceship.
00:24:08It's never been done, so they haven't gotten around to prohibiting it.
00:24:10If we ask for permission, they'll find a way to block us.
00:24:13So we go now, as soon as we can.
00:24:15In an untested ship?
00:24:16How do you test a thing of this kind?
00:24:18It either works or it doesn't.
00:24:19It's a one-time deal.
00:24:20Doc, have you any worries about the engine?
00:24:22Well, none, but we haven't trained a crew.
00:24:24So we don't.
00:24:25The take off is fully automatic.
00:24:27The general and I will run the ship.
00:24:29You'll be the engineer.
00:24:30Brown is known from the beginning that he'll handle the radio and radar.
00:24:34What about ballistics?
00:24:36Oh, that's where we're stuck.
00:24:38The take off wasn't planned for this month.
00:24:39It's a week's work.
00:24:42You think Dr. Hastings is pretty good, don't you?
00:24:45The best in the world.
00:24:47Give him the job.
00:24:48A pot of black coffee and all the assistance he can use.
00:24:51You all set, General?
00:24:51All set.
00:24:52Great, then it's settled.
00:24:53We'll all be heroes or angels, so what can we lose?
00:24:57We'll take off tomorrow morning, before dawn.
00:24:59We'll have a lot to do in 17 hours.
00:25:00Get me my home.
00:25:08I'd like to talk to Mrs. Cargraves.
00:25:11All roads have been blocked.
00:25:13Because of the danger of radioactivity, the area is being cleared of spectators.
00:25:18Do not attempt to approach the site of the spaceship.
00:25:21The public is asked to stay away.
00:25:24I shall repeat this warning.
00:25:26Do not attempt to approach the site of the spaceship.
00:25:354, 5, 2.6.
00:25:382, 2.78.
00:25:42And a correction, 2, 2.79.
00:25:452, 2.79.
00:25:483, 2.1.
00:25:50Yes.
00:25:52Mr. Brown still cannot be located, Mr. Barnes.
00:25:54Check with the main gate, the store, everywhere.
00:25:56Keep calling me back.
00:25:58What's the last one?
00:25:593, 2.1.
00:26:00Check.
00:26:022, 1, 9.9.
00:26:03Check.
00:26:074, 0, 4, 0, 4, 0, 5.
00:26:124, 0, 4, 0, 5.
00:26:16Yes.
00:26:17Mr. Sweeney is here to see General Sayre.
00:26:19Send him in.
00:26:221, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.
00:26:30What's up, Joe?
00:26:31It's Brown, sir.
00:26:33They've taken him to the hospital.
00:26:34The hospital?
00:26:35Is he all right?
00:26:36He will be, after they cut out his appendix.
00:26:40Oh, no.
00:26:44Now, what do we do?
00:26:46Hey, Joe.
00:26:47Joe.
00:26:49You can handle the ship's radio and radar equipment, can't you?
00:26:51Yeah.
00:26:52You know as much about it as Brown.
00:26:54Will you take his place?
00:26:55To the moon?
00:26:56Yes.
00:26:57What's the moon got that this desert ain't?
00:27:00Besides...
00:27:00Besides what, Joe?
00:27:02Well, I got a date with a nice little chick tomorrow.
00:27:05No thanks.
00:27:07Joe.
00:27:08Unless you come along with us, we're sunk.
00:27:10You're the only man left who knows how to handle the equipment.
00:27:12Mr. Barnes, mind if I sound off a little?
00:27:16What do you mean?
00:27:17You're pretty smart men.
00:27:19You and Dr. Cargraves and the General.
00:27:21I don't set myself up to know as much as you do, but, well...
00:27:24What's on your mind?
00:27:25You're all wet.
00:27:27In what way?
00:27:28The thing won't work.
00:27:29It can't.
00:27:30It's crazy.
00:27:32Figure all that weight.
00:27:33It won't budge an inch.
00:27:35And what do I see him putting in the fuel tanks?
00:27:38Water.
00:27:38You're all gonna look like a bunch of dummies.
00:27:42If you'd believe that, you'd come along.
00:27:44Yeah, but I don't wanna look like a dummy.
00:27:46You wouldn't.
00:27:47We're entirely responsible for the whole thing.
00:27:50You don't think it could blow up?
00:27:52We'd never get in it if we thought that.
00:27:54Joe.
00:27:56You have confidence in Dr. Cargraves, me, the General.
00:27:59We wouldn't ask you to do anything we didn't believe in.
00:28:03Would you like to go?
00:28:07Okay.
00:28:10I'll sit up there with you and twiddle the knobs.
00:28:13Just for laughs.
00:28:14Fine, Joe.
00:28:15It'll never budge.
00:28:16Be sure you twiddle the right knobs.
00:28:18Okay, then.
00:28:20Hey, you guys are really serious, ain't you?
00:28:24Dead serious.
00:28:24Hey, wait a minute.
00:28:40I've gotta get through.
00:28:41Sorry, nobody passes here.
00:28:42But I tell you, you have to take me through.
00:28:44I've got a court order here forbidding them to take off.
00:28:46I'm sorry you couldn't bring the boys, Emily.
00:29:09I couldn't, darling.
00:29:10You gave me so little time.
00:29:12You're all right.
00:29:14Like to go in my place, Mrs. Cargraves?
00:29:16Who, me?
00:29:17Oh, dear now.
00:29:19Don't worry, ma'am.
00:29:20We won't get very far.
00:29:22Coming, Doc?
00:29:23In a moment.
00:29:23It's about time, Charles.
00:29:26Goodbye, Mrs. Cargraves.
00:29:28We'll take good care of your husband, Mrs. Cargraves.
00:29:31Find out to worry.
00:29:34Mr. Barnes, there's a joker back there trying to crash the gate.
00:29:38He has a court order that says you can't take off.
00:29:40Darling.
00:29:41Come back to me, Charles.
00:29:43Come on, come on.
00:29:45Hastings?
00:29:46I wish you had room for me in the ship.
00:29:47You've got to stay here and see we get back home.
00:29:49Goodbye.
00:29:50Good luck.
00:29:53All right, take it away.
00:30:06Barnes!
00:30:07Cargraves!
00:30:08Stop!
00:30:09Come back here!
00:30:11Can't hear a word you say.
00:30:23All right, Jim.
00:30:48You're the skipper.
00:30:49Take over.
00:30:50First time I ever outranked a full general.
00:30:53First time I've heard you admit you were ever outranked by anybody.
00:30:56Hey, am I the only one that's scared?
00:30:57This thing might wake.
00:30:59We're all scared, but it won't.
00:31:01All right, gentlemen, take off stations.
00:31:03Oh, my God.
00:31:04Let's but...
00:31:04Things like that you've been ΔΓ³aton.
00:31:07I've got things like that.
00:31:07I don't know, what you've kΔ±sm administrator is, so you've been going to be a little inheritance game.
00:31:13I've got things like you've been talking to me so late.
00:31:15I'm not thinking too high, though.
00:31:17I didn't know.
00:31:19I don't know.
00:31:20I know that I should remember that I had ready because you've got to it.
00:31:23All right.
00:31:25We're allZe grit on your way, so you can definitely touch that.
00:31:28Hey, we're going to be a LYLE.
00:31:30communications have it all cooking in a minute
00:31:45as soon as your television screen's operating check clearance invasive ship
00:31:52then phone check tracking center dry wells cut in the boys of our own traffic shack
00:31:57calling traffic check over traffic to ship over official designation of ship is luna l-u-n-a
00:32:05luna over luna roger tell him to clear for firing clear firing area in preparation for departure
00:32:13over roger covering spaceship luna calling dry wells airfield over dry wells to luna over
00:32:21i'm making preparations for firing over dry wells and ready for tracking over dry wells
00:32:29reported traffic reported power station report power station ready for firing communications
00:32:35everything's just dandy skipper co-pilot instruments okay automatic pilot tracking
00:32:44you're going to
00:32:51you
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00:33:38Traffic to load up. All clear. Over.
00:33:43Roger.
00:33:44Tell them to stand by for count off and firing.
00:33:47Stand by for count off and firing.
00:33:50Roger.
00:33:54For check, 3-4-8-40.
00:33:58Check.
00:34:00Pick up count off at 3-4-9-30.
00:34:03Count off at 3-4-9-30.
00:34:06Check Dry Wells.
00:34:08Dry Wells. Roger.
00:34:10Count off at 3-4-9-30. Over.
00:34:12Able. Find Dry Wells.
00:34:1430 seconds. Coming up.
00:34:17Stand by.
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00:34:50Fire.
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00:35:19Help! Help! Help!
00:35:49What's happening?
00:36:12What's the matter?
00:36:16Molly, what's the matter?
00:36:17Just past the screen, sound.
00:36:22So, switch on, wheel, aft.
00:36:28I can't move a muscle.
00:36:31I'm froze solid.
00:36:34Do it!
00:36:47I can't move a muscle.
00:36:49I can't move a muscle.
00:36:57I think it's a ν .
00:37:00I can't move a muscle.
00:37:02I can't move a muscle.
00:37:04We're falling.
00:37:30It's all right, Joe.
00:37:32We're weightless and free orbit, that's all.
00:37:35Weightless?
00:37:38Free orbit?
00:37:41Just where are we?
00:37:44You mean this thing is working?
00:37:46We're... we're...
00:37:47No, sir. Not me.
00:37:49Nobody ever told me this was practical.
00:37:51Toying this thing around you here, take me back.
00:37:54I ain't going to no moon. That's just to look at.
00:37:59I'm sick.
00:38:01Grab hold.
00:38:02Now, hang on.
00:38:05What happened to me?
00:38:07You're all right.
00:38:08Free orbit, everything is falling at the same speed.
00:38:11So anything unfastened just floats.
00:38:13There's no up.
00:38:15Or down.
00:38:18Hell up my stomach.
00:38:20It says there's nothing but up.
00:38:23Oh, boy.
00:38:25Am I seasick?
00:38:27You're not seasick. You're space sick.
00:38:29I'm sick of that, too.
00:38:30Take one of these pills.
00:38:55It'll settle your stomach.
00:38:56I can't swallow.
00:39:11It won't go down.
00:39:11It'll take a little practice without gravity to help.
00:39:14You'll manage.
00:39:21General, how are you feeling?
00:39:24Have you got another one of those pills?
00:39:26Here's a whole box full.
00:39:27Let's see if I can swallow better than Sweeney.
00:39:31I know one thing.
00:39:33Unless these pills work, space travel isn't going to be popular.
00:39:37Don't think of the condition of my stomach.
00:39:54Don't think of the condition of my stomach.
00:39:54Oh.
00:39:55Oh.
00:40:43Let's get these on you.
00:41:11They've got magnets in the soles.
00:41:14How do you feel now?
00:41:16Just the way I did when I tried my first smoke.
00:41:19You'll be all right in a minute.
00:41:21Put that one on and try to get dry wells.
00:41:22Spaceship Luna calling dry wells.
00:41:39Spaceship Luna calling dry wells.
00:41:41Over.
00:41:42Dry wells.
00:41:43Spaceship Luna.
00:41:44Man alive.
00:41:45I can't believe it.
00:41:46Your takeoff checked out according to flight plans.
00:41:48We are now tracking you by radar.
00:41:50You are in your calculated orbit to the limit of the accuracy of our instruments.
00:41:54We'll continue to track you as long as we can.
00:41:56Good luck.
00:41:57Over.
00:41:57Thank you, dry wells and Roger.
00:42:01Doc, General, you've got to see this.
00:42:04Gosh, ain't that so...
00:42:20I thought I'd seen everything.
00:42:24Just look at those cities.
00:42:25Los Angeles or San Francisco.
00:42:29Sure.
00:42:30That's Los Angeles.
00:42:32That's New York.
00:42:34Can you see Brooklyn?
00:42:37Sure, there's Brooklyn.
00:42:39I wonder who's Pigeon.
00:42:40Who's Pigeon.
00:42:58That's the coffee, General.
00:43:28That's the coffee, General.
00:43:58I want to test the piloting radar.
00:44:12I tried to crank out the antenna, it seems to be stuck.
00:44:15Stuck?
00:44:16I don't understand it.
00:44:19I was particularly careful when I greased it.
00:44:21Greased it?
00:44:22No wonder it's stuck.
00:44:23It's exposed to outer space, frozen solid.
00:44:25You should know better than that, Sweeney.
00:44:27Why?
00:44:28I'm no scientist.
00:44:29It was covered in the engineering instructions or didn't you bother to read them?
00:44:31All right, hold it, hold it, Doc.
00:44:33Arguing won't get us anywhere.
00:44:36That piloting radar has to be fixed.
00:44:39Try to land blind, it'd be our finish.
00:44:41How do we fix it, Doc?
00:44:43Somebody has to go outside and free it.
00:44:45Outside?
00:44:46You mean go outside the ship?
00:44:48It can't be done any other way.
00:44:49But we'd be swept off.
00:44:50No, you won't.
00:44:51You can't fall.
00:44:52Outside, you'd be in the same orbit, the same trajectory as the ship, moving right along
00:44:56with it.
00:44:57Worst could happen.
00:44:58You'd drift away from the side.
00:45:00We could avoid that by using safety lines.
00:45:02Well, that has to be done.
00:45:03Let's do it.
00:45:04No, Jim.
00:45:05I'll go.
00:45:06I want to inspect the throat of the rocket jet anyway, see how it's stood up under the
00:45:09takeoff.
00:45:10All right.
00:45:11I'll tag along.
00:45:12Me too.
00:45:13I follow this up and if you guys go out, so do I.
00:45:17You coming, General?
00:45:18No.
00:45:19I'm not a bit curious.
00:45:20You boys go and have your fun.
00:45:21I'll stand right up the log.
00:45:23Green's just the color for you, Sweeney.
00:45:34Ready to put on the helmets?
00:45:39I won't be able to breed in here.
00:45:41You won't be able to breed without it.
00:45:42Hook up your air hose.
00:45:43Forget there's no air outside.
00:45:46Plenty of room for it.
00:46:01Check radios.
00:46:03Check instruments.
00:46:06Check air.
00:46:07Let's go.
00:46:09I'm going to get another line.
00:46:10I'm going to get another line.
00:46:16I'll go.
00:46:17I'll go.
00:46:18I'll go.
00:46:23Now it'll open.
00:46:33Close it, Skipper. We'll fall out.
00:46:53Get this through your head, Joe. We're in the same orbit as the ship. You can't fall.
00:46:59Let's go.
00:47:01Let's go.
00:47:31Hey, we're stuck up here. We ain't moving.
00:47:33It only seems that way. Matter of fact, we're traveling thousands of miles per hour. Here in space, all comparisons are lost.
00:47:43Take a look behind you.
00:47:45Wow. The geography books are right.
00:47:47How do you feel now, Joe?
00:48:19I can't wait to have you in the next one.
00:48:21You can't look there, Joe.
00:48:23You can't see us.
00:48:25Look at your eyes.
00:48:27I can't see you.
00:48:29I know.
00:48:31Welcome.
00:48:33I'm going aft. I'll see you shortly.
00:48:56Wait till we finish this. I'll go with you.
00:48:58You stay here and take care of the radar.
00:49:00Sweeney, give me your rope.
00:49:01Help yourself.
00:49:03I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:06I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:09I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:10I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:14I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:17I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:21I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:25I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:29I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:33I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:36I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:40I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:44I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:48I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:51I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:53I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:55I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:57I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:59I'll be back in a minute.
00:50:00I'll be back in a minute.
00:50:01I'll be back in a minute.
00:50:31Doc's off the ship.
00:50:33Where?
00:50:33Off the stern.
00:50:34Come on.
00:50:37Jim!
00:50:37Jim, Joe, help!
00:50:39Can you hear me, Jim?
00:50:40I'm a group.
00:50:41Coming, Doc.
00:50:42It's only a two-feet Jim's turret.
00:50:44Holy Christmas.
00:50:45If we can't get him, he'll plug forever.
00:50:47Make it easy, buddy.
00:50:49Get a rope to him.
00:50:50Back here, Jim.
00:50:52Off the stern.
00:50:53We're working towards you, Doc.
00:50:54We can see you.
00:50:56Jim, Joe, is he all right?
00:50:58Can you get him?
00:50:59We've got to get him.
00:51:00I'm coming out.
00:51:01Steady, Doc.
00:51:05We're going to get a rope to you.
00:51:14Steady, Doc.
00:51:15Here it comes.
00:51:17Carriage!
00:51:19We can't reach it.
00:51:21We'll play again.
00:51:27General!
00:51:28General, can you hear me?
00:51:29Bring out an oxygen bottle.
00:51:32Hurry!
00:51:41Hurry, Jim!
00:51:42Joe, help!
00:51:43General, that oxygen tank!
00:51:59Hurry!
00:52:00Where is he?
00:52:00Way out there.
00:52:01What are you going to do?
00:52:14Get him!
00:52:16I hope it's got enough kick.
00:52:19General, grab him!
00:52:21Grab him!
00:52:21We'll lose him, too!
00:52:22He'll, get up!
00:52:22THE END
00:52:52I almost didn't make it. Can we get back? If we don't, we'll clear the universe together. Hang on, I'm going to turn a...
00:53:22I'm afraid there's enough gas to get us back.
00:53:34He's got him.
00:53:34Give me them all.
00:53:44Come on, boys. Let's go inside.
00:53:51You okay, Doc? Thanks, thanks, sir. I didn't think we'd make it.
00:54:10God, you're safe. Come on, boys. Let's go inside.
00:54:40Standing by, ready to fire.
00:54:52Here goes the turn.
00:54:55We're going backwards.
00:55:00We're going backwards.
00:55:02We're going backwards.
00:55:04We're going backwards.
00:55:05We're going backwards.
00:55:06We're going backwards.
00:55:07We're going backwards.
00:55:08Get the jet in the direction of our fall and use the firing as brakes.
00:55:11Stand by for acceleration.
00:55:13Stand by for acceleration.
00:55:14This is the time of the fire.
00:55:15No.
00:55:16I don't know.
00:55:17It's good.
00:55:18The turn.
00:55:19We're going backwards.
00:55:20This is the time of the fire.
00:55:21You're going backwards.
00:55:22We're going backwards.
00:55:23Get the jet in the direction of our fall and use the firing as brakes.
00:55:25Stand by for acceleration.
00:55:51Tracking is predicted.
00:55:53Good.
00:55:54Radar report.
00:55:56Altitude 1-0, 8,000.
00:55:58Closing as predicted.
00:56:00Power.
00:56:01Flight OK.
00:56:04That didn't slow us. We're going faster than ever.
00:56:07No, we're not.
00:56:08It seems that way because we're close and heading in.
00:56:10Look, I just decided I don't want to go through with this thing.
00:56:13Let's go home.
00:56:14Cut it out, Joe.
00:56:15Give me the view aft.
00:56:18View aft?
00:56:20Power.
00:56:21On manual.
00:56:23Ready now.
00:56:27Holy smoke.
00:56:28You can't land and that would be splattered.
00:56:30Quit worrying.
00:56:31We're landing in a smooth plane, shorter there.
00:56:34I'm going to kill our forward speed. Stand by.
00:56:38Acceleration.
00:56:39Acceleration.
00:56:46You missed, Jim.
00:56:47I know it.
00:56:48Emergency.
00:56:58Kick her up, Jim. Give her some lateral.
00:57:00Too late.
00:57:01Got a lander in the next few seconds of firing and it won't have enough to get home.
00:57:04I'll have to use a drift we've got.
00:57:06You going to chance it, Jim?
00:57:07Got to.
00:57:08Doc.
00:57:09Automatic landing.
00:57:10Automatic it is.
00:57:11Co-pilot.
00:57:12Tracking in on automatic.
00:57:13Right.
00:57:14Tracking now.
00:57:15Cover me at 8-3-0 feet.
00:57:16Cover at 8-3-0.
00:57:17Correction.
00:57:18Cover at 8-7-0.
00:57:198-7-0.
00:57:20Right.
00:57:21Can you miss those peaks?
00:57:22Got a pair in your pocket.
00:57:23Correction.
00:57:248-6-0.
00:57:258-6-0.
00:57:268-6-0.
00:57:278-6-0.
00:57:28Tracking steady.
00:57:29All hands, great for crash.
00:57:30All hands, great for crash.
00:57:32All hands, great for crash.
00:57:35All hands, great for crash.
00:57:37It's the first stage of the target.
00:57:40Okay.
00:57:42All hands, great for crash.
00:57:43heading in to the target.
00:57:45On the right side.
00:57:46We have to keep it easy for me.
00:57:48A little drag.
00:57:49And and and and and and and and and
00:57:54Yanks are down.
00:58:03Yanks are down.
00:58:19Cut out your gyros.
00:58:24Okay.
00:58:26Mine landing, Jim.
00:58:28That was a terrible landing, you know it.
00:58:30I mean, for a first one.
00:58:32A wasted reaction mass will need to get back.
00:58:35If we get back.
00:58:36Worry about that later.
00:58:37We just got here.
00:58:39Here.
00:58:40On the moon.
00:58:43Jim.
00:58:44Doc.
00:58:45We're on the moon.
00:58:47And we're alive.
00:58:49Holy cow.
00:58:50General, the next time you tell me you can get to the moon, I'll believe you.
00:58:54You waited a long time for this, Doc.
00:58:57All my life.
00:58:59Swingy, how about trying to raise Washington?
00:59:03You bet.
00:59:04Wait till I tell them.
00:59:05Waste race.
00:59:06Spaceship Luna in the lead way out the front.
00:59:08Doc.
00:59:09Jim.
00:59:10You two go down and set foot on the surface.
00:59:13That's something I want to enter in my log.
00:59:15No, no.
00:59:16I think we should all go together.
00:59:17Nonsense.
00:59:18You two made this trip possible.
00:59:20Spaceship Luna calling NAA Washington.
00:59:22Come on then, Doc.
00:59:23Spaceship Luna.
00:59:24This is your moment.
00:59:25Calling NAA Washington.
00:59:26Let's get to our space suits.
00:59:27Over.
00:59:28Over.
00:59:29Over.
00:59:33Over.
01:00:48Let's go.
01:01:18Come on.
01:01:32Let's go.
01:02:02Let's go.
01:02:32Let's go.
01:03:02Let's go.
01:03:32Let's go.
01:04:05I must explain to the listeners that the lag between my voice and those from the moon is due to the vastness of space.
01:04:11It takes three seconds, even at the speed of light, for radio waves to travel between the earth and moon.
01:04:16Mr. Barnes, can you tell us, Mr. Barnes, can you tell us where you landed?
01:04:18Mr. Barnes, can you tell us where you landed? The astronomers at Palomar say they could see you if they knew where to point the big eye.
01:04:23We landed in the crater Harpalus, which is in the upper left-hand quadrant of the moon, as seen from North America.
01:04:29Is Dr. Cargraves, can you give us your first impressions of the moon, Dr. Cargraves?
01:04:39Well, I'll try.
01:05:09I'll try.
01:05:10I'll try.
01:05:11I'll try.
01:05:12I'll try.
01:05:13I'll try.
01:05:14And I can also see it's about sunrise in San Francisco.
01:05:17It's afternoon here, and will be for a couple of war days.
01:05:22Now, perhaps, Jim Barnes can add something.
01:05:26As a matter of record, may I report the moment he set foot on the moon?
01:05:31Dr. Cargraves, claim possession of the name of the United States for the benefit of all mankind.
01:05:38This is great and wonderful news for the people of the earth.
01:05:43The Naval Station NAA at Washington will stand by 24 hours a day for further signals from you.
01:05:48Goodbye, and good luck.
01:05:50Roger.
01:06:01Doc, I'll never get used to this.
01:06:08I'll say this must weigh five, six hundred pounds.
01:06:11On Earth, it does.
01:06:13Gravity up here is about one-sixth as much.
01:06:15That means things weigh one-sixth as much.
01:06:17I know it, but I can't believe it.
01:06:20General, look!
01:06:23Whee!
01:06:24Greeny, cut that out!
01:06:28What's the matter?
01:06:30If I could do that back home, I'd be an acrobat.
01:06:33All right, Joe.
01:06:34We've got too much to do and too little time for any more clowning.
01:06:37Let's get on with the schedule.
01:06:39I'm supposed to help you with the astronomical photographs, Doc.
01:06:42I can't forbid I've got to contact Earth and get Hastings to give us revised figures for our trip back.
01:06:47Well, I'll just have to wait for you.
01:06:49Joe, you help him.
01:06:51I can handle the radio.
01:06:53Joe is going to help me with the mineralogical survey.
01:06:55You can get along without him.
01:06:57You've only got one Geiger counter.
01:06:59But don't lose sight of the ship.
01:07:01That's a standing rule for everybody.
01:07:03Okay, Skipper.
01:07:05I'll help you later, General.
01:07:06I'm foreseeing what there is to see.
01:07:08I don't figure on staying here too long anyway.
01:07:11And you know why?
01:07:12No beer, no babes, no baseball.
01:07:14You got it.
01:07:15Well, Doc, I'll pack this little gadget.
01:07:18I'll join you after I talk to Hastings.
01:07:20I know your little bit.
01:07:22I'll sue you after a moment.
01:07:23I'll drink it.
01:07:24I'll try and see you next time.
01:07:25I must find it all right.
01:07:26I'll catch you next time.
01:07:27Just be sure you read me.
01:07:28I'll do what you want.
01:07:29And I'll sing again.
01:07:31You're using a Christmas day.
01:07:32I'll do it.
01:07:33I'll do it.
01:07:34Maybe you can find it.
01:07:35I'll do it.
01:07:36I'll do it.
01:07:37Maybe you'll do it.
01:07:38You'll do it.
01:07:39You'll try and see it.
01:07:40You'll do it.
01:07:41You'll be alive.
01:07:43say doc there is just one thing i'd like as a souvenir of the trip how about taking a picture
01:07:57of me up here say alongside the camera sure joe that's not too much to ask give me the little
01:08:03camera
01:08:13move a little closer
01:08:26that's it
01:08:30wait a minute i have a better idea
01:08:34come over here
01:08:37now turn around
01:08:40now hold your arm up
01:08:45now bend your elbow as though you were holding a heavy weight
01:08:50now your hand
01:08:52that's it hold it
01:08:56okay that'll be something to show
01:09:03what is it doc
01:09:05you and the earth
01:09:07holding it up like a modern atlas
01:09:09hey that's something doc
01:09:14there's only one thing
01:09:16what's that
01:09:17nobody will know it's me in this diving suit
01:09:20hey doc
01:09:21joe
01:09:23over here
01:09:26behind you
01:09:28charles i picked up cliques
01:09:45here hold this
01:09:49i picked them up a few yards back
01:09:52they seem to get a little stronger in this direction
01:09:54listen to this
01:09:56there's a trace eh
01:10:02what is it doc
01:10:03i'm not sure
01:10:05these mountains may have a real deposit
01:10:07uranium
01:10:09it's possible
01:10:11then you could blow up the moon too
01:10:14ain't that dandy
01:10:15check your reaction mass
01:10:17.8672
01:10:24what
01:10:27repeat that
01:10:28yes .8672
01:10:30i wasted power making a very bad landing
01:10:33i'll have to compute it but it looks bad
01:10:41we have to get you back
01:10:43jettison every ounce
01:10:45all your forward tanks are empty
01:10:46can you rip them out
01:10:47now without tearing the ship apart
01:10:51she wasn't built for it
01:10:53i'll call at the same time 24 hours from now
01:10:58i'll give you the answers
01:10:59be able to tell me then how much you've been able to lighten ship
01:11:02and i'll tell you if you can make it
01:11:04i'll stand by 24 hours from now
01:11:06just get us back home that's all i ask
01:11:08hello jim
01:11:26hey jim we've got news for you
01:11:30i have for you too
01:11:31all of you
01:11:31this is right up your alley jim
01:11:33hold it general
01:11:35sit on the camera joe
01:11:36doc
01:11:36it's no use to us
01:11:39i haven't shot more than a half a dozen blades
01:11:42that's all you'll be able to shoot
01:11:43what's the matter
01:11:44i've just talked with dr hastings at dry wells
01:11:47i gave him our instrument readings
01:11:49reaction mass mass ratio
01:11:51checked our time with him
01:11:52well
01:11:54our time is okay
01:11:55nothing else is
01:11:57what are you talking about skipper
01:11:59everything on the board is ticking
01:12:01i checked every instrument
01:12:03all alive
01:12:04so are we
01:12:05for a while
01:12:06i don't get it
01:12:08we have to lighten ship
01:12:10our job for the next 24 hours
01:12:12is to unload everything we can
01:12:13and leave it here
01:12:14we stay here ourselves
01:12:15hastings will give him the answers
01:12:17at 0730 tomorrow
01:12:18well
01:12:20let's not get into a panic
01:12:21until we've talked to him again
01:12:22meanwhile
01:12:24we go back to the ship
01:12:25and strip off everything we can
01:12:26until we've talked to him
01:12:27we have to leave it for you
01:12:29we have to keep one so we can open the airlock to drop the airlock to drop the airlock in the airlock off the airlock off the air off the airlock on the airs
01:12:36that's what's at right now
01:12:37Number 706, Schedule B.
01:12:42Number 706, Schedule B, check.
01:12:46And the schedule itself.
01:12:49That's everything that you can get out?
01:12:52Three of the spacesuits will be dropped before we take off.
01:12:55We have to keep one so we can open the airlock to drop the others.
01:12:58Skipper, I'll dump the stuff.
01:13:02It'll take me 15 minutes to check an ad.
01:13:05I'll give you the answer as soon as I can.
01:13:07Here's the wash.
01:13:13Here's the wash.
01:13:26Thirty-six hours.
01:13:28Thirty-six hours what?
01:13:30It's take-off time.
01:13:32It's then or a month from then.
01:13:34That means never.
01:13:36Spaceship Luna, Spaceship Luna.
01:13:40Spaceship Luna, Barnes speaking.
01:13:42Here's the total.
01:13:44You've taken out almost two tons.
01:13:46Before take-off you can drop all your oxygen except 70 hours supply to get back on.
01:13:50Before take-off you can drop your remaining food.
01:13:52You can hold yourselves to a pint of water each a day and turn the rest of your drinking water into the reaction tanks.
01:13:58Have you got it?
01:13:59Right.
01:14:01You'll have to get out another thousand pounds.
01:14:05Another thousand?
01:14:06Of what?
01:14:07Tell us that. We're stripped.
01:14:11Don't make me say this.
01:14:13You have to or...
01:14:15You don't have to say it.
01:14:17We know.
01:14:19Or we don't get back.
01:14:23I'm standing by.
01:14:25You've got to work it out.
01:14:26All right.
01:14:37Hey, Sweeney.
01:14:39Is this thing bolted or welded?
01:14:42Bolted.
01:14:43Let's get to work. Give me a wrench.
01:15:03I guess we'll use this one up.
01:15:06Doc, we'll be able to take off, won't we?
01:15:09Probably. Take off at least.
01:15:11What do you mean, at least?
01:15:13Too heavy, we'll drop back on the moon and crash, or else fall into an orbit around the moon.
01:15:17You mean just keep on going around?
01:15:19That's it.
01:15:26Hey, Skipper, that's my radar.
01:15:28We won't need it to land on Earth. We're glad in there.
01:15:30I don't know how much weight I did putting this together.
01:15:33Now, anybody anything in his pockets?
01:15:41This two?
01:15:42I don't know how much time we've got.
01:15:43I don't know how much time we've got.
01:15:44What about you guys?
01:15:45Every morning you've got.
01:15:46All right.
01:15:52How much time we've got?
01:15:53Twenty-seven minutes.
01:15:56How much time have we got?
01:16:0727 minutes.
01:16:17Another 110 pounds.
01:16:19What?
01:16:21Another 110 pounds and you can coast home.
01:16:24We're stripped, absolutely.
01:16:26We'll have to take a chance as we are.
01:16:30That's suicide.
01:16:32You haven't enough power to pull free of the moon.
01:16:35You could be wrong, couldn't you?
01:16:38I could.
01:16:39I don't think the computer could.
01:16:41Ask Dr. Cargraves.
01:16:45We'll let you know, Roger.
01:16:49Well, Charles, is he right?
01:16:53I'm afraid so.
01:16:54We're stuck here.
01:17:02Who got me here?
01:17:03I didn't want to come.
01:17:05You can blame me, Joe.
01:17:07You didn't think it would work.
01:17:09Well, in a way you were right.
01:17:13What a sucker.
01:17:15What a dumb, stupid blockhead I am.
01:17:18I could have blown my brains out of gun over Niagara Falls in a barrel or found some other decent way to die.
01:17:24All right, Joe.
01:17:24We're on.
01:17:25Let's get it.
01:17:42It's as simple as that.
01:17:44One of us stays.
01:17:46Of course.
01:17:47I weigh 180, more than enough.
01:17:51No, General.
01:17:51No, listen to me.
01:17:52Now, look here.
01:17:52I'm the oldest.
01:17:53I've done my job.
01:17:54I'm skipper of this ship.
01:17:55That's got nothing to do with it.
01:17:56It's got everything to do with it.
01:17:57I give the orders on this ship.
01:17:59I was agreed.
01:17:59I'm giving the orders now.
01:18:00Jim, nobody gives orders.
01:18:01The devil, they don't.
01:18:03This is the order.
01:18:04Doc is the engineer.
01:18:05He goes back to his work.
01:18:07The general pilots the ship when you reach the Earth's atmosphere.
01:18:10I can be spared on this trip.
01:18:11I can be spared back home.
01:18:12I have no family.
01:18:13My job gets on without me.
01:18:14Jim, listen to me.
01:18:15This is not a ship at sea and it's not a plane and we're not mutineers.
01:18:18This has been a joint undertaking.
01:18:19The three of us did it together from the beginning.
01:18:21It's no one's duty more than the others to give his life.
01:18:24I've had my day.
01:18:25A great one.
01:18:26I've shown that this could be done.
01:18:28That's enough to make me glad I lived and content to stay.
01:18:31It's very noble, Doc.
01:18:32It is philosophy.
01:18:33Skip philosophy.
01:18:34I'm the one who stays.
01:18:35Why?
01:18:35Because I'm the oldest.
01:18:36You two can tell them back home what we've seen much better than I could.
01:18:40Tell them how we looked up and saw the Earth.
01:18:43Vulnerable.
01:18:44Exposed forever.
01:18:45Never setting in this lunar sky.
01:18:50You know what you just proved, General?
01:18:53You're the one man that must go back.
01:18:55Jim.
01:18:55General.
01:18:56Are we going to have this whole thing end in futility because we can't reach a simple decision?
01:19:00I've reached my decision.
01:19:01I'm standing by it.
01:19:03Skipper, look here.
01:19:05Stay under the sweetie.
01:19:06Don't worry.
01:19:06You'll get back.
01:19:08Right now it looks like nobody gets back.
01:19:10I was just going to say if you brains can't make up your minds, why don't you do what kids do?
01:19:14Match for it.
01:19:15You know, draw lots.
01:19:18All right.
01:19:18Right.
01:19:19No.
01:19:19Jim, two against one.
01:19:21What do we use?
01:19:22Anyone have some paper?
01:19:23No.
01:19:23Matches, some coins.
01:19:24Everything's overboard.
01:19:26You got buttons on your coveralls.
01:19:28Match them.
01:19:31Spaceship Luna.
01:19:33Spaceship Luna.
01:19:34Dry Wells calling Spaceship Luna.
01:19:37Spaceship Luna to Dry Wells.
01:19:38Listen.
01:19:40We're working it out.
01:19:40One of us will stay behind.
01:19:42We're going to draw lots.
01:19:44Only 110 pounds.
01:19:46There must be something more.
01:19:47Check time.
01:19:48Nine thirty one fifty.
01:19:51Eighteen minutes to zero hour.
01:19:54Check.
01:19:55We'll take off with three men.
01:19:59Hey, where's Joe?
01:20:01It's gone.
01:20:02What's wrong?
01:20:02You're not coming in.
01:20:03It won't open.
01:20:04It's cycling.
01:20:06He's not in there.
01:20:07Then he...
01:20:08Oh, he can't do that.
01:20:09Spaceship Luna.
01:20:10Spaceship Luna.
01:20:11He's left the ship.
01:20:12We're here.
01:20:13Stand by.
01:20:13Something's happened.
01:20:13Swinney's left the ship.
01:20:14The helmet's gone.
01:20:16I can't see him.
01:20:16The angle's too great.
01:20:18Wait a minute.
01:20:18There he is.
01:20:19He's dragging something.
01:20:20Swinney!
01:20:21Swinney!
01:20:30Swinney!
01:20:31Swinney, can you hear me?
01:20:32Ha, ha, ha.
01:20:33Sure, I hear you.
01:20:34Come back, Joe.
01:20:35Come back.
01:20:36And die in that steel death trap?
01:20:38You won't die, Joe.
01:20:39Not you.
01:20:40You're going home.
01:20:41Not a chance.
01:20:42Goodbye, fellas.
01:20:43Remember me to the gals.
01:20:45Any gals.
01:20:46Spaceship Luna, you're not coming in.
01:20:49Here, Doc.
01:20:50Talk to him.
01:20:51Something's happened.
01:20:52Swinney's left the ship.
01:20:52Joe, you've got to come back.
01:20:54Are you taking off?
01:20:55I don't know.
01:20:55I don't know.
01:20:56Stand by.
01:20:56We've got to think of something.
01:20:57Joe, you've got to come back.
01:20:58We can't let you do this.
01:20:59What do you mean, let me?
01:21:01You can't stop me.
01:21:03I lightened your ship.
01:21:05I gave you your chance.
01:21:06Now get going.
01:21:07Don't make a monkey out of me.
01:21:08Come back, Joe.
01:21:09Come back.
01:21:10You've got to.
01:21:10We're all in this together.
01:21:11If you don't, we can't take off.
01:21:12You've got to.
01:21:13You've got to.
01:21:14Or you'll be killing me and for nothing.
01:21:15You crazy goon.
01:21:16It's not up to you.
01:21:17Nobody's asking you.
01:21:18You're killing yourself.
01:21:19Cut it short.
01:21:19Will you take off?
01:21:20I want to see it.
01:21:21Joe.
01:21:22A ship going back from the moon to the earth.
01:21:24Joe, I just thought of something.
01:21:25I thought of a way.
01:21:26A way to what?
01:21:27To take off.
01:21:28All of us.
01:21:28We're all going back.
01:21:29Do you hear me?
01:21:29All of us.
01:21:30But hurry.
01:21:31What do you mean all of us?
01:21:32You've got to do just as I tell you.
01:21:33I think we can make it.
01:21:35You wouldn't kid me.
01:21:36Don't be a fool.
01:21:37It's our lives too.
01:21:38We've less than 15 minutes.
01:21:40What's the deal?
01:21:41Get back into the airlock as fast as you can.
01:21:43Bring a screwdriver, a knife, and a rat tail file.
01:21:45And a weight, an oxygen tank.
01:21:47Tie the tank to the end of your safety line.
01:21:49I'll tell you the rest when you're in the airlock.
01:21:51Is he coming?
01:21:52He's picking up the things.
01:21:53Yes, he's heading toward us.
01:22:00What's your plan, Captain?
01:22:01Just this.
01:22:02Sweeney's spacesuit weighs what?
01:22:0370 pounds.
01:22:04The radios weigh all of 50.
01:22:05There's 110 pounds with a little margin.
01:22:07We can't open the door of the airlock without his spacesuit.
01:22:09So he won't open it when he gets his spacesuit off.
01:22:10But he can drill a small hole between the door and the Casey, big enough for a safety line
01:22:13to get through.
01:22:14He ties the oxygen tank to the end of the safety line.
01:22:16It hangs outside.
01:22:17The line passes through the small hole.
01:22:19There's a slow leak, but Sweetie can take off his suit, tie it to the inside end of the line, and come up here.
01:22:23We decompress the airlock, the door opens, the suit is dragged out.
01:22:26General, watch for him.
01:22:31He must be in the airlock.
01:22:32It's cycling.
01:22:32He's in there, watching the indicator.
01:22:36Pressure's up.
01:22:37I can open it.
01:22:49Let me have a screwdriver.
01:22:51General, unscrew the radio.
01:22:53Sweetie, I want you to listen carefully.
01:22:54Now, wait a minute.
01:22:56Hastings, Hastings, we're coming home, all of us.
01:22:59You won't hear from us again until you see us.
01:23:01I'm junking the radio.
01:23:02That's all, goodbye.
01:23:03River out, General.
01:23:06Sweetie, listen carefully.
01:23:08I want you to put on the helmet.
01:23:09Go to the airlock, decompress it, open the outer door.
01:23:11I want you to put on the helmet.
01:23:41I want you to put on the helmet.
01:24:11I want you to put on the helmet.
01:24:13It's all yours.
01:24:14Let's sit.
01:24:15I want you to put on the helmet.
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