- 6/18/2025
Beyond the Skies is a thrilling 1950 sci-fi adventure that captures humanity's first daring attempt to reach the Moon. Follow the courageous crew as they battle technical challenges and unknown dangers in their groundbreaking journey beyond Earth's atmosphere. A visionary classic that inspired generations of space explorers.
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00:00:00The End
00:02:30Six, five, four, three, two, one, fire.
00:03:00Sweetie, stay in here.
00:03:07There may be more explosions.
00:03:07What happened, Charles? What went wrong?
00:03:27I don't know. I 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? After four years of development tests?
00:03:38Seems impossible, but I can figure only one thing.
00:03:40What?
00:03:41Somebody tampered.
00:03:42Sabotage.
00:03:44That'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.
00:03:47Do 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.
00:03:59I'm not good.
00:03:59For it, 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 in 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 it was fired?
00:04:30Your vindication, General?
00:04:32I'm sorry.
00:04:33I'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 pile of junk in history.
00:04:51I'm sorrier about that than anything else.
00:05:21I'm sorrier about that.
00:05:31General Thayer is here, Mr. Barnes.
00:05:32Oh, fine. Send him in.
00:05:44Don't forget to wash behind your ears.
00:05:47How was the trip, General?
00:05:48Very smooth.
00:05:49I flew in on one of your skyliners.
00:05:51Nice ship, Jimmy. Very nice.
00:05:54Uh-oh. Whenever you start with a compliment, you're after something.
00:05:58That's hardly civil, Jim. I 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. You 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.
00:06:26That's twice as true today.
00:06:28Look, you proved that a satellite rocket isn't practical. It blew up, didn't it?
00:06:32Did it blow up, Jimmy? Or was it blown up?
00:06:38Blown up?
00:06:41Why ask me? Army 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. It fizzled.
00:07:04Now following the course of old established habit.
00:07:07You'd like to drop it in my lap.
00:07:10Well, I love you, General.
00:07:12But I'm just a plain manufacturer, not the Department of Defense.
00:07:15The answer's no. Then, oh, no.
00:07:17Don't light that cigar. We'll go to lunch.
00:07:19Who 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.
00:07:52Let's go to lunch.
00:07:54I'm serious, Jim.
00:07:54No, you can't be.
00:07:56It's too fantastic.
00:07:57The 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 Spuley'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.
00:08:20That'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, and 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 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.
00:08:50What 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, designing, special materials, the pooling of resources, specialized skills, engineering brains, industrial capacity.
00:09:08No single company could possibly do it.
00:09:12But combined American industry, sparked by Jim Barnes, could 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?
00:09:27The moon, huh?
00:09:42Here's the control room.
00:09:46All this space below carries the working fluid, the reaction mass.
00:09:50It's water heated to dry steam by the atomic pile and expelled through this jet.
00:09:54Here 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.
00:10:06I'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.
00:10:15Now, 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.
00:10:21But 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.
00:10:32You 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.
00:10:38Something that'll go higher and faster than anything that ever existed before.
00:10:42You 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.
00:10:58What's the moon?
00:10:59Another north pole, another south pole.
00:11:01Our only satellite.
00:11:02Our nearest neighbor in the sky.
00:11:03But why go there, Jim?
00:11:05We'll know when we get there.
00:11:06We'll tell you when we get back.
00:11:08It's a venture I don't want to be left out of.
00:11:10I 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, and ask the others to take seats.
00:11:22Gentlemen.
00:11:25Gentlemen.
00:11:25Gentlemen.
00:11:25Gentlemen, 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, 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.
00:12:26But they don't fly to the moon.
00:12:28Obviously, you know nothing about rockets.
00:12:34Now, let's pretend that umbrella of yours is a shotgun.
00:12:37Who pushed me?
00:12:51The gun, Woody.
00:12:52The charge not only fired out of the muzzle, it kicked back with equal force against the barrel.
00:12:57Ah, 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.
00:13:08That 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.
00:13:24The moon is a great deal easier to reach than you realize.
00:13:40Oh, sure, it's a siege.
00:13:43Only 240,000 miles.
00:13:45Paved highway all the way in 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.
00:13:53Just 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! Help!
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.
00:14:25The 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.
00:14:38Now, 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.
00:14:52Hey, no brakes on this thing.
00:14:57I'm going to crash.
00:14:58How do I land?
00:15:00Very simple.
00:15:01Just reverse the takeoff.
00:15:03Yeah, 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.
00:15:17So, 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.
00:15:31Because it's downhill almost all the way.
00:15:35The V-2 rocket could do it today.
00:15:38On the return trip, we use the wings to glide in.
00:15:41And for economy's sake, finish the landing like this.
00:15:47Sensation.
00:15:58Sensation.
00:16:00I'm sold.
00:16:01I'll back it to the hill.
00:16:03Here's my two bucks.
00:16:04Well, when do we start building?
00:16:14Well, gentlemen.
00:16:16When 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 meeting 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.
00:16:43Did 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.
00:17:01Only 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.
00:17:15If we fail, we'll take a colossal beating.
00:17:17So we can't fail.
00:17:19Not only is this the greatest adventure awaiting mankind, but it's the greatest challenge ever hurled at American industry.
00:17:26And General Thayer is going to tell you why.
00:17:28The 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.
00:17:42The race is on, and we'd better win it.
00:17:45Because there is absolutely no way to stop an attack from outer space.
00:17:50The first country that can use the moon for the launching of missiles will control the earth.
00:18:00That, gentlemen, is the most important military fact of the century.
00:18:18Gentlemen.
00:18:20I see no need for further discussion.
00:18:24It's our job.
00:18:27Well, 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.
00:18:46If 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.
00:18:55It's too heavy.
00:19:00This is a case where pounds of ship cost many pounds of reaction mass.
00:19:04It's too heavy.
00:19:05It's too heavy.
00:19:06It's too heavy.
00:19:07It's too heavy.
00:19:08It's too heavy.
00:19:09It's too heavy.
00:19:10It's too heavy.
00:19:11That's exactly right as far as appearance goes.
00:19:13All that remains now is to test it.
00:19:14Well, it 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.
00:19:24Why?
00:19:25For identification.
00:19:26We use these four colors for the four crew members and then nobody can get lost from the
00:19:31others.
00:19:32The moonscape's pretty drab, you've told me.
00:19:34Well, these bright colors will give us high visibility.
00:19:36Maybe you're right if nobody minds looking a little bit like a carnival balloon.
00:19:39Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:19:40Ha, ha, ha.
00:20:39Hey, Brownie.
00:20:43What 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?
00:21:02This 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.
00:21:14We 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 there wouldn't go.
00:21:28What'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.
00:21:36All right, Doc.
00:21:55Hello, Jim.
00:21:56General.
00:21:57I 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?
00:22:02Have you tested it?
00:22:02Not yet.
00:22:03It doesn't look like we're going to.
00:22:04Listen to this.
00:22:05I 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.
00:22:21Well, 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 threw in a monkey wrench.
00:22:35Wait, there'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.
00:22:52Have you seen this?
00:22:57That isn't public opinion.
00:22:59It's a job of propaganda.
00:23:02You're almighty right it is.
00:23:03Manufactured and organized with money and brains.
00:23:07Somebody's out to get us.
00:23:10Stops us in our tracks anyway.
00:23:12We'll have to reschedule.
00:23:14With what?
00:23:16What do you mean?
00:23:17What are we going to use for money?
00:23:18We've pushed our resources to the limit every day of delay costs.
00:23:28Say, 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?
00:23:53The 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.
00:24:01You're out of your mind.
00:24:02I will be if we run into any more red tape.
00:24:05Now look.
00:24:06There's no law against taking off a spaceship.
00:24:08It's never been done, so they haven't gotten around to prohibiting it.
00:24:11If we ask for permission, they'll find a way to block us.
00:24:13So we go now.
00:24:14As 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 takeoff 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 takeoff wasn't planned for this month.
00:24:40It's a week's work.
00:24:42You think Dr. Hastings is pretty good, don't you?
00:24:46The 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?
00:24:52All set.
00:24:52Great, then it's settled.
00:24:54We'll all be heroes or angels, so what can we lose?
00:24:57We'll take off tomorrow morning before dawn.
00:24:58We'll have a lot to do in 17 hours.
00:25:06Get 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,
00:25:15the area is being cleared of spectators.
00:25:18Do not attempt to approach the site of the spaceship.
00:25:22The public is asked to stay away.
00:25:23I shall repeat this warning.
00:25:26Do not attempt to approach the site of the spaceship.
00:25:29Mr. Brown's here.
00:25:35452.6.
00:25:3922.78.
00:25:42And a correction, 22.79.
00:25:4522.79.
00:25:4932.1.
00:25:51Yes?
00:25:51Mr. Brown still cannot be located, Mr. Barnes.
00:25:54Check with the main gate, the store, everywhere. Keep calling me back.
00:25:58What's the last one?
00:25:5932.1.
00:26:01Check.
00:26:02219.9.
00:26:04Check.
00:26:08404.05.
00:26:12404.05.
00:26:16Yes?
00:26:17Mr. Sweeney is here to see General Sayer.
00:26:20I'll send him in.
00:26:22Uh, 404.0.5.
00:26:24Uh, .5.
00:26:25Uh, 214.9.
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?
00:26:36Is 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.
00:27:13Mr. 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.
00:27:39You'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.
00:27:47You wouldn't.
00:27:48We're entirely responsible for the whole thing.
00:27:51You 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.
00:28:00We wouldn't ask you to do anything we didn't believe in.
00:28:04Would you like to go?
00:28:08Okay.
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.
00:28:38Hey, 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, do you know?
00:29:19Don't worry, ma'am.
00:29:20We won't get very far.
00:29:22Coming, Doc?
00:29:23In a moment.
00:29:24It's about time, child.
00:29:26Goodbye, Mrs. Cargraves.
00:29:28We'll take good care of your husband, Mrs. Cargraves.
00:29:31Find out to worry.
00:29:31Mr. Cargraves, 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, child.
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.
00:29:54All right, take it away.
00:30:01Bards, Cargraves, stop!
00:30:09Come back here!
00:30:11Can't hear a word you say!
00:30:31All right, Jim.
00:30:49You're the skipper.
00:30:49Take over.
00:30:51First time I ever outranked the 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 that it won't.
00:31:01All right, handling, take off stations.
00:31:31Have it all cooking in a minute.
00:31:49As soon as your television screen's operating, check clearance to the base of ship.
00:31:52Then phone check, tracking center at Drywell's.
00:31:55Cut in the boys of our own traffic shack.
00:31:57Calling traffic shack.
00:31:59Over.
00:31:59Traffic to ship.
00:32:01Over.
00:32:02Official designation of ship is Luna.
00:32:04L-U-N-A.
00:32:05Luna.
00:32:06Over.
00:32:07Luna.
00:32:08Roger.
00:32:08Tell them to clear for firing.
00:32:10Clear firing area in preparation for departure.
00:32:13Over.
00:32:14Roger.
00:32:16Carghing spaceship Luna.
00:32:17Calling Drywell's airfield.
00:32:19Over.
00:32:20Drywell's to Luna.
00:32:21Over.
00:32:21I'm making preparations for firing.
00:32:24Over.
00:32:25Drywell's is ready for tracking.
00:32:27Over.
00:32:28Drywell's reported.
00:32:29Traffic reported.
00:32:31Power station reported.
00:32:32Power station ready for firing.
00:32:34Communications.
00:32:36Everything's just dandy, Skipper.
00:32:40Co-pilot.
00:32:41Instruments okay.
00:32:43Automatic pilot tracking.
00:32:44Give the warning, sir.
00:32:45This guy.
00:32:48This guy.
00:32:49Hasn't been training.
00:32:50This guy.
00:32:50Oh.
00:32:51So,
00:32:52this guy.
00:32:53This guy.
00:32:54Got a lot of coffee.
00:32:55This guy.
00:32:55You guys.
00:32:55Thanks for drinking.
00:32:56That guy.
00:32:56ichaed.
00:32:56I'm.
00:32:57You.
00:32:57Jesus.
00:32:58Guys.
00:32:58How many times on the integrating computer?
00:33:1903-47-58.
00:33:2110 minutes to go.
00:33:28Traffic to load up.
00:33:41All clear.
00:33:42Over.
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.
00:33:553-48-40.
00:33:58Check.
00:33:59Pick up count off at 3-49-30.
00:34:02Count off at 3-49-30.
00:34:05Check.
00:34:06Dry Wells.
00:34:07Dry Wells.
00:34:08Roger.
00:34:09Count off at 3-49-30.
00:34:11Over.
00:34:12Able.
00:34:13Find Dry Wells.
00:34:1430 seconds coming up.
00:34:16Stand by.
00:34:1830 seconds.
00:34:1929, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3,
00:34:472, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1.
00:34:49Fire.
00:35:17Let's go!
00:35:47What's happening?
00:36:11What's the matter?
00:36:13I can't move a muscle. I'm froze solid.
00:36:33Do it!
00:36:38I can't move a muscle.
00:36:45I can't move a muscle.
00:36:52I can't move a muscle.
00:37:00I can't move a muscle.
00:37:07I can't move a muscle.
00:37:15I can't move a muscle.
00:37:30It's all right, Joe. We're weightless. Free orbit, that's all.
00:37:35Weightless?
00:37:38Free orbit?
00:37:41Just where are we?
00:37:43You mean this thing is working?
00:37:45We're...we're...no sir, not me.
00:37:48Nobody ever told me this was practical.
00:37:50Toying this thing around you here, take me back.
00:37:53I ain't going to no moon. That's just to look at.
00:37:58I'm sick.
00:38:00Grab hold.
00:38:02Hang on.
00:38:04What happened to me?
00:38:06You're all right.
00:38:08Free orbit, everything is falling at the same speed.
00:38:10So anything unfastened just floats.
00:38:12There's no up or down.
00:38:18Hell up my stomach.
00:38:19It says there's nothing but up.
00:38:23Oh, boy.
00:38:24Am I seasick?
00:38:26You're not seasick.
00:38:27You're space sick.
00:38:28I'm sick of that, too.
00:38:42Take one of these pills.
00:38:55It'll settle your stomach.
00:39:09I can't swallow.
00:39:10It 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?
00:39:23Have you got another one of those pills?
00:39:25Here's a whole box full.
00:39:27Let's see if I can swallow better than Sweeney.
00:39:30I know one thing.
00:39:32Unless these pills work, space travel isn't going to be popular.
00:39:40Don't.
00:39:41Think of the condition of my stomach.
00:39:42Don't.
00:39:43Think of the condition of my stomach.
00:39:47Don't.
00:39:48Think of the condition of my stomach.
00:39:54Oh.
00:40:03Oh.
00:40:33Oh.
00:41:03Shoes, General. Thank you.
00:41:10Let's get these on you. They've got magnets in the soles.
00:41:14How do you feel, Mel?
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.
00:41:33Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells. Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells. Over.
00:41:41Dry Wells, Spaceship Luna. Man alive! I can't believe it!
00:41:46Your takeoff checked out according to flight plan.
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. Good luck. Over.
00:41:57Thank you, Dry Wells and Roger.
00:42:00Doc, General, you get to see this.
00:42:17Gosh. Ain't that so...
00:42:20I thought I'd seen everything.
00:42:23Just look at those cities.
00:42:25Los Angeles. San Francisco.
00:42:28Sure. That's Los Angeles.
00:42:32That's New York.
00:42:34Can you see Brooklyn?
00:42:36Sure, there's Brooklyn.
00:42:38I wonder who's pitching.
00:42:41You'll be the most known.
00:42:43Yellow.
00:42:47I know.
00:42:48You won't be the most known.
00:42:51You, you won't be the most known.
00:42:53juice city, but you can't be the most known.
00:42:55Why?
00:42:56You'll be the most known, so you might have been a good sport.
00:42:59Why?
00:43:00I wonder who's pitching enrique.
00:43:01I wonder who's pitching clubs.
00:43:02You're the most known.
00:43:03Because you saw it.
00:43:04He's the most known.
00:43:05Whoever's pitching.
00:43:06That's coffee, General.
00:43:36That's coffee, General.
00:44:06Joe.
00:44:08Joe!
00:44:10I want to test the piloting radar.
00:44:12I tried to crank out the antenna.
00:44:13It seems to be stuck.
00:44:15Stuck?
00:44:17I 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.
00:44:26Why?
00:44:27I'm no scientist.
00:44:28It was covered in the engineering instructions,
00:44:29or didn't you bother to read them?
00:44:31Alright, hold it, hold it, Doc.
00:44:33Arguing won't get us anywhere.
00:44:36That piloting radar has to be fixed.
00:44:38Try 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?
00:44:47It can't be done any other way.
00:44:49But we'd be swept off.
00:44:50No you won't, you can't fall.
00:44:52Outside, you'd be in the same orbit,
00:44:54the same trajectory as the ship,
00:44:55moving right along with it.
00:44:56The worst could happen, you'd drift away from the side.
00:44:59We could avoid that by using safety lines.
00:45:01Well, let's be down, let's do it.
00:45:04No, Jim, I'll go.
00:45:06I want to inspect the throat of the rocket jet anyway,
00:45:08see how it stood up under the takeoff.
00:45:10Alright.
00:45:11I'll tag along.
00:45:13Me too.
00:45:14I follow this up and if you guys go out, so do I.
00:45:17You coming, General?
00:45:19No, I'm not a bit curious.
00:45:21You boys go and have your fun.
00:45:22I'll stand right up the log.
00:45:31The green's just the color for you, Sweeney.
00:45:38Ready to put on the helmets?
00:45:40I won't be able to breed in here.
00:45:42You won't be able to breed without it.
00:45:43Hook up your air hose.
00:45:44Forget there's no air outside.
00:45:46There's plenty of room for it.
00:45:48There's plenty of room for it.
00:46:02Check radios.
00:46:05Check instruments, check air.
00:46:08Let's go.
00:46:10I've got to get another line.
00:46:18Let's go.
00:46:19Let's go.
00:46:20Now it'll open.
00:46:21Now it'll open.
00:46:51Close it, Skipper. We'll fall out.
00:46:53Get this through your head, Joe.
00:46:55We're in the same orbit as the ship.
00:46:57You can't fall.
00:46:59Let's go.
00:47:21Hey, we're stuck up here. We ain't moving.
00:47:49It only seems that way.
00:47:51Matter of fact, we're traveling thousands of miles per hour.
00:47:53Here in space, all comparisons are lost.
00:47:57Take a look behind you.
00:48:01Wow. The geography books are right.
00:48:05How do you feel now, Joe?
00:48:07Weird. Thousands of miles an hour and not a breeze.
00:48:13Ah, it's more beautiful than I ever dreamed.
00:48:17Never be able to describe it to anyone.
00:48:21I'm going aft.
00:48:23I'm going aft.
00:48:25I'll see you shortly.
00:48:37Wait till we finish this.
00:48:39I'll go with you.
00:48:41You stay here and take care of the radar.
00:48:43Sweeney, give me your rope.
00:48:45Help yourself.
00:48:47I'll be back in a minute.
00:48:57I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:07Thanks.
00:49:09Bye.
00:49:11Bye.
00:49:12Bye.
00:49:15Bye.
00:49:16Bye.
00:49:17Bye.
00:49:19Bye.
00:49:21ORGAN PLAYS
00:49:51ORGAN PLAYS
00:50:21ORGAN PLAYS
00:50:51Jim, off the start!
00:50:53We're working towards you, Doc.
00:50:54We can see you.
00:50:56Jim, Joe, is he alright? Can you get him?
00:50:59We've got to get him.
00:51:00I'm coming out.
00:51:04Steady, 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 fly again.
00:51:27General!
00:51:29General, can you hear me?
00:51:30Bring out an oxygen bottle.
00:51:32Hurry!
00:51:32Hurry!
00:51:41Hurry!
00:51:41Jim!
00:51:42Go home!
00:51:43General, that oxygen tank, hurry!
00:51:51Where is he?
00:51:54Way out there.
00:51:57What are you going to do?
00:52:00I don't know.
00:52:01I don't know.
00:52:02I don't know.
00:52:03I don't know.
00:52:04I don't know.
00:52:05I don't know.
00:52:06I don't know.
00:52:07I don't know.
00:52:08I don't know.
00:52:09I don't know.
00:52:10I don't know.
00:52:12What are you going to do?
00:52:14Get him!
00:52:16I hope it's got enough kick.
00:52:19General, grab him!
00:52:20Grab him!
00:52:21We'll lose him too!
00:52:40We're Chili's Cathy Nazis.
00:52:42wouldn't don't we?
00:52:43No.
00:52:44We'll make him too big.
00:53:07They almost didn't make it.
00:53:09Can we make it?
00:53:11Can we get back?
00:53:13If we don't, we'll clear the universe together.
00:53:15Hang on, I'm gonna turn the...
00:53:29Pray there's enough gas to get us back.
00:53:33He's got him.
00:53:39Give me the rope.
00:54:07You okay, Doc?
00:54:08Thanks, thanks, sir.
00:54:09I didn't think we'd make it.
00:54:10God, you're safe.
00:54:11Come on, boys, let's go inside.
00:54:38We're getting close.
00:54:39Standing by.
00:54:40Ready to fire.
00:54:41Here goes the turn.
00:54:43We're getting close.
00:54:44Standing by.
00:54:45Ready to fire.
00:54:46Here goes the turn.
00:54:49We're getting close.
00:54:51We're getting close.
00:54:52Standing by.
00:54:53Ready to fire.
00:54:54Here goes the turn.
00:54:55Here goes the turn.
00:54:56Here goes the turn.
00:54:59Here goes the turn.
00:55:00Here goes the turn.
00:55:02Here goes the turn.
00:55:04sch företag, all might do.
00:55:05No competition is aær, D撿k
00:55:12We're going backwards.
00:55:21We land backwards.
00:55:22Jet in the direction of our fall and use the firing as brakes.
00:55:29Stand by for sale ratio.
00:55:42Oh, hey.
00:55:52Tracking as predicted.
00:55:54Good.
00:55:55Radar report.
00:55:57Altitude 1-0.
00:55:588,000.
00:55:59Closing as predicted.
00:56:01Hour.
00:56:02Flight okay.
00:56:05That didn't slow us.
00:56:06We're going faster than ever.
00:56:08No, we're not.
00:56:08It seems that way because we're close and heading in.
00:56:11Look.
00:56:11I just decided I don't want to go through with this thing.
00:56:14Let's go home.
00:56:15Cut it out, Joe.
00:56:16Give me the view aft.
00:56:19View aft.
00:56:21How about that?
00:56:22On manual.
00:56:24Ready now.
00:56:28Holy smoke!
00:56:29You can't land and that would be splattered!
00:56:31Quit worrying.
00:56:32We're landing in a smooth plane, shorter there.
00:56:35I'm going to kill our forward speed.
00:56:36Stand by.
00:56:40Acceleration.
00:56:41You missed, Jim.
00:56:48I know it.
00:56:49Emergency.
00:56:59Kick her up, Jim.
00:57:00Give her some lateral.
00:57:02Too late.
00:57:03Got to land her in the next few seconds of firing.
00:57:04She won't have enough to get home.
00:57:05I'll have to use the drift we've got.
00:57:06You're going to chance it, Jim?
00:57:23Got to.
00:57:24Doc, automatic landing.
00:57:26Automatic it is.
00:57:27Copilot.
00:57:29Tracking in on automatic.
00:57:30Right.
00:57:31Tracking now.
00:57:33Cover me at 830 feet.
00:57:35Cover at 830.
00:57:37Correction.
00:57:37Cover at 870.
00:57:39870.
00:57:39Right.
00:57:40Can you miss those peaks?
00:57:41Got a pair in your pocket.
00:57:42Correction.
00:57:42860.
00:57:43860.
00:57:46Tracking steady.
00:57:47All hands.
00:57:51Great for crash.
00:57:58Fire.
00:58:02Jack's down.
00:58:03Jack's down.
00:58:21Cut out your gyros.
00:58:24Okay.
00:58:26Blind landing, Jim.
00:58:28That was a terrible landing, you know it.
00:58:30I mean, for a first one.
00:58:31I wasted reaction mass, we'll 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.
00:58:46We'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.
00:58:56You waited a long time for this, Doc.
00:58:58All my life.
00:59:00Swing it.
00:59:01How about trying to raise Washington?
00:59:04You bet.
00:59:04Wait till I tell them.
00:59:05Waste race.
00:59:06Spaceship Luna in the lead, way out the front.
00:59:09Doc.
00:59:09Jim.
00:59:10You two go down and set foot on the surface.
00:59:14That's something I want to enter in my log.
00:59:16No, no.
00:59:16I think we should all go together.
00:59:18Nonsense.
00:59:19You two made this trip possible.
00:59:21Spaceship Luna calling N.A. Washington.
00:59:23Come on then, Doc.
00:59:24Spaceship Luna.
00:59:25This is your moment.
00:59:26Calling N.A. Washington.
00:59:27Let's get to our space suits.
00:59:28Over.
00:59:28Over.
00:59:28Over.
00:59:29Over.
00:59:30Over.
00:59:31Over.
00:59:32Over.
00:59:32Over.
00:59:33Over.
00:59:33Over.
00:59:34Over.
00:59:34Over.
00:59:35Over.
00:59:35Over.
00:59:36Over.
00:59:36Over.
00:59:37Over.
00:59:37Over.
00:59:38Over.
00:59:38Over.
00:59:39Over.
00:59:39Over.
00:59:40Over.
00:59:40Over.
00:59:41Over.
00:59:41Over.
00:59:42Over.
00:59:42Over.
00:59:43Over.
00:59:43Over.
00:59:44Over.
00:59:44Over.
00:59:45Over.
00:59:45Over.
00:59:46Over.
00:59:46Over.
00:59:47Over.
00:59:47Over.
00:59:48Over.
00:59:48Over.
00:59:49Over.
00:59:49Over.
00:59:50Over.
00:59:50Over.
00:59:51Over.
00:59:51Over.
00:59:52Over.
00:59:52Over.
00:59:53Over.
00:59:53Over.
00:59:54Over.
00:59:54Over.
00:59:55Over.
01:00:55Let's go.
01:01:03Come 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.
01:04:12It takes three seconds, even at the speed of light, for radio waves to travel between the earth and moon.
01:04:17Mr. Barnes, can you tell us, Mr. Barnes, can you tell us where you landed?
01:04:19Mr. 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.
01:04:30Is Dr. Cargraves, is 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.
01:05:14And I can also see it's about sunrise in San Francisco.
01:05:17It's afternoon here, and will be for a couple of more days.
01:05:24Now, perhaps, Jim Barnes can add something.
01:05:27As a matter of record, may I report the moment he set foot on the moon, Dr. Cargraves claimed possession of the name of the United States for the benefit of all mankind.
01:05:39This 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.
01:06:06Doc, I'll never get used to this.
01:06:09I'll say this must weigh five, six hundred pounds.
01:06:12On Earth, it does.
01:06:13Gravity up here is about one-sixth as much.
01:06:15That means things weigh one-sixth as much.
01:06:18I know it, but I can't believe it.
01:06:22General, look!
01:06:23Whee!
01:06:28Greeny, cut that out!
01:06:30What's the matter?
01:06:31If I could do that back home, I'd be an acrobat.
01:06:34All right, Joe.
01:06:35We'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.
01:06:48Well, I'll just have to wait for you.
01:06:50Joe, you help him.
01:06:52Right now on the radio.
01:06:53Joe's going to help me with the mineralogical survey.
01:06:56You can get along without him.
01:06:57You've only got one Geiger counter.
01:06:58But don't lose sight of the ship.
01:07:01That's a standing rule for everybody.
01:07:03OK, Skipper.
01:07:05I'll help you later, General.
01:07:07I'm for seeing what there is to see.
01:07:09I don't figure on staying here too long anyway.
01:07:11And do you know why?
01:07:12Eh, no 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.
01:07:19Hastings.
01:07:50Say, Doc, there is just one thing I'd like as a souvenir of the trip.
01:07:56How about taking a picture of me up here, say, alongside the camera?
01:08:00Sure, Joe. That's not too much to ask.
01:08:02Give him the little camera.
01:08:19Move a little closer.
01:08:29That's it.
01:08:32Hey, wait a minute. I have a better idea.
01:08:36Come over here.
01:08:39Now turn around.
01:08:43Now hold your arm up.
01:08:44Now bend your elbow as though you were holding a heavy weight.
01:08:50Now your hand.
01:08:54That's it. Hold it.
01:09:00OK.
01:09:02That'll be something to show.
01:09:04What is it, Doc?
01:09:06You and the Earth.
01:09:07Holding it up like a modern Atlas.
01:09:09Hey, that's something, Doc.
01:09:15There's only one thing.
01:09:16What's that?
01:09:18Nobody will know it's me in this diving suit.
01:09:20Hey, Doc.
01:09:22Joe.
01:09:25Over here.
01:09:27Behind you.
01:09:39Charles, 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.
01:10:00There's a trace, eh?
01:10:02What is it, Doc?
01:10:04I'm not sure.
01:10:05These mountains may have a real deposit.
01:10:08Uranium?
01:10:10It's possible.
01:10:12Then you could blow up the moon, too.
01:10:14Ain't that dandy?
01:10:16Check your reaction mass.
01:10:230.8672.
01:10:26What?
01:10:27Repeat that.
01:10:29Yes, 0.8672.
01:10:31I wasted power making a very bad landing.
01:10:38I'll have to compute it, but it looks bad.
01:10:42We have to get you back.
01:10:44Jettison every ounce.
01:10:45All your forward tanks are empty.
01:10:46Can you rip them out?
01:10:50Not without tearing the ship apart.
01:10:52She wasn't built for it.
01:10:56I'll call at the same time 24 hours from now.
01:10:58I'll give you the answers.
01:11:00Be 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.
01:11:07That's all I ask.
01:11:25Hello, Jim.
01:11:27Hey, Jim, we've got news for you.
01:11:30I have for you, too.
01:11:31All of you.
01:11:32This is right up your alley, Jim.
01:11:34Hold it, General.
01:11:35Sit on the camera, Joe.
01:11:36Doc.
01:11:38It's no use to us.
01:11:40I 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?
01:11:45I've just talked with Dr. Hastings at Dry Wells.
01:11:48I'll give you our instrument readings.
01:11:50Reaction mass, mass ratio.
01:11:51Check their time with him.
01:11:53Well, their time is okay.
01:11:56Nothing else is.
01:11:58What are you talking about, Skipper?
01:12:00Everything on the board is ticking.
01:12:02I checked every instrument.
01:12:03All alive.
01:12:04So are we.
01:12:05For a while.
01:12:07I don't get it.
01:12:09We have to lighten ship.
01:12:11Our job for the next 24 hours is to unload everything we can
01:12:13and leave it here.
01:12:14We stay here ourselves.
01:12:16Hastings will give him the answers at 0730 tomorrow.
01:12:19Well, let's not get into a panic until we've talked to him again.
01:12:23Meanwhile, we go back to the ship and strip off everything we can.
01:12:33Acceleration couch pad number 4.
01:12:35Serial number 706.
01:12:37Schedule B.
01:12:41Number 706. Schedule B. Check.
01:12:44And the schedule itself.
01:12:49That's everything that you can get out?
01:12:51Three of the space suits will be dropped before we take off.
01:12:54We have to keep one so we can open the airlock to drop the others.
01:12:57Skipper, I'll dump the stuff.
01:13:02It'll take me 15 minutes to check an ad.
01:13:03I'll give you the answer as soon as I can.
01:13:13Here's the wash.
01:13:25Thirty-six hours.
01:13:27Thirty-six hours what?
01:13:29To take-off time.
01:13:31To then or a month from then.
01:13:33That means never.
01:13:35Spaceship, Luna. Spaceship, Luna.
01:13:38Spaceship, 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.
01:14:04Another thousand? Of what? Tell us that. We're stripped.
01:14:10Don't make me say this.
01:14:12You have to, or...
01:14:14You don't have to say it. We know.
01:14:18Or we don't get back.
01:14:19I'm standing by.
01:14:24You've got to work it out.
01:14:36Hey, Sweeney.
01:14:38Is this thing bolted or welded?
01:14:40Bolted.
01:14:42Let's get to work. Give me a wrench.
01:14:49I guess we'll use this one up.
01:15:05Doc, 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?
01:15:13If we're too heavy, we'll drop back on the moon and crash, or else fall into an orbit around the moon.
01:15:16You mean just keep on going around?
01:15:19That's it.
01:15:25Hey, Skipper, that's my radar.
01:15:27We won't need it to land on Earth. We're a glider then.
01:15:29I don't know how much weight I did putting this together.
01:15:32Now, anybody anything in his pockets?
01:15:34I don't know how much weight it is.
01:15:40This too?
01:15:42Everything. The three space suits then come back.
01:16:05How much time we've got?
01:16:0727 minutes.
01:16:17Another 110 pounds.
01:16:19What?
01:16:21Another 110 pounds and you can coast home.
01:16:25We're stripped, absolutely. We'll have to take a chance as we are.
01:16:28That's suicide.
01:16:31You haven't enough power to pull free of the moon.
01:16:34You could be wrong, couldn't you?
01:16:37I could.
01:16:39I don't think the computer could.
01:16:41Ask Dr. Cargraves.
01:16:44We'll let you know, Roger.
01:16:48Well, Charles.
01:16:50Is he right?
01:16:52I'm afraid so.
01:17:00We'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.
01:17:17I could have blown my brains out of gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel of found some other decent way to die.
01:17:24All right, Joe. We're on this together.
01:17:42It's as simple as that.
01:17:44One of us stays.
01:17:46Of course.
01:17:49I weigh 180.
01:17:50More than enough, Lord General.
01:17:51No, listen to me.
01:17:52Now, look here. I'm the oldest. I'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.
01:17:58I give the orders on this ship. I was agreed.
01:17:59I'm giving you the orders now.
01:18:00Jim, nobody gives orders.
01:18:01The devil they don't.
01:18:02This is the order.
01:18:04Doc is the engineer. He 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. I can be spared back home.
01:18:11I have no family. My job gets on without me.
01:18:13Jim, listen to me. This is not a ship at sea and it's not a plane and we're not Newtaneers.
01:18:17This has been a joint undertaking. The three of us did it together from the beginning.
01:18:21That's no one's duty more than the others to give his life.
01:18:24I've had my day. A great one. I've shown that this could be done.
01:18:27That's enough to make me glad I lived and content to stay.
01:18:30That's very noble, Doc. For this philosophy.
01:18:33Skip philosophy. I'm the one who stays. Why? Because 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, exposed forever. Never setting in this lunar sky.
01:18:47You know what you just proved, General?
01:18:53You're the one man that must go back.
01:18:55Jim. General.
01:18:56Are we gonna have this whole thing end in futility because we can't reach a simple decision?
01:19:00I've reached my decision. I'm standing by it.
01:19:03Skipper, look here.
01:19:04Stay out of the sweetie. Don't worry, you'll get back.
01:19:07Right now, it looks like nobody gets back.
01:19:10I was just gonna say, if you brains can't make up your minds, why don't you do what kids do?
01:19:14Match for it. You know, draw lots.
01:19:17All right.
01:19:18Right. No.
01:19:19Jim, two against one. What do we use?
01:19:22Anyone have some paper? No.
01:19:23Matches, some coins. Everything's overboard.
01:19:26You got buttons on your coveralls. Match them.
01:19:31Spaceship Luna. Spaceship Luna.
01:19:34Rye Wells calling Spaceship Luna.
01:19:37Spaceship Luna Dry Wells. Listen.
01:19:39We're working it out. One of us will stay behind. We're going to draw lots.
01:19:44Only 110 pounds. There must be something more.
01:19:47Check time.
01:19:499.31.50. 18 minutes to zero hour.
01:19:53Check.
01:19:55We'll take off with three men.
01:19:59Hey, where's Joe? It's gone.
01:20:02What's wrong? You're not coming in.
01:20:03It won't open. It's cycling.
01:20:06He's not in there. Then he...
01:20:07No, he can't do that.
01:20:09Spaceship Luna. Spaceship Luna.
01:20:10Spaceship Luna.
01:20:11He's left the ship.
01:20:12We're here. Stand by. Something's happened.
01:20:13Sweeney's left the ship.
01:20:14The helmet's gone.
01:20:15I can't see him. The angle's too great.
01:20:17Wait a minute. There he is. He's dragging something.
01:20:19Sweeney!
01:20:20Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney! Can you hear me?
01:20:32Ha, ha, ha. Sure I hear you.
01:20:34Come back, Joe. Come back.
01:20:36And die in that steel death trap?
01:20:38You won't die, Joe. Not you. You're going home.
01:20:41Not a chance. Goodbye, fellas.
01:20:43Remember me to the gals. Any gals.
01:20:46Spaceship Luna. You're not coming in.
01:20:49Here, Doc. Talk to him.
01:20:51Something's happened. Sweeney's left the ship.
01:20:52Joe! You've got to come back.
01:20:53Are you taking off?
01:20:54I don't know. I don't know.
01:20:55Stand by. We've got to think of something.
01:20:56Joe, you've got to come back. We can't let you do this.
01:20:58What do you mean, let me? You can't stop me. I lightened your ship. I gave you your chance. Now get going. Don't make a monkey out of me.
01:21:08Come back, Joe. Come back. You've got to. We're all in this together. If you don't, we can't take off.
01:21:12You've got to. You've got to. Or you'll be killing me and for nothing.
01:21:15Crazy goon. It's not up to you. Nobody's asking you. You're killing yourself.
01:21:18Got it, Short. Will you take off? I want to see it.
01:21:20Joe!
01:21:21A ship going back from the moon to the earth.
01:21:23Joe, I just thought of something. I thought of a way.
01:21:25I thought of a way.
01:21:26A way to what?
01:21:27To take off. All of us. We're all going back. Do you hear me? All of us. But hurry.
01:21:30What do you mean, all of us?
01:21:32You've got to do just as I tell you. I think we can make it.
01:21:34You wouldn't kid me.
01:21:35Don't be a fool. It's our lives too. We've less than 15 minutes.
01:21:39What's the deal?
01:21:40Get back into the airlock as fast as you can. Bring a screwdriver, a knife, and a rat tail file, and a weight, an oxygen tank.
01:21:46Tie the tank to the end of your safety line. I'll tell you the rest when you're in the airlock. Is he coming?
01:21:51He's picking up the things.
01:21:55Yes, he's heading toward us. What's your plan, Captain?
01:22:00Just this. Sweeney's spacesuit weighs block. 70 pounds. The radios weigh all of 50. There's 110 pounds with a little margin.
01:22:06We can't open the door of the airlock without his spacesuit. So he won't open it when he gets his spacesuit off.
01:22:10But he can't drill a small hole between the door and the casing. Big enough for his safety line to get through.
01:22:13He ties the oxygen tank to the end of the safety line. It hangs outside. The line passes through the small hole.
01:22:18There's a slow leak, but Sweeney can take off his suit, tie it to the inside end of the line, and come up here.
01:22:22We decompress the airlock, the door opens, the suit is dragged out. General, watch for him.
01:22:30He must be in the airlock. It's cycling.
01:22:31He's in there, watching the indicator.
01:22:36Pressure's up. I can open it.
01:22:37I can open it.
01:22:49I have a screwdriver.
01:22:50General, unscrew the radio.
01:22:52Sweeney, I want you to listen carefully. Now what? Wait a minute.
01:22:56Hastings! Hastings! We're coming home, all of us. You won't hear from us again until you see us. I'm junkying the radio. That's all. Goodbye.
01:23:02River out, General.
01:23:04Sweeney, listen carefully. I want you to put on the helmet. Go into the airlock, decompress it, open the outer door.
01:23:34Sweeney, listen to us.
01:23:42.
01:23:46I don't know.
01:24:16I don't know.
01:24:46I don't know.
01:25:16I don't know.
01:25:17I don't know.
01:25:18I don't know.
01:25:19I don't know.
01:25:20I take off stations.
01:25:21Sweet.
01:25:22Sweet.
01:25:23As soon as your straps fast, television view aft.
01:25:37The straps are okay here.
01:25:42Power planes.
01:25:46All ready to go.
01:25:50No time for count-offs, stand by.
01:25:54Fire!
01:26:20We're going home.
01:26:50Fire!
01:26:56Fire!
01:27:00Fire!
01:27:02Fire!
01:27:08Fire!
01:27:16Fire!
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