- 6/22/2025
Prepare for an unforgettable adventure as mankind dares to reach beyond Earth in Journey to the Stars – Destination Moon (1950 Classic). This groundbreaking film takes you on a mission to explore the unknown, facing dangers and thrilling challenges along the way.
One of the most iconic science fiction films of its time, showcasing the ambition, spirit, and courage it takes to conquer space. A must-watch for vintage sci-fi lovers.
One of the most iconic science fiction films of its time, showcasing the ambition, spirit, and courage it takes to conquer space. A must-watch for vintage sci-fi lovers.
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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 sorry.
00:05:31General 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 was the trip, General?
00:05:48Very smooth.
00:05:49I flew in on one of your skylanners.
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.
00:15:47Wow.
00:15:58Sensational.
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.
00:16:15When do we start building?
00:16:17You've examined our model, you'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
00:16:28and 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
00:16:56are 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.
00:17:15If 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,
00:17:22but it's the greatest challenge ever hurled at American industry.
00:17:26And General Thayer is going to tell you why.
00:17:28The 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.
00:17:41The race is on, and we'd better win it,
00:17:45because there is absolutely no way to stop an attack from outer space.
00:17:51The first country that can use the moon for the launching of missiles
00:17:55will control the earth.
00:17:58That, gentlemen, is the most important military fact of the century.
00:18:05Gentlemen, 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.
00:19:00Too heavy.
00:19:00This is a case where pounds of ship cost many pounds of reaction mass.
00:19:05Trigetaneum.
00:19:10That's exactly right as far as appearance 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?
00:19:22The chafing suits we wear over our pressure suits I've had made up in colors.
00:19:26Why?
00:19:27For identification.
00:19:28We use these four colors for the four crew members and 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 if nobody minds looking a little bit like a carnival balloon.
00:19:40I'm sorry.
00:19:41No.
00:19:41.
00:19:41.
00:19:55.
00:20:31Hey, 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?
00:21:02This 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 they 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.
00:21:34You've been eating green apples?
00:21:35I haven't been able to eat anything.
00:21:53How are you, 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
00:22:09the 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
00:22:17in the resultant dispersal of radioactive materials around the neighborhood of the test
00:22:21area.
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
00:22:28danger 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?
00:22:42That'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.
00:23:03It's manufactured 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.
00:23:28The 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.
00:23:43What's the next favorable time this month?
00:23:45The 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.
00:24:03I 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, 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 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.
00:24:50You all set, general?
00:24:52All set.
00:24:52Great, then it's settled.
00:24:53Well, we'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.
00:25:06Get 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.
00:25:21The 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.
00:25:392, 2.78.
00:25:42And a correction, 2, 2.79.
00:25:452, 2.79.
00:25:463, 2.1.
00:25:51Yes.
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.
00:25:59What's the last one?
00:25:593, 2.1.
00:26:01Check.
00:26:022, 1, 9.9.
00:26:03Check.
00:26:084, 0, 4, 0, 5.
00:26:124, 0, 4, 0, 5.
00:26:13Yes.
00:26:17Mr. Sweeney is here to see General Sayer.
00:26:20Send him in.
00:26:224, 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.
00:26:262, 1, 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?
00:26:36Is he all right?
00:26:36He will be, after they cut out his appendix.
00:26:39Oh, no.
00:26:44Now, what'll we do?
00:26:46Say, 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!
00:27:07Unless 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.
00:27:50You don't think it could blow up?
00:27:52We'd never get in it if we thought that.
00:27:54Joe, you 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?
00:28:09Okay.
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.
00:28:19Hey, you guys are really serious, ain't you?
00:28:24Dead serious.
00:28:39Hey, 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.
00:28:49I'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, no.
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, Charles.
00:29:26Goodbye, Mrs. Cargraves.
00:29:28We'll take good care of your husband, Mrs. Cargraves.
00:29:31Find out to worry.
00:29:35Mr. 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.
00:29:44Hastings.
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.
00:30:06Barnes!
00:30:07Cargraves!
00:30:08Stop!
00:30:09Come back here!
00:30:11Can't hear a word you say.
00:30:13Here he is.
00:30:13Listen.
00:30:18Come back.
00:30:18Are you ready?
00:30:21Come back.
00:30:22You're ready.
00:30:24Come back.
00:30:26Come back.
00:30:28Come back.
00:30:40Come back.
00:30:41Come back.
00:30:41All right, Jim, you'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, gentlemen, take off stations.
00:31:11All right.
00:31:41Have it all cooking in a minute.
00:31:49As soon as your television screen's operating, check clearance at base of ship.
00:31:52Then phone check tracking center at Drywells.
00:31:55Cut in the boys of our own traffic shack.
00:31:57Calling traffic shack. Over.
00:31:59Traffic to ship. Over.
00:32:02Official designation of ship is Luna. L-U-N-A. Luna. Over.
00:32:07Luna. Roger.
00:32:08Tell them to clear for firing.
00:32:09Clear firing area in preparation for departure. Over.
00:32:14Roger.
00:32:16Parking spaceship Luna.
00:32:17Calling Drywells airfield. Over.
00:32:19Drywells to Luna. Over.
00:32:22I'm making preparations for firing. Over.
00:32:25Drywells is ready for tracking. Over.
00:32:28Drywells reported. Traffic reported.
00:32:31Power station reported.
00:32:33Power station ready for firing.
00:32:34Power station ready for firing. Over.
00:32:35Communications.
00:32:36Everything's just dandy, Skipper.
00:32:40Co-pilot.
00:32:41Instruments okay. Automatic pilot tracking.
00:32:44Give the warning, sir.
00:32:46Go.
00:32:48Go.
00:32:49Go.
00:32:50Go.
00:32:51Go.
00:32:52Go.
00:32:53Go.
00:32:54Go.
00:32:55Go.
00:32:56Go.
00:32:57Go.
00:32:58Go.
00:32:59Go.
00:33:00Go.
00:33:18Go.
00:33:190-3-47-58.
00:33:2210 minutes to go.
00:33:40Traffic to load up. All clear. Over.
00:33:43Roger.
00:33:44Tell them to stand by for count off and firing.
00:33:47Roger.
00:33:54For check. 3-4-8-40.
00:33:58Check.
00:33:59Pick up count off at 3-4-9-30.
00:34:02Count off at 3-4-9-30.
00:34:05Check. Dry Wells.
00:34:07Dry Wells. Roger. Count off at 3-4-9-30. Over.
00:34:11Able. Find Dry Wells.
00:34:1330 seconds. Coming up.
00:34:15Stand by.
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00:35:19Let's go.
00:35:49What'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.
00:36:51I can't move a muscle.
00:36:57I can't move a muscle.
00:37:04I can't move a muscle.
00:37:12I can't move a muscle.
00:37:27We're falling.
00:37:30It's all right, Joe.
00:37:32We're weightless.
00:37:33Free orbit.
00:37:34That'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...
00:37:46We're...
00:37:47No, sir.
00:37:48Not me.
00:37:49Nobody ever told me this was practical.
00:37:51Toying this thing around you here, take me back.
00:37:53I ain't going to no moon.
00:37:55That'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.
00:38:13Or 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.
00:38:40Take one of these pills.
00:38:54It'll settle your stomach.
00:38:56I 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?
00:39:22How are you feeling?
00:39:23Have 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.
00:39:32Unless these pills work,
00:39:33space travel isn't going to be popular.
00:39:50Don't.
00:39:52Think of a condition of my stomach.
00:39:56Where's the pain?
00:39:57There's a bit of pain in it.
00:39:58We're down.
00:39:59It's got a.
00:40:00Oh.
00:40:02I know it's got a lot of pain in it.
00:40:03How are you doing?
00:40:08Oh.
00:40:09There's a lot.
00:40:14There's a lot of pain.
00:40:15I know it's got a lot of pain in it.
00:40:17Why are you doing?
00:40:20Here we go.
00:40:50Let's get these on you. They've got magnets in the soles. How 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. Put that one on and try to get Dry Wells.
00:41:23Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells. Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells. Over.
00:41:41Spaceship Luna. Man alive, I can't believe it. Your takeoff checked out according to flight plans. We are now tracking you by radar.
00:41:51You are in your calculated orbit to the limit of the accuracy of our instruments. We'll continue to track you as long as we can. Good luck. Over.
00:41:57Thank you, Dry Wells and Roger.
00:42:02Doc, General, you've got to see this.
00:42:04Gosh, ain't that so...
00:42:20I thought I'd seen everything. Just look at those cities. Los Angeles. San Francisco.
00:42:29Sure. That's Los Angeles.
00:42:32That's New York.
00:42:34Can you see Brooklyn?
00:42:37Sure, there's Brooklyn.
00:42:38I wonder who's Pigeon.
00:42:40I wonder who's Pigeon.
00:43:08That's the coffee, General.
00:43:22Oh, there I was.
00:43:25That's better.
00:43:27That's one!
00:43:29Maybe.
00:43:31Or.
00:43:38Right.
00:43:41You know what?
00:43:42Right.
00:43:43You know why.
00:43:44Bearing.
00:43:45No.
00:43:46You knows what you like.
00:43:48That's the side of the sky are looking for.
00:43:49Yes, that's the side.
00:43:51I wonder who does have a whole life- shrimp fight.
00:43:52Joe, Joe. I want to test the piloting radar. I tried to crank out the antenna. It seems to be stuck.
00:44:15Stuck? I don't understand it. I was particularly careful when I greased it.
00:44:21Greased it. No wonder it's stuck. It's exposed to outer space, frozen solid. You should know better than that, Sweeney.
00:44:27Why? I'm no scientist. It was covered in the engineering instructions, or didn't you bother to read them?
00:44:31All right, hold it, hold it, Doc. Arguing won't get us anywhere. That piloting radar has to be fixed.
00:44:39Try to land blind, it'd be our finish. How do they fix it, Doc? Somebody has to go outside and free it.
00:44:46Outside? You mean go outside the ship? It can't be done any other way. But we'd be swept off.
00:44:51No, you won't. You can't fall. Outside, you'd be in the same orbit, the same trajectory as the ship,
00:44:56moving right along with it. The worst could happen, you'd drift away from the side.
00:45:00We could avoid that by using safety lines. Well, let's be down. Let's do it.
00:45:05No, Jim. I'll go. I want to inspect the throat of the rocket jet anyway,
00:45:09see how it's stood up under the takeoff. All right. I'll tag along.
00:45:14Me too. I follow this up, and if you guys go out, so do I.
00:45:19You coming, General? No, I'm not a bit curious. You boys go and have your fun.
00:45:23I'll stand right up the log.
00:45:32Green's just the color for you, Sweeney.
00:45:39Ready to put on the helmets? I won't be able to breathe in here.
00:45:43You won't be able to breathe without it. Hook up your air hose.
00:45:45Forget there's no air outside. There's plenty of room for it.
00:46:03Check radios. Check instruments. Check air. Let's go. I've got to get another line.
00:46:15Now it'll open.
00:46:33Now it'll open.
00:46:45Close it, Skipper. We'll fall out.
00:46:54Get this through your head, Joe. We're in the same orbit as the ship. You can't fall.
00:47:00Let's go.
00:47:15Let's go.
00:47:17Let's go.
00:47:25Let's go.
00:47:26Let's go.
00:47:27Let's go.
00:47:28Hey, we're stuck up here. We ain't moving.
00:47:50It only seems that way. Matter of fact, we're traveling thousands of miles per hour.
00:47:55Here in space, all comparisons are lost.
00:47:58Take a look behind you.
00:48:03Wow, the geography books are right.
00:48:07How do you feel now, Joe?
00:48:09Weird. Thousands of miles an hour and not a breeze.
00:48:14Ah, it's more beautiful than I ever dreamed.
00:48:18I'll never be able to describe it to anyone.
00:48:21I'll never be able to describe it.
00:48:26I'll never be able to describe it.
00:48:30I'll never be able to describe it.
00:48:33I'm going aft. I'll see you shortly.
00:48:42When we finish this, I'll go with you.
00:48:44You stay here and take care of the radar.
00:48:45Sweeney, give me your rope.
00:48:46Help yourself.
00:48:47I'll be back in a minute.
00:48:48I'll be back in a minute.
00:48:52I'll be back in a minute.
00:48:53I'll be back in a minute.
00:48:57I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:20ORGAN PLAYS
00:49:50ORGAN PLAYS
00:50:20ORGAN PLAYS
00:50:50ORGAN PLAYS
00:50:52ORGAN PLAYS
00:50:54ORGAN PLAYS
00:50:56ORGAN PLAYS
00:50:58ORGAN PLAYS
00:51:00ORGAN PLAYS
00:51:02ORGAN PLAYS
00:51:06ORGAN PLAYS
00:51:08ORGAN PLAYS
00:51:10ORGAN PLAYS
00:51:12ORGAN PLAYS
00:51:16ORGAN PLAYS
00:51:18ORGAN PLAYS
00:51:20ORGAN PLAYS
00:51:22General! General, can you hear me? Bring out an oxygen bottle. Hurry!
00:51:41Hurry, General! Go home!
00:51:52Go home, General!
00:52:02General, that oxygen tank! Hurry!
00:52:07Where is he?
00:52:09Way out there.
00:52:12What are you going to do?
00:52:14Get him!
00:52:16I hope it's got enough kick.
00:52:17General, grab him! Grab him! We'll lose him too!
00:52:47Let's go!
00:52:54We almost didn't make it!
00:52:57Can we get back?
00:52:59If we don't, we'll clear the universe together!
00:53:02Hang on! I'm going to turn the...
00:53:04I'm going to turn the...
00:53:06I'm going to turn the...
00:53:08I'm going to turn the...
00:53:10I'm going to turn the...
00:53:12I'm going to turn the...
00:53:13If we don't, we'll clear the universe together!
00:53:15Hang on! I'm going to turn the...
00:53:16I'm going to turn the...
00:53:30Pray there's enough gas to get us back!
00:53:34He's got him!
00:53:44Give me the rope!
00:54:08You okay, Doc?
00:54:09Thanks, thanks, sir. I didn't think we'd make it.
00:54:10Thank God you're safe.
00:54:11Come on, boys. Let's go inside.
00:54:12Come on, boys. Let's go inside.
00:54:40Come on, boys.
00:54:42Come on, boys.
00:54:44Come on, boys.
00:54:45Come on, boys.
00:54:47Come on, boys.
00:54:49Come on, boys.
00:54:51Getting close.
00:54:52Standing by. Ready to fire.
00:54:55Here goes the turn.
00:55:10We're going backwards.
00:55:11We're landing backwards.
00:55:12Turn the jet in the direction of our fall and use the firing as brakes.
00:55:29Stand by for acceleration.
00:55:40I'm Band Coast.
00:55:52You're going backwards.
00:55:53Tracking as predicted.
00:55:54Good.
00:55:55Radar report.
00:55:56What's the report?
00:55:57Altitude 1-0, 8000. Closing as predicted.
00:56:01Power.
00:56:02Flight OK.
00:56:06That didn't slow us. We're going faster than ever.
00:56:08No, we're not. It seems that way because we're close and heading in.
00:56:11Look, I just decided I don't want to go through with this thing. Let's go home.
00:56:15Cut it out, Joe. Give me the view aft.
00:56:19View aft.
00:56:21Power.
00:56:22On manual.
00:56:24Ready now.
00:56:26Holy smoke. You can't land and that would be splattered.
00:56:31Quit worrying. We're landing in a smooth plane short of there.
00:56:34I'm going to kill our forward speed. Stand by.
00:56:39Acceleration.
00:56:46You missed, Jim.
00:56:48I know it. Emergency.
00:56:56Kick her up, Jim. Give her some lateral.
00:57:01Too late. I've got to land her in the next few seconds of firing and it won't have enough to get home.
00:57:05I'll have to use the drift we've got.
00:57:06I'll have to use the drift we've got.
00:57:07You're going to chance it, Jim?
00:57:09Got to.
00:57:10Doc.
00:57:11Automatic landing.
00:57:12Automatic it is.
00:57:13Co-pilot.
00:57:14Tracking in on automatic.
00:57:15Right.
00:57:16Tracking now.
00:57:17Cover me at 8-3-0 feet.
00:57:18Cover at 8-3-0.
00:57:19Correction.
00:57:20Cover at 8-3-0.
00:57:21Correction.
00:57:22Cover at 8-7-0.
00:57:238-7-0.
00:57:24Right.
00:57:25Can you miss those peaks?
00:57:26Got a pair in your pocket.
00:57:27Correction.
00:57:288-6-0.
00:57:298-6-0.
00:57:30Tracking steady.
00:57:31All hands, grateful for crash.
00:57:32Fire!
00:57:33No!
00:57:34No, no!
00:57:35I'm not.
00:57:36No, no.
00:57:37No, no.
00:57:38No.
00:57:39No, no.
00:57:40No.
00:57:41No, no.
00:57:42No, no.
00:57:43No, no.
00:57:44No.
00:57:45No, no.
00:57:46No.
00:57:47No, no.
00:57:48No.
00:57:49No.
00:57:50No, no.
00:57:51No, no.
00:57:52No.
00:57:53No.
00:57:54No.
00:57:55No.
00:57:56No.
00:57:57No.
00:57:58No.
00:57:59Jax down.
00:58:18Jax are down.
00:58:21Cut out your gyros.
00:58:24Okay.
00:58:26Fine landing, Jim.
00:58:27That 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.
00:58:46We'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.
00:58:52You waited a long time for this, Doc.
00:58:58All my life.
00:59:00Swinney, how 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.
00:59:13That'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.
00:59:29Over.
00:59:29Over.
00:59:30Over.
00:59:48Over.
00:59:57Over.
00:59:57Over.
00:59:58Over.
01:01:00Let's go.
01:01:30Come on.
01:02:00Let's go.
01:02:30Let's go.
01:03:00Let's go.
01:03:30Let's go.
01:04:00Let's go.
01:04:31Is Dr. Cargraves hooked in?
01:04:34Yes.
01:04:36Can you give us your first impressions of the moon, Dr. Cargraves?
01:04:40Well, I'll try.
01:04:41The first impression is one of utter barrenness and desolation.
01:04:47The sky is the sky, the sky is the sky, the sky is black, velvet black and pierced by the
01:04:59most intensely brilliant stars anyone ever dreamed of.
01:05:02And the sky is the sky.
01:05:04Hanging over the mountains in the sky, I can see our own planet earth.
01:05:07many times larger than the Harvest Moon.
01:05:11I can see most of the Western Hemisphere,
01:05:14and I can also see it's about sunrise in San Francisco.
01:05:19It'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?
01:05:32Dr. Cargrave's claim possession of the name of the United States
01:05:35for the benefit of all mankind.
01:05:37This 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
01:05:47for further signals from you.
01:05:49Goodbye, and good luck.
01:05:51Roger.
01:05:51Doc, 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.
01:06:14Gravity up here is about one-sixth as much.
01:06:16That means things weigh one-sixth as much.
01:06:18I know it, but I can't believe it.
01:06:23General, look.
01:06:24Whee!
01:06:28Greeny, cut that out!
01:06:30What's the matter?
01:06:32I could do that back home.
01:06:33I'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.
01:06:38Let's get on with the schedule.
01:06:40I'm supposed to help you with the astronomical photographs, Doc.
01:06:43I can't forbid I've got to contact Earth
01:06:45and 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.
01:06:58You'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.
01:07:07I'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?
01:07:12Yeah, no beer, no babes, no baseball.
01:07:14You got it.
01:07:16Well, Doc, I'll pack this little gadget.
01:07:18I'll join you after I talk to Hastings.
01:07:19I'll be right back.
01:07:49Say, 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.
01:08:03Give him the little camera.
01:08:03Move a little closer.
01:08:29That's it.
01:08:30Hey, wait a minute.
01:08:33I have a better idea.
01:08:37Come over here.
01:08:39Now turn around.
01:08:44Now hold your arm up.
01:08:47Now bend your elbow as though you were holding a heavy weight.
01:08:51Now your hand.
01:08:52That's it.
01:08:55Hold it.
01:09:01Okay.
01:09:02That'll be something to show.
01:09:04What is it, Doc?
01:09:06You and the Earth.
01:09:08Holding it up like a modern atlas.
01:09:09Hey, that's something, Doc.
01:09:15There's only one thing.
01:09:17What's that?
01:09:18Nobody will know it's me in this diving suit.
01:09:21Hey, Doc.
01:09:23Joe.
01:09:26Over here.
01:09:27Behind you.
01:09:28Charles, I picked up cliques.
01:09:48Here, hold this.
01:09:50I picked them up a few yards back.
01:09:52They seem to get a little stronger in this direction.
01:09:54Listen to this.
01:09:55There's a trace, eh?
01:10:03What is it, Doc?
01:10:04I'm not sure.
01:10:05These mountains may have a real deposit.
01:10:09Uranium?
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.
01:10:17Point eight, six, seven, two.
01:10:26What?
01:10:27Repeat that.
01:10:29Yes, point eight, six, seven, two.
01:10:32I wasted power making a very bad landing.
01:10:34I'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.
01:10:53I'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.
01:11:07Just get us back home, that's all I ask.
01:11:08Hello, Jim.
01:11:28Hey, 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.
01:11:44What's the matter?
01:11:45I've just talked with Dr. Hastings at Dry Wells.
01:11:48I'll give him our instrument readings.
01:11:50Reaction mass, mass ratio.
01:11:51Checked our time with him.
01:11:53Well, our 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, all alive.
01:12:04So are we.
01:12:05For a while.
01:12:06I don't get it.
01:12:10We have to lighten ship.
01:12:11Our job for the next 24 hours is to unload everything we can and 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.
01:12:27Acceleration couch pad number 4, serial number 706, schedule B.
01:12:42Number 706, schedule B. Check.
01:12:44And the schedule itself.
01:12:49That's everything that you can get out?
01:12:52Three 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.
01:12:58Skipper, I'll dump the stuff.
01:13:02It'll take me 15 minutes to check an ad.
01:13:04I'll give you the answer as soon as I can.
01:13:06Here's to wash.
01:13:2636 hours.
01:13:2836 hours what?
01:13:30Takeoff time.
01:13:32It's then or a month from then.
01:13:33That means never.
01:13:38Spaceship Luna.
01:13:39Spaceship Luna.
01:13:40Spaceship Luna, Barnes speaking.
01:13:43Here's the total.
01:13:44You've taken out almost two tons.
01:13:46Before takeoff, you can drop all your oxygen except 70 hours supply to get back on.
01:13:51Before takeoff, you can drop your remaining food.
01:13:54You can hold yourselves to a pint of water each day
01:13:56and turn the rest of your drinking water into the reaction tanks.
01:13:59Have you got it?
01:13:59Right.
01:14:00You'll have to get out another thousand pounds.
01:14:05Another thousand?
01:14:06Of what?
01:14:07Tell us that.
01:14:07We're stripped.
01:14:10Don't make me say this.
01:14:13You have to, or...
01:14:14You don't have to say it.
01:14:17We know.
01:14:17Or we don't get back.
01:14:22I'm standing by.
01:14:25You've got to work it out.
01:14:26Hey, sweetie.
01:14:38Is this thing bolted or welded?
01:14:42Bolted.
01:14:43Let's get to work.
01:14:43Give me a wrench.
01:14:44I guess we'll use this one up.
01:15:06Doc, we'll be able to take off, won't we?
01:15:09Probably.
01:15:10Take 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,
01:15:15or 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.
01:15:27We won't need it to land on Earth.
01:15:29We're glad to have them.
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, too?
01:15:42Everything.
01:15:43The three spacesuits, then come back.
01:16:04How much time we've got?
01:16:0827 minutes.
01:16:17Another 110 pounds.
01:16:19What?
01:16:22Another 110 pounds, and you can coast home.
01:16:25We'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.
01:16:51Is he right?
01:16:53I'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.
01:17:10Well, 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.
01:17:22I found some other decent way to die.
01:17:24All right, Joe.
01:17:25We're on, Mr. Gillis.
01:17:26It'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.
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.
01:17:58I give the orders on this ship.
01:17:59I was agreed.
01:17:59I'm giving you the orders now.
01:18:00Jim, nobody gives orders.
01:18:02The devil they don't.
01:18:03This is the order.
01:18:05Doc 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 newtaneers.
01:18:18This has been a joint undertaking.
01:18:19The 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.
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's 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.
01:18:46Never setting in this lunar sky.
01:18:49You know what you just proved, General?
01:18:53You're the one man that must go back.
01:18:55Jim.
01:18:56General.
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.
01:19:02I'm standing by it.
01:19:03Skipper, look here.
01:19:05Stay out of the sweetie.
01:19:06Don't worry.
01:19:07You'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?
01:19:22Now, if anyone has some paper.
01:19:23No.
01:19:23Matches, some coins.
01:19:25Everything'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.
01:19:39Listen.
01:19:39We're working it out.
01:19:41One 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.
01:20:00Hey, where's Joe?
01:20:01He's gone.
01:20:01What's wrong?
01:20:02You're not coming in.
01:20:04It won't open.
01:20:05It's cycling.
01:20:06He's not in there.
01:20:07Then he...
01:20:08No, 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.
01:20:14Sweeney's left the ship.
01:20:15Helmet'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.
01:20:20Sweeney.
01:20:30Sweeney.
01:20:31Sweeney.
01:20:31Can you hear me?
01:20:32Ha, ha, ha.
01:20:33Sure I hear you.
01:20:35Come back, Joe.
01:20:35Come back.
01:20:36And die in that steel death trap?
01:20:39You won't die, Joe.
01:20:40Not you.
01:20:40You're going home.
01:20:41Not a chance.
01:20:42Goodbye, fellas.
01:20:44Remember me to the gals.
01:20:45Any gals.
01:20:46Spaceship Luna.
01:20:47You're not coming in.
01:20:49Here, Doc.
01:20:50Talk to him.
01:20:51Something's happened.
01:20:52Sweeney's left the ship.
01:20:52Joe.
01:20:53You've got to come back.
01:20:54Are you taking off?
01:20:55I don't know.
01:20:56I 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.
01:21:16Crazy goon, it's not up to you.
01:21:17Nobody's asking you.
01:21:18You're killing yourself.
01:21:19Got 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.
01:21:46And 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.
01:21:59Yes, he's heading toward us.
01:22:00What's your plan, Captain?
01:22:01Just this.
01:22:02Sweeney's spacesuit weighs block.
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't drill a small hole between the door and the casing.
01:22:13Big enough for a safety line to 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 Sweeney can take off his suit,
01:22:21tie it to the inside end of the line, and come up here.
01:22:23We decompress the airlock.
01:22:24The door opens.
01:22:25The 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.
01:22:37Pressure's up.
01:22:37I hope I can open it.
01:22:50I have a screwdriver.
01:22:51General, unscrew the radio.
01:22:53Sweeney, I want you to listen carefully.
01:22:54Now, wait a minute.
01:22:57Hastings, 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 junkying the radio.
01:23:02That's all.
01:23:02Goodbye.
01:23:03River out, General.
01:23:06Sweeney, listen carefully.
01:23:08I want you to put on the helmet.
01:23:09Go to the airlock, decompress it, open the outer door.
01:23:12Let's go.
01:23:17The airlock, Heidi.
01:23:23Oh, my God.
01:25:35Sweet.
01:25:36As soon as your strap's fast, television view aft.
01:25:38The strap's okay here.
01:25:45Powerplans.
01:25:47All ready to go.
01:25:49No time for count off.
01:25:54Stand by.
01:25:56Fire!
01:25:58Fire!
01:26:03Fire!
01:26:05Fire!
01:26:07Going home.
01:26:37Going home.
01:27:07Going home.
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