- 6/22/2025
Join a daring crew on a groundbreaking mission in Voyage to the Unknown – Destination Moon (1950 Classic). As humanity takes its first bold steps toward the stars, they face unpredictable challenges, thrilling dangers, and the vast mysteries of space.
This pioneering film captures the spirit of exploration and the excitement of venturing into the great unknown. A true classic for sci-fi enthusiasts and space dreamers.
This pioneering film captures the spirit of exploration and the excitement of venturing into the great unknown. A true classic for sci-fi enthusiasts and space dreamers.
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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.
00:05:45Don'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 skyliner's.
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.
00:16:00I'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, when 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've added them.
00:19:40Because they're coming forward their experiences.
00:19:41Are we ready?
00:19:42Remember to recognize the sign that they were with thoseakers?
00:19:52Your buddies.
00:19:53Here we are.
00:19:53You're right, gentlemen.
00:20:07You've never lost them.
00:20:38Hey, 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.
00:21:55Well, Jim, General, I tried to get you before you left Washington.
00:21:58I'm a little 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
00:22:17structurally in the resultant dispersal of radioactive materials around the neighborhood
00:22:20of the test area.
00:22:21Now, we've told them a dozen times we've cleared the area out for 10 miles around.
00:22:25While 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?
00:22:41Well, that's doggone nice of them.
00:22:44What's the matter with the North Pole or Little America?
00:22:47What's a few months delay one way or the other?
00:22:48They're merely trying to protect their own necks.
00:22:50You can't buck public opinion.
00:22:52I've tried.
00:22:53Have you seen this?
00:22:58That 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.
00:23:08It stops 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?
00:23:19We've pushed our resources to the limit every day of delay costs.
00:23:22Say, 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.
00:23:43What'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, there's no law against taking off a spaceship.
00:24:08It's never been done, so they haven't gotten around to prohibiting it.
00:24:11If 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.
00:24:40You 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.
00:24:59We'll have a lot to do in 17 hours.
00:25:01Get me my home.
00:25:08I'd like to talk to Mrs. Cargraves.
00:25:11All roads have been blocked.
00:25:13Because of the danger of radioactivity, the area is being cleared of spectators.
00:25:18Do not attempt to approach the site of the spaceship.
00:25:22The 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.
00:25:354, 5, 2.6.
00:25:38Uh, 2, 2.78.
00:25:42And a correction, 2, 2.79.
00:25:452, 2.79.
00:25:463, 2.1.
00:25:50Yes.
00:25:52Mr. Brown still cannot be located, Mr. Barnes.
00:25:54Well, check with the main gate, the store, everywhere.
00:25:56Keep calling me back.
00:25:58What's the last one?
00:25:593, 2.1.
00:26:01Check.
00:26:022, 1, 9.9.
00:26:03Check.
00:26:05Uh, 4, 0, 4, 0, 5.
00:26:124, 0, 4, 0, 5.
00:26:16Yes.
00:26:17Mr. Sweeney is here to see General Sayer.
00:26:19Uh, send him in.
00:26:22Uh, 4, 0, 4, 0, 0.5.
00:26:24Uh, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.
00:26:25Uh, 2, 1, 4, 0, 0.9.
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?
00:26:35Is he all right?
00:26:36He will be, after they cut out his appendix.
00:26:40Oh, no.
00:26:44Now, what do we do?
00:26:46Hey, Joe.
00:26:47Joe!
00:26:49You can handle the ship's radio and radar equipment, can't you?
00:26:51Yeah.
00:26:52You know as much about it as Brown.
00:26:54Will you take his place?
00:26:55To the moon?
00:26:56Yes.
00:26:57What's the moon got that this desert ain't?
00:27:00Besides...
00:27:00Besides what, Joe?
00:27:02Well, I got a date with a nice little chick tomorrow.
00:27:05No thanks.
00:27:07Joe!
00:27:08Unless you come along with us, we're sunk.
00:27:10You're the only man left who knows how to handle the equipment.
00:27:13Mr. 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?
00:28:09Okay.
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.
00:28:39I'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, 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. Burns, there's a joker back there trying to crash the gate.
00:29:38He has a court order that says you can't take off.
00:29:40Darling.
00:29:41Come back to me, Charles.
00:29:43Come on, come on.
00:29:45Hastings?
00:29:46I wish you had room for me in the ship.
00:29:47You've got to stay here and see if 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!
00:30:11You can't hear a word you say.
00:30:13antes!
00:30:17Come back!
00:30:21I'm hungry!
00:30:22I'm hungry!
00:30:24You can't hear me, Miss!
00:30:25I haven't heard you!
00:30:26I haven't heard for several hours yet.
00:30:26I'll be ready!
00:30:28I haven't been alive!
00:30:29Justice!
00:30:29I'm hungry!
00:30:30You can't hear me!
00:30:31I have no questions!
00:30:32I'm hungry!
00:30:32A lot of things I take now!
00:30:33I'm hungry!
00:30:34I can't!
00:30:34Love!
00:30:35You can pain!
00:30:36I'm hungry!
00:30:36You can't see...
00:30:37I be hungry!
00:30:38I can't eat!
00:30:39You can't eat!
00:30:40You can't hear me!
00:30:40I can't hear you!
00:30:40I can't hear you!
00:30:41All right, Jim, you're the skipper. Take 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? This 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.
00:32:32Power 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.
00:32:43Automatic pilot tracking.
00:32:44Give the warning, sir.
00:32:46Go.
00:32:47Go.
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.
00:33:01Go.
00:33:02Go.
00:33:03Go.
00:33:04Go.
00:33:05Go.
00:33:06Go.
00:33:07Go.
00:33:08Go.
00:33:09Go.
00:33:10Go.
00:33:11Go.
00:33:12Go.
00:33:13Go.
00:33:14Go.
00:33:15Go.
00:33:16Go.
00:33:17Go.
00:33:18Go.
00:33:19Go.
00:33:20Go.
00:33:21Go.
00:33:22Go.
00:33:23Go.
00:33:24Go.
00:33:25Go.
00:33:26Go.
00:33:27Go.
00:33:28Go.
00:33:29Go.
00:33:30Traffic to load up. All clear. Over.
00:33:43Roger.
00:33:45Tell them to stand by for count off and firing.
00:33:47Stand by for count off and firing.
00:33:50Roger.
00:33:54For check. 3-4-8-40.
00:33:58Check.
00:34:00Pick up count off at 3-4-9-30.
00:34:03Count off at 3-4-9-30.
00:34:06Check. Dry Wells.
00:34:07Dry Wells. Roger.
00:34:09Count off at 3-4-9-30. Over.
00:34:12Able. Find. Dry Wells.
00:34:1430 seconds. Coming up.
00:34:17Stand by.
00:34:1930 seconds.
00:34:2129.
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00:34:2327.
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00:34:474.
00:34:483.
00:34:492.
00:34:49Fire.
00:34:50Fire.
00:34:504.
00:35:07ли.
00:35:073.
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00:35:167.
00:35:17Help me out now!
00:35:28Get out!
00:35:30Get out!
00:35:32Get out!
00:35:47Get out!
00:36:10What's happening?
00:36:12What's the matter?
00:36:16Rolling the matter.
00:36:18Just past the screen sound.
00:36:22Go.
00:36:24Switch on.
00:36:25Reel.
00:36:26Aft.
00:36:28I can't move a muscle.
00:36:31I'm froze solid.
00:36:33Do it!
00:36:46That's a good thing.
00:36:56I'm sorry.
00:36:58I'm sorry.
00:37:00I can't move a muscle.
00:37:02We're falling.
00:37:31It's all right, Joe. We're weightless. Free orbit, that's all.
00:37:36Weightless?
00:37:39Free orbit?
00:37:42Just where are we?
00:37:44You mean this thing is working?
00:37:46We're... we're...
00:37:47No, sir. Not me.
00:37:49Nobody ever told me this was practical.
00:37:51Toying this thing around you here, take me back.
00:37:54I ain't going to no moon. That's just to look at.
00:37:59I'm sick.
00:38:01Grab hold.
00:38:03Now hang on.
00:38:05What happened to me?
00:38:07You're all right.
00:38:09Free orbit, everything is falling at the same speed.
00:38:11So anything unfastened just floats.
00:38:13There's no up.
00:38:15Or down.
00:38:19Hell up my stomach.
00:38:20It says there's nothing but up.
00:38:21Oh, boy.
00:38:25Am I seasick.
00:38:27You're not seasick. You're space-sick.
00:38:29I'm sick of that, too.
00:38:30Take one of these pills.
00:38:55It'll settle your stomach.
00:38:56I can't swallow.
00:39:11It won't go down.
00:39:12It'll take a little practice without gravity to help.
00:39:14You'll manage.
00:39:21General, how are you feeling?
00:39:24Have you got another one of those pills?
00:39:26Here's a whole box full.
00:39:27Let's see if I can swallow better than Sweeney.
00:39:31I know one thing.
00:39:33Unless these pills work, space travel isn't going to be popular.
00:39:37Don't.
00:39:52Think of the condition of my stomach.
00:40:07Oh.
00:40:10Oh.
00:40:10Oh.
00:40:10Oh.
00:40:11Oh.
00:40:37Thank you, Terrell.
00:41:07Let's get these on you.
00:41:12They've got magnets in the soles.
00:41:14How do you feel, Nato?
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.
00:41:23Spaceship lunar calling dry wells.
00:41:39Spaceship lunar calling dry wells.
00:41:41Over.
00:41:41Man alive, I can't believe it.
00:41:46Your takeoff checked out according to flight plan.
00:41:49We are now tracking you by radar.
00:41:50You are in your calculated orbit to the limit of the accuracy of our instruments.
00:41:54We'll continue to track you as long as we can.
00:41:56Good luck.
00:41:57Over.
00:41:57Thank you, dry wells and roger.
00:42:00Thank you, dry wells and roger.
00:42:02Thank you, dry wells and roger.
00:42:04Gosh, ain't that something.
00:42:20I thought I'd seen everything.
00:42:23Just look at those cities.
00:42:27Los Angeles.
00:42:28San Francisco.
00:42:29Sure.
00:42:30That's Los Angeles.
00:42:32That's New York.
00:42:34Can you see Brooklyn?
00:42:37Sure, there's Brooklyn.
00:42:39I wonder who's pitching.
00:42:53Best coffee, general.
00:43:23...
00:43:27...
00:43:37...
00:43:39...
00:43:42...
00:43:46...
00:43:46...
00:43:47...
00:43:52Joe, Joe. I want to test the piloting radar. I tried to crank out the antenna. It seems to be stuck.
00:44:16Stuck? 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.
00:44:37That piloting radar has to be fixed. Try to land blind, it'd be our finish.
00:44:41How 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.
00:44:49But we'd be swept off. No, you won't. You can't fall.
00:44:53Outside, you'd be in the same orbit, the same trajectory as the ship, moving right along with it.
00:44:57Worst could happen. You'd drift away from the side.
00:45:00We could avoid that by using safety lines.
00:45:03Well, let's be down. Let's do it.
00:45:05No, Jim. I'll go.
00:45:07I want to inspect the throat of the rocket jet anyway, see how it's stood up under the takeoff.
00:45:11All right. I'll tag along.
00:45:13Me, too. I follow this up, and if you guys go out, so do I.
00:45:19You coming, General?
00:45:20No, 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.
00:45:33Ready to put on the helmets?
00:45:40I 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.
00:45:47There's plenty of room for it.
00:45:49Check radios.
00:46:05Check instruments. Check air.
00:46:09Let's go.
00:46:10I've got to get another line.
00:46:12Now it'll open.
00:46:33Now it'll open.
00:46:42Close it, Skipper. We'll fall out.
00:46:54Get this through your head, Joe.
00:46:56We're in the same orbit as the ship. You can't fall.
00:47:00Let's go.
00:47:01Let's go.
00:47:12Let's go.
00:47:42Hey, we're stuck up here. We ain't moving.
00:47:50It only seems that way.
00:47:52Matter of fact, we're traveling thousands of miles per hour.
00:47:55Here in space, all comparisons are lost.
00:47:59Take a look behind you.
00:48:03Wow.
00:48:04The geography books are right.
00:48:07How do you feel now, Joe?
00:48:09Weird.
00:48:09Thousands of miles per hour, and not a breeze.
00:48:14Ah, it's more beautiful than I ever dreamed.
00:48:18Never be able to describe it to anyone.
00:48:20How do you feel now?
00:48:27How did we learn?
00:48:28Help, what?
00:48:29Wow.
00:48:29I'm going aft.
00:48:51See you shortly.
00:48:56When we finish this, I'll go with you.
00:48:58You stay here and take care of the radar.
00:49:00Sweeney, give me your rope.
00:49:01Help yourself.
00:49:05I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:28I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:35I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:37I'll be back in a minute.
00:49:42¶¶
00:50:12¶¶
00:50:23Jim! Joe! Help! I'm at risk! I can't get back!
00:50:31Phinney, Doc's off the ship. Where? Off the stern. Come on!
00:50:36Jim! Jim! Joe! Help!
00:50:39Did you hear me, Jim? I'm at risk!
00:50:41Coming, Doc!
00:50:42It's only two feet here in front.
00:50:44Holy Christmas. If we can't get him, he'll close forever.
00:50:47Make it easy, please.
00:50:49Get a rope to him.
00:50:50Back here, Jim! Off the start!
00:50:53We're working towards you, Doc. We can see you.
00:50:56Jim, Joe, is he all right? Can you get him?
00:50:59We've got to get him.
00:51:00I'm coming out.
00:51:04Steady, Doc. We're going to get a rope to you.
00:51:11Steady, Doc. Here it comes.
00:51:16Carriage!
00:51:18We can't reach it.
00:51:20We're fired, Jim.
00:51:27General! General, can you hear me?
00:51:30Bring out an oxygen bottle. Hurry!
00:51:41Hurry, Jim!
00:51:42Go home!
00:52:02General, that oxygen tank! Hurry!
00:52:07Where is he?
00:52:08Way out there.
00:52:12What are you going to do?
00:52:14Get him!
00:52:16I hope it's got enough kick.
00:52:19General, grab him! Grab him! We'll lose him, too!
00:52:38Get one of you, Jack!
00:52:39Get...
00:52:40Get...
00:52:41Go home!
00:52:42Let's go!
00:52:43We'll pop him.
00:52:44Free Fire media잇
00:52:57victims rot
00:53:04I almost didn't make it.
00:53:11Can we get back?
00:53:12If we don't, we'll clear the universe together.
00:53:15Hang on, I'm going to turn this...
00:53:29I'm afraid there's enough gas to get us back.
00:53:34He's got him.
00:53:43Give me the go!
00:54:04Are you 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.
00:54:12Let's go inside.
00:54:13Let's do it.
00:54:43Standing by, ready to fire.
00:54:55Here goes the turn.
00:55:13The turn tower, we're going backwards.
00:55:21We land backwards.
00:55:22Turn the jet in the direction of our fall and use the firing as brakes.
00:55:29Stand by for acceleration.
00:55:43Tracking as predicted.
00:55:53Good.
00:55:55Radar report.
00:55:57Altitude 1-0, 8000.
00:55:59Closing as predicted.
00:56:01Flight okay.
00:56:05That didn't slow us. We're going faster than ever.
00:56:07No, 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.
00:56:28Holy smoke. You can't land and that would be splattered.
00:56:31Quit worrying. We're landing in a smooth plane, shorter there.
00:56:35I'm going to kill our forward speed. Stand by.
00:56:39Acceleration.
00:56:41You missed, Jim.
00:56:42I know it.
00:56:43Emergency.
00:56:44Kick her up, Jim. Give her some lateral.
00:56:45Too late.
00:56:46Gotta land her in the next few seconds of firing and won't have enough to get home.
00:56:48I'll have to use a drift we've got.
00:56:49I'll have to use a drift we've got.
00:56:50I'll have to use a drift we've got.
00:56:51I'll have to use a drift we've got.
00:56:52I'll have to use a drift we've got.
00:56:53I'll have to use a drift we've got.
00:56:58You going to chance it, Jim?
00:56:59I'll have to.
00:57:00Doc, automatic landing.
00:57:01Automatic it is.
00:57:02Co pilot.
00:57:03Tracking in on automatic.
00:57:04Right.
00:57:05Right.
00:57:06Tracking in on automatic.
00:57:07Right.
00:57:08Tracking now.
00:57:09Cover me at 8, 3, 0 feet.
00:57:10Cover at 8, 3, 0.
00:57:11Correction.
00:57:12Cover at 8, 3, 0.
00:57:13Correction.
00:57:14Cover at 8, 7, 0.
00:57:158, 7, 0.
00:57:16Right.
00:57:17Can you miss those peaks?
00:57:18I'll have to use a drift we've got.
00:57:19I'll have to use a drift we've got.
00:57:20You're going to chance it, Jim?
00:57:21Got to.
00:57:22Doc.
00:57:23Automatic landing.
00:57:24Automatic it is.
00:57:25Co pilot.
00:57:26Tracking in on automatic.
00:57:27Right.
00:57:28Tracking now.
00:57:29Cover me at 8, 3, 0 feet.
00:57:31Cover at 8, 3, 0.
00:57:32Correction.
00:57:33Cover at 8, 7, 0.
00:57:34Correction.
00:57:35Cover at 8, 7, 0.
00:57:368, 7, 0.
00:57:37Right.
00:57:38Can you miss those peaks?
00:57:39Got a pair in your pocket.
00:57:42Correction.
00:57:438, 6, 0.
00:57:448, 6, 0.
00:57:47Tracking steady.
00:57:51All hands, brace for crash!
00:57:58Fire!
00:58:02Jack's down.
00:58:09Cut out your gyros.
00:58:10Okay.
00:58:11Blind landing, Jim.
00:58:12That was a terrible landing.
00:58:13You know it.
00:58:14I mean, for a first one.
00:58:15A wasted reaction mass will need to get back.
00:58:16If we get back.
00:58:17Worry about that later.
00:58:18We just got here.
00:58:19We just got here.
00:58:20All right.
00:58:21All right.
00:58:22All right.
00:58:23All right.
00:58:24All right.
00:58:25All right.
00:58:26All right.
00:58:27All right.
00:58:28All right.
00:58:29All right.
00:58:30All right.
00:58:31All right.
00:58:32I was great.
00:58:33What?
00:58:34I wasted reaction mass.
00:58:35We'll need to get back.
00:58:36If we get back.
00:58:37Worry about that later.
00:58:38We 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. Holy cow. General, 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.
00:59:00Swingy, how about trying to raise Washington?
00:59:04You bet. Wait till I tell them.
00:59:05Waste race, spaceship, Luna, in the lead, way out the front.
00:59:09Doc, Jim, you 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, no. I think we should all go together.
00:59:18Nonsense. You two made this trip possible.
00:59:21Spaceship Luna calling N.A.A. Washington.
00:59:23Come on then, Doc.
00:59:24Spaceship Luna.
00:59:25This is your moment.
00:59:26Calling N.A.A. Washington.
00:59:27Let's get to our spacesuits.
00:59:28Over.
00:59:46Keep up Temperasy.
00:59:55Coming in.
00:59:55Buy nation.
00:59:57Go.
00:59:59Go.
01:00:00Go.
01:00:04Go.
01:00:05Go.
01:00:06Go.
01:00:06Go.
01:00:07Come.
01:00:08Go.
01:00:38Let's go.
01:01:08Come on.
01:01:32Let's go.
01:02:02Let's go.
01:02:32Let's go.
01:03:02Let's go.
01:03:12Claim it, Doc.
01:03:13I am your witness.
01:03:14Claim it officially.
01:03:15By the grace of God, and the name of the United States of America, I take possession of this planet on behalf of and for the benefit of all mankind.
01:03:26Dr. Cargraves, Mr. Barnes, I'm in contact with Washington.
01:03:38There's terrific excitement on earth.
01:03:39We're hooked up to all the networks.
01:03:41They just interviewed the general.
01:03:42They want to interview you and Mr. Barnes, Doc.
01:03:44I've passed your walkie-talkie in on the transmitter.
01:03:46I've hooked up our receiver, too.
01:03:48You can have a two-way conversation with them.
01:03:50Okay.
01:03:51Go ahead, Oe.
01:03:52Hello.
01:03:52Hello.
01:03:54Hello on the moon.
01:03:56This is Clarence Erskine, greeting you from the earth.
01:03:58The people of the world congratulate you for your epic-making achievement.
01:04:05I must explain to the listeners that the lag between my voice and those from the moon is due to the vastness of space.
01:04:11It takes three seconds, even at the speed of light, for radio waves to travel between the earth and moon.
01:04:17Mr. Barnes, can you tell us where you landed?
01:04:19The 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 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.
01:04:42The first impression is one of utter barrenness and desolation.
01:04:48And then the silence.
01:04:50As there is no air, the only sounds we hear come through our radios.
01:04:53The sky is black, velvet black, and pierced by the most intensely brilliant stars anyone ever dreamed of.
01:05:04Hanging over the mountains in the distance, I can see our own planet Earth, many times larger than the Harvest Moon.
01:05:11I can see most of the Western Hemisphere, and 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?
01:05:32Dr. Cargraves claimed possession of the name of the United States for 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 for 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.
01:06:22General, look.
01:06:24Whee!
01:06:28Greeny, cut that out!
01:06:30What's the matter?
01:06:32I 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.
01:06:38Let's get on with the schedule.
01:06:39I'm supposed to help you with the astronomical photographs, Doc.
01:06:43I 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.
01:06:52I can handle the radio.
01:06:53Joe's going to help me with the mineralogical survey.
01:06:56If you can get along without him, you'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.
01:07:04I'll help you later, General.
01:07:07I'm foreseeing what there is to see.
01:07:09I don't figure on staying here too long anyway.
01:07:11And do you know why?
01:07:12No 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 cover you after I talk to Hastings.
01:07:29I'll be right back.
01:07:31I'll cover you after I talk to Hastings.
01:07:32Say, 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?
01:07:59Sure, Joe, that's not too much to ask. Give me the little camera.
01:08:25Move 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.
01:08:47Now bend your elbow as though you were holding a heavy weight.
01:08:50Now your hand.
01:08:54That's it. Hold it.
01:09:00Okay. That'll be something to show.
01:09:04What is it, Doc?
01:09:06You and the Earth. Holding it up like a modern Atlas.
01:09:12Hey, that's something, Doc. There's only one thing.
01:09:16What's that?
01:09:17Nobody will know it's me in this diving suit.
01:09:20Hey, Doc.
01:09:22Joe.
01:09:25Over here.
01:09:27Behind you.
01:09:28Charles, I picked up clicks.
01:09:29Here, hold this.
01:09:30I picked them up a few yards back, but they seem to get a little stronger in this direction.
01:09:41Listen to this.
01:09:42There's a trace, eh?
01:09:43What is it, Doc?
01:09:44I'm not sure.
01:09:45These mountains may have a real deposit.
01:09:46Uranium?
01:09:47It's possible.
01:09:48Then you could blow up the moon, too. Ain't that dandy?
01:09:50Check your reality.
01:09:52The moon?
01:09:53That's the main thing.
01:10:10I didn't know.
01:10:11Then you could blow up the moon, too. Ain't that dandy?
01:10:16Check your reaction mass.
01:10:23Point eight six seven two.
01:10:26What? Repeat that.
01:10:29Yes, point eight six seven two.
01:10:32I wasted power making a very bad landing.
01:10:40I'll have to compute it, but it looks bad.
01:10:42We have to get you back.
01:10:44Jettison every ounce. All your forward tanks are empty. Can 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, twenty-four 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 twenty-four 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. All 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?
01:11:44I've just talked with Dr. Hastings at Drywells.
01:11:48I gave 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.
01:12:08I don't get it.
01:12:08We 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.
01:12:26Acceleration couch pad number 4, serial number 706, schedule B.
01:12:42Number 706, schedule B. Check.
01:12:46And the schedule itself.
01:12:49That's everything that you can get out?
01:12:51Three 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.
01:12:58Skipper, 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.
01:13:14Here's to watch.
01:13:24Spaceship Luna, Spaceship Luna, Spaceship Luna, Barnes speaking.
01:13:41Here'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 a day
01:13:56and turn the rest of your drinking water into the reaction tanks.
01:13:59Have you got it?
01:13:59Right.
01:14:01You'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.
01:14:08Don't make me say this.
01:14:13You have to or...
01:14:14You don't have to say it.
01:14:17We know.
01:14:19Or we don't get back.
01:14:22I'm standing by.
01:14:24You've got to work it out.
01:14:37Hey, Sweeney.
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?
01:15:08Probably.
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 then.
01:15:30I don't know how much weight I did putting this together.
01:15:33Now, anybody, anything in his pockets?
01:15:41This two?
01:15:42Everything.
01:15:43The three spacesuits, then come back.
01:15:44How much time we got?
01:16:06Twenty-seven 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.
01:16:34You could be wrong, couldn't you?
01:16:38I could.
01:16:39I don't think the computer could.
01:16:41Ask Dr. Cargraves.
01:16:45We'll let you know, Roger.
01:16:49Well, Charles, is he right?
01:16:53I'm afraid so.
01:17:00We're stuck here.
01:17:01Who 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 gone 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.
01:17:47I 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.
01:17:59That 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.
01:18:43Exposed forever.
01:18:46Never setting in this lunar sky.
01:18:51You 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.
01:19:02Skipper, look here.
01:19:05Stay out of this, 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.
01:19:17All 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, matches, some coins, everything's overboard.
01:19:25You've 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.
01:19:40We're working it out.
01:19:41One of us will stay behind.
01:19:42We're going to draw lots.
01:19:43Only 110 pounds.
01:19:46There must be something more.
01:19:47Check time.
01:19:509.31.50.
01:19:5118 minutes to zero hour.
01:19:54Check.
01:19:55We'll take off with three men.
01:20:00Hey, where's Joe?
01:20:01Go on.
01:20:02What'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!
01:20:31Sweeney!
01:20:31Can you hear me?
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, you'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.
01:21:16It's not up to you.
01:21:17Nobody's asking you.
01:21:18You're killing yourself.
01:21:19Cut it short.
01:21:19Will you take off?
01:21:20I want to see it.
01:21:21Joe!
01:21:22A ship going back from the moon to the earth.
01:21:24Joe, I just thought of something.
01:21:25I thought of a way.
01:21:26A way to what?
01:21:27To take off.
01:21:28All of us.
01:21:28We're all going back.
01:21:29Do you hear me?
01:21:30All 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, and 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, 70 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.
01:22:11But he can drill a small hole between the door and the casing,
01:22:13big enough for his 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, the door opens, the suit is dragged down.
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 can open it.
01:22:38General, 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, goodbye.
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.
01:23:12And now, we're coming home.
01:25:46Powerplanes.
01:25:47All ready to go.
01:25:52No time for count off.
01:25:53Stand by.
01:25:54Fire!
01:25:55Fire!
01:25:56Fire!
01:25:57Fire!
01:25:58Fire!
01:25:59Fire!
01:26:00Fire!
01:26:01Fire!
01:26:02Fire!
01:26:03Fire!
01:26:04Fire!
01:26:05Fire!
01:26:06Fire!
01:26:07Fire!
01:26:08Fire!
01:26:09Fire!
01:26:10Fire!
01:26:11Going home?
01:26:41Going home?
01:26:59Oh, my God.
01:27:29Oh, my God.
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