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00:19You
00:19You leave shortly for the moon a journey of two hundred and forty thousand miles now
00:24It's successful. You will be the first man to walk on the surface of another heavenly body
00:29What exactly do you hope to discover?
00:32I think
00:32Even more important than the answers that we'll be able to find will be the fact that we got a
00:37whole bunch of new questions to ask
00:44Neil a Neil Marvin miles Los Angeles Times the descent onto the lunar surface appears to be very challenging
00:51How far will you burn down and how low could you stage an abort if necessary?
00:59We have made some significant improvements in the flight control system in recent months
01:03The power of descent will be handled by the computer to a large degree
01:09Colonel Aldrin, after you land on the moon, what do you anticipate from those first moments?
01:14Any expectations, hopes, anxieties?
01:18Well, uh, immediately upon touchdown, our concern is the integrity of the lunar module
01:24Without that integrity, we cannot safely continue with the lunar surface work
01:29We cannot retract...
01:29Are those the astronauts?
01:31You are humble men and...
01:33Why are they in a box?
01:34So as not to catch any germs
01:35...encapitulate something, uh, deeply human
01:38You're going to sit down or just stand there hovering
01:40And they desire to explore to, uh, push boundaries
01:42Without exploration, without asking questions
01:45Are we not desperate for a sort of, uh, stasis as a species?
01:50The American State Department asked if I wanted to send a message
01:53Not sure...
01:54What kind of message?
01:55For the astronauts to leave on the moon
01:57But I probably...
01:57They approached a handful of individuals from around the globe
02:00A cross-section of human civilization
02:02To provide a message of a shared and common humanity
02:06What did you say?
02:08On behalf of the British people, I salute the skill and courage
02:11That have brought man to the moon
02:13May this endeavor increase the knowledge and well-being of mankind
02:19Well, I feel very best
02:24How will it be, um, communicated?
02:27On a disc, apparently
02:29What kind of disc?
02:30A silicon disc
02:31They sent a picture
02:32A tiny disc
02:33With tiny, microscopic inscriptions in golden lettering
02:37From planet Earth, July 1969
02:40Which they intend to leave in a little white pouch
02:42With an olive branch
02:44An olive branch?
02:45Means for the little green men to wait a bite
02:54I'm going to bed
02:55I've been, uh...
02:57Conducted in any kind of, uh...
02:58Undue haste
02:59Owned church tomorrow is at nine
03:01Not ten
03:02Of course there was a good deal of concern
03:04In our own minds
03:05And many other people in the organization
03:07That all these things
03:08Over the descent
03:09And surface
03:10Would fall into place
03:11In time
03:12At this point in time
03:13In a way
03:28A stupid thing
03:31To be a physician
03:31To be a superior
03:33All that
03:33One of my colleagues
03:39To be a superior
03:40Two of my colleagues
03:43Who próxima
04:44Honestly.
04:45Church?
04:46Hmm.
04:47There's a chance to take stock, reflect on the past week, think ahead to the next.
04:52And get a diary for that.
04:54And to think of life's bigger questions.
04:57Except one doesn't.
04:58One mainly thinks about what a lot of dreary nonsense the dean is talking about.
05:02Why doesn't he shut up?
05:03He's been with us for nearly 20 years.
05:05That might make him loyal.
05:06It does not make him interested.
05:08Hello there.
05:08Good morning, Mr.
05:09They have mouths, but they speak not.
05:13Eyes have they, but they see not.
05:16They have ears, but they hear not.
05:19Uh, noses have they, but they, uh, uh, um.
05:30See?
05:31Sure.
05:33It's not a sermon.
05:34It's a general anaesthetic.
05:36Ah, but they smell not.
05:39They that make them are alike unto them.
05:42So is everyone that trusteth.
05:44That's it.
05:45That's the last time.
05:46And so the Lord teaches.
05:48Now, on Sunday, while you lot are in here, I'm going to spend this hour doing something useful.
05:53But unto his name give glory, nor to false idols either.
06:06Ah.
06:09Michael?
06:10Ma'am?
06:11Goodbye.
06:15Is it possible, do you think, the Dean might have reached, how can I put this kindly, the moment of
06:22his own obsolescence?
06:24I noticed one or two people struggling to stay awake.
06:26We could discreetly start the search for a replacement.
06:30Could be.
06:31Someone with a bit of oomph.
06:33I think so.
06:34Zest.
06:35That's it.
06:35Peck.
06:36Yes, thank you.
06:37Vim.
07:17And so, here at Cape Kennedy, we are all up to the moon this morning.
07:21Are you watching?
07:24Mighty Saturn V, the big moon express, all ready to leave Platform 39 here at Cape Kennedy, on time in
07:32about 30 minutes.
07:34This enormous event, which uniquely unites all the world, because all the world should be interested in this journey, and
07:43after this journey, we on Earth can never be the same.
08:04Where is she?
08:06Who, sir?
08:07If I say she, and we're in Buckingham Palace, who do you think I mean?
08:16There you are. I've been looking for you everywhere. Where have you been?
08:19On the telephone, interviewing candidates to become the new dean.
08:22Anyone good?
08:23Yes, I think we found one.
08:24How old?
08:25Same age as you, I'd say.
08:26Really?
08:27And a good fit.
08:28For what?
08:29For the job I've asked him to do.
08:33This is internal, 12, 11, 10, 9, ignition sequence start, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, liftoff, we have a
08:49liftoff, 32 minutes past the hour, liftoff on Apollo 11.
08:55Stroud.
08:57What men, what coach?
08:59Tower is clear.
09:00We've got a roll program.
09:02Neil Armstrong reporting the roll and fidget program with the bunch of Apollo 11.
09:1311 Houston thrushes go. All engines, you're looking good.
09:17Roger. You're loud and clear, Houston.
09:23We've got skirt sim.
09:26Roger. We confirmed skirt sim.
09:29Tower's going.
09:30Launcher tower.
09:32Neil Armstrong confirming both the engine skirt separation and the launch escape tower separation.
09:39Hello, this is Houston.
09:41Slightly less than one minute to ignition and everything is go.
09:45Rescue.
09:48Ignition.
09:51We confirmed ignition and that's what it did go.
09:55Oh, well, I'll catch you.
10:06Apollo 11 has now completed its translunar injection bird, meaning it is free of Earth's orbit and traveling at the
10:14colossal speed of 24,200 miles an hour towards the moon.
10:19The astronauts have now completed what they call the transposition docking and extraction maneuver.
10:25This rather risky procedure is when the command service module, Columbia, detaches from the rest of the spacecraft, drifts forward
10:32a little, flips over, then reattaches to the lunar module, Eagle.
10:36This new assembly then detaches from the final stage of the Saturn rocket, as I say, a hair raising business,
10:42but it all seems to have gone off without a hitch.
10:44Tuesday next week, you will be in Cheshire to visit the works of British Salt Limited.
10:49On Wednesday, it's Norfolk to inaugurate a new gas terminal.
10:52Then on Friday, it's Macclesfield for the open day of the Machine Tool Industry Research Association.
10:59That evening, there will be a dinner given by the British Concrete Society, where you have been asked to present
11:05an award.
11:09May I interrupt, Your Royal Highness?
11:12What?
11:12The newly appointed Dean of Windsor, Robin Woods, was wondering if you could spare him a moment. He has a
11:18request.
11:18Fine, just put something in the book.
11:21Another highlight to look forward to, along with the award show for the British Concrete Society.
11:26Is that a joke?
11:27Afraid not, sir.
11:28Actually, he's here now.
11:31Hello?
11:38Your Royal Highness.
11:40How can I help?
11:41In the process of moving in, my wife and I, we couldn't help noticing that there were a large number
11:46of buildings on the estate of Windsor that appear to be empty and unused.
11:50I mean, specifically, the old Cannons Cloisters, one or two of the buildings on Denton's Commons, all the houses on
11:58the north walls, the old residences of the minor Cannons.
12:01I realise this is quite forward of me, but I was wondering if I could make a request to use
12:07one of them.
12:08What?
12:09You don't like the home we've given you?
12:11No.
12:13This wouldn't be as a home.
12:16For a long time now, I've had a dream, an ambition, to start an academy or conservatoire.
12:23What for?
12:24Personal and spiritual growth.
12:28Something that has struck me from my own experience, but also from observing it in, well, in others, is that
12:36you get to a certain age and you hit a ceiling.
12:39A crisis, if you will.
12:41You lose perspective.
12:43Get into a slump.
12:45It's quite common among businessmen and executives, and it's no different for clergymen.
12:51We see a particularly high level of dissatisfaction among mid-career clergymen, and I thought one of these buildings in
12:57its idyllic setting would be a great place for priests to come and recharge, reflect, raise their game.
13:08By doing what?
13:11Talking, reading, thinking.
13:15May I suggest that your concept is flawed?
13:18You don't raise your game by talking or thinking.
13:21You raise your game through action.
13:24Like this.
13:26And this is how you get out of a slump.
13:28But if one of those buildings is free and you want to fill it with hot air and thought, then
13:33be my guest.
13:35Thank you, sir.
13:46We don't have to wait long now.
13:48Seventeen minutes and counting.
13:51The landing craft has separated from the command module and has begun its descent to the surface of the moon.
13:56Armstrong and Aldrin will now send the lunar module into a sort of pirouette.
14:00To allow Colin to...
14:01Measure, will you read the children?
14:03Yes, sir.
14:03He will confirm, we hope...
14:05And tell the Queen.
14:06Yes, thank you.
14:10Andra, darling, it's time.
14:12Edward.
14:15Edward, time to wake up.
14:20Come on, dressing gown.
14:22Come on, Edward, hurry up.
14:25Hold on.
14:25Let's go.
14:26Come on.
14:28It's a very exciting evening, isn't it?
14:30It certainly is.
14:31Are you able to join us for a drink, Adel?
14:33That would be very nice, thank you, ma'am.
14:34Of course, too.
14:37Michael Collins left alone in the orbiter now.
14:39Meaning, when it passes behind the moon, he'll be entirely cut off from the rest of humanity.
14:43The loneliest man in the universe.
14:46Our prayers are the whole world.
14:49Come on, Edward.
14:50Pioneers of the heavens.
14:51Come on, space, I've got it.
14:53Come on.
14:53Come on.
14:54Why are we?
14:55Above the surface of the moon now.
14:59They're land in sight, chosen for its smoothness, but not entirely.
15:03Dude, take it right now.
15:03The slightest impacted rock or crater could disable the lunar module, leaving them stranded from the moon.
15:11Robert, can you see?
15:11Robert, it's back.
15:14Houston, I'm getting a little fluctuation in the, uh, in the, uh, boulders now.
15:19Roger.
15:21John, hurry up.
15:21We're going to hit it.
15:22Yes.
15:23What are they saying?
15:24It's so bad.
15:25He's gone to manual control.
15:27Something's wrong.
15:28It doesn't look real anymore.
15:30It's so bad.
15:3110 and 50 feet down at 4.
15:33It's too bad if they can't land.
15:36What are you saying?
15:38They're going to run out of fuel.
15:39Dangerous people.
15:40Quiet, please.
15:41Just shh.
15:42Shhh.
15:42Shhh.
15:43Please.
15:44Breaking up some dust.
15:45Hey?
15:49That's all right.
16:09Man on the moon.
16:11Man has landed on the moon.
16:16Did you see?
16:19Uh, as we watch these images tonight, we are united across the world in a uniform space of wonder.
16:28Never before has the entire planet.
16:31Oh, no, we don't have that in my pocket.
16:33It's up to the market for the probability.
16:36To each of us.
16:36Meteor.
16:38To each of us.
16:39This is historic.
16:42The evil has landed.
16:44This is even divine.
16:45Can you believe they're on the moon?
16:46And yet, all of us, regardless of race, sex, or religious belief, we are united right now in this singular
16:56human achievement.
16:58Okay, Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now.
17:01I'm, uh, at the foot of the ladder.
17:04The lamb footbeds are only, uh, depressed in the surface about, uh, one or two inches.
17:11Although the surface appears to be very, very fine-grained as you get close to it.
17:17It's almost like a powder.
17:20Ground man, uh, is very fine.
17:24And, uh, step off the lamb now.
17:29That's one small step for man.
17:34One giant leap for mankind.
17:40It has a stark beauty all its own.
17:43It's, uh, like much of the high desert of, uh, the United States.
17:47It's, uh, different, but it's very pretty on here.
17:51This is a powerful reminder of our capacity for greatness as a species.
17:57Not simply the engineering triumph represented here today,
18:01but the triumph of human ambition,
18:03the desire to reach quite literally for the stars.
18:08And I think this new perspective,
18:11seeing the Earth from space in all our unity and cohesion,
18:15is likely to inspire an unprecedented shift in our thinking.
18:20Beautiful, beautiful.
18:21Is that something?
18:23Magnificent flight out here.
18:26Magnificent desolation.
18:43Mr. Governor, ladies and gentlemen,
18:45the seemed members of the World Textiles delegation,
18:50I very much appreciate the honor that you have bestowed on me
18:55by your invitation to the mill of Thomas Burnley and Starrhoff
18:58here in Yorkshire.
19:02The groundbreaking work you are doing here
19:05by the Burnley's Blackboard.
19:10There comes a time,
19:13a moment in everyone's experience,
19:16where dentures and other oral prosthetics
19:19become an indispensable fact of life.
19:23According to last year's adult dental health survey,
19:2737% of the time.
19:42There comes that space and the还有 Aubrey's Blackboard.
19:44Come on.
19:45But anyway,
19:46Let's remove the question.
19:46you're going to have fun.
19:55It's men, you're going to have fun.
20:12me I
20:16you have control
20:17I have control
20:21what are you doing sir
20:25this isn't on the flight charge
20:27there's no other traffic
20:37sir
20:41sir the service ceiling for this aircraft is 45,000 feet
20:45you and I both know
20:46you can't live your land
20:47sir
20:47I'm
20:49I'm
20:49I'm
20:52I'm
21:15Come on, come on.
21:28God, isn't it beautiful?
21:31I'm sure, but we're currently at the very limit of what this aircraft can do.
21:35Perhaps.
21:36But look.
21:37They've also lived.
21:40Just for a minute.
22:03The first men on the moon lifted off on the first stage of their journey home an hour and six
22:07minutes ago.
22:08A new chapter in human history has opened.
22:12The race for the moon is over.
22:13For the people of this planet, what is the meaning of this stupendous venture?
22:45We shall not cease from exploration.
22:49And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the
22:57first time.
22:59Those words by T.S. Eliot have never run more true.
23:03We stand at the dawn of a new age of space exploration.
23:06The promise of space has never done really.
23:11The promise of space has never done.
23:44Good morning, sir.
23:45Morning, sir.
23:56Your Royal Highness.
23:57Oh, Christ.
24:04Morning.
24:04I wonder whether you might have a moment, sir?
24:06To meet the new arrivals.
24:08Ah, your concentration camp for spiritual defectives.
24:12I prefer center of recovery and renewal.
24:14I'm sure you do.
24:16We have an interesting group of all ages from around the United Kingdom.
24:20Will you join?
24:20Join what?
24:22It's an academy for blocked, mid-level priests.
24:25Correct.
24:26Well, in case you hadn't noticed, I'm not a priest.
24:28Just to say hello.
24:30What, now?
24:31Why not?
24:34Fine. Get in.
24:35Hmm.
24:36Do I need to show symptoms of despair?
24:39Should I sigh and moan dramatically?
24:42No one does like to fit in.
25:05I've brought our landlord, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, to say hello.
25:11How do you do, Your Royal Highness?
25:13Good morning.
25:14Your Royal Highness.
25:15Good morning.
25:15Good morning, sir.
25:16Good morning.
25:17Good morning.
25:18Your Royal Highness.
25:21So, what have you all been up to?
25:23Apart from making quite a mess of our house, I see.
25:26We started by identifying why each of us had chosen to come here and stating what we were hoping to
25:33achieve.
25:34Perhaps we should recap for His Royal Highness.
25:42Well, I'm here because, having recently reached a particular age...
25:49I won't ask.
25:51I decided to give myself a score.
25:54And I felt I only merited a fail, D minus.
26:00Oh dear.
26:01And why was that?
26:03Well, when entering the church, I allowed myself to dream that advancing age would bring new revelations.
26:13Insight.
26:15A deepening of my faith.
26:17A growing flock.
26:20But instead, I find myself in a small rural parish with a dwindling congregation, lowering attendance.
26:28Right.
26:30And this has left you with a sense of disappointment, of underachievement and directionlessness.
26:37Well, yes.
26:38That sense of directionlessness and redundancy is something that chimed with one or two others here.
26:45Because of how the public has turned away from us.
26:48Turned away from the church.
26:50It's clear we are failing to connect with people.
26:54More and more people are finding their spiritual needs being met elsewhere.
27:00Where, for example?
27:10The moon.
27:11I...
27:12The moon.
27:13Yes, sir.
27:16Five hundred million people watch the lunar landing.
27:18Yes.
27:19Five hundred million people getting from televisions.
27:22What they used to get from the church.
27:24A sense of coming together.
27:26A sense of community.
27:27Of awe.
27:27Wonder.
27:28Well, that was part of a wider shift too, we agreed.
27:31From religion to science.
27:33The greater the achievements in science, the more mysteries are explained.
27:37The more questions are answered.
27:39The less need there is for a god to provide answers.
27:45I'm reminded of Keats.
27:48What is there in thee, moon, that thou shouldst move my heart so potently?
27:56Now we know what the moon is.
27:59Nothing.
28:01Just dust.
28:04Silence.
28:06A monochromatic void.
28:08We see no god behind those rocks and space dust.
28:13Simply an unknowable vastness.
28:17When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars that thou hast ordained.
28:29What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him?
28:45Any thoughts, sir?
28:52Me?
29:01I'll tell you what I think.
29:03I've never heard such a lit of pretentious, self-piteous nonsense.
29:08And what you lot need to do is to get off your backsides, get out into the world and bloody
29:12world do something.
29:13That is why you're all so, so lost.
29:19I believe that there is an imperative within man, all men, to make a mark.
29:25Action is what defines us. Action, not suffering.
29:29All this sitting around, thinking and talking.
29:33Let me ask you this.
29:34Do you think those astronauts up there are catatonic like you lot?
29:39Of course not.
29:40They are too busy achieving something spectacular.
29:43And as a result, they are at one with the world.
29:47The one with their god.
29:49And happy.
29:53That's my advice.
29:55Model yourselves on men of action.
29:57Like Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins.
30:01I mean, these men score A triple plus.
30:04They've got the answers.
30:05Not a bunch of navel-gazing underachievers infecting one another with gaseous doom.
30:14If you do opt for action, you can start by cleaning up this bloody floor.
30:27Oh, not again.
30:28Around the same time we were asked by the American State Party.
30:31It's the second time this week.
30:32If we'd send that message to the moon on the silicon disk.
30:34You were also asked another question.
30:36On how many occasions is the British royal family forced to eat venison each year?
30:40No.
30:41Honestly.
30:41I think if I eat any more of this stuff, I'm going to start growing antlers.
30:46Are you listening?
30:47Yes.
30:48I'm all ears.
30:49Little brown furry ones.
30:51Well, provided they make it back to Earth in one piece,
30:54and if after all their tests they're still standing,
30:57would we like an audience with the astronauts?
31:02What?
31:03Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins?
31:06Here at the palace?
31:07Yes.
31:08They're being sent around the world on a victory tour.
31:11Shall I go back with a yes?
31:14My God.
31:16Yes, please.
31:18I thought that would cheer you up.
31:20It does.
31:23Do I need cheering up?
31:28A little.
31:35They're scheduled to arrive at Heathrow Airport at 2 p.m.
31:38From there they will be taken directly to the American Embassy at Gropen Square
31:41for a meeting with the U.S. Ambassador.
31:43From there they will come to Buckingham Palace
31:45for an audience with Her Majesty's the Queen,
31:46Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother,
31:48His Royal Highness Duke of Edinburgh,
31:49Princess Margaret, Princess Anne,
31:51and Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.
31:53And what time will that be?
31:54Around 4 o'clock, ma'am.
31:56Will we give them anything?
31:57Tea?
31:57Probably not.
31:58We thought it good to keep things moving, no sitting down.
32:01I quite agree.
32:02More than half an hour from arrival to departure.
32:06Great.
32:11I'd like to make a request, if I may.
32:15Sir.
32:16Instead of being herded in with everyone else,
32:18I was wondering if I might be allowed some time with the astronauts alone.
32:24In a separate, private meeting.
32:27Airman to airman.
32:30Pilot to pilots.
32:32I'll speak to the ambassador.
32:34But I'm sure it would be possible our end.
32:39Would 15 minutes be enough?
32:4115 minutes?
32:43They are on a very tight schedule, I believe.
32:46To discuss mankind's greatest achievement.
32:52No.
32:53No.
32:54It's nowhere near enough.
32:59I can see it's all I'm going to get.
33:03No.
33:33...that demands the same sort of precision and timing as their mission in space.
33:37The world-famous man-on-the-moon team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, accompanied by their wives,
33:44receive one of their warmest welcomes yet from the British people.
33:47The astronauts admitted that they are starting to feel the strain of the British nation's world tour.
33:54Airmen from the planet Earth, my step-by-step on the land.
33:58...the light, I think it's 69.
34:01...and it's not to me, everything's quite clearly.
34:04The light is, uh, especially, uh, flying backlighting into the front of the land.
34:10...the light is very clearly there.
34:12...
34:13...
34:14...
34:16...
34:31...
34:33...
34:48The American astronauts are now arriving at Bucketham Palace.
34:51The world famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins in the...
35:16The American astronauts can get saved.
35:26The scientists are now arriving at Bucketham Palace.
35:33The world famous for the world famous for his life,
35:34your majesty
35:36mr neil armstrong
35:37hello
35:38welcome
35:39mrs armstrong
35:41colonel michael collins
35:43great pleasure to meet you
35:52great pleasure to meet you
36:03sir
36:31please don't tell me you want to talk about children
36:53they've been waiting long
36:54only a few moments
36:56sir
37:09mr neil armstrong
37:11colonel michael collins and colonel edwin aldrin
37:13you're all honest
37:13it is a great sir
37:15great honor gentlemen
37:17congratulations one and all
37:20please do uh do sit down
37:31there's no need to sit so closely
37:32as you can see there's plenty of space
37:37i noticed you instinctively sat in the same positions as the command module
37:44anyway i don't i don't know if anyone told you but uh i am actually a pilot myself
37:49as you all right
37:51yes sir i just had a cold
37:55here
37:56i
37:57it's clean i promise you
37:59thank you
38:02why you've uh
38:04you've you've all got colds
38:06yes we do
38:11well
38:13here we are
38:18i just want to say how much i admire what you've done
38:21it's just remarkable
38:25but also to say how much i identify in some way with with who you are
38:30bless you
38:31sorry
38:33i am
38:36i wrote down some questions
38:41you see i initially imagined that i wanted to ask questions of you on a technical level
38:46you're like
38:47you know what is the the physical experience of g-forces of that magnitude and so on
38:57you see i realize now that the questions i actually want answering are
39:10you see you're all too young to understand i think but
39:17there comes a time in life when one first really starts to evaluate what one has accomplished
39:26and because of the position that i've ended up in here
39:31who i've become
39:35who i'm married to
39:40i've
39:42well i've not been able to achieve the things i would have liked to
39:47as a man
39:48as a
39:50as an adventurer
39:54watching you three heroes at work
39:59it was like watching a dream
40:02which is
40:03why i
40:04i leapt at the chance to meet with you
40:07even if it is just for
40:08for ten minutes that i might ask
40:19what your thoughts were
40:23out there
40:27neil
40:30well
40:32obviously
40:33a sense of relief that we executed the mission successfully
40:36of course
40:36and we certainly got some amazing views
40:39didn't we
40:40yes
40:41extraordinary
40:42i think i'm not talking so much about
40:45the views in that sense
40:47as
40:50perspectives
40:52observations
40:53of
40:54of our
40:56place
40:58uh
41:01to be honest
41:02there wasn't much time for that
41:06as a pilot
41:07you'll know what they
41:08drill into you
41:09above all else
41:10is protocol
41:11uh procedure
41:13you gotta stick to the rules
41:15yes
41:16well as an astronaut
41:17it's double that
41:18mm-hmm
41:20we've pretty much spent our entire time with lists in our hands
41:23ticking things off
41:24tick check
41:25tick check
41:26isaac glued to the mission protocol to such a degree
41:29you never really get to look outside
41:31that's how busy they keep you
41:32busy
41:32tight leash
41:33not to mention most of the time you're so darn tired
41:36no matter how hard you practice you never get used to the sleep
41:40sleep
41:42neil uh
41:43let me tell his royal highness about what happened after the moonwalk
41:50i would love to hear
41:51he wants to hear it
41:55well
41:56after i completed the moonwalk
41:57i watched it all
41:58every step
42:01i got back into the module
42:03and
42:03knew
42:04we only had a few hours to get some rest
42:07before we took off again
42:08so i
42:09i got my head down
42:11i closed my eyes
42:12wait for it
42:13but
42:14all i could hear was this noise
42:16bang bang
42:17bang
42:17bang
42:18bang
42:19bang bang
42:20bang
42:21from outside the module
42:22i know you know what it was
42:24what
42:26the water cooler
42:28it was making this noise
42:30bang bang bang
42:35the greatest engineers in the world is an a rocket that takes us to the moon
42:38but they can't even get us a decent water cooler
42:42so you're right
42:43it was full of surprises
42:47i see
42:53were there any other questions you had for us
43:07no
43:10well in that case would you mind if we asked you a few questions
43:14no of course
43:17what is it like
43:20what is what like
43:21living in a in a place like this
43:23because we heard you had a thousand rooms
43:25and that if you had the lengths of all the corridors together it comes to
43:29four miles
43:30uh well
43:31oh is it true you have a bagpiper for an alarm clock
43:33and how many staff do you have here anyway
43:35and how many palaces we heard
43:38twelve
43:38twelve
43:38and you know what all these people in the picture
43:41are they related to those
43:43oh to the dots
43:51that's mine
43:53thank you
44:09i don't know what i was thinking
44:17i expected them to be giants
44:20gods
44:21in reality they were just three little men
44:24pale faced with cults
44:27i have some sympathy
44:30the very qualities that made them perfect for the job
44:33but their lack of flair or imagination
44:36their sense of duty
44:37and modesty and reliability
44:39total absence of originality or spontaneity
44:43but that's what makes them perfect in a crisis
44:45and entirely anti-climactic when you meet them in person
44:51can you imagine
44:53if they go all that way to the moon
44:55and stay healthy but one trip to london
44:57then he kills them
45:01it's not their fault
45:03they never wanted to be public figures
45:05and now because of one event they will be forever
45:09they delivered as astronauts
45:11but they disappointed as human beings
45:18they'll spend the rest of their lives in goldfish bowls
45:22scared to open their mouths
45:24knowing it could reveal who they actually are
45:27and that they will inevitably disappoint
45:30and for that they deserve our pity
45:34good job there were no little green men
45:38they could be forgiven for thinking
45:40if that's all planet earth has got to offer
45:42let's give the place a miss
45:44mm-hmm
45:47thank you guys so much M
46:57There wasn't a specific moment when it started.
47:01It's been more of a gradual thing.
47:05A drip, drip, drip of doubt, disaffection, disease, discomfort.
47:17People around me have noticed my general irritability.
47:24Now, of course, that's nothing new.
47:28I'm generally a cantankerous sort.
47:32But even I would have to admit that there has been more of it lately.
47:35And not to mention an almost jealous fascination with the achievements of these young astronauts, compulsive over-exercising, an inability
47:49to find calm or satisfaction or fulfillment.
48:00And when you look at all these symptoms, of course, it doesn't take a genius to tell you that they
48:07all suggest I'm slap bang in the middle of a...
48:18I can't even say what kind of crisis.
48:24That, that crisis.
48:29And, of course, one's read or heard about other people hitting that crisis.
48:33And, you know, just like them, you look in all the usual places, resort to all the usual things to
48:38try and make yourself feel better.
48:44Some of which I can admit to in this room, and some of which I probably shouldn't.
48:56My mother died recently.
49:11She, she saw that something was amiss.
49:17It's a good word there.
49:21Amiss.
49:22She saw that something was missing in her youngest child, her only son.
49:32Faith.
49:37How's your faith, she asked me.
49:46I'm here to admit to you that I've lost it.
50:04The loneliness and emptiness and anticlimax of going all that way to the moon to find nothing but haunting desolation.
50:21Wondering, ghostly silence.
50:24Gloom.
50:26That is what faithlessness is.
50:31Well, as opposed to finding, you know.
50:35Wonder, ecstasy.
50:36The, the miracle of...
50:38divine creation.
50:41God's design and purpose.
50:45what am I trying to say I'm trying to say that the solution to our problems I think is not
50:57in
50:57the ingenuity of the rocket or the science or the technology or even the bravery no the answer is in
51:14here or here or wherever it is that faith resides and so Dean Woods having ridiculed you for what you
51:31these poor blocked lost so we're trying to achieve here in St George's house I now find myself full of
51:47respect and admiration and not a small part of desperation as I come to say help
52:12help me
52:23and to admit that while those three astronauts deserve all our praise and respect for their
52:30undoubted heroism I was more scared coming here to see you today than I would have been going up
52:35in any bloody rocket
53:07so
53:16so
53:18so
53:18Oh, my God.
53:54Oh, my God.
54:45Oh, my God.
54:48Oh, my God.
55:18Oh, my God.
55:52Oh, my God.
56:18Oh, my God.
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