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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
03:13And of course we have a good deal of
03:30In a loudspeaker
03:31That we're going to have a lot of
03:31And we're going to have a good deal of
03:31Two, three, seven, t-shirt
03:43By day
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.
07:12Oomph.
07:17I'm okay.
07:19We are all up to the moon this morning.
07:21Jay Investor jurors.
07:22Hey wé
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07:22Are you watching?
07:23Oh,Ć£os?
07:24No.
07:25Oh no.
07:25Oh my God.
07:27Movie.
07:28Gothic.
07:29United.
07:30Oh my God.
07:31Can't.
07:32Inspired.
07:33Mulline.
07:33This enormous event, which uniquely unites all the world.
07:39The world.
07:40to be interested in this journey and after this journey we on earth can never be the same
08:04where is she who sir if 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 on the telephone interviewing
08:20candidates to become the new dean anyone good yes i think we found one how old same age as you
08:26i'd
08:26say and a good fit for what for the job i've asked him to do
08:56what men what coach
08:59Tower is clear.
09:00We've got a roll of control.
09:02Neil Armstrong reporting the rolling picture program with the Pinch of Paul.
09:1311 Houston thrushes go.
09:15All engines, you're looking good.
09:17Roger, you're loud and clear, Houston.
09:23We got skirt sim.
09:26Roger, we confirmed skirt sim.
09:29Tower is going.
09:30Roger, Tower.
09:32Neil Armstrong confirming both the engine skirt separation and the launch escape tower separation.
09:39Hello, this is Houston.
09:41It's lately less than one minute to ignition and everything is go.
09:45Rescue.
09:48Check your shot.
09:52We confirm ignition and I'll try to get going.
09:55Oh, well, I'll get 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.
10:48On 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'll 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 and the whole world...
14:49Come on, Edward.
14:50Pioneers of the heavens.
14:51Come on, space, I can't.
14:53Come on, couple of...
14:54Why are you coming?
14:55About the surface of the moon now.
14:59They're land in sight, chosen for its smoothness, but not entirely.
15:03Dude, take it, I can't.
15:03The slightest impacted rock or crater could disable the lunar module, leaving them stranded from the moon.
15:11Robert, it's back.
15:12Robert, it's back.
15:12Robert, it's back.
15:14Houston, I'm getting a little fluctuation in the AV 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.
15:34It's too bad.
15:34It'll happen 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.
15:44Making up some dust.
15:45Hey?
15:49That's all right.
16:09Man on the moon.
16:11Man has landed on the moon.
16:18As we watch these images tonight, we are united across the world in a uniformed 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
16:54now in this singular human achievement.
16:58Okay, Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now.
17:01I'm at the foot of the ladder.
17:04The lamb footbeds are only depressed in the surface about one or two inches, although the
17:12surface appears to be very, very fine-grained as you get close to it.
17:17It's almost like a powder.
17:20Ground man is very fine.
17:24And I'll 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 like much of the high desert of the United States.
17:47It's different, but it's very pretty on here.
17:51This is a powerful reminder of our capacity for greatness as a species.
17:57It's not simply the engineering triumph represented here today, but the triumph of human ambition.
18:04The desire to reach quite literally for the stars.
18:09And I think this new perspective, seeing the Earth from space in all our unity and cohesion,
18:15is likely to inspire an unprecedented shift in our thinking.
18:20Beautiful.
18:20Beautiful.
18:21Is that something?
18:23Magnificent pride out here.
18:26Magnificent desolation.
18:43Mr. Governor, ladies and gentlemen, the esteemed members of the wool textiles delegation.
18:50I very much appreciate the honor that you have bestowed on me by your invitation to the mill of Thomas
18:57Bernstein here in Yorkshire.
19:02The groundbreaking work you are doing here by the Bernstein-Burr.
19:10There comes a time, a moment in everyone's experience, where dentures and other oral prosthetics become an indispensable fact of
19:21life.
19:23According to last year's adult dental health survey, 37%...
19:29... adequately drinking water, the gasmoscent DNAwarz clean.
19:42...lookin' into Web concluing to
19:44...
19:45...
19:45...
19:45...
19:45...
19:46I don't think I'm going to go in front of you.
19:47I don't know.
20:13Me, I.
20:16You have control?
20:17I have control.
20:21What are you doing, sir?
20:25This isn't on the flight chart.
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 are concerned to climb away from your land.
20:47Sir, you...
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.
22:11The 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.
23:07The promise of space has never found a real world.
23:23The promise of space exploration.
23:25The promise of space exploration.
23:26The promise of space exploration.
23:27The promise of space exploration.
23:29The promise of space exploration.
23:29The promise of space exploration.
23:30The promise of space exploration.
23:30The promise of space exploration.
23:33The promise of space exploration.
23:36The promise of space exploration.
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 centre of recovery and renewal.
24:14I'm sure you do.
24:16We have an interesting group of all ages
24:18from 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.
24:36Do I need to show symptoms of despair?
24:39Should I sigh and moan dramatically?
24:42No one does like to fit in.
25:04I've brought our landlord,
25:06His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh,
25:08to say hello.
25:11How do you do, Your Royal Highness?
25:13Morning.
25:14Your Royal Highness.
25:15Morning.
25:15Morning, sir.
25:16Morning.
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
25:31and stating what we were hoping to achieve.
25:34Perhaps we should recap for His Royal Highness.
25:39Michael.
25:40Oh.
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.
25:55And I felt I only merited a fail.
25:59D minus.
26:00Oh, dear.
26:01And why was that?
26:02Well, when entering the church,
26:06I allowed myself to dream that advancing age
26:10would bring new revelations,
26:13insight,
26:15a deepening of my faith,
26:18a growing flock.
26:20But instead, I find myself in a small rural parish
26:24with a dwindling congregation,
26:27lowering attendance.
26:28Right.
26:30And this has left you with a sense of disappointment,
26:34of underachievement and directionlessness.
26:36Oh, yes.
26:38That sense of directionlessness and redundancy is...
26:42Well, it's 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
26:57being met elsewhere.
27:00Where?
27:01Where, for example?
27:10The moon.
27:12The moon, yes, 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 and wonder.
27:28Well, that was part of a wider shift, too,
27:30we agreed,
27:31from religion to science.
27:33The greater the achievements in science,
27:35the more mysteries are explained,
27:38the more questions are answered,
27:39the less need there is for
27:42a god
27:43to provide answers.
27:44I'm reminded of Keats.
27:48What is there in thee, moon,
27:51that thou shouldst move my heart so potently?
27:56Now we know what the moon is.
27:59Nothing.
28:01Just dust.
28:04Silence.
28:06Monochromatic void.
28:08We see no god behind those rocks and space dust.
28:13It's simply an unknowable vastness.
28:17When I consider thy heavens,
28:21the work of thy fingers,
28:24the moon and the stars
28:26that thou hast ordained,
28:29what is man
28:31that thou art mindful of him,
28:33and the son of man
28:35that thou visitest him?
28:45Any thoughts, sir?
28:52Me?
29:01I'll tell you what I think.
29:03I've never heard such a little pretentious,
29:05self-piteous nonsense.
29:08What you lot need to do
29:09is to get off your backsides,
29:11get out into the world
29:11and bloody well do something.
29:13That is why you're all so lost.
29:19I believe that there is an imperative
29:21within man, all men,
29:23to make a mark.
29:25Action is what defines us.
29:27Action, not suffering.
29:28All this sitting around,
29:30thinking and talking.
29:33Let me ask you this.
29:34Do you think those astronauts up there
29:37are catatonic like you lot?
29:39Of course not.
29:40They are too busy
29:41achieving something spectacular.
29:44And as a result,
29:45they are at one with the world.
29:47They're one with their God.
29:49And happy.
29:53That's my advice.
29:55Model yourselves on men of action,
29:57like Armstrong,
29:59Aldrin,
29:59Collins.
30:00I mean,
30:01these men score
30:02A triple plus.
30:04They've got the answers.
30:05Not a bunch of
30:06navel-gazing underachievers
30:08infecting one another
30:09with gaseous doom.
30:14If you do opt for action,
30:16you can start by cleaning up
30:17this bloody floor.
30:27Oh, not again.
30:28Around the same time
30:29we were asked
30:30by the American state's
30:31card...
30:31It's the second time
30:31this week.
30:32If we'd send that message
30:33to the moon
30:33on the silicon disc,
30:35you were also asked
30:35another question.
30:36On how many occasions
30:37is the British royal family
30:38forced to eat venison each year?
30:40No.
30:41Honestly,
30:42I think if I eat
30:42any more of this stuff,
30:44I'm going to start
30:44growing antlers.
30:46Are you listening?
30:47Yes.
30:48I'm all ears.
30:49Little brown furry ones.
30:51Well, provided they make it
30:52back to Earth
30:53in one piece,
30:54and if after all their tests
30:55they're still standing,
30:57would we like an audience
30:58with the astronauts?
31:02What?
31:03Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins?
31:06Here at the palace?
31:07Yes.
31:08They're being sent
31:09around the world
31:09on a victory tour.
31:11Shall I go back
31:12with a yes?
31:14My God.
31:16Yes, please.
31:18I thought that would
31:19cheer you up.
31:20It does.
31:23Do I need
31:24cheering up?
31:28A little.
31:35They're scheduled
31:35to arrive at Heathrow Airport
31:37at 2 p.m.
31:38From there,
31:38they will be taken
31:39directly to
31:39the American Embassy,
31:40Grover Square,
31:41for a meeting
31:41with the U.S. Ambassador.
31:43From there,
31:44they will come
31:44to Buckingham Palace
31:45for an audience
31:45with Her Majesty's
31:46the Queen,
31:47Queen Elizabeth,
31:47the Queen Mother,
31:48His Royal Highness,
31:48Duke of Edinburgh,
31:49Princess Margaret,
31:50Princess Anne,
31:51Prince Andrew,
31:51and Prince Edward.
31:53And what time
31:53will that be?
31:54Around 4 o'clock, ma'am.
31:56Will we give them
31:56anything?
31:57Tea?
31:57Probably not.
31:58We thought it good
31:59to keep things moving,
32:00no sitting down.
32:01I quite agree.
32:02More than half an hour
32:04from arrival
32:04to departure.
32:06Thanks.
32:11I'd like to make
32:12a request,
32:14if I may.
32:15Sir.
32:16Instead of being
32:17herded in
32:18with everyone else,
32:19I was wondering
32:19if I might be allowed
32:20some time
32:21with the astronauts
32:21alone
32:24in a separate,
32:26private meeting.
32:28Airman to airman,
32:30pilot to pilots.
32:32I'll speak
32:33to the ambassador,
32:34but I'm sure
32:36it would be
32:36possible our end.
32:39Would 15 minutes
32:40be enough?
32:4115 minutes?
32:43They are on a very
32:44tight schedule,
32:45I believe.
32:46To discuss mankind's
32:49greatest achievement.
32:52No.
32:54It's nowhere near enough.
32:59I can see
33:00it's all I'm going to get.
33:27it's all I'm going to get.
33:30in a hectic
33:3122 and a quarter hour visit
33:33that demands
33:34the same sort of
33:34precision and timing
33:35as their mission in space.
33:37The world famous
33:38man on the moon team
33:39of Neil Armstrong,
33:40Buzz Aldrin,
33:41and Michael Collins,
33:42accompanied by their wives,
33:44receive one of their
33:45warmest welcomes yet
33:46from the British people.
33:47The astronauts admitted
33:48that they are starting
33:49to feel the strain
33:50of the 22 nation
33:51world tour.
33:52I'm going to get.
33:54Airman from the planet Earth,
33:56my step right
33:57along the land.
33:58The light,
33:59I've been 69.
34:03Everything's quite clearly.
34:04The light is,
34:05uh,
34:06especially, uh,
34:08applying backlighting
34:09into the front of the land.
34:10That's everything.
34:10I guess very clearly.
34:32Overview,
34:333A,
34:34LoisvetairŠ”m HEWK
34:35HAIL tout
34:363A,
34:382A,
34:403A,
34:414A,
34:415A,
34:48The American astronauts are now arriving at Bucketham Palace.
34:51The world famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
35:34Your Majesty, Mr Neil Armstrong.
35:38Hello.
35:38Welcome.
35:39Great pleasure to meet you.
35:41Mrs Armstrong.
35:42Colonel Michael Collins.
35:44Nice to meet you.
35:45Great pleasure to meet you.
35:53Great pleasure to meet you, young man.
36:03Sir?
36:05Sir?
36:31Please don't tell me you want to talk about children.
36:53They've been waiting long.
36:55Only a few moments, sir.
37:09Mr Neil Armstrong, Colonel Michael Collins, and Colonel Edwin Aldrin, you're all honest.
37:13It is a great, great honor, gentlemen.
37:17Congratulations, one and all.
37:20Please, do sit down.
37:31There's no need to sit so closely.
37:33As 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 know if anyone told you, but I am actually a pilot myself.
37:50Are you all right?
37:51Yes, sir.
37:52I just had a cold.
37:55Here.
37:57I...
37:57It's clean, I promise you.
38:02Why, you've, uh, you've, you've all got colds.
38:07Yes, we do.
38:11Well, here we are.
38:18I just want to say how much I admire what you've done.
38:22It's just remarkable.
38:24Um, but also to say how much I identify in some way with, with who you are.
38:30Bless you.
38:31Sorry.
38:33I, um, I 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, you know, what is the, the physical experience of, of G-forces of, of that magnitude
38:53and so on.
38:54But, you see, I, I realize now that the questions I actually want answering are,
39:11you're all too young to understand, I think, but, there comes a time in life when one first
39:20really starts to evaluate what one has accomplished.
39:26And because of the position that I've ended up in here, who I've become, um, who I'm married
39:36to, um, I've, well, I've not been able to achieve the things I would have liked to, as a man,
39:48as a, as an adventurer.
39:53And watching you three heroes at work, it, it was like watching a dream, which is why I, I leapt
40:05the chance to meet with you, even if it is just for, for ten minutes, that I might ask...
40:19What your thoughts were, out there?
40:25Uh, Neil?
40:30Well, uh, obviously, uh, a sense of relief that we executed the mission successfully.
40:36Of course.
40:37And we certainly got some amazing views, didn't we?
40:40Yes.
40:41We did.
40:42Extraordinary.
40:42I think I'm not talking so much about the views, in that sense, as perspectives, observations
40:52of, of our place.
41:01Uh, to be honest, there wasn't much time for that, um, as a pilot, you'll know what they
41:08drill into you above all else is protocol or, uh, procedure.
41:13Mm-hmm.
41:14You gotta stick to the rules.
41:15Yes.
41:16Well, as an astronaut, it's double that.
41:19Mm-hmm.
41:20We've pretty much spent our entire time with lists in our hands, ticking things off.
41:24Mm-hmm.
41:25Tick, check.
41:25Tick, check.
41:26Isaac glued to the mission protocol to such a degree, you never really get to look outside.
41:31That's how busy they keep you.
41:32Busy.
41:33Tight leash.
41:33Not to mention, most of the time you're so darn tired.
41:36Mm-hmm.
41:36No matter how hard you practice, you never get used to the sleep.
41:39Oh, sleep.
41:41Mm-hmm.
41:42Neil, uh, let me tell His Royal Highness about what happened after the moonwalk.
41:47Uh, I would love to hear.
41:51He wants to hear it.
41:52Yeah.
41:55Well, uh, after I completed the moonwalk...
41:57I-I watched it all, every step.
42:01I got back into the module and knew we only had a few hours to get some rest before we
42:07took
42:08off again, so I-I got my head down, I closed my eyes...
42:12Wait for it.
42:13But all I could hear was this noise.
42:16Bang, bang, bang, bang.
42:18What?
42:19Bang, bang, bang.
42:21What?
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.
42:32Water cooler.
42:35The greatest engineers in the world designed a rocket that takes us to the moon, but they
42:39can't even get us a decent water cooler.
42:42So, you're right.
42:43It was full of surprises.
42:47I see.
42:54Were there any other questions you had for us?
43:07No.
43:10Well, in-in that case, would you mind if we asked you a few questions?
43:15No, 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?
43:34And how many staff do you have here, anyway?
43:35And how many palaces?
43:36We heard-
43:38Twelve.
43:39And do you know all these people in the-in the pictures here?
43:41Are they-are you related to those-
43:43Oh, to the dots?
43:52That's mine.
43:53Of course.
43:54We're reaching for the tower.
43:55Oh!
43:57Oh!
44:00Oh!
44:00Oh!
44:00Oh!
44:02Yes!
44:02It's almost all.
44:03Oh!
44:05Oh!
44:06One, two, three.
44:08Cheese!
44:15I don't know what I was thinking.
44:17I expected them to be giants, gods.
44:22In reality, they were just three little men, pale-faced with colds.
44:28I 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 and modesty and reliability.
44:39Total absence of originality or spontaneity.
44:43But that's what makes them perfect in a crisis.
44:46And entirely anticlimactic when you meet them in person.
44:51Can you imagine?
44:53If they go all that way to the moon and stay healthy, but one trip to London, then he kills
44:58them.
45:01It's not their fault.
45:03They never wanted to be public figures.
45:06And now, because of one event, they will be.
45:08Forever.
45:09Hmm.
45:10They delivered as astronauts, but 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 and 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 if that's all planet Earth has got to offer.
45:43Let's give the place a miss.
45:44Thanks a lot.
45:53Bye.
48:19I 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 just like them, you look in all the usual places, resort to all the usual things to try and
48:39make yourself feel better.
48:44Some of which I can admit to in this room, and some of which I probably shouldn't.
48:55My mother died recently.
49:11She saw that something was amiss.
49:21She saw that something was missing in her youngest child, her only son.
49:32Faith.
49:38How's your faith?
49:39She asked me.
49:47I'm here to admit to you that I've lost it.
49:56And without it, what is there?
50:04The loneliness and emptiness and anticlimax of going all that way to the moon to find nothing but haunting desolation.
50:19Ghostly silence.
50:23Gloom.
50:26That is what faithlessness is.
50:31As opposed to finding wonder, ecstasy, the miracle of divine creation, God's design and purpose.
50:45What am I trying to say?
50:48I'm trying to say that the solution to our problems, I think, is not in the ingenuity of the rocket
51:00or the science or the technology or even the bravery.
51:09No, the answer is in here.
51:14Or here or wherever it is that faith resides.
51:23And so, Dean Woods, having ridiculed you for what you and these poor, blocked, lost souls
51:39We're trying to achieve here in St. George's house.
51:45I now find myself full of respect.
51:49And admiration.
51:52And not a small part of desperation.
52:00As I come to say...
52:05Help.
52:10Help.
52:11Help me.
52:14Help me.
52:23Help me.
52:23And to admit...
52:26While those three astronauts deserve all our praise and respect for their undoubted heroism,
52:31I was more scared coming here to see you today than I would have been going up in any bloody
52:35rocket.
52:36But still I would have decided to do this job.
52:40Help me.
52:43But thaté my day prior to Dr. Antoniel, Michael, while also my-
52:46Like, what are you gonna get from Ga'iem, ?
52:53That city was a Niagara force.
52:55Well, you never-
53:05To Garnester!
53:05Because now, there's the main challenge for Weihnachten.
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