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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
03:13God
03:14That he has a debt
03:20I've been past
03:22In the beginning
03:22You know
03:22He's not as good
03:23A light
03:27As you can see
03:27That all these things
03:28If you can.
03:28And you can see
03:29And you know
03:43These days
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 in Cape Kennedy, we're all up to the moon this morning.
07:21Are you watching?
07:23Yeah.
07:2419 Saturn 5, the big moon express.
07:27All ready to leave platform 39, here at Cape Kennedy, on time, in about 30 minutes.
07:34This enormous event which uniquely unites all the world
07:39Because all the world should be interested in this journey
07:43And after 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.
08:3512, 11, 10, 9.
08:39Ignition sequence start.
08:416, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
08:48Liftoff. We have a liftoff.
08:5032 minutes past the hour.
08:52Liftoff in Apollo 11.
08:55Strong.
08:57What men? What courage?
08:59Tower is clear.
09:00I've got a roll program.
09:02Neil Armstrong reporting the roll and pigeon program which puts Apollo 11.
09:1311 Houston thrushes go.
09:15All engines, you're looking good.
09:17Roger.
09:18You're loud and clear, Houston.
09:23We got skirt sim.
09:26Roger.
09:26We confirmed skirt sim.
09:29Tower's going.
09:30Roger, tower.
09:32Neil Armstrong confirming both the engine skirt separation and the launch escape tower separation.
09:39Hello, this is Houston.
09:41Slightly less than one minute ignition and everything is go.
09:45Rescue.
09:48Ignition.
09:51We confirmed ignition and that's what it does go.
09:55Hello, we'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.
10:49On 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 and the whole world...
14:49Come on, go on.
14:50Come on, go on.
14:50Pioneers of the heavens.
14:52Come on, space, I can't.
14:53Come on.
14:53Come on, come on.
14:54Why are we?
14:55Half this surface of the moon now.
14:58Gosh.
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, it's back.
15:12Robert, it's back.
15:12Robert, it's back.
15:14Houston, I'm getting a little fluctuation in the, uh, in the, uh, boulders now.
15:19Roger.
15:20John, 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.
17:03The land footbeds are only, uh, depressed in the surface about, uh, one or two inches, although the surface appears
17:13to be very, very fine-grained as you get close to it.
17:17It's almost like a powder.
17:20Ground net, uh, it's very fine.
17:24And, uh, step off the land now.
17:29That's one small step for man.
17:34One giant leap for man's time.
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.
18:04The desire to reach quite literally for the stars.
18:08And 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.
18:19Beautiful view.
18:21Is that something?
18:23Magnificent sight out here.
18:26Magnificent desolation.
18:43Magnificent desolation desolation desolation desolation desolation desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes
18:56desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes
18:57desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolationes desolation
18:57Spermian sunup here in Yorkshire.
19:02The groundbreaking work you are doing here
19:05by the Spermian sunup here in Yorkshire.
19:10There comes a time,
19:12a moment in everyone's experience
19:15where dentures and other oral prosthetics
19:19become an indispensable fact of life.
19:23According to last year's adult dental health survey,
19:2837 percent.
19:42I'm looking into one of the main things
19:44by heading 3-0, moving to 3-7.
20:13me 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
20:36sir
20:41sir the service ceiling for this aircraft is 45,000 feet
20:45you and I both
20:45but I can say you can't live your land
20:47I saw you
21:15go
21:15go
21:16go
21:16go
21:16go
21:16go
21:17go
21:17go
21:17go
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
21:35but look
21:37we'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
22:14what is the meaning of this stupendous venture
22:18the next day
22:20oh
22:22oh
22:29oh
22:38oh
22:40oh
22:42oh
22:42oh
22:47oh
22:48oh
22:49And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place
22:56for the first 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 more than once.
23:45Good morning, sir.
23:45Morning, sir.
23:56Your Royal Highness.
23:58Christ.
24:03Morning.
24:04I wonder whether you might have a moment, sir, to 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.
24:29Just to say hello.
24:30What, now?
24:31Why not?
24:34Fine.
24:34Get in.
24:36Do I need to show symptoms of despair?
24:38Should I sigh and moan dramatically?
24:42One 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.
25:16Good morning.
25:18Good morning.
25:21So, what have you all been up to, apart from making quite a mess of our house, I see?
25:26Good morning.
25:26We started by identifying why each of us had chosen to come here and stating what we were
25:32hoping to achieve.
25:33Perhaps 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. D minus.
26:00Oh dear. And why was that?
26:03Well, when entering the church, I allowed myself to dream that advancing age would bring new revelations.
26:13Insight. A deepening of my faith. A 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.
26:37Oh, yes.
26:38That sense of directionlessness and redundancy is...
26:42Well, it's...
26:43Something 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...
26:58...elsewhere.
27:00Where, for example?
27:10The moon. I... I...
27:12The moon. Yes, sir.
27:16Five hundred million people watched 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. A sense of community. Of awe. Wonder.
27:28Well, that was part of a wider shift, too, we agreed. From religion to science.
27:32The greater the achievements in science, the more mysteries are explained.
27:37The more questions are answered. The 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.
28:18When 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.
29:28And all 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.
29:44And as a result, they are at one with the world.
29:47They're one with their god.
29:50And 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 Department.
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, I 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? Armstrong, 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 2pm.
31:38From there they will be taken directly to the American Embassy at Gropen Square for a meeting with the US
31:42Ambassador.
31:43From there they will come to Buckingham Palace for an audience with Her Majesty's the Queen, Queen Elizabeth the Queen
31:47Mother,
31:48His Royal Highness Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret, Princess Anne, 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? Tea?
31:57Probably not. We thought it good to keep things moving, no sitting down.
32:01I quite agree.
32:02They're more than half an hour from arrival to departure.
32:06Right.
32:11I'd like to make a request, if I may.
32:15Sir.
32:16Instead of being herded in with everyone else, I was wondering if I might be allowed some time with the
32:21astronauts 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.
32:54It's nowhere near enough.
32:59I can see it's all I'm going to get.
33:14And feelable.
33:16It's not easy.
33:17Let's check today.
33:17Board for time.
33:24Bang.
33:25Schmidt.
33:26Westius Plum.
33:26Landing at London Heathrow Airport, Berlin,
33:29the Apolloien Moon men begin a hectic twenty-two and a quarter-hour visit
33:33that 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,
33:42accompanied by their wives, receive 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.
33:54Airmen from the planet Earth, first step right along the land.
33:58The light, I think 69.
34:01And it's not to me, everything's quite clearly.
34:04The light is, uh, especially, uh, flying backlighting into the front of the land.
34:10That's everything that's very clearly.
34:48The American astronauts are now arriving above the palace.
34:51The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the...
35:05The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the world.
35:06The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the world.
35:10The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the world.
35:14The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the world.
35:14The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the world.
35:15The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the world.
35:15The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the world.
35:17The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the world.
35:18The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the world.
35:35Your Majesty, Mr. Neil Armstrong.
35:38Hello. Welcome.
35:39Great pleasure to meet you.
35:40Mrs. Armstrong.
35:42Hello.
35:42Colonel Michael Collins.
35:45Great pleasure to meet you.
35:53Great pleasure to meet you, young man.
36:04Sir?
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 honour, 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, I just have a cold.
37:55Here.
37:57It's clean, I promise you.
38:02Why, you've all got colds.
38:07Yes, we do.
38:11Well, here we are.
38:18I just want to say how much I admire.
38:20What you've done.
38:22It's just remarkable.
38:25But also to say how much I identify in some way with who you are.
38:30Bless you.
38:31Sorry.
38:33I, um, I wrote down some questions.
38:41See, I initially imagined that I wanted to ask questions of you on a technical level.
38:46You're like, you know, what is the physical experience of G-forces of that magnitude and so on.
38:56But, you see, I realize now that the questions I actually want answering are...
39:10See, you're all too young to understand, I think.
39:17But there 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, who I've become, who I'm married to,
39:42I've, well, I've not been able to achieve the things I would have liked to, as a man, as a...
39:50As an adventurer, and watching you three heroes at work, it was like watching a dream.
40:02Which is why I, I leapt at the chance to meet with you.
40:07Even if it is just for, for ten minutes, that I might ask...
40:19What your thoughts were, out there?
40:27Neil?
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, we did, extraordinary.
40:42I think I'm not talking so much about...
40:45...the views, in that sense, as...
40:51...perspectives, observations of...
40:54...of our place.
41:00Uh...
41:01To be honest, there wasn't much time for that.
41:06As a pilot, you'll know what they drill into you.
41:09Above all else is protocol and, 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. Tick, 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.
41:40Sleep.
41:40Mm-hmm.
41:42Neil, uh, let me tell His Royal Highness about what happened after the moonwalk.
41:48Uh...
41:50I 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
42:07off 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, bang, bang, bang, bang.
42:18What?
42:19Bang, bang, bang.
42:20What, from outside the module?
42:22I know.
42:23You know what it was?
42:24What?
42:26The water cooler.
42:28It was making this noise, bang, bang, bang.
42:33Water cooler.
42:35The greatest engineers in the world design 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 four 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?
43:36And how many palaces?
43:37We heard-
43:38Twelve.
43:38And do you know all these people in the-
43:41In the pictures here?
43:41Are they-
43:42Are you related to those-
43:43Oh, to the dots?
44:01Are you ready?
44:02Are you ready?
44:06Are you ready?
44:07One, 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 or-
44:43But that's what makes them perfect in a crisis.
44:46And entirely anti-climactic when you meet them in person.
44:51Can you imagine if they go all that way to the moon and 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.
45:09Hmm.
45:10They delivered as astronauts but-
45:13They 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.
45:42Let's give the place a miss.
45:45Hmm.
45:48Hmm.
45:53Hmm.
46:03Hmm.
46:04Hmm.
46:06Hmm.
46:12Hmm.
46:18Hmm.
46:23Hmm.
46:26Hmm.
46:29Hmm.
46:31Hmm.
46:32Hmm.
46:57There wasn't a specific moment when it started.
47:01It's been more of a gradual thing.
47:04A 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.
47:31But even I would have to admit that there has been more of it lately.
47:36Not to mention an almost jealous fascination with the achievements of these young astronauts.
47:46Compulsive over-exercising.
47:48An inability to find calm or satisfaction or fulfilment.
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...
48:19I can't even say what kind of crisis.
48:25That crisis.
48:28And 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.
48:56My mother died recently.
49:11She, she saw that something was amiss.
49:21She saw that something was missing in her youngest child.
49:27Her only son.
49:32Faith.
49:37How's your faith? She 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.
50:21Ghostly silence.
50:24Gloom.
50:26That is what faithlessness is.
50:31As opposed to finding, you know, wonder, ecstasy, the miracle of divine creation, God's design and purpose.
50:45What am I trying to say?
50:49I'm trying to say that the solution to our problems, I think, is not in the ingenuity of the rocket,
51:01or the science, or the technology, or even the bravery.
51:09No, the answer is in here.
51:15Or 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 were trying to achieve
51:41here in St. George's house, I 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.
52:12Help me.
52:23And to admit,
52:25While 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.
52:36Oh, please.
52:45Well done.
52:52Jamie, Jamie, Jamie...
52:56The fire at the end of the day...
53:02The fire at the end of the evening of the day,
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