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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
03:13Or if you are not
03:30In time
03:31Like, in the dark
03:31Best, or one of those in the village
03:31I've been in the village
03:31I've been in the village
03:34My dad
03:35I've been in the village
03:35Copic
03:42I've been in the village
05:13Eyes have they, but they see not.
05:16They have ears, but they hear not.
05:20Noses have they, but they...
05:30You see?
05:33It's not a sermon, it'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, that'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.
05:52But unto his name give glory, nor to false idols either.
06:06Ah.
06:09Michael?
06:10Ma'am.
06:12Bye.
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 we?
06:31Someone with a bit of...
06:32Oomph.
06:33I think so.
06:34Zest.
06:34That's it.
06:35Peck.
06:36Yes, thank you.
06:36Vim.
07:17And so, here at Cape Kennedy, we are all up to the moon this morning.
07:21Are you watching?
07:24Mighty Saturn 5, 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.
07:39Because all the world could be interested in this journey.
07:43And after this journey, we on Earth can never be the same.
07:47This edition should be planned.
07:49I am the only one.
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.
08:17I've been looking for you everywhere.
08:18Where 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.
08:3512, 11, 10, 9, ignition sequence start, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, liftoff.
08:48We have a liftoff.
08:5032 minutes past the hour.
08:52Liftoff in Apollo 11.
08:55This is fun.
08:57What men, what coach?
08:59Tower is clear.
09:00We've got a roll program.
09:02Neil Armstrong reporting to the Roland Pitcher program with the Pitcher 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, Tim.
09:26Roger, we confirmed skirt, Tim.
09:51We confirmed ignition, and I'll throw it down.
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.
12:09You don't like the home we've given you?
12:11No.
12:13This wouldn't be as a home.
12:15For 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.
13:22You 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.
13:55Armstrong and Aldrin will now send the lunar module into a sort of pirouette to allow Colin to...
14:01Major, will you wait 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, Adol?
14:33That would be very nice, thank you, ma'am.
14:34Of course at all.
14:37Michael Collins left alone in the orbiter now, meaning when it passes behind the moon, he'll be entirely cut off
14:42from the rest of humanity.
14:43The onlyest man in the universe.
14:46Our prayers and the whole world are the pioneers of heaven.
14:51Come on, space, I've got it.
14:53Come on, couple of...
14:54Why are you coming here?
14:55Above this surface of the moon now.
14:59A land in sight, chosen for its smoothness, but not entirely.
15:03Dude, take her in there, please.
15:03The slightest impact is what more crater could disable the lunar module, leaving them stranded from the moon.
15:11Robert, can you see me?
15:11Robert, can you see me?
15:11Robert, can you see me?
15:11Robert, can you see me?
15:12Robert, can you see me?
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 visit.
15:22Yes.
15:22What are they saying?
15:24He's gone to manual control.
15:27Something's wrong.
15:28It doesn't look real, no.
15:30It's just a super...
15:3110 and 50 feet down at 4.
15:34What'll happen if they can't land?
15:36What are you saying?
15:38There must be...
15:39They're going to run out of fuel.
15:39Dangerous...
15:40Quiet, please.
15:41Just shh.
15:42Shhh.
15:43Shhh.
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.
16:15Oh, my God.
16:18Did you see?
16:19As we watch these images tonight, we are united across the world in a uniform space of wonder.
16:28Never before has the entire planet...
16:31No, no.
16:32Don't find the head.
16:33He's going to find his head.
16:34He's going to find his head.
16:36And to each of us...
16:36Meteor.
16:38To each of us...
16:39This is historic.
16:42He would have learned it.
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.
17:11Although the surface appears to be very, very fine-grained as you get close to it.
17:17It's almost like a powder.
17:20The ground man is very fine.
17:24And I'm going to step off the lamb now.
17:29That's one small step for man.
17:34One giant leap for mankind.
17:41It 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 out 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,
18:13in 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 pride out here.
18:26Magnificent desolation.
18:32Magnificentwind.
18:34Pull Freestyle!
18:35Yeah.
18:43Mr. Governor, ladies and gentlemen,igenous
18:45members of the World Textiles delegation...
18:50I very much appreciate the honour you have bestowed on me by your invitation to the mill
18:57of Thomas Burnley and Sarnoff here in Yorkshire, the groundbreaking work you are doing here
19:05by the burning platform.
19:10There comes a time, a moment in everyone's experience where dentures and other oral
19:18prosthetics become an indispensable fact of life.
19:23According to last year's Adult Dental Health Survey, 37 percent...
19:41I'm looking into 1-7-8-1-3-0, mountain skiing traffic.
19:57...
20:00...
20:01...
20:01...
20:01...
20:13Me, I.
20:16You have control?
20:17I have control.
20:22What are you doing, sir?
20:25This isn't on the flight, Charles.
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 I can say to climb away beyond that.
20:47Sir, you...
21:28God, isn't it beautiful?
21:31God, isn't it beautiful?
21:33You'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
22:57the 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 in the world.
23:11It's not a new age, it's true.
23:15It's true.
23:25It's true.
23:28neighbours, sir, I need to be here.
23:44Morning, sir.
23:46Morning, sir.
23:56Your Royal heinous?
23:57Oh, Christ.
24:03Morning.
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
24:18from around the United Kingdom.
24:19Will 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?
24:42One does like to fit in.
25:05I've brought our landlord,
25:07His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh,
25:08to 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.
25:18Good morning.
25:18Your Royal Highness.
25:20So, 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.
25:41Well, 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?
26:03Well, when entering the church,
26:06I allowed myself to dream that advancing age would 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 and lowering attendance.
26:28Right.
26:30And this has left you with a sense of disappointment,
26:34of underachievement and directionlessness.
26:37Oh, yes.
26:38That sense of directionlessness and redundancy is...
26:41Well, 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.
26:49It's clear we are failing to connect with people.
26:53More and more people are finding their spiritual needs being met elsewhere.
27:00Where, for example?
27:10The moon.
27:11The moon.
27:11The moon.
27:12I...
27:12The moon.
27:13The moon.
27:13Yes, sir.
27:16500 million people watch the lunar landing.
27:18Yes.
27:19500 million people.
27:20500 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.
27:32The greater the achievements in science, the more mysteries are explained, the more questions
27:38are answered, the less need there is for a god to provide answers.
27:44I'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,
28:24the moon and the stars that thou hast ordained,
28:29what is man that thou art mindful of him,
28:33and 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 load of pretentious, self-piteous nonsense.
29:08And what you lot need to do is to get off your backsides, get out into the world,
29:12and bloody well 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.
29:28All 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.
29:54Model yourselves on men of action.
29:57Like Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins.
30:00I 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 you 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, and if after all their tests they're
30:55still standing, would 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 2pm.
31:37From there they will be taken directly to the American Embassy at Gropen Square for a meeting
31:41with the U.S. Ambassador.
31:43From there they will come to Buckingham Palace for an audience with Her Majesty's the Queen,
31:47Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, His Royal Highness Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret,
31:50Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.
31:52And what time will that be?
31:54Around four 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.
32:02No more 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, 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.
32:29Pilot to pilots.
32:32I'll speak to the Ambassador, but I'm sure it would be possible our own.
32:39Would fifteen minutes be enough?
32:41Fifteen minutes?
32:43They are on a very tight schedule, I believe.
32:47To 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.
33:01It's all I'm going to get.
33:02It's all I'm going to get.
33:04It's all I know.
33:05But not enough.
33:10It's all I know.
33:12It'll take you in.
33:22It's all I know.
33:30But you're not going to do the correct thing.
33:30It's all right.
33:30in a hectic 22 and a quarter hour visit that demands the same sort of precision and timing
33:35as 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, received one of their warmest welcomes yet from the British
33:47people.
33:47The astronauts admitted that they are starting to feel the strain of the 22nd nation's world
33:51tour.
33:54Airmen from the planet Earth, first step right along the land.
33:58The light, I think it's 69.
34:03Everything's quite clearly.
34:04The light is especially bright, not lighting into the front of the land.
34:10The light is clearly 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...
36:03Sir?
36:55Sir?
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, I don't know if anyone told you, but I am actually a pilot myself.
37:50You all right?
37:51Yes, sir.
37:52I just had a cold.
37:55Here.
37:59Why, you've got colds.
38:05You've got colds.
38:07Yes, we do.
38:11Well, here we are.
38:18I just want to say, I just want to say, I just want to say, but I just want to
38:19say 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 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 know, like, you know, what is the physical experience of G-forces of that magnitude and so on.
38:56But, you see, I, I realize now that the questions I actually want answering are, see, you're all too young
39:12to understand, I think.
39:13But, 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, um, who I'm married to, um,
39:40I've, well, I've not been able to.
39:43I've not been able to achieve the things I would have liked to, as a man, as a, as an
39:51adventurer, and watching you three heroes at work, it, it was like watching a dream, which is why I, I
40:05leapt at the chance to meet with you, even if it is just for, for ten minutes,
40:09that I might ask what 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.
40:41We did.
40:42Extraordinary.
40:42I think I'm not talking so much about the views in that sense, uh, as perspectives, uh, observations of, of
40:54our place.
41:01Uh, to be honest, there wasn't much time for that, um, as a pilot, you'll know what they drill into
41:09you 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, tick, check.
41:26Eyes are 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.
41:42Neil, uh, let me tell His Royal Highness about what happened after the moonwalk.
41:47Oh.
41:50I would love to hear.
41:51You want us 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 off 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.
42:19Bang, bang, bang, bang.
42:21What, from outside the module?
42:22I know, you know what it was?
42:24What?
42:26The water cooler.
42:29It was making this noise.
42:30Bang, bang, bang.
42:35The greatest engineers in the world is on a rocket that takes us to the moon, but they can't even
42:39get us a decent water cooler.
42:42So you're right.
42:43It was full of surprises.
42:45Mm.
42:47I see.
42:54Were there any other questions you had for us?
43:08Well, in-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 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?
43:35And how many palaces?
43:37We heard...
43:38Twelve.
43:39And do you know all these people in the-in the pictures?
43:41Are they-are you related to those?
43:43Oh, to the dots?
43:52That's mine.
43:53Of course.
43:54I'll make you a little talk.
43:55Oh!
44:06One, two, three.
44:08One, two, three.
44:15I didn't know what I was thinking.
44:17If I expected them to be giants, gods.
44:22In reality, they were just three little men.
44:25and pale-faced with cults.
44:28They 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...
44:56But one trip to London, then 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, 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...
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 if that's all...
45:41Planet Earth has got to offer.
45:43Let's give the place a miss.
45:44Sigh.
45:46Sigh.
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 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's 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.
48:55Some of which I can admit to in this room and some of which I can't be in the middle
48:57of a crisis.
48:57My 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.
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.
50:23Gloom.
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?
50:48I'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.
51:15Or 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.
51:57And not a small part of desperation.
52:00As I come to say,
52:05Help.
52:06Help.
52:11Help.
52:13Help me.
52:23And to admit, while those three astronauts deserve all our praise and respect for their undoubted heroism, I was more
52:32scared coming here to see you today than I would have been going up in any bloody rocket.
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