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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
03:14In a niche
03:15And place
03:15And two
03:40Other people
03:42Can't be
03:42Once
03:42You
03:42Listen
03:42You
03:43You
04:43What does it do for you? Honestly.
04:45Church?
04:46Hmm.
04:47There's a chance to take stock, reflect on the past week, think ahead to the next.
04:52Get 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 interesting.
05:09They have mouths, but they speak not.
05:13Eyes have they, but they see not.
05:16They have ears, but they hear not.
05:20Noses 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.
05:53But unto his name give glory, nor to false idols either.
06:06Ah.
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.
06:30Goodwill.
06:31Someone with a bit of oomph.
06:33I think so.
06:34Zest.
06:35That's it.
06:35Pepper.
06:36Yes, thank you.
07:17And so, here at Cape Kennedy, we are all up to the moon this morning.
07:21Are you watching?
07:23Mighty Saturn V, the big moon express, all ready to leave Platform 39 here at Cape Kennedy, on time in
07:32about 30 minutes.
07:33This enormous event, this enormous event, which uniquely unites all the world, because all the world should be interested in
07:42this journey.
07:43And after this journey, we on Earth can never be the same.
07:47This edition should be set.
08:04Where is she?
08:06Where is she?
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 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
08:48liftoff we have a liftoff 32 minutes past the hour
08:57what men what kind
08:59tower is clear we've got a roll program
09:02biel armstrong reporting the rolling picture program which puts a pause
09:1311 houston thrushes go all engines you're looking good
09:17hi roger you're loud and clear houston
09:23we got skirt
09:25roger we confirm skirt
09:27tower's going
09:30launch your tower
09:32neil armstrong confirming both the engine skirt separation and the launch escape tower separation
09:44roger
09:47roger
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10:34roger
10:35eagle this new assembly then detaches from the final stage of the saturn rocket as i say a
10:41hair-raising business but it all seems to have gone off without a hitch tuesday next week you
10:45will be in cheshire to visit the works of british salt limited on wednesday it's norfolk to
10:50inaugurate a new gas terminal then on friday it's macclesfield for the open day of the machine tool
10:57industry research association that evening there will be a dinner given by the british concrete
11:03society where you have been asked to present an award may i interrupt your royal highness what
11:12the newly appointed dean of windsor robin woods was wondering if you could spare him a moment
11:17he has a request fine just uh put something in the book with a highlight to look forward to along
11:23with
11:23the award show for the british concrete society is that a joke afraid not sir but actually he's here
11:37now hello your royal highness how can i help in the process of moving in my wife and i we
11:44couldn't
11:45help noticing that there were a large number of buildings on the estate of windsor that appear to
11:48be empty and unused and specifically the old canon's cloisters one or two of the buildings on denton's
11:56commons all the houses on the north walls the old residences of the minor canons i realize this is
12:03quite forward of me but i was wondering if i could make a request to use one of them
12:09you don't like the home we've given you
12:13this wouldn't be as a home for a long time now i've had a dream an ambition to start an
12:20academy or
12:21conservatoire what for personal and spiritual growth something that has struck me from my own
12:31experience but also from observing it in well in others is that you get to a certain age and you
12:38hit
12:38a ceiling a crisis if you will you you'll lose perspective get into a slump it's quite common among
12:46businessmen and executives and it's no different for clergymen we see a particularly high level of
12:53dissatisfaction among mid-career clergymen and i thought one of these buildings in its idyllic setting
12:58would be a great place for priests to come and recharge reflect raise their game
13:08by doing what talking reading thinking may i suggest that your concept is flawed you don't raise your
13:19game by talking or thinking you raise your game through action and like this and this is how you
13:27get out of a slump but if if one of those buildings is free and you want to fill it
13:31with hot air and
13:32thoughts and be my guest thank you sir we don't have to wait long now 17 minutes and counting the
13:51landing
13:51craft has separated from the command module and has begun its descent to the surface of the moon armstrong
13:56and alden will now send the lunar module into a sort of pirouette to allow colin will you read the
14:02children yes sir and tell the queen yes thank you sir hundred darling it's time edward edward time to wake
14:16up
14:19come on edward hurry up hold on let's go come on it's very exciting isn't it certainly is are you
14:31able to join us for a drink battle that would be very nice thank you ma'am of course Michael
14:37collins 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 for the rest of humanity the loneliest man in the universe our prayers
14:47quick quick quick quick
14:55surface of the moon now
14:58they're land in sight chosen for its smoothness but not entirely
15:02without the slightest impact with rock or crater could disable the lunar module
15:08drink sir
15:24he's gone to manual control something's wrong
15:27it doesn't look great
15:29it doesn't look great right there
15:30it doesn't look great right there
15:31it was a super cool
15:3210 and 50 feet down at 4
15:33it's too much
15:34they can't land
15:38they're uh
15:38they're gonna run out of fuel
15:39it's dangerous
15:39quiet please just shh
15:42shh
15:43shh
15:43please
15:43making up some dust
15:45okay
15:49what's that
15:49what's that
15:50what's that
15:56what's that
15:57what's that
15:57what's that
16:09man on the moon
16:11man has landed
16:17did you see
16:19uh as we watch these images tonight we are united across the world in a
16:25uniform
16:27wonder
16:28never before
16:29the entire
16:30planet
16:35to each of us
16:38to each of us
16:39this is historic
16:43this is even divine
16:45and yet
16:47all of us
16:48regardless of race
16:49sex or religious belief
16:52we are united
16:53right now in this singular
16:56human achievement
16:58okay
16:58we can see you coming down
16:59on the ladder
17:01i'm uh at the foot of the ladder
17:03the lamb footbeds are only uh
17:06depressed in the surface
17:08about uh
17:09one or two inches
17:11although the surface appears to be
17:14very very fine grained as you get close to it
17:17it's almost like a powder
17:19the ground
17:20uh
17:21uh
17:24and uh step off the land
17:26now
17:29that's one small step
17:31for man
17:34one
17:34giant leap for mankind
17:38and
17:39it has a stark beauty all its own
17:43it's uh
17:43much of the high desert of uh
17:46united states
17:47it's uh
17:48this is a
17:52powerful reminder
17:54of our capacity for greatness
17:56as a species
17:57not simply
17:58the engineering
17:59triumph
18:00represented here today
18:01but the triumph
18:02of human ambition
18:03the desire
18:05to reach
18:05quite literally
18:06for the stars
18:08and i think
18:10this new perspective
18:11seeing the earth
18:12from space
18:13in all our unity
18:14and cohesion
18:15is likely to inspire
18:17an unprecedented shift
18:18in our thinking
18:19beautiful
18:20beautiful
18:21is that something?
18:23magnificent
18:23sight out here
18:25magnificent death
18:43revelation
18:44mr governor
18:44ladies and gentlemen
18:45the seemed members
18:46of the wool textiles delegation
18:51i very much appreciate
18:52the honor
18:53that you have bestowed on me
18:55by your invitation
18:56to the meal
18:57of thomas
18:57bernley and son
18:58of
18:59here
18:59in yorkshire
19:02the groundbreaking work
19:03you are doing here
19:05by bringing
19:06fast
19:09there comes a time
19:13a moment
19:14in everyone's experience
19:15where dentures
19:17dentures
19:17and other oral prosthetics
19:19become an indispensable
19:20fact of life
19:23according to last year's
19:25adult dental health survey
19:2737%
19:29to the
19:302
19:30to the
19:30the
19:43to the
19:44to the
19:45to the
19:45the
19:51to the
19:57to the
20:12me I
20:16you have control
20:17I have control
20:21what are you doing sir
20:25this isn't on the flight charge
20:27there's no other traffic
20:37sir
20:41sir the service ceiling for this aircraft is 45,000 feet
20:45you and I both know
20:46you can't live your land
20:47sir
20:47I don't know
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
22:07six minutes ago.
22:08A new chapter in human history has opened.
22:12The race for the moon is over.
22:13For the people of this planet, what is the meaning of this stupendous venture?
22:45We shall not cease from exploring.
22:49And the end of all our exploration will be to arrive where we started and know the place
22:56for the first time.
22:59Those words by T.S.
23:01Have never run more true.
23:03We stand at the dawn of a new age of space exploration.
23:07The promise of space has never fallen.
23:22The eye and the future has been in an hour and the second time.
23:44Good morning, sir.
23:45Morning, sir.
23:56Your Royal Highness.
23:57Oh, Christ.
24:04Morning.
24:04I wonder whether you might have a moment, sir,
24:06to meet the new arrivals.
24:08Ah, your concentration camp for spiritual defectives.
24:12I prefer center of recovery and renewal.
24:14I'm sure you do.
24:16We have an interesting group of all ages
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, to 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, 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 something that chimed with one or two others here.
26:45Because of how the public has turned away from us.
26:48Turned away from the church.
26:50It's clear we are failing to connect with people.
26:54More and more people are finding their spiritual needs being met elsewhere.
27:00Where, for example?
27:10The moon.
27:11I...
27:12The moon.
27:13Yes, sir.
27:15Five hundred million people watch the lunar landing.
27:18Yes.
27:19Five hundred million people getting from televisions what they used to get from the church.
27:24A sense of coming together, a sense of community, of awe, of 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, 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?
27:54Now 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.
28:13Simply an unknowable vastness.
28:18When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars that thou hast
28:28ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest
28:36him?
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.
29:08What 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.
29:27Action, not suffering.
29:29All this sitting around, thinking and talking.
29:33Let me ask you this.
29:34Do you think those astronauts up there are catatonic like you lot?
29:39Of course not.
29:40They are too busy achieving something spectacular.
29:44And as a result, they 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, 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 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 disc.
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?
31:03What? 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 2 p.m.
31:38From there, they will be taken directly to the American Embassy, Gropen Square, for a
31:41meeting with 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.
31:53And what time will that be?
31:54Around 4 o'clock, ma'am.
31:56Will we give them anything?
31:57Tea?
31:57Probably not.
31:58We thought it good to keep things moving, no sitting down.
32:01I quite agree.
32:02More than half an hour from arrival to departure.
32:06Great.
32:11I'd like to make a request, if I may.
32:15Sir.
32:16Instead of being herded in with everyone else, I was wondering if I might be allowed some time
32:21with the astronauts alone, in a separate, private meeting.
32:27Airman to airman to airman, pilot to pilots.
32:32I'll speak to the Ambassador, but I'm sure it would be possible our end.
32:39Would 15 minutes be enough?
32:41Fifteen 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.
33:21I can see it's all I'm going to get.
33:26Landing at London Heathrow Airport from Berlin, the Apollo moon men begin a hectic 22 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, accompanied by their wives,
33:44receive one of their warmest welcomes yet from the British people.
33:47The astronauts admitted that they are starting to feel the strain of the British people.
33:54Airmen from the planet Earth, mark step right along the land.
33:59Arise, IP69.
34:01Airmen, I can see everything quite clearly. The light is, uh, especially, uh, applying backlighting it to the front of
34:09the land.
34:10They're leaving us very clearly.
34:31I would die.
34:32Airmen, airmen.
34:34Airmen!
34:48The American astronauts are now arriving to Bucketham Palace, a world famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael
34:55Collins in the...
35:11There he is!
35:28Oh my god!
35:35Your Majesty, Mr. Neil Armstrong.
35:38Hello.
35:39Welcome.
35:39Great pleasure to meet you.
35:40Mrs. Armstrong.
35:42Hello.
35:42Colonel Michael Collins.
35:44First of all, great pleasure to meet you.
35:52Great pleasure to meet you, young man.
36:03Sir?
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, sir, 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.
37:57It's clean, I promise you.
38:03Why, you've all got colds.
38:07Yes, we do.
38:12Well, here we are.
38:18I just want to say how much I admire what 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.
38:41You 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 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,
39:10you see, you're all too young to 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,
39:35um, who I'm married to, um, I've, well, I've not been able to achieve the things I would have liked
39:45to.
39:47As a man, as a, as an adventurer,
39:53and watching you three heroes at work,
39:59it, 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.
40:23Out there.
40:26Uh, 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?
40:40Mm, we, we did.
40:41Yes, we did.
40:42Extraordinary.
40:42I think I'm not talking so much about,
40:45the views in that sense,
40:47as,
40:50perspectives,
40:52observations of,
40:54of our police.
40:59Uh,
41:01to be honest,
41:03there wasn't much time for that.
41:04Um,
41:06as a pilot,
41:07you'll know what they drill into you.
41:09Above all else,
41:10is protocol,
41:11uh,
41:12procedure.
41:13Mm-hmm.
41:13You gotta stick to the rules.
41:15Yes.
41:16Well, as an astronaut,
41:17it's double that.
41:19Mm-hmm.
41:20We've pretty much spent our entire time with lists in our hands,
41:23ticking things off.
41:24Mm-hmm.
41:25Tick, check, tick, check.
41:26Isaac glued to the mission protocol to such a degree,
41:29you never really get to look outside.
41:31That's how busy they keep you.
41:32Busy.
41:33Tight leash.
41:33Not to mention,
41:34most of the time,
41:35you're so darn tired.
41:36Mm-hmm.
41:36No matter how hard you practice,
41:37you never get used to the sleep.
41:39Oh,
41:40sleep.
41:41Mm-hmm.
41:42Neil, uh,
41:44let me tell His Royal Highness
41:45about what happened after the moonwalk.
41:47Oh.
41:50I would love to hear.
41:51He wants to hear it.
41:52Yeah.
41:55Well,
41:56after I completed the moonwalk...
41:57I watched it all,
41:58every step.
42:01I got back into the module,
42:03and knew
42:04we only had a few hours
42:06to get some rest
42:07before we took off again.
42:08So,
42:08I...
42:09I got my head down.
42:11I closed my eyes.
42:12Wait for it.
42:13But all I could hear
42:15was this noise.
42:16Bang, bang, bang.
42:18Bang.
42:18What?
42:19Bang, bang, bang.
42:21From outside the module.
42:22I know.
42:23You know what it was?
42:24What?
42:26The water cooler.
42:28It was making this noise.
42:30Bang, bang, bang.
42:35The greatest engineers
42:36in the world
42:37designed a rocket
42:37that takes us to the moon,
42:38but they can't even get us
42:39a decent water cooler.
42:42So, you're right.
42:43It was full of surprises.
42:47I see.
42:54Were there any other questions
42:55you had for us?
43:07No.
43:08No.
43:10Well, in that case,
43:12would you mind
43:12if we asked you
43:13a few questions?
43:15No, of course.
43:17What is it like?
43:20What is what like?
43:21Living in a place like this.
43:23Because we heard
43:24you had a thousand rooms.
43:25And that if you had
43:26the lengths
43:27of all the corridors together,
43:28it comes to
43:29four miles?
43:30Uh, well...
43:31Oh, is it true
43:32you have a bagpiper
43:33for an alarm clock?
43:34And how many staff
43:34do you have here anyway?
43:36And how many palaces?
43:37We heard...
43:38Twelve.
43:39And do you know
43:39all these people
43:40in the pictures here?
43:41Are you related to those?
43:43Oh, did you not sleep?
43:52That's mine.
43:53Of course.
43:54I'm going to reach
43:55you to the tower.
43:55Oh!
43:57Come on!
44:06One, two, three.
44:08Cheese!
44:15I didn't know
44:16what I was thinking.
44:17I expected them to be
44:19giants, gods.
44:22In reality,
44:23they were just
44:23three little men,
44:25pale-faced
44:26with cults.
44:28They have some sympathy.
44:30The very qualities
44:32that made them
44:32perfect for the job.
44:33But their lack of
44:34flair or imagination.
44:36Their sense of duty
44:37and modesty
44:38and reliability.
44:39Total absence
44:40of originality
44:42or spontaneity.
44:43But that's what
44:44makes them perfect
44:44in a crisis.
44:46And entirely
44:47anticlimactic
44:47when you meet them
44:48in person.
44:51Can you imagine
44:53if they go
44:54all that way
44:54to the moon
44:55and stay healthy
44:56but one trip
44:57to London
44:57then he kills them?
45:01It's not their fault.
45:03They never wanted
45:04to be public figures.
45:05And now,
45:06because of one event,
45:07they will be forever.
45:09They delivered
45:10as astronauts
45:11but
45:13they disappointed
45:14as human beings.
45:18they'll spend the rest
45:19of their lives
45:20in goldfish bowls
45:22scared to open
45:23their mouths
45:24knowing it could reveal
45:26who they actually are
45:27and that they will
45:28inevitably disappoint.
45:30And for that,
45:31they deserve our pity.
45:34Good job there were
45:35no little green men.
45:38They could be forgiven
45:39for thinking
45:40if that's all
45:41planet Earth
45:42has got to offer.
45:43Let's give the place
45:43a miss.
46:02And
46:11let's give them
46:18a miss.
46:19Cheers.
46:57There wasn't a specific moment when it started.
47:01It's been more of a gradual thing.
47:05A drip, drip, drip of doubt, disaffection, disease, discomfort.
47:17People around me have noticed my general irritability.
47:24Now, of course, that's nothing new.
47:28I'm generally a cantankerous sort,
47:31but even I would have to admit that there has been more of it lately.
47:36Not to mention an almost jealous fascination
47:41with 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,
48:02of course it doesn't take a genius to tell you that they all suggest I'm slap bang in the middle
48:10of 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, you know, just like them you look in all the usual places,
48:37resort to all the usual things to try and make yourself feel better.
48:44Some of which I can admit to in this room,
48:46and some of which I probably shouldn't.
48:55My mother died recently.
49:11She, she saw that something was amiss.
49:21She saw that something was missing in her youngest child, her only son.
49:32Faith.
49:33Faith.
49:34Faith.
49:34Faith.
49:38How's your faith?
49:39She asked me.
49:47I'm here to admit to you that I've lost it.
49:55Will fight with love in dadстиகстра hall,
49:56And blackués by gold.
49:57And with degrees—
49:57And without it, what is there?
50:05The loneliness.
50:08And emptiness.
50:10And anticlimax.
50:12Of going all that way to the moon.
50:15-... to find nothing but haunting desolation.
50:21ghostly silence gloom that is what faithlessness is
50:31as opposed to finding no wonder ecstasy the the miracle of divine creation god's design and purpose
50:45what am i trying to say i'm trying to say that the solution to our problems i think
50:55is not in the ingenuity of the rocket or 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
51:28having ridiculed you for what you and these poor blocked lost souls
51:38were trying to achieve here in saint george's house
51:45i now find myself full of respect and admiration
51:52and not a small part of desperation
52:00as i come to say
52:06help
52:12help 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
52:39help me
52:41help me
52:42help me
52:43help me
52:44help me
52:51help me
52:55help me
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52:58help me
52:58help me
52:59help me
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