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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
03:13So if we go out
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.
06:43That's it.
06:52That's it.
06:54That's it.
07:02That's it, that's it.
07:03Hey.
07:08Oh.
07:17And so, here at Cape Kennedy, we are all up to the moon this morning.
07:25The big moon express, all ready to leave Platform 39 here at Cape Kennedy on time in about 30 minutes.
07:33This enormous event which uniquely unites all the world, because all the world should be interested in this journey.
07:43And after this journey, we on Earth can never be the same.
07:47This edition should be planned.
08:04Where is she? Who, 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.
08:47Liftoff. We have a liftoff.
08:5032 minutes past the hour.
08:52Liftoff on Apollo 11.
08:55Strong.
08:57What men, what courage.
08:59Tower is clear.
09:00We've got a roll program.
09:02Neil Armstrong reporting the roll and fidget program, which puts Apollo 11.
09:1311 Houston thrushes go. All engines, you're looking good.
09:17Roger. You're loud and clear, Houston.
09:23We've got skirts in.
09:26Roger. We confirmed skirts in.
09:29Tower's going.
09:30Roger.
09:32Roger.
09:33Neil Armstrong confirming both the engine skirt separation and the launch escape tower separation.
09:38Hello, this is Houston.
09:41Slightly less than one minute to ignition, and everything is go.
09:45Roger.
09:48Ignition.
09:51We confirmed ignition, and I'll throw it down.
09:55Roger.
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.
10:40As I say, a hair-raising business, but 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.
11:52Specifically, the old Cannons Cloisters, one or two of the buildings on Denton's Commons.
11:57All the houses on the north walls, the old residences of the minor cannons.
12:02I 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.
12:16For a long time now, I've had a dream, an ambition, to start an academy or conservatoire.
12:23What for?
12:24Personal and spiritual growth.
12:28Something that has struck me from my own experience, but also from observing it in, well, in others, is that
12:36you get to a certain age and you hit a ceiling.
12:39A crisis, if you will.
12:41You'll lose perspective, get 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?
13:12Talking, 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.
13:4817 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 to allow Colin...
14:01Major, will you wait the children?
14:03Yes, sir.
14:03He will confirm, we hope...
14:05Tell the Queen.
14:06Yes, thank you.
14:10Andrew, darling, it's time.
14:12Edward.
14:15Edward.
14:16Time 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, Andrew?
14:33That would be very nice, thank you, ma'am.
14:35Of course not.
14:36Michael 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.
14:46Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.
14:47Quick, quick, quick, quick.
14:48Come on, come on.
14:50Try to speak.
14:51Come on, space, I've heard.
14:53Come on, space, I've heard.
14:54Come on, couple of...
14:56...surface of the moon's now.
14:59They're land in sight.
15:00Chosen for its smoothness, but not entirely.
15:03Dude, take her in a minute.
15:03The slightest impacted rock or crater could disable the lunar module, leaving them stranded from the moon.
15:11No.
15:11Well, it's better.
15:14Houston, I'm getting a little fluctuation in the, uh, in the, uh, boulders now.
15:18Oh, they're in.
15:19Oh, yes.
15:20John, hurry up.
15:21We're going to miss it.
15:22Yes.
15:23What are they saying?
15:25He's gone to manual control.
15:27Something's wrong.
15:28It doesn't look real, I know.
15:30It's just so cool.
15:3210 and 50 feet down at four.
15:34They're, um...
15:35They can't land.
15:38They're run out of fuel.
15:40Quiet!
15:41Please.
15:41Just shh.
15:42Shhh.
15:43Please.
15:43Picking up some dust.
15:45Hey.
15:49That's hot.
15:57This is what we need to pray.
16:05Houston, uh, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
16:09Man on the moon.
16:11Man has landed on the moon.
16:18Did you see?
16:19Did you see?
16:20As we watch these images tonight, we are united across the world in a uniform sense of wonder.
16:35The Eagle has landed.
16:41The Eagle has landed.
16:43The Eagle 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.
16:57Okay, Neil.
16:58We can see you coming down the ladder now.
17:01I'm, uh, at the foot of the ladder.
17:04The lamb footbeds are only, uh, depressed in the surface about, uh, one or two inches.
17:11Although the surface appears to be very, very fine-grained as you get close to it.
17:17It's almost like a powder.
17:20The ground net, uh, is very fine.
17:24And, uh, step off the land now.
17:29That's one small step for man.
17:35One giant leap for mankind.
17:40It has a stark beauty all its own.
17:43It's, uh, like much of the high desert of, uh, the United States.
17:47It's, uh, different, but it's very pretty on here.
17:51This is a powerful reminder of our capacity for greatness as a species.
17:57Not simply the engineering triumph represented here today, but 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.
18:20Beautiful, beautiful.
18:21Is that something?
18:23Magnificent flight out here.
18:26Magnificent desolation.
18:27Magnificent.
18:31Magnificent desolation.
18:45Magnificent desolation.
18:53Magnificent desolation.
18:56to the meal of Thomas Burnley and the son of Kier in Yorkshire.
19:01The groundbreaking work you are doing here
19:05is by burning fast forward.
19:10There comes a time, a moment in everyone's experience,
19:16where dentures and other oral prosthetics
19:19become an indispensable fact of life.
19:23According to last year's Adult Dental Health Survey,
19:2737%...
19:41...we're looking into 1-7-8-1-3-0,
19:45mountain skiing traffic.
19:56...
20:00...
20:00...
20:01...
20:01...
20:02...
20:02...
20:03...
20:13...
20:13...
20:13...
20:16You have control?
20:17I have control.
20:22What are you doing, sir?
20:25This isn't on the flight chart.
20:27There's no other traffic.
20:37Sir?
20:41Sir, the surface ceiling for this aircraft is 45,000 feet.
20:45You and I both, I could say, to climb away beyond that.
20:47Sir, you...
20:48...
20:50...
21:02...
21:04...
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, we've also lived just for a minute.
22:03The first men on the moon lifted off on the first stage of their journey home an hour
22:07and six 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 exploration.
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.
23:06The promise of space has never done.
23:23A new age of space exploration.
23:25A new age of space.
23:28A new age of space.
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.
24:35Hmm.
24:36Do I need to show symptoms of despair?
24:39Should I sigh and moan dramatically?
24:42No one does like to fit in.
25:05I've brought our landlord, His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, to say hello.
25:11How do you do, Your Royal Highness?
25:13Good morning.
25:14Your Royal Highness.
25:15Good morning.
25:16Good morning.
25:16Good morning.
25:18Good morning.
25:18Your Royal Highness.
25:21So, what have you all been up to, apart from making quite a mess of our house, I see?
25:26We started by identifying why each of us had chosen to come here and stating what we were hoping to
25:33achieve.
25:33Perhaps we should recap for His Royal Highness.
25:42Well, I'm here because, having recently reached a particular age, I won't ask, I decided to give myself a score.
25:54And, uh, I felt I only merited a fail, D-minus.
26:00Oh, dear.
26:01And why was that?
26:03Well, when entering the church, I allowed myself to dream that advancing age would bring new revelations, insight, a deepening
26:16of my faith, a growing flock.
26:20But instead, I-I find myself in a small rural parish with a dwindling congregation, lowering attendance.
26:28Right.
26:30And this has left you with a sense of disappointment, of underachievement and directionlessness.
26:37Well, yes.
26:38That sense of directionlessness and redundancy is, well, it's something that chimed with one or two others here.
26:45Because of how the public has turned away from us, turned 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, I-I-I-
27:12The moon.
27:13Yes, sir.
27:16Five hundred million people watched 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.
27:33The 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.
27:45I'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, simply an unknowable vastness.
28:17When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars that thou hast ordained,
28:29what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him?
28:45Any thoughts, sir?
28:52Me?
29:02I'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 and bloody
29:12world do something.
29:13That is why you're all 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.
29:39They are too busy achieving something spectacular.
29:44And as a result, they are at one with the world.
29:47At 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 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.
31:14Um, yes 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, Grover Square, for a meeting
31:41with the US 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, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.
31:53And what time will that be?
31:54Around four 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.
32:14If 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 end.
32:39Would fifteen 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.
33:01To discusses.
33:26...landing at London Keythrow Airport from Vernon,
33:29the 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,
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 22 days of the world tour.
33:54Airman from the planet Earth, mic left right along the land.
33:59Arise, IP69.
34:01And I can see everything quite clearly.
34:04The light is, uh, especially, uh, flying backlighting into the front of the land.
34:10That's everything is 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.
34:55Okay.
35:14The world famous man on the ship at
35:35your majesty
35:36mr. neil armstrong
35:37hello
35:38welcome
35:40mrs. armstrong
35:41colonel michael collins
35:43great pleasure to meet you
35:52great pleasure to meet you
36:03sir
36:31please don't tell me you want to talk about children
36:53they've been waiting long
36:54only a few moments
36:56mr. neil armstrong
37:11colonel michael collins and colonel edwin aldrin
37:13you're all honest it is a great great honor gentlemen congratulations one and all
37:20please do uh do sit down
37:31there's no need to sit so closely there's uh as you can see there's plenty of space
37:37i noticed you instinctively sat in the same positions as the uh command module
37:44anyway i don't i don't know if anyone told you but uh i am uh actually a pilot myself
37:49uh you all right yes sir i just had a cold
37:55here
37:57i it's clean i promise you
37:59thank you
38:02why you've uh you've you've all got coats
38:06yes we do
38:18i just want to say how much i admire what you've done it's just remarkable
38:25um but also to say how much i identify in some way with with who you are
38:29oh bless you sorry i am i wrote down some questions
38:40you see i initially imagined that i wanted to ask questions of you on a technical level
38:46you know what is the the physical experience of of g-forces of that magnitude and so on but
38:57you see i realize now that
39:03the questions i actually want answering are
39:11you're all too young to understand i think but
39:17there comes a time in life when one first really starts to evaluate
39:23what one has accomplished
39:26and because of the position that i've ended up in here
39:31who i've become
39:33who i'm married to
39:40i've
39:42well i've not been able to achieve the things i would have liked to
39:47as a man
39:48as a
39:50as an adventurer
39:53and watching you three heroes at work
39:58it 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
40:23uh
40:24out there
40:25uh
40:27neil
40:30well uh
40:31obviously uh a sense of relief that we executed the mission successfully
40:36of course
40:36and we certainly got some amazing views didn't we
40:40yes we did extraordinary
40:42i think i'm not talking so much about
40:45the views in that sense
40:47uh as
40:50perspectives
40:51uh observations of
40:54of our
40:56place
40:58uh
41:01to be honest there wasn't much time for that
41:04um
41:05as a pilot you'll know what they
41:08drilling you above all else is protocol
41:11uh procedure
41:13you gotta stick to the rules
41:15well as an astronaut it's double that
41:19we've pretty much spent our entire time with lists in our hands
41:23ticking things off
41:24tick 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
41:32tight leash
41:33not to mention most of the time you're so darn tired
41:36no matter how hard you practice you never get used to the sleep
41:40sleep
41:42neil uh
41:44let me tell his royal highness about what happened after the moonwalk
41:47i would love to hear
41:51he wants to hear it
41:55well after i completed the moonwalk
41:57i watched it all every step
42:00i got back into the module and
42:03knew we only had a few hours to get some rest before we took off again so i i got
42:10my head down
42:11i closed my eyes wait for it but all i could hear was this noise bang bang bang bang
42:18what from outside the module i know you know what it was
42:26the water cooler
42:28it was making this noise bang bang bang
42:35the greatest engineers in the world is on a rocket that takes us to the moon but
42:38they can't even get us a decent water cooler
42:42so you're right it was full of surprises
42:47i see
42:54were there any other questions you had for us
43:07no
43:10well in that case would you mind if we asked you a few questions no of course
43:17what is it like
43:20what is what like living in a in a place like this because we heard you had a thousand rooms
43:25and that if you had the lengths of all the corridors together it comes to
43:29four miles uh well oh is it true you have a bagpiper for an alarm clock and how many staff
43:34you have here anyway and how many palaces we heard 12 12. and do you know what all these people
43:40in the
43:40in the pictures are you related to those oh to the dots
43:52that's fine thank you
44:11i don't know what i was thinking if i expected them to be giants gods in reality they were just
44:23three little men pale faced with cults i have some sympathy the very qualities that made them perfect
44:33for the job but their lack of flair or imagination their sense of duty and modesty and reliability
44:39total absence of originality or spontaneity but that's what makes them perfect in a crisis
44:46and entirely anti-climactic when you meet them in person
44:52imagine if they go all that way to the moon and stay healthy but one trip to london then he
44:58kills them
45:01it's not their fault they never wanted to be public figures
45:05and now because of one event they will be forever
45:09they delivered as astronauts but they disappointed as human beings
45:18they'll spend the rest of their lives in goldfish bowls
45:22scared to open their mouths knowing it could reveal who they actually are and that they will inevitably
45:28disappoint and for that they deserve our pity
45:34good job there were no little green men they could be forgiven for thinking if that's all
45:41planet earth has got to offer let's give the place a miss
45:50uh
45:54uh
45:55uh
45:55uh
46:00uh
46:01uh
48:19I can't even say what kind of crisis.
48:24That, that crisis.
48:29And, of course, one's read or heard about other people hitting that crisis.
48:33And just like them, you look in all the usual places, resort to all the usual things to try and
48:39make yourself feel better.
48:44Some of which I can admit to in this room and some of which I probably shouldn't.
48:55My mother died recently.
49:11She saw that something was amiss.
49:21She saw that something was missing in her youngest child, her only son.
49:32Faith.
49:38How's your faith?
49:39She asked me.
49:47I'm here to admit to you that I've lost it.
49:56And without it, what is there?
50:04The loneliness and emptiness and anticlimax of going all that way to the moon to find nothing but haunting desolation.
50:19Ghostly silence.
50:24Gloom.
50:26That is what faithlessness is.
50:31As opposed to finding wonder, ecstasy, the miracle of divine creation, God's design and purpose.
50:45What am I trying to say?
50:48I'm trying to say that the solution to our problems, I think, is not in the ingenuity of the rocket
51:00or the science or the technology or even the bravery.
51:09No, the answer is in here.
51:14You're here or wherever it is that faith resides.
51:23And so, Dean Woods, having ridiculed you for what you and these poor, blocked, lost souls
51:39We're trying to achieve here in St. George's house.
51:45I now find myself full of respect.
51:49And admiration.
51:52And not a small part of desperation.
52:00As I come to say...
52:05Help.
52:10Help.
52:11Help me.
52:14Help me.
52:23Help me.
52:23And to admit...
52:26While those three astronauts deserve all our praise and respect for their undoubted heroism,
52:31I was more scared coming here to see you today than I would have been going up in any bloody
52:35rocket.
52:36Help me.
52:37Help.
52:45Help.
52:53Help.
52:58Help.
52:59Help.
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