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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
03:13But we're going to be
03:30Of course there is no doubt
03:31Of course there is no doubt
03:31At this point in time
03:32Of course there is no doubt
03:33If you're coming
03:33Or you'll count them
03:36To be here
03:42In the world
03:42In the world
03:42But we have to get
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.
06:43Thanks.
06:43Hag.
06:52Oh, my God.
07:20Oh, my God.
07:43After this journey, we on Earth can never be the same.
07:47The sufficient ship is there.
07:49I will move on to the park.
07:51I will move on to the park.
07:53I will move on to the park.
07:56I will move on to the park.
08:02I will move on to the park.
08:09Who 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've found one.
08:24How old?
08:25Same age as you, I'd say.
08:26Really?
08:27And a good fit.
08:28For what?
08:29It was a job I've asked him to do.
08:3512, 11, 10, 9.
08:39Ignition sequence starts.
08:426, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
08:48Liftoff. We have a liftoff.
08:5032 minutes past the hour.
08:52Liftoff in Apollo 11.
08:56Strong. What men? What courage?
08:59Tower is clear. We've got a roll program.
09:03Neil Armstrong reporting.
09:04They're rolling picture 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 skirt set.
09:26Roger. We confirm skirt set.
09:29Tower's going.
09:30Roger, tower.
09:32Neil Armstrong confirming both the engine skirt separation and the launch escape tower separation.
09:39Hello, this is Houston.
09:41Slightly less than one minute to ignition, and everything is go.
09:45Roger.
09:48Ignition.
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.
10:18Towards the moon.
10:20The 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.
11:10May I interrupt, Your Royal Highness?
11:11What?
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, all the houses on the north
11:59walls, the old residences of the minor Cannons.
12:01I realize 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?
12:25What for?
12:25Personal 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, you'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.
13:48Seventeen minutes and counting.
13:51The landing craft has separated from the command module and has begun its descent to the surface of the moon.
13:56Armstrong and Aldrin will now send the lunar module into a sort of pirouette.
14:00To allow Colin to...
14:01Major, will you read the children?
14:03Yes, sir.
14:03He will confirm, we hope...
14:05Tell the Queen.
14:06Yes, thank you.
14:10Andrew, darling.
14:11It's time.
14:12Edward.
14:15Edward.
14:16Time to wake up.
14:19Come on.
14:20Come on, Edward.
14:23Hurry 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.
14:45Our prayers and the whole world are pioneers of the heavens.
14:51Come on, Spade, sir.
14:52Come on.
14:54Above the surface of the moon now.
14:58They're nabbed in sight.
15:00Chosen for its smoothness, but not entirely.
15:03The slightest impacted rock or crater could disable the lunar module, leaving them stranded from the moon forever.
15:11Robert's back.
15:12Robert's back.
15:13Robert's back.
15:14I'm getting a little fluctuation in the...
15:16Oh, they're in.
15:20John, hurry up.
15:21We're going to miss it.
15:23What are they saying?
15:25He's gone to manual control.
15:27Something's wrong.
15:28Doesn't look real, I know.
15:30He's a super...
15:34What'll happen if they can't land?
15:36We're gone along.
15:38They'll run out of fuel.
15:39Quiet, please, just shh, shh, please.
16:09Man on the moon. Man has landed on the moon.
16:18Did you see? Did you see?
16:20As we watch these images tonight, we are united across the world in a uniformed sense of wonder.
16:28Never before has the entire planet...
16:31No, don't turn to the moon.
16:33It's such remarkable humanity.
16:36To each of us... Meteor!
16:38To each of us, this is historic.
16:42The sun of us.
16:44This is even divine.
16:45Can you believe they're on the moon?
16:46And yet, all of us, regardless of race, sex or religious belief, we are united right now in this singular
16:56human achievement.
16:58Okay, Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now.
17:01I'm 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.
17:21It's very fine.
17:24I'm going to step off the land now.
17:29That's one small step for man.
17:34One giant leap for mankind.
17:40It has a stark beauty all its own.
17:43It's like much of the high desert of the United States.
17:47It's different, but it's very pretty out here.
17:50This 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, is likely to
18:16inspire an unprecedented shift in our thinking.
18:19Beautiful view.
18:21Is that something?
18:23Magnificent sight out here.
18:26Magnificent desolation.
18:43Magnificent vis CAT.
18:45And the
18:45Followers-learn the
18:51The
18:51I very much appreciate the honor you have bestowed on me by your invitation to the mill of Thomas Burnley
18:58and Starnow here in Yorkshire.
19:02The groundbreaking work you are doing here by the Burnley's Fastball.
19:10There comes a time, a moment in everyone's experience, where dentures and other oral prosthetics become an indispensable fact of
19:21life.
19:23According to last year's Adult Dental Health Survey, 37% of the year.
19:42I'm looking into 1-7-8-3-0, moving to green traffic.
20:13Knee-eye.
20:16You have control?
20:17I have control.
20:21What are you doing, sir?
20:25This isn't on the flight chart.
20:27There's no other traffic.
20:37Sir?
20:41Sir, the service ceiling for this aircraft is 45,000 feet.
20:45You and I both can say to climb away beyond that.
20:47Sir, you...
20:49Sir, you...
20:50Sir, you...
20:53Sir, you...
20:59Sir, you...
21:02Sir, you...
21:05Sir, you...
21:06Sir, you...
21:07Sir, you...
21:16Sir, you...
21:19Sir, you...
21:29God, 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.
21:37It wasn't lived. Just for a minute.
22:02The first men on the moon lifted off
22:05on the first stage of their journey home an hour and 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,
22:15what 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,
22:55and know the place for the first time.
22:58Those 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 fallen.
23:10The promise of space has never fallen.
23:36I'll take some of those.
23:39I'll take a look.
23:40I'll take a look.
23:41I'll take a look at my...
23:43I'll take a look.
23:44Morning, sir.
23:46Morning, sir.
23:46Yeah, we...
23:48Um.
23:49Uh...
23:56Your Royal Highness.
23:57Oh, Christ.
24:03Morning.
24:04I wonder whether you might have a moment, sir, to meet the new arrivals.
24:08Ah, your concentration camp for spiritual defectives.
24:12I prefer centre of recovery and renewal.
24:14Oh, I'm sure you do.
24:16We have an interesting group of all ages from 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?
24:42No 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.
25:15Good morning.
25:16Good morning.
25:17Good morning.
25:18Royal 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 and stating what we were hoping to
25:33achieve.
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, I allowed myself to dream that advancing age would bring new revelations.
26:14Insight.
26:15A deepening of my faith.
26:18A growing flock.
26:20But instead, I find myself in a small rural parish with a dwindling congregation and 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...
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.
26:53More and more people are finding their spiritual needs being met...
26:58...elsewhere.
27:00Where, for example?
27:09The moon.
27:11I...
27:12The moon.
27:13Yes, sir.
27:14No.
27:15No.
27:16500 million people watch the lunar landing.
27:18Yes.
27:19500 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.
27:27Of wonder.
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.
27:37The more questions are answered.
27:39The less need there is for a god to provide answers.
27:45I'm reminded of Keats.
27:48What is there in thee, moon, that thou shouldst move my heart so potently?
27:56Now we know what the moon is.
27:59Nothing.
28:01Just dust.
28:04Silence.
28:06A monochromatic void.
28:08We see no god behind those rocks and space dust.
28:13Simply an unknowable vastness.
28:18When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars that thou hast ordained,
28:29what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him?
28:45Any thoughts, sir?
28:52Me?
29:01I'll tell you what I think.
29:03I've never heard such a little pretentious, self-piteous,
29:06nonsense.
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.
29:28And all this sitting around, thinking and talking.
29:32I...
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.
30:01I mean, these men score A triple plus.
30:04They've got the answers.
30:05Not a bunch of navel-gazing underachievers infecting one another with gaseous doom.
30:14If you do opt for action, you can start by cleaning up this bloody floor.
30:27Oh, not again.
30:28Around the same time we were asked by the American State Department...
30:31It's the second time this week.
30:32If we'd send that message to the moon on the silicon disk, you were also asked another question.
30:36On how many occasions is the British royal family forced to eat venison each year?
30:40No.
30:41Honestly, I think if I eat any more of this stuff, I'm going to start growing antlers.
30:46Are you listening?
30:47Yes.
30:48I'm all ears.
30:49Little brown furry ones.
30:51Well, provided they make it back to Earth in one piece,
30:54and if after all their tests they're still standing,
30:57would we like an audience with the astronauts?
31:03What? 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 at Gropen Square for a meeting with the U
31:42.S. Ambassador.
31:43From there they will come to Buckingham Palace for an audience with Her Majesty's the Queen, Queen Elizabeth the Queen
31:47Mother,
31:48His Royal Highness Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.
31:53And what time will that be?
31:54Around 4 o'clock, ma'am.
31:56Will we give them anything? Tea?
31:57Probably not. We thought it good to keep things moving, no sitting down.
32:01I quite agree.
32:02They're more than half an hour from arrival to departure.
32:06Right.
32:11I'd like to make a request, if I may.
32:15Sir.
32:16Instead of being herded in with everyone else, I was wondering if I might be allowed some time with the
32:21astronauts alone.
32:24In a separate, private meeting.
32:27Airman to airman.
32:30Pilot to pilots.
32:32I'll speak to the Ambassador.
32:34But I'm sure it would be possible our end.
32:39Would 15 minutes be enough?
32:4115 minutes?
32:43They are on a very tight schedule, I believe.
32:46To discuss mankind's greatest achievement.
32:52No.
32:54It's nowhere near enough.
32:59I can see it's all I'm going to get.
33:28I can see it.
33:30But I want to get it.
33:35I do want to get it.
33:37All right, thank you.
33:39I don't know.
33:39Let me know.
33:40I'll see you.
33:42Okay.
33:42Collins, accompanied by their wives, received one of their warmest welcomes yet from the British people.
33:47The astronauts admitted that they are starting to feel the strain of the British nation's world tour.
33:54Airman from the planet Earth, my step right along the land.
33:58So I, I've been 69.
34:01And the only thing quite clearly, the light is, uh, especially, uh,
34:08right, backlight engine in front of the land,
34:10that's the only thing I've been doing clearly.
34:32Yeah, what's here?
34:33Is that open?
34:35Airman from the flight, I'm here.
34:48The American astronauts are now arriving at Buckethead Palace.
34:51World famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the...
34:56World famous team of Bloomberg Firefox, Boris tell me why ...
35:00Royal vehicle sales team ofģ”s, Boris, and Michael Collins in the United States.
35:01Who you got home?
35:19Woman 06-12121 for U.S.
35:22Microsoft was driving us here somewhere from the back.
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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 sir
37:09mr. neil armstrong colonel michael collins and colonel edwin aldrin you're all honest
37:13it 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 actually a pilot myself
37:50uh you all right yes sir i just had a cold uh here i it's clean i promise you thank
38:00you
38:02why you've uh you've you've all got colds yes we do
38:12well here we are
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
38:30bless you
38:31sorry
38:33i am i wrote down some questions
38:41see i initially imagined that i wanted to ask questions of you on a technical level
38:47you know what is the the physical experience of g-forces of that magnitude and so on but
38:56well you see i i realize now that the questions i actually want answering are
39:10see you'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 and 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
39:50as an adventurer
39:53and watching you three heroes at work
39:59it 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
40:27neil
40:30well
40:32obviously a sense of relief that we executed the mission successfully
40:36of course and we certainly got some amazing views didn't we
40:41yes we did extraordinary i think i'm not talking so much about
40:46the views in that sense as
40:51perspectives observations of
40:54of our police
40:58uh
41:01to be honest there wasn't much time for that
41:04um
41:06as a pilot you'll know what they
41:08drill into you above all else is protocol
41:11uh procedure
41:13you gotta stick to the rules
41:15yes
41:16well as an astronaut it's double that
41:18mm-hmm
41:20we'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
41:43let 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
42:08so i i got my head down
42:10i closed my eyes
42:12wait for it
42:13but all i could hear was this noise bang bang bang bang
42:18what
42:19bang bang bang
42:20from outside the module
42:22i know you know what it was
42:24what
42:26the water cooler
42:29it was making this noise bang bang bang
42:35the greatest engineers in the world design a rocket that takes us to the moon but they
42:39can't even get us a decent water cooler
42:42so you're right
42:43it was full of surprises
42:47i see
42:53were 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
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
43:29four miles
43:30well
43:31oh is it true you have a bagpiper for an alarm clock
43:33and how many staff do you have here anyway
43:35and how many palaces we heard
43:38twelve
43:38and do you know what all these people in the
43:40in the pictures
43:41are they related to those
43:43oh to the dots
43:45just
43:52that's fine
43:53of course
43:53thank you
43:54we should have a talk
43:55oh
43:57oh
43:59oh
44:00oh
44:00oh
44:00oh
44:01oh
44:02oh
44:02oh
44:02oh
44:02oh
44:03oh
44:03oh
44:03oh
44:03oh
44:08oh
44:15i didn't know what i was thinking
44:17name
44:18i expected them to be giants
44:20gods
44:22In reality, they were just three little men, pale-faced with colds.
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, but one trip to London, then he kills
44:58them.
45:01It's not their fault.
45:03They never wanted to be public figures.
45:06And now, because of one event, they will be 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.
45:24Knowing it could reveal who they actually are and that they will inevitably disappoint.
45:30And for that, they deserve our pity.
45:34Good job there were no little green men.
45:38They could be forgiven for thinking if that's all planet Earth has got to offer.
45:43Let's give the place a miss.
45:46Let's give the place.
45:47Let's give the place.
45:55Let's give it to him to the next stars.
46:11Let's get over that.
46:12This is the one.
46:13Let's give the place.
46:14Let's give a nice, man.
48:19I can't even say what kind of crisis.
48:24That, that, crisis.
48:29And, of course, one's read or heard about other people hitting that crisis.
48:33And just like them, you look in all the usual places, resort to all the usual things to try and
48:39make yourself feel better.
48:44Some of which I can admit to in this room, and some of which I probably shouldn't.
48:55My mother died recently.
49:11She saw that something was amiss.
49:21She saw that something was missing in her youngest child, her only son.
49:32Faith.
49:38How's your faith?
49:39She asked me.
49:47I'm here to admit to you that I've lost it.
49:56And without it, what is there?
50:04The loneliness and emptiness and anticlimax of going all that way to the moon to find nothing but haunting desolation.
50:19Ghostly silence.
50:23Gloom.
50:26That is what faithlessness is.
50:31As opposed to finding wonder, ecstasy, the miracle of divine creation, God's design and purpose.
50:45What am I trying to say?
50:48I'm trying to say that the solution to our problems, I think, is not in the ingenuity of the rocket
51:00or the science or the technology or even the bravery.
51:09No, the answer is in here.
51:14Or here or wherever it is that faith resides.
51:23And so, Dean Woods, having ridiculed you for what you and these poor, blocked, lost souls
51:39We're trying to achieve here in St. George's house.
51:45I now find myself full of respect.
51:49And admiration.
51:52And not a small part of desperation.
52:00As I come to say...
52:05Help.
52:10Help.
52:11Help me.
52:14Help me.
52:23Help me.
52:23And to admit...
52:26While those three astronauts deserve all our praise and respect for their undoubted heroism,
52:31I was more scared coming here to see you today than I would have been going up in any bloody
52:35rocket.
52:47to the next time.
53:03Love to
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