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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 many people
03:31People think
03:40I think
03:42To the next person
03:43To the next couple of years
03:43I'm gonna
04:44Honestly.
04:45Church?
04:46Hmm.
04:47There's a chance to take stock, reflect on the past week, think ahead to the next.
04:52And get a diary for that.
04:54And to think of life's bigger questions.
04:57Except one doesn't.
04:58One mainly thinks about what a lot of dreary nonsense the dean is talking about.
05:02Why doesn't he shut up?
05:03He's been with us for nearly 20 years.
05:05That might make him loyal.
05:06It does not make him interested.
05:08Hello there.
05:08Good morning, Mr.
05:09They have mouths, but they speak not.
05:13Eyes have they, but they see not.
05:16They have ears, but they hear not.
05:19Uh, noses have they, but they, uh, uh, um.
05:30See?
05:31Sure.
05:33It's not a sermon.
05:34It's a general anaesthetic.
05:36Ah, but they smell not.
05:39They that make them are alike unto them.
05:42So is everyone that trusteth.
05:44That's it.
05:45That's the last time.
05:46And so the Lord teaches.
05:48Now, on Sunday, while you lot are in here, I'm going to spend this hour doing something useful.
05:53But unto his name give glory, nor to false idols either.
06:06Ah.
06:09Michael?
06:10Ma'am?
06:11Goodbye.
06:15Is it possible, do you think, the Dean might have reached, how can I put this kindly, the moment of
06:22his own obsolescence?
06:24I noticed one or two people struggling to stay awake.
06:26We could discreetly start the search for a replacement.
06:30Could be.
06:31Someone with a bit of oomph.
06:33I think so.
06:34Zest.
06:35That's it.
06:35Peck.
06:36Yes, thank you.
06:37Vim.
07:12All right.
07:12Vim.
07:16And so here, at Cape Kennedy.
07:19We're all up to the moon this morning.
07:22Are you watching?
07:25the big moon express
07:27all ready to leave platform 39
07:29here at Cape Kennedy on time
07:31in about 30 minutes
07:33this enormous
07:35event which uniquely unites
07:37all the world
07:38because all the world should be interested
07:41in this journey
07:43and after this journey we on earth
07:45can never be the same
07:46this edition should be set
08:04where is she
08:06if I say she
08:08and we're in Buckingham Palace
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
08:19interviewing candidates to become the new dean
08:21anyone good
08:22yes I think we found one
08:24how old
08:25same age as you I'd say
08:26and a good fit
08:27for what
08:29for the job I've asked him to do
08:3512
08:3511
08:3610
08:379
08:39ignition sequence
08:406
08:425
08:434
08:443
08:442
08:451
08:46lift off
08:48we have a lift off
08:5032 minutes past the hour
08:52lift off on Apollo 11
08:55extraordinary
08:57what men
08:58what coach
08:59tower is clear
09:00we've got a roll
09:01first
09:01Neil Armstrong reporting
09:04the rolling picture program
09:05which puts Apollo 11
09:0611
09:13Houston thrushes go
09:14all engines
09:15all engines
09:15you're looking good
09:17all engines
09:17roger
09:18you're loud and clear
09:18Houston
09:23we got skirt
09:24sim
09:26roger
09:26we confirm
09:27skirt
09:27sim
09:29tower's going
09:30roger tower
09:32Neil Armstrong confirming
09:34both the engine skirt separation
09:36and the launch escape tower separation
09:38hello
09:39this is Houston
09:55Apollo 11 has now completed its trans lunar
09:55Apollo 11 has now completed its trans lunar injection
10:10C
10:10Burn, meaning it is free of Earth's orbit and traveling at the colossal 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,
10:31drifts forward a 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.
11:17He has a request.
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.
11:28Well, actually, he's here now.
11:31Hello?
11:37Your Royal Highness.
11:40How can I help?
11:41In the process of moving in, my wife and I, we couldn't help noticing that there were a large number
11:46of buildings on the estate of Windsor that appear to be empty and unused.
11:50I mean, specifically, the old Cannons Cloisters, one or two of the buildings on Denton's Commons, all the houses on
11:58the North Walls, the old residences of the Minor Cannons.
12:01I realize this is quite forward of me, but I was wondering if I could make a request to use
12:07one of them.
12:08Well, you don't like the home we've given you?
12:11No.
12:13This wouldn't be as a home.
12:15For a long time now, I've had a dream, an ambition to start an academy or conservatoire.
12:23What for?
12:24Personal and spiritual growth.
12:28Something that has struck me from my own experience, but also from observing it in, well, in others, is that
12:36you get to a certain age and you hit a ceiling.
12:39A crisis, if you will.
12:41You lose perspective, get into a slump.
12:45It's quite common among businessmen and executives, and it's no different for clergymen.
12:50We see a particularly high level of dissatisfaction among mid-career clergymen, and I thought one of these buildings in
12:57its idyllic setting would be a great place for priests to come and recharge, reflect, raise their game.
13:08By doing what?
13:11Talking, reading, thinking.
13:15May I suggest that your concept is flawed?
13:17Good. You don't raise your game by talking or thinking.
13:22You raise your game through action.
13:24Like this.
13:26And this is how you get out of a slump.
13:28But if one of those buildings is free and you want to fill it with hot air and thought, then
13:33be my guest.
13:35Thank you, sir.
13:46We don't have to wait long now.
13:48Seventeen minutes and counting.
13:51The landing craft has separated from the command module and has begun its descent to the surface of the moon.
13:56Armstrong 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...
14:05And tell the Queen.
14:06Yes, thank you.
14:10Andrew, darling, it's time.
14:12Edward.
14:15Edward.
14:16Time to wake up.
14:19Come on, dressing gown.
14:22Come 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.
14:34Thank you, ma'am.
14:35Of course it's all.
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.
14:46Our prayers and the whole world are pioneers of the heavens.
14:51Come on, space, I've got it.
14:53Come on.
14:53Come on.
14:54Hurry up.
14:55Over the surface of the moon now.
14:59They're land in sight.
15:00Chosen for its smoothness, but not entirely.
15:02Dude, take her in, right now.
15:04The slightest impacted rock or crater could disable the lunar module, leaving them stranded from the moon.
15:11No, Robert's back.
15:14I'm getting a little fluctuation in the AV boulders now.
15:19Roger.
15:20John, hurry up.
15:21We're going to miss it.
15:22Yes.
15:25He's gone to manual control.
15:27Something's wrong.
15:28He doesn't look real, I know.
15:30He's a super...
15:34What'll he believe they can't land?
15:36What are you saying?
15:38They'll run out of fuel.
15:39Quiet, please.
15:41Just shh.
15:42Sshh.
15:43Shh.
15:43Please.
16:08Man on the moon.
16:11Man has landed.
16:13Man on the moon.
16:15Man on the moon.
16:16Man on the moon.
16:18Did you see?
16:19As we watch these images tonight, we are united across the world in a uniformed space of
16:28wonder.
16:28Never before has the entire planet-
16:31No, we're going to find it.
16:33It's a market for humanity.
16:35To each of us-
16:36Meteor.
16:38To each of us, it is a story.
16:43This is even divine, and yet all of us, regardless of race, sex, or religious belief, we are
16:53united right now in this singular human achievement.
16:58Okay, Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now.
17:01I'm at the foot of the ladder.
17:03The land footbeds are only depressed in the surface about one or two inches, although
17:12the surface appears to be very, very fine-grained as you get close to it.
17:17It's almost like a powder around there.
17:21It's very fine.
17:25I'm going to step off the land now.
17:29That's one small step for man, one 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 on 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,
18:15is likely to inspire an unprecedented shift in our thinking.
18:20Beautiful view.
18:21Is that something?
18:23Magnificent sight out here.
18:26Magnificent desolation.
18:38Magnificent desolation…
18:43Mr Governor, ladies and gentlemen,
18:45the West Coast and horse,
18:46the some other merry160 explode-and-or-series...
18:50I very much appreciate the honour that you have bestowed on me by your invitation to the mill of Thomas
18:57Burnley and Starrer here in Yorkshire.
19:02The groundbreaking work you are doing here by the Burnley.
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 people who are in the hospital are in
19:34the hospital.
19:41We're looking into 178, but even 3-0, moving to team traffic.
20:13Near-eye.
20:16You have control?
20:17I have control.
20:22What are you doing, sir?
20:25This isn't on the flight, Charles.
20:27There's no other traffic.
20:37Sir?
20:41Sir, the service ceiling for this aircraft is 45,000 feet.
20:45You and I both don't consider trying to leave your land.
20:47Sir, you...
20:54Oh, my God.
21:28God, isn't it beautiful?
21:31I'm sure, but we're currently at the very limit of what this aircraft can do.
21:35Perhaps.
21:35But look, they'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 and six
22:07minutes 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 for the
22:57first 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 found a real world.
23:23The promise of space exploration.
23:28Words with one of our new heavens is
23:28to sit behind love with the师ach and the rich man.
23:28The young man had never gotten a real world.
23:28We stand at the Genetic Land.
23:28We stand behind the third andалии.
23:30The young man had never been to meet one of ourhomeammations.
23:31The young man had never heard of us or something.
23:31We stand a split for later on.
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.
25:05I've brought our land lord, 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, sir.
25:16Good morning.
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 and stating what we were
25:32hoping 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, I decided to give myself
25:54a score, and I felt I only merited a fail, D minus.
25:59Oh, dear.
26:01And why was that?
26:03Well, when entering the church, I allowed myself to dream that advancing age would bring
26:11new revelations, insight, a deepening of my faith, a growing flock.
26:20But instead, I find myself in a small rural parish with a dwindling congregation, lowering
26:27attendance.
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, well, it's something that chimed with
26:44one 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.
26:58Elsewhere.
27:00Where, for example?
27:10The moon.
27:11The moon.
27:11I...
27:12I...
27:12The moon.
27:13Yes, sir.
27:16500 million people watch the lunar landing.
27:18Yes.
27:19500 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?
27:56Now we know what the moon is.
27:58Nothing.
28:01Just dust.
28:04Silence.
28:06A monochromatic void.
28:08We see no god behind those rocks and space dust, simply an unknowable vastness.
28:18When I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars that thou hast ordained,
28:30what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him?
28:41Ahem.
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,
29:11get out into the world and bloody well 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.
29:29All 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, like 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, 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, and if after all their tests they're
30:55still standing, would we like an audience with the astronauts?
31:02What?
31:03Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins?
31:06Here at the palace?
31:07Yes.
31:08They're being sent around the world on a victory tour.
31:11Shall I go back with a yes?
31:14My God.
31:16Yes, please.
31:18I thought that would cheer you up.
31:20It does.
31:23Do I need cheering up?
31:28A little.
31:35They're scheduled to arrive at Heathrow Airport at 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 four o'clock, ma'am.
31:56Will we give them anything?
31:57Tea?
31:57Probably not.
31:58We thought it good to keep things moving, no sitting down.
32:01I quite agree.
32:02More 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
32:20time with the astronauts alone, in a separate, private meeting, airman to airman, pilot to
32:30pilots.
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 who I'm going to get.
33:26Landing at London Heathrow Airport from Berlin, the Apollo moon men begin a hectic 22 and
33:32a quarter hour visit that demands the same sort of precision and timing as their mission
33:36in 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
33:47people.
33:47The astronauts admitted that they are starting to feel the strain of their 22 days in the
33:51world tour.
33:54Airman from the planet Earth, might step 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 that's very clearly there.
34:11The light is, uh, flying backlighting into the front of the land.
34:36The light is, uh, flying backlighting into the front of the land.
34:37The light is, uh, flying backlighting into the front of the land.
34:41The light is, uh, flying backlighting into the front of the land.
34:41The light is, uh, flying backlighting into the front of the land.
34:41The light is, uh, flying backlighting into the front of the land.
34:48The American astronauts are now arriving up in the palace.
34:51The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in the...
35:35Your Majesty, Mr. Neil Armstrong.
35:38Hello.
35:39Welcome.
35:39Great pleasure to meet you.
35:41Mrs. Armstrong.
35:42Colonel Michael Collins.
35:45Great pleasure to meet you.
35:53Great pleasure to meet you, young man.
36:03Sir?
36:05Sir?
36:31Please don't tell me you want to talk about children.
36:53They've been waiting long.
36:55Only a few moments, sir.
37:10Mr. Neil Armstrong, Colonel Michael Collins, and Colonel Edwin Aldrin, you're all honest.
37:13It is a great, great honor, gentlemen.
37:17Congratulations, one and all.
37:20Please, do sit down.
37:31There's no need to sit so closely.
37:33As you can see, there's plenty of space.
37:37I noticed you instinctively sat in the same positions as the command module.
37:44Anyway, I don't know 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.
38:11Well, here we are.
38:18I just want to say how much I admire what you've done.
38:21It's just remarkable.
38:25But also to say how much I identify in some way with who you are.
38:30Bless you.
38:31Sorry.
38:33I, um, I wrote down some questions.
38:41See, I initially imagined that I wanted to ask questions of you on a technical level.
38:46You're like, you know, what is the physical experience of G-forces of that magnitude and so on.
38:54But, you see, I realize now that the questions I actually want answering are...
39:10See, you're all too young to understand, I think.
39:17But there comes a time in life when one first really starts to evaluate what one has accomplished.
39:26And because of the position that I've ended up in here, who I've become, um, who 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.
39:51As an adventurer.
39:53As an adventurer.
39:53And watching you three heroes at work.
39:59It was like watching a dream...
40:02Which is...
40:03Why I, I left at the chance to meet with you.
40:07Even if it is just for, em, for ten minutes.
40:09That I might ask...
40:19What your thoughts were
40:23Out there
40:27Neil
40:30Well
40:32Obviously a sense of relief
40:34That we executed the mission successfully
40:36Of course
40:36And we certainly got some amazing views
40:39Didn't we
40:40Yes
40:41Extraordinary
40:42I think I'm not talking so much about
40:45The views in that sense
40:47As
40:50Perspectives
40:52Observations of
40:53Of our
40:56Place
41:01To be honest
41:02There wasn't much time for that
41:05As a pilot
41:07You'll know what they
41:08Drilling you above all else
41:10Is protocol
41:11Or procedure
41:13You gotta stick to the rules
41:15Yes
41:16Well as an astronaut
41:17It's double that
41:18Mm-hmm
41:20We've pretty much spent
41:21Our entire time
41:22With lists in our hands
41:23Ticking things off
41:24Tick check
41:25Tick check
41:26Tick check
41:26Isaac glued to the mission protocol
41:28To such a degree
41:29You never really get to look outside
41:30That's how busy they keep you
41:32Busy
41:32Tight leash
41:33Not to mention most of the time
41:35You're so darn tired
41:36No matter how hard you practice
41:37You never get used to the sleep
41:40Sleep
41:42Neil
41:43Uh
41:43Let me tell his royal highness
41:45About what happened after the moonwalk
41:47I would love to hear
41:51You want us to hear it
41:54Well
41:55After I completed the moonwalk
41:57I watched it all
41:58Every step
42:00I got back into the module
42:03And
42:03Knew
42:04We only had a few hours
42:06To get some rest
42:07Before we took off again
42:08So I
42:09I got my head down
42:10I closed my eyes
42:12Wait for it
42:13But
42:14All I could hear
42:15Was this noise
42:16Bang
42:16Bang
42:17Bang
42:17Bang
42:18What?
42:19Bang
42:19Bang
42:20Bang
42:20From outside the module
42:22I know
42:23You know what it was?
42:24What?
42:26The water cooler
42:29It was making this noise
42:30Bang
42:30Bang
42:30Bang
42:35The greatest engineers in the world
42:37Is on a rocket that takes us to the moon
42:38But they can't even get us a decent water cooler
42:42So you're right
42:43It was full of surprises
42:47I see
42:54Were there any other questions you had for us?
43:07No
43:10Well in that case
43:12Would you mind if we asked you a few questions?
43:15No, of course
43:17What is it like?
43:20What is what like?
43:21Living in a 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
43:28It comes to
43:29Four miles
43:30Uh, well
43:31Oh, is it true you have a bagpiper for an alarm clock?
43:34And how many staff do you have here anyway?
43:35And how many palaces?
43:37We heard
43:38Twelve
43:38Twelve
43:38And do you know all these people in the
43:40In the pictures
43:41Are they related to
43:43Oh, to the dots?
43:52That's mine
43:53Of course
43:53Thank you
44:05One, two, three
44:07Cheese
44:15I don't know what I was thinking
44:17I expected them to be
44:20Giants
44:20Gods
44:22In reality
44:23They were just three little men
44:25Pale-faced
44:26With cults
44:28They have some sympathy
44:30The very qualities that made them perfect for the job
44:33But their lack of flair or imagination
44:36Their sense of duty
44:37And modesty and reliability
44:39Total absence of originality or spontaneity
44:43But that's what makes them perfect in a crisis
44:45And entirely anticlimactic when you meet them in person
44:51Can you imagine
44:53If they go all that way to the moon
44:55And stay healthy
44:56But one trip to London
44:57Then he kills them
45:01It's not their fault
45:03They never wanted to be public figures
45:06And now, because of one event
45:07They will be forever
45:09They delivered as astronauts
45:11But
45:13They disappointed as human beings
45:18They'll spend the rest of their lives in goldfish bowls
45:22Scared to open their mouths
45:24Knowing it could reveal who they actually are
45:27And that they will inevitably disappoint
45:30And for that
45:31They deserve our pity
45:34Good job there were no
45:36Little green men
45:38They could be forgiven for thinking
45:40If that's all
45:41Planet Earth has got to offer
45:42Let's give the place a miss
45:44Mm-hmm
45:46Mm-hmm
47:04A drip, drip, drip of doubt, disaffection, disease, discomfort.
47:17People around me have noticed my general irritability.
47:24Now, of course, that's nothing new.
47:28I'm generally a cantankerous sort, but even I would have to admit that there has been more
47:35of it lately, not to mention an almost jealous fascination with the achievements of these
47:43young astronauts, compulsive over-exercising, an inability to find calm or satisfaction or
47:57fulfillment.
48:00And when you look at all these symptoms, of course, it doesn't take a genius to tell you
48:06that they all suggest I'm slap bang in the middle of a...
48:19I can't even say what kind of 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
48:39and make yourself feel better, some of which I can admit to in this room, and some of which
48:47I probably shouldn't.
48:56But my 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.
49:37How's your faith, she asked me.
49:46I'm here to admit to you that I've lost it.
49:56And without it, what is there?
50:05The, the loneliness and emptiness and anti-climax of going all that way to
50:14the moon, to find nothing but haunting desolation, ghostly silence, gloom.
50:27That is what faithlessness is.
50:31As opposed to finding, you know, wonder, ecstasy, the, the miracle of divine creation,
50:41God'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, in the ingenuity
50:59of 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, having ridiculed you for what you and these poor, blocked, lost souls
51:36in the universe, we're trying to achieve here in St. George's house, I now find myself full
51:47of respect and admiration and not a small part of desperation.
52:00As I come to say, help.
52:12Help me.
52:23And to admit, while those three astronauts deserve all our praise and respect for their
52:30undoubted heroism, I was more scared coming here to see you today than I would have been
52:34going up in any bloody rocket.
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