- 5 hours ago
The Crown S03E07 [Full Movie] [English Subs]Full EP - Full
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:19You
00:19You leave shortly for the moon a journey of two hundred and forty thousand miles now
00:24It's successful. You will be the first man to walk on the surface of another heavenly body
00:29What exactly do you hope to discover?
00:32I think
00:32Even more important than the answers that we'll be able to find will be the fact that we got a
00:37whole bunch of new questions to ask
00:44Neil a Neil Marvin miles Los Angeles Times the descent onto the lunar surface appears to be very challenging
00:51How far will you burn down and how low could you stage an abort if necessary?
00:59We have made some significant improvements in the flight control system in recent months
01:03The power of descent will be handled by the computer to a large degree
01:09Colonel Aldrin, after you land on the moon, what do you anticipate from those first moments?
01:14Any expectations, hopes, anxieties?
01:18Well, uh, immediately upon touchdown, our concern is the integrity of the lunar module
01:24Without that integrity, we cannot safely continue with the lunar surface work
01:29We cannot retract...
01:29Are those the astronauts?
01:31You are humble men and...
01:33Why are they in a box?
01:34So as not to catch any germs
01:35...encapitulate something, uh, deeply human
01:38You're going to sit down or just stand there hovering
01:40And they desire to explore to, uh, push boundaries
01:42Without exploration, without asking questions
01:45Are we not desperate for a sort of, uh, stasis as a species?
01:50The American State Department asked if I wanted to send a message
01:53Not sure...
01:54What kind of message?
01:55For the astronauts to leave on the moon
01:57But I probably...
01:57They approached a handful of individuals from around the globe
02:00A cross-section of human civilization
02:02To provide a message of a shared and common humanity
02:06What did you say?
02:08On behalf of the British people, I salute the skill and courage
02:11That have brought man to the moon
02:13May this endeavor increase the knowledge and well-being of mankind
02:19Well, I feel very best
02:24How will it be, um, communicated?
02:27On a disc, apparently
02:29What kind of disc?
02:30A silicon disc
02:31They sent a picture
02:32A tiny disc
02:33With tiny, microscopic inscriptions in golden lettering
02:37From planet Earth, July 1969
02:40Which they intend to leave in a little white pouch
02:42With an olive branch
02:44An olive branch?
02:45Means for the little green men to wait a bite
02:54I'm going to bed
02:55I've been, uh...
02:57Conducted in any kind of, uh...
02:58Undue haste
02:59Owned church tomorrow is at nine
03:01Not ten
03:02Of course there was a good deal of concern
03:04In our own minds
03:05And many other people in the organization
03:07That all these things
03:08Over the descent
03:09And surface
03:10Would fall into place
03:11In time
03:12At this point in time
03:14In a way
03:15In the building
03:28As if you're Jon
03:30I'm not as few
03:31Yes!
03:31The land
03:31Through us
03:31And the sea
03:32And the sea
04:34Why do we do this?
04:37Week in, week out.
04:39Like lemmings.
04:42What does it do for you?
04:44Honestly.
04:45Church.
04:47There's a chance to take stock.
04:49Reflect on the past week.
04:51Think ahead to the next.
04:52Get a diary for that.
04:54And to think of life's bigger questions.
04:57Except one doesn't.
04:58One mainly thinks about what a lot of dreary nonsense the dean is talking about.
05:02Why doesn't he shut up?
05:03He's been with us for nearly 20 years.
05:05That might make him loyal.
05:06It does not make him 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.
05:20Noses have they, but they, uh, uh, um, see?
05:32It's not a sermon.
05:34It's a general anesthetic.
05:35Ah, 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,
05:50I'm going to spend this hour doing something useful.
05:53But unto his name give glory,
05:57nor to false idols either.
06:09Michael?
06:10Ma'am?
06:11Goodbye.
06:15Is it possible, do you think,
06:18the dean might have reached,
06:20how can I put this kindly,
06:22the moment of his own obsolescence?
06:24I noticed one or two people struggling to stay awake.
06:26We could discreetly start the search for a replacement.
06:30Goodwill.
06:31Someone with a bit of...
06:32Oomph.
06:33I think so.
06:34Zest.
06:35That's it.
06:35Peck.
06:36Yes, thank you.
06:37Vim.
07:17And so, here at Cape Kennedy,
07:19we are all up to the moon this morning.
07:21Are you watching?
07:24Mighty Saturn V,
07:26the big moon express,
07:27all ready to leave Platform 39
07:29here at Cape Kennedy,
07:31on time in about 30 minutes.
07:34This enormous event,
07:36which uniquely unites all the world,
07:39because all the world should be interested
07:41in this journey.
07:43And after this journey,
07:44we on Earth can never be the same.
07:47This edition should be set.
08:04Where is she?
08:06Who, sir?
08:07If 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,
08:20interviewing candidates to become the new dean.
08:22Anyone good?
08:23Yes, I think we found one.
08:24How old?
08:25Same age as you, I'd say.
08:26Really?
08:27And a good fit.
08:28For what?
08:29For the job I've asked him to do.
08:3512, 11, 10, 9.
08:39Ignition sequence start.
08:416, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
08:48Lift off.
08:48We have a lift off.
08:5032 minutes past the hour.
08:52Lift off on Apollo 11.
08:55Strong.
08:57What men?
08:58What coach?
08:59Tower is clear.
09:00We've got a roll program.
09:02Neil Armstrong reporting
09:04the rolling picture program
09:05with the glitch of Apollo 11.
09:1311 Houston thrushes go.
09:15All engines, you're looking good.
09:17Roger.
09:18You're loud and clear, Houston.
09:23We got skirt sim.
09:26Roger.
09:26We confirmed skirt sim.
09:29Tower's going.
09:30Roger, tower.
09:32Neil Armstrong confirming both
09:34the engine skirt separation
09:36and the launch escape tower separation.
09:39Hello, this is Houston.
09:41Slightly less than one minute
09:43to ignition and everything is go.
09:45Rescue.
09:48Ignition.
09:51We confirmed ignition
10:06Apollo 11 has now completed
10:09its translunar injection bird,
10:11meaning it is free of Earth's orbit
10:13and traveling at the colossal speed
10:15of 24,200 miles an hour
10:18towards the moon.
10:19The astronauts have now completed
10:22what they call
10:22the transposition, docking
10:24and extraction maneuver.
10:25This rather risky procedure
10:27is when the command service module,
10:29Columbia,
10:29detaches from the rest
10:30of the spacecraft,
10:32drifts forward a little,
10:33flips over,
10:34then reattaches
10:34to the lunar module, Eagle.
10:36This new assembly
10:37then detaches
10:38from the final stage
10:39of the Saturn rocket.
10:40As I say,
10:41a hair-raising business,
10:42but it all seems
10:43to have gone off
10:43without a hitch.
10:44Tuesday next week
10:45you will be in Cheshire
10:46to visit the works
10:47of British Salt Limited.
10:49On Wednesday
10:49it's Norfolk
10:50to inaugurate a new gas terminal.
10:52Then on Friday
10:53it's Macclesfield
10:55for the open day
10:56of the Machine Tool
10:57Industry Research Association.
10:59That evening
11:00there will be a dinner
11:01given by the British
11:02Concrete Society
11:03where you have been asked
11:05to present an award.
11:09May I interrupt
11:10Your Royal Highness?
11:12What?
11:12The newly appointed
11:13Dean of Windsor,
11:14Robin Woods,
11:15was wondering
11:16if you could spare him
11:17a moment.
11:17He has a request.
11:18Fine, just put something
11:19in the book.
11:21Another highlight
11:22to look forward to
11:23along with the award show
11:24for the British
11:24Concrete 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
11:42of moving in
11:43my wife and I
11:44we couldn't help noticing
11:45that there were
11:46a large number of buildings
11:47on the estate of Windsor
11:48that appear to be
11:49empty and unused.
11:51Specifically
11:53the old cannons' cloisters,
11:54one or two of the buildings
11:56on Denton's Commons,
11:57all the houses
11:58on the north walls,
11:59the old residences
12:00of the minor cannons.
12:02I realise
12:02this is quite
12:04forward of me
12:05but I was wondering
12:06if I could make a request
12:07to use one of them.
12:08What?
12:09You don't like the home
12:10we've given you?
12:11No.
12:13This wouldn't be as a home.
12:16For a long time now
12:17I've had a dream,
12:18an ambition,
12:19to start an academy
12:20or conservatoire.
12:23What for?
12:24Personal and spiritual growth.
12:28Something that has struck me
12:30from my own experience
12:32but also from observing it
12:33in, well, in others
12:35is that you get to a certain age
12:37and you hit a ceiling.
12:39A crisis, if you will.
12:41You'll lose perspective,
12:43get into a slump.
12:45It's quite common
12:46among businessmen
12:47and executives
12:48and it's no different
12:49for clergymen.
12:51We see a particularly
12:52high level
12:53of dissatisfaction
12:54among mid-career clergymen
12:56and I thought
12:56one of these buildings
12:57in its idyllic setting
12:58would be a great place
13:01for priests
13:02to come and recharge,
13:04reflect,
13:04raise their game.
13:08By doing what?
13:11Talking,
13:12reading,
13:13thinking.
13:15May I suggest
13:16that your concept
13:17is flawed?
13:18You don't raise your game
13:19by talking or thinking.
13:21You raise your game
13:23through action.
13:24Like this.
13:26And this is how
13:27you get out of a slump.
13:28But if one of those buildings
13:30is free
13:30and you want to fill it
13:31with hot air and thought,
13:33then be my guest.
13:35Thank you, sir.
13:46We don't have to wait long now.
13:48Seventeen minutes
13:49and counting.
13:51The landing craft
13:51has separated
13:52from the command module
13:53and has begun its descent
13:54to the surface of the moon.
13:56Armstrong and Aldrin
13:57will now send
13:58the lunar module
13:58into a sort of pirouette
14:00to allow Colin...
14:01Major,
14:01will you read the children?
14:03Yes, sir.
14:03He will confirm
14:04we hope...
14:04And tell 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.
14:20Dressing down.
14:22Come on, Edward.
14:23Hurry up.
14:25Hold on.
14:25Let's go.
14:26Come on.
14:28It's a very exciting evening,
14:29isn't it?
14:30It certainly is.
14:31Are you able to join us
14:32for a drink, Andrew?
14:33That would be very nice.
14:34Thank you, ma'am.
14:35Of course not.
14:36Michael Collins
14:37left alone
14:38in the orbiter now.
14:39Meaning,
14:39when it passes
14:40behind the moon,
14:41he'll be entirely cut off
14:42from the rest of humanity.
14:43The loneliest man
14:44in the universe.
14:46Our prayers
14:47and the whole world
14:48are pioneers
14:50of the heavens.
14:52Come on, space, I've got it.
14:53Come on.
14:54Bye.
14:54Come on.
14:55Above the surface
14:56of the moon now.
14:59They're land in sight,
15:00chosen for its smoothness,
15:02but not entirely.
15:02Dude, take it around, man.
15:03The slightest impact
15:05with rock or crater
15:06could disable the lunar module,
15:08leaving them stranded
15:09from the moon.
15:11No.
15:11Robert's back.
15:14I'm getting a little fluctuation
15:16in the AC boulders now.
15:19Roger.
15:20John, hurry up.
15:21We're going to visit.
15:22Yes.
15:23What are they saying?
15:24He's gone to manual control.
15:27Something's wrong.
15:28Doesn't look great,
15:29I know.
15:30Jesus, I'm so good.
15:34What'll happen if they can't land?
15:36What are you saying?
15:38They'll run out of fuel.
15:40Quiet, please.
15:41Just shh.
15:42Shhh.
15:43Please.
15:44Making up some dust.
15:45Hey?
15:49That's all right.
16:09Man on the moon.
16:11Man has landed on the moon.
16:16Did you see?
16:19As we watch these images tonight,
16:22we are united across the world
16:25in a uniformed space of wonder.
16:28Never before has the entire planet
16:31been such remarkable humanity.
16:35To each of us...
16:36Me, to you all.
16:38To each of us...
16:39This is historic.
16:42This is even divine.
16:45Can you believe they're on the moon?
16:46And yet, all of us,
16:48regardless of race,
16:49sex,
16:51or religious belief,
16:52we are united right now
16:54in this singular human achievement.
16:58Okay, Neil,
16:58we can see you coming down
16:59the ladder now.
17:01I'm, uh,
17:02at the foot of the ladder.
17:04The lamb footbeds
17:05are only, uh,
17:06depressed in the surface
17:08about, uh,
17:09one or two inches.
17:11Although the surface
17:12appears to be
17:14very, very fine-grained
17:16as you get close to it.
17:17It's almost like a powder.
17:20Groundman, uh,
17:21it's very fine.
17:24And, uh,
17:25step off the lamb now.
17:29That's one small step
17:31for man.
17:34One giant leap
17:36for mankind.
17:40And there's a stark beauty
17:42all its own.
17:43It's, uh,
17:43like much of the high desert
17:45of, uh,
17:46the United States.
17:47It's, uh,
17:48different,
17:48but it's very pretty on here.
17:51This is a powerful reminder
17:54of our capacity
17:55for greatness
17:56as a species.
17:57Not simply
17:58the engineering triumph
18:00represented here today,
18:01but the triumph
18:02of human ambition.
18:04The desire
18:05to reach,
18:05quite literally,
18:07for the stars.
18:09And I think
18:10this new perspective,
18:11seeing the Earth
18:12from space
18:13in all our unity
18:14and cohesion
18:15is likely to inspire
18:17an unprecedented shift
18:18in our thinking.
18:19Beautiful view.
18:21Is that something?
18:23Magnificent pride out here.
18:26Magnificent desolation.
18:43Mr. Governor,
18:44ladies and gentlemen,
18:45the esteemed members
18:46of the world
18:47textiles delegation,
18:50I very much appreciate
18:52the honor
18:53that you have bestowed
18:54on me
18:55by your invitation
18:56to the mill
18:57of Thomas Bernstein
18:58here in Yorkshire.
19:02The groundbreaking work
19:03you are doing here
19:05by the Bernstein
19:06of the Black Forest.
19:10There comes a time,
19:11a moment
19:14in everyone's experience
19:15where dentures
19:17and other oral prosthetics
19:19become an indispensable
19:20fact of life.
19:23According to last year's
19:25Adult Dental Health Survey,
19:2737% of the world
19:30is a very important
19:42the work.
19:43Victim into one
19:43that may be
19:44at the level 30,
19:45making the green traffic.
20:13Knee-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 to climb away beyond that.
20:47Sir, you...
21:15Go, go, go.
21:28God, isn't it beautiful?
21:31I'm sure, but we're currently at the very limit of what this aircraft can do.
21:35Perhaps.
21:36But look.
21:37We've also lived.
21:40Just for a minute.
22:03The first men on the moon lifted off on the first stage of their journey home an hour and six
22:07minutes ago.
22:08A new chapter in human history has opened.
22:12The 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 fulfilled.
23:10We're here.
23:27Let's see.
23:28We're here.
23:30We're here.
23:30We're here.
23:44Good morning, sir.
23:45Morning, sir.
23:56Your royal heinous.
23:57Oh, Christ.
24:04Morning.
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 center of recovery and renewal.
24:14I'm sure you do.
24:16We have an interesting group of all ages from 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?
24:31Now?
24:31Why not?
24:34Fine.
24:34Get in.
24:35Hmm.
24:37Do 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, 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 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. D minus.
26:00Oh dear.
26:01And why was that?
26:02Well, when entering the church, I allowed myself to dream that advancing age would bring new revelations.
26:13Insight.
26:15A deepening of my faith.
26:17A growing flock.
26:20But instead, I find myself in a small rural parish with a dwindling congregation, lowering attendance.
26:28Right.
26:30And this has left you with a sense of disappointment, of underachievement and directionlessness.
26:36Oh, yes.
26:38That sense of directionlessness and redundancy is...
26:42Well, it's something that chimed with one or two others here.
26:45Because of how the public has turned away from us.
26:48Turned away from the church.
26:50It's clear we are failing to connect with people.
26:54More and more people are finding their spiritual needs being met elsewhere.
26:58Elsewhere.
27:00Where?
27:01For example.
27:10The moon.
27:11I...
27:12I...
27:12The moon.
27:13Yes, sir.
27:16Five hundred million people watch the lunar landing.
27:19Yes.
27:19Five hundred million people getting from televisions.
27:22What they used to get from the church.
27:24A sense of...
27:25Coming together.
27:26A sense of community.
27:27Of awe.
27:27Wonder.
27:28Well, that was part of a wider shift too, we agreed.
27:31From religion to science.
27:33The 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?
27:54Now 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 lit of pretentious, self-piteous nonsense.
29:08What you lot need to do is to get off your backsides, get out into the world and bloody world
29:12do 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.
30:01I 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.
30:34You were also asked another question.
30:36On how many occasions is the British royal family forced to eat venison each year?
30:40I don't know.
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
31:41for a meeting 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,
31:49Princess 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?
31:57Tea?
31:57Probably not.
31:58We thought it good to keep things moving, no sitting down.
32:01I quite agree.
32:02You know, 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,
32:19I was wondering if I might be allowed some time with the astronauts alone.
32:24In a separate, private meeting.
32:28Airman 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 who I'm going to get.
33:21I can see it's who I'm going to get.
33:27The Apollo moon men.
33:29The Apollo moon men.
33:31The 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 planet of the world tour.
33:53Airman from the planet Earth.
33:56It's right on the land.
33:58It arrives.
33:59It's 69.
34:02Everything quite clearly.
34:04The light is...
34:06...aspecially...
34:07I'm flying backlighting into the front of the way I'm left, they're leaving us very clearly.
34:32Is that open?
34:35I've never complied on you.
34:48The American astronauts are now arriving to Bucketham Palace.
34:51The world famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins...
34:56and the ladies...
35:34your majesty
35:36mr neil armstrong
35:37hello
35:38welcome
35:39mrs 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 it is a great
37:15sir great honor gentlemen congratulations one and all please 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're all right yes sir i just had a cold uh here
37:57i it's clean i promise you
37:59thank you
38:02why you've uh you've you've all got colds
38:06yes we do
38:11well
38:13here we are
38:14i just want to say how much i admire
38:20what you've done it's just remarkable um but also to say how much i identify in some way with
38:28with who you are
38:30um
38:31bless you
38:31sorry
38:33i am
38:36i wrote down some questions
38:41you see i initially imagined that i wanted to ask questions of you on a technical level
38:46you know 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 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 10 minutes that i might ask
40:19what your thoughts were
40:23out there
40:27neil
40:30well uh
40:32obviously 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 extraordinary i think i'm not talking so much about
40:45the views in that sense as
40:51perspectives observations of of our place
40:58uh
41:01to be honest there wasn't much time for that
41:06as a pilot you'll know what they drill into you above all else is protocol
41:12uh procedure
41:13you gotta stick to the rules
41:16well as an astronaut it's double that
41:18uh-huh
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 tight 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
41:50i would love to hear
41:51he wants to hear it
41:55well after i completed the moonwalk
41:57i watched it all every step
42:01i got back into the module and knew we only had a few hours to get some rest before we
42:07took off again
42:08so i i got my head down i closed my eyes wait for it
42:13but all i could hear was this noise bang bang bang bang
42:18what
42:19bang bang bang bang
42:20what from outside the module
42:22i know you know what it was
42:24what
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 they can't even
42:39get 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
43:07but
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 and that if you had the lengths of all the
43:27corridors together it comes to
43:29four miles
43:30uh well oh is it true you have a bagpiper for an alarm clock and how many staff do you
43:35have here
43:35anyway and how many palaces we heard 12 12. and do you know what all these people in the
43:40in the pictures are related to those
43:43oh to the dots
43:52that's fine thank you
44:05one two three
44:15i don't know what i was thinking if i expected them to be giants gods
44:22in reality they were just three little men pale-faced with cults
44:28i have some sympathy the very qualities that made them perfect for the job but their lack of
44:34of flair or imagination their sense of duty and modesty and reliability total absence of
44:41originality 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
45:13they're 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
45:28inevitably disappoint 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
45:58good job
46:00good
46:01good
46:02good
46:02good
46:04good
46:05good
47:05A drip, drip, drip of doubt, disaffection, disease, discomfort.
47:17People around me have noticed my general irritability.
47:24Now, of course, that's nothing new.
47:28I'm generally a cantankerous sort, but even I would have to admit that there has been more of it lately.
47:36And not to mention an almost jealous fascination with the achievements of these young astronauts.
47:46Compulsive over-exercising.
47:48An inability to find calm or satisfaction or fulfillment.
48:00And when you look at all these symptoms, of course, it doesn't take a genius to tell you that they
48:07all suggest I'm slap bang in the middle of a...
48:18I can't even say what kind of crisis.
48:24That, that, crisis.
48:29And, of course, one's read or heard about other people hitting that crisis.
48:33And, you know, just like them, you look in all the usual places, resort to all the usual things to
48:38try and make yourself feel better.
48:44Some of which I can admit to in this room, and some of which I probably shouldn't.
48:56My mother died recently.
49:11She, she saw that something was amiss.
49:17It's a good word there.
49:21Amiss.
49:22She saw that something was missing in her youngest child, 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.
49:55And, without it, what is there?
50:01The...
50:05The loneliness
50:07and emptiness
50:09and anti-climax
50:11of going all that way to the moon
50:14to find nothing
50:17but haunting desolation.
50:20ghostly silence
50:22and gloom.
50:27That is what faithlessness is.
50:31as opposed to finding, you know, wonder, ecstasy, the, the miracle of
50:39divine creation, God's design and purpose.
50:45What am I trying to say?
50:51The solution to our problems, I think, is not in the, in the ingenuity of the rocket, or the science,
51:01or the technology, or even the bravery.
51:09No, the answer is in here, or here, or wherever it is that, the, the faith resides.
51:23And so, Dean Woods,
51:28having ridiculed you for what you and these poor, blocked, lost souls
51:38were, were trying to achieve here in St. George's house,
51:45I now find myself full of respect, and admiration, and not a small part of desperation.
52:00As I come to say,
52:06help.
52:12Help me.
52:23And to admit,
52:26while those three astronauts deserve all our praise and respect for their undoubted heroism,
52:31I was more scared coming here to see you today than I would have been going up in any bloody
52:35rocket.
53:07Yea, thoughts?
53:10As you see.
53:14Yes, I think my song!
53:15No?
53:18No?
53:21No.
Comments