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00:19You
00:19You leave shortly for the moon a journey of two hundred and forty thousand miles now
00:24It's successful. You will be the first man to walk on the surface of another heavenly body
00:29What exactly do you hope to discover?
00:32I think
00:32Even more important than the answers that we'll be able to find will be the fact that we got a
00:37whole bunch of new questions to ask
00:44Neil a Neil Marvin miles Los Angeles Times the descent onto the lunar surface appears to be very challenging
00:51How far will you burn down and how low could you stage an abort if necessary?
00:59We have made some significant improvements in the flight control system in recent months
01:03The power of descent will be handled by the computer to a large degree
01:09Colonel Aldrin, after you land on the moon, what do you anticipate from those first moments?
01:14Any expectations, hopes, anxieties?
01:18Well, uh, immediately upon touchdown, our concern is the integrity of the lunar module
01:24Without that integrity, we cannot safely continue with the lunar surface work
01:29We cannot retract...
01:29Are those the astronauts?
01:31You are humble men and...
01:33Why are they in a box?
01:34So as not to catch any germs
01:35...encapitulate something, uh, deeply human
01:38You're going to sit down or just stand there hovering
01:40And they desire to explore to, uh, push boundaries
01:42Without exploration, without asking questions
01:45Are we not desperate for a sort of, uh, stasis as a species?
01:50The American State Department asked if I wanted to send a message
01:53Not sure...
01:54What kind of message?
01:55For the astronauts to leave on the moon
01:57But I probably...
01:57They approached a handful of individuals from around the globe
02:00A cross-section of human civilization
02:02To provide a message of a shared and common humanity
02:06What did you say?
02:08On behalf of the British people, I salute the skill and courage
02:11That have brought man to the moon
02:13May this endeavor increase the knowledge and well-being of mankind
02:19Well, I feel very best
02:24How will it be, um, communicated?
02:27On a disc, apparently
02:29What kind of disc?
02:30A silicon disc
02:31They sent a picture
02:32A tiny disc
02:33With tiny, microscopic inscriptions in golden lettering
02:37From planet Earth, July 1969
02:40Which they intend to leave in a little white pouch
02:42With an olive branch
02:44An olive branch?
02:45Means for the little green men to wait a bite
02:54I'm going to bed
02:55I've been, uh...
02:57Conducted in any kind of, uh...
02:58Undue haste
02:59Owned church tomorrow is at nine
03:01Not ten
03:02Of course there was a good deal of concern
03:04In our own minds
03:05And many other people in the organization
03:07That all these things
03:08Over the descent
03:09And surface
03:10Would fall into place
03:11In time
03:12At this point in time
03:14In the 1990s
03:22And this point in time
03:22There's a new that are just
03:22In the center
03:28Of the new
03:30The new
03:30The new
03:30The new
03:31The new
03:31The new
03:31The new
03:31The new
03:32The new
03:32The new
04:42What does it do for you?
04:45Honestly.
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 interesting.
05:09They have mouths, but they speak not.
05:13Eyes have they, but they see not.
05:16They have ears, but they hear not.
05:20Noses have they, but they...
05:30You see?
05:33It's not a sermon, it's a general anaesthetic.
05:36Ah, but they smell not.
05:39They that make them are alike unto them.
05:42So is everyone that trusteth.
05:44That's it, that's the last time.
05:46And so the Lord teaches...
05:48Now, on Sunday, while you lot are in here, I'm going to spend this hour doing something useful.
05:53But unto his name give glory, nor to false idols either.
06:09Michael?
06:10Ma'am?
06:11Goodbye.
06:15Is it possible, do you think, the dean might have reached...
06:20How can I put this kindly?
06:21...the moment of his own obsolescence?
06:23I 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, we are all up to the moon this morning.
07:21Are you watching?
07:25The big moon express, all ready to leave Platform 39 here at Cape Kennedy on time in about 30 minutes.
07:34This enormous event, which uniquely unites all the world, because all the world should be interested in this journey.
07:43And after this journey, we on Earth can never be the same.
07:47This edition should be planned.
08:04Where is she?
08:06Who, sir?
08:06If I say she, and we're in Buckingham Palace, who 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 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.
08:48We have a liftoff.
08:5032 minutes past the hour.
08:52Liftoff in Apollo 11.
08:57What man, what coach?
08:59Tower clear.
09:00We've got a roll program.
09:03Neil Armstrong reporting.
09:04The rolling picture program, which puts Apollo 11.
09:1311 Houston thrusters go.
09:15All engines, you're looking good.
09:17Roger.
09:18You're loud and clear, Houston.
09:23We've got skirt set.
09:25Roger, 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
10:13and traveling at the colossal speed of 24,200 miles an hour towards 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,
10:32drifts 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?
11:38Your 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.
11:50I mean, specifically, the old Canons Cloisters, one or two of the buildings on Denton's Commons.
11:57All the houses on the north walls, the old residences of the minor Canons, I realize this is quite forward
12:04of me, but I was wondering if I could make a request to use one of them.
12:08Well, you don't like the home.
12:10You don't like the home we've given you?
12:11No.
12:22No.
12:25No.
12:25No.
12:25No.
12:26No.
12:33No.
12:45No.
12:47No.
12:54No.
12:59No.
13:07No.
13:15No.
13:15No.
13:15No.
13:19No.
13:34No.
13:36No.
13:39No.
13:44No.
13:53No.
14:04No.
14:07No.
14:10Andra, darling, it's time.
14:12Edward.
14:15Edward, time to wake up.
14:20Come on, dressing gown.
14:22Come on, Edward, hurry up.
14:25Hold on.
14:25Let's go.
14:26Come on.
14:28It's a very exciting evening, isn't it?
14:30It certainly is.
14:31Are you able to join us for a drink at all?
14:33That would be very nice, thank 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,
14:41he'll be entirely cut off from the rest of humanity.
14:43The loneliest man in the universe.
14:46Our prayers and the whole world
14:48are pioneers of the heavens.
14:51Come on, space.
14:52Come on.
14:53Come on.
14:55Up the surface of the moon now.
14:59They're land in sight.
15:00Chosen for its smoothness, but not entirely.
15:02Do take a seat.
15:03The slightest impacted rock or crater
15:06could disable the lunar module,
15:08leaving them stranded from the moon.
15:11Drink, sir.
15:11Robert's back.
15:12Robert's back.
15:14I'm getting a little fluctuation in the, uh,
15:17in the, uh, boulders now.
15:19Are they in?
15:19Yes.
15:20John, hurry up.
15:21We're going to visit.
15:22Yes.
15:23What are they saying?
15:24Look, sir.
15:25He's gone to manual control.
15:27Something's wrong.
15:28Doesn't look real, I know.
15:30Jesus, sir.
15:31What are they saying?
15:35They can't land.
15:38They're going to run out of fuel.
15:40Quiet!
15:41Please.
15:41Just shh.
15:43Shhh.
15:43Please.
16:09Man on the moon.
16:11Man has landed.
16:13On the moon.
16:17Did you see?
16:19Did you see?
16:19Did you see?
16:20As we watch these images tonight,
16:22we are united across the world in a uniformed space of wonder.
16:28Never before has the entire planet...
16:31No, we're trying to move.
16:33It's such remarkable humanity.
16:36To each of us...
16:36Meteor.
16:38To each of us...
16:39This is historic.
16:41The evil has landed.
16:44This is even divine.
16:45Can you believe they're on the moon?
16:46And yet, all of us, regardless of race, sex or religious belief,
16:52we are united 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.
17:11Although the surface appears to be very, very fine-grained as you get close to it.
17:17It's almost like a powder.
17:20The ground net is 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.
17:51This is a powerful reminder of our capacity for greatness as a species.
17:57Not simply the engineering triumph represented here today,
18:01but the triumph of human ambition.
18:04The desire to reach quite literally for the stars.
18:08And I think this new perspective,
18:11seeing the Earth from space,
18:13in all our unity and cohesion,
18:15is likely to inspire an unprecedented shift in our thinking.
18:19Beautiful view.
18:21Is that something?
18:23Magnificent sight out here.
18:26Magnificent desolation.
18:43Mr. Governor, ladies and gentlemen,
18:45the seemed members of the rural textile delegation,
18:50I very much appreciate the honour you have bestowed on me by your invitation to the mill
18:57of Thomas Burnley and Starrer here in Yorkshire.
19:02The groundbreaking work you are doing here by the Burnley's Black Forest.
19:10There comes a time, a moment in everyone's experience, where dentures and other oral
19:18prosthetics become an indispensable fact of life.
19:23According to last year's Adult Dental Health Survey, 37%...
19:42...I'm working in the 1-M-A-S-A-T-3-0, motion to bring traffic.
19:48No doubt about it.
19:51So...
20:12...me-ay?
20:16you have control i have control
20:21what are you doing sir
20:25this isn't on the flight charles there'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 from your land
20:47sir
20:47you
20:53you
20:58you
20:59you
21:01you
21:01you
21:16you
21:17you
21:17you
21:28God, isn't it beautiful?
21:31I'm sure, but we're currently at the very limit
21:33of what this aircraft can do.
21:35Perhaps, but look.
21:37We've also lived.
21:40Just for a minute.
22:03The first men on the moon lifted off on the first stage
22:06of their journey home an hour and six minutes ago.
22:08A new chapter in human history has opened.
22:11The 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
22:51will be to arrive where we started
22:55and know the place for the first time.
22:59Those words by T.S. Eliot
23:01have never run more true.
23:03We stand at the dawn of a new age of space exploration.
23:06The promise of space has never run more.
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, 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, now?
24:31Why not?
24:34Fine.
24:34Get 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, 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.
25:33Perhaps we should recap for His Royal Highness.
25:39Michael.
25:40Oh.
25:42Well, I'm here because, having recently reached a particular age...
25:49I won't ask.
25:51I decided to give myself a score, and I felt I only merited a fail, D-minus.
26:00Oh, dear.
26:01And why was that?
26:03Well, when entering the church, I allowed myself to dream that advancing age would bring new revelations,
26:13insight, a deepening of my faith, a growing flock.
26:20But instead, I find myself in a small, rural parish with a dwindling congregation, lowering attendance.
26:28Right.
26:30And this has left you with a sense of disappointment, of underachievement, and directionlessness.
26:37Oh, yes.
26:38That sense of directionlessness and redundancy is something that chimed with one or two others here.
26:45Because of how the public has turned away from us, turned away from the church.
26:50It's clear we are failing to connect with people.
26:54More and more people are finding their spiritual needs being met elsewhere.
27:00Where, for example?
27:10The moon.
27:11I...
27:12The moon.
27:13Yes, sir.
27:15Five hundred million people watch the lunar landing.
27:18Yes.
27:19Five hundred million people getting from televisions, what they used to get from the church.
27:24A sense of coming together, a sense of community, of awe, of wonder.
27:28Well, that was part of a wider shift, too, we agreed, from religion to science.
27:32The greater the achievements in science, the more mysteries are explained, the more questions
27:38are answered, the less need there is for a god to provide answers.
27:45I'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.
28:00Nothing.
28:01Just dust.
28:04Silence.
28:06Monochromatic void.
28:08We see no god behind those rocks and space dust.
28:13Simply an unknowable vastness.
28:18When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars that thou hast
28:28ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest
28:36him?
28:45Any thoughts, sir?
28:52Me?
29:01I'll tell you what I think.
29:03I've never heard such a load of pretentious, self-piteous nonsense.
29:08What you lot need to do is to get off your backsides, get out into the world, and bloody
29:12world, do something.
29:13That is why you're all so, so lost.
29:19I believe that there is an imperative within man, all men, to make a mark.
29:25Action is what defines us.
29:27Action, not suffering.
29:29All this sitting around, thinking and talking.
29:33Let me ask you this.
29:34Do you think those astronauts up there are catatonic like you lot?
29:39Of course not.
29:40They are too busy achieving something spectacular.
29:44And as a result, they are at one with the world.
29:47They're one with their god.
29:49And happy.
29:53That's my advice.
29:55Model yourselves on men of action.
29:57Like Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins.
30:00I mean, these men score A triple plus.
30:04They've got the answers.
30:05Not a bunch of navel-gazing underachievers infecting one another with gaseous doom.
30:14If you do opt for action, you can start by cleaning up this bloody floor.
30:27Oh, not again.
30:28Around the same time we were asked by the American State Department.
30:31It's the second time this week.
30:32If we'd send that message to the moon on the silicon disc.
30:34You were also asked another question.
30:36On how many occasions is the British royal family forced to eat venison each year?
30:40No.
30:41Honestly, I think if I eat any more of this stuff, I'm going to start growing antlers.
30:46Are you listening?
30:47Yes.
30:48I'm all ears.
30:49Little brown furry ones.
30:51Well, provided they make it back to Earth in one piece, and if after all their tests they're
30:55still standing, would we like an audience with the astronauts?
31:03What? Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins?
31:06Here at the palace?
31:07Yes.
31:08They're being sent around the world on a victory tour.
31:11Shall I go back with a yes?
31:14My God.
31:16Yes, please.
31:18I thought that would cheer you up.
31:20It does.
31:23Do I need cheering up?
31:28A little.
31:35They're scheduled to arrive at Heathrow Airport at 2 p.m.
31:38From there, they will be taken directly to the American Embassy, Gropen Square, for a
31:41meeting with the U.S. Ambassador.
31:43From there, they will come to Buckingham Palace for an audience with Her Majesty's the Queen,
31:47Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, His Royal Highness, Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret,
31:50Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward.
31:53And what time will that be?
31:54Around 4 o'clock, ma'am.
31:56Will we give them anything?
31:57Tea?
31:57Probably not.
31:58We thought it good to keep things moving, no sitting down.
32:01I quite agree.
32:02More than half an hour from arrival to departure.
32:06Great.
32:11I'd like to make a request, if I may.
32:15Sir.
32:16Instead of being herded in with everyone else, I was wondering if I might be allowed some time
32:21with the astronauts alone, in a separate, private meeting.
32:27Airman to airman to airman, pilot to pilots.
32:32I'll speak to the Ambassador, but I'm sure it would be possible our end.
32:39Would 15 minutes be enough?
32:41Fifteen minutes?
32:43They are on a very tight schedule, I believe.
32:46To discuss mankind's greatest achievement.
32:52No.
32:54It's nowhere near enough.
32:59I can see it's who I'm going to get.
33:01I can see it's who I'm going to get.
33:06So...
33:28The Apollo men begin a hectic 22 and a quarter hour visit that demands the same sort of precision
33:35and timing as their mission in space. The world-famous man on the moon team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
33:41and Michael Collins, accompanied by their wives, received one of their warmest welcomes yet from the British people. The astronauts
33:48admitted that they are starting to feel the strain of their winter-to-nation world tour.
33:53Airman from the planet Earth, marks left right along the land.
33:59Arise, IP69.
34:03Everything's quite clearly. The light is, uh, especially, uh, flying backlight into the front of the land.
34:10That's everything is very clearly.
34:20Airman from the planet Earth
34:31Bear, we'll hear you.
34:33Is that open?
34:35I've never complied out here.
34:48The American astronauts are now arriving at Bucketham Palace.
34:51The world famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
35:35Your Majesty.
35:36Mr. Neil Armstrong.
35:38Hello.
35:39Welcome.
35:39Great pleasure to meet you.
35:40Mrs. Armstrong.
35:42Hello.
35:42Colonel Michael Collins.
35:44Nice to meet you.
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.
37:11Colonel Michael Collins.
37:12And Colonel Edwin Aldrin.
37:13You're all honest.
37:13It is a great, sir.
37:15Great honour, gentlemen.
37:17Congratulations, sir.
37:19One and all.
37:21Sir?
37:21Please, 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.
37:50You all right?
37:51Yes, sir.
37:52I just had a cold.
37:55Here.
37:57I...
37:57It's clean, I promise you.
38:03Why, you've...
38:05You've all got colds.
38:07Yes, we do.
38:12Well, here we are.
38:18I just want to say how much...
38:19I admire what you've done.
38:22It's just remarkable.
38:25Um...
38:25But also to say how much I identify in some way with...
38:28with who you are.
38:30Bless you.
38:31Sorry.
38:34I, um...
38:36I wrote down some questions.
38:40You see, I initially imagined that I wanted to ask questions of you on a technical level.
38:46You're like, you know, what is the physical experience of G-forces of that magnitude and so on.
38:54But...
38:57You see, I...
38:59I 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...
39:34Um...
39:35who I'm married to...
39:39Um...
39:40I've...
39:42Well, I've not been able to achieve the things I would have liked to.
39:47As a man.
39:48As a...
39:50As an adventurer.
39:53And watching you three heroes at work...
39:58It...
39:59It was like watching a dream.
40:02Which is...
40:03why I...
40:04I leapt at the chance to meet with you.
40:07Even if it is just for...
40:08for ten minutes.
40:09That I might ask...
40:19What your thoughts were...
40:23out there?
40:26Uh...
40:27Neil?
40:31Well...
40:32Uh...
40:32Obviously...
40:33Uh...
40:33A sense of relief that we executed the mission successfully.
40:36Of course.
40:37And we certainly got some amazing views.
40:39Didn't we?
40:40Yes.
40:42Extraordinary.
40:42Uh...
40:43I think I'm not talking so much about...
40:45the views in that sense.
40:47Uh...
40:48Uh...
40:48As...
40:50Perspectives.
40:52Uh...
40:52Observations of...
40:54Of our...
40:56Place.
41:00Uh...
41:01To be honest, there wasn't much time for that.
41:05Um...
41:06As a pilot, you'll know what they...
41:08drill into you above all else is protocol.
41:12Uh...
41:12Procedure.
41:13Mm-hmm.
41:14You gotta stick to the rules.
41:15Yes.
41:16Well, as an astronaut, it's double that.
41:19Mm-hmm.
41:20We've pretty much spent our entire time with lists in our hands...
41:23ticking things off.
41:24Mm-hmm.
41:25Tick, check.
41:25Tick, check.
41:26Eyes are glued to the mission protocol to such a degree...
41:29you never really get to look outside.
41:31That's how busy they keep you.
41:32Busy.
41:33Tight leash.
41:33Not to mention, most of the time you're so darn tired.
41:36Mm-hmm.
41:36No matter how hard you practice, you never get used to the sleep.
41:40Sleep.
41:41Mm-hmm.
41:43Neil, uh...
41:44Can you tell His Royal Highness about what happened after the moonwalk?
41:48Uh...
41:50I would love to hear.
41:51You'd love us to hear it.
41:52Yeah.
41:55Well, uh...
41:56After I completed the moonwalk...
41:57I-I watched it all.
41:58Every...
41:59Step.
42:01I 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...
42:09I got my head down.
42:11I closed my eyes.
42:12Wait for it.
42:13But...
42:14All I could hear was this noise.
42:16Bang.
42:16Bang.
42:17Bang.
42:18Bang.
42:18What?
42:19Bang.
42:20Bang.
42:21From outside the module.
42:23I know.
42:23You know what it was?
42:24What?
42:26The water cooler.
42:30The...
42:35The greatest engineers in the world designed 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.
42:54Were there any other questions you had for us?
43:07No.
43:09That's...
43:11Well, in-in that case, would 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...
43:22In 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?
43:30Uh...
43:31Well...
43:31Oh, is it true you have a bagpiper for an alarm clock?
43:34Yeah.
43:34And how many staff do you have here anyway?
43:35And how many palaces?
43:37We heard...
43:38Twelve.
43:39And do you know all these people in the...
43:41In the pictures?
43:41Are they...
43:42Are you related to...
43:43Oh, did you not sleep?
43:44Oh, did you not sleep?
43:54No.
43:57No.
43:59Oh!
44:01Yes!
44:02It's almost all.
44:05Oh!
44:06Oh!
44:06Oh!
44:08Oh!
44:08Oh!
44:08Oh!
44:12Oh!
44:15I don't know what I was thinking.
44:17I expected them to be giants, gods.
44:22In reality, they were just three little men,
44:25pale-faced with cults.
44:28I 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.
44:39A total absence of originality or spontaneity or...
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 if they go all that way to the moon
44:55and stay healthy with one trip to London and he kills them?
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.
45:09Hmm.
45:10They delivered as astronauts, but...
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, they deserve our pity.
45:34Good job there were no little green men.
45:38They could be forgiven for thinking
45:40if that's all planet Earth has got to offer.
45:43Let's give the place a miss.
45:44Hmm.
46:08I don't think so long.
46:57There wasn't a specific moment when it started.
47:01It's been more of a gradual thing.
47:05A drip, drip, drip of doubt.
47:12Disaffection, disease, discomfort.
47:17People around me have noticed my general irritability.
47:24Now, of course, that's nothing new.
47:28I'm generally a cantankerous sort.
47:31But even I would have to admit that there has been more of it lately.
47:36Not to mention an almost jealous fascination with the achievements of these young astronauts.
47:45Compulsive 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's 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.
48:56My mother died recently.
49:11She, she saw that something was amiss.
49:17It's a good word, that.
49:21Amiss.
49:22She saw that something was missing in her youngest child.
49:27Her only son.
49:32Faith.
49:38How's your faith, she asked me.
49:47I'm here to admit to you that I've lost it.
50:04The loneliness and emptiness and anticlimax of going all that way to the moon to find nothing but haunting desolation.
50:21Ghostly silence.
50:24Gloom.
50:26That is what faithlessness is.
50:31As opposed to finding, you know, wonder, ecstasy, the miracle of divine creation, God's design and purpose.
50:45What am I trying to say?
50:49I'm trying to say that the solution to our problems, I think, is not in the ingenuity of the rocket,
51:01or 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 were trying to achieve
51:41here in St. George's house,
51:44I now find myself full of respect and admiration, and not a small part of desperation.
52:00As I come to say, help.
52:12Help.
52:13Help me.
52:23And to admit, while those three astronauts deserve all our praise and respect for their undoubted heralds,
52:31I was more scared coming here to see you today than I would have been going up in any bloody
52:35rocket hall.
53:07Yes.
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