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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
03:21To be continued...
03:24To be continued...
03:28To be continued...
03:31To be continued...
03:42In the final part
04:44Honestly.
04:45Church?
04:46Hmm.
04:47There's a chance to take stock, reflect on the past week, think ahead to the next.
04:52And get a diary for that.
04:54And to think of life's bigger questions.
04:57Except one doesn't.
04:58One mainly thinks about what a lot of dreary nonsense the dean is talking about.
05:02Why doesn't he shut up?
05:03He's been with us for nearly 20 years.
05:05That might make him loyal.
05:06It does not make him interested.
05:08Hello there.
05:08Good morning, Mr.
05:09They have mouths, but they speak not.
05:13Eyes have they, but they see not.
05:16They have ears, but they hear not.
05:19Uh, noses have they, but they, uh, uh, um.
05:30See?
05:31Sure.
05:33It's not a sermon.
05:34It's a general anaesthetic.
05:36Ah, but they smell not.
05:39They that make them are alike unto them.
05:42So is everyone that trusteth.
05:44That's it.
05:45That's the last time.
05:46And so the Lord teaches.
05:48Now, on Sunday, while you lot are in here, I'm going to spend this hour doing something useful.
05:53But unto his name give glory, nor to false idols either.
06:06Ah.
06:09Michael?
06:10Ma'am?
06:11Goodbye.
06:15Is it possible, do you think, the Dean might have reached, how can I put this kindly, the moment of
06:22his own obsolescence?
06:24I noticed one or two people struggling to stay awake.
06:26We could discreetly start the search for a replacement.
06:30Could be.
06:31Someone with a bit of oomph.
06:33I think so.
06:34Zest.
06:35That's it.
06:35Peck.
06:36Yes, thank you.
06:37Vim.
06:42You, Awe you, Awe.
06:53Oh, my.
07:02You, Awe.
07:06What?
07:07You, Awe.
07:08You, Awe.
07:09You, Awe.
07:09Yeah, Ironic, you.
07:09I, Awe.
07:09You, Awe.
07:10You, Awe.
07:11How do you think, awe?
07:17And so, here at Cape Kennedy, we are all up to the moon this morning.
07:24Mighty Saturn V, the big moon express, all ready to leave Platform 39 here at Cape Kennedy, on time, in
07:32about 30 minutes.
07:33This enormous event, which uniquely unites all the world, because all the world should be interested in this journey.
07:43And after this journey, we on Earth can never be the same.
08:04Where is she?
08:06Who, sir?
08:07If I say she, and we're in Buckingham Palace, who do you think I mean?
08:16There you are. I've been looking for you everywhere. Where have you been?
08:19On the telephone, interviewing candidates to become the new dean.
08:22Anyone good?
08:23Yes, I think we found one.
08:24How old?
08:25Same age as you, I'd say.
08:26Really?
08:27And a good fit.
08:28For what?
08:29For the job I've asked him to do.
08:33This is internal, 12, 11, 10, 9, ignition sequence start, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, liftoff, we have a
08:49liftoff, 32 minutes past the hour.
08:52Liftoff on Apollo 11.
08:55Stroud.
08:57What men, what courage.
08:59Tower is clear.
09:00We've got a roll program.
09:02Neil Armstrong reporting the roll and fidget program with the Pitch 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've got skirt ship.
09:26Roger.
09:26We've got skirt ship.
09:29Tower's going.
09:30Launcher 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.
09:45Rescue.
09:48Ignition.
09:51We confirm ignition and I'll throw it down.
09:55Go.
09:55Oh, well, I'll catch you.
09:57Okay, so we can do it.
10:06Apollo 11 has now completed its translunar injection bird, meaning it is free of Earth's orbit and traveling at the
10:14colossal speed of 24,200 miles an hour towards the moon.
10:19The astronauts have now completed what they call the transposition docking and extraction maneuver.
10:25This rather risky procedure is when the command service module, Columbia, detaches from the rest of the spacecraft, drifts forward
10:32a little, flips over, then reattaches to the lunar module, Eagle.
10:36This new assembly then detaches from the final stage of the Saturn rocket, as I say, as I say, a
10:41hair-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.
10:48On Wednesday it's Norfolk to inaugurate a new gas terminal.
10:52Then on Friday it's Macclesfield for the open day of the Machine Tool Industry Research Association.
10:59That evening there will be a dinner given by the British Concrete Society where you have been asked to present
11:05an award.
11:09May I interrupt your Royal Highness?
11:12What?
11:12The newly appointed Dean of Windsor, Robin Woods, was wondering if you could spare him a moment. He has a
11:18request.
11:18Fine. Just, uh, put something in the book.
11:21Another highlight to look forward to, along with the award show for the British Concrete Society.
11:26Is that a joke?
11:27Afraid not, sir.
11:28Actually, he's here now.
11:31Hello?
11:38Your Royal Highness.
11:40How can I help?
11:41In the process of moving in, my wife and I, we couldn't help noticing that there were a large number
11:46of buildings on the estate of Windsor that appear to be empty and unused.
11:50I 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-I realise this is quite forward of me, but I was wondering if I could make a request to
12:07use one of them.
12:08What?
12:09You don't like the home we've given you?
12:11No.
12:13No.
12:14This 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 personal and spiritual growth something that has struck me from my own experience but
12:32also from observing it in well in others is that you get to a certain age and you hit a
12:38ceiling
12:39a crisis if you will you you'll lose perspective get into a slump it's quite common among
12:46businessmen and executives and it's no different for clergymen we see a particularly high level of
12:53dissatisfaction among mid-career clergymen and i thought one of these buildings in its idyllic
12:58setting would be a great place for priests to come and recharge reflect raise their game
13:08by doing what talking reading thinking may i suggest that your concept is flawed you don't raise your
13:19game by talking or thinking you raise your game through action now like this and this is how you
13:27get out of a slump but if if one of those buildings is free and you want to fill it
13:31with hot air and
13:32thought and be my guest thank you sir we don't have to wait long now 17 minutes and counting the
13:51landing craft has separated from the command module and it's begun its descent to the surface of the
13:55moon armstrong and aldrin will now send the lunar module into a sort of pirouette to allow colin
14:01measure will you read the children yes sir and uh tell the queen please thank you sir
14:09hundred darling it's time edward edward time to wake up
14:19come on dressing down come on edward hurry up
14:24hold on let's go come on it's very exciting isn't it certainly is are you able to join us for
14:32a drink
14:32at all that would be very nice thank you ma'am of course at all michael collins left alone in
14:38the
14:38orbiter now meaning when it passes behind the moon he'll be entirely cut off from the rest of
14:42humanity villainous man in the universe our prayers our prayers the whole world
15:02but not entirely but not entirely slightest impacted rock or crater could disable the lunar module
15:08drink sir he's gone to manual control something's wrong
15:36it doesn't look real quiet please just shh shh please
16:08man on the moon man has landed
16:15did you see uh as we watch these images tonight we are united across the world in a
16:26uniformed space of wonder never before has the entire planet
16:43this is even divine and yet all of us regardless of race sex or religious belief we are united right
16:54now in this singular human achievement okay we can see you coming down the ladder now
17:01i'm uh at the foot of the ladder the lamb footbeds are only uh depressed in the surface about uh
17:09one or two inches
17:11although the surface appears to be very very fine grained as you get close to it it's almost like a
17:18powder
17:20ground that's uh uh it's very fine
17:24and uh step off the lamb now
17:29that's one small step for man
17:34one giant leap for mankind
17:40it has a stark beauty all its own it's uh like much of the high desert of uh the united
17:47states
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
18:03the desire to reach quite literally for the stars
18:07and 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
18:19beautiful view
18:21is that something
18:23magnificent pride out here
18:26magnificent desolation
18:43mr governor ladies and gentlemen the seemed members of the wool textile delegation
18:51i very much appreciate the honor that you have bestowed on me by your invitation
18:56to the mill of thomas bernley and starrer here in yorkshire
19:10there comes a time
19:13a moment in everyone's experience where dentures and other oral prosthetics become an indispensable
19:20fact of life
19:23according to last year's adult dental health survey
19:2737
19:2837
19:28so
19:29you
19:42I'm looking into 1-7-8-1-3-0, mountain skiing traffic.
20:12me I
20:16you have control
20:17I have control
20:21what are you doing sir
20:25this isn't on the flight charge
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 know
20:46you can't live your land
20:47sir
20:49you and I'll be right back to you
21:17and I'll be right back to you
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.
21:37They'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.
22:11The 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 done.
23:10We're lost.
23:11I don't know.
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 all I'm going to get.
33:21I can see it's all I'm going to get.
33:26Landing at London Heathrow Airport from Berlin, the 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, accompanied by their wives,
33:44receive one of their warmest welcomes yet from the British people.
33:47The astronauts admitted that they are starting to feel the strain of the British people.
33:54Airmen from the planet Earth, mark step right along the land.
33:59Arise, IP69.
34:01Airmen, I can see everything quite clearly. The light is, uh, especially, uh, applying backlighting it to the front of
34:09the land.
34:10They're leaving us very clearly.
34:32Incentive tunnel.
34:33tripod.
34:33Is that Banks?
34:35Alert level.
34:36Fire, is Burton?
34:48The American astronauts are now arriving up in the palace.
34:51The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
35:22Come on, see you.
35:35Your Majesty, Mr. Neil Armstrong.
35:38Hello.
35:39Welcome.
35:39Pleasure to meet you.
35:40Mrs. Armstrong.
35:42Hello.
35:42Colonel Michael Collins.
35:44Great pleasure to meet you.
35:53Great pleasure to meet you, young man.
36:04Sir?
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.
37:18Congratulations, 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.
38:22It'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.
38:41You 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?
38:56But, you see, I, I realize now that the questions I actually want answering are, you're all too young to
39:12understand, I think.
39:13But, you know, 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, who I'm married to,
39:42I've, well, I've not been able to achieve the things I would have liked to, as a man, as a,
39:49as an adventurer.
39:53And watching you three heroes at work, it, it was like watching a dream.
40:02Which is why I, I leapt at the chance to meet with you, even if it is just for, for
40:09ten minutes, that I might ask
40:19What your thoughts were, out there?
40:27Neil?
40:30Well, uh, obviously, uh, a sense of relief that we executed the mission successfully.
40:36Of course.
40:37And we certainly got some amazing views, didn't we?
40:40Mm, yes, we did.
40:42Extraordinary.
40:42I think I'm not talking so much about the views in that sense, uh, as perspectives, observations of, of our
40:55place.
41:01Uh, to be honest, there wasn't much time for that.
41:04Um, as a pilot, you'll know what they drill into you above all else is protocol or, uh, procedure.
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 ticking things off.
41:24Mm-hmm.
41:25Tick, check, tick, check.
41:26Isaac glued to the mission protocol to such a degree, you never really get to look outside.
41:31That's how busy they keep you.
41:32Busy.
41:33Tight leash.
41:33Not to mention, most of the time you're so darn tired.
41:36Mm-hmm.
41:46What happened after the moonwalk?
41:47Uh, I would love to hear.
41:51You want us to hear it.
41:52Yeah.
41:55Well, uh, after I completed the moonwalk.
41:57I, I 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.
42:12Wait for it.
42:13But all I could hear was this noise.
42:16Bang, bang, bang, bang.
42:18What?
42:19Bang, bang, bang.
42:21From outside the module.
42:22I know.
42:23You know what it was?
42:24What?
42:26The water cooler.
42:28It was making this noise.
42:30Bang, bang, bang.
42:33Water cooler.
42:35The greatest engineers in the world design 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?
43:10Well, 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, in a place like this.
43:23Because we heard you had a thousand rooms.
43:25And that if you had the lengths of all the corridors together, it comes to, like, four 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?
43:36And how many palaces?
43:37We heard.
43:38Twelve.
43:39And do you know what?
43:40All these people in the pictures here are related to those.
43:43Oh, to the dots?
43:52That's mine.
43:53Of course.
43:54I'm going to reach you to the tower.
43:55Oh!
43:57Come on!
43:58Come on!
44:01Yes!
44:02It's a little small.
44:05Ready?
44:06One, two, three.
44:08Cheese!
44:15I didn't know what I was thinking.
44:17I expected them to be giants, gods.
44:22In reality, they were just three little men, pale-faced with culds.
44:28Have some sympathy the very qualities that made them perfect for the job
44:33But their lack of flair or imagination a sense of duty and modesty and reliability total absence of
44:41originality or spontaneity, but that's what makes them perfect in a crisis and entirely
44:47anticlimactic when you meet them in person
44:51Imagine
44:53They go all that way to the moon and stay healthy with one trip to London and he kills
45:01I
45:01It's not their fault
45:03They never wanted to be public figures and now because of one event they will be forever
45:09They delivered as astronauts
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 and that they will inevitably disappoint
45:30And for that they deserve our pity
45:34Good job there were no little green men
45:38They could be forgiven for thinking if that's all planet Earth has got to offer. Let's give the place a
45:44miss
45:44Oops
45:45Huh
45:45Uh
45:47Good Community
46:02Good
46:02Good
46:04Good
46:04Good
46:06Good
46:07Good
46:07Good
47:07Of 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.
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.
47:46Compulsive over-exercising.
47:48An inability to find calm or satisfaction or fulfilment.
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.
49:20A-amiss.
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.
49:55I'm here to admit to you that I've lost it, and without it, what is there?
50:05The loneliness and emptiness and anticlimax of going all that way to the moon to find nothing but haunting desolation.
50:19The loneliness and devotion, ghostly silence, gloom.
50:26That is what faithlessness is.
50:31as opposed to finding, you know, wonder, ecstasy,
50:36the miracle of divine creation, God's design and purpose.
50:45What am I trying to say?
50:48I'm trying to say that the solution to our problems,
50:55I 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,
51:28having ridiculed you for what you
51:31and these poor, blocked, lost souls
51:39were trying to achieve here in St. George's house,
51:45I now find myself full of respect and admiration,
51:52and 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
52:29for their undoubted heroism,
52:31I was more scared coming here to see you today
52:33than I would have been going up in any bloody rocket.
52:36to see you.
52:38Hem.
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