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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
03:13To be a bit
03:30To be a bit
03:33Over the Americas
03:34or to be a treasure
03:36If you don't know
03:37Ask the truth
03:37In the world
03:37And how you are
04:37Week in, week out, like lemmings.
04:42What does it do for you?
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.
05:20Noses 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, I'm going to spend this hour doing something useful.
05:53But unto his name give glory, nor to false idols either.
06:00Oh, no, no, no, no.
06:30Goodwill.
06:31Someone with a bit of...
06:32Oomph.
06:33I think so.
06:34Zest.
06:35That's it.
06:35Pepp.
06:36Yes, thank you.
06:37Vimble.
07:17And so, here at Cape Kennedy, we are all up to the moon this morning.
07:21Are you watching?
07:24The mighty Saturn V, the big moon express, all ready to leave Platform 39 here at Cape
07:30Kennedy on time in about 30 minutes.
07:34This enormous event which uniquely unites all the world, because all the world should
07:40be interested in this journey, and 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.
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?
08:29For the job I've asked him to do.
08:42What?
08:57What?
08:58What?
08:59What?
09:00I've got a role in program.
09:02Neil Armstrong reporting the role in pitching program which puts Apollo in.
09:1311 Houston thrushes go.
09:15All engines, you're looking good.
09:17Roger, you're loud and clear, Houston.
09:25Roger, we confirm.
09:29Roger, tower's going.
09:30Roger, tower.
09:32Neil Armstrong confirming both the engine skirt separation and the launch escape tower separation.
09:38Hello, this is Houston, slightly less than one minute to ignition and everything is cool.
09:45Roger.
09:48Ignition.
09:51We confirm ignition and the launch escape tower.
09:55Roger.
09:57Roger.
10:06Apollo 11 has now completed its translunar injection bird, meaning it is free of Earth's
10:13orbit and 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
10:24maneuver.
10:25This rather risky procedure is when the command service module, Columbia, detaches from the
10:30rest of the spacecraft, drifts forward a little, flips over, then reattaches to the
10:35lunar 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
10:58Association.
10:59That evening, there will be a dinner given by the British Concrete Society where you have
11:04been asked to present an 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.
11:19Just put something in the book.
11:21Another highlight to look forward to, along with the award show for the British Concrete
11:25Society.
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
11:46large number of buildings on the estate of Windsor that appear to be empty and unused.
11:52Specifically, 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.
12:01I realize this is quite forward of me, but I was wondering if I could make a request to use
12:07one of them.
12:08What?
12:09You don't like the home we've given you?
12:11No.
12:13This wouldn't be as a home.
12:15For a long time now, I've had a dream, an ambition to start an academy or conservatoire.
12:23What for?
12:24Personal and spiritual growth.
12:28Something that has struck me from my own experience, but also from observing it in, well, in others,
12:35is that you get to a certain age and you hit a ceiling.
12:39A crisis, if you will, you'll lose perspective, get into a slump.
12:45It's quite common among businessmen and executives, and it's no different for clergymen.
12:51We see a particularly high level of dissatisfaction among mid-career clergymen,
12:56and I thought one of these buildings in its idyllic setting would be a great place for priests to come
13:02and recharge,
13:03reflect, raise their game.
13:08By doing what?
13:11Talking, reading, thinking.
13:15May I suggest that your concept is flawed?
13:18You don't raise your game by talking or thinking.
13:21You raise your game through action.
13:24Like this.
13:26And this is how you get out of a slump.
13:28But if one of those buildings is free and you want to fill it with hot air and thought, then
13:33be my guest.
13:35Thank you, sir.
13:46We don't have to wait long now.
13:48Seventeen minutes and counting.
13:51The landing craft has separated from the command module and has begun its descent to the surface of the moon.
13:56Armstrong and Aldrin will now send the lunar module into a sort of pirouette.
14:00to allow Colin to...
14:01Major, will you read the children?
14:03Yes, sir.
14:03He will confirm, we hope...
14:05Tell the Queen.
14:06Yes, thank you.
14:10Andrew, darling.
14:11It's time.
14:12Edward.
14:15Edward.
14:16Time to wake up.
14:20Come on.
14:20Come on, Edward.
14:23Hurry up.
14:25Hold on.
14:25Let's go.
14:26Come on.
14:28It's a very exciting evening, isn't it?
14:30It certainly is.
14:31Are you able to join us for a drink, Andrew?
14:33That would be very nice.
14:34Thank you, ma'am.
14:35Of course not.
14:36Michael Collins left alone in the orbiter now.
14:39Meaning, when it passes behind the moon, he'll be entirely cut off from the rest of humanity.
14:43The loneliest man in the universe.
14:46Quick, quick, quick, quick.
14:47Quick, quick, quick, quick.
14:48Quick, quick, quick, quick.
14:48Come on.
14:50Come on.
14:50Come on.
14:51Come on.
14:52Come on.
14:53Come on.
14:54Come on.
14:59Come on.
15:00Come on.
15:00Come on.
15:01Come on.
15:02Come on.
15:03Come on.
15:03Come on.
15:04Come on.
15:05Come on.
15:06Come on.
15:06Come on.
15:07Come on.
15:08Come on.
15:08Drink, sir.
15:09Robert, can you see?
15:11Robert's back.
15:14Houston, I'm getting a little fluctuation in the, uh, AC, uh, boulders now.
15:19Roger.
15:20Yes.
15:20John, hurry up.
15:21What are they saying?
15:22Yes.
15:23What are they saying?
15:24He's gone to manual control.
15:27Something's wrong.
15:28Doesn't look real, I know.
15:30Which is a super...
15:34What'll he believe they can't land?
15:36What are you saying?
15:38They're running out of fuel.
15:40Quiet.
15:41Please.
15:41Just shh.
15:42Shhh.
15:43Please.
15:43We can open that.
15:45Hey.
15:49What's that?
15:53What's that?
15:57What's that?
15:57What's that?
15:57This is what we need to pray.
16:03It's sitting, uh, Tranquility Base here, the eagle has landed.
16:09Man on the moon.
16:11Man has landed on the moon.
16:18Uh, as we watch these images tonight, we are united across the world in a uniformed
16:27Never before has the entire planet to each of us this is even divine and yet all of us
16:48regardless of race sex or religious belief we are united right now in this
16:55singular human achievement
17:25I'm going to step off the land now
17:29that's one small step for man
17:34one giant leap for mankind
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 and I think this new perspective
18:11seeing the earth from space in all our unity and cohesion is likely to inspire an unprecedented shift in our
18:19thinking
18:19beautiful beautiful
18:21Is that something?
18:23Magnificent sight out here
18:26Magnificent desolation
18:43Mr. Governor, ladies and gentlemen, the Seemed members of the rural textile delegation
18:50I very much appreciate the honor that you have bestowed on me by your invitation to the
18:57mill of Thomas Burnley and Starrer here in Yorkshire.
19:02The groundbreaking work you are doing here by the Burnley and Starrer.
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 looking into 1-7-8-3-0, moving to green traffic.
19:57I'm looking into 1-7-8-8-3-0, moving to green traffic.
20:13Near eye.
20:16You have control?
20:17I have control.
20:21What are you doing, sir?
20:25This isn't on the flight chart.
20:27There's no other traffic.
20:37Sir?
20:41Sir, the surface ceiling for this aircraft is 45,000 feet.
20:45You and I both, I can say, to climb away from your land.
20:47Sir, you...
20:51So, you...
20:51I haven't missed you, sir.
20:55I can't do this short right.
20:59neighbours.
21:15Come on, come on.
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 exploring.
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.
23:07The promise of space has never done.
23:10We stand at the dawn of a new age of space.
23:44Good morning, sir.
23:45Morning, sir.
23:46Yeah.
23:56Your Royal Highness.
23:57Oh, Christ.
24:03Morning.
24:04I wonder whether you might have a moment, sir, to meet the new arrivals.
24:08Ah, your concentration camp for spiritual defectives.
24:12I prefer 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.
24:35Hmm.
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 role, first?
25:13Good morning.
25:13Your Royal Highness.
25:15Good morning.
25:15Good morning, sir.
25:16Good morning.
25:17Good morning.
25:18Your Royal Highness.
25:21So, what have you all been up to?
25:23Apart from making quite a mess of our house, I see.
25:26We started by identifying why each of us had chosen to come here and stating what we were
25:32hoping to achieve.
25:34Perhaps we should recap for His Royal Highness.
25:39Michael, go on.
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.
25:55And 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
26:12revelations, insight, a deepening of my faith, a growing flock.
26:20But instead, I find myself in a small rural parish with a dwindling congregation, lowering 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, well, it's something that chimed with
26:44one 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.
27:00Where, for example?
27:10The moon.
27:12The moon.
27:13Yes, sir.
27:16Five 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.
27:33The 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.
27:59Nothing.
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
28:40I understand.
28:45Any thoughts, sir?
28:52Me?
29:01I'll tell you what I think.
29:03I've never heard such a lit of pretentious, self-piteous nonsense.
29:08What you lot need to do is to get off your backsides,
29:11get out into the world and bloody well do something.
29:13That is why you're all so lost.
29:19I believe that there is an imperative within man.
29:22All men, to make a mark.
29:25Action is what defines us. Action, not suffering.
29:29All this sitting around, thinking and talking.
29:33Let me ask you this.
29:34Do you think those astronauts up there are catatonic like you lot?
29:39Of course not.
29:40They are too busy achieving something spectacular.
29:44And as a result, they are at one with the world.
29:47They're one with their God.
29:50And 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
30:08infecting 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,
30:54and if after all their tests they're still standing,
30:57would we like an audience with the astronauts?
31:02What?
31:03Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins?
31:06Here at the palace?
31:07Yes.
31:08They're being sent around the world on a victory tour.
31:11Shall I go back with a yes?
31:14My God.
31:16Yes, please.
31:18I thought that would cheer you up.
31:21It does, Will.
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,
31:40Gropen Square, for 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 four o'clock, ma'am.
31:56Will we give them anything?
31:57Tea?
31:57Probably not.
31:58We thought it good to keep things moving, no sitting down.
32:01I quite agree.
32:02More than half an hour from arrival to departure.
32:06Great.
32:11I'd like to make a request, if I may.
32:15Sir.
32:16Instead of being herded in with everyone else,
32:19I was wondering if I might be allowed some time with the astronauts alone,
32:24in a separate, private meeting, 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?
32:4115 minutes?
32:43They are on a very tight schedule, I believe.
32:46To discuss mankind's greatest achievement.
32:52No.
32:54It's nowhere near enough.
32:59I can see it's all I'm going to get.
33:26Landing at London Heathrow Airport from Berlin,
33:29the 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,
33:40Buzz 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
33:50of the 22 nation-world tour.
33:53Sir, airman from the planet Earth,
33:56first step right upon the land.
33:58The light, 1969.
34:01And the only thing quite clearly, the light is, uh,
34:06especially, uh, flying backlighting into the front of the land.
34:10That's the only thing is very clearly.
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34:36astonishedwares,
34:36resource to our
34:41if the
34:48The American astronauts are now arriving at Bucketham Palace.
34:51The world famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
35:34Your Majesty, Mr Neil Armstrong.
35:38Hello.
35:38Welcome.
35:39Great pleasure to meet you.
35:41Mrs Armstrong.
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.
37:09Mr Neil Armstrong, Colonel Michael Collins, and Colonel Edwin Aldrin, you're all honest.
37:13It is a great, great honor, gentlemen.
37:17Congratulations, one and all.
37:20Please, do sit down.
37:31There's no need to sit so closely.
37:33As you can see, there's plenty of space.
37:37I noticed you instinctively sat in the same positions as the command module.
37:44Anyway, I don't know if anyone told you, but I am actually a pilot myself.
37:50Are you all right?
37:51Yes, sir.
37:52I just had a cold.
37:55Here.
37:57I...
37:57It's clean, I promise you.
38:02Why, you've, uh, you've, 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.
38:24Um, but also to say how much I identify in some way with, 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, the physical experience of, of G-forces of, of that magnitude
38:53and so on.
38:54But, you see, I, I realize now that the questions I actually want answering are,
39:11you're all too young to understand, I think, but, there comes a time in life when one first
39:20really starts to evaluate what one has accomplished.
39:26And because of the position that I've ended up in here, who I've become, um, who I'm married
39:36to, um, I've, well, I've not been able to achieve the things I would have liked to, as a man,
39:48as a, as an adventurer.
39:53And watching you three heroes at work, it, it was like watching a dream, which is why I, I leapt
40:05the chance to meet with you, even if it is just for, for ten minutes, that I might ask...
40:19What your thoughts were, out there?
40:25Uh, Neil?
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?
40:40Yes.
40:41We did.
40:42Extraordinary.
40:42I think I'm not talking so much about the views, in that sense, as perspectives, observations
40:52of, of our place.
41:01Uh, to be honest, there wasn't much time for that, um, as a pilot, you'll know what they
41:08drill 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.
41:25Tick, 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.
41:36No matter how hard you practice, you never get used to the sleep.
41:39Oh, sleep.
41:41Mm-hmm.
41:42Neil, uh, let me tell His Royal Highness about what happened after the moonwalk.
41:47Uh, I would love to hear.
41:51He wants 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
42:08off again, so 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.
42:21What?
42:21From outside the module.
42:22I know, you know what it was?
42:24What?
42:26The water cooler.
42:28It was making this noise.
42:30Bang, bang, bang.
42:32Water cooler.
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.
43:10Well, 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-
43:29Four miles?
43:30Uh, well-
43:31Oh, is it true you have a bagpiper for an alarm clock?
43:34And how many staff do you have here, anyway?
43:35And how many palaces?
43:36We heard-
43:38Twelve.
43:39And do you know all these people in the-in the pictures here?
43:41Are they-are you related to those-
43:43Oh, to the dots?
43:52That's mine.
43:53Of course.
43:54We're reaching for the tower.
43:55Oh!
43:57Oh!
44:00Oh!
44:00Oh!
44:00Oh!
44:02Yes!
44:02It's almost all.
44:03Oh!
44:05Oh!
44:06One, two, three.
44:08Cheese!
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, pale-faced with colds.
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.
44:39Total absence of originality or spontaneity.
44:43But that's what makes them perfect in a crisis.
44:46And entirely anticlimactic when you meet them in person.
44:51Can you imagine?
44:53If they go all that way to the moon and stay healthy, but one trip to London, then he kills
44:58them.
45:01It's not their fault.
45:03They never wanted to be public figures.
45:06And now, because of one event, they will be.
45:08Forever.
45:09Hmm.
45:10They delivered as astronauts, but they disappointed as human beings.
45:18They'll spend the rest of their lives in goldfish bowls.
45:22Scared to open their mouths.
45:24Knowing it could reveal who they actually are and that they will inevitably disappoint.
45:30And for that, they deserve our pity.
45:34Good job there were no little green men.
45:38They could be forgiven for thinking if that's all planet Earth has got to offer.
45:43Let's give the place a miss.
45:44Mm-hmm.
48:19I can't even say what kind of crisis.
48:24That, that, crisis.
48:29And, of course, one's read or heard about other people hitting that crisis.
48:33And just like them, you look in all the usual places, resort to all the usual things to try and
48:39make yourself feel better.
48:44Some of which I can admit to in this room, and some of which I probably shouldn't.
48:55My mother died recently.
49:11She saw that something was amiss.
49:21She saw that something was missing in her youngest child, her only son.
49:32Faith.
49:38How's your faith?
49:39She asked me.
49:47I'm here to admit to you that I've lost it.
49:56And without it, what is there?
50:04The loneliness and emptiness and anticlimax of going all that way to the moon to find nothing but haunting desolation.
50:19Ghostly silence.
50:23Gloom.
50:26That is what faithlessness is.
50:31As opposed to finding wonder, ecstasy, the miracle of divine creation, God's design and purpose.
50:45What am I trying to say?
50:48I'm trying to say that the solution to our problems, I think, is not in the ingenuity of the rocket
51:00or the science or the technology or even the bravery.
51:09No, the answer is in here.
51:14Or here or wherever it is that faith resides.
51:23And so, Dean Woods, having ridiculed you for what you and these poor, blocked, lost souls
51:39We're trying to achieve here in St. George's house.
51:45I now find myself full of respect.
51:49And admiration.
51:52And not a small part of desperation.
52:00As I come to say...
52:05Help.
52:10Help.
52:11Help me.
52:14Help me.
52:23Help me.
52:23And to admit...
52:26While those three astronauts deserve all our praise and respect for their undoubted heroism,
52:31I was more scared coming here to see you today than I would have been going up in any bloody
52:35rocket.
52:43I've had to be afraid to see you today.
52:44I'd like to say...
52:46I'm not a good one.
52:50I'm not a good one.
52:53Hey, will you see me?
52:55I'm not a good one.
52:55I'm not a good one.
52:56I'm not a good one.
52:58I'm not a good one.
52:58I'm not a good one.
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