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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
03:13For now
03:42To be continued...
04:44Honestly.
04:45Church?
04:46Hmm.
04:47There's a chance to take stock, reflect on the past week, think ahead to the next.
04:52And get a diary for that.
04:54And to think of life's bigger questions.
04:57Except one doesn't.
04:58One mainly thinks about what a lot of dreary nonsense the dean is talking about.
05:02Why doesn't he shut up?
05:03He's been with us for nearly 20 years.
05:05That might make him loyal.
05:06It does not make him interested.
05:08Hello there.
05:08Good morning, Mr.
05:09They have mouths, but they speak not.
05:13Eyes have they, but they see not.
05:16They have ears, but they hear not.
05:19Uh, noses have they, but they, uh, uh, um.
05:30See?
05:31Sure.
05:33It's not a sermon.
05:34It's a general anaesthetic.
05:36Ah, but they smell not.
05:39They that make them are alike unto them.
05:42So is everyone that trusteth.
05:44That's it.
05:45That's the last time.
05:46And so the Lord teaches.
05:48Now, on Sunday, while you lot are in here, I'm going to spend this hour doing something useful.
05:53But unto his name give glory, nor to false idols either.
06:06Ah.
06:09Michael?
06:10Ma'am?
06:11Goodbye.
06:15Is it possible, do you think, the Dean might have reached, how can I put this kindly, the moment of
06:22his own obsolescence?
06:24I noticed one or two people struggling to stay awake.
06:26We could discreetly start the search for a replacement.
06:30Could be.
06:31Someone with a bit of oomph.
06:33I think so.
06:34Zest.
06:35That's it.
06:35Peck.
06:36Yes, thank you.
06:37Vim.
07:17And so here at Cape Kennedy, we are all up to the moon this morning.
07:22Are you watching?
07:25the big moon express
07:27all ready to leave platform 39
07:29here at Cape Kennedy on time
07:31in about 30 minutes
07:33this enormous
07:35event which uniquely unites
07:37all the world
07:38because all the world should be interested
07:41in this journey
07:43and after this journey we on earth
07:45can never be the same
07:46this edition should be set
08:04where is she
08:06if I say she
08:08and we're in Buckingham Palace
08:09who do you think I mean
08:16there you are
08:17I've been looking for you everywhere
08:18where have you been
08:19on the telephone
08:19interviewing candidates to become the new dean
08:21anyone good
08:22yes I think we found one
08:24how old
08:25same age as you I'd say
08:26and a good fit
08:27for what
08:29for the job I've asked him to do
08:3512
08:3511
08:3610
08:379
08:39ignition sequence
08:406
08:425
08:434
08:443
08:442
08:451
08:46lift off
08:48we have a lift off
08:5032 minutes past the hour
08:52lift off on Apollo 11
08:55extraordinary
08:57what men
08:58what coach
08:59tower is clear
09:00we've got a roll
09:01first
09:01Neil Armstrong reporting
09:04the rolling picture program
09:05which puts Apollo 11
09:0611
09:13Houston thrushes go
09:14all engines
09:15all engines
09:15you're looking good
09:17all engines
09:17roger
09:18you're loud and clear
09:18Houston
09:23we got skirt
09:24sim
09:26roger
09:26we confirm
09:27skirt
09:27sim
09:29tower's going
09:30roger tower
09:32Neil Armstrong confirming
09:34both the engine skirt separation
09:36and the launch escape tower separation
09:38hello
09:39this is Houston
10:06Apollo 11 has now completed its trans lunar injection
10:10bird, meaning it is free of Earth's orbit and traveling at the colossal speed of 24,200
10:17miles an hour towards the moon.
10:20The astronauts have now completed what they call the transposition, docking and extraction
10:24maneuver. This rather risky procedure is when the command service module, Columbia, detaches
10:30from the rest of the spacecraft, drifts forward a little, flips over, then reattaches to the
10:35lunar module, Eagle. This new assembly then detaches from the final stage of the Saturn
10:39rocket. As 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. On
10:49Wednesday it's Norfolk to inaugurate a new gas terminal. Then on Friday it's Macclesfield for
10:55the open day of the Machine Tool Industry Research Association. That evening there will be a dinner
11:01given by the British Concrete Society where you have been asked to present an award.
11:09May I interrupt your Royal Highness? What? The newly appointed Dean of Windsor, Robin Woods,
11:15was wondering if you could spare him a moment. He has a request. Fine. Just put something
11:19in the book. Another highlight to look forward to, along with the award show for the British
11:24Concrete Society. Is that a joke? Afraid not, sir.
11:28Actually, he's here now. Hello?
11:38Your Royal Highness. How can I help? In the process of moving in, my wife and I, we couldn't
11:45help noticing that there were a large number of buildings on the estate of Windsor that
11:48appear to be empty and unused. Specifically, the old Canon's Cloisters, one or two of the buildings
11:56on Denton's Commons, all the houses on the North Walls, the old residences of the Minor
12:01Canons. I realize this is quite forward of me, but I was wondering if I could make a request
12:07to use one of them. What? You don't like the home we've given you? No. This wouldn't be as a
12:14home.
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.
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. A crisis, if you will. You lose
12:42perspective,
12:43get into a slump. It'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, and I thought one
12:57of these buildings in its idyllic setting would be a great place for priests to come and recharge,
13:03reflect, raise their game. By doing what? Talking, reading, thinking.
13:15May I suggest that your concept is flawed? You don't raise your game by talking or thinking.
13:22You raise your game through action. Like this. And 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. Seventeen minutes and counting. The landing craft has separated from the command module
13:53and has begun its descent to the surface of the moon. Armstrong and Aldrin will now send the lunar module
13:58into a sort of pirouette
14:00to allow Colin to... Magie, will you read the children? Yes, sir.
14:03He will confirm, we hope... And tell the Queen.
14:06Yes, thank you. Sir.
14:10Andrew, darling, it's time.
14:12Edward. Edward, time to wake up.
14:19Come on, dressing gown.
14:22Come on, Edward, hurry up.
14:25Hold on. Let's go. Come 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. Thank 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.
14:47Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.
14:48Quick, quick, quick, quick.
14:50Pioneers of the heavens.
14:51Come on, space.
14:53Come on.
14:53A couple of planets above the surface of the moon now.
14:59They're land in sight.
15:00Chosen for its smoothness, but not entirely.
15:03Dude, take care of your hands.
15:03The slightest impacted rock or crater could disable the lunar module,
15:08leaving them stranded from the moon.
15:11Robert, can you see?
15:11Robert's back.
15:14Houston, I'm getting a little fluctuation in the, uh, in the, uh, boulders now.
15:19Roger.
15:19Roger.
15:19Yes.
15:20John, hurry up.
15:21We're going to visit.
15:22Yes.
15:23What are they saying?
15:25He's gone to manual control.
15:27Something's wrong.
15:28Doesn't look real, I know.
15:30Jesus.
15:31So cool.
15:3110 and 50 feet down at four.
15:34They're, uh, six, seven, last.
15:36What are they saying?
15:38They're running out of fuel.
15:40Quiet, please.
15:41Just...
15:42Shh.
15:43Please.
15:45.
15:49.
15:50.
15:51.
15:51.
15:51.
15:51.
15:51.
16:09Man on the moon.
16:11Man has landed on the moon.
16:18Did you see?
16:19As we watch these images tonight, we are united across the world in a uniformed sense of wonder.
16:28Never before has the entire planet...
16:31No, I don't know.
16:32It's such remarkable humanity.
16:36Meteor.
16:38To each of us, this is historic.
16:41The evil of the moon.
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, we are united right now in this singular
16:56human achievement.
16:57Okay, Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now.
17:01I'm at the foot of the ladder.
17:04The lamb 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.
17:20Ground man is very fine.
17:24And I'll step off the lamb now.
17:29That's one small step for man.
17:34One giant leap for mankind.
17:40And there's a stark beauty all its own.
17:43It's like much of the high desert of the United States.
17:47It's different, but it's very pretty on here.
17:50This is a powerful reminder of our capacity for greatness as a species.
17:57Not simply the engineering triumph represented here today, but the triumph of human ambition.
18:03The desire to reach quite literally for the stars.
18:08And I think this new perspective, seeing the Earth from space, in all our unity and cohesion,
18:15is likely to inspire an unprecedented shift in our thinking.
18:19Beautiful view.
18:21Is that something?
18:23Magnificent sight out here.
18:26Magnificent desolation.
18:30Magnificent desolation.
18:32Magnificent desolation.
18:50All right.
18:52I'm sorry.
18:55to the mill of Thomas Burnley and the son of Kier in Yorkshire.
19:01The groundbreaking work you are doing here
19:05is a great fact.
19:10There comes a time,
19:13a moment in everyone's experience,
19:16where dentures and other oral prosthetics
19:19become an indispensable fact of life.
19:23According to last year's Adult Dental Health Survey,
19:2737%...
19:41...we're looking into 1-7-8-3-0,
19:45mountain 16 traffic.
19:58...we're looking into 1-7-8-3-0,
20:00mountain 16 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 charge.
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 could say, you climb away from your land.
20:47Sir, you...
20:57...
21:01...
21:14...
21:16...
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.
22:12The race for the moon is over.
22:13For the people of this planet, what is the meaning of this
22:17stupendous 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 failed me really.
23:11T.S. Eliot
23:13T.S. Eliot
23:44Good morning, sir.
23:45Morning, sir.
23:56Your Royal Highness.
23:57Oh, Christ.
24:04Morning.
24:04I wonder whether you might have a moment, sir.
24:06To meet the new arrivals.
24:08Ah, your concentration camp for spiritual defectives.
24:12I prefer center of recovery and renewal.
24:14I'm sure you do.
24:16We have an interesting group of all ages 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 hoping
25:32to achieve.
25:33Perhaps we should recap for His Royal Highness.
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.
26:37Well, yes.
26:38That sense of directionlessness and redundancy is, well, it's 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, I...
27:12The moon, yes, 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 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?
27:56Now 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, simply an unknowable vastness.
28:18When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars that thou hast ordained,
28:29what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him?
28:55I have never heard such a load of pretentious, self-piteous nonsense.
29:08What you lot need to do is to get off your backsides,
29:11get out into the world and bloody well do something.
29:13That is why you're all so lost.
29:19I believe that there is an imperative within man, all men,
29:23to make a mark.
29:25Action is what defines us. Action, not suffering.
29:29All this sitting around, thinking and talking.
29:33Let me ask you this.
29:34Do you think those astronauts up there are catatonic like you lot?
29:39Of course not.
29:40They are too busy achieving something spectacular.
29:44And as a result, they are at one with the world.
29:47They're one with their God.
29:49And happy.
29:53That's my advice.
29:55Model yourselves on men of action, like Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins.
30:00I mean, these men score A triple plus.
30:04They've got the answers.
30:05Not a bunch of navel-gazing underachievers infecting one another with gaseous doom.
30:14If you do opt for action, you can start by cleaning up this bloody floor.
30:27Oh, not again.
30:28Around the same time we were asked by the American State Department.
30:31It's the second time this week.
30:32If we'd send that message to the moon on the silicon disc.
30:34You were also asked another question.
30:36On how many occasions is the British royal family forced to eat venison each year?
30:40I 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, would we like an audience with the astronauts?
31:02What?
31:03Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins?
31:06Here at the palace?
31:07Yes.
31:08They're being sent around the world on a victory tour.
31:11Shall I go back with a yes?
31:14My God.
31:16Yes, please.
31:18I thought that would cheer you up.
31:20It does.
31:23Do I need cheering up?
31:28A little.
31:35They're scheduled to arrive at Heathrow Airport at 2 p.m.
31:38From there they will be taken directly to the American Embassy at Gropen Square for a meeting with the U
31:42.S. Ambassador.
31:43From there they will come to Buckingham Palace for an audience with Her Majesty's the Queen, Queen Elizabeth the Queen
31:47Mother,
31:48His Royal Highness Duke of Edinburgh, Princess 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? Tea?
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 with the
32:21astronauts 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 fifteen 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.
33:54Airman from the planet Earth, mark step right along the land.
33:59Arise, IP69.
34:01Airman, I can see everything quite clearly.
34:04The light is, uh, especially, uh, applying backlighting it to the front of the land.
34:10They're leaving us very clearly.
34:21All action, also.
34:22You see, away from the.
34:31Ready?
34:33It's hello.
34:33Where is it coming from?
34:35Are they coming from the left?
34:36Dead one, ranger that i villain 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?
43:52Yes...
43:52That's fine.
43:53Of course.
43:54Make sure you're in the tower.
43:56Oh!
43:58Oh!
43:59Oh no!
44:01Oh no!
44:02Yes!
44:02Oh no!
44:02It's a low score!
44:04Oh no!
44:05Oh no!
44:06Oh no!
44:06Oh no!
44:06Oh no!
44:06One, two, three, cheese!
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 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.
44:39Total 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 if they go all that way to the moon and stay healthy,
44:56but one trip to London, then you kill 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.
45:09They delivered as astronauts, but they're 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.
45:44Thanks.
45:46Mm-hmm.
45:48Mm-hmm.
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.
50:23Gloom.
50:26That is what faithlessness is.
50:31As opposed to finding, you know, wonder, ecstasy, the miracle of divine creation.
50:41God's design and purpose.
50:45What am I trying to say?
50:48I'm trying to say that the solution to our problems,
50:54I 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,
51:28having ridiculed you for what you and these poor,
51:34blocked, lost souls
51:39were trying to achieve here in St. George's house.
51:45I now find myself full of respect
51:48and admiration
51:52and not a small part of desperation.
52:00As I come to say,
52:06help.
52:12Help me.
52:23And to admit
52:25while those three astronauts deserve all our praise and respect
52:29for their undoubted heralds,
52:31I was more scared coming here to see you today
52:33than I would have been going up in any bloody rocket.
52:36before you see me.
52:53Happy Thorntonasing to me.
52:57Thank you for this work.
53:03Believe it.
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