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00:02Mr. Armstrong?
00:04Neil, Marvin Miles, Los Angeles Times.
00:07The descent onto the lunar surface appears to be very challenging.
00:10How far will you burn down, and how low could you stage an abort if necessary?
00:17We have made some significant improvements in the flight control system in recent months.
00:21The power of descent will be handled by the computer to a large degree.
00:25Colonel Aldrin, after you land on the moon, what do you anticipate from those first moments?
00:31Any expectations? Hopes? Anxieties?
00:35Well, immediately upon touchdown, our concern is the integrity of the lunar module.
00:41Without that integrity, we cannot safely continue with the lunar surface work.
00:45Are those the astronauts?
00:47Why are they in a box?
00:49So as not to catch any Germans?
00:54Are you going to sit down or just stand there hovering?
01:04The American State Department asked if I wanted to send a message.
01:08What kind of message?
01:09For the astronauts to leave on the moon.
01:11They approached a handful of individuals from around the globe,
01:14a cross-section of human civilization,
01:16to provide a message of a shared and common humanity.
01:19What did you say?
01:21On behalf of the British people, I salute the skill and courage
01:24that have brought man to the moon.
01:26May this endeavor increase the knowledge and well-being of mankind.
01:32One of your very best.
01:36How will it be communicated?
01:39On a disk, apparently.
01:41What kind of disk?
01:42A silicon disk.
01:43They sent a picture.
01:44A tiny disk with tiny microscopic inscriptions in golden lettering
01:48from planet Earth, July 1969,
01:51which then tend to leave in a little white pouch with an olive branch.
01:54An olive branch?
01:55It's for the little green men to wait a bite.
01:57Away from the family,
01:59for a considerable period of time.
02:02Miss Armstrong,
02:03do you feel your training has been conducted in any kind of undue haste?
02:09In church tomorrow is at nine, not ten.
02:12Of course, there was a good deal of concern in our own minds
02:14and many other human organizations
02:16that all these things,
02:17where the descent gas temp surface was lost in place in time.
02:20At this point in time...
02:30Why do we do this?
02:33Week in, week out.
02:35Like lemmings.
02:38What does it do for you?
02:40Honestly.
02:41Church.
02:42There's a chance to take stock.
02:44Reflect on the past week.
02:46Think ahead to the next.
02:47Here's a diary for that.
02:49To think of life's video questions.
02:51Except one doesn't.
02:52He mainly thinks about what a lot of dreary nonsense the Dean is talking about.
02:56Why doesn't he shut up?
02:57He's been with us for nearly twenty years.
02:59That might make him loyal.
03:00It does not make him interested.
03:01Hello there.
03:02Good morning, Mr.
03:03They have mouths, but they speak not.
03:06Eyes, have they, but they see not.
03:09They have ears, but they hear not.
03:13Noses, have they, but they...
03:22See?
03:24It's not a soul, it's a general anaesthetic.
03:27But they smell not.
03:30They that make them are alike unto them.
03:33So is everyone that trusteth.
03:35That's it.
03:36That's the last time.
03:37And so the Lord...
03:39No.
03:39On Sunday, while you lot are in here,
03:41I'm going to spend this hour doing something useful.
03:43But unto his name give glory,
03:47nor to false idols either.
03:56Ah.
03:58Michael.
03:59Ma'am.
04:03Is it possible, do you think, the Dean might have reached...
04:08How can I put this kindly?
04:10The moment of his own obsolescence.
04:12I noticed one or two people struggling to stay awake.
04:14We could discreetly start the search for a replacement.
04:18Could we?
04:18Someone with a bit of...
04:19Oomph.
04:20I think so.
04:21Zest.
04:22That's it.
04:23Peck.
04:23Vimble.
05:03We are all up to the moon this morning.
05:07Mighty Saturn V, the big moon express, all ready to leave Platform 39 here at Cape Kennedy
05:13on time in about 30 minutes.
05:17This enormous event which uniquely unites all the world, because all the world should
05:23be interested in this journey.
05:25And after this journey, we on Earth can never be the same.
05:29This edition should be set.
05:45Where is she?
05:47If I say she, and we're in Buckingham Palace, who do you think I mean?
05:56There you are.
05:57I've been looking for you everywhere.
05:58Where have you been?
05:58On the telephone, interviewing candidates to become a new dean.
06:01Anyone good?
06:02Yes, I think we found one.
06:03How old?
06:04Same age as you, I'd say.
06:05And a good fit.
06:07To what?
06:08For the job I've asked him to do.
06:1312, 11, 10, 9.
06:17Ignition sequence start.
06:196, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
06:25Lift off.
06:26We have a lift off.
06:2732 minutes, pass the arm.
06:29Lift back on Apollo 11.
06:30One, what man.
06:35What code.
06:36Tower is clear.
06:37Roll in.
06:39Neil Armstrong reporting.
06:40The rolling pitch program.
06:41Which puts Apollo 11.
06:4811 Houston thrushes go.
06:50All engines are looking good.
06:52Aye, roger.
06:53You're loud and clear, Houston.
06:58We've got skirts up.
07:00Roger, we confirm skirts up.
07:04Tower's going.
07:05Roger, tower.
07:07Alarm strong, confirming both the engine skirt separation and the launch escape tower separation.
07:12Hello, this is Houston.
07:15Slightly less than one minute to ignition, and everything is cool.
07:19Roger.
07:21Check your shot.
07:24Check the perfect magnum, and above, here go.
07:38Apollo 11 has now completed its translunar injection burn, meaning it is free of Earth's orbit and traveling at the
07:45colossal speed of 24,200 miles an hour towards the moon.
07:50The astronauts have now completed what they call the transposition, docking, and extraction maneuver.
07:55This rather risky procedure is when the command service module, Columbia, detaches from the rest of the spacecraft, drifts forward
08:02a little, flips over, then reattaches to the lunar module, Eagle.
08:06This new assembly then detaches from the final stage of the Saturn rocket.
08:09As I say, a hair-raising business, but it all seems to have gone off without a hitch.
08:13Tuesday next week, you will be in Cheshire to visit the works of British Salt Limited.
08:17On Wednesday, it's Norfolk to inaugurate a new gas terminal.
08:20Then on Friday, it's Macclesfield for the open day of the Machine Tool Industry Research Association.
08:27That evening, there will be a dinner given by the British Concrete Society, where you have been asked to present
08:32an award.
08:36May I interrupt, Your Royal Highness?
08:38What?
08:39The newly appointed Dean of Windsor, Robin Woods, was wondering if you could spare him a moment.
08:44He has a request.
08:44Fine, just put something in the book.
08:47Another highlight to look forward to, along with the award show for the British Concrete Society.
08:52Is that a joke?
08:53Afraid not, sir.
08:54Actually, he's here now.
08:56Hello?
09:03Your Royal Highness.
09:04How can I help?
09:06In the process of moving in, my wife and I, we couldn't help noticing that there were a large number
09:10of buildings on the estate of Windsor that appear to be empty and unused.
09:14I mean, specifically, the old cannons' cloisters, one or two of the buildings on Denton's Commons, all the houses on
09:22the north walls, the old residences of the minor cannons.
09:25I realize this is quite forward of me, but I was wondering if I could make a request to use
09:30one of them.
09:30Well, you don't like the home we've given you?
09:34No.
09:35This wouldn't be as a home.
09:37For a long time now, I've had a dream, an ambition, to start an academy or conservatoire.
09:45What for?
09:46Personal and spiritual growth.
09:49Something that has struck me from my own experience, but also from observing it in, well, in others, is that
09:57you get to a certain age and you hit a ceiling.
09:59A crisis, if you will.
10:01You'll lose perspective.
10:03Get into a slump.
10:05It's quite common among businessmen and executives, and it's no different for clergymen.
10:10We see a particularly high level of dissatisfaction among mid-career clergymen, and I thought one of these buildings, in
10:16its idyllic setting, would be a great place for priests to come and recharge, reflect, raise their game.
10:26By doing what?
10:29Talking, reading, thinking.
10:32May I suggest that your concept is flawed?
10:35You don't raise your game by talking or thinking.
10:39You raise your game through action.
10:41Like this.
10:43And this is how you get out of a slump.
10:44But if one of those buildings is free and you want to fill it with hot air and thought, then
10:49be my guest.
10:51Thank you, sir.
10:52Thank you, sir.
11:23A hundred, darling.
11:24It's time.
11:26Edward.
11:28Edward.
11:29Time to wake up.
11:32Come on.
11:33Dressing down.
11:35Come on, Edward.
11:36Hurry up.
11:37Hold on.
11:38Let's go.
11:38Come on.
11:40It's a very exciting evening, isn't it?
11:42Certainly, yes.
11:43Are you able to join us for a drink, Adol?
11:45That would be very nice.
11:46Thank you, ma'am.
11:46Of course.
11:47So.
11:48Michael Collins left alone in the orbiter now.
11:50Meaning, when it passes behind the moon, he'll be entirely cut off for the rest of humanity.
11:55The onlyest man in the universe.
11:57Our prayers and the whole world.
11:59Come on.
12:00Pioneers of heaven.
12:02Space, I'll go.
12:03Come on.
12:15A couple of...
12:17Drink, sir.
12:18Can you see?
12:19On the moon.
12:20Office, back.
12:23I'm getting a little fluctuation in the, uh, in the, uh, moldage now.
12:27Yeah, they're in.
12:28Yes.
12:29John, hurry up.
12:29We're going to visit.
12:30Yes.
12:31What are they saying?
12:32He's gone to manual control.
12:34Something's wrong.
12:36It doesn't look for you, I know.
12:38It's just a soup.
12:41What'll happen if they can't land?
12:43We're going to run.
12:45They're going to run out of fuel.
12:47Quiet, please.
12:49Shh.
12:50Please.
12:55That's a man.
13:13Man on the moon.
13:16Man has landed on the moon.
13:21Did you see?
13:23As we watch these images tonight, we are united across the world in a uniform sense of wonder.
13:32Never before has the entire planet...
13:34No, we have no idea.
13:35I'm talking to him.
13:36Such a market of solidarity.
13:38To each of us...
13:39Meteor.
13:40To each of us.
13:42This is historic.
13:44To each of us.
13:46This is even divine.
13:47Can you believe they're on the moon?
13:48And yet, all of us, regardless of race, sex, or religious belief, we are united right now in this singular
13:57human achievement.
13:59Okay, Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now.
14:02I'm at the foot of the ladder.
14:05The lamb footbeds are only depressed in the service about one or two inches.
14:11Although the service appears to be very, very fine-grained as you get close to it.
14:17It's almost like a powder.
14:19Around there, it's very fine.
14:24And I'll step off the land now.
14:28That's one small step for man.
14:33One giant leap for mankind.
14:48This is a powerful reminder of our capacity for greatness as a species.
14:54Not simply the engineering triumph represented here today, but the triumph of human ambition.
15:00The desire to reach, quite literally, for the stars.
15:05And I think this new perspective, seeing the Earth from space, in all our unity and cohesion,
15:11is likely to inspire an unprecedented shift in our thinking.
15:15Beautiful, beautiful.
15:16Any other something?
15:18Magnificent side area.
15:20Magnificent desolation.
15:36Mr. Governor, ladies and gentlemen, the esteemed members of the wool textile delegation.
15:43I very much appreciate the honor that you have bestowed on me by your invitation to the meal of Thomas
15:49Burnley and the son of Kier, near New Yorkshire.
15:53The dark-breaking work you have been here by the moment of the fact that you have been here by
16:02the moment of the fact that you have been here.
16:11Fact of life.
16:13According to last year's adult dental health survey, 37%...
17:22Sir?
17:26Sir, the service ceiling for this aircraft is 45,000 feet.
17:29You and I have both been considered to climb with your land.
17:31Sir, you...
17:59Sir, the service ceiling for this aircraft is 45,000 feet.
18:09God, isn't it beautiful?
18:12I'm sure, but we're currently at the very limit of what this aircraft can do.
18:15Perhaps.
18:16But look.
18:18It wasn't lived.
18:20Just for a minute.
18:21Sir, the first men on the moon lifted off on the first stage of their journey home an hour and
18:45six minutes ago.
18:46Sir, a new chapter in human history has opened.
18:49The race for the moon is over.
18:51For the people of this planet, what is the meaning of this stupendous venture?
19:20We shall not cease from exploration.
19:24And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the
19:31first time.
19:33Those words by T.S. Eliot have never rung more true.
19:37We stand at the dawn of a new age of space exploration.
19:41The promise of space has never felt like the real war was.
19:50The promise of space has never felt like the real war was.
20:16Good morning, sir.
20:16Morning, sir.
20:26Your Royal Highness.
20:27Oh, Christ.
20:33Morning.
20:34I wonder whether you might have a moment, sir, to meet the new arrivals.
20:37Ah, your concentration camp for spiritual defectives.
20:41I prefer center of recovery and renewal.
20:43Oh, I'm sure you do.
20:44We have an interesting group of all ages from around the United Kingdom.
20:48Will you join?
20:49Join what?
20:50It's an academy for blocked, mid-level priests.
20:53Correct.
20:54Well, in case you hadn't noticed, I'm not a priest.
20:56Just to say hello.
20:58What, now?
20:59Why not?
21:01Fine. Get in.
21:03Do I need to show symptoms of despair?
21:05Should I sigh and moan dramatically?
21:08One does like to fit in.
21:30I've brought our landlord, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, to say hello.
21:36How do you do, Your Royal Highness?
21:37Good morning.
21:38Your Royal Highness.
21:39Good morning.
21:40Good morning, sir.
21:40Good morning.
21:41Good morning.
21:42Your Royal Highness.
21:45So, what have you all been up to?
21:47Apart from making quite a mess of our house, I see.
21:49We started by identifying why each of us had chosen to come here, and stating what we were
21:55hoping to achieve.
21:57Perhaps we should recap for His Royal Highness.
22:01Michael.
22:02Go on.
22:04Well, I'm here because, having recently reached a particular age...
22:11I won't ask.
22:13I decided to give myself a score.
22:16And I felt I only merited a fail.
22:20D minus.
22:20Oh, dear.
22:22And why was that?
22:23Well, when entering the church, I allowed myself to dream that advancing age would bring
22:31new revelations, insight, a deepening of my faith, a growing flock.
22:39But instead, I find myself in a small rural parish with a dwindling congregation, lowering
22:46attendance.
22:47Right.
22:49And this has left you with a sense of disappointment, of underachievement, and directionlessness.
22:55Oh, yes.
22:56That sense of directionlessness and redundancy is...
22:59Well, it's something that chimed with one or two others here.
23:03Because of how the public has turned away from us.
23:06Turned away from the church.
23:07It's clear we are failing to connect with people.
23:11More and more people are finding their spiritual needs being met elsewhere.
23:17Where, for example?
23:25The moon.
23:27The moon, yes, sir.
23:31Five hundred million people watch the lunar landing.
23:33Yes.
23:34Five hundred million people getting from televisions what they used to get from the church.
23:38A sense of coming together.
23:40A sense of community.
23:41Of awe.
23:42Of wonder.
23:42Well, that was part of a wider shift, too, we agreed, from religion to science.
23:47The greater the achievements in science, the more mysteries are explained, the more questions
23:52are answered, the less need there is for a god to provide answers.
23:58I'm reminded of Keats.
24:01What is there in thee, moon, that thou shouldst move my heart so potently?
24:08Now we know what the moon is.
24:12Nothing.
24:13Just dust.
24:16Silence.
24:18Monochromatic void.
24:20We see no god behind those rocks and space dust.
24:24Simply an unknowable vastness.
24:28When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars that thou hast
24:38ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest
24:46him?
24:54Any thoughts, sir?
25:00Me?
25:09I'll tell you what I think.
25:11I've never heard such a lit of pretentious, self-piteous nonsense.
25:15What you lot need to do is to get off your backsides, get out into the world, and bloody
25:18world, do something.
25:20That is why you're all so lost.
25:23First, I believe that there is an imperative within man, all men, to make a mark.
25:31Action is what defines us.
25:33Action, not suffering.
25:34All this sitting around, thinking and talking.
25:38Let me ask you this.
25:39Do you think those astronauts up there are catatonic like you lot?
25:44Of course not.
25:45They are too busy achieving something spectacular.
25:48And as a result, they are at one with the world.
25:51At one with their god.
25:53And happy.
25:56That's my advice.
25:58Model yourselves on men of action, like Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins.
26:04I mean, these men score A triple plus.
26:07They've got the answers.
26:08Not a bunch of navel-gazing underachievers infecting one another with gaseous doom.
26:16If you do opt for action, you can start by cleaning up this bloody floor.
26:28Oh, not again.
26:29Around the same time you were asked by the American state department.
26:32It's the second time this week.
26:33If we'd send that message to the moon on the silicon disk.
26:35You were also asked another question.
26:37On how many occasions is the British royal family forced to eat venison each year?
26:40No.
26:40Honestly, I think if I eat any more of this stuff, I'm going to start growing antlers.
26:46Are you listening?
26:47Yes.
26:47I'm all ears.
26:48Little brown furry ones.
26:51Well, provided they make it back to Earth in one piece, and if after all their tests they're
26:54still standing, would we like an audience with the astronauts?
27:01What?
27:02Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins?
27:04Here at the palace?
27:05Yes.
27:06They're being sent around the world on a victory tour.
27:09Shall I go back with a yes?
27:11My God.
27:13Yes, please.
27:16I thought that would cheer you up.
27:18It does.
27:20Do I need cheering up?
27:24A little.
27:31They're scheduled to arrive at Heathrow Airport at 2 p.m.
27:34From there, they will be taken directly to the American Embassy at Gropen Square for a
27:37meeting with the U.S. Ambassador.
27:39From there, they will come to Buckingham Palace for an audience with Her Majesty's the Queen,
27:42Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, His Royal Highness, Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret,
27:45Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward.
27:47And what time will that be?
27:49Around four o'clock, ma'am.
27:50Will we give them anything?
27:51Tea?
27:51Probably not.
27:53We thought it'd be good to keep things moving, no sitting down.
27:55I quite agree.
27:57More than half an hour from arrival to departure.
28:00Great.
28:05I'd like to make a request, if I may.
28:08Sir.
28:09Instead of being herded in with everyone else, I was wondering if I might be allowed some
28:13time with the astronauts alone, in a separate, private meeting.
28:20Airman to airman.
28:21Pilot to pilots.
28:24I'll speak to the Ambassador, but I'm sure it would be possible our end.
28:30Would 15 minutes be enough?
28:3215 minutes?
28:34They are on a very tight schedule, I believe.
28:37To discuss mankind's greatest achievement.
28:43No.
28:45It's nowhere near enough.
28:49I can see it's all I'm going to get.
29:14Landing at London Heathrow Airport from Berlin.
29:17The Apollo moon men begin a hectic 22 and a quarter hour visit that demands the same sort
29:21of precision and timing as their mission in space.
29:24The world famous Man on the Moon team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins,
29:29accompanied by their wives, receive one of their warmest welcomes yet from the British
29:33people.
29:34The astronauts admitted that they are starting to feel the strain of the British nation.
29:39The light is primarily flying backlighting into the front of the land's.
29:54There's a really good things.
30:15I'm here.
30:15Who's here?
30:16Is that open?
30:18I've heard some flight.
30:19I'm here.
30:30The American astronauts are now arriving to Buckethead Palace.
30:33The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
31:13Your Majesty, Mr. Neil Armstrong, Mrs. Armstrong, Colonel Michael Collins, great pleasure to meet you.
31:30Great pleasure to meet you, young man.
31:40Sir?
32:06Please don't tell me you want to talk about children.
32:26They've been waiting long.
32:27Only a few moments, sir.
32:41Mr. Neil Armstrong, Colonel Michael Collins, and Colonel Edwin Aldrin, you're all honest.
32:44It is a great, great honor, gentlemen.
32:48Congratulations to one and all.
32:51Please, do sit down.
33:00There's no need to sit so closely, as you can see there's plenty of space.
33:04Yes.
33:06I noticed you instinctively sat in the same positions as the command module.
33:13Anyway, I don't know if anyone told you, but I am actually a pilot myself.
33:18Are you all right?
33:20Yes, sir.
33:20I just had a cold.
33:23Here.
33:25I...
33:25It's clean, I promise you.
33:30Why, you've, uh, you've, you've all got colds.
33:34Yes, we do.
33:39Well, here we are.
33:44I just want to say how much I admire what you've done.
33:48It's just remarkable.
33:50Um, but also to say how much I identify in some way with, with who you are.
33:56Bless you.
33:57Sorry.
33:58I, um, I wrote down some questions.
34:06See, I initially imagined that I wanted to ask questions of you on a technical level.
34:10You know, like, you know, what is the physical experience of, of G-forces of, of that magnitude
34:17and so on, but, you see, I, I realize now that the questions I actually want answering
34:33are, you're all too young to understand, I think, but, there comes a time in life when
34:41one first really starts to evaluate what one has accomplished.
34:48And because of the position that I've ended up in here, who I've become, um, who I'm married
34:57to, um, I've, well, I've not been able to achieve the things I would have liked to, as a man,
35:08as a,
35:10as an adventurer, and watching you three heroes at work, it, it was like watching a dream,
35:21which is why I, I leapt at the chance to meet with you, even if it is just for, for
35:27ten
35:27minutes that I might ask, what your thoughts were, out there?
35:44You know, well, uh, obviously, uh, a sense of relief that we executed the mission successfully.
35:52Of course.
35:53And we certainly got some amazing views, didn't we?
35:56Yes, extraordinary.
35:58I think I'm not talking so much about the views in that sense, uh, as perspectives, uh, observations
36:07of, of our place.
36:15Uh, to be honest, there wasn't much time for that.
36:18Um, as a pilot, you'll know what they drill into you above all else is protocol and, uh, procedure.
36:26Mm-hmm.
36:27You gotta stick to the rules.
36:28Yes.
36:29Well, as an astronaut, it's double that.
36:32Mm-hmm.
36:32We've pretty much spent our entire time with lists in our hands, ticking things off.
36:37Tick, check, tick, check.
36:39Eyes are glued to the mission protocol to such a degree, you never really get to look outside.
36:43That's how busy they keep you.
36:44Busy.
36:44Tight leash.
36:45Not to mention, most of the time you're so darn tired.
36:47Mm-hmm.
36:48No matter how hard you practice, you never get used to the sleep.
36:51Sleep.
36:52Mm-hmm.
36:53Neil, uh, can you tell His Royal Highness about what happened after the moonwalk?
36:58Uh, I would love to hear.
37:01He wants to hear it.
37:02Yeah.
37:05Well, uh, after I completed the moonwalk-
37:07I-I watched it all, every step.
37:10I got back into the module and knew we only had a few hours to get some rest before we
37:17took off again, so I-I got my head down, I closed my eyes-
37:21Wait for it.
37:22But, all I could hear was this noise, bang, bang, bang, bang.
37:27What?
37:27Bang, bang, bang.
37:29What?
37:29From outside the module.
37:31I know, you know what it was?
37:32What?
37:34The water cooler.
37:36It was making this noise, bang, bang, bang.
37:42The greatest engineers in the world designed a rocket that takes us to the moon, but they can't even get
37:46us a decent water cooler.
37:48So, you're right.
37:50It was full of surprises.
37:53I see.
37:59Were there any other questions you had for us?
38:12There.
38:15Well, in-in that case, would you mind if we asked you a few questions?
38:19No, of course.
38:21What is it like?
38:24What is what like?
38:25Living in a-in a place like this.
38:27Because we heard you had a thousand rooms.
38:29And that if you had the lengths of all the corridors together, it comes to-
38:32Four miles?
38:34Uh, well-
38:34Oh, is it true you have a bagpiper for an alarm clock?
38:36Yeah.
38:37And how many staff do you have here, anyway?
38:38And how many palaces?
38:39We heard-
38:40Twelve.
38:41And do you know all these people in the-
38:43In the pictures here?
38:44Are they-are you related to those-
38:45Oh, to the dots?
38:53Yes.
38:54Yes.
38:54That's fine.
38:54Of course.
38:56We should go to the tower.
38:57We go!
38:59Oh!
39:00Oh!
39:02Oh!
39:02Oh!
39:02Oh!
39:03Yes!
39:05Oh!
39:06Okay, ready?
39:07One, two, three.
39:08Cheese!
39:10Oh!
39:13Oh!
39:15Oh!
39:15I don't know what I was thinking.
39:17I expected them to be giants, gods.
39:21In reality, they were just three little men, pale-faced with colds.
39:27I have some sympathy.
39:29The very qualities that made them perfect for the job.
39:32But their lack of flair or imagination.
39:34Their sense of duty and modesty and reliability.
39:37Total absence of originality or spontaneity.
39:41But that's what makes them perfect in a crisis.
39:43And entirely anticlimactic when you meet them in person.
39:48Can you imagine?
39:50If they go all that way to the moon and stay healthy, but one trip to London, then he kills
39:54them.
39:58It's not their fault.
39:59They never wanted to be public figures.
40:02And now, because of one event, they will be forever.
40:04Hmm.
40:05They delivered as astronauts, but...
40:08They disappointed as human beings.
40:13They'll spend the rest of their lives in guilfish bowls.
40:17Scared to open their mouths.
40:19Knowing it could reveal who they actually are, and that they will inevitably disappoint.
40:24And for that, they deserve our pity.
40:28Good job there were no little green men.
40:32They could be forgiven for thinking if that's all planet Earth has got to offer.
40:36Let's give the place a miss.
40:37Hmm.
40:51Hmm.
41:53Drip, drip of doubt, disaffection, disease, discomfort.
42:03People around me have noticed my general irritability.
42:10Now, of course, that's nothing new.
42:14I'm generally a cantankerous sort, but even I would have to admit that there has been more of it lately.
42:20And not to mention an almost jealous fascination with the achievements of these young astronauts, compulsive over-exercising, an inability
42:33to find calm or satisfaction or fulfillment.
42:44And when you look at all these symptoms, of course, it doesn't take a genius to tell you that they
42:50all suggest I'm slap bang in the middle of a...
43:00I can't even say what kind of crisis.
43:05That's that crisis.
43:10And, of course, one's read or heard about other people hitting that crisis, and just like them, you look in
43:16all the usual places, resort to all the usual things to try and make yourself feel better.
43:24Some of which I can admit to in this room, and some of which I probably shouldn't.
43:35My mother died recently.
43:49She, she saw that something was amiss.
43:54It's a good word there.
43:57Oh, Miss, she saw that something was missing in her youngest child, her only son.
44:08Faith.
44:13How's your faith, she asked me.
44:21I, I'm here to admit to you that I've lost it.
44:30And without it, what is there?
44:38The, the loneliness and emptiness and anticlimax.
44:45Of going all that way to the moon to find nothing but haunting desolation.
44:54Ghostly silence.
44:56Gloom.
44:59That is what faithlessness is.
45:03As opposed to finding, you know, wonder, ecstasy, the miracle of divine creation, God's design and purpose.
45:16What am I trying to say?
45:19I'm trying to say that the solution to our problems, I think, is not in the ingenuity of the rocket,
45:30or the science, or the technology, or even the bravery.
45:38No, the answer is in here.
45:43Or here, or wherever it is that faith resides.
45:51And so, Dean Woods, having ridiculed you for what you and these poor, blocked, lost souls were trying to achieve
46:08here in St. George's house,
46:11I now find myself full of respect, and admiration, and not a small part of desperation.
46:25As I come to say, help.
46:36Help me.
46:46And to admit, while those three astronauts deserve all our praise and respect for their undoubted heroism,
46:54I was more scared coming here to see you today than I would have been going up in any bloody
46:58rocket.
47:24Yeah.
47:54Yeah.