1. There it is, General. It's your
vindication. I'm glad you're here todayCopy !req
2. Profit without honor, heh?Copy !req
3. Well, at least I'm still alive
to see this.Copy !req
4. They'll break their necks to get you
back when they see what this can do!Copy !req
5. 21... 20... 19...Copy !req
6. 18... 17... 16... 15...Copy !req
7. 14... 13... 12... 11...Copy !req
8. 10... 9... 8... 7Copy !req
9. 6... 5... 4... 3...Copy !req
10. 2... 1... Fire!Copy !req
11. Sweeney!Copy !req
12. Stay in here!
There may be more explosions!Copy !req
13. What happened, Charles?
What went wrong? - I don't know!Copy !req
14. There couldn't have been anything
wrong withe the design aeronautically.Copy !req
15. No, it was the motor.Copy !req
16. Why? Why after 4 years
of development and tests?Copy !req
17. It seems impossible but I can
think of only one thing... -What?Copy !req
18. Somebody tampered.
- Sabotage?Copy !req
19. That's for intelligence to find out
while we build another.Copy !req
20. I'm afraid you won't, Charles.
- Of course we will!Copy !req
21. Do you think this failure will make it
easier to get new appropriations?Copy !req
22. Things like this mean military cuts.Copy !req
23. Research is going back to the
laboratories. - Then I will too.Copy !req
24. I'm not quiting!Copy !req
25. First, I want to re-introduce myself
to my wife and kids.Copy !req
26. Mow the lawn, fix leaky faucets,
paint fences and...Copy !req
27. read a few detective stories
in the bathtub.Copy !req
28. Then get on with the problem and a
few others I've neglected.Copy !req
29. A satellite to circle the Earth
forever at 12,000 miles above sea level.Copy !req
30. What did I call it just before
it was fired?Copy !req
31. Your vindication, General?Copy !req
32. I'm sorry. I'm sorrier
about that than anything else.Copy !req
33. For your years of crusading all I've
given you is...Copy !req
34. the most expensive pile of junk
in history.Copy !req
35. General Thayer is here, Mr. Barnes.
- Fine. Send him in.Copy !req
36. Don't forget to wash behind your ears!Copy !req
37. How was your trip, General?
- Very smooth.Copy !req
38. I flew in on one of your Skyliners.
Nice ship, Jimmy. Very nice.Copy !req
39. Whenever you start with a compliment,
you're after something.Copy !req
40. That's hardly civil, Jim.
I haven't seen you for 2 years.Copy !req
41. Did I ask you for something the
last time I saw you?Copy !req
42. You certainly did!Copy !req
43. You wanted a shoulder to cry on
because Cargraves' rocket fizzled.Copy !req
44. Glad to see you anyway.Copy !req
45. I'm not wasting time crying
about that anymore.Copy !req
46. After the way you sold me...Copy !req
47. "the rocket is an absolute
necessity."Copy !req
48. "If any other power gets one into
space before we do...Copy !req
49. we'll no longer be the United States,
we'll be the Disunited World, etc..."Copy !req
50. It's twice as true today.Copy !req
51. You proved that a satellite rocket
isn't practical.Copy !req
52. It blew up, didn't it?Copy !req
53. Did it blow up, Jimmy?Copy !req
54. Or was it blown up?Copy !req
55. Blown up?Copy !req
56. Why ask me?
Army Intelligence might know.Copy !req
57. They know.Copy !req
58. What's your pitch, General?Copy !req
59. I'll tell you!
- Wait a minute...Copy !req
60. I think I can put this together myself!Copy !req
61. You're a satellite rocket man...Copy !req
62. You crusaded yourself right out of the
service and you kept on crusading.Copy !req
63. Finally they took up the Cargraves
project and it fizzled.Copy !req
64. Now, following the course of old
established habits...Copy !req
65. you'd like to drop it
in my lap!Copy !req
66. Well, I love you General...Copy !req
67. but I'm just a plain manufacturer,
not the Dept. Of Defense!Copy !req
68. The answer is no!Copy !req
69. Don't light that cigar,
we're going to lunch!Copy !req
70. Who said you're anything but a
manufacturer? That's why I came to you.Copy !req
71. Building rocket satellites is big stuff.
I couldn't begin to finance one...Copy !req
72. I'm not asking you to rebuild
the satellite.Copy !req
73. Cargraves spent 4 years
on that project!Copy !req
74. That rocket could have and should
have done everything we anticipated!Copy !req
75. There's no time nor need
to repeat that experiment.Copy !req
76. Then what are you driving at now?
- The moon!Copy !req
77. Okay, I'll listen.
Tell me.Copy !req
78. I did tell you! The next rocket
we build is going to the moon!Copy !req
79. Let's go to lunch.
- I'm serious, Jim.Copy !req
80. You can't be! It's too fantastic!
The Moon? Impossible!Copy !req
81. Even with an atomic energy engine?Copy !req
82. Exhaust velocity potential
of 30,000 ft/sec?Copy !req
83. A thrust of 3,000,000 pounds?Copy !req
84. Why, even Gesputly's atomic engine has
only limited use. He has no mobile unit.Copy !req
85. Cargrave's has spent the last 2 years
on it. He designed and tested it.Copy !req
86. His scale model ran for an hour and 23
minutes before it blew up!Copy !req
87. Incredible!
- I saw it, Jim.Copy !req
88. And the government hasn't taken
that over?Copy !req
89. It's peacetime. The government isn't
making that kind of appropriations.Copy !req
90. They'll need to rocket one day
and they'll turn to you!Copy !req
91. To private industry. Government always
does that when it gets in a jam!Copy !req
92. This time, I figured we might be ready
for the government!Copy !req
93. Preparedness isn't all military, Jim.Copy !req
94. What about the money?
That's not the problem!Copy !req
95. It's production. That's why I came
to you. You're a production man.Copy !req
96. The problem right now is
one of research.Copy !req
97. Designing, special materials...Copy !req
98. the pooling of resources, specialized
skills, engineering brains...Copy !req
99. industrial capacity.Copy !req
100. No single company could
possibly do it.Copy !req
101. But combined American industry
sparked by Jim Barnes...Copy !req
102. could put a rocket on the moon
within a year.Copy !req
103. What do you say, Jim?Copy !req
104. Do we go to lunch?Copy !req
105. Or do we go to the moon?Copy !req
106. The moon, huh?Copy !req
107. Here's the control room.Copy !req
108. All this space below carries the working
fluid, the reaction mass.Copy !req
109. Water heated to dry steam by the atomic
pile and expelled by this jet.Copy !req
110. Here we have the shielding to
protect the crew from radioactivity.Copy !req
111. Here are the gyros that can be used to
turn the ship to any desired attitude.Copy !req
112. I admit, gentlemen, that this
enterprise appeals to me!Copy !req
113. I've always been attracted by
progressive forms of transportation!Copy !req
114. I'm not known as a
"horse and buggy" man!Copy !req
115. I'd like to have a finger in this
new devil.Copy !req
116. Though nothing would tempt
me to ride in it.Copy !req
117. But can we afford it?Copy !req
118. I've been told you can, Mr. La Porte!Copy !req
119. Now listen, I've known you
from way back...Copy !req
120. Two engine planes weren't fast enough;
you had to go in for four.Copy !req
121. Then props weren't fast enough;
you had to go in for jets.Copy !req
122. Now, you've got something else.Copy !req
123. Something that will go higher and faster
than anything before it.Copy !req
124. You can't swing it alone, so you're
trying to rope us in on it.Copy !req
125. Before we go along with you, you'll
have to tell us... what's the payoff?Copy !req
126. Dollars and cents?
I don't know.Copy !req
127. I want to do this job because it's
never been done, because I don't know.Copy !req
128. It's research, it's pioneering!Copy !req
129. What's the moon?
Another North or South Pole?Copy !req
130. Our nearest neighbor in the sky!
- But why go there, Jim?Copy !req
131. We'll know when we get there.
We'll tell you when we get back!Copy !req
132. It's a venture I don't want to be
left out of.Copy !req
133. I like our viewpoint, Jim. But there
are those here who won't see it.Copy !req
134. They don't even understand it!Copy !req
135. I've got a first reader lesson
for them.Copy !req
136. Sit down will you fellows?Copy !req
137. Gentlemen!Copy !req
138. May I have your attention please?Copy !req
139. If you'll be seated, I'd like to show
you a movie prepared for this meeting.Copy !req
140. We have one of Hollywood's best known
actors to play for you!Copy !req
141. Alright, Sam!Copy !req
142. I'm a busy man.Copy !req
143. Dragging me all the way here
to talk about a rocket to the moon!Copy !req
144. It's ridiculous!
Comic book stuff!Copy !req
145. Comic book stuff, eh?Copy !req
146. Life Magazine doesn't think so!Copy !req
147. Nor Look, nor Pic, nor Collier's...Copy !req
148. nor your biggest daily newspapers!Copy !req
149. It'll never get off the ground!Copy !req
150. No propeller!Copy !req
151. Rockets do not employ propellers.
They use jets.Copy !req
152. So do gas stoves, but they
don't fly to the moon.Copy !req
153. Obviously, you know nothing
about rockets.Copy !req
154. Now, let's pretend that umbrella
of yours is a shotgun.Copy !req
155. Shoot it!Copy !req
156. Who pushed me?
- The gun, Woody.Copy !req
157. The charged not only fired out of the
muzzle,Copy !req
158. it kicked back with equal force
against the barrel.Copy !req
159. It wouldn't happen again in a
hundred times!Copy !req
160. Shoot it at the ground a few times
quickly and see what happens.Copy !req
161. That same principle applies
to rockets.Copy !req
162. It is the same shotgun kick of the
explosives...Copy !req
163. that throws the rocket forward.Copy !req
164. That kick is independent of the air
around the rocket.Copy !req
165. It also works in a vacuum or in
outer space which is a vacuum.Copy !req
166. The moon is easier to reach
than you realize.Copy !req
167. Oh sure, it's a cinch!Copy !req
168. Only 240,000 miles!Copy !req
169. Paved highway all the way and
a gas station at every intersection!Copy !req
170. Fuel is no problem, Woody. The engines
do not have to blast all the time.Copy !req
171. Just long enough to get away from the
gravitational pull of the Earth.Copy !req
172. Following which you fall wherever
you are headed for.Copy !req
173. Get in and I'll demonstrate!Copy !req
174. Let me out of here!
Help! Help!Copy !req
175. At the start, the jets blast powerfully
enough...Copy !req
176. to counteract the gravitational
pull of the Earth.Copy !req
177. Once out of the Earth's atmosphere,
the rocket just keeps on going...Copy !req
178. encountering no resistance to
slow it up.Copy !req
179. The rocket does not appear
to be traveling...Copy !req
180. but the high speed or escape velocity
as we call it...Copy !req
181. is about 7 miles a second.Copy !req
182. It keeps falling in outer space in the
direction in which it was started.Copy !req
183. Now as it nears the moon,Copy !req
184. that planet's gravitational field
begins to pull it toward it.Copy !req
185. Can't hear you, Woody! No air
remember. Turn on your aerial!Copy !req
186. Hey, no brakes on this thing!
I'm going to crash!Copy !req
187. How do I land?Copy !req
188. Very simple. Just reverse the takeoff.Copy !req
189. But what about the wings?Copy !req
190. Can't use them. The moon has no air.Copy !req
191. Now he tells me!Copy !req
192. Turn the ship around. Use the shotgun
kick of the exhaust to break the speed...Copy !req
193. and set her gently on her tail.Copy !req
194. Se we made it!Copy !req
195. But how do we get home from this
piece of cheese?Copy !req
196. Shooting a rocket from the moon
to the Earth...Copy !req
197. is a great deal easier than shooting
from the Earth to the moon...Copy !req
198. because it's downhill
almost all the way.Copy !req
199. The V2 rocket could do it today.Copy !req
200. On the return trip, we use the wings
to glide in.Copy !req
201. And for economy's sake, we finish
the landing like this.Copy !req
202. Sensational!Copy !req
203. I'm sold!
I'll back it to the hilt!Copy !req
204. Here's my 2 bucks!
Well, when do we start building?Copy !req
205. Well gentlemen, when do we start
building?Copy !req
206. You've examined our model;
you've seen our little picture.Copy !req
207. I hope we've succeeded in dispelling
your original skepticism.Copy !req
208. Mr. Barnes can you imagine me going
before a meeting of my stockholders...Copy !req
209. and reporting that I'd put millions
into a trip to the moon?Copy !req
210. Why some would lynch me!Copy !req
211. I doubt it even in Texas,
when you tell them why.Copy !req
212. It just happens we have no choice.Copy !req
213. If we want to stay in business,
we have to build this ship!Copy !req
214. Did you say "have" to build it, Jim?Copy !req
215. That's what I said!
- If it's that important a project...Copy !req
216. why doesn't the government undertake it?Copy !req
217. The vast amount of brains, talent,
special skills, research facilities...Copy !req
218. necessary for this project are not in
the government!Copy !req
219. Nor can they be mobilized by the
gov't in peacetime without fatal delay.Copy !req
220. - Only American industry can do this job!Copy !req
221. And American industry must get
to work now!Copy !req
222. Just as we did in the last war!Copy !req
223. Yes, but the government
footed the bill!Copy !req
224. And they'll foot this bill too if we're
successful. You know that.Copy !req
225. If we fail, we'll take a colossal
beating, so we can't fail!Copy !req
226. Not only is this the greatest adventure
awaiting mankind...Copy !req
227. but it's the greatest challenge ever
hurled at American industry!Copy !req
228. And General Thayer
is going to tell you why!Copy !req
229. The reason is quite simple...Copy !req
230. we are not the only ones who know
that the moon can be reached.Copy !req
231. We are not the only ones
planning to go there.Copy !req
232. The race is on!Copy !req
233. And we'd better win it because...Copy !req
234. there is absolutely no way to stop
an attack from outer space!Copy !req
235. The first country that can use the moon
for the launching of missiles...Copy !req
236. will control the Earth!Copy !req
237. That gentlemen, is the most important
military fact of this century!Copy !req
238. Gentlemen!Copy !req
239. I see no need for further discussion!Copy !req
240. It's our job!Copy !req
241. Well, all I got to say is we better
build it in Texas.Copy !req
242. It's the only state big enough
to hold it!Copy !req
243. If you can increase the initial velocity
only 600ths of a mile per second...Copy !req
244. you can make the trip in
2 days instead of four.Copy !req
245. We'll have to compute what that
means in reaction mass.Copy !req
246. This is a case where pounds of ship
costs many pounds of reaction mass.Copy !req
247. Try titanium!Copy !req
248. That's exactly right as far as
appearance goes.Copy !req
249. All that remains now is to test it.Copy !req
250. It goes for it's atmosphere chamber
test this afternoon.Copy !req
251. I've added one detail, Charles.Copy !req
252. What is that for?Copy !req
253. The chaffing suits we wear over our
pressure suits are in different colors.Copy !req
254. Why?
- For identification.Copy !req
255. We'll use these 4 colors for the 4 crew
members then nobody can get lost.Copy !req
256. The moonscape is pretty drab.Copy !req
257. These bright colors
will give us high visibility.Copy !req
258. Your right if no one minds looking like
a carnival balloon!Copy !req
259. Hey, Brownie!Copy !req
260. What do you want?Copy !req
261. Have you taken a look down from here?Copy !req
262. No, I never liked high places. Why?Copy !req
263. You're halfway to the moon already!Copy !req
264. It's the other half that's tough!
- I wouldn't worry about that!Copy !req
265. How come?Copy !req
266. Who are you kidding? This thing
is as close to the moon as it'll get!Copy !req
267. I never felt so silly in my life as I
have since you sent for me!Copy !req
268. You show me all your nice plans for
instruments to navigate to the moon.Copy !req
269. I help you build them.
We install them.Copy !req
270. You teach me how they work
and I understand how they work.Copy !req
271. But nobody tells me
how the ship works!Copy !req
272. This thing is built like
the Washington Monument!Copy !req
273. You could stick an atom bomb under it
and it wouldn't go!Copy !req
274. What's the matter, Brownie?Copy !req
275. It's nothing. Just a bellyache.Copy !req
276. You been eating green apples?Copy !req
277. I haven't been able to eat anything.Copy !req
278. I tried to get you before you left
Washington. - Is anything wrong?Copy !req
279. It's not the engine, is it?
Have you tested it?Copy !req
280. Not yet and it doesn't look like
we're going to.Copy !req
281. "I'm directed to inform you that your
petition to test an atomic engine...Copy !req
282. is regretfully denied."Copy !req
283. Denied?Copy !req
284. "It is our opinion that a danger exists
should the engine fail structurally."Copy !req
285. "There is a possibility of dispersal of
radioactive materials."Copy !req
286. We've told them a dozen times the area
is cleared for 10 miles around.Copy !req
287. "While it is admitted that no real
danger of atomic explosion exists...Copy !req
288. a belief in such danger does exist
in the public mind."Copy !req
289. "It is the policy of the Commission..."
- Policy, my foot!Copy !req
290. Somebody's throwing a monkey wrench!
- Wait, there's more.Copy !req
291. "The test is authorized at the Special
Weapons Testing Center in the S. Pacific.Copy !req
292. South Pacific?Copy !req
293. That's nice of them!Copy !req
294. What's the matter with the North Pole
or Little America?Copy !req
295. What's a few months delay?Copy !req
296. There trying to protect their own necks.
You can't buck public opinion!Copy !req
297. Have you seen this?Copy !req
298. That isn't public opinion,
it's propaganda!Copy !req
299. You're right it is! Manufactured
and organized with money and brains!Copy !req
300. Somebody's out to get us.Copy !req
301. Stops us in our tracks anyway.Copy !req
302. We'll have to reschedule.
- With what?Copy !req
303. What do you mean?Copy !req
304. What are we going to use for money?
We've pushed our resources to the limit!Copy !req
305. Every day of delay costs!Copy !req
306. Hey, Doc...Copy !req
307. The ship's about ready to take off,
isn't she?Copy !req
308. Except for tests
and minor adjustments.Copy !req
309. What's the next favorable time?Copy !req
310. About a month from now.
- I don't mean that.Copy !req
311. What's the next favorable time
this month?Copy !req
312. The only favorable time this month
is about 17 hours from now.Copy !req
313. That's it then.Copy !req
314. We take off in 17 hours.Copy !req
315. Are you out of your mind?Copy !req
316. I will be if we run into any more
red tape. Now look...Copy !req
317. There's no law against
taking off a spaceship.Copy !req
318. It's never been done, so it's
not been prohibited.Copy !req
319. If we ask for permission, they'll find
a way to block us. So we go now!Copy !req
320. In an untested ship?Copy !req
321. How do you test a thing of this kind?
It either works or it doesn't!Copy !req
322. It's a one time deal!
Doc, any worries about the engine?Copy !req
323. None, but we haven't trained a crew!Copy !req
324. So we don't. The takeoff is
fully automatic.Copy !req
325. The General and I will run the ship.
You'll be the Engineer.Copy !req
326. Brown has known from the beginning
that he'll handle the radio and radar.Copy !req
327. What about ballistics?Copy !req
328. That's where we're stuck. The takeoff
wasn't planned for this month.Copy !req
329. It's a week's work!Copy !req
330. You think Dr. Hastings is pretty good,
don't you?Copy !req
331. The best in the world!
- Give him the job!Copy !req
332. And all the black coffee and assistants
he can use!Copy !req
333. You all set, General?
- All set! - Then it's settled.Copy !req
334. We'll all be heroes or angels
so what can we lose?Copy !req
335. We'll takeoff tomorrow morning
before dawn.Copy !req
336. We've a lot in 17 hours!Copy !req
337. Get me my home.
I'd like to talk to Mrs. Cargraves.Copy !req
338. All roads have been blocked.Copy !req
339. Because of the danger of radioactivity,
the area is being cleared of spectators.Copy !req
340. Do not attempt to approach
the site of the spaceship!Copy !req
341. The public is asked to stay away.Copy !req
342. I shall repeat this warning...Copy !req
343. Do not attempt to approach
the site of the spaceship!Copy !req
344. 452.6Copy !req
345. 22.78Copy !req
346. 22.79Copy !req
347. 22.79Copy !req
348. 32.1Copy !req
349. Yes?Copy !req
350. Mr. Brown still cannot be located,
Mr. Barnes.Copy !req
351. Check with the main gate, the store,
everywhere. Keep calling me back.Copy !req
352. What was the last one?
- 32.1Copy !req
353. 219.9Copy !req
354. Yes?Copy !req
355. Mr. Sweeney is here to see
General Thayer.Copy !req
356. Send him in.Copy !req
357. What's up, Joe?
- It's Brown, sir.Copy !req
358. They've taken him to the hospital.
- The hospital? Is he alright?Copy !req
359. He will be after they
cut out his appendix.Copy !req
360. What will we do?Copy !req
361. Say, Joe. Joe!Copy !req
362. You can handle the ship's radio
and radar equipment, can't you?Copy !req
363. You know as much about it as Brown.
Will you take his place?Copy !req
364. To the moon?Copy !req
365. What's the moon got
that this desert ain't?Copy !req
366. Besides...
- Besides what, Joe?Copy !req
367. I got a date with a nice little chick
tomorrow.Copy !req
368. No thanks!Copy !req
369. Joe!Copy !req
370. Unless you come with us, we're sunk!Copy !req
371. You're the only man left who knows
how to handle the equipment.Copy !req
372. Mr. Barnes, mind if I sound off a little?Copy !req
373. What do you mean?
- You're pretty smart men...Copy !req
374. you and Dr. Cargraves and the General.Copy !req
375. I don't know as much as you do, but...
- What's on your mind?Copy !req
376. You're all wet!
- In what way?Copy !req
377. The thing won't work. It can't!Copy !req
378. It's crazy! Figure all that weight.
It won't budge an inch.Copy !req
379. And what do I see them putting
in the fuel tanks? Water!Copy !req
380. You're all going to look like
a bunch of dummies!Copy !req
381. If you believed that, you'd come along.Copy !req
382. Yeah, but I don't want
to look like a dummy.Copy !req
383. You wouldn't. We're entirely
responsible for the whole thing.Copy !req
384. You don't think it could blow up?Copy !req
385. We'd never get in it
if we thought that.Copy !req
386. Joe...Copy !req
387. You have confidence in Dr. Cargraves,
me, the General...Copy !req
388. we wouldn't ask you to do anything
we didn't believe in.Copy !req
389. Would you like to go?Copy !req
390. Okay.Copy !req
391. I'll sit up there with you and twiddle
the knobs, just for laughs.Copy !req
392. Fine, Joe.Copy !req
393. It'll never budge!
- Be sure you twiddle the right knobs!Copy !req
394. You guys are really serious, ain't ya?Copy !req
395. Dead serious.Copy !req
396. Hey, wait a minute!
I've got to get through!Copy !req
397. Sorry, nobody passes here.
- You have to take me through!Copy !req
398. I've got a court order here
forbidding them from taking off!Copy !req
399. I'm sorry you couldn't
bring the boys, Emily.Copy !req
400. I couldn't; you gave me so little time.Copy !req
401. Like to go in my place, Mrs. Cargraves?Copy !req
402. Who me? Oh, dear no.Copy !req
403. Don't worry ma'am.
We won't get very far.Copy !req
404. Coming Doc?
- In a moment.Copy !req
405. It's about time, Charles.Copy !req
406. Bye, Mrs. Cargraves.Copy !req
407. We'll take good care of your husband.Copy !req
408. Try not to worry.Copy !req
409. Mr Barnes, there's a joker back there
trying to crash the gate!Copy !req
410. He has a court order
and it says you can't take off!Copy !req
411. Darling!Copy !req
412. Come back to me, Charles.Copy !req
413. Doc, come on!Copy !req
414. Hastings, I wish you had room
for me in the ship!Copy !req
415. You've got to stay here
and make sure we get home!Copy !req
416. Goodbye and good luck.Copy !req
417. Alright, take it away!Copy !req
418. Barnes! Cargraves!
Stop!Copy !req
419. Come back here!Copy !req
420. We can't hear a word you say!Copy !req
421. Alright, Jim.
You're the skipper, take over.Copy !req
422. First time I outranked a general.Copy !req
423. First time I've heard you admit
you were outrank by anybody.Copy !req
424. Am I the only one who's scared?
This thing might work!Copy !req
425. We're all scared.Copy !req
426. Alright, gentlemen.
Takeoff stations.Copy !req
427. Communications?Copy !req
428. I'll have it all cooking in a minute.Copy !req
429. As soon as the TV screen is operating,
check clearance at base of ship.Copy !req
430. Then phone check the Tracking Center
at Dry Wells.Copy !req
431. Cut in the boys at the traffic shack.Copy !req
432. Calling traffic shack, over.
- Traffic to ship, over.Copy !req
433. Official designation of ship is Luna.
L-U-N-A. Luna, over.Copy !req
434. Luna, roger.
- Tell them to clear for firing.Copy !req
435. Clear firing area in preparation for
departure, over.Copy !req
436. Roger.Copy !req
437. Spaceship Luna calling
Dry Wells Airfield, over.Copy !req
438. Dry Wells to Luna, over.Copy !req
439. Making preparations for firing, over.Copy !req
440. Dry Wells is ready for tracking, over.Copy !req
441. Dry Wells reported.
Traffic reported.Copy !req
442. Power Station report.
- Power Station ready for firing.Copy !req
443. Communications?Copy !req
444. Everything's just dandy, Skipper.Copy !req
445. Co-pilot?Copy !req
446. Instruments okay.
Automatic pilot tracking.Copy !req
447. Give warning signal.Copy !req
448. Need time from the integrating computer.
- 03:47:58Copy !req
449. Two minutes to go.Copy !req
450. Traffic to Luna. All clear, over.Copy !req
451. Roger.Copy !req
452. Tell them to stand by to
count off for firing.Copy !req
453. Stand by for count off and firing.
- Roger.Copy !req
454. Check. 34840Copy !req
455. Check.Copy !req
456. Pickup count off at 3:49:30.
- Count off at 3:49:30Copy !req
457. Check Dry Wells.
- Dry Wells, roger.Copy !req
458. Count off 3:49:30, over.Copy !req
459. 30 seconds coming up.Copy !req
460. Standby.Copy !req
461. 30 seconds.Copy !req
462. 29... 28... 27...Copy !req
463. 26... 25... 24...Copy !req
464. 23... 22... 21...Copy !req
465. 20... 19... 18...Copy !req
466. 17... 16... 15...Copy !req
467. 14... 13..12...Copy !req
468. 11... 10... 9...Copy !req
469. 8... 7... 6...Copy !req
470. 5... 4... 3...Copy !req
471. 2... fire!Copy !req
472. What's happening?Copy !req
473. What's the matter?Copy !req
474. Nothing's the matter.Copy !req
475. Just passed the speed of sound.Copy !req
476. Joe...Copy !req
477. switch on view aft.Copy !req
478. I can't move a muscle.Copy !req
479. I'm froze solid.Copy !req
480. Do it!Copy !req
481. We're falling.Copy !req
482. It's alright, Joe. We're weightless,
in free orbit that's all.Copy !req
483. Weightless?Copy !req
484. Free orbit?Copy !req
485. Just where are we?Copy !req
486. You mean this thing is working?
We're... no, sir! Not me!Copy !req
487. Nobody ever told me this was practical!Copy !req
488. Turn this thing around!
Take me back!Copy !req
489. I ain't going to no moon!
That's just to look at!Copy !req
490. I'm sick.Copy !req
491. Grab hold.Copy !req
492. Hang on.Copy !req
493. What happened to me?Copy !req
494. You're alright.Copy !req
495. In free orbit, everything is falling
at the same speed.Copy !req
496. Everything unfastened just floats.
There's no up or down.Copy !req
497. Tell that to my stomach!
It says there's nothing but up!Copy !req
498. Oh, boy!
Am I seasick!Copy !req
499. You're not seasick, you're space sick!Copy !req
500. I'm sick of that too!Copy !req
501. Take one of these pills.
It'll settle your stomach.Copy !req
502. I can't swallow. It won't go down!Copy !req
503. It'll take practice without gravity
to help. You'll manage.Copy !req
504. General, how are you feeling?Copy !req
505. You got another one of those pills?
- Here's a whole box full.Copy !req
506. Let's see if I can swallow better
than Sweeney.Copy !req
507. Unless these pills work, space travel
isn't going to be popular.Copy !req
508. Don't!Copy !req
509. Think of the condition of my stomach!Copy !req
510. Shoes, General?
- Thank you.Copy !req
511. Let's get these on you. They've got
magnets in the soles.Copy !req
512. How do you feel now?Copy !req
513. The way I did when I tried
my first smoke.Copy !req
514. You'll be alright in a minute. Put that
one on and try to get Dry Wells.Copy !req
515. Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells.
Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells, over.Copy !req
516. Dry Wells to Spaceship Luna.
Man alive, I can't believe it!Copy !req
517. Your takeoff checked out according to
flight plan.Copy !req
518. We are now tracking you by radar.Copy !req
519. You are in your calculated orbit.Copy !req
520. We will continue to track you
as long as we can. Good luck, over.Copy !req
521. Thank you, Dry Wells and roger.Copy !req
522. Doc, General. You've got to see this.Copy !req
523. Gosh, ain't that something!Copy !req
524. I thought I'd seen everything.Copy !req
525. Just look at those cities!Copy !req
526. Is that Los Angeles?
- And San Francisco.Copy !req
527. Sure! That's Los Angeles.Copy !req
528. That's New York!Copy !req
529. Can you see Brooklyn?Copy !req
530. Sure there's Brooklyn.Copy !req
531. I wonder who's pitching?Copy !req
532. Joe!Copy !req
533. I want to test the radar.
The antenna seems to be stuck.Copy !req
534. Stuck?Copy !req
535. I don't understand it. I was
particularly careful when I greased it.Copy !req
536. Greased it?
No wonder it's stuck!Copy !req
537. It's exposed to outer space! It's frozen
solid! You should know better than that!Copy !req
538. I'm no scientist!Copy !req
539. Didn't you bother to read
the engineering instructions?Copy !req
540. Arguing won't get us anywhere.Copy !req
541. The radar has to be fixed.Copy !req
542. To try to land blind would be
our finish.Copy !req
543. How do we fix it, Doc?Copy !req
544. Somebody has to go outside and free it.
- Outside?Copy !req
545. You mean go outside the ship?
- It can't be done any other way.Copy !req
546. We'd be swept off!
- No, you can't fall.Copy !req
547. Outside, you'll be in the same orbit
and trajectory as the ship.Copy !req
548. The worst that could happen is that
you'd drift away from the side.Copy !req
549. We avoid that by using safety lines.Copy !req
550. Let's do it!Copy !req
551. No Jim, I'll go.Copy !req
552. I want to inspect the rocket jet anyway
to see how it stood up on the takeoff.Copy !req
553. I'll tag along.
- Me too.Copy !req
554. I fouled us up and if you guys
go out, so do I.Copy !req
555. Coming, General.
- No.Copy !req
556. I'm not curious.
You boys go have your fun.Copy !req
557. I'll stay and write up the log.Copy !req
558. Green is just the color for you,
Sweeney.Copy !req
559. Ready to put on the helmets?Copy !req
560. I won't be able to breathe in here!Copy !req
561. You won't be able to breathe without it.
Hook up your air hose.Copy !req
562. - You forget there's no air outside.Copy !req
563. There's plenty of room for it!Copy !req
564. Check radios.Copy !req
565. Check instruments.
Check air.Copy !req
566. Let's go!Copy !req
567. I'm going to get another line!Copy !req
568. Now it will open.Copy !req
569. Close it, Skipper!
We'll fall out!Copy !req
570. Get this through your head, Joe.
You can't fall.Copy !req
571. Let's go!Copy !req
572. Hey, we're stuck up here!
We ain't moving!Copy !req
573. It only seems that way. We're really
traveling thousands of miles per hour.Copy !req
574. Here in space, all comparisons
are lost.Copy !req
575. Take a look behind you.Copy !req
576. Wow!Copy !req
577. The geography books are right.Copy !req
578. How do you feel now, Joe?Copy !req
579. Weird.Copy !req
580. Thousands of miles an hour
and not a breeze.Copy !req
581. It's more beautiful than
I ever dreamed.Copy !req
582. We will never be able to
describe it to anyone.Copy !req
583. I'm going aft. See you shortly.Copy !req
584. Wait until we finish this.
I'll go with you.Copy !req
585. You stay here and take care of
the radar. Give me a rope.Copy !req
586. Help yourself.Copy !req
587. I'll be back in a minute.Copy !req
588. Skip! Joe! Help!
I'm adrift!Copy !req
589. I can't get back!Copy !req
590. Tie it off to the ship.
- Where?Copy !req
591. Off the stern. Come on!Copy !req
592. Jim! Joe! Help!Copy !req
593. Can you hear me?
I'm adrift!Copy !req
594. Coming, Doc!Copy !req
595. Hurry! If we can't get him,
he will float forever!Copy !req
596. Get a rope to him!Copy !req
597. Captain, towards the stern!Copy !req
598. We're working towards you, Doc.
We can see you.Copy !req
599. Jim, Joe! Is he alright?
Can you get him?Copy !req
600. We've go to get him!
- I'm coming out!Copy !req
601. Steady, Doc.
We're going to get a rope to you.Copy !req
602. Steady, Doc!
Here it comes!Copy !req
603. Catch!Copy !req
604. I can't reach it!Copy !req
605. We'll try again.Copy !req
606. General! Can you hear me?Copy !req
607. Bring out an oxygen bottle!
Hurry!Copy !req
608. Hurry, Jim!
Joe, help!Copy !req
609. General! That oxygen tank, hurry!Copy !req
610. Where is he?Copy !req
611. Way out there.Copy !req
612. What are you going to do?Copy !req
613. Get him!Copy !req
614. I hope it's got enough kick!Copy !req
615. General, grab him!
We'll lose him too!Copy !req
616. I almost didn't make it.Copy !req
617. Can we get back?Copy !req
618. If we don't, we'll tour the universe
together! Hang on, I'm going to turn it.Copy !req
619. Pray there's enough gas to get us back.Copy !req
620. He's got him!Copy !req
621. Give me the rope!Copy !req
622. You okay, Doc?
- I didn't think we'd make it!Copy !req
623. Come on, boys.
Let's go inside.Copy !req
624. We're getting close.
- Standing by, ready to fire.Copy !req
625. Here goes the turn.Copy !req
626. We're going backwards!Copy !req
627. Yes, we're going to use the firing
as brakes.Copy !req
628. Stand by for acceleration.Copy !req
629. Tracking as predicted.Copy !req
630. Good. Radar report?Copy !req
631. Altitude 108000.Copy !req
632. Closing as predicted.
- Power?Copy !req
633. Plant okay.Copy !req
634. That didn't slow us! We're going faster
than ever! - No we're not!Copy !req
635. It seems that way because we're
close and heading in.Copy !req
636. I just decided I don't want to go
through with this thing. Let's go home!Copy !req
637. Cut it out, Joe.
Give me the view aft.Copy !req
638. View aft.Copy !req
639. Power plant?
- On manual.Copy !req
640. Ready now...Copy !req
641. Holy smoke! We can't land on that,
we'll be splattered!Copy !req
642. Quit worrying. We're landing
in the smooth plain short of there.Copy !req
643. I'm going to kill our forward speed.
Stand by.Copy !req
644. Acceleration!Copy !req
645. You missed, Jim!
- I know it! Emergency!Copy !req
646. Pick her up, Jim!
Give us some lateral!Copy !req
647. Too late! Too much firing
and we can't get home.Copy !req
648. I'll have to use the drift we've got.Copy !req
649. You going to chance it, Jim?
- Have to!Copy !req
650. Automatic landing!
- Automatic, it is.Copy !req
651. Co-pilot!
Tracking in on automatic.Copy !req
652. Tracking now.Copy !req
653. Cover me at 830 feet.Copy !req
654. Covered at 830.
- Correction... cover at 870.Copy !req
655. 870, right. Can you miss those peaks?
- Got a prayer in your pocket?Copy !req
656. Correction... 860!
- 860!Copy !req
657. Tracking steady.Copy !req
658. All hands brace for crash!Copy !req
659. - We're down.Copy !req
660. We're down.Copy !req
661. Cut out your gyros.Copy !req
662. Okay.Copy !req
663. Fine landing, Jim.Copy !req
664. That was a terrible landing
and you know it!Copy !req
665. I mean for a first one.Copy !req
666. I wasted reaction mass we'll need to
get back. If we get back.Copy !req
667. Worry about that later,
we just got here.Copy !req
668. Here...Copy !req
669. On the moon!Copy !req
670. Jim, Doc...Copy !req
671. We're on the moon!Copy !req
672. And we're alive!Copy !req
673. Holy cow! The next time you tell me you
can get to the moon, I'll believe you.Copy !req
674. You waited a long time for this, Doc.
- All my life.Copy !req
675. Sweeney, how about trying
to raise Washington?Copy !req
676. You bet! Wait until I tell them...Copy !req
677. First race: Spaceship Luna in the lead,
way out in front!Copy !req
678. Doc, Jim. You two go down and
set foot on the surface.Copy !req
679. That's something I want to enter
in my log.Copy !req
680. No, I think we should all go together.
- Nonsense, you made this trip possible.Copy !req
681. Spaceship Luna calling Washington.Copy !req
682. Come on then, Doc.
This is your moment.Copy !req
683. Let's get into our spacesuits.Copy !req
684. Let's go.Copy !req
685. Come on.Copy !req
686. Claim it, Doc. I'm your witness.
Claim it officially.Copy !req
687. By the grace of God, and in the name of
the United States of America...Copy !req
688. I take possession of this planet on
behalf of, and for the benefit of...Copy !req
689. all mankind.Copy !req
690. Dr. Cargraves!
Mr. Barnes!Copy !req
691. Yes? - I'm in contact with Washington.
There's terrific excitement on Earth!Copy !req
692. We're hooked up to all the networks.
They just interviewed the General.Copy !req
693. They want to interview you two. I've
patched your radio into the transmitter.Copy !req
694. I hooked up our receiver too. You can
have a two-way conversation with them.Copy !req
695. Okay, go ahead Earth!Copy !req
696. Hello! Hello on the moon!Copy !req
697. This is Carl Zurski, greeting you
from the Earth.Copy !req
698. The people of the world congratulate
you for your epoch-making achievement!Copy !req
699. Thank you.Copy !req
700. I must explain to the listeners of the
lag between...Copy !req
701. my voice and those from the moon is due
to the vastness of space.Copy !req
702. It takes 3 seconds even at the speed
of light, for radio waves to travel...Copy !req
703. between the Earth and moon.
Can you tell us where you landed?Copy !req
704. The astronomers at Palomar say they
could see you if they knew where to lookCopy !req
705. We landed in the crater Harpalus...Copy !req
706. which is in the upper NW quadrant of
the moon as seen from North America.Copy !req
707. Is Dr. Cargraves hooked in?
- Yes.Copy !req
708. Can you give us your first impressions
of the moon, Dr. Cargraves?Copy !req
709. Well, I'll try.Copy !req
710. The first impression is...Copy !req
711. one of utter barrenness
and desolation.Copy !req
712. Then the silence...Copy !req
713. As there is not air, the only sound
we hear comes through our radios.Copy !req
714. The sky is...Copy !req
715. black.Copy !req
716. Velvet black and pierced by the most
intensely...Copy !req
717. brilliant stars anyone ever dreamed of.Copy !req
718. Hanging over the mountains in the
distance, I can see our own planet EarthCopy !req
719. many times larger
than the harvest moon.Copy !req
720. I see most of the Western Hemisphere...Copy !req
721. and I can also see it's about sunrise
in San Francisco.Copy !req
722. It's afternoon here...Copy !req
723. and will be for a couple of more days.Copy !req
724. Now perhaps, Jim Barnes
can add something.Copy !req
725. As a matter of record...Copy !req
726. may I report that the moment he sat
foot on the moon...Copy !req
727. Dr. Cargraves claimed possession
in the name of the United States...Copy !req
728. for the benefit of all mankind!Copy !req
729. This is great and wonderful news for
the people of the Earth! Thank you!Copy !req
730. The Naval Station in Washington will
stand by 24 hours a day for...Copy !req
731. further signals from you.
Goodbye and good luck!Copy !req
732. Roger.Copy !req
733. Doc, I'll never get use to this.Copy !req
734. This must weigh 500 or 600 pounds!Copy !req
735. On Earth it does. Gravity here
is about 1/6 as much.Copy !req
736. That means things weigh 1/6 as much.Copy !req
737. I know it, but I can't believe it.Copy !req
738. General, look!Copy !req
739. Sweeney, cut that out!Copy !req
740. What's the matter? If I could do that
back home, I'd be an acrobat!Copy !req
741. We've got too much to do and too little
time for any more clowning.Copy !req
742. Let's get on with our schedule!Copy !req
743. I'm suppose to help you with the
astronomical photos, Doc.Copy !req
744. I can't for a bit. I've got to Earth
and get Hastings to give us...Copy !req
745. revised figures for our trip back.Copy !req
746. Well, I'll just have to wait for you.
- Joe, you help him.Copy !req
747. I can handle the radio.Copy !req
748. Joe was going to help me with the
mineralogical survey!Copy !req
749. You can get along without him.
You've only got one Geiger Counter.Copy !req
750. But don't lose sight of the ship!
That's a rule for everybody!Copy !req
751. Okay, Skipper.Copy !req
752. I'll help you later, General.
I'm for seeing what there is to see!Copy !req
753. I don't figure on staying here too
long anyway. Do you know why?Copy !req
754. No beer, no babes, no baseball!
- You got it!Copy !req
755. Well Doc, I'll pack this little gadget.Copy !req
756. I'll join you after I talk to Hastings.Copy !req
757. Say Doc, there is one thing I'd like
as a souvenir of the trip.Copy !req
758. How about taking a picture of me up
here alongside the camera?Copy !req
759. Sure Joe, that's not too much to ask.
Give me the little camera.Copy !req
760. Move a little closer!Copy !req
761. That's it!Copy !req
762. Wait a minute, I have a better idea.Copy !req
763. Come over here.Copy !req
764. Now turn around...Copy !req
765. Now hold your arm up.Copy !req
766. Bend your elbow as though you were
holding a heavy weight.Copy !req
767. Now your hand...Copy !req
768. That's it. Hold it!Copy !req
769. Okay. That'll be something to show!Copy !req
770. What is it Doc?
- You and the Earth.Copy !req
771. You're holding it up
like a modern Atlas.Copy !req
772. Hey, that's something Doc.Copy !req
773. There's only one thing...
- What's that?Copy !req
774. Nobody will know it's me
in this diving suit!Copy !req
775. Hey, Doc!Copy !req
776. Joe!Copy !req
777. Over here!Copy !req
778. Behind you!Copy !req
779. Charles, I picked up clicks.Copy !req
780. Here, hold this.Copy !req
781. I picked them up a few yards back.
They are stronger in this direction.Copy !req
782. Listen to this.Copy !req
783. There's a trace, eh?
- What is it, Doc?Copy !req
784. I'm not sure. - These mountains may
have a real deposit.Copy !req
785. Uranium?
- It's possible.Copy !req
786. Then you could blow up the moon too.
Ain't that dandy!Copy !req
787. Check your reaction mass.Copy !req
788. Point 8672.Copy !req
789. What? Repeat that.Copy !req
790. Yes, point 8672.Copy !req
791. I wasted power making
a very bad landing.Copy !req
792. I'll have to compute it,
but it looks bad.Copy !req
793. We have to get you back.
Jettison every ounce.Copy !req
794. - All your forward tanks are empty. Can you rip them out?Copy !req
795. Not without tearing the ship apart.
She wasn't built for it.Copy !req
796. I'll call at the same time 24 hours
from now. I'll give you the answers.Copy !req
797. Be able to tell me how much you
lightened the ship...Copy !req
798. and I'll tell you if you can make it.Copy !req
799. I'll stand by 24 hours from now.Copy !req
800. Just get us back home.
That's all I ask.Copy !req
801. Hello, Jim!Copy !req
802. We've got news for you!
- I have for you too. All of you.Copy !req
803. This is right up your alley, Jim.
- Hold it, General.Copy !req
804. Sit down the camera, Joe and Doc.
It's no use to us.Copy !req
805. I haven't shot more than a half
a dozen plates.Copy !req
806. That's all you'll be able to shoot.
- What's the matter?Copy !req
807. I just talked to Dr. Hastings
at Dry Wells.Copy !req
808. I gave our instrument readings.
Reaction mass, mass ratio...Copy !req
809. checked our time.Copy !req
810. Well?
- Our time is okay.Copy !req
811. Nothing else is.Copy !req
812. What are you talking about, Skipper?
Everything on the board is ticking.Copy !req
813. I checked every instrument. All alive.Copy !req
814. So are we. For awhile.Copy !req
815. I don't get it.Copy !req
816. We have to lighten the ship!Copy !req
817. Our job for the next 24 hours is to
get rid of everything we can.Copy !req
818. Or stay here ourselves.Copy !req
819. Hastings will give me the answers at
07:30 tomorrow.Copy !req
820. Well, let's not panic until
we've talked to him again.Copy !req
821. Meanwhile... - We go back to the ship
and strip off everything we can!Copy !req
822. Acceleration couch pad 4.
Serial number 706. Schedule B.Copy !req
823. 706 Schedule B, check.Copy !req
824. And the schedule itself!Copy !req
825. That's everything that you can get out?Copy !req
826. 3 of our spacesuits will be dropped
before takeoff.Copy !req
827. One will be used in the airlock
to dump the others.Copy !req
828. Skipper, I'll dump the stuff.Copy !req
829. It'll take me 15 minutes to check again.
I'll give you the answer asap.Copy !req
830. Here's the wash!Copy !req
831. 36 hours.Copy !req
832. 36 hours, what?Copy !req
833. Until takeoff time.Copy !req
834. It's then or a month from then.Copy !req
835. That means never.Copy !req
836. Spaceship Luna, Spaceship Luna.Copy !req
837. Spaceship Luna, Barnes speaking.Copy !req
838. Here's the total: you've taken out
almost 2 tons.Copy !req
839. Before takeoff, drop all the oxygen
except what you need to get back on.Copy !req
840. Before takeoff, you can drop
your remaining food.Copy !req
841. You can hold yourselves to
a pint of water a day...Copy !req
842. and throw the rest of your drinking
water into the reaction tank.Copy !req
843. Have you got it?
- Right!Copy !req
844. You'll have to get out another
1,000 pounds.Copy !req
845. Another 1,000? Of what?
We're stripped!Copy !req
846. Don't make me say this...Copy !req
847. you have to or...Copy !req
848. You don't have to say it.
We know...Copy !req
849. or we don't get back!Copy !req
850. I'm standing by.Copy !req
851. You've got to work it out!Copy !req
852. Hey, Sweeney...Copy !req
853. is this thing bolted or welded?Copy !req
854. Bolted.Copy !req
855. Let's get to work.
Give me a wrench!Copy !req
856. I guess we used this one up.Copy !req
857. Doc, we'll be able to takeoff,
won't we?Copy !req
858. Probably. Takeoff, at least.Copy !req
859. What do you mean, "at least"?Copy !req
860. If we're too heavy, we'll crash
or fall into an orbit around the moon.Copy !req
861. Just keep on going around?Copy !req
862. That's it.Copy !req
863. Hey, Skipper! That's my radar!
- We won't need it to land on Earth.Copy !req
864. You don't know how much work
I did putting this together!Copy !req
865. Now, anybody with anything
in your pockets?Copy !req
866. This too?
- Everything!Copy !req
867. The 3 spacesuits then come back.Copy !req
868. How much time we got?Copy !req
869. 27 minutes.Copy !req
870. Another 110 pounds.
- What?Copy !req
871. Another 110 pounds
and you can coast home!Copy !req
872. We're stripped. We'll have to take
a chance as we are.Copy !req
873. That's suicide!Copy !req
874. You haven't enough power
to pull free of the moon.Copy !req
875. You could be wrong, couldn't you?Copy !req
876. I could.Copy !req
877. I don't think the computer could.Copy !req
878. Ask Dr. Cargraves.Copy !req
879. We'll let you know, roger.Copy !req
880. Well Charles, is he right?Copy !req
881. I'm afraid so.Copy !req
882. We're stuck here!Copy !req
883. Who got me here?
I didn't want to come!Copy !req
884. You can blame me, Joe.
You didn't think it would work.Copy !req
885. Well, in a way, you were right.Copy !req
886. What a sucker! What a dumb,
stupid blockhead I am!Copy !req
887. I could have blown my brains out
or gone over Niagara Falls...Copy !req
888. or found some other decent way to die!Copy !req
889. Alright, Joe.
We're all in this together.Copy !req
890. It's as simple as that.
One of us stays.Copy !req
891. Of course.Copy !req
892. I weight 180. More than enough.
- Now look here...Copy !req
893. I'm the oldest. I've done my job.
- I'm the Skipper of this ship!Copy !req
894. I give the orders on this ship!
I'm giving the orders now!Copy !req
895. - Jim, nobody gives orders.
- Yes, they do. This is the order...Copy !req
896. Doc is the engineer.
He goes back to his work.Copy !req
897. The General pilots the ship when you
reach the Earth's atmosphere.Copy !req
898. I can be spared on this trip. I have no
family. My job gets along without me.Copy !req
899. Jim, listen to me. This is not a ship
at sea and this is not a plane.Copy !req
900. This has been a joint undertaking.
The 3 of us did it together.Copy !req
901. It is no ones duty more than
the others to give his life.Copy !req
902. I've had my day. A great one!
I've shown that this could be done!Copy !req
903. It's enough to make me glad I lived
and content to stay.Copy !req
904. It's very noble, Doc,
but it's philosophy.Copy !req
905. Skip philosophy! I'm the one who stays.
Why? Because I'm the oldest.Copy !req
906. You two can tell them back home what
we've seen much better than I could.Copy !req
907. Tell them how we looked up
and saw the Earth...Copy !req
908. vulnerable and exposed forever.Copy !req
909. Never setting in this lunar sky.Copy !req
910. You know what you just proved, General?Copy !req
911. You're the one man that must go back!Copy !req
912. Are we going to end this in futility
because we can't make a simple decision?Copy !req
913. I've reached my decision!
I'm standing by it!Copy !req
914. Skipper, look here...
- Stay out of this, Sweeney.Copy !req
915. Don't worry, you'll get back.Copy !req
916. Right now it looks like nobody
gets back!Copy !req
917. If you brains can't make up your minds,
why don't you do what kids do?Copy !req
918. Match for it.
You know, draw lots.Copy !req
919. Alright!
- No!Copy !req
920. Jim, two against one.
- What do we use?Copy !req
921. Anyone have paper, matches, coins?
- No, everything's overboard.Copy !req
922. You've got buttons on your coveralls.
Match them.Copy !req
923. Spaceship Luna... Spaceship Luna.Copy !req
924. Dry Wells calling Spaceship Luna.Copy !req
925. Spaceship Luna to Dry Wells.Copy !req
926. We're are working it out. One of us
will stay behind We're drawing lots.Copy !req
927. Only 110 pounds! There must be
something more!Copy !req
928. Check time!Copy !req
929. 9:31:50. 18 minutes to zero hour.Copy !req
930. Check.Copy !req
931. We'll take off with three men.Copy !req
932. Where's Joe?
He's gone!Copy !req
933. What's wrong? You're not coming in!Copy !req
934. It won't open!Copy !req
935. He's not in there!
- Then he... he can't do that!Copy !req
936. Spaceship Luna, Spaceship Luna!Copy !req
937. He's left the ship!
- Stand by, something's happened.Copy !req
938. Sweeney's left the ship! His helmet's
gone! I can't see him!Copy !req
939. There he is! He's dragging something!
Sweeney!Copy !req
940. Sweeney!
Sweeney, can you hear me?Copy !req
941. Sure, I hear you.Copy !req
942. Come back, Joe!Copy !req
943. And die in that steel death trap?Copy !req
944. You won't die, Joe. Not you.
You're going home!Copy !req
945. Not a chance. Goodbye, fellows. Remember
me to the gals. Any gals!Copy !req
946. Spaceship Luna, you're not coming in!Copy !req
947. Here's Doc. Talk to him.Copy !req
948. Something's happened! Joe's left the
ship! - Are you taking off?Copy !req
949. I don't know! We got to do something!
- Joe, we can't let you do this!Copy !req
950. What do you mean let me?
You can't stop me.Copy !req
951. I lightened your ship.Copy !req
952. I gave you your chance, now get going.
Don't make a monkey out of me.Copy !req
953. Come back, Joe! We're in this together.
If you don't, we can't takeoff.Copy !req
954. You've got to or you'll
be killing me for nothing.Copy !req
955. Nobody's asking you to,
you're killing yourself!Copy !req
956. Takeoff, will you?
I want to see it.Copy !req
957. A ship going back
from the moon to the Earth!Copy !req
958. Joe, I just thought of a way...Copy !req
959. A way to what?
- Takeoff. All of us! Hurry!Copy !req
960. What do you mean "all of us"?Copy !req
961. Do just as I tell you.
I think we can make it!Copy !req
962. You wouldn't kid me?
- Don't be a fool!Copy !req
963. It's our lives too. We've less than
15 minutes!Copy !req
964. What's the deal?
- Get back to the airlock fast.Copy !req
965. Bring a screwdriver, knife and a file.
And a weight, an oxygen tank.Copy !req
966. Tie the tank to the end of your
safety line.Copy !req
967. I'll tell you the rest when you're
in the airlock!Copy !req
968. Is he coming?
- He's picking up the things!Copy !req
969. He's heading towards us!
- What's your plan?Copy !req
970. Sweeney's spacesuit weighs 70 pounds,
the radios 50. There's over 110 pounds!Copy !req
971. We can't open the door to the airlock
without his spacesuit.Copy !req
972. We won't open it when he gets his
spacesuit off!Copy !req
973. He can drill a small hole in the door
big enough for a safety line.Copy !req
974. He ties the tank to the line and it
hangs outside...Copy !req
975. The line passes through the small hole...Copy !req
976. There's a slow leak. He takes off his
suit, ties it to the line and comes here.Copy !req
977. We decompress the airlock, the door
opens, the suit is dragged out.Copy !req
978. General, watch for him.Copy !req
979. He must be in the airlock. It's cycling.
- He's in there.Copy !req
980. Pressure's up. I can open it.Copy !req
981. Let me have a screwdriver.Copy !req
982. General, unscrew the radio!Copy !req
983. Sweeney, listen carefully...Copy !req
984. Hastings! We're coming home!
All of us!Copy !req
985. You won't hear from us again until you
see us. I'm ripping out the radio!Copy !req
986. Sweeney, listen carefully.Copy !req
987. Put on the helmet, go to the airlock,
decompress it and open the outer door.Copy !req
988. Takeoff stations!Copy !req
989. Sweeney, as soon as your strap's fast,
television view aft.Copy !req
990. Strap's okay here.Copy !req
991. Power plant?Copy !req
992. All ready to go.Copy !req
993. No time for count off, standby!Copy !req
994. Fire!Copy !req
995. We're going home.Copy !req