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Six, five, four,

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three, two, one, zero.

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All engine running.

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Liftoff.

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["Barabajagal (Love is Hot)" by Donovan]

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♪ She came, she came to meet a man ♪

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♪ She found an angel ♪

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♪ Goo goo, goo goo Barabajagal
Was his name now… ♪

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[man] The time is spring 1969.

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The place is Ed White Elementary School
in El Lago, Texas,

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a South Houston suburb
right down the road from NASA.

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The occasion on this fateful day
that put everything in motion?

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Fourth grade recess.

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No, that's not me.

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That's Ricky Rodriguez,
one of my many ne'er-do-well buddies.

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They had changed the rules,

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so you weren't supposed
to throw the ball at people,

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which was kind of the most fun thing
about kickball.

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It was taking some gettin' used to.

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And that's Mr. St. George, our PE coach,
walking Ricky over to the wall.

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He was a very specific disciplinarian,

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drawing you a little circle
on the nearest wall.

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Here. Put your nose in there
and keep it in there.

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And it was always just a little higher
than was comfortable,

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so you'd be up on your tippy-toes
until the end of the class.

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The one time he was sticking my nose
to the wall, I was ready for him.

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The key, I figured,
was to imperceptibly spread your stance

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and slump ever so slightly lower
at the crucial moment of his calculation.

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Put your nose there.

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So that's me. Stanley.

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Everyone just called me Stan,
unless I was in trouble, of course,

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or on the first day of class
when they read roll.

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In kickball, I was kind of a shortstop
and general field rover,

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instructed by teammates
to try and catch everything I could.

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And, you know,
I was a pretty impressive kicker as well.

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But back to how it all got started.

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It was those guys
that changed my life forever.

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There's our kid.

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["Out of Limits" by The Marketts]

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[kids yelling]

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We scouted you on the kickball field,
we spoke with your teachers.

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We're impressed with…

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a few of your science reports,
and we like that you've earned

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a Presidential Physical Fitness Award
three years running.

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We've selected you
as the perfect candidate for this mission.

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Mission? For what?

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Listen, time's a factor here,
so we're gonna be very blunt.

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We accidentally built the lunar module

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a little too small.

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But we're not gonna let that set us back.

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How'd that happen?

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Are you good at math?

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-Yeah.
-Do you get a perfect 100 on every test?

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-No.
-Okay.

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We are this close,
but we need to test this…

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[sighs] …accidentally smaller version
on the lunar surface, and soon.

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And we need a kid like you to help us out,

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so we can beat those damn Russians
to the moon.

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Why don't you just send a chimpanzee?

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Because you speak
more actual words of the English language.

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Stan, you're our only hope.

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Come on. What do you say?
Do it for your country.

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Do it for the free world!

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Okay.

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Great. Secret training starts
end of school year.

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Secret?

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Top secret, Stan.

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This is a covert operation.
It does not exist. Get it?

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This meeting? This never happened.

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No one can know about this.

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Not your parents.
Not your brothers. Not your sisters.

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-No one.
-[Stan] Wait.

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How will we get away with this?

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Where will everyone think I am?

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Summer camp.
You were recommended, accepted,

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and received a scholarship
to Camp Grizzly,

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a special outdoor camp
just outside of Lake Traverse, Michigan.

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You went up in late May
and stayed through almost all of June.

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I'm not gonna lie, the weather and bugs
were arduous, but you had a great time.

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[man 1] Hmm.

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-A great time indeed.
-[jet engine rumbling]

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Some things you never forget, Stan.

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["Out of Limits"]

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[whirring]

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-[bleeping]
-[whooshing]

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[Stan] Okay, pause!

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Let's forget about all this for now.
We'll come back to this part later.

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First, let me tell you about
life back then.

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It was a great time and place to be a kid.

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Living in the Houston area
in the late '60s,

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and especially near NASA,

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was like being
where science fiction was coming to life.

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The optimistic technological future
was now,

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and we were at the absolute center
of everything new and better.

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Leading the way was,
of course, the space program.

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The goal of going to the moon
had been declared

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when President Kennedy gave his speech
at Rice University in Houston.

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But why, some say, the moon?

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Why choose this as our goal?

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And they may well ask,

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"Why climb the highest mountain?"

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"Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?"

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"Why does Rice play Texas?"

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We choose to go to the moon.

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[cheering]

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We choose to go to the moon in this decade
and do the other things,

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not because they are easy,
but because they are hard.

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[Stan] The Space Center was relocated
to the outskirts of town in 1962.

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That same year, Houston started to build

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the world's first dome stadium.

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The eighth wonder of the world.

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The Astrodome.

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When they did the groundbreaking,

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instead of ceremonial digs
in the earth with shovels,

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all the officials shot Colt .45 pistols
into the ground instead.

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And the dome
had the first animated scoreboard

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with all kinds of fun, lit-up graphics.

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But the best
was when an Astro hit a home run,

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or, as they like to say,
put the ball into Astro orbit,

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which set off this huge,
electronic fireworks display.

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-[fanfare]
-[fireworks exploding]

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And this was the place
that first had Astroturf.

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The artificial surface would need
no watering, mowing, or weeding,

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and be the perfect expression of this era

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when everything was new
and man-made and therefore better.

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Even though Joe Namath said
it was like playing on concrete,

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it felt like nature
and all her earthly restrictions

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were being conquered.

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And no one doubted that, in our lifetimes,

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we'd have the option to live on the moon,
or maybe a nearby planet,

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probably in some kinda domed space colony.

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And, given the rate
of all this technological innovation,

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it was easy to imagine

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that we'd all probably be livin'
well past the age of a hundred.

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For example,
just over at the medical center,

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DeBakey and Cooley
were perfecting the heart transplant.

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And even closer to home,

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we were one of the first regions
in the country to get push-button phones.

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Y'all, listen to this.

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It was the coolest. No more dialing.

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-And you could play songs with the tones.
-[plays tune]

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My sister Vicky
was the musical one in the family.

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She was the oldest, followed by Steve,

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then Jana, Greg, Stephanie, and then me.

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Okay. Show your moves.

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Okay, good.

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[plays tune]

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[man] Hello? Hello?

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[all laughing]

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[shot echoing]

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[Stan] Sure, our country was at war.

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Cities were on fire,

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and all hell was breaking loose
everywhere.

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But from a kid's perspective,
out in the suburbs,

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it was all confined to the television.

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And as a kid,
you just figure it's all normal.

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Another riot.

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Another famous leader assassinated.

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I guess that's just how adults act.

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In our family, it seemed
that only Vicky embodied

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the so-called generation gap of the time.

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She was the only one of us who seemed
o know or care very much

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about what was going on in the world.

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The closest we ever got to the action
was when we were in Houston with Mom

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near the college where it seemed she was
forever in grad school during this time.

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♪ Goo goo, goo goo barbajagal… ♪

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-Look at how they're dressed.
-Those?

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See, kids,
this is why we moved to the suburbs.

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To get away from these kinds of people.

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[whispers] The squares are scared.

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No. Your sister is full of crap.

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-We moved here because of your dad's job.
-[Vicky] Mm-hmm.

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He was sick of commuting an hour each way.
Got it?

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-[Jana] Okay. Okay, Mom.
-[Greg] Got it.

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Got it. Um, Mom, is that one a hippie?

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Yeah. Yeah, that's a hippie.

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[Stan] How about that one?

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No. His hair's not long enough.

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But he's wearing bell-bottoms.

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Oh.

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Okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's a hippie.

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I think I like hippies.

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[Stan] And in those new suburbs
expanding south of Houston,

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housing divisions were springin' up
all over the place.

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Our neighborhood
was full of houses under construction.

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The land was totally flat.

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The only thing remotely resembling a hill
was the overpass out on the interstate.

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We're talking coastal plains,
a mere 30 or so feet above sea level.

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Of course,
they hadn't put in enough drainage,

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so every time it rained for
any length of time, everything flooded.

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-Look! It's a water moccasin!
-[squeals]

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[laughs] Every time!

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[Stan] There was no sense of history here,

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for everything as far as you could see
was brand new.

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New and endless shopping centers

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with grocery stores, burger restaurants,

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and, best of all,

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a bowling alley and arcade.

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At least once a week, we'd walk
or ride bikes over to the bowling alley.

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We'd bowl when our parents were paying,
but on our own,

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the arcade was where the action was.

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We developed a self-sustaining system
that extended our meager allowance.

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For an investment of a quarter each,
we could get an RC Cola for 15 cents

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and a pinball game for a dime.

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♪ Early in the evenin' ♪

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We'd concentrate on the games
we'd mastered, like Aquarius.

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All the pressure would,
of course, be on the first game.

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Immediately winning,
not only to keep playing,

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but to eventually
fill up the machine with free games.

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Then when it was time to go home,

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we could usually sell them off
for 50 cents to some older person

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who thought that was a good deal.

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["Going Up the Country" by Canned Heat]

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Maybe part of the allure
of the bowling alley

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was it was
where the local hoodlums hung out.

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We would marvel at their swagger

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and the methods they used
to beat the system,

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whether crudely lessening
the gravitational pull of the machine

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or deftly getting a game
without putting in any money.

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When done just right, the machine would
apparently start a new game.

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It was masterful.

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I tried that maneuver
for the next several years

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but never figured it out.

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We'd been one of the first houses
completed on our street,

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and it felt like the entire neighborhood
was a construction site and up for grabs.

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You could build a whole fort
out of the throwaway wood piles.

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That would have to suffice,

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because tree houses
were probably a couple decades away.

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Dad, isn't this stealing?

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Well, the way I figure it,

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they charged us way too much
for the house,

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so technically, they owe us.

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It's just a piece of plywood.
They'll never miss it.

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[Stan] I'm still not sure
if my dad was in the frugal,

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struggling-to-make-ends-meet category

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or closer to a scam artist.

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Pull it back. Tighten the net. There.

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But it was clear our family's sole mission
was to save as much money as possible.

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Nice.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

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You're not finished.
Put the nozzle back in my gas tank.

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Now squeeze the handle completely open.

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Now lift the hose from back to front.

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That's my gas in the hose.

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-I paid for it.
-[Greg] Dad…

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He knows that.

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[Stan] Even though my dad was in charge
of shipping and receiving at NASA…

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You go beat those Russkies.

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Roger that, comrade.

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…and apparently made a good enough living

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to more or less raise a family
with six kids,

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I was embarrassed
he was more of a paper pusher

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than someone who had
anything to do with the missions.

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There is and there isn't
a possibility of advancement…

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He felt as far away from being
an astronaut as you could get.

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My dad targets the coordinates

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so that when the astronauts
splashdown in the ocean,

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the navy can come pick them up.

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He's the guy that when the countdown
finally gets to blast off,

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my dad's the one actually
pushing a button launching everything.

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When I was walking home from school…

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[Stan] I guess I was
what you'd call a fabulist,

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which is just a nicer way of saying
"persistent liar."

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So I got a little closer.

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That's when I realized

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there were wires attached to him,

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stretching up to, like, outer space.

00:14:01.833 --> 00:14:04.000
He was some kind of robot.

00:14:04.916 --> 00:14:07.375
I was hoping I could bring him here today,

00:14:07.458 --> 00:14:10.583
but suddenly,
he just got pulled up by the wires.

00:14:11.541 --> 00:14:13.333
[murmuring]

00:14:13.416 --> 00:14:16.208
Mrs. Ulrich said you didn't bring
anything to show and tell.

00:14:16.291 --> 00:14:20.166
You know, I just did the "tell" part,
hoping they'd imagine the "show" part.

00:14:20.250 --> 00:14:22.250
She says you told the entire class

00:14:22.333 --> 00:14:26.000
that your father's scheduled to go
on Apollo 14 or 15 in 1972.

00:14:26.083 --> 00:14:28.041
Honey. Honey, is that true?

00:14:28.708 --> 00:14:31.708
Why can't Dad do something important
at NASA?

00:14:31.791 --> 00:14:34.458
-It's a little bit embarrassing.
-Stan.

00:14:35.291 --> 00:14:39.500
Your father has worked very hard
to make it to the top of his department.

00:14:39.583 --> 00:14:42.041
He's in charge of everything
that goes into that place,

00:14:42.125 --> 00:14:43.625
from a pen to a space suit.

00:14:43.708 --> 00:14:45.541
He is important. Okay?

00:14:45.625 --> 00:14:46.458
[Stan] Okay.

00:14:47.083 --> 00:14:51.291
I was just wondering why he couldn't be
an astronaut or something actually cool.

00:14:51.375 --> 00:14:55.250
Honey,
not everyone gets to be an astronaut.

00:14:55.333 --> 00:14:58.583
Everyone does their part,
and it takes a lot of people.

00:14:58.666 --> 00:15:00.458
Including your father. Got it?

00:15:00.541 --> 00:15:02.083
-Got it.
-Good.

00:15:02.166 --> 00:15:05.708
[Stan] It was true. A neighbor behind us
worked on the helmets.

00:15:05.791 --> 00:15:08.041
Several friends' dads
were engineers at NASA.

00:15:08.125 --> 00:15:10.666
A girl in my class's mom
helped make the suits.

00:15:10.750 --> 00:15:13.708
It was like everyone was doin'
somethin' for NASA one way or another.

00:15:13.791 --> 00:15:17.583
My dad was doin' his part, too,
however meager in my eyes.

00:15:18.750 --> 00:15:21.083
Like I said, I was the last of six

00:15:21.166 --> 00:15:23.333
in our own
Brady Bunch configuration of a family,

00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.250
-and the only one born in the '60s.
-[all laughing]

00:15:26.333 --> 00:15:28.083
By the time I came around,

00:15:28.166 --> 00:15:31.666
my parents were largely done with
documenting everything their kids did.

00:15:31.750 --> 00:15:33.375
[all] Aw!

00:15:33.458 --> 00:15:35.916
I was incorporated into
the existing system,

00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:37.166
but that was about it.

00:15:37.666 --> 00:15:40.666
I'm hardly in any family photos
or home movies.

00:15:40.750 --> 00:15:43.041
My siblings used to mess with me about it.

00:15:43.541 --> 00:15:46.250
[Steve] See?
See how you're not in any of these?

00:15:46.916 --> 00:15:49.875
They're afraid to tell you,
but you were adopted.

00:15:50.541 --> 00:15:54.000
Mom and Dad are too broken to tell you,
but we got you in an orphanage.

00:15:54.083 --> 00:15:56.666
They picked you
out of a crowd of screaming babies.

00:15:56.750 --> 00:15:58.083
Har-di-har-har. Very funny.

00:15:58.166 --> 00:16:00.041
I learned later that after I was born,

00:16:00.125 --> 00:16:02.666
my mom got on this new thing
called the pill

00:16:02.750 --> 00:16:05.875
but never told our priest,
for fear of being excommunicated.

00:16:05.958 --> 00:16:07.416
[laughter]

00:16:07.500 --> 00:16:08.958
-Dad, you're it.
-You're it!

00:16:09.041 --> 00:16:10.000
Gotcha!

00:16:11.083 --> 00:16:12.583
-Aah!
-Got you. You're it!

00:16:13.750 --> 00:16:16.708
Then there were
our next-door neighbors, the Pateks,

00:16:16.791 --> 00:16:18.666
who were clearly not using contraception

00:16:18.750 --> 00:16:21.458
because they were still kickin' out
a kid about every year.

00:16:21.958 --> 00:16:23.625
Their mother was so overworked,

00:16:23.708 --> 00:16:27.750
she'd sometimes just give the kids
rubber bands to chew on between meals.

00:16:28.750 --> 00:16:30.958
And she was obsessed with cleanliness.

00:16:31.541 --> 00:16:33.541
She kept their house spick and span,

00:16:33.625 --> 00:16:37.000
and to aid in this, she'd put
all her kids outside almost all day long.

00:16:37.083 --> 00:16:38.833
Except the newborn, of course.

00:16:38.916 --> 00:16:40.000
[boy] No!

00:16:40.083 --> 00:16:42.916
She'd put the next-to-youngest outside
in the care of the older kids

00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:45.708
while she stayed inside
with the youngest and cleaned.

00:16:45.791 --> 00:16:47.083
[baby crying]

00:16:47.166 --> 00:16:49.791
Every now and then,
somethin' like this would happen.

00:16:52.291 --> 00:16:53.291
But we all seemed

00:16:53.375 --> 00:16:55.583
-to somehow survive our childhoods.
-Stop, stop!

00:16:55.666 --> 00:16:56.666
Wait, wait, wait!

00:16:59.166 --> 00:17:00.875
After the Pateks' dad got off work,

00:17:00.958 --> 00:17:05.000
he'd usually just sit in the open garage
most of the evenin' smokin' cigars.

00:17:05.625 --> 00:17:08.833
I guess he was also doin' his part
in keepin' the house clean.

00:17:11.958 --> 00:17:14.375
The six of us
formed quite an army of workers,

00:17:15.291 --> 00:17:18.958
keepin' the house and yard clean
and executing our systems with precision.

00:17:20.708 --> 00:17:22.541
In addition to endless outdoor work,

00:17:22.625 --> 00:17:25.750
my biggest indoor job
was to empty all the trash cans.

00:17:26.250 --> 00:17:28.625
I'm not even sure
if they had plastic trash bags yet,

00:17:28.708 --> 00:17:32.375
but it wouldn't have mattered,
because we only used old grocery bags

00:17:32.458 --> 00:17:33.750
which were prone to leaking,

00:17:33.833 --> 00:17:36.625
depending on whatever liquid-y crap
everyone threw away.

00:17:37.125 --> 00:17:40.208
And, of course, it was my job
to clean up the floor after.

00:17:41.041 --> 00:17:44.708
Maybe because we couldn't afford it,
we hardly ever went out to a restaurant.

00:17:44.791 --> 00:17:49.291
Mom was a genius at conjuring up meals
and carryin' 'em out for days.

00:17:49.375 --> 00:17:52.875
The canned ham would have brown sugar
and pineapple on it Sunday.

00:17:52.958 --> 00:17:54.708
Monday, there'd be ham casserole.

00:17:54.791 --> 00:17:56.250
Tuesday, ham sandwiches,

00:17:56.333 --> 00:17:59.500
and Wednesday's navy bean soup
would have the rest of the ham in it.

00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:03.291
Other staples included
tomato soup and grilled cheese,

00:18:03.375 --> 00:18:05.541
tuna casserole with potato chips,

00:18:06.166 --> 00:18:08.000
pot pies, meatloaf,

00:18:08.583 --> 00:18:12.875
endless variations of chicken,
and, of course, a lot of creamed corn.

00:18:12.958 --> 00:18:15.166
The fun stuff was deviled eggs,

00:18:15.250 --> 00:18:17.708
homemade Popsicles, Vienna sausages,

00:18:17.791 --> 00:18:21.041
-and on special occasions, Jiffy Pop.
-[loud popping]

00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:24.875
It was also the first wave
of the Jello mold craze.

00:18:26.166 --> 00:18:27.375
Aah!

00:18:28.583 --> 00:18:30.833
School lunches were their own production.

00:18:30.916 --> 00:18:33.000
Every Sunday night,
we'd all be Mom's helpers

00:18:33.083 --> 00:18:37.333
as we'd systematically make a week's worth
of sandwiches for school lunches,

00:18:37.416 --> 00:18:40.083
and then freeze 'em
to be thawed out overnight

00:18:40.166 --> 00:18:42.083
before each day of the school week.

00:18:48.208 --> 00:18:50.333
Sometimes the thawing wasn't complete,

00:18:50.833 --> 00:18:55.041
and you'd end up with a half-frozen,
soggy white bread bologna sandwich.

00:19:01.416 --> 00:19:03.958
My dad's parents lived in
an old neighborhood in Houston,

00:19:04.041 --> 00:19:06.583
-and we'd go visit on weekends.
-[hammering]

00:19:07.083 --> 00:19:09.333
You just keep tappin' it lightly…

00:19:13.958 --> 00:19:15.333
until it straightens out.

00:19:15.833 --> 00:19:16.666
See there?

00:19:16.750 --> 00:19:19.791
A nail will last forever,
so you don't ever want to throw 'em away.

00:19:19.875 --> 00:19:22.000
Just make sure
you got a good place to store 'em.

00:19:22.083 --> 00:19:24.500
-[Stan] Mm-hmm.
-My grandparents' reaction

00:19:24.583 --> 00:19:26.083
to havin' lived through the Depression

00:19:26.166 --> 00:19:28.583
was to feel it was goin' to happen again
at any moment.

00:19:28.666 --> 00:19:29.708
Don't hit your fingers.

00:19:32.166 --> 00:19:34.958
They saved everything
that had the slightest value

00:19:35.041 --> 00:19:38.041
-and reused everything they could.
-See? I think you got it.

00:19:38.125 --> 00:19:38.958
[laughs]

00:19:39.750 --> 00:19:43.416
They even reused paper towels,
which begged the question,

00:19:43.500 --> 00:19:47.333
what the hell's the point of a paper towel
as opposed to, like, a rag?

00:19:47.416 --> 00:19:50.041
[chuckles] But none of us
ever said anything.

00:19:50.541 --> 00:19:51.666
We're not going to…

00:19:51.750 --> 00:19:54.708
And I swear my grandmother took us
to see The Sound Of Music

00:19:54.791 --> 00:19:56.208
about every six months.

00:19:56.291 --> 00:19:58.125
♪ …jam and bread ♪

00:19:58.208 --> 00:20:00.083
♪ That will bring us back to ♪

00:20:00.166 --> 00:20:03.083
-♪ Doe ♪
-♪ A deer, a female deer… ♪

00:20:03.166 --> 00:20:06.000
I'm not sure if the movie
was playing for years and years

00:20:06.083 --> 00:20:07.916
-or if they kept bringin' it back.
-[yawns]

00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:10.916
-♪ Me, a name I call myself… ♪
-It was just another outing with Grandma…

00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.083
-♪ Far, a long long way to run… ♪
-…who, like her movie choices,

00:20:14.166 --> 00:20:16.708
was a very sweet lady
you couldn't find much fault in.

00:20:16.791 --> 00:20:18.708
♪ …thread, la ♪

00:20:18.791 --> 00:20:22.500
My other grandmother
was much more edgy and paranoid,

00:20:22.583 --> 00:20:24.041
but very entertaining.

00:20:24.750 --> 00:20:26.833
She would stay with us for long stretches

00:20:26.916 --> 00:20:29.541
and regale us
with various conspiracy theories

00:20:29.625 --> 00:20:31.458
and doom and gloom scenarios.

00:20:31.541 --> 00:20:36.250
We now know
JFK didn't die that day in Dallas.

00:20:36.333 --> 00:20:37.375
Mm-mm.

00:20:38.208 --> 00:20:39.958
Poor man was rendered a vegetable

00:20:40.041 --> 00:20:42.666
due to the severe brain trauma
from the bullets.

00:20:43.166 --> 00:20:49.125
But they are keepin' him alive
in seclusion on a Greek island.

00:20:50.250 --> 00:20:53.375
They didn't think we could handle
seeing the president as a vegetable,

00:20:53.458 --> 00:20:56.875
so they are shieldin' us
from the true facts.

00:20:57.583 --> 00:20:59.875
[whispers] It's Aristotle Onassis's
island.

00:21:00.416 --> 00:21:02.708
Which explains his marriage to Jackie.

00:21:05.333 --> 00:21:07.958
[Stan] To her,
the world was goin' down the tubes,

00:21:08.041 --> 00:21:09.375
and fast.

00:21:11.041 --> 00:21:14.416
Overpopulation is chokin' the planet.

00:21:15.458 --> 00:21:16.708
And within a few years,

00:21:16.791 --> 00:21:19.916
we are gonna be past
the point of no return.

00:21:20.708 --> 00:21:24.291
Scientists say
that the Earth cannot technically handle

00:21:24.375 --> 00:21:28.875
more than 3.5 billion people,
and at some point in the '70s,

00:21:28.958 --> 00:21:33.041
food supply's just gonna collapse
for most of the world's inhabitants,

00:21:33.125 --> 00:21:36.833
which leads to mass starvation
and war and famine.

00:21:37.708 --> 00:21:39.916
Don't know how they'll keep up
with the dead bodies--

00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.333
Enough already, Mom.
You gotta stop with the paranoia talk.

00:21:43.416 --> 00:21:45.750
You're scarin' the kids.
You're drivin' me nuts.

00:21:45.833 --> 00:21:47.625
You won't shut up. Please stop.

00:21:47.708 --> 00:21:49.500
Stop. Stop.

00:21:51.291 --> 00:21:55.291
[man] It costs over $4.5 billion
every year to cart the mess away…

00:21:55.375 --> 00:21:59.583
[Stan] Yes, with such threats looming,
the future was often terrifying.

00:21:59.666 --> 00:22:02.125
We were told
if everything continued as it was going,

00:22:02.208 --> 00:22:06.208
we'd be knee-deep in trash
and wearing gas masks just to breathe.

00:22:06.291 --> 00:22:09.375
They did a great job
of scarin' the hell out of everyone.

00:22:09.458 --> 00:22:10.916
It must've worked.

00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.291
President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act
and the Clean Water Act,

00:22:15.375 --> 00:22:18.000
and it soon became unacceptable to litter.

00:22:18.083 --> 00:22:20.083
["Riders in the Sky"]

00:22:22.791 --> 00:22:27.291
Now, that, young Steven, is the difference
between a redneck and white trash.

00:22:27.916 --> 00:22:31.916
A redneck's gonna throw his cans on the
floor of his car, the back of his truck.

00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:34.750
White trash,
he's gonna throw his cans out the window

00:22:34.833 --> 00:22:35.833
and be a litterbug.

00:22:36.333 --> 00:22:37.250
That's no good.

00:22:38.500 --> 00:22:40.166
So we're rednecks?

00:22:40.250 --> 00:22:41.625
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

00:22:42.125 --> 00:22:45.250
A redneck would just leave the cans
just laying there.

00:22:45.833 --> 00:22:48.041
You're gonna clean those up
when we get back to the house.

00:22:48.125 --> 00:22:49.541
-[Greg laughs]
-Sh!

00:22:49.625 --> 00:22:50.541
[Greg] Oh.

00:22:50.625 --> 00:22:51.541
Take the wheel.

00:22:52.208 --> 00:22:53.250
-What?
-Drive.

00:22:55.166 --> 00:22:56.416
[Stan] That's right.

00:22:56.500 --> 00:22:58.958
It wasn't against the law
to drink and drive back then.

00:22:59.041 --> 00:23:01.083
You just couldn't be legally intoxicated.

00:23:01.166 --> 00:23:02.208
Make a wish.

00:23:02.291 --> 00:23:03.333
Dad, I just--

00:23:03.416 --> 00:23:06.041
I remember how he'd drop the tab
into the beer itself.

00:23:06.708 --> 00:23:11.708
And I wasn't sure if it was a ritual
or if it was Dad's anti-littering effort.

00:23:11.791 --> 00:23:13.583
Either way, it was appreciated,

00:23:14.166 --> 00:23:18.041
'cause those tabs are on the ground,
and they could really slice up your feet.

00:23:18.625 --> 00:23:20.250
-However, I heard…
-How'd you do?

00:23:20.333 --> 00:23:22.166
…that six people a year died by choking

00:23:22.250 --> 00:23:24.958
when the tab came back out
and they swallowed it.

00:23:25.458 --> 00:23:28.083
I would always think that
maybe this could be the day.

00:23:28.583 --> 00:23:31.041
But like so many
of the doomsday scenarios,

00:23:31.125 --> 00:23:32.833
it thankfully never happened.

00:23:33.541 --> 00:23:36.958
But all the dissonance
was a lot to process for a young mind.

00:23:37.041 --> 00:23:40.333
On the one hand, okay,
the world was goin' to hell.

00:23:40.416 --> 00:23:42.416
[machine-gun fire]

00:23:43.541 --> 00:23:45.208
We were in a war in Vietnam,

00:23:45.291 --> 00:23:49.125
but even more scary was the Cold War
we were in with the Soviet Union,

00:23:49.208 --> 00:23:53.083
who we were told at any minute
could be dropping a hydrogen bomb on us.

00:23:53.666 --> 00:23:56.875
Anyway, we were the last
of the duck-and-cover generation.

00:23:56.958 --> 00:24:00.333
♪ And cover, duck and cover ♪

00:24:00.416 --> 00:24:02.708
-[siren blares]
-[man] It's a bomb. Duck and cover.

00:24:02.791 --> 00:24:04.791
-[bell ringing]
-[Stan] I thought bein' under a desk

00:24:04.875 --> 00:24:08.625
wasn't gonna do much good
on the vaporization or radiation front.

00:24:08.708 --> 00:24:10.291
-But what the hell.
-[bell stops]

00:24:10.791 --> 00:24:11.875
You did the drill.

00:24:14.125 --> 00:24:17.791
But on the other hand,
the future was so cool and optimistic.

00:24:17.875 --> 00:24:20.458
-We were heading to the moon and beyond.
-[cheering]

00:24:21.333 --> 00:24:23.833
It was easy to be swept up
in the promise of the future

00:24:23.916 --> 00:24:25.833
and the thought
that science and technology

00:24:25.916 --> 00:24:28.541
-would ultimately fix almost everything.
-[radio chatter]

00:24:28.625 --> 00:24:32.583
At the top of the heap, the embodiment
of all these positive feelings was NASA

00:24:32.666 --> 00:24:34.833
and, of course, the astronauts themselves.

00:24:36.750 --> 00:24:39.291
-[applause]
-The names still roll off the tongue.

00:24:39.375 --> 00:24:40.666
The original Mercury guys,

00:24:40.750 --> 00:24:43.916
John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Alan Shepard,

00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:45.833
Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper,

00:24:45.916 --> 00:24:48.208
Gus Grissom, Deke Slayton.

00:24:48.291 --> 00:24:50.375
Then the Apollo names became familiar.

00:24:50.458 --> 00:24:53.125
Pete Conrad, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin,

00:24:53.208 --> 00:24:55.125
Michael Collins, Frank Borman,

00:24:55.208 --> 00:24:56.875
James Lovell, Gene Cernan,

00:24:56.958 --> 00:24:58.791
John Young, Alan Bean.

00:24:58.875 --> 00:25:01.083
They were the bravest. The best.

00:25:01.166 --> 00:25:04.541
[announcer] This is a CBS News
special report.

00:25:05.125 --> 00:25:09.916
America's first three Apollo astronauts
were trapped and killed by a flash fire

00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:13.166
that swept their moon ship early tonight
during a launch pad test…

00:25:13.250 --> 00:25:14.208
[Stan] When Gus Grissom,

00:25:14.291 --> 00:25:17.791
Roger Chaffee, and Ed White died
during a test for Apollo 1,

00:25:18.416 --> 00:25:20.791
-I remember my mom crying.
-Oh my God.

00:25:20.875 --> 00:25:24.125
Our school was named Ed White Elementary
even before the tragedy.

00:25:25.125 --> 00:25:27.250
After, it became kind of a memorial.

00:25:28.333 --> 00:25:31.500
But the world was changing,
and so was how we saw ourselves in it.

00:25:32.583 --> 00:25:35.041
When Apollo 8 snapped
the famous Earthrise photo

00:25:35.125 --> 00:25:36.958
over the moon on Christmas Eve,

00:25:37.541 --> 00:25:40.500
it gave us Earthlings
a perspective we'd never had.

00:25:41.875 --> 00:25:46.875
There we were, all together
on this floating blue ball in space.

00:25:46.958 --> 00:25:50.666
It was said that someday soon,
when humans fully grasped what this meant,

00:25:50.750 --> 00:25:54.458
there would be a shift in consciousness,
and there would be no more wars.

00:25:54.541 --> 00:25:59.625
♪Then peace will guide the planets ♪

00:25:59.708 --> 00:26:02.875
♪ And love will steer the stars ♪

00:26:02.958 --> 00:26:07.458
♪ This is the dawning
Of the Age of Aquarius ♪

00:26:08.166 --> 00:26:12.625
♪ Age of Aquarius ♪

00:26:12.708 --> 00:26:14.666
♪ Aquarius… ♪

00:26:14.750 --> 00:26:17.125
[Stan] And back in our little part
of that blue ball,

00:26:17.208 --> 00:26:18.875
everywhere you looked,

00:26:18.958 --> 00:26:22.125
there were reminders of NASA
and the manned space program.

00:26:23.375 --> 00:26:25.291
On our playground,
there was a rocket slide

00:26:25.375 --> 00:26:26.750
you could climb up and pilot.

00:26:27.250 --> 00:26:30.041
I think everyone knew
spaceships didn't have steering wheels,

00:26:30.125 --> 00:26:31.250
but no matter.

00:26:31.958 --> 00:26:34.875
The space race was such
an all-pervasive element of our culture.

00:26:34.958 --> 00:26:36.750
It found its way into everything,

00:26:37.250 --> 00:26:41.208
including advertising and promotion,
however ridiculous.

00:26:41.291 --> 00:26:43.041
Howdy, folks! I'm Sam the Rocket Man!

00:26:43.125 --> 00:26:45.750
We're shootin' the moon
with out-of-this-world savings!

00:26:45.833 --> 00:26:48.916
The closer they get to the moon,
the lower our prices are.

00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:50.416
We'll trade anything.

00:26:50.500 --> 00:26:54.000
Used spaceships,
lunar modules, or even used cars!

00:26:54.875 --> 00:26:56.875
[whispering]

00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:03.125
[Stan] At school on launch days,
it was always the same ritual.

00:27:03.625 --> 00:27:05.583
The teacher would wheel in a TV.

00:27:06.916 --> 00:27:08.750
We'd watch the rocket on the launchpad

00:27:08.833 --> 00:27:10.500
-for five minutes…
-[man] Fifteen…

00:27:10.583 --> 00:27:14.541
[Stan] …and then all count down in unison
with the TV for the last ten seconds.

00:27:14.625 --> 00:27:18.708
-[all] Ten, nine, eight, seven…
-[man] Ignition sequence started.

00:27:18.791 --> 00:27:21.375
[all] Six, five, four…

00:27:21.458 --> 00:27:26.333
-[man] We have ignition.
-[all] Three, two, one, blastoff!

00:27:26.833 --> 00:27:30.416
-[kids applauding]
-[man] We have liftoff. We have liftoff.

00:27:32.875 --> 00:27:36.791
[Stan] And then just stare at the screen
as the rocket took off into the sky.

00:27:37.333 --> 00:27:40.916
Science class was so exciting,
because it felt like current events.

00:27:41.416 --> 00:27:44.750
It was all astronomy,
cosmology, and Apollo related.

00:27:44.833 --> 00:27:48.291
[girl] Until Edwin Hubble
proved otherwise in 1922,

00:27:48.375 --> 00:27:52.916
humans thought the entire universe
might only consist of our galaxy.

00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:57.666
Now we know we are
but one of 100 billion galaxies.

00:27:58.916 --> 00:28:02.125
As of yet,
we have no proof of other solar systems

00:28:02.208 --> 00:28:06.083
revolving around distant stars
or planets outside our nine.

00:28:06.916 --> 00:28:10.125
But the odds that we're
the only nine planets in the universe

00:28:10.208 --> 00:28:12.333
and that we're
the only one with life on it,

00:28:12.416 --> 00:28:17.125
we've calculated out
at ten billion trillion to one.

00:28:17.208 --> 00:28:21.250
Yes, whatever was going on
in the formation of our solar system

00:28:21.333 --> 00:28:24.083
is undoubtedly going on in others, right?

00:28:24.166 --> 00:28:28.250
It's the same material,
gravity, and conditions everywhere.

00:28:28.333 --> 00:28:30.875
In other words,
there's just no way that we're alone.

00:28:30.958 --> 00:28:34.083
It's just a matter of time
before we have an encounter

00:28:34.166 --> 00:28:38.708
with other beings from other places
in the universe, if we haven't already.

00:28:38.791 --> 00:28:39.958
[crickets chirping]

00:28:40.041 --> 00:28:41.250
[eerie chanting]

00:28:44.625 --> 00:28:48.000
[Stan] We'd already gone to Jupiter
and beyond in the movie 2001,

00:28:48.583 --> 00:28:51.083
and there was no doubt
we'd be there soon enough.

00:28:56.583 --> 00:28:58.375
I remember bein' so entranced by the film,

00:28:58.458 --> 00:29:00.666
I would try to describe
the deeper meaning of it

00:29:00.750 --> 00:29:02.166
to anyone who would listen.

00:29:03.541 --> 00:29:05.541
And then as he goes past Jupiter,

00:29:05.625 --> 00:29:08.166
he goes through
this kind of crazy time warp.

00:29:08.250 --> 00:29:10.791
There are
all these bright lights flashing by,

00:29:10.875 --> 00:29:13.500
and suddenly he's in this old room,

00:29:13.583 --> 00:29:16.458
and then he's this old man.

00:29:16.541 --> 00:29:19.250
Then he sees the black slab,

00:29:19.333 --> 00:29:21.500
the same one from Jupiter,

00:29:21.583 --> 00:29:23.666
at the foot of his deathbed.

00:29:24.500 --> 00:29:25.416
Or is it?

00:29:25.916 --> 00:29:28.291
He reaches out, trying to touch it,

00:29:28.375 --> 00:29:31.833
and then he turns into a baby
that hasn't even been born yet!

00:29:34.125 --> 00:29:35.625
Go back, go back!

00:29:35.708 --> 00:29:38.208
-No, it's going-- Run, run!
-Back, back, back, back!

00:29:38.958 --> 00:29:41.333
[Stan] Well, like I said,
it was all around us.

00:29:42.083 --> 00:29:43.958
We were being told that people our age

00:29:44.041 --> 00:29:46.583
would one day be able
to have our honeymoons on the moon.

00:29:47.166 --> 00:29:48.625
And by the end of the century,

00:29:48.708 --> 00:29:52.000
we could be a paying customer
on the six-month flight to Mars.

00:29:52.500 --> 00:29:54.291
It was all so close.

00:29:54.791 --> 00:29:58.208
We literally had the astronauts themselves
buzzing above us in jets

00:29:58.291 --> 00:30:00.500
because Ellington Air Force Base
was down the road.

00:30:00.583 --> 00:30:02.416
-[jet engine rumbling]
-It wasn't at all unusual

00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:05.041
to suddenly hear a whoosh low in the sky,

00:30:05.125 --> 00:30:08.125
see a jet streak by and disappear quickly,

00:30:08.750 --> 00:30:12.500
and then hear the sonic boom
of the sound barrier bein' broken.

00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:15.875
[sonic boom echoes]

00:30:17.208 --> 00:30:19.583
We'd run home as quickly
as we could from school

00:30:19.666 --> 00:30:23.416
to watch Dark Shadows,
a show we all got obsessed with.

00:30:24.333 --> 00:30:25.500
[eerie music on television]

00:30:25.583 --> 00:30:27.458
It was a truly bizarre and scary tale

00:30:27.541 --> 00:30:30.958
of an old patrician family
livin' in a castle by the sea

00:30:31.041 --> 00:30:32.625
and one ageless vampire…

00:30:32.708 --> 00:30:34.833
-Ugh!
-…Barnabas Collins.

00:30:35.708 --> 00:30:37.791
[dramatic music]

00:30:39.708 --> 00:30:40.958
[gasps]

00:30:42.500 --> 00:30:44.833
TV itself felt like an ongoing battle.

00:30:44.916 --> 00:30:46.750
First off, just gettin' decent reception

00:30:46.833 --> 00:30:50.166
in this era of antennas
and three major networks was a challenge.

00:30:50.666 --> 00:30:54.166
Then, in our family at least,
you had to stake out your territory

00:30:54.250 --> 00:30:57.000
and often bodily defend
what would be coming out of the tube

00:30:57.083 --> 00:30:58.291
for the next 30 minutes.

00:30:58.875 --> 00:31:01.166
There were so many great shows
going all evening.

00:31:01.250 --> 00:31:03.791
It was often hard to choose,
and they never let you down.

00:31:03.875 --> 00:31:06.250
-[Hawaii Five-0 theme plays]
-The Beverly Hillbillies,

00:31:06.333 --> 00:31:07.333
Gunsmoke,

00:31:07.416 --> 00:31:08.541
My Three Sons,

00:31:08.625 --> 00:31:10.333
The Munsters, Bonanza,

00:31:10.416 --> 00:31:11.250
Bewitched,

00:31:11.333 --> 00:31:12.333
Star Trek,

00:31:12.416 --> 00:31:14.250
Adam-12, Get Smart,

00:31:14.333 --> 00:31:15.750
Gomer Pyle, Batman,

00:31:15.833 --> 00:31:17.333
-Gilligan, Flipper…
-[squeaking]

00:31:17.416 --> 00:31:19.666
…Petticoat Junction, Andy Griffith,

00:31:19.750 --> 00:31:21.833
I Dream of Jeannie, The Addams Family,

00:31:21.916 --> 00:31:23.000
Dick Van Dyke,

00:31:23.083 --> 00:31:24.833
The Green Hornet, McHale's Navy,

00:31:24.916 --> 00:31:26.083
Mission: Impossible,

00:31:26.166 --> 00:31:27.750
Green Acres, Hogan's Heroes,

00:31:27.833 --> 00:31:31.000
Dragnet and Hawaii Five-O,
to name but a few.

00:31:31.083 --> 00:31:34.000
Then there were the shows
that never made it past one season

00:31:34.083 --> 00:31:36.833
and are mostly forgotten, but not by me.

00:31:36.916 --> 00:31:40.250
In The Time Tunnel,
two scientists are lost in time,

00:31:40.333 --> 00:31:42.708
always landing
at choice moments in history.

00:31:42.791 --> 00:31:45.375
The Titanic,
Little Bighorn, Ford's Theatre.

00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:49.000
Then there was a show called
It's About Time,

00:31:49.083 --> 00:31:52.208
a comedy about two astronauts
that, upon reentry,

00:31:52.291 --> 00:31:54.041
find themselves in a time warp,

00:31:54.666 --> 00:31:56.083
now living in prehistoric times

00:31:56.166 --> 00:31:58.416
-with cavemen and dinosaurs.
-I don't believe it!

00:31:59.708 --> 00:32:01.500
-I believe it!
-I do too!

00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:05.541
[Stan] It was also
the first wave of syndication…

00:32:05.625 --> 00:32:07.750
-It's so tasty!
-…where shows from slightly earlier eras

00:32:07.833 --> 00:32:09.625
-were also on all the time.
-I'm Mister Ed.

00:32:09.708 --> 00:32:11.333
And late at night, there would still be

00:32:11.416 --> 00:32:13.541
-Twilight Zone episodes.
-[theme plays]

00:32:13.625 --> 00:32:16.000
When I was really little,
before I knew what it was,

00:32:16.083 --> 00:32:19.000
I called it The Scary Flying Eyeball Show.

00:32:19.083 --> 00:32:22.458
[narrator] A dimension of sight.
A dimension of mind.

00:32:23.125 --> 00:32:27.666
You're moving into a land of both shadow
and substance, of things and ideas.

00:32:27.750 --> 00:32:29.958
-[Stan] Then there were Saturday mornings.
-[beep]

00:32:30.041 --> 00:32:32.375
We'd get up early
and stare at the test patterns

00:32:32.458 --> 00:32:34.208
and wait for the fun to begin.

00:32:34.291 --> 00:32:36.750
♪ Overture, curtain, lights ♪

00:32:36.833 --> 00:32:40.333
Late on Saturday nights,
there was a local show called Weird

00:32:40.416 --> 00:32:42.833
-that opened with a creepy theremin piece.
-[theme plays]

00:32:42.916 --> 00:32:46.166
[narrator] Welcome to Weird.

00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:50.208
They showed movies like the
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,

00:32:50.791 --> 00:32:52.541
-The Incredible Shrinking Man…
-[screams]

00:32:53.125 --> 00:32:55.458
…The Thing, The Beginning of The End…

00:32:55.541 --> 00:32:57.000
-[screaming]
-…The Blob,

00:32:57.708 --> 00:32:59.541
-Attack of the Mushroom People.
-[screaming]

00:32:59.625 --> 00:33:02.666
Basically, anything
with atomic bomb-induced mutations.

00:33:03.750 --> 00:33:06.250
-[man] This concludes our broadcasting.
-Good night.

00:33:06.333 --> 00:33:08.958
-And now our national anthem.
-["The Star-Spangled Banner"]

00:33:09.041 --> 00:33:11.333
-It would come to an end around midnight…
-Hey.

00:33:11.416 --> 00:33:14.458
-…and the stations would go off the air.
-Hey. Turn everything off.

00:33:15.375 --> 00:33:19.458
By Sunday nights during the school year,
a feeling of outright dread set in.

00:33:19.541 --> 00:33:21.916
-♪ The Wonderful… ♪
-The Wonderful World of Color,

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:25.416
which is what it was called before it was
The Wonderful World of Disney,

00:33:25.916 --> 00:33:28.458
was lathered in this melancholy feeling.

00:33:29.083 --> 00:33:30.875
With school looming the next morning,

00:33:30.958 --> 00:33:33.125
-no matter how good that particular show…
-Hey.

00:33:33.708 --> 00:33:37.041
…the freedom and fun of the weekend
was coming to a close.

00:33:37.958 --> 00:33:39.208
And then, once a year,

00:33:39.291 --> 00:33:42.416
there would be a special screening
of The Wizard of Oz on TV.

00:33:43.375 --> 00:33:45.333
We would all gather around and watch.

00:33:46.708 --> 00:33:48.875
-It's gonna go to color real soon, and it…
-No!

00:33:48.958 --> 00:33:50.916
It was so much more than a movie.

00:33:52.291 --> 00:33:55.375
Until we got a color TV,
everything had been in black and white,

00:33:55.458 --> 00:33:56.458
even Oz.

00:33:58.833 --> 00:34:00.958
But whether in color or black and white,

00:34:01.041 --> 00:34:03.416
the flying monkeys
always sent my sister Stephanie…

00:34:03.500 --> 00:34:04.791
-[gasps]
-…either under the covers

00:34:04.875 --> 00:34:06.708
-or out the door.
-Now fly! Fly!

00:34:08.750 --> 00:34:09.583
Fly!

00:34:09.666 --> 00:34:11.666
-[man] The latest casualties…
-[Stan] On the news,

00:34:11.750 --> 00:34:13.625
the war in Vietnam was a constant,

00:34:13.708 --> 00:34:16.125
and found its way
into almost everything goin' on.

00:34:16.208 --> 00:34:20.083
The US Command reports
148 Americans killed in the war last week…

00:34:20.166 --> 00:34:21.958
[Stan] For a kid, it was confusing.

00:34:22.500 --> 00:34:24.541
Adults were always guilt-tripping us.

00:34:24.625 --> 00:34:28.416
Everyone, finish every bite on your plate.
There are starving kids in Vietnam.

00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:33.625
We were at war with them, bombing them,

00:34:33.708 --> 00:34:35.791
but we cared about
their starving children?

00:34:36.625 --> 00:34:38.000
["The Horse" by Cliff Nobles]

00:34:38.083 --> 00:34:39.583
-Pass, pass!
-Go, go, go.

00:34:39.666 --> 00:34:41.041
-Gimme!
-Here!

00:34:41.833 --> 00:34:43.416
-Pass, pass!
-Here! Throw it!

00:34:43.500 --> 00:34:44.708
Yeah!*

00:34:44.791 --> 00:34:47.000
What made it
a perfect neighborhood to grow up in

00:34:47.083 --> 00:34:50.083
was there were a ton of young families
with kids in our age range.

00:34:50.666 --> 00:34:52.166
It was no problem gettin' a game goin'.

00:34:52.875 --> 00:34:56.958
We'd play in someone's front yard,
the street, or, for some things,

00:34:57.458 --> 00:34:59.833
we'd go down
to where the housing development ended,

00:34:59.916 --> 00:35:03.041
and there was a big field
with a water treatment plant.

00:35:03.125 --> 00:35:05.208
We called it Sewer Park.

00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:07.458
When it was raining or at night,

00:35:07.541 --> 00:35:09.708
my brother Greg and I invented
a baseball game

00:35:09.791 --> 00:35:11.458
we could play in the garage.

00:35:12.833 --> 00:35:15.958
Astros superstar Jim Wynn is up to bat.

00:35:17.500 --> 00:35:19.041
Home run!

00:35:19.625 --> 00:35:21.750
The Toy Cannon!

00:35:22.791 --> 00:35:27.166
And the scoreboard is going crazy
on the line drive!

00:35:28.375 --> 00:35:31.333
We'd have a baseball card draft
and create a team,

00:35:31.416 --> 00:35:34.166
with all roads
leading to our own World Series.

00:35:35.833 --> 00:35:39.500
This was just before the Nerf ball
was invented and changed everything.

00:35:41.666 --> 00:35:43.833
Occasionally,
there'd be a bench-clearing brawl.

00:35:43.916 --> 00:35:49.500
Next up, Boog Powell!

00:35:52.125 --> 00:35:53.666
That's it!

00:35:54.500 --> 00:35:55.875
[thunder rumbling]

00:35:55.958 --> 00:35:57.541
-Charge!
-Aah!

00:35:57.625 --> 00:36:00.208
I'll never forget
all the kids in the neighborhood.

00:36:00.291 --> 00:36:03.541
There was Larry,
who had a severe case of ringworm.

00:36:04.541 --> 00:36:07.125
It seemed like everyone
in the neighborhood took turns

00:36:07.208 --> 00:36:08.833
bein' the kid with a cast on.

00:36:10.541 --> 00:36:13.333
Of course, there was Byron,
the son of a NASA scientist

00:36:13.416 --> 00:36:16.166
and the local pyromaniac chemistry set kid

00:36:16.875 --> 00:36:20.458
who was always building
little rocket-like propulsion devices.

00:36:20.541 --> 00:36:23.375
Occasionally,
he'd put a grasshopper in the pilot seat.

00:36:23.458 --> 00:36:27.083
-[strikes match]
-[all] Three, two, one!

00:36:27.833 --> 00:36:29.291
[all gasp]

00:36:29.375 --> 00:36:31.833
[all] ♪ Oh, Susannah ♪

00:36:31.916 --> 00:36:33.708
♪ Why don't you cry for me… ♪

00:36:33.791 --> 00:36:37.333
Then there was Tony, the witty
smart aleck who would get you in trouble.

00:36:37.416 --> 00:36:41.000
-♪ …a banjo on my knee ♪
-He specialized in changing the lyrics

00:36:41.083 --> 00:36:43.208
-to songs in music class…
-Now to page 24.

00:36:43.291 --> 00:36:46.250
…from traditional to, of course, dirty.
-[teacher] Old Dan Tucker.

00:36:46.333 --> 00:36:49.375
♪ Old Dan Tucker was a mighty man ♪

00:36:49.458 --> 00:36:52.333
♪ He washed his face in a fryin' pan ♪

00:36:52.416 --> 00:36:55.083
♪ He combed his hair with a wagon wheel ♪

00:36:55.166 --> 00:36:57.541
♪ He died of a toothache in his… ♪

00:36:57.625 --> 00:36:58.458
Balls!

00:36:58.541 --> 00:37:01.083
Stan, Tony, go stand out in the hall.

00:37:03.166 --> 00:37:05.458
[Stan] One of the downsides
of bein' a kid during this era

00:37:05.541 --> 00:37:09.250
was they still thought it was a great idea
to train children like they were animals,

00:37:09.333 --> 00:37:13.208
which required constant reminders
of what was incorrect conduct.

00:37:13.791 --> 00:37:16.333
You were always one little screw-up
away from a beating

00:37:16.416 --> 00:37:18.333
from any number
of the adults in your life.

00:37:18.958 --> 00:37:20.875
Parents, principals, coaches,

00:37:20.958 --> 00:37:23.583
even your friends' parents
who had these convenient

00:37:23.666 --> 00:37:26.291
"You can paddle my kid
and I can paddle yours" agreements.

00:37:27.250 --> 00:37:30.458
But nobody was more scary
than our principal,

00:37:30.541 --> 00:37:32.208
the Grim Reaper himself,

00:37:32.708 --> 00:37:33.625
Mr. Cowan.

00:37:36.125 --> 00:37:38.958
Are you boys out here
for disciplinary reasons?

00:37:42.375 --> 00:37:43.708
[exhales]

00:37:43.791 --> 00:37:44.875
Again.

00:37:46.708 --> 00:37:47.583
Follow me.

00:37:52.291 --> 00:37:53.416
-[blow lands]
-[both wince]

00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:55.916
[blow lands]

00:37:57.166 --> 00:37:59.875
-No. No, no, no, no.
-[Mr. Cowan] All right. Get back to class.

00:38:10.708 --> 00:38:12.666
Tony, Stan,

00:38:13.375 --> 00:38:14.625
get in here.

00:38:14.708 --> 00:38:16.333
[Stan] I guess it fit the times.

00:38:16.416 --> 00:38:17.666
Life was cheaper.

00:38:17.750 --> 00:38:19.416
We were all more expendable,

00:38:19.500 --> 00:38:22.000
and no one thought too deeply
about safety.

00:38:22.708 --> 00:38:24.708
["Soul Finger" by Bar-Kays]

00:38:26.333 --> 00:38:31.041
For instance, there we are, drivin' down
the Gulf Freeway at 70 miles an hour,

00:38:31.541 --> 00:38:34.166
with a truck bed full of kids
on the way to the beach.

00:38:34.666 --> 00:38:36.166
It never crossed anyone's mind

00:38:36.250 --> 00:38:40.375
that we were all just one slight collision
or rollover away from being roadkill.

00:38:43.541 --> 00:38:47.333
Just all of us gettin' Popsicles
at the pool could turn into a disaster.

00:38:47.416 --> 00:38:49.291
-[splashing]
-Aah… Aah! Aah!

00:38:49.375 --> 00:38:52.708
Something about the way they were frozen
had turned them into dry ice,

00:38:52.791 --> 00:38:54.791
-and they stuck to all of our tongues.
-[all yelling]

00:38:55.583 --> 00:38:58.833
Also, our neighborhood swimming pool
was routinely over chlorinated,

00:38:58.916 --> 00:39:01.291
absolutely roasting everyone's eyes.

00:39:02.583 --> 00:39:05.666
They just hadn't perfected
the chemical thing yet,

00:39:05.750 --> 00:39:09.291
and it hadn't entered our minds that
anything they were doing could be harmful.

00:39:09.375 --> 00:39:12.250
And we were definitely the last
of maybe two generations of kids

00:39:12.333 --> 00:39:13.625
who thought it was great fun

00:39:13.708 --> 00:39:16.708
to chase after
those DDT-spewing mosquito trucks.

00:39:17.208 --> 00:39:19.416
And it wasn't at all uncommon
to return home

00:39:19.500 --> 00:39:22.416
to find they'd nerve-gassed
the entire house with poison

00:39:22.500 --> 00:39:25.083
to kill that occasional roach
that had been spotted.

00:39:26.708 --> 00:39:30.458
And check out my Little League coach's
unique motivational technique.

00:39:30.541 --> 00:39:33.625
For every error you committed
in the previous game,

00:39:33.708 --> 00:39:35.916
you had to stand
before three of your teammates,

00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:39.291
firing squad style,
trying to peg you with the ball.

00:39:40.416 --> 00:39:41.666
[laughing]

00:39:41.750 --> 00:39:45.541
My strategy was to try and catch
the one from the most accurate thrower,

00:39:45.625 --> 00:39:48.750
dodge one,
and just hope the other guy missed.

00:39:48.833 --> 00:39:50.875
You might just get out alive.

00:39:50.958 --> 00:39:52.708
Yep. Amongst all the fun,

00:39:52.791 --> 00:39:57.041
it always seemed like punishment,
pain, or injury were never too far away.

00:39:57.583 --> 00:39:59.750
Like this game we used to play
called Red Rover.

00:39:59.833 --> 00:40:04.458
[all chant] Red rover, red rover
Let Stan come over

00:40:07.916 --> 00:40:13.208
Red rover, red rover
Let Ronnie come over

00:40:13.708 --> 00:40:16.708
We'd keep playin' certain games
until somethin' like this happened.

00:40:17.458 --> 00:40:18.833
[screams]

00:40:19.458 --> 00:40:22.291
That simply meant
we'd now matured to a new level,

00:40:22.375 --> 00:40:25.750
and it was time to quit playin' that game
and pick up a new one.

00:40:26.333 --> 00:40:28.750
If it wasn't baseball,
football, or basketball,

00:40:28.833 --> 00:40:30.875
it was goin' off on a big bike adventure.

00:40:30.958 --> 00:40:34.000
["So You Want To Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star"
by The Byrds]

00:40:35.708 --> 00:40:37.958
We all got good at bike repair,

00:40:38.041 --> 00:40:40.125
especially fixing flat tires.

00:40:41.458 --> 00:40:43.791
And it seemed like
every longer car ride anywhere

00:40:43.875 --> 00:40:46.416
included an obligatory changing of a flat.

00:40:47.375 --> 00:40:50.375
It might have been that we were
in the pre-steel-belted radial era,

00:40:50.458 --> 00:40:52.458
and they just
weren't very good at tires yet,

00:40:53.041 --> 00:40:55.666
or the fact that Dad had
a penchant for buying used tires.

00:40:55.750 --> 00:40:58.958
-Come on.
-Ever thought about gettin' a new tire?

00:40:59.458 --> 00:41:03.041
Then it wouldn't match the other three,
and it would look funny, Steven.

00:41:04.500 --> 00:41:07.833
We had all kinds of neighborhood games,
depending on who was playing.

00:41:08.333 --> 00:41:11.916
If there were a lot of girls around,
all the guys' sisters, usually,

00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:14.500
there was this game we played
called Statue Maker…

00:41:14.583 --> 00:41:16.000
Watch out.

00:41:16.083 --> 00:41:18.666
…where you'd have to say
what you were a statue of.

00:41:20.125 --> 00:41:21.083
Pancake.

00:41:21.166 --> 00:41:22.083
A phoenix.

00:41:22.166 --> 00:41:23.208
A wave.

00:41:23.291 --> 00:41:24.500
Astronaut.

00:41:25.333 --> 00:41:27.791
At night, the games moved indoors

00:41:28.375 --> 00:41:29.666
or on the back porch.

00:41:30.291 --> 00:41:32.375
So many classic board games.

00:41:32.500 --> 00:41:34.333
-[Dad] Five…
-Five, six, seven…

00:41:34.416 --> 00:41:36.416
Sometimes when my folks
would be entertaining

00:41:36.500 --> 00:41:38.458
and other families would be visiting,

00:41:38.541 --> 00:41:41.791
we'd get all elaborate and set up
other games like bobbing for apples.

00:41:41.875 --> 00:41:43.333
Watch and learn.

00:41:43.416 --> 00:41:46.000
New world record right now.

00:41:46.083 --> 00:41:47.458
Three, two, one, go.

00:41:47.541 --> 00:41:51.166
At some point, Greg came up with
a foolproof way to win every time.

00:41:52.125 --> 00:41:56.333
He was so dominant and adamant about it,
we all just sort of quit playing.

00:41:56.416 --> 00:41:57.666
That's how you do it!

00:42:01.416 --> 00:42:04.041
While my three sisters were,
for the most part, the opposition,

00:42:04.708 --> 00:42:06.833
they weren't without some advantages.

00:42:07.333 --> 00:42:09.750
Vicky had gotten a job at Baskin-Robbins…

00:42:09.833 --> 00:42:11.583
-All right.
-…the revolutionary ice-cream shop

00:42:11.666 --> 00:42:14.833
that offered a mind-blowing
31 different flavors,

00:42:14.916 --> 00:42:17.000
and she got two free scoops a shift.

00:42:17.083 --> 00:42:19.583
I think I'll have the banana nut fudge.

00:42:20.416 --> 00:42:21.250
Good choice.

00:42:21.333 --> 00:42:25.083
For the first two or three months
she worked there, she ate them herself.

00:42:25.583 --> 00:42:28.791
But eventually, she got sick of ice cream
and started givin' 'em away,

00:42:28.875 --> 00:42:31.666
so you wanted to be there
when she was gettin' off work.

00:42:32.333 --> 00:42:33.166
Thank you.

00:42:34.791 --> 00:42:38.041
Need I guess what flavor I must serve up
to earn my ride home?

00:42:39.333 --> 00:42:40.166
Just…

00:42:40.958 --> 00:42:42.291
You can say it.

00:42:42.375 --> 00:42:43.208
Vanilla, please.

00:42:43.291 --> 00:42:44.541
-Vanilla?
-Yeah, vanilla.

00:42:44.625 --> 00:42:45.958
-You want vanilla?
-Yes.

00:42:46.041 --> 00:42:48.083
-Of all these flavors, you want--
-Yes.

00:42:48.166 --> 00:42:49.000
Just scoop it.

00:42:49.083 --> 00:42:50.291
Okay.

00:42:50.375 --> 00:42:51.208
Yeah.

00:42:51.708 --> 00:42:55.583
I don't remember my brother Steve
ever getting a flavor besides vanilla.

00:42:55.666 --> 00:42:58.875
A waste of all those exotic flavors,
obviously,

00:42:58.958 --> 00:43:02.208
but I guess I admired
his contentment and consistency.

00:43:02.291 --> 00:43:03.500
["Sugar Sugar" by The Archies]

00:43:04.083 --> 00:43:07.125
My sisters also seemed to set the tone
musically in the house,

00:43:07.208 --> 00:43:10.041
and between them,
they covered a lot of ground.

00:43:10.125 --> 00:43:13.166
The youngest, Stephanie,
liked whatever was popular.

00:43:13.250 --> 00:43:16.791
I remember her listening to her 45
of The Archies' "Sugar Sugar"

00:43:16.875 --> 00:43:19.333
over and over again.

00:43:19.416 --> 00:43:21.666
The Archies were characters
out of a comic book,

00:43:21.750 --> 00:43:24.708
but that didn't keep 'em
from havin' the biggest hit of 1969.

00:43:31.458 --> 00:43:32.666
♪ Sugar ♪

00:43:32.750 --> 00:43:33.583
All right.

00:43:34.083 --> 00:43:36.291
-Last time, all right?
-♪ Oh, honey, honey ♪

00:43:36.375 --> 00:43:38.208
-Fine.
-I've had enough of this.

00:43:38.291 --> 00:43:39.625
♪ Another pleasant… ♪

00:43:39.708 --> 00:43:43.958
My middle sister, Jana, loved The Monkees
and, come to think of it,

00:43:44.041 --> 00:43:46.416
pretty much any group
that had cute guys in it.

00:43:48.958 --> 00:43:51.291
My tastes were, let's say, maturing.

00:43:51.375 --> 00:43:53.333
To Herb Alpert, for instance.

00:43:53.416 --> 00:43:56.625
Or at least
one particular album cover of his.

00:43:57.125 --> 00:43:59.041
["Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Donovan]

00:43:59.125 --> 00:44:01.666
Vicky had
the coolest taste in music, of course,

00:44:01.750 --> 00:44:05.291
and would happily lecture us
on the deeper meanings of songs.

00:44:08.958 --> 00:44:11.041
It's like the true meanings
are snuck in there,

00:44:11.125 --> 00:44:15.833
and we have to decipher them,
like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."

00:44:17.458 --> 00:44:18.500
LSD.

00:44:20.458 --> 00:44:23.041
It's right there for those who are
tuned in, but the straights…

00:44:23.625 --> 00:44:24.833
they don't get it.

00:44:24.916 --> 00:44:26.750
-[whirring]
-[screaming]

00:44:27.333 --> 00:44:29.583
[Vicky] Oh God! Turn it off,
turn it off, turn it off!

00:44:29.666 --> 00:44:30.958
[Jana shudders]

00:44:31.666 --> 00:44:33.125
-Oh no!
-[Vicky] Breathe. Okay.

00:44:33.833 --> 00:44:35.166
Oh, Jana!

00:44:35.250 --> 00:44:37.583
-Jana was always having mishaps.
-Stop, stop. I'm pulling it.

00:44:37.666 --> 00:44:41.333
She was the first to have to get stitches,
the first to break a bone.

00:44:41.416 --> 00:44:42.875
-Oh!
-Stuff just happened to her.

00:44:42.958 --> 00:44:45.791
And it seemed like a lot of extra work
bein' a girl.

00:44:46.291 --> 00:44:49.291
Straight hair was the look
everyone was goin' for at the time,

00:44:49.375 --> 00:44:52.125
but it was so difficult
in the humidity of Houston.

00:44:52.625 --> 00:44:55.375
And this was before
all the hair products and blow dryers.

00:44:56.458 --> 00:45:00.250
The curlers were so small back then,
they took to usin' orange juice cans.

00:45:00.333 --> 00:45:04.083
My sisters were not only more resourceful
but much more dramatic.

00:45:04.750 --> 00:45:06.166
Ouija, are you with us?

00:45:13.250 --> 00:45:14.625
-[whispers] Yes!
-Oh my gosh!

00:45:14.708 --> 00:45:15.750
Shh.

00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:18.125
That's good.

00:45:18.708 --> 00:45:20.458
Does Robert have a crush on me?

00:45:25.416 --> 00:45:27.750
-[gasps] Yes!
-[squeals]

00:45:27.833 --> 00:45:30.583
[Stan] In our bedroom, Steve, Greg,
and I were in agreement

00:45:30.666 --> 00:45:32.916
that the ultimate woman was Raquel Welch,

00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:36.166
as seen in such movies as
One Million Years BC,

00:45:36.250 --> 00:45:38.916
Fantastic Voyage, and Bandolero!

00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:42.041
Steve had a stash of Playboys
hidden under the desk.

00:45:59.166 --> 00:46:00.375
[sighs]

00:46:02.583 --> 00:46:05.333
We never found out
which sister ratted us out.

00:46:05.833 --> 00:46:08.083
-[static]
-The radio was always on,

00:46:08.166 --> 00:46:10.083
-playing the hits.
-["In the Year 2525"]

00:46:10.166 --> 00:46:15.750
One of my favorites was "In The Year 2525"
with its ominous dystopian future.

00:46:15.833 --> 00:46:19.000
♪ If man is still alive ♪

00:46:19.083 --> 00:46:22.208
I noticed a lot of girls I knew
had songs with their names in them.

00:46:22.291 --> 00:46:25.500
♪ Just walk away, Renee ♪

00:46:25.583 --> 00:46:31.041
♪ My Valleri ♪

00:46:31.125 --> 00:46:34.541
♪ And along comes Mary ♪

00:46:34.625 --> 00:46:37.708
♪ Windy has stormy eyes ♪

00:46:38.291 --> 00:46:43.166
♪ Jean, Jean, you're young ♪

00:46:43.250 --> 00:46:45.791
[Stan] There was one notable song
with a guy's name in it,

00:46:45.875 --> 00:46:47.083
but his name was Sue.

00:46:47.166 --> 00:46:49.000
♪ And my blood ran cold, and I said ♪

00:46:49.083 --> 00:46:50.833
♪ "My name is Sue" ♪

00:46:50.916 --> 00:46:52.375
♪ "How do you do?" ♪

00:46:53.041 --> 00:46:54.875
♪ "Now you gonna die…" ♪

00:46:55.666 --> 00:46:58.958
[Stan] We loved the ending
where they had to bleep out a curse word.

00:46:59.041 --> 00:47:01.541
♪ For the gravel in ya guts
And the spit in ya eye ♪

00:47:01.625 --> 00:47:04.875
♪ 'Cause I'm the bleep
That named you Sue ♪

00:47:05.416 --> 00:47:06.250
♪ Yeah ♪

00:47:06.333 --> 00:47:10.083
[Stan] It has to be said that this was
the height of the prank call era,

00:47:10.166 --> 00:47:12.083
more than a decade before caller ID.

00:47:12.166 --> 00:47:14.166
We ranged from the basics, like…

00:47:14.250 --> 00:47:15.833
Do you have Prince Albert in the can?

00:47:16.958 --> 00:47:18.833
Well, you'd better let him out.

00:47:18.916 --> 00:47:21.041
[all laughing]

00:47:21.125 --> 00:47:22.500
To the much more elaborate…

00:47:22.583 --> 00:47:26.791
[mimicking] Hello. It's Tommy O at KRB
and Name That Tune.

00:47:26.875 --> 00:47:28.583
Who am I speaking with?

00:47:28.666 --> 00:47:30.208
Um, my name is Martha.

00:47:30.291 --> 00:47:32.708
Martha? It's your lucky day, Martha!

00:47:32.791 --> 00:47:35.666
Our jackpot's up to $285,

00:47:35.750 --> 00:47:37.708
and it's all yours
if you can name this tune

00:47:37.791 --> 00:47:40.375
after hearing five seconds of the song.

00:47:40.458 --> 00:47:41.541
Are you ready?

00:47:41.625 --> 00:47:43.000
Um, I guess so.

00:47:43.500 --> 00:47:45.125
Name this tune.

00:47:48.583 --> 00:47:50.583
["Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell]

00:47:56.333 --> 00:47:58.875
Martha, can you name that tune?

00:47:58.958 --> 00:48:00.625
Is that "Wichita Lineman?"

00:48:00.708 --> 00:48:03.125
Yes! "Wichita Lineman"!
You've won the jackpot!

00:48:03.208 --> 00:48:04.875
[cheering]

00:48:04.958 --> 00:48:05.958
[telephone rings]

00:48:06.041 --> 00:48:08.208
Jana, go get that. Tell 'em we're eating.

00:48:09.583 --> 00:48:10.416
-Who is that?

00:48:10.500 --> 00:48:11.583
-So rude.
-I know.

00:48:11.666 --> 00:48:13.500
-Conversely, Dad had the answer…
-Hello?

00:48:13.583 --> 00:48:17.333
…when our household was the continual
target of one prank caller.

00:48:17.416 --> 00:48:18.333
It's him again.

00:48:18.916 --> 00:48:21.208
I got something for that little shit.

00:48:25.916 --> 00:48:26.750
Hello?

00:48:26.833 --> 00:48:27.833
[garbled voice]

00:48:27.916 --> 00:48:30.583
Oh, that's, uh… that's very interesting.

00:48:31.250 --> 00:48:33.916
Well, you listen carefully to this.

00:48:34.541 --> 00:48:36.416
-[whistle blasting]
-[all groan]

00:48:37.875 --> 00:48:39.541
-[sighs]
-[Vicky] Dad!

00:48:40.291 --> 00:48:42.500
That should split his eardrum.

00:48:42.583 --> 00:48:45.750
[Stan] I remember actually feeling
a little sorry for the prankster.

00:48:45.833 --> 00:48:47.791
Not sure the punishment fit the crime.

00:48:49.583 --> 00:48:52.041
When we weren't playing
in the Little League ourselves,

00:48:52.125 --> 00:48:54.625
we'd hang out at the fields
to watch our friends play

00:48:54.708 --> 00:48:57.458
and pretty much just fart around
and chase foul balls.

00:48:58.958 --> 00:49:01.916
[announcer] Bring that foul ball back
for a free snow cone!

00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:03.625
["Theme from Peter Gunn"
by Duane Eddy]

00:49:04.750 --> 00:49:07.375
-Okay.
-I'll have strawberry.

00:49:07.458 --> 00:49:10.875
-That's one foul ball.
-And a Chick-O-Stick.

00:49:13.166 --> 00:49:14.208
There's yours.

00:49:15.875 --> 00:49:16.708
And yours.

00:49:16.791 --> 00:49:18.333
Thank you, sir.

00:49:19.333 --> 00:49:22.916
[Stan] You could also get a free snow cone
by pickin' up a bag of trash.

00:49:33.708 --> 00:49:35.333
[announcer] I trust in God.

00:49:35.416 --> 00:49:36.708
I love my country

00:49:36.791 --> 00:49:38.458
-and will respect its laws.
-[repeating]

00:49:38.541 --> 00:49:41.000
I will play fair and strive to win.

00:49:41.083 --> 00:49:44.250
But win or lose, I will always do my best.

00:49:44.333 --> 00:49:50.083
Now look to the flag in center field
as we play our national anthem.

00:49:50.166 --> 00:49:52.166
["The Star-Spangled Banner" plays]

00:49:53.916 --> 00:49:56.541
[Stan] I felt so moved
by the Little League pledge

00:49:56.625 --> 00:49:59.291
and the national anthem
that I felt it wasn't important

00:49:59.375 --> 00:50:00.333
if we won or lost.

00:50:01.500 --> 00:50:05.208
That sentiment usually lasted
until about the first pitch of the game.

00:50:05.291 --> 00:50:07.291
[crowd yelling]

00:50:07.958 --> 00:50:10.000
[yelling and cheering]

00:50:18.125 --> 00:50:22.291
But there was no better babysitter
than a triple feature at the Majestic,

00:50:23.166 --> 00:50:25.625
which, despite its name,
was a pretty seedy theater.

00:50:26.333 --> 00:50:30.000
I remember one line-up that featured
a sci-fi movie called Countdown

00:50:30.083 --> 00:50:32.166
where the moon race ends
with us gettin' there,

00:50:32.250 --> 00:50:34.750
only to find
the Russians had made it there, too,

00:50:35.250 --> 00:50:38.125
but had, of course, died
in a crash landing of some kind.

00:50:39.083 --> 00:50:41.916
As a gesture,
the American astronaut puts out the flags

00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:44.750
of both the United States
and the Soviet Union.

00:50:45.625 --> 00:50:46.916
[man] Now a mad world!

00:50:47.500 --> 00:50:49.666
[Stan] And then
there were two scary movies.

00:50:49.750 --> 00:50:51.333
-The Frozen Dead…
-[man] I must!

00:50:51.416 --> 00:50:55.791
…where a mad Nazi scientist plans
to revive a number of frozen Nazi leaders.

00:50:56.958 --> 00:50:58.250
[gunshot]

00:50:58.875 --> 00:51:00.083
And It,

00:51:00.583 --> 00:51:04.166
in which a crazed museum assistant,
played by Roddy McDowall,

00:51:04.250 --> 00:51:08.666
brings a 16th-century golem to life
by putting a little scroll in its mouth.

00:51:09.375 --> 00:51:11.708
It's indestructible,
according to the prophecy,

00:51:11.791 --> 00:51:14.708
and becomes his accomplice
in murder and lots of mayhem.

00:51:14.791 --> 00:51:15.625
Kill him!

00:51:16.208 --> 00:51:17.291
[screams]

00:51:22.916 --> 00:51:24.541
[roaring]

00:51:25.125 --> 00:51:28.083
[Stan] The movie ends
with the golem walking into the sea.

00:51:28.583 --> 00:51:30.500
There weren't really sequels back then,

00:51:30.583 --> 00:51:33.458
so as far as I know,
the golem never came walking back out.

00:51:33.541 --> 00:51:35.875
["A Taste of Honey"
by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass]

00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:40.708
I'll never forget
the New Year's Eve party my parents had

00:51:40.791 --> 00:51:44.333
as it was becoming
that fateful year of 1969.

00:51:44.833 --> 00:51:46.666
While the adults partied inside,

00:51:47.250 --> 00:51:51.375
most of us were in the backyard
where the Roman candle wars were raging.

00:51:56.708 --> 00:51:58.291
And Byron's pyromania

00:51:58.375 --> 00:52:02.250
had reached a new height
with a large chunk of drainage pipe,

00:52:02.333 --> 00:52:03.833
a small explosion,

00:52:03.916 --> 00:52:06.291
and a flaming softball across the sky.

00:52:09.833 --> 00:52:11.916
[Dad] Are you guys ready
for the countdown?

00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:13.666
Okay. Here we go.

00:52:14.333 --> 00:52:16.416
[all] Ten, nine,

00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:18.458
eight, seven,

00:52:18.541 --> 00:52:19.833
six,

00:52:19.916 --> 00:52:21.750
five, four,

00:52:21.833 --> 00:52:24.458
three, two, one.

00:52:24.541 --> 00:52:26.333
-Happy New Year!
-[party horns blare]

00:52:26.416 --> 00:52:27.916
[all cheering]

00:52:32.958 --> 00:52:34.625
["A Taste of Honey"]

00:52:41.500 --> 00:52:45.166
[Stan] I guess this is as good a place
as any to return to where we left off.

00:52:47.625 --> 00:52:49.833
Yeah, yeah. Laugh all you want.

00:52:49.916 --> 00:52:51.583
[rattling]

00:52:51.666 --> 00:52:53.125
But here's what they told me…

00:52:54.041 --> 00:52:56.625
Good job, Stan. You didn't pass out.

00:52:56.708 --> 00:52:58.458
-[engines power down]
-[panting]

00:52:58.541 --> 00:52:59.875
Don't worry about the vomit.

00:52:59.958 --> 00:53:03.416
Every astronaut, from John Glenn
to Neil Armstrong, they all upchuck.

00:53:03.500 --> 00:53:04.625
At least the first time.

00:53:04.708 --> 00:53:05.958
["Dizzy" by Tommy Roe]

00:53:06.041 --> 00:53:08.708
So while my childhood
had been fairly normal,

00:53:08.791 --> 00:53:11.083
my time at NASA sure as hell wasn't.

00:53:11.166 --> 00:53:14.083
I found myself in some intense training.

00:53:14.166 --> 00:53:16.791
This one was actually called
the Vomit Comet.

00:53:19.166 --> 00:53:20.625
♪ Dizzy ♪

00:53:22.500 --> 00:53:24.083
♪ I'm so dizzy… ♪

00:53:24.166 --> 00:53:26.291
I kind of loved 1/6th gravity,

00:53:26.375 --> 00:53:29.416
but it was like learning to move around
with a whole new body.

00:53:29.500 --> 00:53:33.875
And there was lots of classwork.
Not very exciting but necessary, I guess.

00:53:34.916 --> 00:53:37.375
Underwater training
had been invented by Buzz Aldrin

00:53:37.458 --> 00:53:39.500
after the failed Gemini space walk.

00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:41.208
It was pretty scary.

00:53:45.875 --> 00:53:47.541
♪ …make you mine… ♪

00:53:49.583 --> 00:53:52.666
And they had all kinds
of survival scenarios to think about,

00:53:52.750 --> 00:53:55.333
train in, and plan for just in case,

00:53:55.916 --> 00:53:58.916
from gettin' stranded in a jungle
to havin' to tromp through a desert.

00:54:00.166 --> 00:54:04.041
You had to be able to make clothes
and protective cover from your parachute.

00:54:04.125 --> 00:54:06.041
♪ …playin' hard to get
I'm goin' around in… ♪

00:54:06.125 --> 00:54:08.458
I remember thinkin'
that if this ended up my fate,

00:54:08.958 --> 00:54:13.500
it would be the least of my problems,
like one of those Twilight Zone episodes.

00:54:13.583 --> 00:54:16.541
♪ I'm so dizzy
My head is spinnin'… ♪

00:54:16.625 --> 00:54:19.458
After I finished training,
they put me through a crash course…

00:54:20.041 --> 00:54:22.333
Probably not the best term for it,
I guess.

00:54:22.833 --> 00:54:25.750
…on how to fly all aspects
of what was now secretly being called

00:54:25.833 --> 00:54:27.708
Apollo 10 1/2.

00:54:28.208 --> 00:54:31.666
First, I had to learn every control,
even while blindfolded.

00:54:31.750 --> 00:54:34.416
-♪ You're makin' me dizzy… ♪
-Altitude?

00:54:35.958 --> 00:54:38.125
-Check.
-Event timer?

00:54:38.208 --> 00:54:39.958
-[Stan] Check.
-Temp in?

00:54:41.291 --> 00:54:42.125
Check.

00:54:43.166 --> 00:54:44.708
[Stan] Simulation was one thing,

00:54:44.791 --> 00:54:49.000
but to see what it felt like
to actually land a craft in 1/6th gravity,

00:54:49.083 --> 00:54:50.500
they created this monster.

00:54:50.583 --> 00:54:53.375
The Lunar Landing Training Vehicle,

00:54:53.458 --> 00:54:55.041
or LLTV.

00:54:55.125 --> 00:54:56.166
[engine roaring[

00:54:56.875 --> 00:54:58.666
[short blasts of air]

00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:08.958
Neil Armstrong had almost died
tryin' to land this thing.

00:55:09.041 --> 00:55:12.250
He bailed out just seconds
before it crashed and exploded,

00:55:12.333 --> 00:55:14.916
and he went to lunch
like nothing had happened.

00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:18.750
[chuckles] That was Neil.
Always cool as a cucumber.

00:55:19.583 --> 00:55:21.833
After you learned
everything about the ship,

00:55:21.916 --> 00:55:23.833
it was time for integrated simulation.

00:55:26.083 --> 00:55:29.166
Kranz, Bostick, and everybody
was at the mission control,

00:55:29.250 --> 00:55:30.833
I was in the simulator,

00:55:31.375 --> 00:55:34.416
and we were all being tested
by the simulation supervisors.

00:55:35.291 --> 00:55:37.416
These ominous voices
behind a two-way mirror.

00:55:37.500 --> 00:55:39.333
Leak started in CSM propulsion.

00:55:39.416 --> 00:55:43.083
S-IVB engine shut down
during abort mode, overlap.

00:55:43.166 --> 00:55:45.250
[Stan] They were known
as "sim sups" for short.

00:55:45.333 --> 00:55:47.958
They'd sit behind their dark window
at mission control

00:55:48.041 --> 00:55:51.291
and come up with the most diabolical
scenarios you could imagine,

00:55:52.416 --> 00:55:55.541
so that no matter what happened
out there in space, you'd be ready.

00:55:56.125 --> 00:55:59.708
I heard, during the Gemini program,
they had a controller fake a heart attack

00:55:59.791 --> 00:56:01.666
to see how everyone would respond.

00:56:02.541 --> 00:56:04.375
Everyone pretty much hated him.

00:56:04.458 --> 00:56:05.791
Okay, last simulation.

00:56:05.875 --> 00:56:09.166
Let's knock this out,
land safely, and call it a day,

00:56:09.250 --> 00:56:11.875
hopefully in time for some beers
at the Singing Wheel.

00:56:11.958 --> 00:56:13.375
Well, Coke for you, Stan.

00:56:13.958 --> 00:56:15.416
Tang's good for me, Flight.

00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:18.541
All right. You are a go for power descent.

00:56:18.625 --> 00:56:21.083
Okay. Engine start. 10% thrust.

00:56:21.791 --> 00:56:22.666
Lookin' good.

00:56:23.250 --> 00:56:24.875
You are go for full throttle.

00:56:24.958 --> 00:56:26.333
Full throttle.

00:56:26.416 --> 00:56:27.708
Thousand feet.

00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:30.666
[alarm wails]

00:56:31.583 --> 00:56:34.958
Getting a 1201 program alarm.

00:56:36.041 --> 00:56:38.833
-1201? Bales, what the hell is that?
-Hold on.

00:56:39.583 --> 00:56:40.791
[Stan] 750 feet.

00:56:40.875 --> 00:56:43.125
"Computer overload.
Can't complete all tasks."

00:56:43.208 --> 00:56:44.958
All systems seem in order.

00:56:45.541 --> 00:56:46.833
Jack, what's goin' on here?

00:56:47.583 --> 00:56:50.166
It's a bailout alarm. The computer's
overloaded for some reason.

00:56:51.708 --> 00:56:54.000
500 feet. Looks fine on my end.

00:56:54.583 --> 00:56:55.666
400 feet.

00:56:55.750 --> 00:56:56.583
Wait!

00:56:56.666 --> 00:56:58.541
1202 alarm!

00:56:58.625 --> 00:57:00.000
1202?

00:57:00.083 --> 00:57:02.708
I-- I can't see a thing wrong,
but this isn't good.

00:57:02.791 --> 00:57:04.166
I-- I think it's time to abort.

00:57:05.416 --> 00:57:07.875
Flight guidance, something's wrong
with the computer. Abort.

00:57:08.791 --> 00:57:10.166
Are we gonna abort flight?

00:57:11.625 --> 00:57:13.708
-Flight abort.
-Darn it! Abort!

00:57:16.083 --> 00:57:17.333
[alarm stops]

00:57:17.416 --> 00:57:18.916
This was not an abort!

00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:21.291
-[all sigh]
-If you'd read the manual thoroughly,

00:57:21.375 --> 00:57:23.541
you would have known
to continue on the landing.

00:57:23.625 --> 00:57:25.416
Instead, we now have astronauts

00:57:25.500 --> 00:57:28.041
comin' back to Earth
with their tail between their legs,

00:57:28.125 --> 00:57:30.208
a billion tax dollars wasted,

00:57:30.291 --> 00:57:32.500
and front-row seats watching the Russians

00:57:32.583 --> 00:57:34.958
plant their flags up there in August!

00:57:35.041 --> 00:57:36.041
[sighs]

00:57:37.666 --> 00:57:38.500
You happy?

00:57:43.291 --> 00:57:45.875
[Stan] By the time I was really up there,
ready for liftoff,

00:57:45.958 --> 00:57:49.208
I was actually very calm,
because I felt I had already done it.

00:57:49.708 --> 00:57:51.583
They had whipped me into fighting shape.

00:57:52.083 --> 00:57:54.250
I remember
bein' more excited than nervous.

00:57:54.750 --> 00:57:56.166
Maybe too calm, come to think of it.

00:57:56.250 --> 00:57:57.333
Stan, are you ready?

00:57:57.833 --> 00:57:58.833
Ready.

00:58:00.208 --> 00:58:01.750
[engine roars]

00:58:01.833 --> 00:58:03.500
[radio chatter]

00:58:03.583 --> 00:58:05.583
So it was off to the moon and back.

00:58:05.666 --> 00:58:09.458
We carried out Apollo 10 1/2's
secret mission without a hitch.

00:58:09.958 --> 00:58:12.250
But then it was like it never happened.

00:58:12.333 --> 00:58:14.666
No headlines.
No ticker-tape parade for me.

00:58:15.250 --> 00:58:17.541
I couldn't tell anyone, even my family.

00:58:18.583 --> 00:58:23.208
When Apollo 11 launched on July 16th
and landed on the moon four days later,

00:58:23.291 --> 00:58:26.083
I was watching it on TV
like everyone else around the world.

00:58:27.083 --> 00:58:29.500
But to me,
it felt like it was some kind of dream.

00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:33.833
I was the only person on Earth who knew
exactly what they were experiencing.

00:58:33.916 --> 00:58:35.625
It was like I was up there with them.

00:58:36.875 --> 00:58:37.791
But I wasn't.

00:58:39.041 --> 00:58:40.041
I was here.

00:58:42.916 --> 00:58:44.708
[Dad] You see the Saturn V right there?

00:58:44.791 --> 00:58:47.833
They put it on a barge in Huntsville,
Alabama, where they built it.

00:58:47.916 --> 00:58:51.250
Then it goes up to Tennessee and Ohio,
then shoots on down the Mississippi.

00:58:51.333 --> 00:58:54.458
Goes across the Gulf of Mexico,
rounding the tip of Florida,

00:58:54.541 --> 00:58:56.416
then they drop it off at Cape Kennedy.

00:58:56.500 --> 00:59:00.500
Now, of course, if it was to come here,
you'll wanna take a right at the Gulf,

00:59:00.583 --> 00:59:03.708
then it's pretty much
Galveston Bay, then Clear Lake,

00:59:03.791 --> 00:59:07.250
and then we could walk across
NASA Road 1 and pick it up from there.

00:59:07.333 --> 00:59:09.625
[narrator] …check of all the systems
aboard the spacecraft…

00:59:09.708 --> 00:59:11.958
-And you're in charge of all that?
-…ready to go…

00:59:12.041 --> 00:59:14.666
If that's not shipping and receiving,
I don't know what is.

00:59:14.750 --> 00:59:18.708
…Eastern time.
That huge, 36-story-high launch vehicle…

00:59:18.791 --> 00:59:21.541
But, no, Kyle in Florida
takes care of most of the details.

00:59:21.625 --> 00:59:26.208
T-minus 34 minutes and counting,
with everything going well.

00:59:26.291 --> 00:59:28.916
Astronauts fit as a fiddle,
according to the report,

00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:33.166
as they wait there
for the launch of Apollo 11.

00:59:33.250 --> 00:59:34.583
The spacecraft systems

00:59:34.666 --> 00:59:37.375
are checking out perfectly
in these final checkouts.

00:59:37.458 --> 00:59:39.625
The weather is good,

00:59:39.708 --> 00:59:42.416
and it seems
that man will get off this morning

00:59:42.500 --> 00:59:46.208
in this great adventure
to land finally on the moon…

00:59:46.291 --> 00:59:47.500
Are you nervous at all?

00:59:47.583 --> 00:59:50.208
-No, not really.
-Why would Dad be nervous?

00:59:50.291 --> 00:59:51.125
I'm not!

00:59:51.208 --> 00:59:54.916
Well, hon, your dad is a part of this too.

00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:56.750
So many people are.

00:59:57.250 --> 01:00:01.916
…we really don't have a language
to… to describe this thing.

01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:06.375
Uh, how do you say, uh…
"high as the sky" anymore?

01:00:06.458 --> 01:00:08.416
"The sky's the limit."
What does that mean?

01:00:08.500 --> 01:00:11.875
Does the moon
seem strange and far away to you?

01:00:11.958 --> 01:00:14.750
No, not really.
There's things further out than the moon.

01:00:14.833 --> 01:00:17.333
[reporter] And is it true
that the young people…

01:00:17.416 --> 01:00:20.333
[Arthur C. Clarke] So now, of course,
I'm thinking about the next thing.

01:00:20.416 --> 01:00:22.000
Mars and beyond.

01:00:22.083 --> 01:00:26.125
You're thinking of Mars and beyond?
We haven't gotten to the moon yet, Arthur!

01:00:26.208 --> 01:00:29.833
That's the nature
of you science-fiction writers, I suppose.

01:00:29.916 --> 01:00:31.666
We'll find some surprises on the moon.

01:00:31.750 --> 01:00:34.791
Not necessarily on this first flight,
but I'm sure eventually.

01:00:35.250 --> 01:00:38.416
I don't know if they'll find a large
black monolith waiting for us on the moon.

01:00:38.500 --> 01:00:41.333
[Walter Cronkite laughs]
A reference to 2001…

01:00:41.416 --> 01:00:43.958
-Would you like to--
-Stan! Get in here! It's about to launch!

01:00:50.875 --> 01:00:54.416
[reporter] Well, the, uh, engines
that generate that thrust

01:00:54.500 --> 01:00:59.750
have a combined horsepower
equal to 543 jet fighter planes.

01:00:59.833 --> 01:01:04.625
They burn 5,662,000 pounds of fuel,

01:01:04.708 --> 01:01:07.500
the equivalent of 98 railroad tank cars,

01:01:07.583 --> 01:01:11.166
the capacity of a small town's water tank.

01:01:11.875 --> 01:01:17.625
Their launch vehicle there weighs
as much as the submarine Nautilus.

01:01:18.291 --> 01:01:21.791
Liftoff, the noise reaches 120 decibels
and has been compared

01:01:21.875 --> 01:01:25.041
to eight million hi-fi sets
playing at once.

01:01:42.416 --> 01:01:44.708
Controllers,
we need a go-no-go for launch.

01:01:44.791 --> 01:01:46.125
-[man] Go, flight controllers.
-Go.

01:01:46.208 --> 01:01:47.333
-Okay. Retro.
-Go.

01:01:47.416 --> 01:01:48.458
-FIDO. Guidance.
-Go.

01:01:48.541 --> 01:01:49.458
-Go.
-Control.

01:01:49.541 --> 01:01:50.625
-Go.
-Telcom.

01:01:50.708 --> 01:01:51.958
-[sighs]
-GNC.

01:01:52.041 --> 01:01:53.125
-Eecom. Surgeon.
-Go.

01:01:53.208 --> 01:01:55.166
CapCom, we're go to continue.

01:01:55.250 --> 01:01:57.041
T-minus 60 seconds and counting.

01:01:59.375 --> 01:02:00.750
All right, 64-zero-five.

01:02:00.833 --> 01:02:04.833
As tonight's report, it feels good.
T-minus 25 seconds.

01:02:06.666 --> 01:02:09.291
-Move! Your head's in the way.
-20 seconds and counting.

01:02:09.375 --> 01:02:10.583
Yeah, come on.

01:02:11.083 --> 01:02:12.666
T-minus 15 seconds.

01:02:12.750 --> 01:02:14.708
-Guidance is internal.
-A little lower.

01:02:14.791 --> 01:02:16.375
Twelve. Eleven.

01:02:16.458 --> 01:02:20.583
Ten. Nine. Ignition sequence start.

01:02:20.666 --> 01:02:22.791
Six. Five.

01:02:22.875 --> 01:02:24.583
Four. Three.

01:02:24.666 --> 01:02:26.583
Two. One.

01:02:26.666 --> 01:02:28.916
Zero. All engine running.

01:02:29.416 --> 01:02:30.375
Liftoff.

01:02:30.458 --> 01:02:31.916
We have a liftoff.

01:02:53.291 --> 01:02:55.625
[man] The program, of which Apollo 11…

01:02:55.708 --> 01:02:57.291
[reporter] Buildings shaking.

01:02:57.791 --> 01:03:00.333
We're getting that buffeting
we've become used to.

01:03:01.875 --> 01:03:05.375
What a moment. Man on the way to the moon.

01:03:09.750 --> 01:03:11.666
It's looking good, Flight.
Right down the middle.

01:03:11.750 --> 01:03:13.416
[man] Flight, they all look good.

01:03:21.875 --> 01:03:24.375
[reporter] Looks like a good trajectory
so far, doesn't it, Wally?

01:03:24.458 --> 01:03:25.916
[Cronkite] Very good. Very good.

01:03:27.500 --> 01:03:29.125
[breathing shakily]

01:03:29.208 --> 01:03:31.250
Downrange one mile.

01:03:32.166 --> 01:03:35.125
-Three, four miles.
-[man] …it's confirmed…

01:03:35.208 --> 01:03:37.500
2,195 feet per second.

01:03:38.166 --> 01:03:39.791
[reporter] Everything fell into place.

01:03:39.875 --> 01:03:41.958
-[Cronkite] Still see it?
-[reporter] Yes, indeed.

01:03:44.625 --> 01:03:45.875
-Okay.
-[exhales]

01:03:45.958 --> 01:03:47.250
First separation, get ready.

01:03:47.333 --> 01:03:48.958
Bird, you're looking good.

01:03:49.750 --> 01:03:51.083
[clattering]

01:03:52.666 --> 01:03:54.666
[engine's roar fading]

01:03:58.375 --> 01:04:02.000
[woman 1] But you know what? This terrific
bikini was made by a paper company.

01:04:02.875 --> 01:04:04.500
[woman 2] Confil's fantastic!

01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:09.291
It is like paper in one way.
So cheap, you can just throw it away.

01:04:09.375 --> 01:04:10.583
-[chuckles]
-[man 1] Confil.

01:04:10.666 --> 01:04:12.875
Well, on that note…

01:04:12.958 --> 01:04:15.625
[groans] …I've got things to do.

01:04:16.375 --> 01:04:18.666
[man 2] This is the coffee.

01:04:20.583 --> 01:04:22.541
It doesn't care that it looks different.

01:04:23.833 --> 01:04:25.333
It's the way coffee is--

01:04:26.750 --> 01:04:29.958
This is Jethro Bodine calling space people
by mental telepathy.

01:04:30.458 --> 01:04:32.458
You're probably lookin'
for a big Earth brain

01:04:32.541 --> 01:04:34.708
to take back to Venus or Mars or wherever…

01:04:35.291 --> 01:04:36.791
[speaking Italian]

01:04:37.625 --> 01:04:39.166
They must be Martians!

01:04:39.250 --> 01:04:40.583
-[laughter]
-Eh, cosi, cosa.

01:04:41.375 --> 01:04:43.416
-[Elly May] What are they saying?
-Okay. Wait a sec.

01:04:43.500 --> 01:04:45.833
What is this crap? Jethro!

01:04:46.958 --> 01:04:48.416
Where is the coverage?

01:04:48.500 --> 01:04:49.791
[changes channel]

01:04:49.875 --> 01:04:53.375
-[reporter] This third stage…
-Come on. It's a historic day.

01:04:53.458 --> 01:04:56.458
…five minutes and 47 seconds
to increase their speed…

01:04:56.541 --> 01:04:58.291
Historically boring day.

01:04:58.375 --> 01:05:01.041
-Pardon?
-…put them on the way to the moon.

01:05:01.125 --> 01:05:01.958
Nothing.

01:05:02.041 --> 01:05:03.916
26,000 feet per second.

01:05:05.791 --> 01:05:08.125
-Burn is going well.
-[loud roaring]

01:05:08.208 --> 01:05:11.583
Ignition came right at the moment
when it was expected to.

01:05:13.166 --> 01:05:16.125
Apparently,
the full thrust has been monitored.

01:05:16.208 --> 01:05:19.041
Telemetry and radar tracking both solid.

01:05:19.666 --> 01:05:22.291
Velocity now exceeds
35,000 feet per second.

01:05:22.375 --> 01:05:24.916
Altitude, one, seven, seven
nautical miles.

01:05:26.041 --> 01:05:27.958
You are now out of orbit, Stan.

01:05:34.791 --> 01:05:37.791
Seem to have trouble
raising the Apollo at the moment.

01:05:39.958 --> 01:05:43.875
So an engine cutoff, they confirmed.
We haven't heard from the spacecraft.

01:05:47.333 --> 01:05:48.958
[static crackling]

01:05:50.250 --> 01:05:53.291
These minutes give us great concern.

01:05:54.083 --> 01:05:56.583
-[bleep]
-Apollo 10 1/2, this is Houston.

01:05:56.666 --> 01:05:57.625
Do you read?

01:05:58.791 --> 01:06:02.625
["Journey to the Center of the Mind"
by Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes]

01:06:02.708 --> 01:06:05.916
Roger, Houston. This is Apollo 10 1/2.

01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:08.208
-That was a magnificent ride.
-[bleep]

01:06:08.291 --> 01:06:10.750
[Kranz] Roger, Apollo 10 1/2.
We'll pass that on.

01:06:10.833 --> 01:06:13.625
And it looks like
you are well on your way.

01:06:13.708 --> 01:06:14.541
[bleep]

01:06:16.083 --> 01:06:18.083
♪ Come along if you can ♪

01:06:19.333 --> 01:06:20.958
♪ Come along if you can… ♪

01:06:21.875 --> 01:06:24.708
[Stan] And that was
the beginning of my trip to the moon.

01:06:25.208 --> 01:06:28.041
Even though I was movin'
at 7,500 miles per hour…

01:06:28.125 --> 01:06:32.666
[chuckles] …it sure felt to me like
three and a half very long travel days.

01:06:33.541 --> 01:06:39.583
♪ Would take the time to journey
To the center of the mind ♪

01:06:40.291 --> 01:06:42.291
-♪ Would take the time to… ♪
-Three. Two…

01:06:42.375 --> 01:06:44.916
[Stan] The coverage continued
on the TV, of course,

01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:46.458
and the growing anticipation

01:06:46.541 --> 01:06:49.166
of what was going to happen
in a few days was ever present.

01:06:49.250 --> 01:06:50.125
Not this time!

01:06:50.208 --> 01:06:53.041
But a few days flyin' to the moon
is a long time.

01:06:53.625 --> 01:06:57.041
-And it was summer.
-Dark Shadows is starting without us!

01:06:57.125 --> 01:06:58.625
All right! Bye, guys!

01:06:58.708 --> 01:07:00.416
Bye. Tomorrow.

01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:03.375
-[horns honk]
-That night we went to the drive-in.

01:07:03.958 --> 01:07:06.875
-Hi.
-Deploying Dad's money-saving scheme.

01:07:06.958 --> 01:07:08.833
Four adults. And then two of them…

01:07:09.791 --> 01:07:11.875
are children that are under 12,

01:07:11.958 --> 01:07:14.625
so if they're under 12,
that's, you know, free.

01:07:15.208 --> 01:07:17.791
Okay. That's $6.

01:07:18.583 --> 01:07:19.916
You better believe it is.

01:07:26.333 --> 01:07:27.958
-[giggling]
-[Stephanie] Come on!

01:07:29.666 --> 01:07:30.541
Quick!

01:07:30.625 --> 01:07:31.916
[Vicky] Come up!

01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:34.583
-Oh jeez!
-Sh, sh!

01:07:35.208 --> 01:07:36.708
-[chuckling]
-[Stan] I'm in!

01:07:38.708 --> 01:07:42.125
-[Greg] We wanna see Hellfighters!
-[Mom] No. No movie with the word "hell".

01:07:42.208 --> 01:07:45.916
-It's filmed in Houston with John Wayne!
-[Jana] I want Swiss Family Robinson!

01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:49.083
[Greg] You can stay here
and watch Swiss Family Robinson.

01:07:49.583 --> 01:07:51.083
[Stan] We're going to see Hellfighters.

01:07:51.166 --> 01:07:53.166
-Okay, fine.
-All right, fine.

01:07:53.250 --> 01:07:56.750
The car will stay on the Shakiest Gun
in the West, Swiss Family Robinson side.

01:07:56.833 --> 01:07:58.250
Just get back when it's over!

01:07:58.333 --> 01:07:59.500
-[Stan] Yes, Dad!
-[Greg] Okay!

01:07:59.583 --> 01:08:02.791
-What did he just say?
-[kids] Get back when it's over!

01:08:02.875 --> 01:08:05.208
-♪ …as a man ♪
-Thank you.

01:08:05.291 --> 01:08:08.625
-♪ He's the shakiest gun in the West ♪
-Hold on. Settle in.

01:08:08.708 --> 01:08:12.041
-♪ Yeah, the shakiest gun in the West ♪
-Oh yeah. That's real nice.

01:08:15.666 --> 01:08:18.166
[Stan] It was always fun
to just roam around.

01:08:18.250 --> 01:08:20.666
We'd go lookin' for couples
makin' out in their cars.

01:08:21.333 --> 01:08:24.333
The best giveaway was a car
that's brake light was goin' on and off.

01:08:24.416 --> 01:08:26.791
[man] …section of drill pipe
you see sticking out of the hole

01:08:26.875 --> 01:08:30.458
has to be cut off right at the well head
before they can move in with the nitro.

01:08:30.541 --> 01:08:32.250
[man 2] It's spreading the flame…

01:08:33.625 --> 01:08:36.125
[Stan] This was the last phase
of childhood where I experienced

01:08:36.208 --> 01:08:39.125
that special comfort
of falling asleep in the car.

01:08:40.500 --> 01:08:41.666
[crickets chirping]

01:08:41.750 --> 01:08:44.708
You could drift off,
knowing everything was going to be fine.

01:08:45.208 --> 01:08:47.666
And you'd wake up the next morning
in your bed.

01:08:49.250 --> 01:08:51.500
In space, it was a little more lonely.

01:08:53.500 --> 01:08:55.541
["Come on Down to My Boat"
by Every Mother's Son]

01:08:57.250 --> 01:09:00.250
The next day, we all went to the beach
in our friend's pickup.

01:09:00.333 --> 01:09:02.125
It was about a one-hour drive.

01:09:07.083 --> 01:09:10.750
Galveston, oh, Galveston.
It was the only beach we knew.

01:09:10.833 --> 01:09:14.875
♪ She sits on the dock
Fishin' in the water, uh-huh… ♪

01:09:14.958 --> 01:09:18.958
But it was always so fun.
Cars and gritty hot dogs be damned!

01:09:19.041 --> 01:09:22.625
♪ I don't know her name
She's the fisherman's daughter, uh-huh… ♪

01:09:22.708 --> 01:09:26.583
And just by goin' in the water, we were,
to some degree, risking our lives

01:09:27.250 --> 01:09:30.541
because there was an undertow
that would gladly pull you underwater

01:09:30.625 --> 01:09:33.000
and kick you out somewhere in Louisiana.

01:09:33.666 --> 01:09:34.750
If that didn't get you,

01:09:34.833 --> 01:09:38.041
there were jellyfish floatin' around
everywhere, ready to sting you,

01:09:38.125 --> 01:09:41.583
and barnacles on the random posts
sticking out of the water,

01:09:41.666 --> 01:09:43.291
ready to rip you to shreds.

01:09:44.166 --> 01:09:46.291
It seemed like
there was always an oil spill

01:09:46.375 --> 01:09:50.625
somewhere out in the Gulf of Mexico,
resulting in little tar balls everywhere.

01:09:51.125 --> 01:09:52.208
At the end of the day,

01:09:52.291 --> 01:09:55.333
we'd scrub our tar-blackened feet clean
with gasoline.

01:09:55.416 --> 01:09:58.250
And during these days,
because of the moon mission,

01:09:58.333 --> 01:10:01.541
-the TV was full of classic sci-fi movies.
-[air-raid siren wailing]

01:10:01.625 --> 01:10:02.541
The most memorable

01:10:02.625 --> 01:10:07.083
was maybe the 1950 version
of Robert Heinlein's Destination Moon

01:10:07.166 --> 01:10:09.208
which predicted nearly 20 years in advance

01:10:09.291 --> 01:10:12.208
so much of what would actually happen
in 1969.

01:10:13.291 --> 01:10:15.666
It's amazing everything it got right.

01:10:15.750 --> 01:10:17.416
The initial failed launch.

01:10:18.208 --> 01:10:20.333
A Texan demanding it all be built here.

01:10:20.416 --> 01:10:23.333
Well, all I gotta say is
we'd better build it in Texas.

01:10:23.416 --> 01:10:24.625
[Stan] G-forces.

01:10:24.708 --> 01:10:25.833
Weightlessness.

01:10:26.750 --> 01:10:27.875
Looking back at Earth.

01:10:28.458 --> 01:10:29.875
-[chuckles]
-[man on film shouts]

01:10:29.958 --> 01:10:32.541
-Whoa, whoa, whoa. What--
-What are you doing?

01:10:32.625 --> 01:10:34.666
-Janis Joplin's on Dick Cavett.
-[man] …was all over…

01:10:34.750 --> 01:10:37.333
-[Joplin] No, uh…
-Yeah, the movie's not even over yet.

01:10:37.416 --> 01:10:39.916
The boys have dominated the TV all night.
It's our turn.

01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:41.916
May I light your fire, my child?

01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:43.416
[laughter]

01:10:44.208 --> 01:10:46.958
That's my favorite singer. How'd you know?

01:10:48.208 --> 01:10:49.791
-I guess not.
-Apparently not, no.

01:10:50.875 --> 01:10:52.833
Well, I would have bet against it myself…

01:10:52.916 --> 01:10:54.291
Oof! Stan!

01:10:54.375 --> 01:10:55.625
-Get off!
-[Stan] No!

01:10:55.708 --> 01:10:58.250
-To get down and really get into music…
-[Vicky] No, no. Stop it!

01:10:58.333 --> 01:10:59.833
-…get on the bottom floor of music…
-No!

01:10:59.916 --> 01:11:02.583
…instead of fiddling on the top
like most chick singers do.

01:11:02.666 --> 01:11:05.833
I think they…
[vocalizes] …on the top of the melody

01:11:05.916 --> 01:11:08.333
instead of getting into the feeling
of the music, I don't know.

01:11:09.166 --> 01:11:11.458
-[laughs]
-That's a good enough answer for me.

01:11:11.541 --> 01:11:13.250
[Stan] We spent a good part
of the next day,

01:11:13.333 --> 01:11:15.500
like so many other hot summer days,

01:11:15.583 --> 01:11:16.791
just hangin' out at the pool.

01:11:17.416 --> 01:11:19.416
We all had our diving board specialties.

01:11:19.500 --> 01:11:21.625
I had perfected the jackknife,

01:11:21.708 --> 01:11:24.875
the cannonball,
and the lesser-known preacher's seat.

01:11:26.666 --> 01:11:29.291
Greg was good at creating
some dives of his own.

01:11:29.875 --> 01:11:30.791
[kids groan]

01:11:31.625 --> 01:11:35.125
But the highlight was probably
gettin' to have a Frito pie for lunch,

01:11:35.708 --> 01:11:38.458
which was just a bag of Fritos
with the side split open

01:11:38.541 --> 01:11:40.083
and a bunch of chili mixed in.

01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:43.166
[splashing]

01:11:58.166 --> 01:12:00.250
[dial clicking]

01:12:00.833 --> 01:12:02.333
[flipping switches]

01:12:04.583 --> 01:12:06.208
By the time I entered lunar orbit,

01:12:06.291 --> 01:12:09.625
I was traveling at 2,287 miles per hour

01:12:10.291 --> 01:12:13.250
and around a celestial body
that's never had an Earthling on it.

01:12:14.875 --> 01:12:18.291
I looked down as I was passing over
the Sea of Tranquility.

01:12:18.875 --> 01:12:21.166
It didn't look too tranquil to me.

01:12:21.250 --> 01:12:23.666
Where in the world was I gonna land?

01:12:24.708 --> 01:12:26.083
Hello. I'm Johnny Cash.

01:12:26.166 --> 01:12:27.166
[cheering]

01:12:27.250 --> 01:12:29.291
[Stan] When we got home
from the pool that night,

01:12:29.375 --> 01:12:31.458
we all watched The Johnny Cash Show.

01:12:31.541 --> 01:12:33.500
Ladies and gentlemen, the Monkees!

01:12:33.583 --> 01:12:34.625
[Jana and Stephanie squeal]

01:12:34.708 --> 01:12:36.291
-It's them, it's really them!
-Oh my gosh!

01:12:36.375 --> 01:12:37.625
Davy is so cute!

01:12:37.708 --> 01:12:39.791
[Stan] We'd rushed home
because Stephanie and Jana said

01:12:39.875 --> 01:12:42.458
-the Monkees were gonna be on.
-♪ …see you again ♪

01:12:42.541 --> 01:12:44.083
♪ We'll have one more night… ♪

01:12:44.166 --> 01:12:47.208
There was Micky, Davy, and Mike,
but where was Peter?

01:12:47.291 --> 01:12:49.250
♪ …my train and I must go ♪

01:12:49.833 --> 01:12:51.250
♪ Oh, no, no, no ♪

01:12:51.333 --> 01:12:53.708
[Stan] And then later,
there was Joni Mitchell

01:12:53.791 --> 01:12:55.416
singin' a duet with Johnny.

01:12:55.500 --> 01:12:57.625
♪ She comes to my grave ♪

01:12:57.708 --> 01:13:02.208
♪ And she moans over my bones ♪

01:13:02.291 --> 01:13:05.708
-She has the most interesting voice.
-♪ She walks these hills in a long… ♪

01:13:05.791 --> 01:13:08.500
She's such a versatile artist.
She's a painter too.

01:13:09.750 --> 01:13:12.625
♪ She visits my grave ♪

01:13:12.708 --> 01:13:19.666
♪ When the night winds wail ♪

01:13:20.541 --> 01:13:24.625
[Stan] Then the big day came.
July 20th, 1969.

01:13:25.708 --> 01:13:28.458
They were going to land on the moon
some time in the afternoon

01:13:28.541 --> 01:13:30.625
and walk on it in the evening.

01:13:30.708 --> 01:13:33.083
But Dad had a surprise option for us.

01:13:33.166 --> 01:13:34.541
Okay. We've been given

01:13:34.625 --> 01:13:36.583
-some discounted tickets to AstroWorld.
-[gasps]

01:13:36.666 --> 01:13:38.291
-But they're only good for today.
-[sighs]

01:13:38.375 --> 01:13:40.291
So you can go, obviously,

01:13:40.375 --> 01:13:44.750
or you can stay here with us and watch
the news coverage of the moon landing.

01:13:44.833 --> 01:13:46.208
[both] AstroWorld!

01:13:46.958 --> 01:13:49.000
But won't we miss the landing?

01:13:49.083 --> 01:13:52.375
No, they're not scheduled to walk
until later today, so you'll be home.

01:13:52.458 --> 01:13:55.125
-[Greg] Yes!
-I'll tell you what. Let's vote.

01:13:55.208 --> 01:13:57.875
-Vicky, what's your day lookin' like?
-I'm working till five.

01:13:58.875 --> 01:14:00.916
-Steve?
-I have a couple of yards.

01:14:01.000 --> 01:14:02.000
Of course.

01:14:02.916 --> 01:14:04.208
And you four?

01:14:04.708 --> 01:14:07.750
-Who's up for some AstroWorld?
-Yeah!

01:14:08.583 --> 01:14:11.208
[Stan] No one could pass up a trip
to AstroWorld.

01:14:11.291 --> 01:14:12.708
It was the greatest place of all.

01:14:13.541 --> 01:14:17.500
It was a huge amusement park right across
the freeway from the Astrodome,

01:14:18.000 --> 01:14:19.916
and Houston's version of Disneyland.

01:14:20.416 --> 01:14:23.166
A place of non-stop adventure
and excitement.

01:14:23.833 --> 01:14:26.750
Seemed like everything was "Astro."
The Astro Wheel.

01:14:26.833 --> 01:14:28.625
["Psychotic Reaction" by Count Five]

01:14:28.708 --> 01:14:29.875
The Astro Needle.

01:14:30.708 --> 01:14:31.750
Astro Way.

01:14:32.666 --> 01:14:34.208
Then there was the Black Dragon.

01:14:35.500 --> 01:14:36.666
The Bamboo Chute.

01:14:37.333 --> 01:14:39.041
And the Spin Out car ride.

01:14:40.000 --> 01:14:43.083
The Lost World jungle boat ride
featured alligators

01:14:43.166 --> 01:14:45.333
and restless natives firing arrows at you.

01:14:46.458 --> 01:14:50.416
Our usual strategy was to get there early,
right when the gates opened,

01:14:50.916 --> 01:14:54.416
and then sprint to the Alpine sleigh ride
near the back of the park.

01:14:55.333 --> 01:14:57.458
It was by far the most popular ride.

01:14:59.500 --> 01:15:01.500
Maybe you could ride it a
few times real quick

01:15:01.583 --> 01:15:05.583
before the line started gettin' too long
and there'd be a 45-minute wait.

01:15:07.291 --> 01:15:09.166
The ride was exhilarating.

01:15:11.375 --> 01:15:12.875
There was a big waterfall.

01:15:13.375 --> 01:15:14.666
[laughing]

01:15:14.750 --> 01:15:16.083
[wind whistling]

01:15:16.666 --> 01:15:17.833
An avalanche room.

01:15:20.958 --> 01:15:22.083
An echo tunnel

01:15:22.166 --> 01:15:25.583
where what you yelled out in one place,
you'd hear again in the next cave.

01:15:25.666 --> 01:15:28.375
-Hello to the future!
-Davy Jones forever!

01:15:28.458 --> 01:15:29.791
Miss you!

01:15:29.875 --> 01:15:31.625
[all laughing]

01:15:33.250 --> 01:15:34.541
[Greg] Hello to the future!

01:15:34.625 --> 01:15:36.041
[Jana] Davy Jones forever!

01:15:36.125 --> 01:15:37.625
[Stanley] Miss you!

01:15:38.708 --> 01:15:40.583
[rattling]

01:15:40.666 --> 01:15:43.208
[Stan] And it all led up
to this crazy finale.

01:15:43.291 --> 01:15:45.541
You'd be goin' along all pleasant-like,

01:15:46.041 --> 01:15:49.250
then you'd come around a corner,
the car would slow down,

01:15:49.333 --> 01:15:50.875
and you'd realize you were headin'

01:15:50.958 --> 01:15:55.166
into a dark, foreboding mine shaft-lookin'
opening in the side of the mountain.

01:15:56.125 --> 01:15:58.125
[screaming]

01:16:06.958 --> 01:16:09.666
And just when you thought
things had returned to normal…

01:16:09.750 --> 01:16:10.666
[roaring]

01:16:10.750 --> 01:16:11.916
[screaming]

01:16:17.791 --> 01:16:21.083
The Abominable Snowman
was probably some college drama student.

01:16:21.583 --> 01:16:24.333
One time,
we even caught him takin' a smoke break.

01:16:24.416 --> 01:16:25.625
[chuckles]

01:16:26.416 --> 01:16:27.250
Faker!

01:16:27.333 --> 01:16:29.041
-Grr!
-[all laugh]

01:16:41.041 --> 01:16:44.750
[man at NASA] We'll be going off air
shortly, and we'll pick you up for sure.

01:16:44.833 --> 01:16:45.750
[bleep]

01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:52.166
[reporter] It's 40 minutes
before the landing on the moon,

01:16:52.250 --> 01:16:56.083
and it is now nine minutes
before we should begin to hear

01:16:56.166 --> 01:16:59.625
from the command module
coming around on this pass,

01:16:59.708 --> 01:17:02.666
the 14th revolution of the moon.

01:17:02.750 --> 01:17:06.833
This landing
is not just as simple as… as it sounds.

01:17:06.916 --> 01:17:09.333
They've got to come in
over some rather high features

01:17:09.416 --> 01:17:14.000
before they make that set down
on a fairly flat point in the moon.

01:17:14.083 --> 01:17:18.000
The hard part is to get that close
and then have to commit to leaving,

01:17:18.083 --> 01:17:19.083
after all this work.

01:17:19.166 --> 01:17:20.583
I think that pressure is probably

01:17:20.666 --> 01:17:23.291
the greatest amount of pressure
any crew will ever have.

01:17:23.375 --> 01:17:25.958
-[static crackling]
-They roll now to the windows up position.

01:17:26.041 --> 01:17:28.041
[man on radio] Our position downrange…

01:17:28.125 --> 01:17:30.416
["San Francisco Girls (Return
of the Native)" by Fever Tree]

01:17:36.708 --> 01:17:38.583
We gotta be a go
before we start this burn.

01:17:38.666 --> 01:17:40.916
-Go/no go for a lower descent. Retro.
-Go!

01:17:41.000 --> 01:17:42.041
-FIDO. Guidance.
-Go.

01:17:42.125 --> 01:17:42.958
-Control.
-Go.

01:17:43.041 --> 01:17:44.041
-Telcom.
-Go.

01:17:44.125 --> 01:17:44.958
-GNC.
-Go.

01:17:45.041 --> 01:17:46.083
-Eecom.
-Go.

01:17:46.833 --> 01:17:50.208
-You are a go to continue power descent.
-It looks good.

01:17:50.291 --> 01:17:51.916
-Yeah it's still on.
-Roger.

01:17:52.000 --> 01:17:54.833
Pitch 212, yaw 537…

01:17:55.500 --> 01:17:57.583
[reporter] It's another major milestone.

01:17:57.666 --> 01:17:59.958
-[man at NASA] Altitude, 40,000.
-[alarm wailing]

01:18:00.041 --> 01:18:03.625
Getting a program alarm. 1202 alarm.

01:18:03.708 --> 01:18:05.500
-Flight--
-We're go on that alarm?

01:18:08.041 --> 01:18:11.583
Roger. 1202. We copy it.
We are go on that alarm.

01:18:11.666 --> 01:18:14.416
-Converging on Delta-H.
-Flight control, we have velocity.

01:18:14.500 --> 01:18:15.958
[Cronkite] What's this alarm?

01:18:16.041 --> 01:18:18.333
[reporter] It's a go case
that's just apparently some…

01:18:18.416 --> 01:18:20.625
[NASA] …Eagle, we'll monitor to Delta 8…

01:18:20.708 --> 01:18:21.541
[reporter] …function.

01:18:21.625 --> 01:18:24.583
-It's coming up on the computer…
-[NASA] Delta 8, look good now.

01:18:24.666 --> 01:18:27.583
Well, at least this is more fun
than the simulator.

01:18:27.666 --> 01:18:29.083
-[chuckling]
-I think that's given.

01:18:29.166 --> 01:18:30.708
Okay. Roger.

01:18:31.791 --> 01:18:34.291
[Cronkite] They could abort the landing
at that point.

01:18:35.166 --> 01:18:37.166
We're down to just minutes.

01:18:37.250 --> 01:18:39.708
-[bleep]
-Now reading 760 feet per second.

01:18:40.250 --> 01:18:42.208
Okay, we've still got
landing radar guidance.

01:18:42.291 --> 01:18:43.458
-So far.
-Okay.

01:18:44.250 --> 01:18:46.375
-Velocity 9,100 feet per second…
-[Cronkite] Going fast.

01:18:46.458 --> 01:18:48.333
[NASA] Switchover time, please, Houston.

01:18:48.416 --> 01:18:51.625
[Cronkite] 760 feet per second.
On their way down. [chuckles]

01:18:51.708 --> 01:18:53.375
-[bleep]
-Altitude, 4,200.

01:18:53.458 --> 01:18:55.291
-Radar test.
-You are a go for landing, Eagle.

01:18:55.375 --> 01:18:57.083
-[bleep]
-[Stan] Roger.

01:18:57.166 --> 01:18:58.541
-Confirmed.
-3,000 feet.

01:18:58.625 --> 01:19:01.666
We're go. 2,000 feet, 47 degrees.

01:19:01.750 --> 01:19:04.250
-Roger.
-Roger, Eagle. Lookin' good. You are a go.

01:19:04.333 --> 01:19:05.958
[NASA] How's America lookin', Bob?

01:19:06.041 --> 01:19:06.958
-[sighs]
-It's okay.

01:19:07.041 --> 01:19:08.375
-Okay.
-We're on a high.

01:19:08.458 --> 01:19:10.000
[Bostick] Altitude, 1,600.

01:19:11.916 --> 01:19:13.333
-[NASA] Up to the-- Let's go.
-1,400.

01:19:13.916 --> 01:19:15.000
You're lookin' good.

01:19:15.083 --> 01:19:17.083
[Cronkite] They've got a good look
at their site now.

01:19:17.166 --> 01:19:19.291
-This is the critical time. They'll hover.
-1,400 feet.

01:19:19.375 --> 01:19:20.875
They're gonna make the decision.

01:19:20.958 --> 01:19:22.666
750 feet.

01:19:24.458 --> 01:19:25.416
We look good here.

01:19:26.250 --> 01:19:27.500
540 feet.

01:19:27.583 --> 01:19:29.416
[reporter] The data's
coming in beautifully.

01:19:29.500 --> 01:19:31.083
100 feet. Down at 19.

01:19:31.666 --> 01:19:33.416
Big crater. Very rocky.

01:19:35.083 --> 01:19:36.416
Phew. Well…

01:19:37.916 --> 01:19:41.541
looks like you're gonna have to take over
the controls and land her yourself.

01:19:46.541 --> 01:19:48.125
-[static crackling]
-Good.

01:19:48.708 --> 01:19:49.916
That's 20 feet.

01:19:52.250 --> 01:19:54.625
-[NASA] Sixty. Sixty seconds.
-Sixty seconds.

01:19:54.708 --> 01:19:55.708
Lights on.

01:19:55.791 --> 01:19:58.041
Down two and a half. Forward.

01:19:58.125 --> 01:19:59.333
Forward.

01:20:00.416 --> 01:20:01.250
Forty feet.

01:20:01.875 --> 01:20:03.166
Pickin' up some dust.

01:20:04.166 --> 01:20:05.000
Thirty feet.

01:20:06.000 --> 01:20:07.208
Big shadow.

01:20:07.291 --> 01:20:10.000
["Who Do You Love (Part 1)"
by Quicksilver Messenger Service]

01:20:10.083 --> 01:20:11.916
Guys, lookin' good. Down a half.

01:20:12.666 --> 01:20:13.500
Pitch forward.

01:20:15.083 --> 01:20:16.625
-No level?
-No level.

01:20:16.708 --> 01:20:18.333
Less than 20 seconds of fuel left.

01:20:20.791 --> 01:20:23.000
Forward. Drifting right.

01:20:23.958 --> 01:20:25.166
-[thud]
-Contact light.

01:20:25.250 --> 01:20:26.375
[loud thump]

01:20:27.750 --> 01:20:28.875
Engine stopped.

01:20:29.458 --> 01:20:31.000
Engine arm off.

01:20:36.791 --> 01:20:38.625
-[NASA] Engine arm off.
-[reporter] We're home.

01:20:38.708 --> 01:20:40.708
-4-13 is in.
-[reporter sighs]

01:20:40.791 --> 01:20:41.833
[Cronkite] Man on the moon!

01:20:41.916 --> 01:20:43.250
[both sigh]

01:20:44.166 --> 01:20:45.666
Eagle, we copy. You down?

01:20:46.833 --> 01:20:48.916
Houston, Tranquility Base here.

01:20:49.708 --> 01:20:51.250
The Eagle has landed.

01:20:52.375 --> 01:20:54.041
[all laughing]

01:20:54.125 --> 01:20:55.625
-[applause]
-Roger, Tranquility.

01:20:55.708 --> 01:20:57.000
We copy you on the ground.

01:20:57.083 --> 01:20:59.000
You got a bunch of boys
about to turn blue.

01:20:59.083 --> 01:21:01.375
-We're breathin' again. Thanks a lot.
-[bleep]

01:21:04.166 --> 01:21:05.291
[Cronkite] Oh boy!

01:21:05.375 --> 01:21:06.375
Hmm.

01:21:07.250 --> 01:21:09.875
-Phew! Boy!
-[NASA] We're gonna be busy for a minute.

01:21:10.583 --> 01:21:12.583
-[Dad] That's real good.
-Wally, I'm speechless.

01:21:12.666 --> 01:21:14.666
-[Dad] Whoo!
-I'm just trying to hold onto my grub.

01:21:14.750 --> 01:21:16.375
[Dad] Boy, oh boy, oh boy.

01:21:16.458 --> 01:21:18.708
["Grazing in the Grass" by Hugh Masekela]

01:21:25.916 --> 01:21:29.625
[Stan] We were way up in the air
on the Astro Way when we got the news.

01:21:29.708 --> 01:21:32.208
-They landed!
-They're on the moon!

01:21:32.708 --> 01:21:34.666
Cool, man! They did it!

01:21:34.750 --> 01:21:35.833
[laughs]

01:21:35.916 --> 01:21:37.375
Yes, they did!

01:21:39.291 --> 01:21:40.208
[Stan] They did it!

01:21:40.291 --> 01:21:42.666
-They landed on the moon!
-Yeah, they made it!

01:21:42.750 --> 01:21:43.875
[all] Yay!

01:21:45.375 --> 01:21:48.833
[Stan] They were on the moon,
but nobody was sure when they would walk,

01:21:48.916 --> 01:21:51.666
so we just stayed close by,
glued to the screen.

01:21:51.750 --> 01:21:54.000
The Times yesterday ran an editorial

01:21:54.083 --> 01:21:56.083
saying Mr. Nixon was trying
to use this politically…

01:21:56.166 --> 01:21:59.416
It's lost to history, but at the time,
a lot of folks had a big problem

01:21:59.500 --> 01:22:01.583
with how much it was costing
to go to the moon.

01:22:01.666 --> 01:22:05.375
What else we could be doing
with the money and what it represented.

01:22:05.458 --> 01:22:09.166
…more like 15th-century Spain.
We're discovering a new world.

01:22:09.250 --> 01:22:14.833
But, uh, I wonder if we don't have
our own Inquisition going in Vietnam,

01:22:14.916 --> 01:22:17.458
in the name of that great religion
of anti-communism…

01:22:17.541 --> 01:22:21.375
What the hell is she doin' on TV,
on today of all days?

01:22:21.458 --> 01:22:23.875
-Who put her on? [laughs angrily]
-I wonder…

01:22:23.958 --> 01:22:26.458
I'll bet the phones
are ringin' off the hook at CBS.

01:22:26.541 --> 01:22:27.958
I think she looks cool.

01:22:28.041 --> 01:22:29.000
I love her hair.

01:22:29.083 --> 01:22:33.333
When you look at Cape Kennedy, you find it
surrounded by a good deal of poverty.

01:22:33.416 --> 01:22:35.125
When you look at the Houston Center,

01:22:35.208 --> 01:22:38.500
less than 4%
of the employees there are Black…

01:22:38.583 --> 01:22:40.250
Is that true, Dad?

01:22:40.333 --> 01:22:43.916
How many Black kids are in your class,
Greg? One? Of course it's true.

01:22:44.000 --> 01:22:45.166
…is somewhat disturbing.

01:22:45.250 --> 01:22:47.875
[sighs] When are they gonna
walk on the moon?

01:22:47.958 --> 01:22:50.500
-Yeah. What are they waiting for?
-I feel it's a great achievement

01:22:50.583 --> 01:22:52.416
as far as science is concerned.

01:22:52.500 --> 01:22:55.666
But cash they wasted, as far
as I'm concerned, in gettin' to the moon

01:22:55.750 --> 01:22:58.041
could've been used
to feed poor Black people

01:22:58.125 --> 01:23:01.416
in Harlem and all over the place,
all over this country.

01:23:01.500 --> 01:23:04.750
So never mind the moon.
Let's get some of that cash in Harlem.

01:23:05.541 --> 01:23:06.375
Right on.

01:23:06.458 --> 01:23:09.416
As Dr. Paine said earlier
on the earlier Apollo flight,

01:23:09.500 --> 01:23:11.541
this was a triumph for the squares.

01:23:11.625 --> 01:23:15.166
I suppose that's one reason
people find this a little distasteful…

01:23:15.250 --> 01:23:16.833
[Stan] After the day at AstroWorld,

01:23:16.916 --> 01:23:20.375
it was hard to keep your eyes open
as the coverage droned on and on.

01:23:20.458 --> 01:23:22.583
-This was done…
-[Stan] There was so much waiting

01:23:22.666 --> 01:23:24.916
as the astronauts
struggled to get suited up

01:23:25.416 --> 01:23:27.625
-and the cabin depressurized.
-…haven't had an estimate…

01:23:27.708 --> 01:23:29.833
-[Stan] I felt their pain.
-…as to how far they are…

01:23:29.916 --> 01:23:33.500
[Stan] But I also couldn't help but think
of all the years of dreams and effort

01:23:33.583 --> 01:23:36.083
that were just now minutes away
from becoming a reality.

01:23:36.166 --> 01:23:38.541
-…an estimate of that.
-Hey. They're about to step out.

01:23:38.625 --> 01:23:39.750
That's okay. That's good.

01:23:40.500 --> 01:23:43.333
[Cronkite] He can't see where he's going.
He's backing out of the hatch.

01:23:43.416 --> 01:23:45.958
-[NASA] So close… You're doin' fine.
-[Cronkite] He didn't wanna

01:23:46.041 --> 01:23:48.083
catch on the side of that opening.

01:23:49.125 --> 01:23:51.041
Delicate suit and backpack.

01:23:51.833 --> 01:23:54.125
[Neil Armstrong] Okay, Houston,
I'm on the porch.

01:23:55.333 --> 01:23:56.333
[NASA] Roger, Neil.

01:23:57.083 --> 01:24:01.250
We're gettin' a picture on the TV.
Three more steps, then a long one.

01:24:01.750 --> 01:24:03.333
-[Armstrong] Okay.
-[NASA] There's a foot…

01:24:03.416 --> 01:24:06.291
[Cronkite] There he is.
There's a foot coming down the steps.

01:24:07.125 --> 01:24:09.291
[NASA] Neil, we can see you
coming down the ladder now.

01:24:09.916 --> 01:24:11.041
We can see you coming.

01:24:12.875 --> 01:24:15.333
[Armstrong] I'm at the foot of the ladder.

01:24:15.416 --> 01:24:18.583
The LEM footpads are only, uh, depressed

01:24:19.458 --> 01:24:21.166
one or two inches,

01:24:21.250 --> 01:24:25.791
although the surface
appears to be very, very fine-grained

01:24:25.875 --> 01:24:28.583
as you get close to it,
it's almost like a powder.

01:24:28.666 --> 01:24:30.375
[Cronkite] Look at those pictures.

01:24:31.083 --> 01:24:33.041
[Armstrong] I'll step off the LEM now.

01:24:38.000 --> 01:24:39.541
[air hissing]

01:24:41.666 --> 01:24:44.208
-[Cronkite] Armstrong is on the moon.
-I'll step off the LEM now.

01:24:44.291 --> 01:24:45.125
There he is.

01:24:45.750 --> 01:24:49.291
[Cronkite] 38-year-old American
standing on the surface of the moon.

01:24:49.375 --> 01:24:51.541
[Dad] Yes. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

01:24:51.625 --> 01:24:53.875
[Armstrong] It's one small step for man,

01:24:54.791 --> 01:24:57.708
one giant leap for mankind.

01:24:57.791 --> 01:24:59.791
["Astronomy Domine" by Pink Floyd]

01:25:17.250 --> 01:25:19.833
The surface is fine and powdery.

01:25:19.916 --> 01:25:24.041
I can…
I can pick it up loosely with my toe.

01:25:25.083 --> 01:25:29.333
It does adhere in fine layers, uh…

01:25:29.416 --> 01:25:32.333
like powdered charcoal to the…

01:25:33.083 --> 01:25:36.166
to the sole and sides of my boots.

01:25:36.666 --> 01:25:41.458
The footprints of my boots and the treads

01:25:42.083 --> 01:25:46.041
in the fine, sandy particles.

01:25:46.625 --> 01:25:48.958
[Cronkite whistles]
Hey, look at the bounding step.

01:25:49.541 --> 01:25:50.958
[Buzz Aldrin] Oh, look at that. Yes.

01:25:51.041 --> 01:25:52.625
Okay, ready for me to come out?

01:25:52.708 --> 01:25:54.833
[reporter] Talk about being super casual.

01:25:55.333 --> 01:25:56.416
[Cronkite] Yeah!

01:25:57.375 --> 01:26:00.708
-Boy, looks like fun, doesn't it?
-[NASA] All right. That's got it.

01:26:01.875 --> 01:26:02.708
Are you ready?

01:26:15.500 --> 01:26:17.791
-[Aldrin] Beautiful view.
-[Armstrong] Isn't that somethin'?

01:26:18.791 --> 01:26:20.625
Magnificent sight out here.

01:26:22.625 --> 01:26:24.416
[Aldrin] Magnificent desolation.

01:26:28.916 --> 01:26:31.000
[Cronkite] We can kind of see
the footprints

01:26:31.083 --> 01:26:33.416
of man leaving footprints on the moon.

01:26:33.500 --> 01:26:37.250
Without any atmosphere there,
no wind, no rain to wear them away,

01:26:37.333 --> 01:26:40.166
they might stay there
for quite a long time.

01:26:43.541 --> 01:26:45.833
[Armstrong] Houston,
Columbia on the high gain. Over.

01:26:45.916 --> 01:26:48.291
[NASA] Roger.
The EVA is progressing beautifully.

01:26:48.375 --> 01:26:50.291
They're setting up the flag now.

01:26:50.375 --> 01:26:51.375
[laughing]

01:26:51.458 --> 01:26:52.625
They've got the flag up now,

01:26:52.708 --> 01:26:54.833
-You can see the Stars and Stripes.
-Yeah.

01:26:54.916 --> 01:26:57.750
You can see the Stars and Stripes
on the lunar surface.

01:26:57.833 --> 01:26:59.666
Beautiful. Just beautiful.

01:27:00.166 --> 01:27:02.250
[Aldrin] So-called kangaroo hop.

01:27:03.750 --> 01:27:06.041
[Cronkite] They're beginning
to get pretty frisky up there.

01:27:06.833 --> 01:27:08.541
Tranquility Base, this is Houston.

01:27:08.625 --> 01:27:11.250
Can we get both of you
on the camera, please?

01:27:11.958 --> 01:27:13.750
The President of the United States

01:27:13.833 --> 01:27:16.291
would like to say
a few words to you, over.

01:27:17.291 --> 01:27:19.000
[Armstrong] That would be an honor.

01:27:19.083 --> 01:27:23.375
I'm talking to you by telephone
from the Oval room at the White House,

01:27:23.458 --> 01:27:24.833
and this certainly has to be

01:27:24.916 --> 01:27:27.875
the most historic telephone call
ever made.

01:27:27.958 --> 01:27:31.833
I just can't tell you how proud we all are
of what you have done.

01:27:31.916 --> 01:27:34.625
This has to be
the proudest day of our lives.

01:27:34.708 --> 01:27:37.375
Because of what you have done,

01:27:37.458 --> 01:27:41.291
the heavens have become
a part of man's world.

01:27:42.208 --> 01:27:46.041
And as you talk to us
from the Sea of Tranquility,

01:27:47.041 --> 01:27:53.041
it inspires us to redouble our efforts
to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.

01:27:53.125 --> 01:27:54.916
For one priceless moment

01:27:56.000 --> 01:27:57.750
in the whole history of man,

01:27:58.250 --> 01:28:01.458
all the people on this Earth
are truly one.

01:28:02.291 --> 01:28:04.708
One in their pride in what you have done,

01:28:05.208 --> 01:28:10.041
and one in our prayers
that you will return safely to Earth.

01:28:10.125 --> 01:28:11.916
Okay. Good night.

01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:13.000
Good night, hon.

01:28:13.083 --> 01:28:15.375
-[Armstrong] Thank you, Mr. President…
-Good night, ladies.

01:28:15.458 --> 01:28:18.166
-It's a great honor and privilege…
-Good night, sweet peas.

01:28:18.958 --> 01:28:21.416
-[kissing]
-[Mom] Good night. See you in the morning.

01:28:21.500 --> 01:28:23.375
…glad there are no chimpanzees
standing there…

01:28:23.458 --> 01:28:25.791
-I think I'm gonna go to bed too.
-Okay.

01:28:27.041 --> 01:28:27.916
-Steven?
-[Mom] Hey.

01:28:28.000 --> 01:28:30.125
-[Cronkite] What a day we've seen…
-Let him go to sleep.

01:28:30.208 --> 01:28:33.958
-I'm tired. Good night.
-…day such as man has never seen before.

01:28:34.041 --> 01:28:37.000
A day that has been played out
before our very eyes

01:28:37.083 --> 01:28:39.833
by this miracle that happily came along

01:28:39.916 --> 01:28:43.750
at the same time as man's exploration
of space - television.

01:28:43.833 --> 01:28:47.500
We have seen the men
exploring the moon in…

01:28:47.583 --> 01:28:49.666
oh, they're magnificent pictures,

01:28:49.750 --> 01:28:53.416
considering that they come from
a quarter of a million miles out

01:28:53.500 --> 01:28:54.958
and on the surface of the moon,

01:28:55.041 --> 01:28:59.000
man has landed there,
and man has taken his first steps there.

01:28:59.083 --> 01:29:01.666
I wonder, Eric Sevareid,

01:29:01.750 --> 01:29:03.750
just what there is to add to that.

01:29:04.375 --> 01:29:07.125
[Sevareid] Uh, somehow,
they found a strange beauty there

01:29:07.208 --> 01:29:10.958
that I suppose they could
never really, uh, describe to us.

01:29:13.375 --> 01:29:17.541
[Cronkite] It may not be a beauty that can
pass on to future beholders either.

01:29:21.458 --> 01:29:26.208
Well, for thousands of years now,
it's been man's dream to walk on the moon.

01:29:26.791 --> 01:29:30.666
Right now, after seeing it happen,
knowing that it happened,

01:29:30.750 --> 01:29:32.625
it still seems like a dream.

01:29:32.708 --> 01:29:35.250
And it is, I guess, a dream come true.

01:29:35.333 --> 01:29:37.333
["Season of the Witch" by Vanilla Fudge]

01:29:50.666 --> 01:29:52.000
-Greg.
-What?

01:29:52.083 --> 01:29:52.916
Go to bed.

01:29:56.833 --> 01:29:57.666
Night.

01:29:58.166 --> 01:29:59.166
Good night.

01:30:01.291 --> 01:30:03.291
[Dad sighs heavily]

01:30:05.041 --> 01:30:06.000
Wow.

01:30:06.666 --> 01:30:08.500
Congratulations. You did it.

01:30:08.583 --> 01:30:09.791
Well, we all did it.

01:30:09.875 --> 01:30:12.125
Oh, that's nice of you to say.

01:30:18.750 --> 01:30:21.041
Was Stan awake
when he took the first steps?

01:30:21.125 --> 01:30:24.500
I don't know. They were tired.
AstroWorld took it out of them.

01:30:24.583 --> 01:30:26.791
I just want him
to be able to tell his grandkids

01:30:26.875 --> 01:30:28.875
he saw the first steps on the moon.

01:30:32.416 --> 01:30:34.458
[Mom] Well, you know how memory works.

01:30:35.041 --> 01:30:37.625
Even if he was asleep,
he'll someday think he saw it all.

01:30:42.333 --> 01:30:43.958
[Dad sighs]

01:30:45.833 --> 01:30:47.583
[crickets chirping]

01:30:52.833 --> 01:30:55.708
["Shape of Things to Come"
by Max Frost and The Troopers]

01:31:06.500 --> 01:31:08.125
♪ There's a new sun ♪

01:31:09.416 --> 01:31:12.333
♪ Risin' up angry in the sky ♪

01:31:13.041 --> 01:31:14.541
♪ And there's a new voice ♪

01:31:15.458 --> 01:31:18.458
♪ Cryin', "We're not afraid to die" ♪

01:31:18.541 --> 01:31:22.041
-♪ Let the old world make believe ♪
-[rumbling]

01:31:22.125 --> 01:31:24.500
♪ It's blind and deaf and dumb ♪

01:31:25.291 --> 01:31:30.625
♪ But nothin' can change
The shape of things to come ♪

01:31:31.166 --> 01:31:32.750
♪ There are changes ♪

01:31:33.833 --> 01:31:36.708
♪ Lyin' ahead in every road ♪

01:31:37.333 --> 01:31:38.875
♪ And there are new thoughts ♪

01:31:39.958 --> 01:31:43.041
♪ Ready and waitin' to explode ♪

01:31:43.125 --> 01:31:46.583
♪ When tomorrow is today ♪

01:31:46.666 --> 01:31:48.958
♪ The bells may toll for some ♪

01:31:49.625 --> 01:31:52.791
♪ But nothin' can change
The shape of things ♪

01:31:52.875 --> 01:31:53.958
♪ Nothin' can change ♪

01:31:54.041 --> 01:31:55.791
♪ The shape of things ♪

01:31:55.875 --> 01:31:57.000
♪ Nothin' can change ♪

01:31:57.083 --> 01:31:58.791
♪ The shape of things ♪

01:31:58.875 --> 01:32:00.041
♪ Nothin' can change ♪

01:32:00.125 --> 01:32:04.333
♪ The shape of things to come ♪

01:32:04.875 --> 01:32:08.208
♪ The future's comin' in, now ♪

01:32:08.291 --> 01:32:10.708
♪ Sweet and strong ♪

01:32:11.416 --> 01:32:15.708
♪ Ain't no one gonna
Hold it back for long ♪

01:32:16.708 --> 01:32:19.458
♪ And there are new dreams ♪

01:32:19.541 --> 01:32:22.416
♪ Crowdin' out old realities ♪

01:32:22.500 --> 01:32:24.791
♪ There's revolution ♪

01:32:25.541 --> 01:32:28.541
♪ Sweepin' in like a fresh new breeze ♪

01:32:28.625 --> 01:32:32.000
♪ Let the old world make believe ♪

01:32:32.083 --> 01:32:34.458
♪ It's blind and deaf and dumb ♪

01:32:35.000 --> 01:32:38.291
♪ But nothin' can change
The shape of things ♪

01:32:38.375 --> 01:32:39.458
♪ Nothin' can change ♪

01:32:39.541 --> 01:32:41.250
♪ The shape of things ♪

01:32:41.333 --> 01:32:42.708
♪ Nothin' can change ♪

01:32:42.791 --> 01:32:44.166
♪ The shape of things ♪

01:32:44.250 --> 01:32:45.208
♪ Nothin' can change ♪

01:32:45.291 --> 01:32:50.208
♪ The shape of things to come ♪

01:32:55.458 --> 01:32:57.458
["Rocket Ship" by Kathy McCarty]

01:32:59.291 --> 01:33:03.791
♪ Rocket ship ♪

01:33:07.125 --> 01:33:11.833
♪ Rocket ship ♪

01:33:15.416 --> 01:33:17.541
♪ I'm going on a trip ♪

01:33:18.291 --> 01:33:19.875
♪ Far away ♪

01:33:19.958 --> 01:33:23.416
♪ I am leaving today ♪

01:33:23.916 --> 01:33:27.958
♪ I am leaving today ♪

01:33:29.083 --> 01:33:33.458
♪ Rocket ship ♪

01:33:34.458 --> 01:33:39.708
♪ My bags are packed, I'm ready to go ♪

01:33:43.250 --> 01:33:44.708
♪ My bags are packed ♪

01:33:44.791 --> 01:33:51.083
♪ I'm ready to go ♪

01:33:52.541 --> 01:33:55.750
T-minus ten… nine…

01:33:55.833 --> 01:33:57.625
eight… [static crackles]

01:33:57.708 --> 01:34:00.458
…seven… six… right up into it…

01:34:00.541 --> 01:34:02.958
five… four… [static crackles]

01:34:03.458 --> 01:34:05.458
…three… two…

01:34:06.333 --> 01:34:07.250
one…

01:34:07.333 --> 01:34:08.750
We have liftoff!

01:34:11.291 --> 01:34:13.333
♪ The stars are blurring ♪

01:34:13.416 --> 01:34:15.166
♪ We're going fast ♪

01:34:18.708 --> 01:34:20.708
♪ Rocket ship! ♪

01:34:21.375 --> 01:34:23.291
♪ There is a boy there ♪

01:34:25.208 --> 01:34:27.208
♪ His name is X ♪

01:34:27.833 --> 01:34:30.916
♪ He says you don't know me ♪

01:34:31.000 --> 01:34:33.625
♪ But I don't know you either ♪

01:34:34.541 --> 01:34:38.791
♪ Rocket ship ♪

01:34:40.041 --> 01:34:45.083
♪ Our bags are packed, we're ready to go ♪

01:34:48.791 --> 01:34:50.375
♪ Our bags are packed ♪

01:34:50.458 --> 01:34:56.958
♪ We're ready to go ♪

01:34:58.458 --> 01:35:00.750
T-minus ten… nine…

01:35:00.833 --> 01:35:02.583
more fuel… eight…

01:35:03.375 --> 01:35:05.833
seven… I'm steppin' on… six…

01:35:06.541 --> 01:35:07.958
five… [static crackles]

01:35:08.458 --> 01:35:10.291
…four… three…

01:35:10.375 --> 01:35:11.916
[static crackles] …two…

01:35:12.583 --> 01:35:13.750
one…

01:35:14.958 --> 01:35:16.416
We have liftoff!

01:35:18.958 --> 01:35:21.041
♪ The stars are blurring ♪

01:35:21.125 --> 01:35:22.916
♪ We're going fast ♪

01:35:26.083 --> 01:35:28.083
♪ Rocket ship! ♪

01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:30.916
♪ There is a boy there ♪

01:35:32.750 --> 01:35:34.833
♪ His name is X ♪

01:35:35.458 --> 01:35:38.375
♪ He says you don't know me ♪

01:35:38.458 --> 01:35:41.250
♪ But I don't know you either ♪

01:35:42.166 --> 01:35:46.416
♪ Rocket ship ♪

01:35:47.666 --> 01:35:52.708
♪ Our bags are packed, we're ready to go ♪

01:35:56.416 --> 01:35:58.000
♪ Our bags are packed ♪

01:35:58.083 --> 01:36:04.583
♪ We're ready to go ♪

01:36:06.083 --> 01:36:08.375
T-minus ten… nine…

01:36:08.458 --> 01:36:10.208
more fuel… eight…

01:36:11.000 --> 01:36:13.458
seven… I'm steppin' on… six…

01:36:14.166 --> 01:36:15.583
five… [static crackles]

01:36:16.083 --> 01:36:17.916
…four… three…

01:36:18.000 --> 01:36:19.541
[static crackles] …two…

01:36:20.208 --> 01:36:21.375
one…

01:36:22.583 --> 01:36:24.041
We have liftoff!

01:36:25.500 --> 01:36:27.708
♪ The stars are blurring ♪

01:36:27.791 --> 01:36:29.791
♪ We're going fast ♪

01:36:36.333 --> 01:36:38.458
♪ We're going on a trip ♪

01:36:39.250 --> 01:36:40.791
♪ Far away ♪

01:36:40.875 --> 01:36:44.625
♪ We are leaving today ♪

01:36:44.708 --> 01:36:48.541
♪ Our home is our rocket ship ♪

01:36:49.916 --> 01:36:54.208
♪ Rocket ship ♪

01:36:57.583 --> 01:37:57.000
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