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• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Private travel to the moon has been forbidden, but aging
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: industrialist D.D. Harriman still wants one first-hand look at the
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: lunar world. To make the journey, he turns to Captain
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: James McIntyre and Charlie Schwartz, two carnival pilots willing to
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: consider an outlawed rocket flight. From NBC, this is X-1,
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Episode 22, Requiem, first broadcast October 27, 1955. Ernest Kenoy
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: adapted Robert A. Heinlein's story for radio with John McGovern,
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Joe DeSantis, and Jim Bowles in the cast. And now,
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: Countdown for blastoff.
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X minus 1, fire.
• 1:15
  Speaker 4: From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales
• 1:19
  Speaker 4: of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories
• 1:22
  Speaker 4: of the future, adventures in which you'll live in a
• 1:25
  Speaker 4: million could-be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National
• 1:29
  Speaker 4: Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street & Smith, publishers of
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  Speaker 4: astounding science fiction, presents.
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  Speaker 5: X minus 1.
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: Tonight's story, Requiem by Robert Heinlein. On a high hill
• 2:05
  Speaker 4: in Samoa, there is a grave. Inscribed on the marker
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  Speaker 4: are these words.
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  Speaker 6: Under the wide and starry sky, dig my grave and
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  Speaker 6: let me lie. Gladly did I live and gladly died.
• 2:19
  Speaker 6: and I lay me down with a will. This be
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  Speaker 6: the verse you grave for me. Here he lies where
• 2:26
  Speaker 6: he longed to be. Home is the sailor, home from
• 2:31
  Speaker 6: the sea, and the hunter, home from the hill.
• 2:37
  Speaker 4: These lines appear another place, scrawled on a shipping tag
• 2:42
  Speaker 4: from a compressed air container and pinned to the ground
• 2:46
  Speaker 4: with a knife. It wasn't much of a fair as
• 2:53
  Speaker 4: fairs go. The trotting races wouldn't be held till eight
• 2:55
  Speaker 4: o'clock at night. The flags and butting drooped in the
• 2:58
  Speaker 4: gray afternoon and the pitchmen seemed discouraged. A large black
• 3:02
  Speaker 4: limousine stood at the side of the road, 32 cylinders
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  Speaker 4: purring quietly. And over the dust and the clatter of
• 3:09
  Speaker 4: the fair, a bullhorn blasted the highest pitch.
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  Speaker 2: Hurry, hurry, hurry, this way to the moon rocket, the
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  Speaker 2: moon rocket.
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  Speaker 7: See it fly, the actual type rocket used by the
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  Speaker 7: first man to see it fly.
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  Speaker 2: Chills, thrills, the romance of space.
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  Speaker 7: You can ride in it for only $ 25.
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  Speaker 2: Hurry, hurry, hurry.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Charlie, have you got that feed tube patched?
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: I welded it.
• 3:34
  Speaker 7: Good for maybe an hour.
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  Speaker 2: What a crowd. They wouldn't risk a nickel to see
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: the sun blow up. Oh, Captain. Excuse me, Captain. Oh, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty cents to inspect the rocket.
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  Speaker 5: One. Could you take a passenger this trip?
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  Speaker 2: You mean you want to go up? Twenty-five bucks. That's right. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Right away. Charlie, take the pitch. Step this way, sir.
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: Look out for the feed lines.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes. I see them.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Doc.
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  Speaker 2: Passenger for a checkup. Okay, Mac.
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  Speaker 5: Well, is this necessary?
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: Regulations. Take off your coat. Open your shirt. Roll up
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  Speaker 2: your right sleeve. All right. How are things, Mac? Slow.
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: We're not drawing as much as the cooch tent. It'll
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: pick up tonight with the trotters.
• 4:12
  Speaker 5: I'm ready, doctor.
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: All right. Give me your arm.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Breathe in. Breathe. Breathe. Uh-oh. Sorry, Mac. No go, doc?
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: Cardiac condition I couldn't certify. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: You mean you won't take me up?
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  Speaker 2: He's the doctor.
• 4:33
  Speaker 5: Well, I rather expected it.
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: Sorry. Between you and me, we could have used the 25.
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, Captain. Yeah?
• 4:42
  Speaker 5: Could you and your engineer have dinner with me after
• 4:45
  Speaker 5: your flight?
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: Dinner?
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  Speaker 5: At my home. My car's over there.
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  Speaker 2: That's your car? The limousine? That's right. You serious, Mac?
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  Speaker 2: You want Charlie and me for dinner? Of course. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Don't see why not? Thanks. Charlie, you had enough.
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  Speaker 7: Lay off, Mac.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's perfectly all right, Captain McIntyre. Cigar?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. Light? Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it's hard for me to see why any holder
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  Speaker 5: of a master's ticket would quit the Earth-Moon run.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't like it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, don't hand us that. It was Rule G
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  Speaker 7: who washed you.
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  Speaker 2: All right, all right, so I took a few drinks.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me, gentlemen, are you satisfied with what you're doing now?
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  Speaker 2: Are you kidding? We've been pushing the old junk heap
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  Speaker 2: for a year.
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  Speaker 6: Half the time, the sheriff has an attachment on the
• 5:45
  Speaker 6: ship for a fuel bill.
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  Speaker 2: It stinks.
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  Speaker 5: Would it help you to get back to the moon?
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  Speaker 2: Sure. I could get a short haul job hopping oar.
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  Speaker 2: I kept my nose clean, I might even get back
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  Speaker 2: on the run.
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  Speaker 5: Would you be open to a business proposition?
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 5: You own your own rocket?
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  Speaker 2: Barring a couple of liens against it.
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  Speaker 5: I want to charter her to take me to the moon.
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  Speaker 7: You hear what he said, Mac? He wants us to
• 6:09
  Speaker 7: fly that old heap to the moon.
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: He can't do it. The old boat's worn out.
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  Speaker 7: Why don't you charter a regular company ship?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no, I can't do that. The company charter
• 6:19
  Speaker 5: comes up before a congressional committee this year. They have
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  Speaker 5: to follow the regulations.
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: You can't pass the physical. Now, if you can afford
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: to hire us, why don't you bribe a couple of
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: company medics? It's been done before.
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  Speaker 5: I know, but not for me. I'm D.D. Harriman.
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  Speaker 7: Harriman?
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  Speaker 2: You own the company. Hey, what are you giving us?
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  Speaker 5: I own a large percentage of the company, but the
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  Speaker 5: other directors won't permit me to jeopardize the franchise.
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  Speaker 7: You tie that, Mac. A guy with half the money
• 6:51
  Speaker 7: in the world and he's up a crick.
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: Shut up, Charlie. Why do you want to go to
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: the moon so bad, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Henry?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's the one thing I've really wanted to do
• 7:02
  Speaker 5: all my life. I may be 50 years older than you.
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  Speaker 5: When I was a kid, nobody believed we'd really reach
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  Speaker 5: the moon. You've seen rockets all your lives. When I
• 7:14
  Speaker 5: was a boy, they laughed at the idea, but I believed.
• 7:17
  Speaker 5: I wanted the moon then. I used to stand in
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  Speaker 5: the backyard and stare at it.
• 7:22
  Speaker 7: How far away is it, Mom?
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  Speaker 8: The moon? Far enough. Why don't people fly to the moon?
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  Speaker 8: They can't.
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 8: They just can't. Well, not now, anyway.
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  Speaker 7: Someday I will.
• 7:43
  Speaker 5: What?
• 7:44
  Speaker 8: Fly to the moon. Sure, sure. And come on, Del. Inside.
• 7:50
  Speaker 8: Way past your bedtime.
• 7:56
  Speaker 5: There wasn't enough money for college, so I worked. Stock
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  Speaker 5: boy at the old Ford plant in Detroit. Accountant, credit
• 8:02
  Speaker 5: manager for a mail order house. Then New York and
• 8:06
  Speaker 5: Wall Street. And then transportation. The monorail line between New
• 8:11
  Speaker 5: York and Chicago. The Atlantic pressure tunnel. And then Harriman Rockets. Del?
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  Speaker 8: Del, I want to talk to you.
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  Speaker 5: I'm working, Charlotte.
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  Speaker 8: You talk to me now, Del, or you may not
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  Speaker 8: get another chance.
• 8:26
  Speaker 5: What is it?
• 8:27
  Speaker 8: Fred Lott was in. You've sold out again.
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  Speaker 5: I run the business, Charlotte.
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  Speaker 8: Del, I'm fed up with it. Up to here. I
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  Speaker 8: married you because I love you. I still love you,
• 8:37
  Speaker 8: but I'm fed up.
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  Speaker 5: Now, what is it, Charlotte?
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  Speaker 8: We're not young anymore. Fred tells me you've bought into
• 8:45
  Speaker 8: a bankrupt engineering firm. Sunk every nickel in it.
• 8:48
  Speaker 5: Well, they only short some of the fuel injector patents.
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  Speaker 5: I need them.
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  Speaker 8: How many times do we have to start over?
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  Speaker 5: I'm tired.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not asking for millions. Just a little life for
• 9:02
  Speaker 8: the two of us.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know about the divorce for a month. I
• 9:09
  Speaker 5: lost the papers under a stack of blueprints and stock perspectives.
• 9:14
  Speaker 5: That night I walked through the park watching the full
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  Speaker 5: moon move across the sky. My old friend. I could
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  Speaker 5: recognize the wrinkles. Trisium. Mare fecundatus. Mare trinculatus. The lunar apennines.
• 9:38
  Speaker 5: It took two fraudulent bankruptcies and an investigation by the
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  Speaker 5: Securities and Exchange Commission before we did it. The moon.
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  Speaker 5: There were three injunctions on the rocket before it blasted off.
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  Speaker 5: I was going on the second trip, but my considerate
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  Speaker 5: board served a court order on me.
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  Speaker 2: You can't go there.
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  Speaker 5: Fred, I'll break you if it's the last thing I do.
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  Speaker 10: Del, you've got a bad heart. That's no secret. If
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  Speaker 10: you die out there, the whole card house comes down. Now,
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  Speaker 10: we've got an equity in this corporation. We're going to
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  Speaker 10: see it protected. You've sucked us in on this wild scheme,
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  Speaker 10: and now that it paid off, you're going to sit
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  Speaker 10: right down here on Earth and see that the dividends
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  Speaker 10: come out on time.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to the moon, Del. Forget it.
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  Speaker 5: I never went. By the time my lawyers shook off
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  Speaker 5: the restraining orders, the first cargo rocket had crashed in
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  Speaker 5: the Pacific, and Congress rushed through the Space Precautionary Act
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  Speaker 5: My heart kept earthbound, and now I'm old. I've lived
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  Speaker 5: longer than I should, but I would not let myself die.
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  Speaker 5: I will not until I have set foot on the moon. There,
• 11:03
  Speaker 5: Captain McIntyre, you asked why I wanted to go to the.
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  Speaker 4: Moon, hmm?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you find a ship, Mr. Harriman, and I'll drive her.
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  Speaker 2: You'll hit the moon.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Then we can get down to business. I'll
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  Speaker 5: have contracts drawn up for you. You, too, will have
• 11:20
  Speaker 5: to buy me a ship. I can't do it openly,
• 11:23
  Speaker 5: of course. My dear board of directors would find out
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  Speaker 5: and slap a court order on me.
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: Well, we can't get credit.
• 11:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, don't worry. I'll supply the cash in advance. Pick
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: some ship that can be fitted for the jump. A
• 11:37
  Speaker 5: strato yacht, hmm? Apply for a strato license. Then after
• 11:42
  Speaker 5: it's issued, you'll move to a piece of desert. I'll
• 11:46
  Speaker 5: find a strip and buy it.
• 11:47
  Speaker 7: You mean fitter out there?
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
• 11:50
  Speaker 5: We'll install extra fuel tanks, change the injectors and timers
• 11:54
  Speaker 5: for space flight.
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: Charlie, you think you can manage the changeover without a
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: dockyard and shops?
• 12:00
  Speaker 7: Well, I'll have to have a load of power tools
• 12:02
  Speaker 7: and a lot of time. It'll be haywired and spot welded.
• 12:05
  Speaker 7: Just so it doesn't blow up when I slap the key.
• 12:06
  Speaker 7: It won't blow.
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: Well, that's what you said about the last ship. Now
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: cut it out, will you?
• 12:10
  Speaker 7: I ask you, Mr. Herman, that last ship was a
• 12:12
  Speaker 7: junk heap and we knew it. Now this one, this
• 12:14
  Speaker 7: will be different. We're going to spend some dough and
• 12:17
  Speaker 7: do it right. Ain't we, Mr. Herman?
• 12:18
  Speaker 5: You spend all the money you want. I'll see that
• 12:21
  Speaker 5: you get it.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: 132 shares of Apex holding at 60% of power. Check.
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: 52 preferred of Spaceways fuel, 50% of power.
• 12:35
  Speaker 9: Check.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: That's the list. Oh, Mr. Herman... There's a process over outside.
• 12:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah? What is it?
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know, sir, but I think it's a subpoena.
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, I was expecting that. Ashley, get Mr. Kamens on
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: the phone. I think it's time for my lawyer.
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: May it please your honor.
• 13:03
  Speaker 9: Counsel representing Mr. Harriman's relatives contend that his behavior for
• 13:08
  Speaker 9: the past few weeks gives clear indication that a mind
• 13:12
  Speaker 9: brilliant in the world of finance has become senile. They
• 13:17
  Speaker 9: petition you to declare him incompetent and to assign a
• 13:21
  Speaker 9: conservator to protect his financial interests and those of his heirs.
• 13:27
  Speaker 9: May I suggest that in the last few words my
• 13:30
  Speaker 9: opponent gave away his entire thesis. It is evident that
• 13:34
  Speaker 9: the petitioners believe that my client should conduct his affairs
• 13:38
  Speaker 9: in such a way as to ensure that his nephews, nieces,
• 13:41
  Speaker 9: and their issue will be supported in unearned.
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: Luxury for the rest of their lives.
• 13:48
  Speaker 9: Therefore, we pray this court will confirm my client in
• 13:51
  Speaker 9: his right to do what he likes with his own.
• 13:54
  Speaker 9: Deny this petition and send these meddlers about their business.
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: Well, Caymans, hmm?
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: It could go either way.
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: He might rule against me?
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: He might. We'll know tomorrow.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: Here it is.
• 14:29
  Speaker 7: Eccentric millionaire disappears.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: You eccentric, Mr.
• 14:33
  Speaker 9: Harriman.
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: Well, they used to call me crazy, but that depends
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: on your credit rating.
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: A bench warrant under contempt proceedings has been issued.
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: They won't find me out here. How is the work going, Charlie?
• 14:45
  Speaker 7: Mine's in pretty good shape.
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: Well, are you ready to go? My nephews will have
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: detectives out looking for me.
• 14:51
  Speaker 7: Well, I could run those calibration tests tonight. Take the midnight.
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: After that, it's up to the Commodore here.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: There. There she is, Mr.
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: Harriman.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: That's the job that'll take you to the moon.
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: It's a good ship. Isn't it?
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Hey, Mac. Stop the car. All right. He's out? Look
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: at him.
• 15:17
  Speaker 7: Where'd his medicine?
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Vest pocket. Break the glass. Hold it around his nose.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: He looks lousy.
• 15:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 15:26
  Speaker 9: There.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: He's breathing easy. Go around soon. Mac. We ain't going
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: through with this. Why not? It's murder. He'll never stand
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: up under the initial acceleration. Maybe not, but that's what
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: he wants to do. You heard him.
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: I don't like it. He's an okay old buzzard.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: What do you want to do with him? Send him
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: back to Kansas City so his no-good nephews can shut
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: him up in the cellar?
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: No, but.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, then. Now get out there and make your setup
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: for those test runs. Get that ship ready to fly. Hey!
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: Hey, you, you.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Me? How many other people are there out in this desert?
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: What can I do for you?
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: You James McIntyre?
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: Hey, Mac.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: What's the matter, Charlie? You McIntyre? Yeah. I'm the deputy
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: federal marshal in this district. I got a warrant for
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: your arrest. What charge? Conspiracy to violate the Space Precautionary Act.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: I suppose you're Charles Schwartz. I got one for you, too.
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: Thanks.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: And a man named Harriman. Got a court order to
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: put seals on your spaceship. We haven't got any spaceship.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: What's that, a kiddie car? Strato yacht.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll put seals in until a spaceship shows up.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Where's Harriman?
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: In the shed.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: What shed?
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: Oh, my knuckle. That's the one I broke playing football.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: I'm always hurting that finger.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: We gotta hurry.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: Get Papa to the cabin and strap him into his hammock.
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: So long, deputy. Oh, my knuckle. She's warm, Charlie. Everything
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: set back there? How do I know?
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: I didn't have time to run tests.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: Tough.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: You all right, Mr.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Harriman? I think so, but these straps are tight.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Have to be when we blast off. All set, Charlie.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Give me control.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: Check.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Test keys. One bank.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Check.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Two bank.
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: There's an auxiliary out.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: We don't need it. All right, boy, hang on. Let's go.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: How are you, Pop?
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: I'm doing fine. Couldn't be better. You better stay in
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: your hammock.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I'll loosen the straps a little. What is it?
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: Nothing.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Just go easy on that side.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: You ain't fooling me none, Pop. You got a couple
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: of busted ribs. There isn't much I can do till
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: we ground. You take a neo-baritone and I'll wake you
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: when we cut jets.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: No, no. I'll stay awake.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, just as you say, Pop. He's on automatic, Charlie.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: How are the tubes holding up?
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Fine.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: Tight as a drum.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: She handles nice.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: How's Pop?
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Alive, but he's in bad shape. How bad? Cracked a
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: couple of ribs in the takeoff. I don't know what else.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: You think he'll last the trip?
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: His heart was pounding like an off-time valve. Well, he'll last.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: He's tough.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Tough? He's delicate as a canary.
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: I don't mean that. He's tough down inside where it counts.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: Just the same, you better set her down awful easy
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: if you want him alive.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: I'll make a full swing around the moon and ease
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: her in an involute approach curve. It'll go fine if
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: we got enough fuel.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Hey, somebody call me?
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Something wrong, Pop?
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, I thought somebody was calling me. I must have
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: been asleep.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I swung your hammock around. We're breaking now. There she
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: is ahead. The moon.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: I've seen a thousand photographs. There. That's Copernicus. Tycho.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: You know it all right, Pop.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: Where are you landing?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Mare Imbrium between Aristillus and Archimedes.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's about 40 miles from Lunar City, isn't it?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: It won't be easy landing without ground approach radar, will it?
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I've done it before.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Not without a second pilot to punch the statometer.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: You ought to have a mate's ticket, Pop. You know
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: the whole routine. You must have really studied up.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's all I could do, study. Until now.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Look at the moon.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: I feel as if I'm coming home.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Charlie.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: Yo.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I'm taking her in. Cut in full power. Make it good, Mac.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: Pop can't take a rough one.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Shut up and give me the power. I'll do my best.
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Datameter setting punched. Hang on. Here we go.
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: That was a lousy landing, Mac.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: That'll meet a drift.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: How's our passenger?
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Quiet. Now look.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't make any bets. That landing stunk.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Will you shut up? I did my best. Hey, Pop.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: He's alive.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: There's blood in his mouth.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: He's trying to say something. Take it easy, Pop. We're down. Where?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Take it easy.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: Vacuum suits. Where are they?
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Steady, Pop. You can't go out there yet. We've got
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: to give you some first aid. Give me that suit.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: What do you think, Mac? Might as well. Get the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: suit out of the locker. We'll use the big one.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Be more comfortable.
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: Okay, Pop.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: Easy now.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Pull it up.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Seal these zippers, Charlie.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Take it easy.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: All right. The helmet. Ear diaphragm set. Check. Air valve.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Set.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Lift it on him.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Don't hit him. All right.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Come on, Charlie. Get into your suit and we'll carry
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: him out the back.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Easy.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Easy with him. Okay. Okay.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: You all right, Pop?
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Outside. Take me outside.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: His left leg is gone. Get your shoulder under it.
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Open the lock.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: All right, Pop. Come on. We're going out on the moon.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I'm going to leave you out here to look around
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: while we get ready for the hike to town. You
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: all right?
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: The moon.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: We have to break out air bottles and rig a stretcher.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: It's 40 miles into the dome. Charlie, drop something behind
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: his head.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: You comfortable, Pop?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: We'll be back soon. The moon.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: I can feel the pumice dust. And it doesn't hurt anymore.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: But there's the earth overhead. The earth and the sky
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: in green blue. I'm on the moon.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I'm on the moon.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Del.
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: Del.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Charlotte? I thought I heard somebody call my name. Yeah,
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: I'm getting old. My mind wanders. Del.
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: Del.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Charlotte.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: That is you, isn't it? I made it, Charlotte. I'm
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: on the moon. You didn't understand. You were afraid I
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: wouldn't take care of myself. But I made it. I'm
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: on the moon.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I'm on the moon.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Come on, Charlie. We better get Pop going. Here, give
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: me a hand getting him on the stretcher.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: Never mind the stretcher, Mac.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: What's the matter? He won't need it. He's dead.
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: Oh.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Better get out the pumice keys and the air bottles.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: It's a long walk to town. Yeah. What about him?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Looks as if he's resting, doesn't he? Propped up looking
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: out on the pumice.
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: Well, he hit the moon.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Come on. Let's start walking.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 23:54
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• 24:02
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• 24:04
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• 24:06
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• 24:22
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