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Dimension X - "Destination Moon" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Robert A.
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  Speaker 2: Heinlein and George Powell wrote this radio adaptation of Powell's
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: 1950 film Destination Moon. In Texas, a determined rocket team
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  Speaker 2: is racing to send humanity's first crewed expedition to the
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: moon before government action can halt the launch. A narrow
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: launch window, public safety objections, and last-minute complications leave little
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: margin for delay. The drama treats lunar travel as an
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: engineering and logistical challenge rather than a fantasy. Edward King
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: directed and Van Woodward produced. From NBC's Dimension X, episode 12,
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: originally broadcast June 24th, 1950, this unsponsored sustaining program features
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: Santos Ortega, Luis Van Rooten, Ralph Bell, Joe DeSantis, Wendell Holmes,
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  Speaker 2: and Norman Rose. Here is the original broadcast.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: Adventures in time and space told in future tense.
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  Speaker 4: Dimension Attack!
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  Speaker 3: Man has always dreamed of conquering the barrier of the atmosphere.
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: The problem is on the drawing boards of aeronautical engineers
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: and atomic physicists. They can calculate the power needed, the trajectories,
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: and the equipment. On the sound stages of Hollywood, the
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: engineers and special effects men have combined to bring that
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: day to life. The day when the first rocket leaves
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: Earth for outer space. Now a radio play taken from
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  Speaker 3: the advanced screenplay of the George Powell Technicolor production, Destination Moon.
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  Speaker 3: On the vast concrete strip at Drywell, Texas, the form
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: of the rocket powers above the cranes, the loading machinery,
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  Speaker 3: and the scuttling trucks and jeeps. The fuel lines snake
• 2:09
  Speaker 3: across the concrete.
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  Speaker 1: To the rocket. It's Destination Moon.
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  Speaker 3: A small pursuit plane circles in for a landing on
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  Speaker 3: the runway, turns and taxis toward the prefab buildings at
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  Speaker 3: the edge of the strip.
• 2:25
  Speaker 4: Here comes General Fair.
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: Got those reports, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Cartridge? Already, Barnes.
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: Well, you made good time. Hi there, General.
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: Over here.
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  Speaker 1: Barnes, I've got to talk to you.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: You just made it, General. Everything's running smooth as a clock.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: We ground test in 20 minutes. Come on over to
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: the office. What's the matter? Nothing.
• 2:46
  Speaker 5: Something happen in Washington?
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: Something always happens in Washington. Let's have it straight, General.
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: Our application for a test license was denied.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: Denied?
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  Speaker 2: I'll quote. In the opinion of the commission, should the
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: engine fail structurally, the dispersal of radioactive material would mean
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: danger to the surrounding area. But we've evacuated the blast area.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: No use, Barnes.
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: The commission is pretty sensitive about public opinion. The Gallivan
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: newspaper chain has been after our scalp. They got mine anyway.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: What do you mean?
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: I've been retired. Retired? You got a job for an ex-general?
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: Pretty handy with a lug wrench.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: I can't do that.
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: Where would the Air Force be if you hadn't kicked
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: them into using the Jesspool jet engine on pursuits? It's
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: not as simple as all that. One star general's cank
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: went to the Department of Defense and pound desks.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: Some of those old mossbacks would still be using horse
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  Speaker 2: cavalry if they could get away with it. This ship
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: will work.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 5: I built it.
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: I don't suppose we'll ever know. The mission won't reverse itself.
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute.
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: Cargraves. Ship's all ready, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Except for minor installations, yes.
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: General, I've been building and flying ships by the seat
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: of my pants since they had piano wire between the wings. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this baby either works the first time or she doesn't.
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: What do you mean, Bond? The commission refused permission to
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: ground test, right?
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We won't ground test. Cargraves, what's the next
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: astronomical optimum?
• 4:08
  Speaker 5: 347 tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 2: We'd better get busy then. You've got just 17 hours
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  Speaker 2: to get that ship ready. And then we take off
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  Speaker 2: for the moon.
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  Speaker 5: Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Brownie.
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: What do you want, Sweeney?
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  Speaker 5: What color is the skin temperature lead wire on the chart?
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  Speaker 1: Orange with a black stripe.
• 4:35
  Speaker 5: This stuff looks like insulated macaroni.
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: I got to hurry up with you.
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: We're running behind.
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  Speaker 5: What's your rush? You're going along on us, Clambake, aren't you?
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  Speaker 5: Can't you wait to break your neck?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, look out for the starter.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, move.
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  Speaker 2: We got to take off before somebody flats.
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  Speaker 4: A writ on us.
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  Speaker 1: Brownie, you ready to go on?
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  Speaker 5: Sure. Beats me.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to go to the moon for?
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  Speaker 1: To see what's on the other side.
• 5:01
  Speaker 5: Ask a stupid question, you get a stupid answer. What's
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  Speaker 5: the separation rate positively?
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  Speaker 2: Red and white spiral.
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  Speaker 5: What's the matter?
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: I'm knocking a bellyache.
• 5:11
  Speaker 5: Eating green apples?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, I'm all right.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, it's when you get busy.
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  Speaker 5: We've got two hours left to patch this mess together.
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Barnes.
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  Speaker 1: What is it, Sweeney?
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  Speaker 5: It's Brown.
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  Speaker 6: They just took him to the hospital.
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  Speaker 5: They what?
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  Speaker 4: Well, is he all right?
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  Speaker 2: He will be.
• 5:37
  Speaker 5: After they cut out his appendix.
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: There goes our radio man.
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  Speaker 7: There's no chance of finding a substitute?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's special equipment. Brown installed it himself. I've got it.
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  Speaker 2: Barnes here.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll have to delay the takeover a month.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, goodbye.
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: We can't, General. That was Hastings at Dry Wells. There's
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: a United States Marshal driving over. Something leaked, and he's
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: got a court order forbidding the takeoff.
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  Speaker 5: We were so close.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A million dollars got.
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  Speaker 8: Up the flue.
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  Speaker 5: You want me to give a stand by, Mr. Bond?
• 6:12
  Speaker 5: I suppose.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Sweeney.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You installed that communication equipment with Brown, didn't you?
• 6:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 2: Then you must know the operation. You could go in
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  Speaker 2: Brown's place.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 8: Uh-uh.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, not me.
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  Speaker 5: It's an important project, Sweeney.
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  Speaker 2: The scientific advance... There's the military aspect, Sweeney.
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  Speaker 5: I had four years of the military aspect, General.
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  Speaker 1: That's enough. Afraid?
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  Speaker 5: You're darned, Sultan.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: That ship is safe?
• 6:35
  Speaker 5: Maybe, maybe not.
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  Speaker 2: But, Sweeney.
• 6:36
  Speaker 5: Look, you guys aren't going to get anywhere pressuring me.
• 6:39
  Speaker 5: Maybe you got reasons to go to the moon. You, Mr. Barnes,
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  Speaker 5: you got a million dollars tied up in the ship.
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  Speaker 5: It's your scientific baby, Doc, and the General's out on
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  Speaker 5: a limb in Washington.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: What's in it for me?
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  Speaker 2: That's no way to talk, Sweeney. It's an important advance
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  Speaker 2: for the whole world.
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  Speaker 5: You'll pardon the expression, baloney.
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  Speaker 2: Sweeney.
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  Speaker 5: I work on a scientific theory, too, General.
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: Hooray for me.
• 6:57
  Speaker 5: You look out for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't going. I don't like to say this, but
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: this isn't the time to consider yourself, Sweeney. This country's
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: defense hangs on being the first to develop space travel.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody else, not me. There's nothing I want on the moon.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take care of that.
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  Speaker 1: Sweeney.
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  Speaker 2: I'll offer you $ 10, 000 bonus and a 10% royalty on
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: the ship patents out of my cut. Barnes. It's no
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: use to me unless we get off before that marshal
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  Speaker 2: gets here from dry wells. Now, Sweeney, you'd be rich
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  Speaker 2: enough to retire. You could take it easy the rest
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  Speaker 2: of your life.
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  Speaker 5: Well, now you're talking my language, Mr. Barnes.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: When do we leave?
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: Clear field.
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  Speaker 5: Clear field for firing.
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  Speaker 2: Clear field for firing.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I'll be tracking you from control center.
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: Hey, what's that car doing?
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: He's coming right out on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Marshal, Doc, General Sweeney, inside.
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  Speaker 6: Hey!
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Barnes!
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  Speaker 8: Button her up.
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  Speaker 5: Hey!
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  Speaker 1: Hey there, Commander, that ship, I've got a court order.
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  Speaker 1: You can't take off! Tough, mister.
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  Speaker 4: You can't do this.
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  Speaker 2: Hey!
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: Hey! Save your knuckles, fella.
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: You couldn't get in that ship with a blowtorch.
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  Speaker 6: Burns can't do this.
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  Speaker 2: Suppose you tell him all about it when he gets
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  Speaker 2: back from the moon.
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  Speaker 9: Queenie, warm up your communications record.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
• 8:35
  Speaker 5: Calling traffic, Shaq. Traffic.
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  Speaker 1: Center calling rocket to Pluto.
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  Speaker 2: Over. Get a clearance check.
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  Speaker 5: Get us a clearance, traffic.
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  Speaker 6: Over. All clear.
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  Speaker 1: Drywall is ready for tracking.
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  Speaker 3: Over.
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  Speaker 1: Power.
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  Speaker 5: Power ready.
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  Speaker 2: Communications?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Co-pilot.
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  Speaker 2: Automatic's ready.
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  Speaker 1: Give the warning signal. Give me a time check.
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  Speaker 2: On the computer. 03-47-58. Stand by for count-off and firing.
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  Speaker 2: Stand by for count-off and firing.
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  Speaker 5: Roger. For check.
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  Speaker 3: 2-48-10.
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  Speaker 6: Check. Coming up 30 seconds.
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: Twenty-nine.
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  Speaker 5: Twenty-eight.
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: I'll lie back on the acceleration pouches. Worst pressures will
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: be over in four minutes.
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: Five.
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  Speaker 2: General. I don't like having a man along who isn't
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: with us.
• 9:14
  Speaker 4: It's too late now.
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: It might get pretty tough if he's half-hearted now. We'll
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: worry about that later.
• 9:18
  Speaker 5: Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. Fire. Fire.
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: Noise.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: All gone.
• 9:42
  Speaker 9: At speed of sound.
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: Switch on televiewer act. I can't.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Can't move.
• 9:50
  Speaker 8: Pressure.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: Switch is right under your finger. Go on.
• 9:55
  Speaker 5: Time.
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  Speaker 2: Three fifty twelve. Altitude. two miles.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: Get your sun goggles on.
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  Speaker 9: It'll be coming through in a minute.
• 10:07
  Speaker 5: There's a dawn line.
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: And the sun.
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: It works.
• 10:11
  Speaker 5: This thing already works.
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: Look in the viewer. There's the Earth down there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: Time.
• 10:17
  Speaker 5: Time.
• 10:18
  Speaker 4: 351, 10.
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: Altitude, 20 miles.
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  Speaker 8: Time, 353, 50.
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: Altitude, 807 miles.
• 10:23
  Speaker 6: That's the end of the blast. We're in free fall.
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: Unbuckle your straps.
• 10:38
  Speaker 9: Hey!
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: Hey!
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm falling. I'm falling up.
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: There's no gravity up here. We don't weigh anything.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: I don't feel so good. How do I get down
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: from the ceiling?
• 10:57
  Speaker 8: I feel lousy, seasick.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: No, no, space sick.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: What's the difference as long as I ain't healthy?
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: There's a bottle of pills under the head pad. They
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: ought to settle your stomach. I'll break out the magnetic shoes.
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: Then we can at least keep our feet down on
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: the floor plate.
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: Here.
• 11:13
  Speaker 5: Sweeney, you put these on.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: Hand them up.
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: Here.
• 11:18
  Speaker 5: Now you can walk down the wall.
• 11:21
  Speaker 9: Try it.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: Like this? Hey, like a human fly.
• 11:29
  Speaker 5: You know, this is the second time I ever walked
• 11:31
  Speaker 5: down a ceiling. Only this time I'm sober.
• 11:41
  Speaker 9: Hey, General.
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: General. Would you mind tapping that ham sandwich back and
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: float it away from me?
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: Feeling better, Sweeney?
• 11:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I guess so. It's a heck.
• 11:54
  Speaker 5: Of a note when your meal floats away from you
• 11:56
  Speaker 5: before you eat it, Sweeney.
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mr. Cross.
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: I tried to crank out the radar antenna. She's stuck.
• 12:01
  Speaker 5: Well, let me see.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Stuck all right. I don't understand it.
• 12:10
  Speaker 5: I greased the gut. Greased? Well, no wonder it's stuck.
• 12:13
  Speaker 5: It's exposed to outer space.
• 12:14
  Speaker 4: It must be frozen solid.
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: What's the idea, Sweeney? Didn't you read the engineering manual?
• 12:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and a flush fitting gets greased. Don't jump on me.
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: Well, if we can't get that radar mask cranked out,
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: we can't land on the moon. It's all right by me.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: Don't you realize that half the value of this trip
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: is in the landing, geological surveys, radiation tests?
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: Look, General, I told you before I started, this whole
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: thing is slug nutty to me. Who wants the moon?
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: We're trying to be first with the old Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: Sweeney, I'll... This isn't getting that mast fixed. We've got
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: to go outside in spacesuits and chip it loose.
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: Outside?
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: You mean outside the ship? You can't fall. You'll be
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: in the same trajectory as the ship.
• 12:49
  Speaker 5: Worst that could happen would be to drift away.
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: Drift away?
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: Don't bother getting one of those monkey suits for me.
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: I'm comfortable in here. Swinney, we've taken enough from you.
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: We can't let one man endanger the whole project. You
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: get out there in a spacesuit, or we shove you.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Out without one.
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: All right, all right. That's settled. You got us into
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: this mess, you're going to help get us out... General,
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: break out the space suits. Close the interlock. Now, let's
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: get this straight. Keep your magnetic shoes on the hull plates,
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: your safety lines hooked. If you break loose, we won't
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: be able to go after you. You'll hit the moon
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: at 20,000 miles per hour in squash.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: Hey, wait a minute.
• 13:37
  Speaker 5: How come General Thayer don't go?
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: He doesn't go. He's co-pilot.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: I'll just ask.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: Now, let's make sure our intercom walkie-talkies are warmed up.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: All set. Check.
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: Fasten helmets.
• 13:51
  Speaker 8: Hello.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Hello, Doc. I hear you, Barnes. I'm okay. Check instruments.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: I'll put them up on the lock. All set. Open
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: the outer door, Doc. Look at that, will you?
• 14:13
  Speaker 9: A million stars.
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: 20,000 miles an hour, free fall and no breeze.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: That's right. No air. Well, we haven't got time for
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: the scenery. Let's get to work. Can you two handle it?
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: I want to go after, see how the firing tube's
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: held up. All right, Doc. Come on, sweetie. Let's get
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: to work.
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: It's loose now. Pull the mast out, Sweeney. Slippery as
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: a hog on ice. Let's get back. Suits me. That's
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: the earth up there? Western hemisphere. You can see America.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: That dark strip against the light. Pretty far away, huh? Barnes. Barnes.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: What's the matter?
• 14:56
  Speaker 8: Help.
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: Help, I'm loose.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: I'm drifting. What happened? My shoe magnet's pulled loose.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: There he is.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: The safety light broke.
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: Hurry, help me.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: He's too far to keep a line.
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, he's cooked.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: We'll never get him back. Hello, General Payers.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: All right, Barnes.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: I heard you on the control room, Speaker. I'm coming outside.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Bring an oxygen tank, got that?
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: Hurry.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: What are you going to do?
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: Throw him a bottle of air to get a bottle?
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Barnes, Barnes, help. All right, Doc. General Payers coming out
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: of the lock.
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: Where's Cockrave?
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Fifty feet out and down that left. Give me that
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: oxygen tank. What are you going to do? I'm going
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: to hook my shoes first.
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, crazy.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: You'll float away too. I can use the pressure in
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: the oxygen tank for a jiff. Maybe I can ride
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: the tank out there if there's enough power from the nozzle. There,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: turn the bell.
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: There.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: What was that? Three quads making my helmet bike shake.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: I'll try it again. Hey, it works. Like an upward motor.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Keep going, Bond. About 30 feet more.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: Swing a little to the left.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: A couple more shots. There. Now, reach out for me, Doc.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: You're too far.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: We can't.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Hang on, Doc. One more shot.
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: There, there.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Hang on. Can you get back, Bob? Can't wait. Don't
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: look like two of the universe together. Hang on to me, Doc.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: All right. You wait, Mr.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: Miller.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Turn the valve.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: You're drifting far, Bob.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: There's got to be enough pressure to get it back.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, we're moving.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: It's not fast enough. The pressure's almost down in this tank.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: There's the last of the guests. We're too far out, Barnes.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: They can't reach us with a line. Get your back
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: to the ship. On the count of three, push the
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: tank as hard as you can. The reaction may shove
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: us in close enough. Yeah. Ready? One, two, three.
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: Here they come, General.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Grab them.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Reach out, Barnes.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Grab the last.
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: All left.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: My God.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Well... Let's have you aboard.
• 16:54
  Speaker 9: There she is.
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: Come on.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Standby for landing procedure.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: That's pretty rugged concrete down there.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Standby to turn ship. Fasten straps. Altitude there? Two seven
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: point three. All right. Turning ship.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Hey, you're leveling off. You're turning too far. We'll go backwards.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: We'll land backwards. Use the jets for brakes.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Holy smokes. You mean sit down on a tail?
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Ground speed 1.52. Stand by for deceleration.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Now, fire.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Radar.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Clothing is plotted.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Give me view aft on the screen.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: Hey, we can't land down there. Look.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: Mountains, cliffs.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: That's the crater Harpalus.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: We're heading for a smooth plane short of there.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Don't look slow to me.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: I'm going to kill our forward speed.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Stand by.
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: You won't plant them out?
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Give her another blast.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: I can't.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: We won't have enough power to get home.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: You won't make that trip on the right. Look out.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: We're going to crash.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Barnes, blast.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: You've got rights. Now, now. Automatic landing.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Automatic in.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Hang on for emergency landing. Stand by for the blast.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Hold it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Now. Back down.
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: Get out your gyros.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Ah, that was a lousy landing. But I'm safe. Yes,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: but I wasted reaction mass we'll need to get home.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: We'll worry about that later. Right now, I want to
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: get out there and plant my feet on the moon.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: The moon.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Ready to open the decompression lock?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Check.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I'm set. And the air is inside control, Barnes?
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Sure you don't want to leave the ship?
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: I'll be out later.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I've got to contact Earth. All right, let's go. Open
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the outer door. All right, be sure you don't fall.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: You puncture your suits on the rocks, you're done.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: And look out for the low gravity. You'll weigh one-sixth
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: what you did on Earth. All right, let's go.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Hey, what is this stuff?
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Dust?
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Pardon, rock.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Doctor. Swing it officially. All right, sir. In
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the name of the United States of America, I take
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: possession of the planet Moon of and for the benefit
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: of mankind. Well, let's now get down to business. Sweetie,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: you set up the astronomical camera. What's the matter?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Get back here, all of you, right away.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: We're just starting work.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: You've got to get back.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I've been talking to Earth.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: We may not get off. We may be stuck on
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: the Moon for good.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Hello.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Hello, Earth. Reaction mass down to.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: 8672.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Wasted power and a bad landing. Request new figures for
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: return trip. Earth to Luna.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Looks bad, Mr.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Barnes.
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: I'll have to run it through the machine.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, dump everything you can.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I'll check back with the result.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I'll be standing by.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Roger.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Out.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Well, Barnes? Well, we wasted too much power on that
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: lousy landing. Hastings, check the figures. We've got the lightened ship.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: We've got just four hours to get off. If we
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: miss that, we don't get another chance to hit the
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Earth for another month.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: But we don't have more than ten days' oxygen supply.
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: Exactly.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Come on, we'd better start dumping and we'd better pray
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: we can get rid of enough weight.
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: Acceleration pad four, serial 706, schedule B, 14 pounds.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Check.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Give me a hand, Doc.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Handlock's full.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: I'll put my helmet on and shove the junk out
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: of the lock.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Barnes, is that everything we can get out? Three of
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: the spacesuits will be dropped before we take off.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: How about the fourth?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: We'll have to keep that so we can open the
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: airlock to shove the others out. I've got a removable
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: bridge I could dump. You may have to, General. Hastings
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: is due back now with the takeoff figures.
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: Hello, hello, Earth.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Luna calling Earth.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: All right, Mr.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Barnes. We hear you.
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: How much weight have you dropped?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: 4,003 pounds, Earth weight.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Then you're still short 110 pounds.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: What?
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: If you can dump 110 pounds, you can coast home.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: We're stripped. We unbolted the locker doors, junked the radar
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: chassis and mounts. We'll have to take a chance as
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: we are.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: It's suicide. You haven't enough reaction mass to clear the moon.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: You could be wrong, couldn't you?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I could, but not the computer. I'll be standing by, Mr. Barnes.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: Over.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: All right, Hastings. Out. 110 lousy pounds. What happens if
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: we're not light enough?
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: We fall back and crash. I'll just go into an
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: orbit around the moon.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Just keep going around?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: We've got 14 minutes left till takeoff time.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's fine.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: I could have gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: but I had to come to the moon.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Well, it's pretty simple. 110 pounds. One of us stays. Yes.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I guess that's it. Highway 180. That's plenty.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Now, wait a minute, General.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I'm the oldest one here. Yeah, and I'm the captain
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: of this ship. If anyone stays, I give the orders here.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Doc is the engineer, general pilot when you hit the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Earth's atmosphere.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: But, Bond.
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: I've got no family, so I stay.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. You've got to go back,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: both of you. I've been discredited. They won't listen to me.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: You've got to tell them what you've seen.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: Listen, General, I.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: You've got to tell them what the Earth looked like
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: from here. Vulnerable, defenseless, hanging in the sky. I knew
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: this trip would have military value.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Well, it does.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine atom warheads launched at Earth from up here?
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: The moon is the perfect base for an attack on
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the Earth. Remember, it's only one-sixth as hard to shoot.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Rockets from here to Earth as it is the other way.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: You've got to tell them the only government to control
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the moon must be a world government. General, I guess
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: you don't know it. But what you just said means
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: you've got to get back to Earth and convince them
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: even if the rest of us don't make it.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Barnes, don't be.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: No, General, that's all there is to it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Listen, Mr.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Barnes, General... Never mind, Sweeney, you're not in on this.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Don't worry, you'll get back.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: I was going to say, why don't you heroes match
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: for it?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Hard man's house. All right, Barnes, I'll go for that.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: I'm in.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Two to one, Barnes.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Well, all right. What do we use?
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: You can match buttons off your overalls.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: All right. Each one pull off a button. I'd better
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: check Hastings on it. Here's my button.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Hello, hello, Earth.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Standing by, Mr. Barnes.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: We're working it out. One of us stays behind.
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: What?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: We're matching for it. Check time.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: It's only 110 pounds.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Check time.
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt the program Dimension X for
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: just a moment for two important bulletins from the wires
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: of United Press. From Seoul, Korea, the North Korean radio
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: says the North Korean communist government formally declared war on
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: South Korea effective at 11 a.m. Sunday, Korean time. And
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: then a little later, this bulletin from Washington. State Department
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: officials say they will hold Russia responsible for the North
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: Korean attack against the independent South Korean Republic, which this
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: country and the United Nations brought into being and have supported.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: We now return to the program Dimension X.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: 9-41-50.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Ten minutes to zero hour.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Check.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: That's all, Hastings. We'll take off with three men. All right.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Ready to match?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Hey, what?
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: The airlock.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Sweeney, he went out.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: What's he doing?
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: What?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: He's going out. Out there on the moon.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: Shine on, shine on, Harvey.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Hello, hello, Sweeney, can you hear me? Yeah, sure, boss,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: how are you? Now come back, come back in here,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: you fool. Low it. Nice out here. Come back, Sweeney.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: You're going home. Yeah, some other time. Remember me and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the girls. Honey girls. Listen, Sweeney, come back.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: This trip doesn't mean that much to you.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: We've talked you into it. Nobody can expect you to
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: do this. Now, don't be crazy. Why not? I'm a lunatic.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Get it? A lunatic.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Sweeney, come back.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Listen, I like your shirt. Get it? 160 pounds. That's me. Now,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: go on. Take off.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Come back, Sweeney.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: You can't do this. Listen, you guys wouldn't count me
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: in on a matching. I know. I run on hooray
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: for me and you look out for yourself. Well, maybe
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: a change of mind. I've been looking up there at
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: that earth hanging in the sky. We're going to build
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: something on this moon. All of you guys got to
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: go back. Doc, he's the guy to work it out
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in the lab. Barnes, you build the ships.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: And the general, he's got to pound those desks and
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: see that he gets done right.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: You don't need me. Now, Sweeney, wait a minute. Come back. No, no,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I'll go. Get going. You spoil my whole day. Come on, heroes.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: You don't understand. We can take off, all of us.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: What do you mean? What's 110 pounds? Now listen to
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: what I say. Get back in here and on the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: way pick up a screwdriver and a rat tail file
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: and an oxygen tank. What's the deal? Get back in here.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I've got a way to get us all off if
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: it works.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Now, Weenie, we're reading you clear on the intercom speaker.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: You in the airlock yet?
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Your space suit weighs around 70 pounds. The radio weighs 50.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I can't open the outside door of the
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: airlock without my suit.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: What are you trying to pull, Barnes?
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: After you chuck the radio out, you file a hole
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: in the gasket on the outer door.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Got that?
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Then you tie your safety line to the oxygen tank,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: pass it through the hole. It hangs outside.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: You got that?
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Then you close the outside door, get out of your suit,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: come in here. We close up, decompress, and open the
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: outside door again.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, I get it. The tank closes soon out of
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the lock.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: And if it works, we all get home. Now hurry now, Sweeney.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Eight minutes to calculate a takeoff time.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Eight minutes.
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: Two minutes.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: Two minutes.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: All set, Sweeney?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Shut the radio off. Close the outer door. They
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: have pressure up. I'm getting out of my suit. This
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: doorway's pretty narrow, boss. If the suit don't clear, we're sunk.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: We'll have to take that chance.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: Here I come.
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: All set.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Close the inner door.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Be compressed.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Now the outer door. Honey, move it.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: I can see it through the port.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Coming up.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: One minute. One minute to take off. What does the
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: suit call on the intake?
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, no.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: It's flattened out.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Get clear of that saw, brother.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Get clear. There it goes.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: We're in.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: We're in. Forty seconds.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Close the outer door, Sweeney. Can't we take off, everybody?
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: Thirty seconds.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Twenty-nine.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Twenty-eight.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I don't think I could have done that.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: Twenty-six.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Just walk out. Oh, baloney. I haven't got that kind
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: of courage.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Twenty-three. I'd have had to make a speech. A big,
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: heroic speech.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Twenty-three.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't have the guts to just walk out. All right,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: stand by.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Communications.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: Automatic set.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Stand by.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Fire. All right, we're clear.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: We're clear.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: We're heading home.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Time.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: 2-50-36.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Destination....
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Earth.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: You have just heard another adventure into the unknown world
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: of the future.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Dimension X closes with Destination Moon. Follow the 50 greatest
• 29:27
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