:28:03
Oh, God bless it!
Tom, what's up with the radar?
:28:14
Oh, hi, Lou.
:28:16
Yeah, I know...
:28:22
I know what we're up against.
:28:25
We will make the date.
:28:27
I need to know if we can make the date.
:28:30
If we can't, I'm gonna have to take some
cash and move to South America.
:28:43
Yep.
:28:45
- Arnie?
- Sure.
:28:48
- John?
- Yes, sir.
:28:50
The other John?
:28:57
Sorry, Tom.
:28:59
The cockpit's gonna take
another three weeks.
:29:02
We could use a few weeks ourselves.
:29:04
Us too.
:29:06
If we had it,
we could certainly use it.
:29:09
You know, Tom, I hear Bolivia...
:29:11
is really nice this time of year.
:29:21
You know, this is so bad
I can't even joke about it.
:29:32
Perhaps the main reason we were
behind schedule and over budget...
:29:35
was because budgets and schedules
are based on previous experience...
:29:38
with similar projects.
:29:40
We didn't know how much it'd cost to
build the LEMs or how long it'd take.
:29:44
All we really knew
was how much time we'd been given...
:29:46
and that was running out.
:29:48
LEM 3 was scheduled
to be launched in the fall of 1968.
:29:51
To make the launch, NASA needed delivery
sometime that spring.
:29:56
We were working as fast as we could...
24 hours a day...
:29:58
seven days a week,
and it wasn't enough.