:31:00
- We'll get it fixed in time.
- No, you won't.
:31:04
There is no way in three months
that thing is gonna be ready to fly.
:31:08
Look, Jim, it's...
:31:11
It's a good machine.
:31:13
Just needs a little fine-tuning.
That's all.
:31:15
You don't have to whisper.
It can't hear you.
:31:19
Look, I want it to go up
as much as you do.
:31:21
I know we're running out of time.
:31:23
It's 18 months
to the end of the decade...
:31:25
and we still haven't had a single
manned Apollo flight.
:31:27
I know that.
:31:29
But that doesn't change the facts.
LEM 3 is not ready to fly.
:31:33
And it won't be any time soon.
:31:37
That's gonna have to be
my recommendation to headquarters.
:31:46
Now, with the LEM 3
not ready to fly...
:31:49
after Wally and the 7 crew
go up with the C.S.M. In October...
:31:52
that means there won't be another
Apollo flight until the spring, right?
:31:56
Right.
:31:57
Well, maybe not.
:31:59
George has come up with
a rather wild idea.
:32:03
How wild?
:32:06
Frank's mission is being scrubbed.
:32:09
We've created a new C-Prime mission
which will precede your mission.
:32:14
What's the mission?
:32:17
Well, we're gonna send the command
and service module... no lunar module...
:32:23
on a flight around the moon
in December.
:32:29
Really?
:32:33
What's Frank think?
:32:35
I haven't talked to Frank yet.
:32:37
I'm talking to you first.
:32:41
I don't want lose
your crew's experience with LEM 3.
:32:45
That's why we decided to send Frank
on this mission ahead of you.
:32:48
But I wanted to see
what you had to say about it...
:32:51
before I told Frank.
:32:55
I told him we'd stick
with the mission we got.
:32:59
Good.