: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.
:33:01
Going around the moon
sounds like a blast and all...
:33:04
but I really wanna fly the LEM.
:33:06
That's pretty much what Dave said.
I called him in Downey.
:33:10
He said he really wanted
to fly the command module solo...
:33:13
get us out of his hair
for a few hours.
:33:19
I don't know though.
Maybe we're making a mistake.
:33:22
Maybe we're missing out
on some historical voyage.
:33:28
I don't know, Jim. Maybe.
:33:30
But it sounds like
they're just gonna be sightseeing.
:33:32
With all the things we gotta do,
our mission's fun.
:33:39
Yeah, we got a great mission.
:33:41
Providing that thing will fly.
:33:47
In the fall of 1968
while work continued on LEM 3...
:33:51
the Apollo program
finally got off the ground.
:33:53
On October 11, just a few miles...
:33:56
from where LEM 3
was being fine-tuned...
:33:57
Apollo 7 was launched.