:08:01
It's for their own good.
:08:03
I understand the crew kept training in
the simulators up to the last minutes.
:08:07
Armstrong and Aldrin
were in the simulator at the Cape...
:08:11
right up till the day
before the launch.
:08:14
How did they do?
Did they make a good landing?
:08:17
Emmett,
they were absolutely perfect.
:08:20
I appreciate your coming by.
Thanks for putting up with me.
:08:23
Now, some time ago...
:08:25
well before they entered the flight crew
health stabilization program...
:08:29
prior to last Wednesday's launch...
:08:31
I had the special opportunity...
well, honor, really...
:08:36
to chat with Michael Collins, as well
as Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.
:08:40
We're chatting with these three men
who need no introduction.
:08:45
Starting with you,
Michael Collins.
:08:48
While your crewmates walk around
in the Sea of Tranquility...
:08:51
you'll be all alone...
:08:53
the only member
of the human race...
:08:55
completely cut off
from mother Earth.
:08:58
Won't it get terribly lonely?
:09:00
Well, Emmett, I'll be plenty busy with
some interesting mission objectives.
:09:04
Of course I'll have
a great view to look at.
:09:06
And I'm taking along
a few good books, just in case.
:09:10
Okay. Okay.
:09:13
Now, Mr. Neil Armstrong.
:09:16
The moon.
:09:17
A lot of cockamamie theories
about landing on it...
:09:20
and how it would be
impossible.
:09:23
But the point is,
being the first to do it...
:09:25
you don't know exactly
what's gonna happen.
:09:28
I mean, how do you physically
train for such a thing?
:09:35
One way is to climb into an aircraft
we call the flying bedstead.
:09:39
The L.L.R.V.
The lunar landing research vehicle.
:09:44
- Right.
- Essentially, a big jet engine...
:09:47
turned on its end.
:09:48
Yeah.
It's a tricky machine.
:09:50
The demands it places
on a pilot...
:09:52
are very similar to the demands
I'll be facing making the moon landing.