From the Earth to the Moon
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:19:02
that it was bad for morale.
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Okay, so here's the decision.
:19:07
Neil gets out first.
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He's the commander.
:19:11
He's the senior astronaut.
:19:13
And besides that,
the way that hatch opens...

:19:17
it'd be damned difficult
for the L.M.P. To get out first...

:19:20
unless you two switch places.
:19:22
You'll both be wearing hard suits and
backpacks, so that's not gonna happen.

:19:29
I see what you mean.
:19:31
Okay.
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So the issue's settled.
:19:37
So, were it not for a decision in
the design phase of the lunar module...

:19:42
a 50-50 coin toss
of which way the hatch opens...

:19:46
you've might've ended up the first man
to walk on the moon instead of Neil.

:19:54
Possibly.
:19:57
"Possibly."
:20:03
Michael Collins,
last time we left you...

:20:06
you were still flying around the moon
in the command module.

:20:09
Catching up on my reading.
:20:11
Let me be pragmatic and deal
with a hard issue here for a minute.

:20:17
What if something goes wrong?
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You've trained to
come back to Earth...

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as the sole survivor of Apollo 11,
haven't you?

:20:26
Nobody likes to dwell
on such things...

:20:29
but that is one of the scenarios
that we practice in flight simulation.

:20:33
Well, in fact,
all three of you...

:20:36
train constantly for things
going wrong, don't you?

:20:40
Neil? Buzz?
:20:41
You even practice crashing,
don't you?

:20:44
Actually, Emmett,
we practice avoiding crashes.

:20:56
We're gonna pick up
at pitch over minus 30.


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