:12:04
Take a look at this.
:12:14
Those are campfires down there.
:12:19
- That's something, isn't it?
- Yes.
:12:21
Beautiful.
:12:23
Down there, people were gathered
around man's most primitive discovery.
:12:28
Here the three of us were...
:12:30
riding 250,000 miles into space
on a flame.
:12:37
Man, that sky is black.
:12:42
Yes, it is.
:12:46
How we looking, Dickie?
:12:47
You all finished
realigning the platform?
:12:50
- I is finished.
- Outstanding.
:12:54
That will give them something
to write about tonight.
:12:56
I bet all our wives fainted.
:12:57
I'll bet they did when they heard you
call about 18 lights.
:13:00
Every time I close my eyes,
all I see are those damn lights.
:13:03
- What a way to start.
- Terrible way to break in Al Bean.
:13:07
That's okay.
I don't mind.
:13:11
Not everybody was thinking about how
Al Bean was enjoying the mission.
:13:15
In Houston, unbeknownst to us,
there was serious concern...
:13:18
that the lightning had damaged
our pyrotechnic system...
:13:20
that would deploy our parachutes.
:13:22
If we run the TEl checklist...
:13:24
we test everything
they need to get home...
:13:26
except one big item:
Deployment of the chutes.
:13:30
Yeah, but if the barometric switches
and timers have failed...
:13:32
the crew
can deploy the chutes manually.
:13:35
But if the pyros
had already been fired...
:13:38
Once they're gone, pushing the deploy
button won't do anything at all.
:13:42
- Is there any way to check the pyros?
- Only visual inspection, from outside.
:13:50
All right,
I'll let you know.
:13:51
They finally decided
that if it had...
:13:53
we'd be just as dead splashing down now
as ten days from now.
:13:57
So they might as well
send us to the moon.