From the Earth to the Moon
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and in this vehicle
I am your mother.

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I want you to work at it.
I'm serious.

:15:08
I'll see what I can do.
:15:10
Fortunately, at this point,
we had time to debate such issues.

:15:13
I'm sure you're dying to know
how it all turned out.

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Once again, this is Emmett Seaborn.
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Those of you who have been
with us all night...

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are going to see
quite a treat.

:15:24
No, they didn't broadcast
my bowel movement around the world.

:15:28
In fact,
they didn't broadcast much at all.

:15:30
Here's where my bad luck
with the TV cameras comes in.

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The color camera aboard Apollo 12
is a substantial improvement...

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over the black-and-white unit
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had...

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at the Sea of Tranquility.
:15:42
Conrad and Bean are setting up now.
:15:45
Oh, boy.
Look at that.

:15:47
I was in charge of setting up
the TV camera on the tripod...

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so that those people who stayed up
all night to see a rerun...

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could watch us on the moon.
:15:59
This would have worked out great
had I not accidentally done something...

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that I wasn't supposed to do.
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In all our months of training,
we never had the actual camera.

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All we had was a block of wood.
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This procedure needs to be completed
in four minutes.

:16:14
I knew where I was supposed to put it
and where the sun would be.

:16:18
Someone probably told me
to keep the lens shaded or something.

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Don't point it at the sun.
Set the focus at infinity.

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But there were so many things to digest
in training to walk on the moon...

:16:29
I guess I just forgot it.
:16:32
We have a pretty bright image
on the TV.

:16:33
Can you move it or stop it down?
:16:37
I'll stop it down.
:16:40
That's as far as it goes, Houston.
How does it look to you?

:16:44
Still looks the same.
Why don't you try shifting the scene.

:16:49
- How's that?
- Looks the same.

:16:51
We have a bright image
at the top...

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and then blacked out
about eighty percent at the bottom.

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That's coming in better.
What change did you make?


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