:12:01
Mission Control's across the courtyard
100 yards from here...
:12:05
where we aren't allowed to be.
:12:07
Unless we know what you know when you
know it, we'll start getting paranoid.
:12:11
We'll have a press pool of two...
:12:12
one print, one broadcast,
rotated every two hours...
:12:15
in the visitors' gallery where they can
monitor the flight director's loop.
:12:19
We hear everything he hears...
:12:20
but no taping or broadcast of
the flight controller's communications.
:12:24
Damn it, Hal. You know
it's the right thing to do.
:12:27
- What about the families?
- I'm sorry?
:12:29
Will NASA make the families available
for interviews...
:12:32
or comments
as the situation unfolds?
:12:38
Brett, these individuals
are private citizens.
:12:42
Oh, please. "Private citizens"?
:12:43
For the last ten years
these private citizens...
:12:46
have availed themselves of free clothes,
free cars and junkets.
:12:50
NASA paraded them around
like prized poodles.
:12:52
Now when the going gets tough,
the tough issue a quarantine?
:12:56
Uh-huh.
:12:59
Interview the families
when the loved ones are safely home.
:13:03
- I think we all understand that, Hal.
- Actually, I think it's important...
:13:07
Like I said,
it's just not gonna be a problem.
:13:13
- Appreciate that.
- Thanks, Hal.
:13:24
- Mr. Hutchings...
- Hutchins. Call me Brett.
:13:29
- What are you doing?
- Just trying to get a story.
:13:33
Look, son, these family members
are ordinary people, regular folks.
:13:38
Who signed up to be historic figures
courtesy of the U.S. Taxpayer.
:13:41
Nobody put a gun to their head
and made them do this.
:13:43
Don't the shareholders have a right to
know the real cost of the space program?
:13:48
There are better ways
to build a relationship with NASA.
:13:50
I don't want
a relationship with NASA.
:13:57
Do your job however you do it,
but keep it out of my corner.