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Good evening.
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Three weeks ago,
the American spacecraft Discovery One. . .
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...left on its half-billion mile
voyage to Jupiter.
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This marked the first manned attempt
to reach this distant planet.
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This afternoon, The WorId Tonight
recorded an interview...
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... with the crew at a distance
of 80 million miles from Earth.
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lt took 7 minutes for our words
to reach the giant spacecraft...
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...but this time delay has been edited
from this recording.
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Our reporter Martin Amer
speaks to the crew.
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The crew of Discovery One
consists of five men...
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...and one of the latest generation
of the HAL 9000 computers.
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Three of the men
were put aboard asleep...
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...or to be more precise,
in a state of hibernation:
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Dr. Charles Hunter, Dr. Jack Kimball
and Dr. Victor Kaminsky.
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We spoke with mission commander,
Dr. David Bowman...
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...and his deputy, Dr. Frank Poole.
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Good afternoon, gentlemen.
How is everything going?
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Marvelous.
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We have no complaints.
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l'm glad to hear that.
l'm sure the entire world...
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...joins me in wishing you
a safe, successful voyage.
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-Thanks very much.
-Thank you.
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Although hibernation has been used
on previous space efforts...
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... this is the first time men were
put into hibernation before departure.
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Why was this done?
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This was done to achieve
the maximum conservation...
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...of our life-support capabilities,
basically food and air.
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The three hibernating crew members
represent the survey team.