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command module pilot Dave Scott...
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another Gemini vet...
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and flying right beside McDivitt
as his L.M. P...
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Rusty Schweickart, a rookie.
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Now...
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any crew is a good crew.
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But these guys...
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Well, I think we're pretty fortunate...
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because, gentlemen,
this won't be an easy mission.
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We're off the lake, Jim.
Can we talk business now?
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Well, if you insist.
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I've been goin' over the mission plan...
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and it looks a little rough.
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- It is kind of ambitious, Jim.
- Heck, it's not ambitious.
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It's impossible.
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Look, everyone's focusing
on us flying the LEM.
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It's only a small part of it.
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Every mission's got a few things
that's never been done before.
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This one's got about ten:
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First manned launch of a LEM,
first docking extraction of a LEM...
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first men in a LEM in space.
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And we just go out
and fly the LEM, right?
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Wrong.
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Before we can even undock the LEM
from the command module...
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we gotta make sure we can do an
emergency transfer outside the craft.
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Which means, Rusty...
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you're gonna have to do an E.V.A. On the
PLSS backpack... the first use of that.
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Dave, we're gonna leave you alone
in the command module.
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First time that'll have happened.
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Then the real fun begins.
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First I pop the thruster,
see if the LEM can fly.
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If it can, Rusty and I fire the descent
engine, take her on its maiden voyage.
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We go out a hundred miles or so.
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God willing, the ascent engine lights...
first firing of that in space.
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Then Rusty and I head back to you...
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for the first docking of
a two-manned spacecraft.
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All right, so it's only nine things
that's never been done before.
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Give me a hand with the trailer.
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But you guys are right.
It's a lot for one mission.
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Maybe too much.
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If we get even half of it done
we can call it a success.
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I can't wait!
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While Scott went to Downey
to work on the command module...