:29:02
We could use a few weeks ourselves.
:29:04
Us too.
:29:06
If we had it,
we could certainly use it.
:29:09
You know, Tom, I hear Bolivia...
:29:11
is really nice this time of year.
:29:21
You know, this is so bad
I can't even joke about it.
:29:32
Perhaps the main reason we were
behind schedule and over budget...
:29:35
was because budgets and schedules
are based on previous experience...
:29:38
with similar projects.
:29:40
We didn't know how much it'd cost to
build the LEMs or how long it'd take.
:29:44
All we really knew
was how much time we'd been given...
:29:46
and that was running out.
:29:48
LEM 3 was scheduled
to be launched in the fall of 1968.
:29:51
To make the launch, NASA needed delivery
sometime that spring.
:29:56
We were working as fast as we could...
24 hours a day...
:29:58
seven days a week,
and it wasn't enough.
:30:00
In June, 1968 it was decided...
:30:03
that we'd ship LEM 3 to NASA as she was
and finish the work at the Cape.
:30:13
You know, I don't know
what I'm so worked up about.
:30:16
I mean,
what's the worst that could happen?
:30:18
Well, we ship the LEM to NASA...
:30:21
we never get it to fly...
:30:23
the Russians beat us to the moon...
:30:25
and within ten years we're all living
under the iron thumb of Communism.
:30:29
Exactly.
:30:36
Hey, remember when seven years
seemed like a long time?
:30:42
Remember when this whole thing
was only gonna cost 500 million?
:30:46
You know, I can't even remember
when it was gonna cost a billion.
:30:53
Unfortunately, moving LEM 3
to the Cape...
:30:55
did little to ease
the pressure we were under.
:30:58
Tom, there's still at least
a hundred things wrong with it.