:33:01
Going around the moon
sounds like a blast and all...
:33:04
but I really wanna fly the LEM.
:33:06
That's pretty much what Dave said.
I called him in Downey.
:33:10
He said he really wanted
to fly the command module solo...
:33:13
get us out of his hair
for a few hours.
:33:19
I don't know though.
Maybe we're making a mistake.
:33:22
Maybe we're missing out
on some historical voyage.
:33:28
I don't know, Jim. Maybe.
:33:30
But it sounds like
they're just gonna be sightseeing.
:33:32
With all the things we gotta do,
our mission's fun.
:33:39
Yeah, we got a great mission.
:33:41
Providing that thing will fly.
:33:47
In the fall of 1968
while work continued on LEM 3...
:33:51
the Apollo program
finally got off the ground.
:33:53
On October 11, just a few miles...
:33:56
from where LEM 3
was being fine-tuned...
:33:57
Apollo 7 was launched.
:34:00
Two months later, Frank Borman,
Jim Lovell and Bill Anders...
:34:03
took Apollo 8 on its
historic flight around the moon.
:34:08
All that time, LEM 3
was being worked on around the clock.
:34:12
By February 1969, George and the rest
of the Grumman crew...
:34:16
had tested every circuit
and tightened every bolt.
:34:20
LEM 3 was ready.