:35:00
- I like the call sign.
- Spider?
:35:03
It seemed appropriate.
:35:04
- How about the command module?
- Gumdrop.
:35:08
When it came from North American
it was all wrapped in blue plastic.
:35:11
It's sort of what it looked like.
:35:13
Maybe you should go up with us,
make sure everything's okay.
:35:17
I'd love to go up with you.
:35:21
She's ready.
:35:24
I know.
:35:27
- We'd better get back to the sim.
- Yep.
:35:31
- She's a beautiful machine, Tom.
- Isn't she?
:35:34
- You really think it's beautiful?
- It looks like a toaster oven with legs.
:35:37
But I'm not gonna tell him that.
:35:42
Hold on a minute, Bill.
:35:43
I gotta get him to the airport.
:35:45
Look, he spent the last seven years
of his life building that thing.
:35:50
Let's give him a moment to say good-bye.
:35:54
It stays up there, remember?
:36:11
Now as far as LEM 3 was concerned...
:36:14
that should have been it for me.
:36:15
I should've been able to sit back in the
SPAN room in Houston & watch the show.
:36:21
But in the early hours
of launch day...
:36:23
the pressure in one of LEM 3's fuel
tanks was reading disturbingly high.
:36:37
It's the helium tank?
:36:39
Actually, sir,
the super critical helium.
:36:43
- How's it reading now?
- Still on the edge.
:36:47
Meaning?
:36:49
Meaning we'd like to be down the middle
of the tolerance band, but we're not.
:36:53
Give me the worst case.
:36:56
When the LEM heads away from the
command module & they're throttling up...
:36:59
the tank could over-pressurize
and the burst disk could blow.