:37:02
We would lose the helium
on the descent stage.
:37:05
Now, they would not be stranded.
They'd still have the ascent engine.
:37:08
But it would kill the mission.
:37:15
Tom, I'll need the official
Grumman position on this.
:37:21
We're still within the limits.
:37:24
It'll fly.
:37:28
In the last few minutes before launch...
:37:30
I managed to put the tank pressure
problem out of my mind for a moment.
:37:35
I tried to imagine what it was like
in LEM 3 just then.
:37:39
Astronauts have said that sitting in the
command module during a countdown...
:37:43
can be almost peaceful.
:37:45
Must have been even more peaceful
in LEM 3. At least until...
:37:59
For the next ten minutes
it must have been...
:38:01
like LEM 3 was stuck
in a paint mixer in a hardware store.
:38:04
And when it must have seemed
the shaking would never stop, it did.
:38:26
On the second day of the mission...
:38:28
Rusty became the first person
to enter a LEM in space.