:49:01
All right.
:49:08
So long, Spider.
:49:18
Hope I didn't leave anything in there.
:49:21
When I first saw the LEM I thought,
"You gotta be kiddin'."
:49:25
But it kind of grows on you.
:49:29
It really is a beautiful machine.
:49:32
Listen to me.
I sound like Tom Kelly.
:49:39
But you guys are right.
It's a lot for one mission.
:49:42
Maybe too much.
:49:44
If we get even half of it done
we can call it a success.
:49:51
I can't wait!
:49:56
Apollo 9 had shown that a LEM could fly.
At least in Earth orbit.
:50:01
Two months later on Apollo 10,
Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan...
:50:04
took LEM 4 down to within 50,000 feet
of the lunar surface.
:50:08
Look at that. There's enough boulders
to fill up Galveston Bay!
:50:13
Houston, we is goin',
and we is down among 'em, Charlie!
:50:19
Now only one question
about the LEM remains.
:50:22
The biggest question of all.
:50:24
And it will be up to the next LEM
to answer it.
:50:30
When I said good-bye to LEM 3,
I felt like a proud parent...
:50:33
watching a child go off to college.
:50:38
As I say good-bye to this LEM, I feel
like a parent of centuries past...
:50:42
saying farewell as his child embarks
for the New World.
:50:46
To some people, that might
sound like I'm stretching the point.
:50:50
A LEM is not a child,
it's a machine...
:50:52
and a machine doesn't have a soul.
:50:54
We may yell at our toasters
and name our cars...
:50:57
but in the end even a LEM
is just a collection of wires...