:16:02
that I wasn't supposed to do.
:16:06
In all our months of training,
we never had the actual camera.
:16:09
All we had was a block of wood.
:16:12
This procedure needs to be completed
in four minutes.
:16:14
I knew where I was supposed to put it
and where the sun would be.
:16:18
Someone probably told me
to keep the lens shaded or something.
:16:21
Don't point it at the sun.
Set the focus at infinity.
:16:25
But there were so many things to digest
in training to walk on the moon...
:16:29
I guess I just forgot it.
:16:32
We have a pretty bright image
on the TV.
:16:33
Can you move it or stop it down?
:16:37
I'll stop it down.
:16:40
That's as far as it goes, Houston.
How does it look to you?
:16:44
Still looks the same.
Why don't you try shifting the scene.
:16:49
- How's that?
- Looks the same.
:16:51
We have a bright image
at the top...
:16:54
and then blacked out
about eighty percent at the bottom.
:16:58
That's coming in better.
What change did you make?
:17:02
I hit on the top with my hammer.
We didn't have a thing to lose.
:17:06
- Skillful fix.
- Yeah. I hit it with this hammer.
:17:10
That's skilled craftsmanship.
Let me try it again.
:17:24
We're still not getting a good picture,
and you're running a tad behind.
:17:28
Press on and we'll try to get back
to it later if we have time.
:17:32
Houston, let me move it around
so the back is to the sun.
:17:36
Maybe that will help.
:17:38
When all was said and done,
nothing happened.
:17:40
It's hard to get a TV repairman
to make a house call in Anytown, USA...
:17:44
and impossible,
of course, on the moon.
:17:47
The vidicon tube
was fried beyond repair...
:17:49
so that was the end of color TV
from the Ocean of Storms.
:17:53
They probably knew on the ground
exactly what I had done wrong...
:17:56
but nobody wanted
to say anything.
:17:58
From Houston,
this is Emmett Seaborn.