:55:07
[ Phone Rings ]
:55:11
So the whole world knows.
:55:15
Tell me you've never
let anybody down before.
:55:17
I never quit yet.
:55:20
- How's that?
- I guess that'll have to do.
:55:23
You know somethin'?
:55:25
I still remember the first,
middle and last name...
:55:29
of every guy that qualified
for the astronaut programme
first year I was here.
:55:33
Thanks. I went into the engineering
programme. Kinda had to.
:55:38
But boy, I wanted to go up there.
:55:41
I wanted to be one of those guys
with a mission patch on my arm.
:55:46
I tell you, I'd be on that shuttle
with you, Harry, if I could.
:55:48
[ Laughs ]
:55:52
You don't want to be up in
that shuttle any more than I do.
:55:57
Good luck in Florida tomorrow.
:55:59
[ Female Newscaster #1 ]
The death of 50,000 people
in Shanghai yesterday has rattled--
:56:03
[ Male Newscaster #1 ]
A French satellite has tracked
an object in space--
:56:06
[ Female Newscaster #2 ]
Sources are estimating
that the tidal wave was five--
:56:09
[ Male Newscaster #2 ]
This is CNN, live in Florida.
:56:11
We have just learned that NASA
is on a full-scale military alert.
:56:14
They're calling this a global killer.
:56:17
[ Female Newscaster #3 ]
The government has been very
tight-lipped throughout this--
:56:19
[ Female Newscaster #4 ]
The Pentagon is getting involved
at this point...
:56:21
with some kind of a project involving
NASA and perhaps a shuttle mission--
:56:25
Senior Pentagon officials
refused comment, adding
fuel to the speculation...
:56:29
that there could be
a very serious problem.
:56:31
[ Truman ]
We have a special team of astronauts
that arrived in Florida this evening.
:56:35
NASA's in emergency launch preparation
in cooperation with Russian, Japanese...
:56:39
and French space agencies on the most
massive joint space venture in history.
:56:51
Gracie?