:05:01
112,000 feet and I feel fine!
:05:07
You've always got to push things
to the limit.
:05:11
That's what I do best, Frank.
:05:18
Get off me!
:05:22
Come on, you guys! Break it up!
:05:26
Come on.
:05:40
Is that smoke I smell?
:05:42
Looks like a fire out by Ridgecrest.
:05:46
We crashed the X-2.
:05:49
My 4-million-dollar X-2?
:05:52
Is that the X-2 you're referring to?
:05:57
We did break both speed
and altitude records, sir.
:06:01
And beat the free-fall mark
by 30,000 feet.
:06:06
Three planes in ten months.
That's bound to be a record too.
:06:10
The engine failed. The aircraft went
in a flat spin. We couldn't recover.
:06:16
But you made it.
:06:19
That's the important thing.
:06:22
And you made it...
:06:26
...just in time, Frank.
:06:31
Ladies and gentlemen of the press...
:06:33
...I'm Major Bob Gerson, United States
Air Force, and I hold in my hand...
:06:39
...a directive from the president
of the United States of America.
:06:44
It reads:
:06:46
"Effective immediately,
the Air Force's involvement...
:06:49
...in outer atmosphere
testing and exploration...
:06:52
...is hereby terminated.
:06:54
A new civilian agency...
:06:56
...the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, is this day chartered.