:05:05
Get off me!
:05:09
Come on, you guys! Break it up!
:05:12
Come on.
:05:26
Is that smoke I smell?
:05:28
Looks like a fire out by Ridgecrest.
:05:32
We crashed the X-2.
:05:35
My $4 million X-2?
:05:38
Is that the X-2 you're referring to?
:05:42
We did break both speed
and altitude records, sir.
:05:46
And beat the free-fall mark
by 30,000 feet.
:05:51
Three planes in ten months.
That's bound to be a record too.
:05:55
The engine failed. The aircraft went
in a flat spin. We couldn't recover.
:06:01
But you made it.
:06:03
That's the important thing.
:06:07
And you made it...
:06:10
...just in time, Frank.
:06:15
Ladies and gentlemen of the press...
:06:17
...I'm Major Bob Gerson, United States
Air Force, and I hold in my hand...
:06:23
...a directive from the president
of the United States of America.
:06:28
It reads:
:06:29
"Effective immediately,
the Air Force's involvement...
:06:32
...in outer atmosphere
testing and exploration...
:06:35
...is hereby terminated."
:06:37
"A new civilian agency...
:06:39
...the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, is this day chartered."
:06:43
"Project Daedalus is now complete...
:06:46
...and designated
Mission Accomplished."
:06:49
The Air Force is out?
:06:51
What about the pilots?
:06:52
Who will be
the first American in space?
:06:55
A decision has been made.
After an exhaustive search...