1:08:04
A genuine all-American hero. You've
made NASA popular all over again.
1:08:08
Thanks to you, they'll get
their juicy budget infusion...
1:08:11
...they've been drooling over.
1:08:13
You're going up, all right.
The vice president insists.
1:08:20
I have to call the head
of the space program back.
1:08:23
You've got a lot of work to do
before we leave.
1:08:32
And you shut the door!
1:08:43
This is my Blackbird.
1:08:46
I retired this very airplane in 1990.
1:08:49
And now...
1:08:51
...here we sit.
1:08:52
I've never actually seen one before.
1:08:54
SR-71. This is what
a plane's supposed to be.
1:08:57
This is ugly on the ground, leaks like
a sieve, but up around Mach one...
1:09:02
...the seals all expand, she dries up,
flies like a bat out of hell.
1:09:08
I took her right to the limit.
1:09:11
128,000 feet.
1:09:15
She's only happy...
1:09:17
...going fast. It's not meant to sit.
1:09:19
That's a lousy way to die,
just sitting around waiting...
1:09:25
- Is eight months the best I can do?
- They don't know.
1:09:28
- There's chemo, radiation.
- Shit.
1:09:32
I watched my wife go out that way.
I ain't doing it.
1:09:36
The love of your life.
1:09:40
What is a pancreas anyhow?
1:09:43
I mean, I don't know what
the damn thing does for you...
1:09:48
...besides give you cancer.
1:09:53
What kind of odds would
you have give you and me?
1:09:56
Better than 40.