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- You all set, Rusty? - Yeah, Jim.
All right. I'll see you up the C.S.M.
I don't suppose they're gonna let anybody back up they think'll get sick.
I don't know, Rusty.
I'll tell ya...
those few minutes I had outside while Dave was working on the camera...
That was somethin' special.
I just wanted to say thanks.
The only reason it was even a question is I didn't want you to kill yourself.
And I'll try not to for the rest of the mission.
All right. I'll see you inside.
Yep.
LEM 3 would fly one last time...
but this time she would fly alone.
Okay, the tunnel's closed out, the pyros are armed.
We're all set.
All right.
So long, Spider.
Hope I didn't leave anything in there.
When I first saw the LEM I thought, "You gotta be kiddin'."
But it kind of grows on you.
It really is a beautiful machine.
Listen to me. I sound like Tom Kelly.
But you guys are right. It's a lot for one mission.
Maybe too much.
If we get even half of it done we can call it a success.
I can't wait!
Apollo 9 had shown that a LEM could fly. At least in Earth orbit.
Two months later on Apollo 10, Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan...
took LEM 4 down to within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface.
Look at that. There's enough boulders to fill up Galveston Bay!
Houston, we is goin', and we is down among 'em, Charlie!
Now only one question about the LEM remains.
The biggest question of all.
And it will be up to the next LEM to answer it.
When I said good-bye to LEM 3, I felt like a proud parent...
watching a child go off to college.
As I say good-bye to this LEM, I feel like a parent of centuries past...
saying farewell as his child embarks for the New World.
To some people, that might sound like I'm stretching the point.
A LEM is not a child, it's a machine...
and a machine doesn't have a soul.
We may yell at our toasters and name our cars...
but in the end even a LEM is just a collection of wires...
and circuits and nuts and bolts.
I don't know. I think each LEM does have a soul.
It's a soul of all the people who built her...
designed her...
first dreamed of her.
- What number is this one? - This one is LEM 5.
- Thank you for inviting us here today. - You're welcome, Mr. Houbolt.
Without you guys there might not be anybody here today.
- Someone would have thought of it. - Maybe.
And this is the actual machine that's gonna land on the moon?
Yep.
- What are they calling this one? - This one...
This one is the Eagle.