A-Trip-to-the-Moon script at the Internet Movie Script Database. One of the first examples of the modern screenplay was from the George Melies iconic 1902 film, A Trip to the Moon. The script had thirty-some lines of basic descriptions that provided action and locations.
'This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.' Buzz Aldrin's broadcast, shortly after landing on the Moon and before he took a private communion on board the Eagle landing module'That's one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind.' Neil Armstrong as he steps out of the Eagle landing craft and onto the Moon's surface, turning Nasa's carefully prepared landing script into the most famous tautology of all time'The surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers, like powdered charcoal, to the sole and sides of my boots.' Neil Armstrong'Magnificent desolation' Buzz Aldrin from the Moon after stepping off the Eagle landing module onto the lunar surface'Hello Neil and Buzz.
I'm talking to you by telephone from the Oval room at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. I just cannot tell you how proud we all are of what you have done. For every American, this has to be the proudest day of their lives.' President Richard Nixon on being the first men to walk on the Moon'Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.'
The, prepared by President Nixon's speechwriter William Safire, to be used in the event of a disaster that would maroon the astronauts on the Moon.' Here Men From The Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D.
We Came in Peace For All Mankind.' The left behind on the surface of the Moon after the astronauts departed.We would like to give special thanks to all those Americans who built the spacecraft; who did the construction, design, the tests, and put their hearts and all their abilities into those craft. To those people tonight, we give a special thank you, and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, God bless you. Good night from Apollo 11.' Neil Armstrong concludes the from Apollo 11 on the night before splashdown, July 23, 1963“This is the greatest week in the history of the world since Creation.” President Nixon enthuses upon greeting the Apollo 11 crew after they splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Jul 24 1969'Hey, we missed the whole thing.'
Buzz Aldrin to Neil Armstrong after watching a video of the press coverage of the Moon landing while in quarantine after splashdown.' Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but it's a long one for me!'
Charles Conrad Jr, Commander of Apollo 12, on on November 20, 1969.
I watched the fantastic movie ' recently and there was one scene that stood out as it looked like the crew was considering making a one way trip and landing on the moon.The goes like this:NEWS ANCHOR (on TV)- The problem now is not there's so much question ofadequate oxygen supply but it is the rate of consumption ofwater which is vitally needed for the cooling operations tomaintain the electronic systems and so forth.FRED HAISE- Gotta tell you, I had an itch to take this baby downthough, and do some prospecting. Damn we were close.JIM LOVELL- Gentlemen, what are your intentions? I'd like to gohome. We got a burn coming up. We're gonna need acontingency if we lose comm with Houston.
Freddo, let's.let's get an idea where we stand on the consumables. Jack,get into the Odyssey and bag up all the water you can beforeit freezes in there. Let's go home.Faced with little chance of returning to Earth, Fred Haise and Jim Lovell seem to be thinking about giving up on the return and focusing on setting foot on the moon. Was this the case? $begingroup$ This is actually a good question.
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If it was, it would probably be found in the book 'Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13' by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger (sadly, id not not have a physical or electronic version I could search). Since its not on the Air-to-Ground transmissions, it won't be in any of those transcripts. I would not dismiss it completely, since Apollo 10 was not fully fueled exactly so that landing was impossible and no temptation was given. $endgroup$–Feb 5 '18 at 10:18. They weren't actually considering it. It's just one of those wishful thinking moments, or a joke to lighten things up. Furthermore, there isn't anything said along those lines in the.
The time it would have been said was around 3:05:00.Also, they really couldn't have done so. They had already used fuel from the descent stage.
The amount wasn't huge, but it was a. They also hadn't orbited, which would have consumed a fair bit more fuel.
In all, they would have had to use more fuel then the descent stage had to allow it to land, not even counting the fuel they had expended. At best, they could have landed using the ascent stage, which wouldn't have been very likely, as it wasn't designed to be used in that way. And if they had landed, they would have had absolutely no chance of coming home. The stack of the SM (service module), CM (command module) and LM (lunar module) was on a free return trajectory to Earth. To get into an orbit around the Moon, the main engine of the SM was needed.
But the SM was damaged by the explosion of the oxygen tank and no electric power was available in the SM. Some of the parts (tanks, valves, tubes, electric cables) needed for the main engine operation might been damaged.So without electrical control, the SM engine could not be used for lunar orbit insertion. If they had used the descent stage engine of the LM for lunar orbit insertion, not enough fuel would have been left for a soft landing on the moon.
The ascent stage could not be used for landing without separation of the descent stage with the landing gear mounted to it.The radar used for landing measuring distance, height and speed of descent was mounted to the descent stage, without that the landing would be impossible.For sources see. $begingroup$ I'm not sure it's as unreasonable as you make it out to be: the previous burn would have been. $begingroup$ @LorenPechtel Considering the national overtones of a Lunar death landing, and the fallout it would certainly cause to the space program as well as the national agenda, a one-way death trip to the Moon would not be something condoned by NASA or by any of the astronauts within its program. This idea of Lunar Death comes from is a movie script where the writers used artistic license to generate false yearning.
The astronauts planned on returning alive. They wouldn't choose death. Not with the ground crew working to help them live. CO2 scrubber, telemetry, etc.
$endgroup$–Feb 6 '18 at 4:59. $begingroup$ @michburkejnr. In terms of remote control, the Apollo guidance computer could be place in remote control, but not forced remotely. So the crew could do whatever they wanted.
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What NASA could withhold was the navigation information to make lunar orbit/landing easy. They had the onboard systems and code to make an earth re-entry without outside support (for safety logically) but unsure if they could have done lunar orbit without a lot of hand work of trajectories, and they would have been without the precision navigation data derived from their transponder by DSN. $endgroup$–Apr 24 at 13:09.