1 00:00:01,171 --> 00:00:02,180 - This is Apollo Control 2 00:00:02,180 --> 00:00:04,012 at four hours fourteen minutes. 3 00:00:04,012 --> 00:00:06,089 Huntsville has acquisition. 4 00:00:06,089 --> 00:00:08,480 (radio static) 5 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:10,960 - Huntsville valid due in. 6 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,573 - Houston, Apollo 9. 7 00:00:13,590 --> 00:00:15,667 - Go Apollo 9, this is Houston 8 00:00:16,613 --> 00:00:19,075 - Okay, Houston you're coming in very weak 9 00:00:19,075 --> 00:00:22,285 but be advised we had a successful ejection 10 00:00:22,285 --> 00:00:25,910 and we are presently separating very slowly from the S-IVB. 11 00:00:25,910 --> 00:00:29,092 We've got them in sight out of all the windows. 12 00:00:29,092 --> 00:00:30,112 - Alright, sounds beautiful. 13 00:00:30,112 --> 00:00:33,070 Could you give me your ejection time, please? 14 00:00:33,070 --> 00:00:36,180 - We've created a real partnership with machines 15 00:00:36,180 --> 00:00:40,583 which have allowed us to do amazing things. 16 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:43,500 We don't really know 17 00:00:44,570 --> 00:00:47,130 what life elsewhere in the universe looks like 18 00:00:47,130 --> 00:00:50,440 so we don't know what the parallel to that is, 19 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:55,103 but I suspect that part of life, wherever it may exist, 20 00:00:56,153 --> 00:00:59,260 of necessity involves 21 00:01:00,860 --> 00:01:03,410 intelligence and self-awareness. 22 00:01:03,410 --> 00:01:06,310 Creating tools and machines, which 23 00:01:06,310 --> 00:01:09,743 enable it to do things that it could not otherwise do. 24 00:01:10,695 --> 00:01:14,040 As I say, we're all very much wrapped up in this. 25 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:15,890 Everyone of you has got, 26 00:01:15,890 --> 00:01:18,223 in your pocket or your purse or whatever. 27 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:21,803 I got one right there, 28 00:01:22,930 --> 00:01:25,313 this thing has, I have no idea, 29 00:01:26,250 --> 00:01:29,720 somewhere between 1,000 and 1,000,000 times the capability 30 00:01:30,570 --> 00:01:33,390 that got me and my buddies up into space 31 00:01:33,390 --> 00:01:34,640 and to the moon and back. 32 00:01:35,860 --> 00:01:37,693 We take it for granted. 33 00:01:40,330 --> 00:01:45,230 But it got me thinking that that idea, as a tribute, 34 00:01:46,220 --> 00:01:50,940 that we seldom acknowledge is something 35 00:01:50,940 --> 00:01:54,463 that I felt I wanted to bring to people's attention. 36 00:01:55,700 --> 00:02:00,700 People today at the edge, at the frontier of investigating 37 00:02:03,060 --> 00:02:06,230 the evolution from the Big Bang 38 00:02:06,230 --> 00:02:09,690 all the way through the 13.7 billion years 39 00:02:09,690 --> 00:02:11,143 that lead to today. 40 00:02:15,250 --> 00:02:20,250 Believe certainly that life is a natural outcome 41 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,830 of the fundamental structure 42 00:02:23,830 --> 00:02:26,133 and organization of the universe. 43 00:02:27,110 --> 00:02:29,820 You go back to the Big Bang that started with quarks. 44 00:02:29,820 --> 00:02:34,720 Extremely hot, extremely dense and as things expanded 45 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,410 and got cooler you know those quarks and things 46 00:02:38,410 --> 00:02:41,293 got together and formed nuclear particles. 47 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,300 Atomic particles following on from that 48 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:48,030 and eventually things cool off enough 49 00:02:48,030 --> 00:02:51,440 that atoms got together to form molecules. 50 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,840 Eons later, out of chemistry, comes a transition 51 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,320 which we have no clue today how that happened. 52 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,163 And that is the evolution from chemistry into biology. 53 00:03:02,300 --> 00:03:06,803 And with biology came some very fascinating realities. 54 00:03:07,740 --> 00:03:09,520 Survival instinct. 55 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,430 The fundamental recognition that 56 00:03:14,290 --> 00:03:17,350 driving all of life that we know of is this 57 00:03:18,580 --> 00:03:22,400 tendency to do whatever it takes to survive, 58 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,100 to expand, to go beyond and that's where, 59 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:31,030 out of intelligence and humanity as we evolved 60 00:03:31,030 --> 00:03:34,680 out of that life process we invent machines 61 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,810 that enable us to go beyond. 62 00:03:37,810 --> 00:03:39,400 And of all people here, 63 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:40,980 in this particular gathering, 64 00:03:40,980 --> 00:03:43,000 here I am telling you that 65 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,300 we've gone out and landed on the moon. 66 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:49,470 I look back at Apollo on this 50th Anniversary Celebration 67 00:03:49,470 --> 00:03:52,640 and I look in particular to Apollo 8, 68 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:54,190 guys that preceded me, by the way 69 00:03:54,190 --> 00:03:56,030 General, with the third mission but that's okay, 70 00:03:56,030 --> 00:03:57,474 you were close fourth. 71 00:03:57,474 --> 00:03:59,710 (laughter) 72 00:03:59,710 --> 00:04:01,695 Sorry about that General, but I 73 00:04:01,695 --> 00:04:04,695 (audience laughter) 74 00:04:06,450 --> 00:04:08,780 Apollo 8 was the crew 75 00:04:08,780 --> 00:04:11,690 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders 76 00:04:11,690 --> 00:04:13,540 all very good friends of mine 77 00:04:13,540 --> 00:04:17,580 who went out the moon at Christmas 1968. 78 00:04:17,580 --> 00:04:20,810 The most memorable thing about it for me 79 00:04:20,810 --> 00:04:24,400 was the fact that they got there, 80 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,020 went into orbit around the moon. 81 00:04:26,020 --> 00:04:28,833 Not just around it and back but they went into orbit. 82 00:04:29,740 --> 00:04:33,060 They were looking at the craters on the surface of the moon 83 00:04:33,060 --> 00:04:35,370 to get any kind of information and intelligence 84 00:04:35,370 --> 00:04:38,580 they could about the subsequent landing that would help 85 00:04:38,580 --> 00:04:40,973 on the landing to come a couple missions later. 86 00:04:42,690 --> 00:04:44,440 They were flying pointed straight down 87 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:45,540 as they went around the moon 88 00:04:45,540 --> 00:04:47,400 and they were actually going backwards 89 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:49,240 so that they would see the craters come out 90 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,520 from under the nose of the spacecraft 91 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,970 and disappear over the far horizon. 92 00:04:53,970 --> 00:04:57,880 They did that for three orbits around the moon, six hours. 93 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:58,890 And then for some reason, 94 00:04:58,890 --> 00:05:00,480 that I don't know and I don't know if he knows 95 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,620 but Frank Borman rolled the space craft 96 00:05:03,620 --> 00:05:04,760 so that they were going forward. 97 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,740 Same altitude but they were going forward 98 00:05:06,740 --> 00:05:10,490 then craters were coming from the far horizon toward them. 99 00:05:10,490 --> 00:05:15,241 The same thing, crater upon crater upon crater, 100 00:05:15,241 --> 00:05:17,240 shades of gray, 101 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,220 looking up stars in a very very black universe 102 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,370 and all of the sudden shockingly, 103 00:05:24,370 --> 00:05:25,203 I mean literally, 104 00:05:25,203 --> 00:05:28,820 it was a shock to them when up over the horizon 105 00:05:28,820 --> 00:05:29,803 came the earth. 106 00:05:33,070 --> 00:05:37,080 Beautiful, blue and white, colorful 107 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,430 and suddenly, for the first time, in history 108 00:05:40,430 --> 00:05:44,803 humanity realized what it was all about. 109 00:05:45,810 --> 00:05:49,480 We are the creation of the universe 110 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,030 here in this small corner of the universe 111 00:05:52,930 --> 00:05:54,200 that we occupy 112 00:05:55,070 --> 00:05:57,510 and we're the only life that we know about, 113 00:05:57,510 --> 00:05:58,880 for that matter, in the universe 114 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:02,350 but certainly here in our little corner of the universe 115 00:06:02,350 --> 00:06:04,950 and they, with their own eyes, saw that beautiful earth 116 00:06:04,950 --> 00:06:08,423 and recognized the earth as Mother Earth. 117 00:06:09,490 --> 00:06:14,490 And we, humanity, intelligence, life, 118 00:06:14,540 --> 00:06:17,052 being born out of that 119 00:06:17,052 --> 00:06:20,230 non-human mother 120 00:06:20,230 --> 00:06:23,703 but Gaia, Mother Earth. 121 00:06:24,860 --> 00:06:27,310 And I look back at that 122 00:06:27,310 --> 00:06:28,620 and as far as I'm concerned 123 00:06:28,620 --> 00:06:32,720 that was the moment of what I call cosmic birth. 124 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:34,860 That was the moment that life 125 00:06:34,860 --> 00:06:38,090 first moved out of the mother, 126 00:06:38,090 --> 00:06:41,600 that was the moment where as in human life 127 00:06:42,502 --> 00:06:45,580 there forms a two-way relationship. 128 00:06:45,580 --> 00:06:48,530 No longer a fetus being supported by the mother 129 00:06:48,530 --> 00:06:51,580 but now, a life independent of the mother. 130 00:06:51,580 --> 00:06:53,020 The development of love 131 00:06:54,039 --> 00:06:55,980 and think about the environmental movement 132 00:06:55,980 --> 00:06:57,583 that started at that time. 133 00:06:58,550 --> 00:07:01,430 Think about the whole birthing process 134 00:07:01,430 --> 00:07:05,420 of the fetus demanding more and more energy and material 135 00:07:05,420 --> 00:07:07,940 to support it's growth. 136 00:07:07,940 --> 00:07:09,610 Creating more and more waste 137 00:07:09,610 --> 00:07:11,370 and the mother having to process it. 138 00:07:11,370 --> 00:07:12,920 There are good analogies there. 139 00:07:13,870 --> 00:07:16,853 We adopt them in our whole environmental process. 140 00:07:18,470 --> 00:07:23,354 But love has become now a two-way process. 141 00:07:23,354 --> 00:07:25,680 And the next thing that follows on that love, 142 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,870 that love relationship that we have now with the planet 143 00:07:29,730 --> 00:07:30,993 is responsibility. 144 00:07:32,270 --> 00:07:36,340 We all assume in our own way 145 00:07:36,340 --> 00:07:38,840 some responsibility for our mothers 146 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,361 and fathers, for that matter but they don't count much. 147 00:07:41,361 --> 00:07:44,120 (laughter) 148 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:49,120 And here we are celebrating 50 years of human eyes 149 00:07:49,230 --> 00:07:53,860 first seeing and recognizing and to some extent 150 00:07:53,860 --> 00:07:56,250 still in the process of acknowledging 151 00:07:57,252 --> 00:08:00,040 that responsibility which is intrinsic 152 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,520 in the understanding that we are 153 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,550 the only life in our corner of the universe 154 00:08:07,420 --> 00:08:11,240 and this evolutionary process, in which we're a part, 155 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,350 will continue and we now, 156 00:08:14,350 --> 00:08:16,560 with the power that we have, 157 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:20,510 our cells, our brains, the machines that we create 158 00:08:20,510 --> 00:08:24,240 are responsible for the continued evolution 159 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,813 of life out of Mother Earth. 160 00:08:28,610 --> 00:08:31,100 That's what Apollo was all about. 161 00:08:31,100 --> 00:08:33,900 It wasn't Rusty Schweickart or Neil Armstrong 162 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:35,040 or anybody else. 163 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,853 It wasn't the Apollo 9 mission or the Apollo 11 mission. 164 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,870 It was that moment in time that will be remembered 165 00:08:42,870 --> 00:08:45,713 10,000 years from now, 100,000 years from now. 166 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,890 With a little bit of luck and responsibility lived 167 00:08:51,910 --> 00:08:54,370 we're gonna see that there is life 168 00:08:54,370 --> 00:08:56,440 that we were part of here. 169 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,720 This unique moment when that life first emerged 170 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,460 out of this Mother Earth, this beautiful earth 171 00:09:04,406 --> 00:09:05,806 that we celebrate here today 172 00:09:07,806 --> 00:09:10,610 and that is what we should be celebrating today 173 00:09:10,610 --> 00:09:13,830 on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 174 00:09:13,830 --> 00:09:18,600 and I appreciate being here to suggest that to you 175 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,720 to charge you with whatever you've got to do 176 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,130 to see that that continues to your 177 00:09:24,130 --> 00:09:27,120 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, 178 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,020 that is the process of evolution we're all part of 179 00:09:30,020 --> 00:09:32,120 and what we celebrate today. 180 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,410 And if it were not for that airplane behind me 181 00:09:34,410 --> 00:09:35,650 and the Mass Air Guard 182 00:09:35,650 --> 00:09:38,340 and the 101st and the 102nd, 183 00:09:38,340 --> 00:09:40,170 I wouldn't be here today to celebrate it with you. 184 00:09:40,170 --> 00:09:42,560 But, thank you very much for inviting me 185 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:43,981 and I really appreciate it. 186 00:09:43,981 --> 00:09:45,653 Thank you 187 00:09:45,653 --> 00:09:47,189 (applause) 188 00:09:47,189 --> 00:09:48,522 - Thank you sir.