Destination Moon Page #4

Turn this thing around!

Take me back!

I ain't going to no moon!

That's just to look at!

I'm sick.

Grab hold.

Hang on.

What happened to me?

You're alright.

In free orbit, everything is falling

at the same speed.

Everything unfastened just floats.

There's no up or down.

Tell that to my stomach!

It says there's nothing but up!

Oh, boy!

Am I seasick!

You're not seasick, you're space sick!

I'm sick of that too!

Take one of these pills.

It'll settle your stomach.

I can't swallow. It won't go down!

It'll take practice without gravity

to help. You'll manage.

General, how are you feeling?

You got another one of those pills?

- Here's a whole box full.

Let's see if I can swallow better

than Sweeney.

Unless these pills work, space travel

isn't going to be popular.

Don't!

Think of the condition of my stomach!

Shoes, General?

- Thank you.

Let's get these on you. They've got

magnets in the soles.

How do you feel now?

The way I did when I tried

my first smoke.

You'll be alright in a minute. Put that

one on and try to get Dry Wells.

Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells.

Spaceship Luna calling Dry Wells, over.

Dry Wells to Spaceship Luna.

Man alive, I can't believe it!

Your takeoff checked out according to

flight plan.

We are now tracking you by radar.

You are in your calculated orbit.

We will continue to track you

as long as we can. Good luck, over.

Thank you, Dry Wells and roger.

Doc, General. You've got to see this.

Gosh, ain't that something!

I thought I'd seen everything.

Just look at those cities!

Is that Los Angeles?

- And San Francisco.

Sure! That's Los Angeles.

That's New York!

Can you see Brooklyn?

Sure there's Brooklyn.

I wonder who's pitching?

Joe!

I want to test the radar.

The antenna seems to be stuck.

Stuck?

I don't understand it. I was

particularly careful when I greased it.

Greased it?

No wonder it's stuck!

It's exposed to outer space! It's frozen

solid! You should know better than that!

I'm no scientist!

Didn't you bother to read

the engineering instructions?

Arguing won't get us anywhere.

The radar has to be fixed.

To try to land blind would be

our finish.

How do we fix it, Doc?

Somebody has to go outside and free it.

- Outside?

You mean go outside the ship?

- It can't be done any other way.

We'd be swept off!

- No, you can't fall.

Outside, you'll be in the same orbit

and trajectory as the ship.

The worst that could happen is that

you'd drift away from the side.

We avoid that by using safety lines.

Let's do it!

No Jim, I'll go.

I want to inspect the rocket jet anyway

to see how it stood up on the takeoff.

I'll tag along.

- Me too.

I fouled us up and if you guys

go out, so do I.

Coming, General.

- No.

I'm not curious.

You boys go have your fun.

I'll stay and write up the log.

Green is just the color for you,

Sweeney.

Ready to put on the helmets?

I won't be able to breathe in here!

You won't be able to breathe without it.

Hook up your air hose.

You forget there's no air outside.

There's plenty of room for it!

Check radios.

Check instruments.

Check air.

Let's go!

I'm going to get another line!

Now it will open.

Close it, Skipper!

We'll fall out!

Get this through your head, Joe.

You can't fall.

Let's go!

Hey, we're stuck up here!

We ain't moving!

It only seems that way. We're really

traveling thousands of miles per hour.

Here in space, all comparisons

are lost.

Take a look behind you.

Wow!

The geography books are right.

How do you feel now, Joe?

Weird.

Thousands of miles an hour

and not a breeze.

It's more beautiful than

I ever dreamed.

We will never be able to

describe it to anyone.

I'm going aft. See you shortly.

Wait until we finish this.

I'll go with you.

You stay here and take care of

the radar. Give me a rope.

Help yourself.

I'll be back in a minute.

Skip! Joe! Help!

I'm adrift!

I can't get back!

Tie it off to the ship.

- Where?

Off the stern. Come on!

Jim! Joe! Help!

Can you hear me?

I'm adrift!

Coming, Doc!

Hurry! If we can't get him,

he will float forever!

Get a rope to him!

Captain, towards the stern!

We're working towards you, Doc.

We can see you.

Jim, Joe! Is he alright?

Can you get him?

We've go to get him!

- I'm coming out!

Steady, Doc.

We're going to get a rope to you.

Steady, Doc!

Here it comes!

Catch!

I can't reach it!

We'll try again.

General! Can you hear me?

Bring out an oxygen bottle!

Hurry!

Hurry, Jim!

Joe, help!

General! That oxygen tank, hurry!

Where is he?

Way out there.

What are you going to do?

Get him!

I hope it's got enough kick!

General, grab him!

We'll lose him too!

I almost didn't make it.

Can we get back?

If we don't, we'll tour the universe

together! Hang on, I'm going to turn it.

Pray there's enough gas to get us back.

He's got him!

Give me the rope!

You okay, Doc?

- I didn't think we'd make it!

Come on, boys.

Let's go inside.

We're getting close.

- Standing by, ready to fire.

Here goes the turn.

We're going backwards!

Yes, we're going to use the firing

as brakes.

Stand by for acceleration.

Tracking as predicted.

Good. Radar report?

Altitude 108000.

Closing as predicted.

- Power?

Plant okay.

That didn't slow us! We're going faster

than ever! - No we're not!

It seems that way because we're

close and heading in.

I just decided I don't want to go

through with this thing. Let's go home!

Cut it out, Joe.

Give me the view aft.

View aft.

Power plant?

- On manual.

Ready now...

Holy smoke! We can't land on that,

we'll be splattered!

Quit worrying. We're landing

in the smooth plain short of there.

I'm going to kill our forward speed.

Stand by.

Acceleration!

You missed, Jim!

- I know it! Emergency!

Pick her up, Jim!

Give us some lateral!

Too late! Too much firing

and we can't get home.

I'll have to use the drift we've got.

You going to chance it, Jim?

- Have to!

Automatic landing!

- Automatic, it is.

Co-pilot!

Tracking in on automatic.

Tracking now.

Cover me at 830 feet.

Covered at 830.

- Correction...cover at 870.

870, right. Can you miss those peaks?

- Got a prayer in your pocket?

Correction...860!

- 860!

Tracking steady.

All hands brace for crash!

We're down.

We're down.

Cut out your gyros.

Okay.

Fine landing, Jim.

That was a terrible landing

and you know it!

I mean for a first one.

I wasted reaction mass we'll need to

get back. If we get back.

Worry about that later,

we just got here.

Here...

On the moon!

Jim, Doc...

We're on the moon!

And we're alive!

Holy cow! The next time you tell me you

can get to the moon, I'll believe you.

You waited a long time for this, Doc.

- All my life.

Sweeney, how about trying

to raise Washington?

You bet! Wait until I tell them...

First race:
Spaceship Luna in the lead,

way out in front!

Doc, Jim. You two go down and

set foot on the surface.

That's something I want to enter

in my log.

No, I think we should all go together.

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