Marooned

They're now beginning

to pressurize the tanks.

Pressurize all of the tanks in

all three stages with gaseous helium.

As the pressurization builds up,

it's monitored.

Here in the control center, our

status board still indicating all is well.

Network, Flight. You configured

for the terminal count?

- Roger, Flight. We're a go.

- Okay.

Check status

for terminal count, Rooster?

- Go, Flight.

- Retro?

- We're a go.

- Fido?

- Go.

- GMC?

- Go, Flight.

- E- CO M?

- Affirmative, Flight.

- F- CO M?

Go all the way.

Sony Panel Three, tape recorder

forward, switch to forward.

- Verify gray bar.

- Roger, we have a gray flag.

DNC is running, Flight.

Roger, in automatic sequence,

start on my mark.

- Mark.

- All right, Jim.

- Stand by your panel 325 function.

- Roger.

- Fuel pre-pressure initiated.

- Roger, Fuel.

- This one's gonna light on your toes.

- PCS bypass on.

- Glycol radiator full to bypass.

- Full to bypass.

- Internal cooling, Flight.

- This is launch control.

The second stage fuel tank

is pressurized.

The third stage liquid oxygen tank

pressurizing at this time.

Ironman One, this is Flight,

how do you read?

- Loud and clear, Dick.

- All right.

CMP on panel two,

verify program two.

- We're a go, Flight.

- Roger.

- Flight recorder to record.

- GDC, align.

- GDC, align.

- All recorders to flight speed.

- Network, Flight. All okay with you?

- Affirmed, Flight.

RTC, you got everybody configured

for commands?

- That's affirmative.

- Internal power and go, Flight.

- You got the transfer?

- That's affirmed.

Ironman One, stand by

for the 10-second count.

Roger, Ted.

Ten, nine, eight...

... seven, six, five, four...

- Flight, safety is green downrange.

- Roger, safety green.

- Booster okay.

- Go, Flight.

- Everything okay?

- Affirmed.

- GNC?

- Go, Flight.

- E- CO M?

- Flight, we're a go.

Roger.

D X manual.

- Stand by for mode one Charlie.

- Mode one Charlie.

Mode one Charlie.

Rooster, I need your

status for staging.

- The tower has jettisoned.

- Trajectory and guidance are a go.

Roger, trajectory and guidance a go.

- Spacecraft systems are a go.

- Spacecraft systems are go.

- All spacecraft systems are go.

- No mistaking.

- We have CECO.

- Roger, CECO.

Hey, it looks like a fine day

down there!

I can see all the way

from Gibraltar to Greece.

Coming up on the terminator, should

be in our first sunset in a few minutes.

- Loss of signal with Canary.

- Roger, LOS.

Okay time to activate TV transmission.

We remote to Houston through

Araya, Buzz.

Araya One, this is Ironman, how do

you copy, over?

Ironman One, Araya. I read you

loud and clear, copy.

I read you the same.

On my mark, TV transmission

from camera A.

- Mark.

- Smile!

- How are you getting this?

- A little snowy, Ironman.

Clearing up now.

Clear now. Good picture.

Well, say something, Ted.

Are we beautiful?

Ironman, this is Houston.

See you real good, all three of you.

- How about the other camera, Jim?

- Camera B coming on.

Mark.

You should be getting me now.

Here's Buzz.

Here's Stoney.

- How's it look?

- Sharp and clear.

How are you for docking

with the lab?

Docking is still planned

for the second orbit as advertised.

Roger. We have an update

on your initial phase maneuver.

Delta V, 249 at.3 feet per second.

This is mission control, Houston...

...at 22 minutes into the flight

of Ironman One.

After a brief 20-minute flight

across the Atlantic...

...the spacecraft is now

crossing the Mediterranean.

We begin to look at the

business of the flight plan...

...which shows

a rendezvous on docking...

...with the Saturn 4B

orbital laboratory.

Buzz, what's our closing rate?

- Closing rate:
50 feet per second.

- Roger.

- Let me know when we have 25.

- Roger.

This is mission control, Houston.

Commander Pruett reported

completion of docking the Apollo...

...at the S- 4B laboratory.

After completing systems checks,

the crew will transfer into the lab...

... in which they will live and work

for the next seven months.

This will be a test of the spacecraft,

the systems and most of all the men.

In preparation for interplanetary

deep-space missions...

... which are now being planned.

During this entire period the

astronauts will cover their activities...

... with TV cameras, which will be

tape-recorded here on Earth...

... for study and evaluation.

Well, it's not too bad. We could use

a couple of windows though.

I think we're missing the view.

What's first, Buzz?

Extra vehicular activities

in the S-509 maneuvering unit.

You take it out.

Stoney, you handle the camera.

Watch it, Stoney.

Try a little aerobatics here.

Here goes.

Buzz, how about some work?

Yeah, right.

I'm coming right down.

Okay, Buzz,

micrometeorite experiment.

- Say again, Stoney.

- Micrometeorite.

Roger, micrometeorite.

This material was obtained

during their first week in space.

I am presenting it

as a point of reference.

Here is Pruett.

Lloyd.

Stone.

We got this day before yesterday.

It demonstrates a serious decline

in the ability to perform...

...even simple manual tasks.

Just over five months of the mission

have been completed satisfactorily.

We wonder if it remains desirable to

continue for the full seven months...

...originally planned.

- What are your parameters, Courtney?

- EKG, rate and rhythm.

- EEG, brain.

- He's not sleeping.

The trend shows definite fatigue.

- Is he still losing weight?

- Down 16 pounds.

The quality of the solar spectral film's

been very poor.

- Well, you're not gonna see any more.

- Why not?

Take a look at this.

Tired and he's making mistakes.

You want to try living in a tin can

for five months?

- What else?

- We got this yesterday.

Some further degradations

to our CS system:

We've lost a backup coolant

loop in the oil thruster.

Oh, yeah.

The washing machine is out.

I was doing some preventative

maintenance on it. I shorted it out.

I also discovered some computation

errors in the telescope settings.

I guess that accounts for the poor

quality in the solar spectral pictures.

I...

I've fixed the razor.

So we can go back to shaving

again now.

And I'm sleeping better.

I guess we're all getting

our second wind.

And if the hardware holds up, I guess

we can make it right to the end.

I know I can.

I think they've done a hell of a job.

Bring them down.

Yes, sir.

Mrs. Wheeler, get everyone on the net

in mission control.

This is mission control, Houston.

The crew of Ironman One has closed

down the S- 4B space laboratory...

...in which they've worked, lived, slept

and eaten for the last five months.

Their Apollo spacecraft

has separated from the lab...

...and at this time, the automatic

sequence of retrofire is about to begin.

Ten, nine, eight...

...seven, six, five, four...

...three, two, one, retrofire.

The spacecraft should be

starting its descent across Australia...

...towards the splash point

in the Pacific...

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