"Hi, this is Cornerstone calling! We wanted to remind you that we are here to assist you with your situation. We have quite a few options available to you. It's important that we hear from you soon. Our friendly representatives are here to help you, Monday through Thursday, 6AM to 7PM, and Friday, 6AM to 5PM Mountain Time. We hope to hear from you soon." "With us also through this morning is, uh, Peter Akis, who had, uh, who had been covering from NBC, uh, News Space Center here, and he's down there now with, uh, with the models, of the mated, uh, spacecraft. Pete! You wanna do a little, uh, recap of what we covered?" "Well, uh, it's, uh, I think we've gone over it a number of times. I might point out one or two things, Hugh. Uh, it has been mentioned that there was some fault with one or more of the thrusters, that is to say the yaw thruster or the roll thruster or many or some or all of them. Uh, I-I think we oughta stress that it's really, uh, still far too early to pinpoint any kind of trouble." "America's Gemini VIII space team's safe aboard the destroyer Leonard Mason steaming toward an evening landfall at Okinawa and the Pacific Ocean. Command pilot Neil Armstrong and his partner on the history of making spaceflight, David Scott, made an emergency splashdown, as Hugh said, at 10:23PM last night, that's Eastern Standard Time, about 500 miles east of Okinawa. The landing came slightly less than eleven hours after liftoff on what was to have been a three day mission. It was to have included a walk around the world in space by Scott, but that was scrubbed! The mission had to be cut short before the spacewalk because of trouble in the orbital docking. When the spacecraft linked up with the Agena target, a runaway thruster rocket on the Gemini capsule sent the two vehicles spinning wildly. The command was given to disengage, and an emergency landing was ordered. Shortly after the spacecraft hit the water in the Pacific, frogmen parachuted from an Air Force transport plane and attached a floatation collar. Not long afterward, the destroyer Mason pulled alongside." "At any rate, it made a violent, sudden lunge, either this way or this way, and then began to move...in a...completely random way. Uh, normally, if it were some, this kind of a--minor motion, there'd be no panic about it. And I don't think there any panic, in fact, yesterday. But uh, the two things that were noticed on the ground where the fact that the voices of the astronauts rose, and their heartbeat became very fast. And very shortly thereafter, the command pilot, Neil Armstrong, decided, apparently on his own, that he better get out of there in a hurry, and he backed out. Shortly thereafter, the motion of the Agena was righted, probably from signals from the ground. But, at that point, Gemini went into an uncontrolled motion." "After, uh--" "After separation. It took them a half hour to get this thing straightened up." "This is probably the only thing where we can speculate with a certain degree of accuracy." "Yeah." "Both of these vehicles were on automatic pilots at the time this trouble started. Now, the automatic pilots would fight each other, locked together. You kick them apart, and this one would stabilize on its own gyros, and it would take longer to stabilize this one on its gyros, much longer." "In order to...right themselves, which is absolutely necessary, when you can just say so much of this, they had to use this series of thrusters, which is called the RCS system, the Reentry Control System. Normally, this system of thrusters, in addition to the ones that are back here, these are not used until reentry. Now, when you use up the fuel that's in these...thruster system--in this thruster system, before you get to re-entry, you don't have any fuel left for guiding yourself down during re-entry. So, it has become, this is the first time it's ever been used, but it's a, it's a rule in the rulebook! Written and unwritten, that whenever you use some of your fuel in your RCS system in advance, you just get down the next possible opportunity." "Now, am I right that the danger then is that the, even correcting these, uh, wild motions in the vehicle, if they had attempted to redock and go through the maneuver again, there was danger then of, uh, di-, uh, diminishing the fuel too much to make a safe reentry?" "Well, there was a point here that Peter was just about to tell you. It, apparently was command pilot's option to separate. In an emergency separation, you destroy part of this nose! You use explosive charges to back off right--" "So you couldn't re--" "And you couldn't--you could, but you have damaged your collar--" "You couldn't, as they say, rigidize. In other words, you couldn't put it in and make it strictly--you could, you could dock like this, but you couldn't tie up tightly." "So if this had gone right, it would have been a one dock, uh, and then, uh--" "Right. And there were four dockings, uh, planned, two rendezvous, four dockings."

"And my uncle Paul. A marvelous, brilliant man, but--he had lost his legs during World War II. And one day, as we were sitting there, um, on the coral rock, Tavernier Key, I remember it was, fishing, he turns to me and he says "Jeanie, scratch my toe!" I'm absolutely appalled, and I say "Uncle Paul, you haven't got a toe!" He says, "I know that, but scratch it anyway, it itches!" I said, "haha, oh no," even at 6, I knew this was a little perverse, you know? He says, "Scratch it, darn it, it itches!" and I looked around, and there was nobody there but he and me and the fishes, so I--sort of in the vicinity of his toe, I began to...scratch the air. He says "Oh! Thank you very much..." I said, "Uncle Paul--you haven't got a toe!" He says, "I know that...but my brain doesn't. It itches anyway."" "It relates to what are called the sensory cells in the motor homunculus. Many of you who have seen physiological texts have seen pictures of a little man lying across the brain. You ever seen that picture? Neurological texts? With large eyes, large stomach, large digestive system, small hands. That is called the motor homunculus that actually is merely a metaphoric drawing--corresponding into parts of the brain where these different functions exist. In the last few years, we have discovered something...in this...area of the brain, which is called the sensory cells of the motor homunculus. We've also learned that you can learn how to activate these cells, and once you do that--which we're about to do--you will be able to greatly improve skills, tasks, professional forms, as well as many other things--as well as improve the body image." "And down. Real body again, stretch. And down. Real body again, stretch, and be fully present in the fullness of that stretch. And down. In the kinesthetic body, now stretch. Very good! And down. Real body, stretch. And down. Kinesthetic body, just as vividly, stretch! Keep up the same breathing pattern. And down. Very good, real body stretch. Be fully there, fully, fully, fully, and down. Kinesthetic body, stretch! Kinesthetic~ And down. The other arm, real body, stretch! The other arm. And down. Again, real arm, stretch. Be fully there! And down. But if it helps you to close your eyes, by all means, do that. Kinesthetic body, stretch. Kinesthetic, kiiinesthetic! And really be there, feel the muscular forms! And down. Real body, stretch. And down. Kinesthetic body stretch. And down. Very good." "You're literally, in the next few minutes, going to be activating a whole new section of your brain that many of you have rarely used before. Are you ready? Okay. You will have to--this is a standing up exercise--you'll have to clear some chairs and get out in the aisles, and I will do what I can. Yeah, really spread out! You wanna use the stage, use the stage! We have no time for self-consciousness. No time! [laughs] Yeah, come on up on the stage! Come on! Veni, veni! That's a-good. Okay, now!" "And down. Real body again, stretch. And down. Real body again, stretch, and be fully present in the fullness of that stretch. And down. In the kinesthetic body, now stretch. Very good! And down. Real body, stretch. And down. Kinesthetic body, just as vividly, stretch! Keep up the same breathing pattern. And down. Very good, real body stretch. Be fully there, fully, fully, fully, and down. Kinesthetic body, stretch! Kinesthetic~ And down. The other arm, real body, stretch! The other arm. And down. Again, real arm, stretch. Be fully there! And down. But if it helps you to close your eyes, by all means, do that. Kinesthetic body, stretch. Kinesthetic, kiiinesthetic! And really be there, feel the muscular forms! And down. Real body, stretch. And down. Kinesthetic body stretch. And down. Very good." "KINESTHETIC!"

"This is the one that you serve. This is the one...you call master...friend... This is the one... This is the one that you pray to. This is the one who holds you. This is the one that carries you through ruin, through the fiery furnace and the winds and the storms of RAIN. THIS is the one...this is the one... He's come...looking, SEARCHING... I shall follow You, all the days of my life, CHOOSE YOU this day, whom you shall serve. Make a decision in your heart who to follow. Don't be WAVERING like a man tossed about the sea by every wind in doctrinal teaching, no no no... Like a pitbull, make it clear, plain upon a tablet, for though it may seem like it takes forever to come, it shall come at His timing. The words which He spoke, and is still speaking, shall not return unto Him, boy, but they shall accomplish their purpose." "That anointing, which it says shall teach us all things shall... That anointing, which as His teaches us all things, shall teach you, all things shall cause you, to bring into remembrance, all the words I have spoken to, they BURN and YEARN inside to seek your face, to seek your presence..." [speaking in tongues] "The Holy Spirit, guiding every step, teaching and showing and revealing and moving on their hearts, lives. Call them to the closet. To haul them to kneel before You, birthing them the desire to get on their knees for You. Seek your faith. Pray right now. That desire...planted and rooted in their spirit. Let it get down on their spirit... Let it get down on their spirit, man... Let it get down on their SPIRIT, the fact that they have to seek YOUR WORD, enquire, Your ways, DAILY, and died the self, DAILY..." [speaking in tongues]

"The latest forecast now, they got a, uh, Small Craft Advisory on the Potomac, 3+ feet of surges for the tide this afternoon, starting, uh, before 2 o'clock. They're calling for--50+ mile an hour winds. Okay, we got a--we got 200 lives out there." "I'd love to compete, but--I think if, um, if it's in fear of life or, or--obviously, y'know--the high winds and stuff, I think it should at least be delayed or maybe just called off." "I might show a little inconsistency, y'know, my--my opinion about canceling tournaments, I think we shouldn't do it. But, uh, I wanna show a little bit of inconsistency here, because that's under conditions that most of us have dealt with for fifteen years, like cold fronts and things like that. Uh, this is not a cold front, this is a hurricane, and very few of us have fished in a hurricane, so." "I-I just think it would be a bad deal to turn all these guys loose out there, it's gonna be bad, like Clunn said, we don't know what the--the tides and, uh, and all of the--the hard rain--you're not even gonna be able to see! If you can't see, you can't fight waves." "I don't fight with all the risk over anybody's life, go out there and fish regardless of money or--" "--This is part of the sport now, we gotta be careful about people's lives, there's too many people involved in it." "You know, I don't feel like we should go. It's not worth one life. Now, we know about cold fronts, and we know how to handle 20, 25-30 mile an hour winds, but I'm gonna tell you, gentlemen--50 mile an hour winds with gusts of 70 is what they're saying." "I don't wanna go out there, and uh... You know, I don't wanna go somewhere today, that, uh, it might get real bad, and can't get home. You know, I don't feel like, uh, putting my amateur in, um, you know, in a situation that he don't wanna be in." "I... We'll make a decision. But I want you to support me, and I want you to back me up on it."

"Good morning! And as we say good morning, it is morning just dawning here at the cape. The sun has finally burned through a big bank of clouds that rests over the horizon on the Atlantic. It was a rosy-fingered dawn, as the poet would have had it a few moments ago. Out at launchpad B, which we can barely see now because ground fog has miasmically sort of enveloped it for the time being at least. Up atop the rocket there that stands on its own little launchstand are the three men of the moment, the-the astronauts that have been up since two o'clock this morning, Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma, who are waiting for their big moment. The clock now says five minutes, 56 seconds to go. It's counting clicking down. The launch time is 10 minutes, 50 seconds after the hour coming up in just a few moments of course. Let's, uh, check out now with Chuck Hollingshead, the voice of, uh, the Kennedy Space Center as he brings us up to date." "The Air Force Eastern Test Range who perform tracking during the powered phase of flight, and of course, the launch team here in the firing room, all reporting in at this time. Houston flight just reported in that they are go for starting the automatic sequencer. The program director, William Snyder, also reports we're go for launch." "That's the situation now, we're go for launch, as all has gone according to plan, as it has so many times here from the cape. Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, the sort of mother hens of the astronauts, uh, were with the crewmen this morning for steak and eggs shortly after 2AM. They suited up, their doctor, Dr. Pat Buchanan, pronounced the men fit and eager to roll. It was then, after suiting a seven mile ride out here to pad B, which then was in darkness, they went up to the top, 224 feet of one B rocket standing on 127 feet of pedestal to make up the deficit between that smaller rocket and the big Saturn V that normally is launched from here. This one's powerful enough though, about 1.64 million pounds of thrust to be generated during takeoff. The spacecraft weight limit is sort of interesting this morning, it should be no more than 13,500 pounds. Mission Control and the engineers estimated now weighs 13,405 pounds, that gives us just a, a 95 pound margin. Included in this are eight pounds of catsup, some garlic, some peppers, some celery salt, and various other spices to relieve what the first Skylab crew discovered was rather bland tasting food. If you ask Dr. Royce Hawkins, the, uh, the main doctor for this particular mission, about the eight pounds of catsup, he explains rather succinctly that Alan Bean likes catsup. Well, Alan Bean is the Navy Captain who's the Mission Commander, and if he likes catsup, they're going to take eight full pounds for him. Three experiments, by the way, had to be left off because of the weight requirements. The catsup, of course, had nothing to do with that." "But since we're hearing from and about these men for the next 59 days, a, a word of deeper biography probably is in order. Owen Garriott is 42 years old. He's a PhD whose field is really electrical engineering. He wears a mustache, he has a professorial bearing about him. Garriott was born in Enid, Oklahoma, he's married, he and his wife, Helen, have four children. Arriving at Florida just a couple of days ago for the launch, Garriott had a few words." "We're all very anxious, very pleased to be back at the cape. And we're anxious to start off on this trip for which we've all been working, at least the three of us, for something like, oh, two or three years as a team and five or six years total. And uh, we're really anxious to get started with it. And I hope to be seeing you folks, er, back here on the ground in a little over two months." "Owen Garriott, the PhD from Stanford. But John Glenn was this country's first man in orbit. Most people remember too that he was a Marine. Today's Skylab pilot, Jack Lousma, is a Marine major, and he thus becomes the second spaceman from the Corps. Lousma, 37, was born out in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Lousmas have three children. He's a big strong man whose NASA doctors say has the constitution of a horse." "--As we have been for a long time, and we see a lot of familiar faces out there. Those of you who have all--many of you have helped to get this mission underway and, uh, we're proud to be representing you as, as well as, uh, going on this flight. We're looking forward to it as I said, and we'll be back here in a couple of months to, uh, will say hello again." "Jack Lousma, the man who's over in the right hand couch. Well, the Mission Commander on the left is the only fellow who's been in space from this crew before. Navy Captain Alan Bean went up with Pete Conrad to the moon on Apollo 12. And I bet you remember their good natured chuckling as they hopped about on the surface there. You probably recall too they destroyed their television camera when they pointed it at the sun soon after they got out of their landed LEM. Bean is a Texan, married to a Texan, and they have two children. Captain Bean's 41, he has a distinctive voice, one that seems to cut right through static." "Anxious to have the opportunity to do the things that we've been training to do. We know that Pete, Joe, and Paul left the spacecraft in good shape, and we're gonna go up there and live rent free for two months. And then, uh, we'll leave it for Gerry Carr, Bill Pogue, and, uh, Ed Gibson. Thank you for coming out again." "There he is, Captain Alan Bean, as we listen to them greeting a small contingent of people out on the ramp at Patrick Air Force Base when they arrived here at the cape. Still very difficult to see too much out there. We're at the one minute mark and the countdown, down to 59, 57 seconds, we're on down into the automatic sequencer now. The computer deciding when we're ready to go and when they're ready to go. Let's join again the voice of Chuck Collins:" "The second man crew to, well, man the orbiting sky laboratory, t-42 seconds. Spacecraft Commander now has made the final guidance alignment, that's the final action to be taken by the crew onboard the spacecraft until after the launch. T-30 seconds, T-30 seconds and counting. The eight first stage engines will ignite at 3.1 seconds in our countdown. They will be held down while thrust is built up, uh, until the zero mark, at which time we'll get liftoff. We'll be looking for liftoff right at the T-0 mark." "We're down to 13 seconds. We're down to 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3. We should see fire and we do, we have ignition. Sequence start--and we have liftoff! We have first motion. They've cleared the tower. Let's hear it. Let's see if we get any communication now we know they're clear." "Over this program, Houston." "Roger roll and pitch, Skylab. And, uh, thrust looks good on all engines." "that's thick truly rewarding back. Twenty seconds into the flight. Heading on, it's very clear up there now. Very bright flame as friable as the sun." "Seven-tenths of a mile. Velocity 1,432 feet per second. 36 seconds." "Streaking up before that high--" "Got a pretty noise to it right now." "Roger that, you're lookin' real good." "Vic truly rogers that, he's the, uh, captain out in Houston, Texas. White flames sweeps through the cloud."