Aleida, my dear. Your mamma wants you.
How long do we have to watch this?
They just talk, talk, talk...
Aleida. This is special.
You'll remember this the rest of your life.
This is the beginning of the future.
You can be part of that.
Maybe even go to the moon one day.
You should be in bed. The doctor says you need rest...
Never mind the doctor.
I want to be here for this.
With her.
So she'll remember.
How the hell did this happen?
Those bastards at NASA have been acting like they had everything under control,
and then they fumble the ball right at the goddamn goal line.
Right at the goal!
Yes, sir, it sure looks that way.
CIA is working up a review of their intel over the last year
to see if they missed any signs of Soviet advances that...
They missed the whole goddamn thing!
The whole match!
You know how the press is gonna play this, don't you?
The New York Times is going to say that
Kennedy started the moon race,
Johnson ran it,
and then Nixon tripped at the goal line.
That's what it's gonna be.
They're gonna try and hang this around my neck,
but they're not gonna succeed.
No, sir.
I'll tell you that right goddamn now.
Not Nixon.
Aleida!
It's time to go!
You know what Teddy's really doing, don't you?
That goddamn pissant's gonna use these hearings
to grandstand against the administration.
Yep...
Gonna get up there and say how NASA was bolder under his brother...
How they've lost their edge under Nixon...
Uh-huh.
This is the opening of the campaign,
Kennedy for President in '72... just you watch.
God help us all.
Flying for almost four days,
the American spacecraft known as the Eagle is on course toward the lunar surface.
The spacecraft carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
is now now flying on its own power.
It should start its descent in approximately one hour.
This is a very exciting time.
Just one month ago, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov
became the first man to step foot on the moon.
Now, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
hope to do the same.
Much preparation has been made for this moment.
Millions of people around the world await their landing.
Once they are on the moon's surface...
There it is.
There is a crossing half a mile to the east.
This way.
Turn that off!
Silence from now on!
Mr. President,
after running various simulations
it is our judgment
that the likelihood of the astronauts
having survived a crash of this nature
...is very low.
It's...
such a tragedy.
There is a statement that was prepared for you in just this eventuality.
Yeah, I've read it.
I'll...
alert the networks that I want airtime to address the nation.
"In ancient days..."
...better ancient times, I think.
"In ancient times..."
"men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations."
"In modern times we do much the same..."
"but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood..."
"and these men will remain the foremost in our hearts."
"For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come..."
"will know that there is some corner of another world..."
"that is forever mankind."