trivia
quotes
Cliff Buxton: Glenn, come here.
Glenn Latham: What?
Al Burnett: Every coordinate in
this book has been changed.
Glenn Latham: Yeah... I changed
them.
Al Burnett: You what?
Glenn Latham: I changed them.
Al Burnett: Why?
Glenn Latham: Because they were
wrong.
Al Burnett: Why were they wrong?
Glenn Latham: Dunno.
Cliff Buxton: No, what about
them was wrong?
Glenn Latham: Oh! Well, the
figures NASA gave us were for the northern hemisphere... and we're in
the southern hemisphere? I can change them back but then you'd be
pointing in the wrong d...
Cliff Buxton: Glenn, it might
be a good idea for you to tell us these things.
Glenn Latham: Oh, sure, I just
didn't wanna worry you... Cuppa tea, Al?
Politician: Turns out that
Parkes is the biggest radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere.
Prime Minister: What's it doing
in the middle of a sheep paddock?
Reporter: No offence, but NASA
spends fifteen years, hundreds of millions of dollars so that we can
watch man walk on the moon and in the end it falls to you blokes! I
mean, how do you feel about that?
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: A lot
better before you opened your trap!
Al Burnett: I stand corrected.
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: No,
you're WRONG!
Al Burnett: Do we have a
problem?
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: Yeah!
You treat us like a pack of galahs!
Glenn Latham: That's a type of
parrot.
Billy McIntyre: The engines are
filling with hydrogen.
Mayor Bob McIntyre: Can they
fix that?
Billy McIntyre: No, that means
it's go for launch.
Mayor Bob McIntyre: Ohhh,
*hydrogen*.
Cliff Buxton: My wife said
something. She said, "Failure is never quite so frightening as regret".
Glenn Latham: Oh, that's good
advice.
Cliff Buxton: Pretty good.
Glenn Latham: I wish
somebody'd tell me that.
Marie McIntyre: If you ask me,
I think it's the biggest chauvinistic exercise in the world.
May McIntyre: That's why nobody
asks you, darling.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: That's
bullshit. You just bullshitted NASA!
Glenn Latham: Everything's fine.
Al Burnett: Except we lost
Apollo 11!
Glenn Latham: Oh, except for
that.
Al Burnett: Are you telling me
that NASA's prime receiving station has absolutely no idea where Apollo
11 is?
Glenn Latham: Yeah - it's on
its way to the moon.
Mayor Bob McIntyre: My wife,
May. She's the lemon.
Mayor Bob McIntyre: You've just
got to tell them.
Cliff Buxton: That we lost
Apollo 11?
Mayor Bob McIntyre: Well, I
wouldn't say that first.
Cliff Buxton: What would you
say first?
Mayor Bob McIntyre: How about
"hey, you'll never guess what happened...”
Mayor Bob McIntyre: You
remember that night at my place? Trying to sort out the contract with
that fella from NASA? 'What about this? What about that?' Two hours,
and you finally speak. 'Gentlemen, this should be the contract. We
agree to support the Apollo 11 mission.' That was it - one sentence.
They couldn't believe it. It was a wonderful moment.
Cliff Buxton: But this isn't.
Mayor Bob McIntyre: No, this is
a shithouse moment.
[off screen]
Rudi Kellerman: Who goes there?
[sheep heard bleating]
Al Burnett: The Ambassador's
coming. Space nut. Knows everything about Apollo 11.
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: Does he
know where it is?
Al Burnett: Not everyone at
NASA is a hotshot college genius. The guy I most admire is from a
one-horse town in Ohio.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: And
what's he do?
Al Burnett: Tomorrow he's gonna
walk on the moon.
Glenn Latham: ...Who's the guy?
