How it opens
The first men back from space came down in a blunt steel capsule that landed like a thrown anvil and dug its own monument.
You climbed out of the crater at Bootstrap with your legs like wet rope and the cheers arriving across the desert like surf.
HaneyReport. The Earth is still here and it still weighs a ton a ton. My compliments to whoever keeps it running.
The ChiefThe instruments survived. Every number we burned for is in this box, and the numbers are good.
Choose
Hand it to Brent before you shake another hand.
Hold it up for the cameras, so the world knows what the trip was for.
Ask the doctors to check you first, and let the box wait its turn.