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While most of President Eisenhower's
advisors--

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If you have just tuned in
to this special bulletin...

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Washington has confirmed
that yesterday...

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on the fourth
of October, 1957...

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the Soviet Union
successfully launched...

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history's first
man-made satellite...

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into space orbit
around the Earth.

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The satellite which the Russians
have dubbed Sputnik...

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is being hailed
as a milestone in history.

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No one in our nation's capital
could deny that the satellite...

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has ushered in a grim
new chapter in the Cold War.

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And indeed,
a wave of national anxiety...

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already seems
to be sweeping the country.

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Still maintaining its speed
of 18,000 miles an hour...

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completing an orbit of the Earth
every 96 minutes.

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Dr. Wernher von Braun...

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Chief Engineer of the Army
Ballistic Missile Agency...

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expressed the hope
that the United States...

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would soon be following
the Russians into space...

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with our own
artificial satellite.

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Dr. von Braun confirmed
that there has still been...

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no actual sighting
of the Soviet satellite...

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but the U.S. expects
to be tracking it very soon.

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We are told that Sputnik will be
visible to the naked eye...

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about an hour after sunset
and an hour before dawn...

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as it traverses the October sky
over the United States.

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What the beeping signal means
we still don't know.

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It may be nothing more--

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Let's go, Roy Lee.

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It's almost 9:00.

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Sure are in a hurry
to get yourself killed.

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No kiddin'. There are easier
ways to commit suicide, Homer.

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Will you just step on it,
Roy Lee?

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I am steppin' on it.

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Okay, Maguire, Longstreet, Hickam.
Let's see what you got.

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Hey, take it easy on my kid brother.
Make him look good, all right?

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Let's go! Hut!

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Now. Set. Hut two!

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I told you to take it easy on him.

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I did take it easy on him.

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I'm gonna run right over you,
you son of a bitch.

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- You hear me?
- Hut one! Hut two!

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Homer, you sure got guts...

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but you gotta know when to quit.

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Okay, Miller, you're up!

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Why should the damn jocks be
the only ones gettin' scholarships?

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They're also the only ones
that get the girls.

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This burns my ass.

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What do you boys think about this?

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Isn't that something?

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Let 'em have outer space.
We got rock 'n' roll.

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I'm with you. We got enough
to worry about down here.

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Homer, your dad say anything
about any layoffs?

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- Have they pulled any more pillars?
- He didn't say.

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Does he talk at all?

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Yeah, he talks.

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Damn it, Jake! Didn't I tell you to put
some men to work on those roof bolts?

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- Was I talkin' to the wall?
- I'm sorry. We was just tryin' to get--

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Make sure the hoot owl shift
sets those timbers by the vent!

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Two more days on that block, we're gonna
be down to the bone. I guess that's--

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Jensen! Get out of there!

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Jensen, look out!

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Come on, Jensen.

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Come on back.

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What happened?

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Whole damn mountain
'bout fell on your head.

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And John here,
he saved your life.

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That's my dad.

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I want you out of this mine. Don't
come back, you stupid son of a bitch.

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Didn't I tell you
to watch the roof?

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Now we all could've been killed 'cause
you didn't have the sense to look up!

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That's my dad.

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Homer.

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How'd it go?

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Well, I told you.
You spend the summer shovelin' coal...

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and you'll be playin'
linebacker next fall.

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What's the matter, Homer?
Not cut out for mining coal?

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Me neither.

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Let's get that mess cleaned up!

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Let's get some cribbin' on that roof!

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Buck up, Homer.
You're a Coalwood boy.

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When you get down in the mine,
get that coal shovel in your hand...

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feel just as natural to you
as a tick on a dog.

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Get that slate off the loader!

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It's the radio signal transmitted
by the Soviet Sputnik.

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Listen for the sound which forevermore
separates the old from the new.

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That's it? That's the Sputnik?

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- That's Sputnik.
- Well, big deal.

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Big deal?
What you fail to grasp...

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is that the sound you're hearin'
is bein' transmitted by an object...

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that is travelin'
at 18,000 miles per hour...

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559 miles high,
and orbitin' the Earth--

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- Shut up!
- Boys, not in my class!

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Thank you, Quentin.

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Now Quentin's right, y'all.

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Sputnik is a milestone in history.

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Things'll never be the same again.

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- What do you think about that, Homer?
- Well, yes, ma'am.

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Cat got your tongue?

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We were talkin'
about bein' in orbit...

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hundreds of miles
away from the Earth.

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You know anything about that?

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No, ma'am.

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I got my eye on you, boy.

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Now who can tell me
why Sputnik is so important?

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We ought to just shoot
the damn thing down.

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It's got one of them
little spy cameras in it.

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It takes pictures of every one
of our missile bases.

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This country'd better get on the ball
before it's too late.

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All I know is this Sputnik
had better show up soon.

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I'm gettin' a crick in my neck.

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All right. What you need to do
is take her to the movies.

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Somethin' scary, like
"Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman."

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Then you take your arm and put it up
round the back of her chair, like so.

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When it gets scary, and she ain't payin'
attention to nothin' but the movie...

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you sort of let your arm sort
of slide on down her shoulder...

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real nice and slow and easy until--

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- I see it! Right there!
- Where? Where?

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You seein' things, Carl?

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- I see it.
- Where do you see it?

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I see it.
It's right there.

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Wow.

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Sons of bitches gonna be droppin' bombs
on us from up there.

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Don't know why they'd drop
a bomb on this place.

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Be a heck of a waste of a bomb.

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The first game against Welch, that's
the one that's gonna draw the scouts.

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Yeah. Welch knows it too.
They're gonna be coming after us.

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Be careful, Jim. Last year, those two
boys from Welch got their arms broken.

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- Well, they started it.
- It don't matter much who started it.

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I don't call that football.

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You don't worry about Jim.

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Ain't nobody on the Welch team
that can catch him.

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I wish the scouts could've seen
that first game with Bluefield.

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I'm gonna build a rocket.

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Like Sputnik.

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Well, I'm not sayin' it's gonna
go up in space or anything...

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but I'm gonna do it.

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I'm gonna build a rocket.

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Just don't blow yourself up.

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More eggs, anybody?

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- Nice rocket, Homer.
- How high do you think it will fly?

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Well, I got it packed with
the powder from 30 sky rockets.

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Three, four miles.

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You ready?

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Yeah.

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Ten. Nine.

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- Eight. Seven. Six.
- Should we get behind somethin'?

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What happened?

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My rocket blew up.

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- Are you okay?
- I guess.

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My heart's poundin'. I thought
the mine blew up. Oh, Homer.

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I waited six months for the company
carpenter to put up that fence.

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Didn't I tell you
not to blow yourself up?

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Yes, ma'am.

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Then let's not.

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- Elsie.
- It's all right, Ms. Fields!

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It's all right.

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Dear Dr. von Braun.

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- Six. Five. Four. Three--
- My name is Homer Hickam.

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I'm 17 and I live in a small
mining town in West Virginia.

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Ignition.

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Liftoff. Liftoff.

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I'm writing to offer my condolences
to you and your team...

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on your recent attempt
to launch the Vanguard rocket.

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I also had a disastrous occurrence
during the launch of my small rocket.

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Since here in Coalwood
everyone's much more interested...

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in what's down below the earth
than what's above it...

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there isn't a whole lot of material
to be found on the subject of rocketry.

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So I've been kind of stumbling
around in the dark.

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You can't be seen with him, Homer.

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He's a weirdo. You go ahead...

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but you can kiss
your social life good-bye.

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- Hi, Homer.
- Hi.

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I don't let anybody
copy my homework.

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I don't wanna copy
your homework.

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Do you know anything
about rockets?

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Of course I do.

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You wanna come with me
over to the library?

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No.

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What do you wanna know
about rockets?

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Everything.

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Well, rocketry was actually invented
by the Chinese as early as 1,000 A.D.

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And, supposedly,
they were quite sophisticated.

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Potassium chlorate and sulphur.

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Well, what'd you use?

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Uh, somethin' like that.

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Hey, Quentin, this is great.

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This is exactly-- We have
everything we need in here.

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Roy Lee, drive me to my house.

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- We can use my basement.
- At least nobody'll see us down there.

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- Go, go, go.
- Come on.

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You got a loose choke cable.

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You hear that?

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The butterfly valve
isn't closin' all the way.

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Uh, last year I built
an internal combustion engine...

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and entered it
in the science fair.

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Yeah, well, you wouldn't happen
to have it on you, would you?

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- Ow!
- I'm sorry.

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You missed a spot.

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This thing's startin'
to look like a rocket.

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Listen to this. "Weld the washer
to the base of the rocket body...

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creating a combustion chamber
and nozzle."

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- We don't know how to weld.
- Weld.

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Your brother's in metal shop.
Maybe he could, uh--

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- Do we really need this nozzle thing?
- For cryin' out loud.

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The nozzle's the most important part.
It directs the flow of the hot gases!

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Cool it, Quentin.

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Man, talkin' about your hot gases.

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I don't think your father would like you
sneaking up in the middle of the night.

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And I know that he wouldn't like me
welding for you on company time.

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Well, what if I paid
the company for your time?

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Homer, I can't.

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I would lose my job.

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I'm sorry.

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Did you see Sputnik go over
the other night?

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'Cause it was beautiful.

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I stood there and watched it
streak across the sky.

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And anywhere in the world, someone could
look up and see exactly what I saw.

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For once, it felt like Coalwood
was part of the outside world.

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Homer, believe me, there are much worse
places than Coalwood in this world.

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Besides, this is just
a flying piece of steel.

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A rocket took it up there,
Mr. Bykovsky.

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I don't know. I--

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When I was workin'
on this rocket, I felt like--

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I felt like I was,
like I was Wernher von Braun.

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Let me see.

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Homer...

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it will be our secret.

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Mr. Bykovsky did
a dang good job on this.

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Yeah, well,
he used a washer for the weld.

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- It looks like it did in the picture.
- Prodigious.

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When do we go?

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- Give me that.
- Saturday--

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What is this,
a weapon of some kind?

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No, sir. It's a rocket.

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I don't allow dangerous devices
on school grounds.

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- I asked Homer to bring that to school.
- To show it in class.

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You know, the boys are thinkin'
about enterin' that county science fair.

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Be careful, gentlemen.

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- I'm gonna have my eye on you.
- Thank you, Mr. Turner.

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That science fair is rigged.
All the judges are from Welch...

242
00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:17,400
so only the kids from Welch
ever win.

243
00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:20,200
And besides,
science fairs are for geeks.

244
00:17:20,300 --> 00:17:22,200
No offense, Quentin.

245
00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:24,200
Well, it's too bad
you feel that way.

246
00:17:24,300 --> 00:17:27,200
The winners go on to the National
Science Fair in Indianapolis...

247
00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:31,700
and colleges from all over
the country hand out scholarships.

248
00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,800
It's great.
Have a good lunch, boys.

249
00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:39,800
College scholarships
for winning a science fair?

250
00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:41,800
Well, maybe it's not for you.

251
00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,900
- Well, what do you mean?
- Homer, you got a great mind.

252
00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,100
But science requires math...

253
00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,800
which has never been
one of your favorite subjects.

254
00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,300
Can't just dream your way
out of Coalwood, Homer.

255
00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,500
AUK I.
Stroke of genius, Homer.

256
00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:05,700
It won't fly unless somebody
lights the fuse.

257
00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,900
What the hell is an auk?

258
00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,100
It's a bird that don't fly.

259
00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,400
What, kind of like a parakeet?

260
00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:14,300
Ready?

261
00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:19,000
Well, Youngstown's
always been fair, Otis, but...

262
00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,800
you're askin' me to lay off
damn near half the town.

263
00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,200
The mine is just not producin'...

264
00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:27,300
the way it was
ten years ago, John.

265
00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,300
We're payin' the same labor
for half the tonnage.

266
00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,600
What if we were
to open up a new shaft?

267
00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:36,100
That coal is down there, Otis.

268
00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:38,800
You just let me go after it.

269
00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:42,200
The Coalwood mine
has given out, Mr. Hickam.

270
00:18:46,900 --> 00:18:48,400
Move!

271
00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:52,800
- Ten--
- Nine. Eight.

272
00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:56,400
Seven. Six. Five.

273
00:18:56,500 --> 00:18:59,300
Four. Three. Two--

274
00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:06,200
Holy shit, it's headed for the mine!

275
00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:11,800
I told you we didn't know
what we were doin'!

276
00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:13,300
Oh, no.

277
00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,600
God in heaven, I thought
it was a guided missile!

278
00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:30,700
I thought the damn Russians
were attackin' us.

279
00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,800
The boy's in trouble now.

280
00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,500
So this is what you been up to
in the basement, huh?

281
00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,600
- Yes, sir.
- Damn, Homer.

282
00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:47,300
You could've killed somebody
with this idiot thing.

283
00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:48,900
I know. I'm sorry.

284
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,700
Homer here wants to be a
rocket scientist. Is that it, John?

285
00:19:51,700 --> 00:19:54,100
He has no idea
what he wants to be.

286
00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,200
But I know what he is.
He's a menace...

287
00:19:58,300 --> 00:20:00,200
and he's a damn thief.

288
00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:03,300
- Dad--
- And so is whoever helped you.

289
00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:05,600
Ike Bykovsky did this,
didn't he?

290
00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,100
Don't you ever
let me catch you...

291
00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:11,700
with these fool things on company
property again, you understand me?

292
00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,000
- Yes, sir.
- Then go home.

293
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,900
Yeah?
What's your tunnel number?

294
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:39,600
He called me a thief, Ma,
in front of everybody.

295
00:20:39,700 --> 00:20:43,300
- How could he do that?
- He was dead wrong callin' you that.

296
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,400
He'd never have done that to Jim.

297
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,500
They could catch Jim
stickin' up the company store...

298
00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,400
and Dad would probably laugh
and say, "That's my boy."

299
00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:53,900
I know he's hard to understand
sometimes, Homer...

300
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,900
but you have to know
he loves you.

301
00:20:55,900 --> 00:21:00,500
He loves the mine,
more than Jim even.

302
00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:03,500
- More than you.
- You hush up.

303
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000
What's it given him back?

304
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,100
Nothin' but a spot on his lung
the size of a damn quarter.

305
00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:16,100
You don't know
what the mine gives me.

306
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,800
You don't know
'cause you're still a boy.

307
00:21:20,900 --> 00:21:23,900
But, by golly, you're gonna
find out soon enough.

308
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,200
I'm never goin' down there.

309
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,700
You better have a talk
with your son, Elsie...

310
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:45,600
'cause he's out of control.

311
00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:03,300
Where's my rocket stuff?

312
00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:05,400
Right where they belong.

313
00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:29,100
Quentin, you know, that rocket
went up at least 100 feet.

314
00:22:30,300 --> 00:22:31,900
More like 200.

315
00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:40,800
- Will you cut it out, Roy Lee?
- Die, you son of a bitch.

316
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,500
- Come on. My turn now.
- Hey, man. What's with you?

317
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,500
We should be tryin'
to get in that science fair...

318
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,800
instead of sittin' around here
like a bunch of hillbillies.

319
00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:51,600
I got some really bad news for you,
Homer. We are a bunch of hillbillies.

320
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,700
Besides, um, didn't your dad
say no more rockets?

321
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,700
He said no more rockets
on company property.

322
00:22:58,700 --> 00:23:01,700
Do you realize how far we'd have to go
to get off company property?

323
00:23:01,700 --> 00:23:05,700
- Yeah. We have to go to Snakeroot.
- Snakeroot? That's eight miles.

324
00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:08,800
It's not that far.
We could walk if we have to.

325
00:23:08,900 --> 00:23:12,200
Oh, walk.
That's a fantastic idea.

326
00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:15,100
- Let's go! Come on!
- Wake the hell up, will ya, Homer?

327
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,400
I got about as much chance
of winnin' that science fair...

328
00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:20,200
as you do winnin'
a football scholarship.

329
00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:24,300
I know I'm gonna be a miner.
I've known my entire life.

330
00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:26,300
What the hell's so bad
about minin' coal?

331
00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:28,300
Nothin', Roy Lee.
Coal minin's great.

332
00:23:28,300 --> 00:23:32,700
That's why your stepdaddy's
the biggest drunk in West Virginia.

333
00:23:32,700 --> 00:23:37,000
I mean, come on, guys!
You know the mine'll kill ya.

334
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,900
Did you ever hear the story
about how O'Dell's dad died?

335
00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:42,700
- Homer, will you forget it?
- Shut up, Homer.

336
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:47,300
A piece of slate caught him right
in the neck and cut his head clear off.

337
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,500
Bitch! Come on!

338
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,000
O'Dell!

339
00:23:53,500 --> 00:23:55,100
Get off of me!

340
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,100
Hey, fellas,
we're lookin' for U.S. 52.

341
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,400
Fellas?

342
00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:09,200
Just stay left at the fork. It's about
another five miles straight ahead.

343
00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:11,200
Thanks.

344
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,600
You fellas see the way
she was lookin' at me?

345
00:24:23,700 --> 00:24:27,100
Man, you all wanna
be coal miners...

346
00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:29,600
you all go ahead
and be coal miners.

347
00:24:41,300 --> 00:24:43,800
There. There.

348
00:24:57,900 --> 00:24:59,800
God's honest truth, Homer...

349
00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:02,000
what are the chances...

350
00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:04,300
of a bunch of kids from Coalwood...

351
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,200
actually winnin'
the National Science Fair?

352
00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:09,500
A million to one, O'Dell.

353
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,400
That good?

354
00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:16,000
Well, why didn't you say so?
Come on. Give me that.

355
00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:19,300
Quentin.

356
00:25:25,900 --> 00:25:27,300
What?

357
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,400
We hiked eight miles for this?

358
00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:55,200
Oh, it's great.
What should we call it?

359
00:25:55,300 --> 00:25:57,200
How 'bout a slack dump?

360
00:25:57,300 --> 00:26:00,200
What about "No Man's Land"?

361
00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:01,700
Cape Coalwood.

362
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,300
I mean, it's perfect.

363
00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:07,700
We could build a blockhouse
over there...

364
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,700
and a launchpad.

365
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,200
And we could even build
a test stand!

366
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,400
Dear Dr. von Braun. Our launch site,
which we've named Cape Coalwood...

367
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,600
is nearing completion.

368
00:26:34,300 --> 00:26:37,100
Thanks to the generosity
of local businesses.

369
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,000
Inspired by our efforts...

370
00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:53,100
everyone is anxious to help
by donating materials.

371
00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:56,700
We've been fortunate to have
the support of our classmates.

372
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,100
And the whole community
here in Coalwood is behind us.

373
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,200
Hey, rocket boy.
Mars is that way.

374
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,100
But no one has been more encouraging
to our efforts than my father.

375
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:11,100
No, the company doesn't have
any cement left over for launchpads.

376
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,500
- I just thought I'd ask.
- Besides, I told you no more rockets.

377
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,700
You said no more rockets
on company property.

378
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,000
And Olga doesn't own Snakeroot.

379
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,900
So, you walk eight miles?

380
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,400
Yes, sir.

381
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,500
Well, tell me something, Homer.

382
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,900
Uh, what exactly is
this Wernher von Braun...

383
00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:37,600
and the rest of those Germans
accomplishin' anyway?

384
00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:41,200
'Cause if you ask me,
it's nothin' but a stunt.

385
00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:45,000
You think catchin' up to the Russians
in space is a stunt?

386
00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:48,200
When the novelty wears off,
they're all gonna be sent packin'.

387
00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:51,000
Maybe then they'll have
to find themselves a real job.

388
00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:53,100
Like minin' coal?

389
00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:56,200
You listen here.

390
00:27:57,100 --> 00:27:59,500
The coal we mine
makes steel, Homer.

391
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,000
And if steel fails,
this country fails.

392
00:28:03,100 --> 00:28:06,100
If you had half a damn brain
in your head, you'd know that.

393
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,800
Well, who's down there now?

394
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,500
Hold on just a second.
Hey, listen here.

395
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,600
I had an engineer estimate
a new walkway.

396
00:28:18,700 --> 00:28:20,600
They had some cement left over...

397
00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:23,800
so it got caught in the rain,
it's probably ruined.

398
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,600
But if you wanna haul it out,
it's all yours.

399
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,600
Thanks, Dad.

400
00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:31,800
I'll be down in a minute.

401
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,700
And Miss Riley wanted to make sure
you document your results.

402
00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:43,100
You will be graded
when she returns.

403
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,200
You have one hour.

404
00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:48,300
Potassium chloride
has a potassium atom.

405
00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:52,300
If we mix it with sugar
and add heat...

406
00:28:52,300 --> 00:28:55,100
we'll get three parts oxygen,
two parts carbon dioxide...

407
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,400
along with some
other by-products.

408
00:28:57,500 --> 00:28:59,800
In other words,
lots of good expanding gases.

409
00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:02,600
It should make
an excellent propellant.

410
00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:04,900
It smells like candy.

411
00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:08,900
Better get started.

412
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,100
All right, quick.
Get rid of it.

413
00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:45,700
Mr. Bolden, have you seen
Mr. Bykovsky around?

414
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,500
He's not in the shop anymore.

415
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,800
Your dad sent him down to the mine.

416
00:29:56,700 --> 00:29:59,900
He's takin' it out on you
because you helped me.

417
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,600
That's enough of that.
Your father is a fair man.

418
00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:06,500
If he's strict,
it's because he has to be.

419
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,900
Besides, he did me a big favor,
transferring me from the machine shop.

420
00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:11,900
What are you talkin' about?

421
00:30:11,900 --> 00:30:14,600
I can make twice as much money
down there working the high coal.

422
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,300
You can?

423
00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:21,000
I've got relatives in Europe who've
had hard time recovering from the war.

424
00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:23,800
They depend on me
for whatever I can provide.

425
00:30:23,900 --> 00:30:26,100
So I can use the extra money.

426
00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:29,100
I'm just sorry I won't be able to weld
any more rockets for you.

427
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:33,900
That's for good luck.

428
00:30:37,900 --> 00:30:40,600
Maybe you could teach me
how to weld.

429
00:30:40,700 --> 00:30:44,100
- Welding is very difficult, Homer.
- I could learn.

430
00:30:47,500 --> 00:30:49,500
You don't give up, do you?

431
00:30:51,700 --> 00:30:53,100
I can't.

432
00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:05,700
- Come on, son.
- Hi, Mr. Bolden.

433
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,600
Hey, Homer.
I heard you tellin' Ike...

434
00:31:12,700 --> 00:31:15,600
you were gonna be shootin' off
another rocket up here today.

435
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,200
I thought that might
be somethin' we'd like to see.

436
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:22,700
Whoa!

437
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,200
Nine. Eight. Seven.

438
00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:28,500
Six. Five.

439
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,300
Four. Three.

440
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,800
Hey, look out!

441
00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:37,400
Mr. Bolden!

442
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,800
- Mr. Bolden, are you okay?
- I'm all right.

443
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,500
- I'm sorry about that.
- That's all right.

444
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,700
Homer, I flew with the Red Tails
in World War II.

445
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,100
And seein' that rocket
come at me...

446
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,400
it almost took me back there.

447
00:32:01,300 --> 00:32:03,400
Let me have
a look at that thing.

448
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,400
That's a good job
on the weld, Homer...

449
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:11,600
but the heat from the exhaust
melted the washer.

450
00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:15,600
It's referred to as a nozzle, sir.

451
00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:19,000
Son, you can call it
whatever you wanna call it...

452
00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:23,600
but you're gonna have to have
a better steel that can take the heat.

453
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,800
Now I'd say S.A.E. 10-20 bar stock
ought to do you fine.

454
00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:31,300
- And I can order it for you.
- Well, that'd be great, Mr. Bolden.

455
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,400
But it's kind of expensive.

456
00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:39,900
Twelve miles of scrap iron,
and all we gotta do is pop it loose.

457
00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:43,300
Now what are we gonna tell the railroad
when they catch us pryin' up the track?

458
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,000
It's abandoned. See, the county's
covered with abandoned spur lines.

459
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,700
A mine shuts down,
the track just rusts over.

460
00:32:55,700 --> 00:32:57,800
$8.20.

461
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,800
This is worth $8.20?

462
00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:03,500
A ton.

463
00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:05,100
Come on.

464
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,900
- Go, go!
- This thing weighs a ton all by itself!

465
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,900
Four hundred pounds.

466
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,500
Four hundred pounds?

467
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,800
All right.

468
00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:24,000
O'Dell, you're sayin' this thing
is worth a buck 65?

469
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,300
O'Dell?

470
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,300
It's abandoned.
Uh, look at the rust.

471
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,100
Caretta number two
shut down in '51.

472
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:05,500
Shit!

473
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,300
Get it up! Get it up!
Just get it up!

474
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,800
Give me a hand, man.
Come on!

475
00:34:16,900 --> 00:34:19,400
Forget it! Forget it!
Just stop the train!

476
00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:20,900
Roy Lee!

477
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,200
- Stop!
- Stop! The track's out!

478
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,500
S.A.E. 10-20 bar stock.

479
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,200
The angle of 30 degrees is crucial.
When the fuel combusts...

480
00:35:05,300 --> 00:35:07,600
it creates a controlled explosion.

481
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,500
The nozzle directs
a river of hot gas...

482
00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:14,600
that can reach the speed of sound
when it hits the mouth of the nozzle!

483
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,200
Hey, Quentin. Sorry.

484
00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:24,000
It's called a tapered bore.

485
00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:27,800
A tapered bore. Now he's takin' off
just a little bit at a time.

486
00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:47,600
Good deed, good deed.

487
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,300
I'm concerned that the mass
of the added propellant...

488
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,500
compared to the mass of the empty rocket
will be too little.

489
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,400
He's afraid it'll be too heavy.

490
00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:04,400
Why don't we just make it longer?

491
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,400
Longer would allow increased volume
for the propellant...

492
00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:09,500
without much additional mass.

493
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,000
Great idea.

494
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:35,200
Yeah.

495
00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:38,200
We got one!

496
00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:07,100
My guess is, is we're gettin' air
pockets in the body of the propellant.

497
00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:10,400
When the fire hits 'em, they act
like little combustion chambers.

498
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,900
I think we're gonna need
a liquid binder of some sort.

499
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:18,300
- What about gasoline?
- That's a good idea.

500
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,200
"Four unidentifiable
high school students...

501
00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:26,300
lost their lives earlier this mornin'
when their toy rocket exploded."

502
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,900
Alcohol.
I mean, alcohol's stable.

503
00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:33,400
And it'll evaporate quickly.

504
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,100
Yeah, but it'd have
to be 100% undiluted.

505
00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:38,900
None of that watered-down stuff
they sell at the company store.

506
00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:41,200
I have no idea
where we could find that.

507
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,600
Listen. I know these fellas,
so let me do all the talkin'.

508
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,500
I'm not gonna say a word.

509
00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:54,800
Is that rocket fuel or what?

510
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,100
Great.

511
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,200
How'd they find out about it?

512
00:38:34,300 --> 00:38:35,700
My brother.

513
00:38:39,100 --> 00:38:42,000
We poop out this time, the whole
county's gonna be laughin' at us.

514
00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:45,300
- Who cares what any of them think?
- Easy for you to say, Quentin.

515
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,100
- You're used to being made fun of.
- All right now.

516
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:49,900
Quentin's right, y'all.

517
00:38:49,900 --> 00:38:53,200
Homer, you don't have to prove
anything to anybody.

518
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,200
You remember that.

519
00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:58,300
Now go launch yourself a rocket.

520
00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:04,700
Homer!

521
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,200
Hello, Dorothy.

522
00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:10,500
- Is that thing really gonna fly?
- Well, it--

523
00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:12,500
That thing had better fly...

524
00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:16,000
or you can kiss your chances
of losin' your virginity good-bye.

525
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,200
Hey, couldn't you guys
find somethin' better to do?

526
00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:21,700
Hey, listen.
There's no practice on Saturdays.

527
00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:24,600
You little sisters
are the only entertainment in town.

528
00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:27,100
Yeah, we were gonna drive over to war,
but then we thought...

529
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,700
hey, let's go see Homer
blow himself up.

530
00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:33,800
That's real funny, Jim.

531
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,200
Hey, Homer, come on.
We don't got all day.

532
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,200
Shut up, Jim.

533
00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:58,100
- Everything ready?
- Wait.

534
00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:00,900
What do you mean, wait?
Where you goin'?

535
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,400
Hurry up, y'all.

536
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,600
It won't fly unless
somebody pulls the string.

537
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,900
Ten. Nine. Eight.

538
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,500
Seven. Six.

539
00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:35,300
Five. Four.

540
00:40:39,100 --> 00:40:40,600
Oh, my God!

541
00:40:57,900 --> 00:40:59,800
That's great!

542
00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:07,500
Homer, that was unbelievable!

543
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,800
Let's go, Dorothy.

544
00:41:09,900 --> 00:41:11,700
I'll tell you
what's unbelievable.

545
00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:14,200
The captain of the football team
bein' jealous of you.

546
00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:18,500
What you think about gettin'
in that science fair now?

547
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,300
I think we got a chance.

548
00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:28,300
Well, bless her heart.

549
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,100
Aunt Joanne hasn't seen you
in about a year and a half.

550
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,100
- You look like a sausage.
- He does not.

551
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,500
Happy birthday, Homer.

552
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,900
It'll stretch when you wear it. Be sure
and send her a nice thank you note now.

553
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,800
- All right.
- John?

554
00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:50,400
Oh, happy birthday, Homer.

555
00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:53,400
And I got this in the mail.

556
00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:55,500
Must be a present from Grandma.

557
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,100
It's an autographed picture.

558
00:42:05,100 --> 00:42:09,400
- Of Grandma? Rather get socks.
- Wernher von Braun.

559
00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:12,900
Well, wonder how he knew
it was your birthday.

560
00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:14,500
I don't reckon he did.

561
00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:18,700
"Dear Homer, congratulations
on your rocket building.

562
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:20,700
Continue your education
and maybe one day--"

563
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,200
Boy, you better take an interest
in your own damn town...

564
00:42:24,300 --> 00:42:26,900
instead of wastin' your time
worryin' about...

565
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,600
Wernher von Braun
and Cape Canaveral.

566
00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:33,200
John, it's his birthday.

567
00:42:36,100 --> 00:42:38,700
All right, Homer.

568
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,500
Yes?

569
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,100
Homer, there's strike talk
startin' up again. Your father's--

570
00:42:53,100 --> 00:42:56,500
Yeah, he's got a lot on his mind.
Well, I don't give a damn!

571
00:42:59,300 --> 00:43:02,500
"Principles of
Guided Missile Design."

572
00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:05,900
I had Miss Waters order it for you
a while back, and it just came.

573
00:43:07,900 --> 00:43:10,800
I know the math is too advanced for you.
It is for me too.

574
00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:13,900
- There's calculus, differential equa--
- I'll learn the math.

575
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,300
This is great, Miss Riley.
I'll learn everything.

576
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,300
It's the best present
anyone's ever given me.

577
00:43:20,700 --> 00:43:24,100
Thank you.
I'm gonna show the guys.

578
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,900
- Quentin will probably go cra--
- Goodness gracious.

579
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,200
Watch where you're goin'.

580
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,400
- Where'd you get this?
- I gave it to him.

581
00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:35,600
Bye, Miss Riley.

582
00:43:38,100 --> 00:43:42,500
Miss Riley, our job is to give these
kids an education, not false hopes.

583
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,500
False hopes?

584
00:43:45,900 --> 00:43:47,800
Do you want me to sit quiet...

585
00:43:47,900 --> 00:43:50,700
let 'em breathe in coal dust
the rest of their life?

586
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,500
Miss Riley, once in a while...

587
00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:56,300
a lucky one will get out
on a football scholarship.

588
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,700
The rest of 'em
work in the mines.

589
00:43:59,700 --> 00:44:02,800
How about I believe
in the unlucky ones, hmm?

590
00:44:02,900 --> 00:44:06,300
I have to, Mr. Turner,
or I'd go out of my mind.

591
00:44:12,300 --> 00:44:14,400
- It's good.
- Homer!

592
00:44:14,500 --> 00:44:17,000
Happy birthday, son.

593
00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:19,000
Got some good news for you, Homer.

594
00:44:19,100 --> 00:44:22,400
Say hello to Fred Smith from
the University of West Virginia.

595
00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:24,600
- Hello, Homer.
- Hi, sir.

596
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:28,600
Mr. Smith wants Jim to play football.
He's offering him a full scholarship.

597
00:44:28,700 --> 00:44:30,600
Well, congratulations, Jim.

598
00:44:30,700 --> 00:44:32,900
Do you play ball, son?

599
00:44:32,900 --> 00:44:36,800
No, Homer shoots off rockets.
Whoosh and all that.

600
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,800
Well, rockets
are not exactly my field, son...

601
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,200
but maybe if you work hard,
you'll go to college too.

602
00:44:41,300 --> 00:44:44,000
Yeah, on a science fiction
scholarship, maybe.

603
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,500
Dear Dr. von Braun, thank you
for the autographed picture.

604
00:44:59,500 --> 00:45:02,100
It will only further inspire me
to keep working...

605
00:45:02,100 --> 00:45:06,400
toward our all-important goal of
entering that science fair this spring.

606
00:45:32,100 --> 00:45:34,800
We're shootin' off a rocket today.

607
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,100
I thought you'd like to see it.

608
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:42,000
I gotta catch up on some work.

609
00:45:44,300 --> 00:45:48,100
How come you never have work
when Jim plays football?

610
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,100
You never miss a game.

611
00:45:55,500 --> 00:45:57,800
What time are you gonna do it?

612
00:45:58,900 --> 00:46:00,800
About 4:00.

613
00:46:02,500 --> 00:46:04,400
I can't promise you--

614
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,700
Somebody pulled a pillar
too close.

615
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,200
Yeah?

616
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,000
Well, thank God for that.
Yeah, right now.

617
00:46:22,300 --> 00:46:23,700
Nobody hurt.

618
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,600
Go, Rocket Boys!

619
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:40,300
Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven.

620
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,300
Six. Five.

621
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,700
Four. Three. Two.

622
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,500
One. Liftoff!

623
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:04,300
You got it?
Can you see?

624
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,500
- No. Yes.
- See it?

625
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,200
Yeah, I got it.

626
00:47:08,300 --> 00:47:11,400
- What's the time?
- Looks like 12 seconds.

627
00:47:11,500 --> 00:47:13,900
- Which one of you is Homer Hickam?
- It's me, sir.

628
00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:16,400
I'm Basil Thorpe
with the Bluefield Telegraph.

629
00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:19,100
Can I ask you a few questions?

630
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,100
Sure.

631
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:26,400
"The silvery cylinder burst forth
in a fiery column of smoke and flame...

632
00:47:26,500 --> 00:47:29,800
racing the very wind
as it soared into the sky...

633
00:47:29,900 --> 00:47:32,100
a messenger of these
Rocket Boys of Big Creek.

634
00:47:32,100 --> 00:47:34,900
These boys who use
their brains, not brawn...

635
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,400
who play not football,
but with Apollo's fire."

636
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:40,600
Hi, Homer.

637
00:47:40,700 --> 00:47:44,800
- Hi, Dorothy.
- Would you please sign my newspaper?

638
00:47:44,900 --> 00:47:47,100
Sure.

639
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:49,700
I just know you're gonna be
really famous someday.

640
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:57,400
H-O-M-E-R.

641
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,400
Which one of you fellas
is Homer Hickam?

642
00:48:02,700 --> 00:48:04,300
Excuse me.

643
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,300
- Which cost the taxpayers--
- What in the world is goin' on?

644
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,400
This does not concern you.

645
00:48:13,500 --> 00:48:15,800
You have these boys in handcuffs.

646
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:20,200
You have these boys in handcuffs
in a high school, Mr. Turner.

647
00:48:20,300 --> 00:48:23,300
You probably heard about
the forest fire last week over by Welch.

648
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,800
- A lot of timber went up in smoke.
- Take these handcuffs off these boys.

649
00:48:26,900 --> 00:48:29,800
They found a rocket
on the side of the road.

650
00:48:29,900 --> 00:48:33,100
We knew it started the fire. What we
didn't know is where it came from...

651
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:34,900
till this morning.

652
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:39,000
Mr. Hickam, can you account
for all your rockets?

653
00:48:39,100 --> 00:48:41,000
No, sir. I can't.

654
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,900
If you weren't a minor,
you'd be in the state penitentiary.

655
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,600
- I know, Dad.
- Homer, I've been confused by you.

656
00:48:58,700 --> 00:49:01,000
I've been mad as hell at you.

657
00:49:01,100 --> 00:49:04,100
But it's the first time in your life
I've been ashamed of you.

658
00:49:04,100 --> 00:49:07,000
Stop! Stop!

659
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,100
You couldn't stop, man.
You couldn't!

660
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:16,100
Get in the car, Homer!
Homer, get in the car!

661
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,500
Idiot! I ought
to goddamn kill ya.

662
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,700
We ain't at the mine now.
This ain't your business.

663
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,200
You get in the car
with Homer, son.

664
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,000
You listen to me,
you drunken son of a bitch.

665
00:49:35,100 --> 00:49:38,500
If that boy's father was alive,
he'd kick your ass.

666
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,700
So I'm gonna
have to do it for him.

667
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:44,300
If I see him with a bruise,
you get a scar.

668
00:49:44,300 --> 00:49:47,200
If I see him with a limp,
you get crutches!

669
00:49:48,700 --> 00:49:52,000
You hear me?
Do you hear me?

670
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:58,900
You know,
I'm reportin' you to the union!

671
00:49:58,900 --> 00:50:01,400
Screw you
and your damn union.

672
00:50:17,500 --> 00:50:22,300
Your father was one of the best men
I ever had workin' for me.

673
00:50:28,100 --> 00:50:30,400
I was lucky to know him.

674
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,500
Come on.

675
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,100
Let's go have some fun
for a change.

676
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:00,500
They watched us get arrested.

677
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,600
We're practically ex-convicts.

678
00:52:03,700 --> 00:52:05,900
They'll never dance with us.

679
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,000
Jesus, Quentin.

680
00:52:08,100 --> 00:52:12,100
You don't know anything about women.

681
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,900
I heard she broke up
with that dumb jock.

682
00:52:18,300 --> 00:52:21,100
See you later, Elvis.

683
00:52:24,300 --> 00:52:27,400
Many a tear has to fall

684
00:52:30,100 --> 00:52:34,400
But it's all in the game

685
00:52:38,900 --> 00:52:42,800
All in the wonderful game

686
00:52:42,900 --> 00:52:46,000
That we know

687
00:52:46,100 --> 00:52:48,700
As love

688
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:50,800
Hi, Homer.

689
00:52:50,900 --> 00:52:52,800
Hi, Dorothy.

690
00:52:52,900 --> 00:52:57,500
- You have words with him
- Jim, look who's here.

691
00:52:57,500 --> 00:53:00,000
Ain't it past your bedtime?

692
00:53:00,100 --> 00:53:04,300
And your future's looking dim

693
00:53:06,500 --> 00:53:10,100
- But these things
- Way to go.

694
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,700
Your hearts can rise

695
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,100
Above

696
00:53:19,700 --> 00:53:23,600
Once in a while he won't call

697
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,300
When the twilight is gone

698
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:41,900
- Hi, Valentine.
- And no songbirds are singing

699
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,000
I'm glad you didn't go to jail.

700
00:53:50,300 --> 00:53:52,600
You come into my heart

701
00:53:54,700 --> 00:53:59,000
And here in my heart
you will stay

702
00:54:01,100 --> 00:54:04,900
It sure was exciting
watching your rockets go up.

703
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,700
I pray

704
00:54:10,300 --> 00:54:13,500
My prayer

705
00:54:15,700 --> 00:54:19,700
Is to linger with you

706
00:54:21,900 --> 00:54:25,400
At the end of the day

707
00:54:45,300 --> 00:54:49,300
You ever see that movie,
"Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman"?

708
00:54:55,900 --> 00:54:57,800
Homer!

709
00:54:57,900 --> 00:55:00,500
Down here! Homer!

710
00:55:03,500 --> 00:55:04,900
What is it?

711
00:55:17,300 --> 00:55:19,400
Mom! Mom!

712
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:27,200
Your father always has to be
the big hero.

713
00:55:27,300 --> 00:55:30,900
I swear to God, if he gets killed,
I won't shed a tear.

714
00:55:50,300 --> 00:55:52,200
It's comin' up!

715
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:21,800
Who is it?

716
00:56:32,700 --> 00:56:34,200
It's Ike Bykovsky.

717
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:42,400
It's John Hickam.

718
00:56:44,100 --> 00:56:45,500
Dad!

719
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:48,300
- The cable snapped.
- May have fractured his skull.

720
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:54,900
Out of the way!

721
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,200
Move back, folks.
Let us through.

722
00:56:58,900 --> 00:57:00,400
I'll tell you what.

723
00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:04,300
A dozen men would've died today
if it hadn't been for your dad.

724
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:50,900
Thank you, Doctor.

725
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,200
Mm-hmm. Bye-bye.

726
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:13,900
The...

727
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:17,000
doctor says...

728
00:58:17,100 --> 00:58:21,100
there's a chance your dad
could lose his eye.

729
00:58:21,100 --> 00:58:24,000
He has to go to the hospital...

730
00:58:24,100 --> 00:58:25,900
in Charleston...

731
00:58:25,900 --> 00:58:28,700
and Olga won't pay for all of it.

732
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:33,400
I'm gonna go to the mine
and ask Jake Mosby to sign me on.

733
00:58:33,500 --> 00:58:36,600
You can't do that, Jim.
You've got school.

734
00:58:36,700 --> 00:58:40,100
Olga owns this house
and half the furniture in it.

735
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:43,900
If you drop out,
you'll lose your scholarship.

736
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:46,400
I'm the oldest.
It's my responsibility.

737
00:58:46,500 --> 00:58:48,800
I'll work in the mine.

738
00:59:25,300 --> 00:59:27,400
- Here you are.
- Thank you.

739
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:35,200
Mining coal is
an honorable trade, Mr. Hickam.

740
00:59:38,700 --> 00:59:41,400
Nothing to be ashamed of.

741
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,200
Miss Riley!

742
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:28,500
Turn your light on, boy.

743
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:17,200
Remember when you
gave me these, John?

744
01:02:17,300 --> 01:02:19,800
Carbon crystals from the mine.

745
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:21,800
Yeah. Honeymoon.

746
01:02:21,900 --> 01:02:23,500
At Myrtle Beach.

747
01:02:25,900 --> 01:02:27,400
And you said...

748
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:31,200
"You always wanted diamonds,
but these are the best I can do.

749
01:02:31,300 --> 01:02:33,200
I wish they were real."

750
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:37,400
John, I never wanted diamonds.

751
01:02:43,500 --> 01:02:45,400
This whole year...

752
01:02:45,500 --> 01:02:48,800
has been pretty rough going
down at the mine.

753
01:02:50,500 --> 01:02:52,900
Bad tempers and...

754
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,200
a lot of strike talk.

755
01:02:57,100 --> 01:03:00,400
An accident makes things worse.

756
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,700
In a way, I guess...

757
01:03:04,700 --> 01:03:08,100
I'm the one who's responsible
for what happened to Mr. Bykovsky.

758
01:03:08,100 --> 01:03:10,100
Listen to me, Homer.

759
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,200
Last month...

760
01:03:15,300 --> 01:03:18,900
I gave Ike the chance to go back
to the machine shop...

761
01:03:18,900 --> 01:03:21,500
and he turned it down.

762
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:25,100
Yeah, he stayed in the mine
'cause the money was better.

763
01:03:26,100 --> 01:03:28,200
That was his decision.

764
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:30,400
You understand me?

765
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:33,100
Yes, sir.

766
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:40,700
Well, is mining coal as terrible
as you figured it'd be?

767
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:42,300
I guess not.

768
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:46,400
But almost.

769
01:04:07,100 --> 01:04:09,700
Everybody says to say hi.

770
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:11,600
Michael and Billy.

771
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:13,900
Valentine Carmina.

772
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:15,900
How about Miss Riley?

773
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:20,400
She ain't been around much.
She got some new boyfriend in Welch.

774
01:04:22,100 --> 01:04:25,200
So, what's it like down there?

775
01:04:29,100 --> 01:04:31,500
You get used to it after a while.

776
01:04:32,900 --> 01:04:35,900
Besides, shoveling coal's
got its advantages.

777
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:37,600
Check this out.

778
01:04:38,900 --> 01:04:42,700
Man, no wonder my stepdad
can slug me so good.

779
01:04:42,700 --> 01:04:45,600
After a month down there,
you'd be able to knock him out.

780
01:04:47,900 --> 01:04:50,800
I ain't in no hurry.

781
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,000
- See you all later.
- See ya, man.

782
01:05:03,100 --> 01:05:04,500
See ya, Homer.

783
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:08,700
In Christ's name, we pray.

784
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:10,700
- Amen.
- Amen.

785
01:05:15,900 --> 01:05:19,300
We appreciate the sacrifice
you made here, Homer.

786
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:23,300
Pretty soon you'll be able to go back
and finish up the school year.

787
01:05:25,300 --> 01:05:27,300
I'm not going back to school.

788
01:05:28,500 --> 01:05:32,200
A few weeks left in the term,
I'll just stay put.

789
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:35,200
I think you ought
to finish high school.

790
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,200
Well, tell him, John.

791
01:05:41,700 --> 01:05:44,400
Homer's not a boy anymore.

792
01:05:46,300 --> 01:05:49,600
I don't think
I can tell him anything.

793
01:06:02,100 --> 01:06:06,500
All I'm saying is the cutoff was not
done proper according to contract.

794
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:08,600
The company did what it had to do.

795
01:06:08,700 --> 01:06:11,100
You know the union
won't put up with it.

796
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:13,200
Just give it a rest, Jake.

797
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:15,200
It's my first day back.

798
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:23,800
Hey, Lenny, how's he doin'?

799
01:06:23,900 --> 01:06:27,700
He's a chip off the old block.
It's good to have you back.

800
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:30,000
Thank you.

801
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:36,400
I'm headed toward the face.

802
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:38,400
You wanna come along?

803
01:06:42,100 --> 01:06:46,100
Even though I don't have that piece
of paper-- the thing from college--

804
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:48,100
they listen to me.

805
01:06:49,300 --> 01:06:53,100
- You know why?
- Because you know more than they do.

806
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,400
You bet your life I do.

807
01:06:55,500 --> 01:07:00,100
Homer, I know the mine
like I know a man.

808
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:03,100
I can take one look around here--

809
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:07,600
Are you all right?

810
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:10,700
I'm not afraid of a little coal dust.

811
01:07:11,900 --> 01:07:13,800
Hell, I was born for this.

812
01:07:13,900 --> 01:07:17,700
I guess it shouldn't surprise me
that you were too.

813
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:20,500
Let's go watch 'em shoot some coal.

814
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:34,300
Hold dinner for a while, will ya?
I have to make a call.

815
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:47,500
I was in the store today,
and I heard some talk.

816
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:04,200
Boy, it's sure hard to keep a secret
in this town, isn't it?

817
01:08:04,300 --> 01:08:07,000
But I guess I did a pretty good job.

818
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,000
There's a rumor going around...

819
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:12,000
that I've been sneaking off to Welch
to see some beau.

820
01:08:12,100 --> 01:08:15,000
I wish that rumor'd been true.

821
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:20,400
They told me Hodgkin's can go into
remission, so I might have some time.

822
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:23,000
Is there anything I can do,
Miss Riley?

823
01:08:23,900 --> 01:08:26,400
You can accept my apology.

824
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,100
For what?

825
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:31,600
My life's work is teaching.

826
01:08:31,700 --> 01:08:35,100
And I believed that if you boys
won that science fair...

827
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:36,800
got scholarships...

828
01:08:36,900 --> 01:08:40,200
went off and did something great
with your lives...

829
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:43,100
somehow my life
would have counted for something.

830
01:08:49,900 --> 01:08:52,200
You know what?

831
01:08:52,200 --> 01:08:56,500
Sometimes you really can't listen
to what anybody else says.

832
01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:58,900
You just gotta listen inside.

833
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:03,300
You're not supposed to end up
in those mines.

834
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:06,800
You know why?
'Cause I think you made other plans.

835
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:10,300
I want you to know something.

836
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:12,800
I'm proud of you.

837
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:14,600
I am.

838
01:09:14,700 --> 01:09:16,600
Whatever you choose.

839
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:02,200
Excuse me, ma'am.
Is Quentin home?

840
01:11:14,700 --> 01:11:18,500
Homer, you figured
this equation out by yourself?

841
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:21,800
Well, if I did the math right,
it proves that you can't--

842
01:11:21,900 --> 01:11:23,900
It proves we didn't start that fire!

843
01:11:23,900 --> 01:11:25,500
Quentin, what are you doing?

844
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:29,100
Now, the AUK Xlll was the only one
that we couldn't find that day.

845
01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:31,800
And our best guess for fall time
with the AUK Xll...

846
01:11:31,900 --> 01:11:34,900
which is exactly identical,
was about 14 seconds.

847
01:11:34,900 --> 01:11:37,200
If you help me with the trig part...

848
01:11:37,300 --> 01:11:40,200
we should be able to make a good guess
where that rocket landed.

849
01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:57,100
6,328 feet?

850
01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:00,200
1.2 miles.

851
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:05,100
Yeah?

852
01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:11,800
Are you gonna tell Roy Lee and O'Dell
where I live?

853
01:12:12,900 --> 01:12:16,800
It wouldn't matter if you lived
in the governor's mansion.

854
01:12:16,900 --> 01:12:18,900
They'd still think you're weird.

855
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:29,500
- I'll see you at dawn.
- Don't you have to go to the mine?

856
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:32,800
I don't work there anymore.

857
01:12:49,100 --> 01:12:50,600
One.

858
01:12:57,700 --> 01:12:59,200
Two.

859
01:13:08,700 --> 01:13:10,200
Ninety-nine.

860
01:13:14,500 --> 01:13:15,900
A hundred seven.

861
01:13:35,900 --> 01:13:37,700
126.

862
01:13:39,300 --> 01:13:42,100
That's 6,300 feet.

863
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:44,500
It's gotta be around here somewhere.

864
01:14:09,200 --> 01:14:11,500
What did we do wrong?

865
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:13,500
I don't know.

866
01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:15,300
I'll check the math again.

867
01:14:25,100 --> 01:14:27,300
Was there a wind that day?

868
01:14:28,100 --> 01:14:29,700
I don't remember.

869
01:14:29,700 --> 01:14:34,400
'Cause if there was,
the wind probably came from the west...

870
01:14:34,500 --> 01:14:37,500
which means that it
would've pushed the rocket...

871
01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:41,400
right there.

872
01:14:45,700 --> 01:14:47,900
Prodigious!

873
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:49,700
...associated--

874
01:14:56,300 --> 01:14:59,900
Mr. Hayes, where are you off to
in such a hurry?

875
01:15:00,900 --> 01:15:02,900
Everybody, back in your seats.

876
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:05,100
Miss Stanton, Miss Blue, let's go.

877
01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:07,100
Back in your seats.
Mr. Hancock.

878
01:15:08,500 --> 01:15:10,800
That goes for you, too, Mr. Wilson.

879
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:17,100
Miss Riley, what's going on here?

880
01:15:17,700 --> 01:15:20,100
They didn't start that fire,
Mr. Turner.

881
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:23,600
In the first place, you are not
a member of this classroom.

882
01:15:23,700 --> 01:15:25,800
Neither are you, Mr. Turner.

883
01:15:25,900 --> 01:15:27,800
Why don't you let the boy
defend himself?

884
01:15:27,900 --> 01:15:29,900
And in the second place...

885
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:31,900
this rocket proves nothing.

886
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:34,800
You've already admitted
having lost a number of your rockets.

887
01:15:34,900 --> 01:15:36,700
You cannot prove conclusively...

888
01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:39,500
that another one of them
didn't start that fire.

889
01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:41,500
- Yes, I can.
- Oh?

890
01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:50,000
Are we to conclude
that since leaving school...

891
01:15:50,100 --> 01:15:53,200
you've not only become an expert
in rocket science but in trigonometry?

892
01:15:53,200 --> 01:15:56,000
- I didn't say I was--
- You learned more in the coal mines...

893
01:15:56,100 --> 01:15:58,200
than you did in high school.

894
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:00,300
Let the boy talk.

895
01:16:00,300 --> 01:16:01,900
Go ahead, Homer.

896
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:04,000
Now, that fire was near Welch...

897
01:16:04,100 --> 01:16:06,900
just under three miles
from our launch pad.

898
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:11,600
At the time of the fire, the best
that we could do was 1.2 miles...

899
01:16:11,700 --> 01:16:14,300
which is exactly where
we found that rocket.

900
01:16:15,300 --> 01:16:18,600
See, that rocket fell
for about 14 seconds, which means...

901
01:16:18,700 --> 01:16:21,400
that it flew to an altitude
of 3,000 feet...

902
01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:22,900
according to the equation...

903
01:16:22,900 --> 01:16:27,600
"S" equals one-half "A-T" squared...

904
01:16:27,700 --> 01:16:30,700
where "S" is the altitude,
"A" is the gravity constant, or 32...

905
01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:33,500
and "T" is the time it took
for that rocket to come back down.

906
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:35,500
- Velocity equals acceleration...
- Get him, Homer.

907
01:16:35,500 --> 01:16:36,900
times time.

908
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:39,200
Are you following this, Mr. Turner?

909
01:16:39,300 --> 01:16:42,300
All right.
We're all duly impressed.

910
01:16:42,300 --> 01:16:46,500
Would you mind telling me
if you did not start that fire, who did?

911
01:16:48,700 --> 01:16:50,600
What is it?

912
01:16:50,700 --> 01:16:55,200
Whatever it is, it's ingenious.
The fins are spring-loaded.

913
01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:59,400
That isn't a rocket at all.
It's an aeronautical flare.

914
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:04,000
There's an airport here in Welch.

915
01:17:04,100 --> 01:17:06,200
It's right above where
the fire started.

916
01:17:15,500 --> 01:17:19,300
Mr. Hickam, report to my office
as soon as we return to school.

917
01:17:20,400 --> 01:17:23,800
You do intend to enter
the county science fair, do you not?

918
01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:25,800
Yes, sir, we do.

919
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:28,600
If you intend
to represent Big Creek...

920
01:17:28,700 --> 01:17:31,900
you're going to have to be enrolled
as a student at Big Creek.

921
01:17:34,500 --> 01:17:36,000
"Prodigenous."

922
01:17:39,900 --> 01:17:42,300
Do you think you can draw well enough
so Mr. Bolden could build it?

923
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:44,000
Yep. Let me see.

924
01:17:45,100 --> 01:17:46,800
Yep.

925
01:17:46,900 --> 01:17:48,300
Hi, Dad.

926
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:51,400
- What's this stuff doin' here?
- We didn't start the fire.

927
01:17:51,500 --> 01:17:53,400
The troopers gave it back to us.

928
01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:55,700
It wasn't even one of our rockets.

929
01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:57,900
Y'all go on home now.

930
01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:00,600
Yes, sir.

931
01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:19,600
This the reason
you skipped work today?

932
01:18:19,700 --> 01:18:21,000
Yes, sir.

933
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:28,200
I thought you put all this nonsense
behind you, Homer.

934
01:18:28,300 --> 01:18:31,200
- I thought you weren't gonna do it.
- It isn't nonsense.

935
01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:33,600
I don't wanna argue with ya.

936
01:18:33,700 --> 01:18:35,700
Look, son.

937
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:39,700
I can't even begin to tell you how proud
of you I've been these past weeks.

938
01:18:39,700 --> 01:18:44,600
You just been doin'
a hell of a job in that mine.

939
01:18:44,700 --> 01:18:47,500
You keep goin',
you're gonna have my job someday.

940
01:18:48,300 --> 01:18:50,800
Everybody says so.

941
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:54,900
You got any idea
how proud that would make me?

942
01:18:57,500 --> 01:19:00,300
I guess what I'm sayin' is...

943
01:19:00,300 --> 01:19:03,900
that if this rocket stuff
is so important to you...

944
01:19:04,100 --> 01:19:06,000
then so be it...

945
01:19:06,100 --> 01:19:07,900
as long as you're careful.

946
01:19:07,900 --> 01:19:10,700
Guess there's worse hobbies
you could have.

947
01:19:11,500 --> 01:19:14,500
But skippin' work,
that's out of line.

948
01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:17,400
And you got to know that.

949
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:21,200
So, let's go and get you
right with Jake.

950
01:19:21,300 --> 01:19:24,000
Tell him you'll work
the hoot owl shift tonight.

951
01:19:24,100 --> 01:19:25,400
No.

952
01:19:29,500 --> 01:19:33,100
The coal mine's your life.
It's not mine.

953
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:41,700
I'm never goin' down there again.

954
01:19:48,100 --> 01:19:50,100
I wanna go into space.

955
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:17,500
Homer Hickam, Roy Lee Cook,
Quentin Wilson...

956
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:19,800
and Sherman O'Dell
of Big Creek High...

957
01:20:19,900 --> 01:20:22,800
for their ingenious display
of amateur rocket-building techniques.

958
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:45,500
I can't believe we beat the kid
with the robot dog.

959
01:20:45,500 --> 01:20:49,100
I thought the see-through ear
was gonna win.

960
01:20:49,200 --> 01:20:52,800
I got Miss Wade working on
your travel arrangements, so...

961
01:20:52,900 --> 01:20:55,700
you boys are gonna have to decide
who's going to Indianapolis.

962
01:20:56,700 --> 01:20:58,500
- We were all goin'.
- Yeah.

963
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:02,400
I wish you could, but we can't afford
to send all four of you.

964
01:21:02,500 --> 01:21:06,600
Only one. Let me know.
I'm going to have to know by Friday.

965
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:09,200
You boys did a fine job today.

966
01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:24,000
I need to borrow a suitcase, and
I'm gonna need you guys' addresses...

967
01:21:24,100 --> 01:21:26,100
because I'm gonna write
some postcards.

968
01:21:26,100 --> 01:21:27,700
Shut up.

969
01:21:27,700 --> 01:21:30,400
Come on, you dope.
You know you're going.

970
01:21:31,700 --> 01:21:35,700
Yeah. Say hello
to the outside world for us.

971
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:38,000
- Do we know what we want?
- Yeah!

972
01:21:38,100 --> 01:21:40,000
- Are we gettin' it?
- No!

973
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:44,000
All right. All in favor
of going on strike, say aye!

974
01:21:44,100 --> 01:21:46,300
- Aye!
- All right, let's go!

975
01:21:48,400 --> 01:21:50,900
All right, shut 'em down!
Let's go!

976
01:21:50,900 --> 01:21:53,300
Strike! Strike!

977
01:22:12,500 --> 01:22:14,600
They sure are getting
themselves worked up.

978
01:22:14,700 --> 01:22:16,600
Everybody's saying this one's
gonna be a long one.

979
01:22:16,700 --> 01:22:19,700
And it will, if I have
anything to say about it.

980
01:22:19,800 --> 01:22:21,600
Ungrateful sons of bitches--

981
01:22:21,700 --> 01:22:24,100
Mom, have you seen
the big green suitcase?

982
01:22:24,100 --> 01:22:27,100
- Did you look in the attic?
- Yes, ma'am.

983
01:22:27,100 --> 01:22:29,800
I don't know.
John, you know where the suitcase is?

984
01:22:31,900 --> 01:22:35,600
How the hell should I know
where the suitcase is?

985
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:37,700
I don't know, sug.

986
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:56,000
Y'all stay inside!

987
01:23:01,300 --> 01:23:02,500
Vernon!

988
01:23:02,600 --> 01:23:04,700
I'm gonna kill
that son of a bitch.

989
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:06,800
Don't be a damn fool.

990
01:23:06,800 --> 01:23:08,800
What are we gonna do?

991
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:11,700
Nothin'.

992
01:23:11,700 --> 01:23:15,200
Drunken bastard couldn't hit
the broad side of a barn.

993
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:18,000
- He tried to kill you.
- You can't just stand there--

994
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:20,400
Don't trouble yourself, Homer.

995
01:23:20,400 --> 01:23:23,000
You got more important things
to worry about.

996
01:23:23,100 --> 01:23:26,600
Just go look for your suitcase.

997
01:23:30,700 --> 01:23:32,500
Forget about it, Homer.

998
01:23:34,300 --> 01:23:35,700
Shut up, Jim!

999
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:40,900
I'm sorry about what's going on
around here, but it isn't my fault!

1000
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:43,900
- What do you want from me anyway?
- Watch yourself!

1001
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:46,700
If I win at Indianapolis,
maybe I can go to college!

1002
01:23:46,700 --> 01:23:48,600
Maybe even get a job
at Cape Canaveral!

1003
01:23:48,700 --> 01:23:50,800
There's nothin' here for me!

1004
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:54,800
The town is dying! The mine is dying!
Everybody knows it but you!

1005
01:23:54,900 --> 01:23:57,700
You wanna get outta here so bad,
then go! Go!

1006
01:23:57,800 --> 01:23:59,100
Yeah, I'll go!

1007
01:23:59,200 --> 01:24:00,500
Go!

1008
01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:02,500
And I'll be gone forever!

1009
01:24:02,600 --> 01:24:04,400
I won't even look back!

1010
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:51,300
Welcome to Indianapolis.

1011
01:24:51,300 --> 01:24:53,800
Visitors to the fair
will include prominent members...

1012
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:56,400
of every branch
of the national scientific community.

1013
01:24:56,500 --> 01:24:59,500
The fair will be open to the public
over the next two days.

1014
01:24:59,500 --> 01:25:03,300
The following day, the judges
will arrive to select the winners.

1015
01:25:04,300 --> 01:25:07,000
By timing the rocket's descent,
we would be able to figure out...

1016
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:09,500
just how high the rocket flew.

1017
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,300
Would you like to see?
This is a Delaval nozzle.

1018
01:25:15,300 --> 01:25:17,900
Do any of y'all know
what a Delaval--

1019
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:31,100
The judges always go for
the most expensive exhibits.

1020
01:25:31,200 --> 01:25:33,200
The guy with the biosphere's
gonna win.

1021
01:25:33,200 --> 01:25:36,900
I don't think so. My money's
on the kid with the rocket display.

1022
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:39,900
Have you seen it yet?
It's really cool.

1023
01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:47,500
Mr. Owens to the security office.

1024
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:02,500
It's not like we got a lot of time.
The judging is tomorrow.

1025
01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:04,500
There's nothin' we can do
without Mr. Bolden.

1026
01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:06,900
He can't get anywhere near
the machine shop.

1027
01:26:06,900 --> 01:26:10,900
They even took my picture
of Dr. von Braun.

1028
01:26:10,900 --> 01:26:12,800
They stole everything.

1029
01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:24,400
Leon, what are you doing back here?

1030
01:26:24,500 --> 01:26:26,800
You know you shouldn't
be seen back here.

1031
01:26:26,900 --> 01:26:29,100
I know, Elsie,
but Homer's in trouble.

1032
01:26:44,100 --> 01:26:48,400
Elsie, I don't have the power
to settle this strike.

1033
01:26:48,500 --> 01:26:51,600
The bosses listen to you.
They'll do what you tell them.

1034
01:26:51,700 --> 01:26:54,100
I'm not gonna crawl on my belly...

1035
01:26:54,100 --> 01:26:57,500
in front of
those miserable union rats.

1036
01:26:57,600 --> 01:27:00,700
Is that what this is about?
Is this about your pride?

1037
01:27:00,700 --> 01:27:03,100
It's about what's best for Coalwood.

1038
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:07,900
If this mine doesn't produce,
then the town dies.

1039
01:27:07,900 --> 01:27:11,900
Think the union gives
a good damn about that?

1040
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:14,900
They're nothin' but a bunch
of greedy sons of bitches--

1041
01:27:14,900 --> 01:27:16,800
Shut up. Just shut up.

1042
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:20,100
Homer once said you love the mine
more than your own family.

1043
01:27:20,200 --> 01:27:22,800
I took up for you
'cause I didn't wanna believe it.

1044
01:27:22,900 --> 01:27:25,500
Homer has gotten a lot of help
from the people in this town.

1045
01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:28,600
They've helped him build his rockets.
They've watched him fly 'em.

1046
01:27:28,700 --> 01:27:30,300
But not you.

1047
01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:33,200
You never showed up, not even once.

1048
01:27:33,300 --> 01:27:37,900
I'm not asking you to believe in it,
but he's your son, for God's sake.

1049
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:41,000
And I am asking you to help him.

1050
01:27:41,100 --> 01:27:43,100
If you don't, I'll leave you.

1051
01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:46,100
I'll do whatever it takes
to get away from here.

1052
01:27:46,100 --> 01:27:50,000
I'll live in a tree to get away
from you. Don't think I won't.

1053
01:27:53,500 --> 01:27:55,100
Where would you go?

1054
01:27:57,800 --> 01:27:59,400
Myrtle Beach.

1055
01:28:13,100 --> 01:28:16,100
I guess we all know
this isn't gonna fix things.

1056
01:28:16,200 --> 01:28:18,600
At least, not for long.

1057
01:28:18,700 --> 01:28:21,700
We know you did
what you could for us.

1058
01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:23,300
- Jake.
- Thanks.

1059
01:28:24,600 --> 01:28:26,700
- Leon.
- Yes, John?

1060
01:28:28,700 --> 01:28:31,200
Don't you have some work to do?

1061
01:28:45,100 --> 01:28:47,900
It's packed and on its way.
Be at the bus station, 8:00 a.m.

1062
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:50,800
- How'd you--
- Your father.

1063
01:28:50,900 --> 01:28:53,800
- It was your father.
- Give 'em hell, Homer!

1064
01:28:58,000 --> 01:28:59,500
Good luck, sweetie.

1065
01:28:59,500 --> 01:29:00,800
Bye.

1066
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:16,200
Thanks, Dad.

1067
01:29:29,100 --> 01:29:31,000
When the rocket propellant burns...

1068
01:29:31,100 --> 01:29:33,500
it produces a river of gas
which flows through...

1069
01:29:33,600 --> 01:29:35,500
the convergent section
of the nozzle.

1070
01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:37,700
If the river continues
through the nozzle...

1071
01:29:37,700 --> 01:29:39,800
but through the throat
at less than sonic speed--

1072
01:29:39,900 --> 01:29:42,100
that is to say,
less than the speed of sound--

1073
01:29:42,200 --> 01:29:45,400
it becomes compacted
in the divergent section...

1074
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:46,800
bound in turmoil--

1075
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:48,900
Lyle Wells and Jean Cooper...

1076
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:51,500
Schrader High School,
McMinnville, Oregon.

1077
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:13,200
Now, ladies and gentlemen,
for the big moment.

1078
01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:18,100
The Highest Scholastic
Achievement Award for Science.

1079
01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:21,700
The National Science Fair
first prize gold medal...

1080
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:24,300
goes to Homer Hickam...

1081
01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:27,600
Quentin Wilson, Roy Lee Cook
and Sherman O'Dell...

1082
01:30:27,700 --> 01:30:31,500
Big Creek High School,
McDowell County, West Virginia.

1083
01:31:03,600 --> 01:31:06,900
Tom Webster of Virginia State College.
I wanna talk to you about a scholarship.

1084
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:08,800
Jack Palmer, Virginia Tech.

1085
01:31:08,900 --> 01:31:12,200
We got the best science program
in the state.

1086
01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:14,200
Congratulations, son.
Good luck to you.

1087
01:31:17,900 --> 01:31:21,000
- What did he say to you?
- What did who say?

1088
01:31:21,100 --> 01:31:23,800
Von Braun.
That was Wernher von Braun.

1089
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:26,300
You just shook his hand.

1090
01:31:42,900 --> 01:31:45,600
- Homer, I'm so proud of you.
- Thanks, Mom.

1091
01:31:47,500 --> 01:31:50,000
He's not here, hon.

1092
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:52,700
Where's Miss Riley?

1093
01:32:09,600 --> 01:32:11,100
Hello, Miss Riley.

1094
01:32:14,100 --> 01:32:15,700
Hey, Homer.

1095
01:32:22,300 --> 01:32:23,700
You did it!

1096
01:32:23,700 --> 01:32:25,700
I knew you would.

1097
01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:29,700
The Rocket Boys
are going to college.

1098
01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:33,700
We all got scholarships.

1099
01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:36,600
And you know what?

1100
01:32:37,700 --> 01:32:41,000
From now on, every school year...

1101
01:32:41,100 --> 01:32:43,800
I'm gonna brag to all
my new students about...

1102
01:32:43,900 --> 01:32:47,600
how I taught Homer Hickam
and the Rocket Boys.

1103
01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:49,900
Maybe one day...

1104
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:54,400
one of them'll feel like
they can do what y'all did.

1105
01:33:06,100 --> 01:33:09,000
You know, just,
stuff like that takes time.

1106
01:33:14,700 --> 01:33:16,600
Will you let me out?

1107
01:33:23,500 --> 01:33:26,500
What are they doin',
charging Olga for that?

1108
01:33:26,500 --> 01:33:28,100
It's gotta have a pump.

1109
01:33:28,200 --> 01:33:30,600
Hell, salvage something up here.

1110
01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:32,700
- Hey, Dad.
- Hello, Homer.

1111
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:36,600
I just wanted to tell you how much
I appreciate what you did for me.

1112
01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:40,600
I know it wasn't easy for you,
so thank you.

1113
01:33:40,600 --> 01:33:44,500
We're shooting off our last rocket today
at 5:00, so if you'd like to see it--

1114
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:47,500
I got a lot of work to do.

1115
01:33:47,500 --> 01:33:50,700
All right.
I just thought I'd ask.

1116
01:33:53,200 --> 01:33:55,700
Hear you met your big hero.

1117
01:33:58,000 --> 01:34:00,200
Didn't even know it.

1118
01:34:07,200 --> 01:34:08,700
Look...

1119
01:34:08,700 --> 01:34:11,900
I know you and me don't exactly see
eye to eye on certain things.

1120
01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:16,600
I mean, man, we don't see eye to eye
on just about anything.

1121
01:34:16,700 --> 01:34:21,400
But I come to believe that I got it
in me to be somebody in this world.

1122
01:34:21,500 --> 01:34:24,400
And it's not because
I'm so different from you either.

1123
01:34:24,400 --> 01:34:26,700
It's 'cause I'm the same.

1124
01:34:26,800 --> 01:34:30,200
I can be just as hardheaded
and just as tough.

1125
01:34:31,500 --> 01:34:34,800
I only hope I can be
as good a man as you are.

1126
01:34:37,600 --> 01:34:41,500
I mean, sure, Dr. von Braun's
a great scientist...

1127
01:34:42,600 --> 01:34:44,500
but he isn't my hero.

1128
01:35:46,800 --> 01:35:48,700
It's our last rocket.

1129
01:35:48,800 --> 01:35:51,000
Yeah, let's do it.

1130
01:35:51,100 --> 01:35:54,200
Wire it up for me.
I gotta do something.

1131
01:35:58,400 --> 01:36:00,300
Congratulations on winning
the science fair.

1132
01:36:00,400 --> 01:36:01,800
- Thanks.
- It's gotta be...

1133
01:36:01,900 --> 01:36:04,500
the most exciting thing
that's ever happened around here.

1134
01:36:04,500 --> 01:36:08,000
I was thinking, Homer,
if you've got some time--

1135
01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:09,900
Excuse me, Dorothy.

1136
01:36:15,600 --> 01:36:17,600
- Good luck.
- Thanks.

1137
01:36:19,300 --> 01:36:21,700
Hey, everybody, can we have
your attention, please?

1138
01:36:21,800 --> 01:36:23,700
Come on, Homer.
Let 'er fly.

1139
01:36:23,700 --> 01:36:27,600
We're gonna launch the rocket,
but we'd like to say thank you first.

1140
01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:29,400
If it wasn't for y'all...

1141
01:36:29,500 --> 01:36:32,100
we'd never have gotten
into any science fair.

1142
01:36:32,100 --> 01:36:35,000
We'd probably never have gotten past
blowin' up my mom's fence.

1143
01:36:36,300 --> 01:36:39,800
But we did, because of
your help and support.

1144
01:36:41,100 --> 01:36:43,500
And this is for Coalwood.

1145
01:36:48,500 --> 01:36:52,200
There are a few people who believed
in us even before we did.

1146
01:36:52,300 --> 01:36:55,900
We'd like to dedicate
this rocket to them.

1147
01:36:56,000 --> 01:36:58,600
To Ike Bykovsky.

1148
01:37:01,600 --> 01:37:04,100
To Mr. Bolden,
who helped us so much.

1149
01:37:07,200 --> 01:37:10,100
To the person
who first inspired us:

1150
01:37:10,200 --> 01:37:11,900
our teacher, Miss Riley.

1151
01:37:14,600 --> 01:37:18,000
And, finally, I'd like
to dedicate this rocket...

1152
01:37:18,100 --> 01:37:20,300
to my mom and to...

1153
01:37:25,500 --> 01:37:27,000
my dad.

1154
01:37:41,700 --> 01:37:46,000
You know, it won't fly
unless somebody pushes the button.

1155
01:37:49,100 --> 01:37:51,300
It's yours if you want it.

1156
01:38:14,600 --> 01:38:16,800
Ten. Nine.

1157
01:38:16,800 --> 01:38:19,300
Eight. Seven. Six.

1158
01:38:19,300 --> 01:38:22,000
Five. Four. Three.

1159
01:38:22,100 --> 01:38:24,100
Two. One.

1160
01:38:40,700 --> 01:38:42,700
Look at it go, Homer.

1161
01:38:42,800 --> 01:38:44,800
This one's gonna go for miles.

1162
01:40:24,200 --> 01:41:26,000
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