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Tom Kelly: Unfortunately, moving LEM 3 to the Cape did little to ease the pressure we were under. Jim McDivitt: Tom, there's still at least a hundred things wrong with it. Tom Kelly: We'll get it fixed in time. Jim McDivitt: No, you won't. There is no way in three months that thing is gonna be ready to fly. Tom Kelly: Look, Jim, it's--It's a good machine. Just needs a little fine-tuning. That's all. Jim McDivitt: You don't have to whisper, Tom. It can't hear you. Look, I want it to go up as much as you do. I know we're running out of time. It's 18 months to the end of the decade and we still haven't had a single manned Apollo flight. I know that. But that doesn't change the facts. LEM 3 is not ready to fly. And it won't be any time soon. That's gonna have to be my recommendation to headquarters. Man: Now, with the LEM 3 not ready to fly after Wally and the 7 crew go up with the C.S.M. in October that means there won't be another Apollo flight until the spring, right? Jim McDivitt: Right. Man: Well, maybe not. George has come up with a rather wild idea. Jim McDivitt: How wild? Man: Frank's mission is being scrubbed. We've created a new C-Prime mission which will precede your mission. Jim McDivitt: What's the mission? Man: Well, we're gonna send the command and service module-- no lunar module--on a flight around the moon in December. | 
