- Kelly Baldwin: [voiceover] On April 3rd, 1972, a C-5A Galaxy transport plane with 243 infants, children, volunteers and crew took off from Saigon as part of Operation Babylift. One minute, 23 seconds later, the plane crashed into a field. Forty-seven children were rescued. I was one of them. There are these moments that shape your life, moments you have no control over. If the pilot had banked left instead of right, if the south had won the war in Vietnam, if the Russians hadn't beat us to the moon... I always thought things happen for a reason. Good and bad, there's a design, a plan. But lately I've started to wonder if maybe we just say that to make ourselves feel better. Maybe we're just drifting from moment to moment trying to do what we think is right. To give some meaning to our lives. So who am I? I'm Hanh Nguyen, born in Saigon, daughter of Le and Bing Nguyen. And I'm Kelly Ann Baldwin, raised in Houston, daughter of Karen and Ed Baldwin. A child of the space program. Is this the journey I was meant to be on? Applying to the Naval Academy, following in my father's footsteps? I don't know. All I know is the more we look back, wondering what might have been, the less we're living for today. And the future... John Lennon probably put it best: "Everything will be okay in the end. And if it's not okay, it's not the end.
- Danielle Poole: [Danielle Opens Docking hatch at one end and Stepan opens the other hatch]
- [Danielle greets in Russian]
- Danielle Poole: Soyuz
- Stepan Petrovich Alexseev: Welcome Apollo. So good to see you again my friend.
- Danielle Poole: The pleasure is all mine.
- [they begin shaking hands and smile in front of the camera and give the two finger peace symbol while the world cheers them on]
- Bill Strausser: Apollo, Houston. Your pitch will be minus 49.3 degrees. De-orbit burn will begin in T-minus five minutes.
- Danielle Poole: Negative, Houston.
- Bill Strausser: Come back, Apollo. Didn't read you.
- Danielle Poole: You did. We are going to proceed with the docking maneuver.
- Bill Strausser: Uhhh... Apollo, you've been ordered to initiate atmospheric entry in five minutes.
- Danielle Poole: And I am telling you, it ain't happening.
- Bill Strausser: [snapping fingers] Flight?
- Margo Madison: What's going on?
- Molly Cobb: Commander Poole, you have been given a direct order to commence reentry procedure.
- Danielle Poole: And I am choosing to ignore it. Now, I suggest you all begin docking procedures down there if you don't want us to crash into each other on national television.
- Bill Strausser: She doesn't know everything that's going on. Maybe if we tell her...
- Molly Cobb: I don't give a rat's ass what she knows. She's been given an order.
- Margo Madison: [Under her breath, to Molly] Guess this is what happens when astronauts get away with disobeying orders.
- Molly Cobb: [Glares at Margo]
- Ellen Wilson: Tell her she can proceed.
- Molly Cobb: What?
- Margo Madison: I thought the president canceled the docking.
- Ellen Wilson: He did. But I speak for the president in this room and I think one good thing should happen on this shitty day.