For All Mankind (TV Series)

He Built the Saturn V (2019)

Joel Kinnaman: Edward Baldwin

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• Edward Baldwin : Look, I know you came out here to get away from all the questions, but it's still my backyard. So, spit it out. Did they really make you go through customs when you came back?

  Neil Armstrong : I got the receipt to prove it.

  Edward Baldwin : Jesus! That was a hell of a landing, Neil.

  Neil Armstrong : If you can call it that. Maintaining attitude control was no joke.

  Edward Baldwin : I bet.

  Neil Armstrong : Tell you the truth? I can't believe I didn't abort.

  Edward Baldwin : Well, you pulled it off. It was a good call.

  Neil Armstrong : Easy to say that looking back. Couple things go different, we drift a little bit further into those rocks we're a smoking hole and I got my name on the biggest disaster in NASA history.

  Edward Baldwin : Then why'd you go for it?

  Neil Armstrong : I don't know. You're in flight test and, every once in a while, you get to that point where part of your brain is saying, "Eject". But another part of your brain is saying, "Go for it". And you just have to make the call and hope you're not wrong.

• Deke Slayton : Presidents come and go, Ed, but we're the ones carrying the fire. It took a lot of guts, what you did up there in DC. I need guys like you around for what's coming down the pike.

  Edward Baldwin : I'm not coming back to sit behind a desk.

  Deke Slayton : No, you're not.

  Edward Baldwin : What exactly does that mean?

  Deke Slayton : It means you're back on Apollo 15.

  Edward Baldwin : Wait, are you...?

  Deke Slayton : Ed, maybe just once, shut the fuck up. You're going back to the moon.

• Edward Baldwin : What do you think it says when you wander into sim an hour late just reeking of booze and pussy?

  Gordo Stevens : That the American dream is alive and well.

• Admiral Scott Uken : So when you going back up, Ed? 15, right?

  Edward Baldwin : Well. It's unclear at the moment. Sort of why I asked you to come grab a beer. I've been thinking about maybe moving back navy side.

  Admiral Scott Uken : Yeah, right. Now why on God's green earth would you wanna do something like that? Pilots become astronauts, Ed. Not the other way around.

  Edward Baldwin : Well, the only thing I've been flying lately is a desk.

  Admiral Scott Uken : This about that article?

  Edward Baldwin : Yeah.

  Admiral Scott Uken : You always did have a way of pissing off your superior officers. Present company included.