Deadly Impact

00:00:09 (narrator) WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO THE HIGH DESERT

00:04:09 NOT ON THE GROUND, BUT IN THE SKY.

00:06:14 BUT GENE SHOEMAKER LIKES TO MAKE UP HIS MIND FOR HIMSELF.

00:08:42 IF YOU OR YOUR HOUSE HAPPEN TO STAND IN THE PATH

00:10:54 WHEN THEY SAW THE STAGGERING DEVASTATION

00:12:56 "YES, METEORITES FALL OUT OF THE SKY.

00:15:08 AND SEE WHAT THE STRUCTURE WAS

00:17:05 THE RIFLE CAME BACK AND HIT ME IN THE NOSE

00:19:37 I WAS GOING TO DO WHATEVER I COULD DO

00:21:35 THAT'S HITTING BOTH THE EARTH AND THE MOON.

00:23:20 AND THERE, GENE CAME UPON THE LARGEST GEOLOGIC SAMPLE

00:25:40 THE PROOF IS HERE. BUT THEY'RE ALSO ON THE MOON."

00:27:58 17 HOUSTON, YOU ARE GO FOR ORB

00:29:53 I HAD TO GO DO OTHER THINGS.

00:32:13 WAS A TINY TELESCOPE THAT WAS VIRTUALLY UNUSED.

00:34:19 THIS HUGE ROCK WAS MORE THAN A MILE ACROSS.

00:36:48 WHEN TWO-THIRDS OF ALL LIVING SPECIES

00:39:09 EXCEPT IT WAS A COMET THAT WAS STRETCHED OUT.

00:41:00 (narrator) THE COMET--

00:42:57 (woman) THERE'S NOTHING IN THE SKY...

00:45:24 THAT COLLISIONS TAKE PLACE

00:48:09 THEY'RE A HAZARD.

00:49:49 WHICH WE MAY BE ABLE TO PREVENT.

00:51:59 BIG SCIENCE HAS TAKEN UP THE HUNT FOR ASTEROIDS.