Breakaway Lost Scenes

Raw audio from filming on Tuesday 11th December 1973. More of Sandra's lines get cut, possibly to save on running time but more likely because it slows the action just as the Eagle goes flying off out of control.

Director: "Action"
Koenig: "That's good, Paul, keep it coming. Steady. Steady as you go, easy. Keep it coming. That's good. Keep it coming, Paul. Keep it coming."
Director: "Cut"
Crew: "Start rolling."
Crew; "79 take 2."
Koenig: "Good, Paul, keep it coming. That's good. Steady. Steady as you go. That's good. Good, keep it coming." That's good. Keep it coming, Paul. Keep it coming. Hard to the left. Sandra, reading."
Sandra: "Radiation count normal, magnetic field zero."
Koenig: "Okay Paul, set her down."
Pause
Sandra (urgent): "Commander, it has accelerated right off the scale."
Koenig: "Blast her out of there."
Furious typing.
Koenig (urgent): "Readings."
Sandra: "Radiation count normal, six above zero... " (now curious) "... reducing?"
Bergman: "Surge. A magnetic surge." Director: "Cut"

Raw audio from filming on Wednesday 12th December 1973. Here is a section removed from the scene (in Koenig's office) where Simmonds is told about the magnetic radiation problem. The pseudo-science was wisely dropped.

Bergman: "When this project started, we used uranium three nine two as fuel. But in the last seven years, we've started mixing it with caesium. Ah, you know, uranium was expensive, caesium was cheap. But now it seems that uranium and caesium are reacting adversely to one another, producing magnetic fields of incredible strength. And, ah, that's our problem."
Simmonds: "Magnetism... causing brain damage?"
Helena: "Atomic radiation causing cancer."
Bergman: "Magnetism is energy and all energy.. radiates."
Simmonds: "Mm. I be prepared to look at a report on the subject. When it's more comprehensive."
Koenig: "Commissioner, unless we come up with some answers damn soon, the fourth of July's gonna seem like a very quiet day in the country. Now Professor Bergman, and Doctor Russell, have identified the problem, and analysed it's causes. They stick. "

Scenes filmed on Friday 14th December 1973 and Thursday 20th December. It represents scenes 129 to 140, switching between Main Mission, Alan's Eagle cockpit, and special effects shots. The description of Mare Cantabrium exists in E C Tubb's novelisation (they aren't real lunar features, but the "Mare Cantabrium" exists on Earth, better known as the Bay of Biscay off Spain).

Crew: "This is one three two take one, no clapper."
Director: "Action"
Crew: "One, two, three, shake!"
Helena: "I can't move."
Bergman: "We're moving. The Moon is accelerating."
Landau: "Now I start to move across. I'm struggling, I'm struggling, I'm struggling. I finally get ...to the console... Carter. Carter, can you read me?"
Alan: "Yes"
Koenig: "This is John Koenig. Our G-forces have been affected. Can you determine what's happening to us?"
Alan: "Commander. That explosion. It tore a tremendous piece of the moon away. The far side, it just tore it away."
Koenig: "Tore it away?"
Alan: "All of Mare Cantabrium is gone. The Great Lunar Sea. All the Alta Mountains. I can see it from up here. It is impossible to believe. The Meta Probe! The entire Space Dock is breaking up,"
Koenig: "Carter, get back here. Get back here, Carter."
Alan: "The Moon is going out of the Earth's orbit!"
Koenig (quiet): "We're going out of orbit." (loud) "Get back here Carter... before we lose you too."
Alan: "I'm holding. But only just."
Koenig: "Hold on, Carter, hold on. Feels like we're decelerating now. Don't lose power, don't lose any ground, keep on full power, Carter." (quieter) "Think he'll make it?"
Bergman's reply is missing. Koenig continues: "We have our power back. Ouma says we're down to three ..."
Indistinct chatter and buzzer sounds.