And that completes my final report until we reach touchdown.

We're now on full automatic in the hands of the computers.

I've tucked my crew in for the long sleep, and I'll be joining them soon.

In less than an hour, we'll finish our sixth month out of Cape Kennedy.

Six months in deep space.

By our time, that is.

According to Dr. Hasline's theory of time in a vehicle traveling nearly the speed of light,

the Earth has aged nearly 700 years since we left it.

Well, we've aged hardly at all.

I leave the 20th century with no regrets.

But...

Tell me, though.

Does man that marvel to the universe,

that glorious paradox,

who sent me to the stars,

still make war against his brother, keep his neighbor's children starving.

There was a time when the Twilight Zone and the film Planet of the Apes were just two things that I liked.

As a youngster hooked on the mind-expanding universe of the Twilight Zone and the adventure

of Planet of the Apes, what went on behind the camera was of no concern to me.

But were these just two things that I liked?

Or was there more to it than that?

As I got older, those things behind the camera did become more important to me,

...