The professor reports that all of America is abuzz too, with the most ambitious scientific project in history, an actual trip to the moon. But the mission has stalled in the most terrible way, an accident on the launchpad resulted in the astronauts being trapped in a fatal fire. For the first time ever it is the professor who asks the time thieves for help, he invites them to come to 1969 and stop the dreadful accident, and make sure the trip to the moon can go ahead.