Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets Page #3

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is higher than planned. Heart rate is still up.

Some surface corrosion. I can see a little dust.

(THUNDER)

- (YVAN PANTS) It's a little bit pitted.

- Do we have any commonality...

(YVAN) The Russian robot, she's beaten Venus.

(GASPS FOR BREATH)

Robots may be tougher than us...

but we don't make the same mistakes.

(ZO) Recommend we drop

the second weather experiment.

John's in agreement, so roger that.

(ZO) Call that a wrap on Venera, Yvan.

Just rapid return to Orpheus.

All right.

(YVAN BREATHES HEAVILY)

It's uphill back to 0rpheus and his heart rate's

already too high. He needs a breather.

- The gravity's killing him. He needs a break.

- Forget it, John, he's gotta keep moving.

- I've got an update on your ascent pattern.

- He's suffering from overheating.

- He's four minutes over-budget.

- Let's work out exactly what it is she's venting.

- Ascent pattern coming up.

- (YVAN GASPS)

My air has almost run out.

- Cabin temperature 22 degrees, up 4.

- (TOM) Zo, prepare for launch.

- (W0MAN) Heart rate 186.

- Downloading a diagnostic routine.

Suit temperature 32 degrees.

- (Z0) Yvan, we've got to go. Just lost...

- (BEEPING)

(ZO) No, it's back.

- Cabin pressure holding.

- (NINA) What is the weather doing?

- Nina?

- We've just lost camera 3.

(ZO) He's inside.

(NINA) Super coolers are off.

(JOHN) Temperature falling. 150 degrees...

- ...70 degrees...20 degrees...

- (YVAN) Can we turn the air-con off?

(ZO) Contact for pressure.

Abort stage set and move onto ascent.

- Ready for launch.

- (KLAX0N BLARES)

(KLAX0N BLARES)

- Lift-off.

- (YVAN SPEAKS RUSSIAN)

0ne minute till max cue.

(ZO) We're gonna pitch and yaw now.

(ZO) OK, she's all yours.

(TOM) Five metres and closing.

Two metres.

- (YVAN) Still in one piece?

- Pegasus is doing fine, Yvan. Welcome home.

(NARRATOR) Having survived

the hellhole that is Venus,

the crew of Pegasus has experienced

at first hand

a grim warning for our own planet.

(J0HN) You can really see that haze layer.

(T0M) Hard to believe

it could ever have been like Earth.

When people ignore greenhouse gases here,

they should look at Venus.

The carbon dioxide there - from volcanoes, not

pollution - created a runaway greenhouse effect

that sent temperatures soaring

over 400 centigrade.

Mars window is open, reactor temperature

nominal, cryogens of 36 psi.

Pre-combustion chamber at pressure.

All systems are go.

Capcom, give the go-ahead for the burn.

(TOM) Event timer countdown

to trans-Mars injection.

Five, four, three, two, one.

We have ignition.

(NARRATOR) Throughout human history,

one planet has gripped our imagination

more than any other.

The one place in our solar system

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