The Martian Page #3

fine with this, given my present situation.

What's everybody doing?

Taking a holiday from being cool?

Counting on you.

So, yeah, I blew myself up.

Best guess...

I forgot to

account for the excess oxygen...

that I've been exhaling

when I did my calculations.

Because I'm stupid.

Yeah, I'm gonna get back to work here...

just as soon as my ears stop ringing.

Interesting side note, this is actually

how the Jet Propulsion Lab was founded.

Five guys at Caltech were trying

to make rocket fuel...

and they nearly burned down their dorm.

And rather than expel them...

they banished them to a nearby farm,

told them to keep working.

And now we have a space program.

Okay.

Hey, there.

The nation was blessed to have Mark

serving in our space program.

While his loss will be deeply felt...

the men and women of NASA

will soldier forth...

onward and upward in the mission

of their agency.

By doing so, they honor the legacy

Mark's leaving behind...

and they ensure his sacrifice

will not be in vain.

I have the honor of speaking not only

for the men and women of NASA...

but for people all over the world...

I thought you gave a lovely speech,

by the way.

I need you to authorize

my satellite time.

It's not gonna happen.

We're funded for five Ares missions.

I think I can get Congress

to authorize a sixth.

-No.

-Ares 3 evac'd after 18 sols.

There's half a mission worth

of supplies up there.

I can sell it at a fraction of the cost

of a normal mission...

and all I have to know is

what's left of our assets.

You're not the only one

who needs satellite time.

We've got the Ares 4 supply missions

coming up.

We should be focusing on

the Schiaparelli Crater.

Okay, we got 12 satellites up there.

Surely we can spare a few hours...

It's not about

the satellite time, Vince.

We're a public domain organization.

-We need to be transparent on this.

-Okay.

The second we point

the satellites at the Hab...

I broadcast pictures of Mark Watney's

dead body to the world.

You're afraid of a PR problem?

Of course I'm afraid of a PR problem.

Another mission?

Congress won't reimburse us

for a paper clip...

if I put a dead astronaut on the

front page of The Washington Post.

He's not going anywhere, Teddy.

I mean, he's not...

He's not gonna decompose, you know.

He's gonna be up there forever.

Meteorology estimates that

he'll be covered in sand...

from normal weather activity

within a year.

We can't wait a year.

We got work to do.

Ares 5 won't even launch for five years.

We have plenty of time.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay, consider this.

Right now, the world's on our side.

Sympathy for the Watney family.

Ares 6 could bring his body home.

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