Approaching the Unknown
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- Year:
- 2016
- 90 min
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Mars is
just a tiny dot in the sky.
Nothing lives there.
Nothing has ever died there,
but I'm going
to bring it to life.
Fourteen hours and counting.
Captain.
Good luck, sir.
Skinny.
Hey, excited?
Of course, you?
You bet your ass I am.
Perform a.P.U. Start.
cheering me on, but most of
them wondering why I'd do this.
Commencing launch sequence.
O.S.M. Permit to close.
O.S.M closed.
die on some barren planet?
- Vent one heater exit.
- Exit. S.S.C.
Because I know it
won't be barren for long.
- G.L.S. On.
- G.L.S. Is on.
Final poll.
Houston flight?
Houston flight is go.
- Fido?
- Fido is go.
- GPO?
- GPO is go.
- STM?
- STM is go.
- SPE?
- Go.
CDR?
Commander is go.
We are go for launch.
T-minus ten, nine, eight...
This is a one-way mission, but
I'm going to Mars to live.
This is captain William d. Stanaforth
here aboard the good ship Zephyr.
We are go for Mars.
Roger that, captain.
- Gravitational spin is on.
- Copy that.
Requesting permission to kick off
my shoes for the rest of the ride.
Roger, captain,
you have permission.
Lights, on.
Welcome to space, captain.
You hear that?
That's the crowd out in the
parking lot here in Houston.
We're all thrilled.
That said, we'd like to start
running diagnostics on some of the
life support systems we can't monitor.
Copy that Stanaforth?
Yeah.
Starting with the essentials, let's
run a test of the air circulation
and the water reactor.
Yeah, give me a minute, skinny.
Hello, little guys.
How life on
earth started is a mystery,
but sustaining it
is an engineering problem.
One meter of steel and insulation
separate me from nothingness.
I can feel the pull
of the ship's rotation.
My feet are heavy,
my head is light.
This massive machine,
so tiny in the void of space,
powerful but fragile.
It's unnerving, but I love it.
Hello, captain? It's time for your
first weekly student interface.
Are you ready for the uplink?
Kind of busy here.
Stanaforth, take a break.
P.R. Is important, too.
Plus a little human interaction
could do you good.
Good morning captain
Stanaforth, I'm Mrs. Wilson,
and I'm going to be monitoring
the student q and a
for the American youth
in science program.
from Samantha Hopps.
Hi, my question is,
if you make it to Mars,
how will you be able
When I get to Mars, we've already sent
up a lot of materials, fuel, food.
But one of the big challenges was water.
They just can't send up enough.
That's why I had been
working on this reactor.
Wow, you
made that? What does it do?
It's very similar to the
fuel cells on the ship.
Like an electric car,
the product is power,
and the byproduct
is drinking water.
Only mine runs on dirt.
Dirt?
I invented a process to extract the
hydrogen and the oxygen from the soil,
and recombine them,
which makes h20.
so I went out to
the Atacama desert
alone, with no water,
and only one way to survive.
To make that reactor work.
Day one, I'm making little adjustments.
My throat is parched.
Day two, I'm still working, but without
water I'm getting light-headed.
I could have
radioed in for a rescue,
By day three, I'm
doing a full reset.
And in that instant, I knew
that this could work on Mars.
With this step, I leave the earth
moving to a barren new planet.
Hmm.
With this step,
I leave the earth
moving to a pristine new planet.
but I will not be alone.
I am leaving earth
but bringing humanity with me.
Bringing you with me.
Mankind has transcended.
Mankind has achieved
new heights... come on.
I have come to another planet
seeking a new start, a fresh start,
a new start.
Take me to your leader.
Houston to Zephyr. It's 0800 hours.
Time to go to work.
What's the weather like at
Mars base camp right now?
You've got a high of about minus 10
degrees with some ice clouds moving in,
and then it's going to drop
down to about minus 80 tonight.
Ice clouds?
Yeah.
And in Houston?
Hot and humid.
Hurricane weather buddy.
My family, we'd be
flying on days like this.
Yeah well, that is crazy.
Most people on earth think what
you're doing's pretty crazy.
It's a calculated risk.
Don't you have any worries
that something might go wrong?
Of course I'm worried, but I
only focus on things I control.
Like the weather?
Someday.
Yeah!
Stanaforth!
You okay?
I had to test
it out. It worked.
They're going to
give us the mission.
Whoa, I don't know that we're ready
for the mission, Stanaforth.
I know.
Over the next five years we could
get 1,000 people up there.
That planet is calling for us.
Ship computer
civilian interviews, edited.
I'm applying for the
second Mars mission because
I want to do something
great for humanity.
Earth has so many problems.
Inequality, war, natural
disasters, man-made disasters.
I just don't think it's a
good place to live anymore.
There's so much I love about earth
that we won't have on Mars.
Oceans and forests,
animals, insects, rain.
It's going to be
really hard to leave,
but I'll give it all up to
experience something totally unique.
I know there will
be just a few of us but,
this will be the
most amazing people
on earth, or on Mars.
The most amazing
people in the universe.
Captain Stanaforth
is like a superhero.
I don't want to be alone,
being one of only a dozen or a few
hundred people on an entire planet.
There's a sort of melancholy to that,
which could be really beautiful.
Last stop for food and fuel
for the next 20 million miles.
Captain?
Earth to Stanaforth.
Stanaforth?
Yeah.
Hey, I thought we lost you.
I wish you could.
Careful now. We're
approaching the space station.
Because of the initial launch
delays, you won't have
a lot of time up there
to load supplies.
Ah, come on skinny, these are the last
people I'm going to see for a long time.
Hey.
Fruits from the Zephyr.
Ah!
Mmm!
You know I haven't had anything
this tasty in four months.
Your garden didn't take?
No, dead in two weeks.
So far so good in mine,
but we'll see.
Endurance, this is Houston.
F***, can we even say hi here?
Oh yeah, sorry.
Hi Greenstreet, how ya doing?
Sorry you're still
stuck up there, buddy.
Because of the initial launch delays, the
new departure time is in eight hours.
Might as well keep my suit on.
Where's the captain?
Hey Worsley,
captain Stanaforth is here.
Can you come and say hi?
Hey Worsley, how ya doing?
Hey, Worsley.
What's going on?
You have plants.
Yeah. For experiments.
You hungry?
We had mice.
We were doing socialization
experiments on the mice,
to see how they would
interact in the air lock.
Have you ever seen a mouse
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