
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.
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