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using the control panel on your arm.

Press the red button

to open the airlock door.

Have a wonderful time.

Tether attached.

Welcome back, Jim.

We hope you decide to join us again soon

for another thrilling experience.

Have a wonderful time.

Aurora.

Searching passenger profiles.

I'm Aurora Lane.

Passenger 1456. I'm a writer.

I think we tell each other stories

to know we're not alone, to make contact.

Your father was Oliver Lane,

a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

No pressure, right?

My dad used to say,

"If you live an ordinary life,

"all you'll have are ordinary stories.

"You have to live a life of adventure."

So...

Here I am.

Good morning.

We're starting over in every way.

I'll have to figure out

where to live, how to live,

who my friends will be.

It's like the first day of school.

If the school bus

took 120 years to get there.

We're creating a culture...

You are funny.

Do you ever read something

and feel like it's written just for you?

I don't do a lot of reading.

She's good.

Who's that?

Aurora.

The sleeping girl.

You know, I'm not saying

the universe is evil,

but it sure has a nasty sense of humor.

How is that?

You get to fly to another planet,

but you'll die along the way.

And you find the perfect woman

right in front of you...

Yet she's completely out of reach.

Yeah, I'll miss New York City.

Give me a cup of coffee and a view of the

Chrysler Building, and I can write all day.

They do have coffee on Homestead II, right?

They better have coffee.

If they don't, I have to turn around

and come back to Earth.

Is there anything you regret leaving behind?

Yeah, I'll miss the trees in Central Park

turning in the fall.

I'll also miss crowds...

Say you were trapped on a desert island,

and you had the power

to wish somebody there with you.

You wouldn't be alone anymore.

But you'd be stranding the person

on the island.

Would you make that wish?

I don't know. I've never been on an island.

Okay, well, yeah.

Forget the island.

Let's say you figured out

how to do something

that would make your life

a million times better,

but you knew it was wrong

and there's no taking it back.

How do you do the math?

Jim, these are not robot questions.

I know how to wake Aurora up.

Well, that seems like a fine idea.

You could use some company.

I'd be stranding her on this ship

for the rest of her life.

Well, you can't do that.

What am I gonna do?

I'm here for you.

Arthur, you're a machine.

See? You can't feel that.

You don't have feelings.

See?

That doesn't hurt.

And you don't even mind.

'Cause you're not a person.

Don't even think about it.

No more Aurora talk.

I'm over it.

I'm moving on.

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