"Your training will involve everything from flight systems to launch survival." "And make no mistake, we are gonna challenge you - physically, emotionally, intellectually." "In the end, less than one third of you are gonna make it to the final year." "You know him?" "Who?" "Donner." "Cos it sure he looks like he knows you." "No, no, he doesn't." "Oh." "This will not be a soft day of orientation." "Well, he's smiling at you." "Smile back." "Jen, I..." "Come on, don't be such a tightass." "No!" "Excellent." "Candidate Barnes has volunteered to be in the first centrifuge group." "CHEERING AND APPLAUSE" "Oh, no." "What's this?" "This is the bucket." "An award - first one in your class to heave." "And everybody's gonna get one." "Or two." "Five, you wash out." "You wanna meet me in Major Tom's?" "I could give you some tips." "You cannot be serious." "What?" "I'm being nice." "I'm being serious and I'm being nice." "What's wrong with being serious and nice?" "You have to lighten up, girl." "I'm so light I am floating." "He was making a pass at you." "He's not my type." "What, the smart, good-looking American hero type?" "He left two people on Mars." "OK, fine, the tragic American hero." "Even better." "Ooh, you're not gay, are you?" "No, I am a geologist who wants to travel to another planet without unnecessary complications." "Right." "Space nut." "A what?" "!" "A Space nut?" "Or she's gay." "No, she's not gay." "Is that first-hand knowledge?" "I don't do astronauts, Rollie." "You know that." "Yeah, well, you might wanna reconsider." "What?" "My place, now!" "Really?" "Mm-hm." "We've got six years of screwing to do in one night, and I don't wanna miss one minute." "Oh, that's..." "Agh!" "Woman, damn, you bite hard!" "Mm-hm." "The door will be unlocked." "I'll be in the bedroom." "Did she mark you again?" "Yeah." "Yeah, she did." "I think that's a German thing." "Deutschmark." "So, my mother's saying that Mercury's in retrograde and that we shouldn't launch at all." "Well, listen to your mother on that, definitely." "I try not to." "It's hard to stop." "Yeah." "I always thought, out of the two of us, you'd be the one flying." "So did I." "Sorry, it's..." "Nooffence." "No, none taken." "Hey, you see any cows on Venus..." "You will be the first to know." "Zoe!" "Picture!" "Have a good time." "The flight of Antares - six years, seven planets and eight astronauts, a grand tour of the solar system, the most ambitious exploration in the history of mankind." "Today is the day..." "So why a manned mission?" "Why send men, prone to mistakes, when probes and rovers can do the job?" "It's a six-year mission to seven planets." "It's far too complex." "Would you call the last manned mission to Mars a success?" "Three of us came back." "We'd all say yes." "Despite deserting two astronauts on the planet's surface?" "We knew what the risks were ten years ago, and these people know what the risks are now." "Do they?" "Aside from your mission commander, this is a very green crew." "I know where this is going." "Let him handle it, Donner." "This crew was picked for its skill and compatibility." "But clearly not its experience." "I'd say you're fishing, Trevor." "Well, then I'll be more specific." "We in the press were all surprised when Donner and Shaw weren't selected." "Did it surprise you guys?" "They're alternates." "But why?" "Does it have something to do with what happened on Mars?" "The man just said that it didn't." "But that's not what I heard." "You're hearing what you wanna hear." "The truth would be nice." "The cockpit recorder conveniently pixilated before launch?" "No public record..." "It's pretty simple." "We had a storm." "We had to launch, so we did." "But did you have to launch, or did you and Shaw panic and blow out of there to save your own skin?" "It's a simple..." "What's the matter with you?" "Donner..." "Donner, get off!" "Get off." "What kind of a stumped-up cowboy are you?" "You jumped British TV on launch day?" "He jumped me, Mike." "And you jumped back?" "!" "It's not your job to handle him, Donner, or to talk about Mars." "It's definitely not your job to question my judgment." "Your job is to back up Ajay and make sure that that ship is running properly." "Yeah, I know what my job is." "Do you?" "It's not gonna be your job for much longer, cos as soon as I can bring someone else up to speed, I'm having you discharged from the programme." "Now get out there and say goodbye to the crew." "Your collection's in the vid bank, all 369 hours of it." "Dude!" "But you gotta crack the code first." "Sadist." "Vodka on launch day?" "You're at least at 0.12." "Then ground me, Claire." "Why are you letting me go?" "Because there's nothing to drink up there, Evram." "I'm saving your life." "Wassenfelder and I thought you rocked." "Yeah, well, I guess Goss didn't." "One more reason you got the suit, I got the sweater." "Goss knows there's no way that I can do this without you." "You, me, that ship, we're a three-way, Donner." "Team." "Yes. "Trio". "Three-way"s different." "We are each essential." "OK." "You cannot blame yourself for not being chosen for this mission." "Clearly, your path is here on Earth." "Yeah, OK." "OK." "Go get 'em." "'I've always believed that you create your own destiny." "'And through a few bad decisions, I've certainly made mine." "'But as much as I believe in self-determination, there are those who simply do not." "'It's that kind of thinking that makes me nervous, 'cos being an astronaut is all about control.'" "From the walk to the launch pad to the final touchdown, you don't want surprises." "Ten, nine, eight..." "'It's not about fate.' Does anyone know whether Mercury is in retrograde?" "'It's about planning.'" "We have tower separation." "And ignition." "And lift-off." "APPLAUSE" "First step on Antares' voyage to the planets." "In Space, there's simply no room for error." "How many of them do you think would have gone if we'd told them?" "Well, that's a weak-minded question, Eve." "But the answer is all of 'em." "Every single one." "Thank you." "I'll be able to sleep tonight." "Godspeed." "Godspeed." "T minus 120 to burn." "MFB is go." "Hydrogen go." "Deuterium sequence is holding." "Donner, where are you on the thrusters?" "I'm making progress." "Do not stop the sequence." "Ted, do you copy me?" "Continue the sequence." "Stabilisers set to 140." "Positioning thrusters are at 7, 9 and 7..." "Oh,God." "She's out." "Ted, I got Zoe out and in the airlock." "She's in Airlock 4." "Do you copy?" "How the hell did she get out?" "Maddux?" "RADIO BREAKS UP" "Zoe, please don't." "Somebody get down here, stop her." "Ted, do you copy?" "RADIO BREAKS UP" "Zoe!" "What's the status?" "Off-watch crew's in their quarters." "Z-com's working on a small let leak." "It's no biggie, Donner." "You should go home, get some rest." "Yeah." "They're playing that every hour." "We're not getting away from it, are we?" "Mars is just gonna haunt us till the day we die." "The headline in our obits." "You're a Buddhist, right?" "Raised as one." "Where do you guys come down on fate?" "Fate?" "Yeah." "Predestination, that the future and what happens is somehow out of your control." "I don't believe that." "And neither did Buddha." "It's garbage, right?" "Through and through." "So, this is night one of day one, and we are still in near-Earth orbit." "Um... theywantus to talkabout anything, about how we feel." "I am so proud to be the engineer on this ship." "She is my path, my responsibility, this voyage with her, my karma." "I am filled with awe and indescribable joy." "I know you guys are monitoring this." "I mean, you tell us it's private, but seriously?" "So I'm gonna pull my pants down and show you crack." "Yeah, it feels strange not to be sleeping with Rollie, but it's better for crew morale, I guess." "I mean, we were celibate for three months during crew orientation last year, so we're OK with it, I guess." "Hey, baby." "Hi, baby." "Turn the camera off!" "And, Mother, if I ever let you see this, it was a perfect launch, a flawless docking, and the ship is in incredible shape, so so much for your horoscope." "BABY CRIES" "You're pregnant?" "!" "Well, puking in the morning and I'm puking at night, so..." "You're the biologist." "Tell me." "And this is a serum sample." "I dribbled a little." "Sorry." "Oh, you're serious." "Y'know, they used to sell tests in the drugstore." "Yeah." "Not looking for a history lesson if I go to my gyno." "The programme will know." "So you're not a spaceman." "I am now!" "Who's the father?" "Don't ask." "Won't tell." "You did it without protection?" "!" "We were drunk." "He swore he'd had a vasectomy." "Please don't make me feel any more stupid." "If you're pregnant, what the hell are you gonna do?" "Zoe?" "Are you OK?" "You were just standing there." "Did you just hear something?" "Hear something... ?" "Likewhat?" "I don't know." "High-pitched." "Like crying." "Um, no." "It's probably just the rotator arm creaking." "Right." "I'm sure that's what it was." "Hola, estudiantes." "Bienvenidos Antares." "Live from the flight deck of Antares, this is our first broadcast from Space, and I'm going to give you a little tour." "Anybody mind if I change the channel?" "At the moment, we're on the flight deck, which is where we control the ship." "Mission commander Rollie Crane and pilot Nadia Schilling are programming the injection burn that will send us on our way to Venus." "En esta momento, estamos en la carina del vuelo, donde..." "Flight, this is Surgeon." "This is Flight." "Got a couple of weird EKGs from Rollie and Ajay." "They're similar, so it's probably a glitch." "I'm gonna have Evram adjust their med patches." "Advising." "Fido, what's the max time we have left in orbit?" "We need the Venus burn in 30 hours and 16 minutes." "It's a hard window." "You seriously didn't hear anything strange last night?" "Strange?" "No." "ZOE SIGHS" "Then it was the rotator arm." "That's your story and you stick to it, OK?" "Yeah." "I don't know." "I haven't been sleeping very much." "Weird dreams." "Some things are in zero gravity and some aren't." "Well, our grab suits contain nanofibres that pull us towards the deck electromagnetically." "But anything without the technology, like Jen's tomatoes, will float." "Ah." "Neat, huh?" "Ajay, we need to check your med patch." "Is there a problem, Evram?" "I think it's just an adjustment." "Sorry, Paula." "Gracias." "What's happening to that?" "Rollie and Ajay have a glitch in their med patch." "Trying to get a cleaner read." "It's not clearing up anything, Ev." "Now?" "Negative." "Could you relay this is a waste of time and I've got work to do?" "Why don't they try a couple of new ones?" "Ev, try a couple of new patches, it might be the contact points." "Copy that." "Our favourite place, the observation deck, where we look at our amazing universe and watch movies and Youtube from our data bank." "Any one of our vista panes become screens." "Hah!" "This is our physicist, Steven Wassenfelder." "It looks like he's doing something complicated." "Can you tell us what you're doing?" "You probably don't want to know." "Come on." "Don't be so condescending." "Tell us." "Well, actually I'm trying to crack a 5-12 encryption code..." "Ah-ha!" ". .to get to the porn that my friend loaded into the bank for me." "He always finds the dirtiest stuff." "LAUGHTER" "What's the delay there?" "30 seconds." "You've got 20 to put a lid on it, and Ted?" "Sir?" "Let's give our boy genius a spanking." "OK." "See that blip here?" "Between the S1 wave and the S2?" "It's a midsystolic ejection murmur." "And both of them have it?" "That's impossible." "These are the old patches." "Let's see what the new ones say." "No, these are the new ones." "We'll have to do a heart scan before I can clear either of them for flight." "It's just not possible for both of them to come down with heart murmurs." "It has to be an equipment error." "Yes, it has to be." "You said that Mercury is a retrograde, so maybe this is a Mercury in retrograde thing." "Don't encourage my mother." "In a strange way your mum is kind of right." "We're hopelessly dependent on planet alignment." "We've got 28 hours to leave or we're screwed and the next launch window isn't for six years." "Then we have to use Rollie and Ajay." "Actually, no." "I'm not following." "Then you didn't read the latest flight schedule." "A service pod is heading for the Space station tomorrow." "Ajay and Rollie's alternates could possibly be on it." "Hello, Ted." "Hello, Donner." "Don't you dare go there." "Six years alone up here with the old boyfriends." "This is calcified plaque, here, here and here." "It's on aortic valves, which is causing stenosis." "I don't know how it got there or why it wasn't there three days ago, but I've checked the results five times and it's real." "The odds of this, of two men at the same time?" "Off the chart." "OK, Claire." "Put a med team on it." "Check for everything:" "diet, environment, viruses." "Run a detailed analysis of every crew member." "We've gotta find out what's causing this." "I can't clear these men for Space travel." "We got that." "You're excused." "Get the pod ready." "We want a few minutes." "You don't need more time, Mike." "You know damn well what's causing this and they're going." "This is our mission." "I'm not going to let that thing dictate any more of the crew." "Wassenfelder's bad enough." "We don't have a choice." "D'you think I want to send my husband?" "That makes two of us." "And Donner for about 100 reasons." "Who's to say this thing isn't it give them heart murmurs?" "There are no guarantees, Mike." "None." "We're in uncharted territory here." "This seems to be what it wants." "Whether you want to face it or not, it has a lot more to say on this mission than we do." "Remember last night I asked you about fate?" "I told you I don't believe in fate." "I'm a Buddhist." "Yes, I didn't tell you something." "I'm having a dream about this mission." "And?" "You and I are both on it." "You're both going to need immediate physicals." "You have tonight to get your things in order, then launch in the service pod tomorrow morning." "Report to medical now?" "Yes, Donner." "Leave us." "Roger that." "This wasn't supposed to happen." "Ted, you have no idea." "We need to see the mission commander upstairs." "# Stitch" "# In your knitted brow" "# And you don't know how" "# You're gonna get it out" "# Crushed" "# Under heavy chest" "# Trying to catch your breath" "# But it always beats you by a step" "Your sterilisation." "It's painless." "Actually it's not." "I had it done when I got back from Mars." "Well, yeah, according to your chart you did." "But not according to your scan." "When were you going to tell everybody else?" "In 43 days..." ". .when you get to Venus." "I've always believed that this is my mission, my ship, that I was travelling on a path that Ganesha wanted for me, that this..." "out here..." "was where my challenges and obstacles lay." "I feel so lost now." "I cannot understand this." "I cannot." "Who needs this path more than I?" "Pop, I'm going on a mission." "VOICES DRIFT FROM THE TV" "It's six years and I don't know if you're going to be here when I get back." "You had the sweetest slider I ever saw." "Fastball, change up." "Monster curve." "You had all the tools." "I wanted something else, Pop." "Pour me another before you leave." "Maybe I could request a replacement." "I could come back on the pod." "No, there's no time for that." "Jen, forgive me." "I want you to know that I was going to be there with you." "Then be there with me." "Yes." "What?" "For everything." "Just remember how much I love you." "OK?" "Show me." "Let's kill the flight deck cameras." "Give the mission commander some privacy with his wife." "# Running against the wind" "# Playing the cards you get" "# Something is bound to give" "# There's hope for" "# The hopeless" "# There's hope for" "# The hopeless" "# There's ho-o-o-o-ope" "# There's ho-o-o-ope" "# There's ho-o-o-ope" "# There's ho-o-o-ope. #" "The way I see it, they're lucky." "You can't call an ambulance on the surface of Mars." "You realise this all points to a common cause?" "There's no way it occurred randomly." "It could be viral, environmental, something they were eating..." "We were eating." "They're looking into everything." "Claire's going to monitor us all very closely." "BABY CRIES" "Did you hear that?" "What?" "That." "No." "No." "It's the, er..." "It's the rotator arm." "I'm going go check on Ajay." "Tom, I got the porno up and running, so he can pop his halo off and just enjoy." "BABY CRIES" "Zoe Byers?" "I'm Ajay Sharma." "Hi, Ajay." "Hi." "Er..." "It's a good thing that you won the bucket." "I'm not so sure about that." "No, it..." "Upchucking is an obstacle that we all must face eventually, and you were fortunate enough to face it first." "Is..." "I ..." "Hey ,Ajay." "Scram." "Girl talk." "Oh." "Er..." "OK.Anothertime,then." "Can I get a vodka cran, please?" "Somebody's got a boyfriend." "If that's vodka, drink up." "Thank God I'm not pregnant!" "Oh, no, no." "You are pregnant." "You're just not gonna have a baby." "Well, last time I looked, it was the law." "It's a stupid law." "A couple of justices kick and it'll be reversed." "Zoe, you have more than one option here." "I don't know." "There were over a thousand qualified applicants for your slot alone." "Getting into this programme was winning the lottery." "Believe me, I know." "I know." "OK, so you cannot give it up for a one-night stand." "I mean, you just can't." "I know of a guy." "He's a doctor." "When you're ready, just give me the word." "I need some air." "Zoe, hey." "Not now." "Dude, you don't stand a chance." "BABY CRIES" "DOOR SLIDES" "Ajay?" "Mission control, this is Antares." "Antares, this is control." "Do we have permission to put up the cameras?" "You do indeed, mission control, and thank you for your discretion." "Yeah, we didn't want that to end up in Wassenfelder's vid bank." "Listen, we just had the cameras and operation controls for the airlock quarters go offline." "We can't seem to get 'em back up." "Yeah, we're seeing that, too." "I'll get Ajay to have a look at it." "I think Ajay's the problem." "I just saw him enter the airlock quarter." "I tried to follow, but he locked me out." "Flight, I'm showing an EVA and MMU pack up and running." "Damn it, he's going for a walk." "HE MUTTERS" "How soon till we can override his instructions?" "Working on it." "Five minutes." "If he's in that suit, we don't have five minutes." "Where the hell is Donner?" "On his way in." "What's the time to Venus burn?" "Six hours nine minutes." "Ajay's heart rate and BP are spiking." "Antares, this is control." "Have you made contact?" "Negative, control." "Rollie's running through the channels." "Looks like his comm's off." "He tested most stable in the programme." "Anyone know if Hindus commit suicide?" "No." "At least, I don't think they do." "Let me talk to him." "He's turned his comm off." "Well, that's not good." "He's moving away from the ship." "Don't do that, Ajay." "'Space travel is a fool's game." "'Human beings are 60% water." "'We sleep, eat, defecate, can't follow directions." "'And we explode like pinatas when exposed to the vacuum of Space.'" "What's he doing?" "Putting himself in orbit." "Oh, Ajay." "Well, wherever he's going, I hope he makes it." "Flight, we have overridden." "We now have control of the airlocks." "Antares, this is control." "Did you copy that?" "We have that here." "I'll go out." "I can go out and get him." "We want to go out and get him." "Do you copy?" "Yeah." "Let her go." "Mike, let her go." "Negative." "I'll eat the loss of an EVA suit." "I can't afford to lose another crew member." "You and Shaw ship out in two hours." "Get your ass in gear." "That's it?" "That's what?" "You're just going to let him die?" "I got six hours to launch a ten-trillion-dollar machine to Venus." "I don't have time for Ajay and his silly little meltdown, and I sure as hell don't have time for you." "Don't piss me off, Donner, not now." "As soon as I get back, I quit." "Arnel, how much time has he got left in that suit?" "8 hours?" "Give or take." "'My old man is right about every single item except the initial premise." "'Man belongs in Space, because of exactly what he brings into the void." "'We carry the baggage of our past." "'Our fears, our superstitions." "'Our failings.'" "Mercury went direct two hours ago." "It's too late for Ajay." "No, it isn't." "'But we also carry our hopes and our dreams, 'the hard lessons learned from our lives.'" "Donner, you dock your craft to the Antares right now." "Negative, flight." "Unless you can override these controls, I think we are going to take a detour." "They're on 41." "'Helluva view out there, huh?" "'" "Ajay: 'Ganesha and I have been enjoying it very much.'" "Ganesha?" "He is the lord of obstacles." "But he is also the lord of new beginnings." "All right." "You wanna hitch a ride back and start something new?" "This is my path, Donner." "Right here." "All the way to Venus." "Correct me if I'm wrong here, Ajay, but if you stay out here, doesn't that mean you've got to start all over in the next lifetime?" "Now, I mean, I'm no expert, but you're the one who's always telling me that each of us has lessons to learn and obstacles to overcome." "So maybe this is your big one." "You know?" "Maybe you overcome this, and you take a big step towards nirvana." "You don't understand." "Wait, wait, wait a second." "You think I don't understand?" "I think I do." "My path is here on this ship with these people." "Your path's back on Earth, Ajay." "But you know what?" "We can't do it alone." "You, me, the ship, we're a three-way." "HE LAUGHS" "We need each other." "'For all our faults, and whether we are guided by our destiny 'or we guide it ourselves, 'we're resilient." "We can adapt.'" "There is something I must do first." "Yeah." "APPLAUSE" "We can find redemption in the simplest acts of humanity." "I have never heard of a robot or a probe that was able to do that." "So if Space travel is a fool's game, then hey, that's what I am, so be it." "But I have never felt more alive..." "or more human." "Antares, you are go for Venus in five, four, three, two, one." "Ignition." "# Ain't it good to be alive?" "# Ain't it good to be alive?" "# To feel the sun strong against your face" "# It spills over me like the Milky Way" "# Whoa" "# Whoa... #"