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This is Earth as it was when dinosaurs roamed a lush, fertile planet.

A rock, just six miles wide, changed everything.

It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons.

A trillion tons of dirt and rock surged into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating

dust cloud.

The sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years.

It happened before. It will happen again.

It's just a matter of when.

Houston, affirmative.

I'll try again.

Let's put it on hold at 9 this time.

Almost.

Got it.

Glad I'm almost there.

Houston, Pete's looking really strong.

Okay, Pete, we've got that coupling on the board now.

We'll give you the go-ahead from here when it's aligned.

Sounds good.

Give me 10 seconds.

His heart rate is elevated.

Hey, Pete, it's Truman.

Hey.

How are you doing up there, Hoss?

Pretty good.

Now, listen, Pete, we're keeping an eye on your medication.

I'll give you a buffalo nickel if you just calm down a little bit.

Can you do that for me?

Whatever you say.

Okay.

Now, we've got plenty of time, buddy.

So don't you worry.

Looking good here.

Go ahead, Atlantis.

Roger that, Houston. We suggest starting to reel Pete in.

Houston, Atlantis.

Ready for getup.

What the heck is that, my lord?

We're down.

He wants all contact.

Multiple bogies, multiple bogies.

Sector five niner. I have three.

Now five.

Unidentified tracks.

My screen's full.

Multiple tracks heading towards the Atlantic seaboard.

This could be a surprise missile attack.

Mr. President, the shuttle Atlantis just exploded in space.

Okay, I want three groups.

One, internal malfunction.

Hit the long wave, start working back.

Maybe it's a glitch.

Two, I want NORAD, Space Command, and a 50th tactical comparing all the space junk

you track in every orbit.

I want you to check, recheck, and then do it all over again.

Number three, wild cards.

Anything and everything, all right?

Now, Big Ross, I want you to get on the telephone, wake up 11,000 people.

Walt, get them going.

Let's go.

Your Stouffer's pot pie's been on the table almost 10 hours.

I want a divorce.

Daddy, I'm on to something bigger.

I don't know what this is, but it looks like something's burning up there.

Go get my phone book.

Will you get my phone book?

Get those names of those guys from NASA.

Excuse me, am I wearing a...

sign that says Carl Slave. Go get my goddamn phone book. Get the book. Get the book.

Get the book. Space commander's reporting negative. That is zero global launches.

It might just be a piece of the shuttle breaking up as it comes in. Yeah, it might

be Santa Claus. Until we get definitive, reliable, alternative confirmation,

General, we go to DEFCON 3.

I'm getting ready for the fifth time. Someday you're gonna say I'm fifth time, too.

Hey, little man. Little Richard. Me and you, man. We going to the top, baby. Big

time.

You know what I mean? I ain't gonna be riding this bike the rest of my life. You

know what I mean? I'm getting a motorcycle, baby. We gonna travel in style. I'm

getting ready.

That's where you're going.

Bet you none of y'all stopped for breakfast.

Slow down, little Richard.

Been riding all morning, man.

You got to take a jump?

We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to produce special reports.

The shuttle Atlantis exploded in space at 3.47 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

That's official.

Hey!

That's my god, come on, man.

Yo, fool!

You're just kicking a little, Richard.

What's your problem?

Now, that doesn't bother my Godzilla, man.

What are you gonna do about it?

Get him, Richard.

Check him.

If I were a Christian, I'd throw your fat pineapple-eating ass through the window.

We have to go in.

Do you know why?

Because this is New York City.

Anything could have happened.

Look at that.

Let me see.

It could have been a terrorist bomb.

It could have been a dead body someone shot.

It's Friday payday, someone probably jumped, didn't get their paycheck. I want to

go shopping, but we aren't going anywhere because this is a Catholic jam.

Someone dial 9-1-1. My screen's full. They're all over the place. Bogies are

preaching the atmosphere from Finland down the North American seaboard.

Let's stay focused. We need to map the trajectory now.

Well, that could take a week.

Just find it, okay? I want to know if the worst is over or if it's on its way.

You've got General K.

We've got hits from Finland to South Carolina.

We know they're not missiles. Now, what the hell is it?

It's a meteor shower. That's what took out the shuttle.

I've got the president on Air Force One demanding answers.

Is it over?

General, we've got 11,000 people at NASA trying to figure that out right now.

When we know, you'll know.

Okay, Carla, listen, I want you to take your time.

Yes, sir, you're definitely the first.

Okay, first coordinator.

One, two, three, nine.

12-39, right?

FBI locked his location.

Saw an explosion in space.

Okay.

Now, listen, Carl, this is top secret.

Sir, I'm retired Navy. I know all about classified.

But one more thing.

The person that finds her gets to name her, right?

Yes, that's right.

I want to name her Dottie after my wife.

She's a vicious, life-sucking bitch from which there is no escape.

That's sweet, Carl.

STI, this is the flight director. I want to get that home.

The Hubble moving, and I want it now.

I'll do that.

We're moving to Hubble.

It's enormous.

This is the anomaly at 1643.

Here is the anomaly at 1658.

And here is the anomaly at 1700.

Enough with this anomaly, horseshit.

What is this thing?

It's an asteroid, sir.

How big are we talking?

Sir, our best estimate is 97.6 billion.

It's the size of Texas, Mr. President.

Yes, sir.

Dan, we didn't see this thing coming.

Well, our object collision budget's a million dollars.

That allows us to track about 3% of the sky.

And, if I may, sir, it's a big sky.

And the ones this morning?

Those are nothing.

They're the size of basketballs and Volkswagens, things like that.

Is this going to hit us?

We're assessing that now, sir.

What kind of damage are we talking about?

We're going to be hit.

A total loss, sir.

It's what we call a global extinction event.

The end of all life.

Doesn't matter where it impacts.

Nothing will survive, not even microbes.

Oh, my God.

What do we do?

We have 18 days before it hits Earth.

That makes it.

Rise and shine!

I gave you $50,000 a year in donations!

What do you think you're so mad about, chick?

Well, I think they feel that drilling for oil is an evil thing.

Do you know how much diesel that clunker boat pumps out an hour?

You know, I just found out something interesting.

Number two chewed 180 feet last night.

Who do we have to thank for this?

Well, I'll give you two guesses, but you're only going to need one.

God damn it, A.J.!

A.J.!

Oh, that shit's perfect.

In bed.

Get up.

Uh, hey.

You want to see me?

Yeah, I'll look for you.

You're pissed.

Okay, I can see that.

No, you know what, A.J., I'm not pissed.

You've seen me pissed.

This is way, way beyond pissed, though.

You know I shut down number two last night, right?

Yeah, man, I had a hunch on that, too.

Let me tell you something.

Someday, many years from now, when you're all grown up, and you got your own oil

company, and eight million dollars of your own money on the contract, you can do

whatever comes into that little A.J. idiot mind of yours you want.

But as long as it says, Harry Stamper Oil on the rig, you will not disobey my rules.

You got that?

Yeah, I do got it.

Right now, I need to hear five words from you.

Uh, I'll never do that again.

I'm a fool. That was idiotic. I mean, that was stupid.

I'm an idiot. I know what name's on the sign. I'm not...

What's going on?

What's going on? Well, I mean, I screwed up. I'm a little edgy.

How long you work?

Five wonderful years.

In five years, you have never apologized to me this quickly.

Something's going on here. I'm going to find out what it is.

No, no, no.

Well, I'm turning over a new leaf.

I'm trying to learn from the man. What would Harry do?

I'm at a loss for words.

Okay, I can explain this.

You can explain that?

I can.

I would really like an explanation.

Why don't you stay right here?

Grace?

Hi, Harry.

I have asked you repeatedly to call me Dad.

Sorry.

Get up and get your clothes on.

You should stay right there.

I'll be right back.

Here's what we're going to do.

I want every strategy we've got on near- Earth object collision, okay?

Any ideas, any programs, anything you've sketched on a pizza box or a cocktail

napkin.

For 30 years, I questioned the need for NASA.

Today, we're going to give them the answer.

You know about this, Rockwell?

You knew.

No.

I had no idea.

Who's there?

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I understand, okay?

You're not.

Who wouldn't be mad?

But he's going to shoot you.

No, no, he's not.

I'll shoot you.

Oh, but you...

Make your peace with God, AJ!

This guy's got a gun, man!

He's shooting at me!

Harry, this is not funny!

Harry, listen to me!

We can talk this over!

Oh, is this a serious thing?

Yeah, pretty serious.

Hey, man, he's been shooting at me.

You see Harry come cracking with that wrist?

He told AJ's dad just before he died that he would take care of the boy.

I'm not sure that's shooting him that takes care of him.

Why don't you put the gun down?

You don't want any of this, Bear. Get out of my way.

Just trying to give my man a head start, that's all.

Not to mention the fact that I don't think you want to kill the best man on your

crew before we strike off.

No, I ain't going to kill him.

I'm going to take a foot off a man and work with one foot.

Remember old Frank Marshall who worked with one hand on him here?

Yeah, but he wasn't very good.

Harry, daddy!

Now, honey, go get some clothes on and get out of the way.

You can't control my life!

Fine.

Clothes.

Now!

Oh, stop!

All right, it was funny for a minute. It's not funny anymore.

This is illegal, then.

I'm peppered on the same, Rock. It's all right.

I look like I'm crazy to you.

Well...

Harry, Harry, Harry!

All right, now listen.

Man to man.

It's serious.

I love her.

Way wrong answer!

Whoa, whoa, Adam. It's getting real.

Stop it!

Well, it never got close. Just a ricochet.

It's all funny till somebody gets shot in the leg.

Hey, fuck her up! We got clients in coming!

Back in 1974, we first got the idea, the possibility that a meteor...

I need somebody who's had a little less caffeine this morning. Doc, translate.

Our first feasibility plan was to use a spread-focus laser generator to heat the

object to the point of fracture.

That's like shooting a BB gun at a freight train, Doc.

Some of us have got this idea. We want to land a craft. Deploy solar sails.

You'll have a great big canopy. Solar winds will be caught by these mylar sails.

Come on, guys! We got to come up with something realistic here. We got 18 days.

That's 431 hours, 15 minutes and 18 seconds.

Time's a luxury we don't have. What?

Listen, Harry, A.J. is my choice.

My choice and not yours.

He's the only one in your age bracket, Grace.

It's not a choice. It's a lack of option.

I don't know what in the world makes you think that you have the right to tell me

what to do anymore, Harry.

I suppose being your father doesn't count, huh?

Not really.

Since when?

Since I reached the age of ten and became older than you, Harry.

Since Mom split, why don't you take your pick?

Look, I understand that you were handicapped by natural immaturity, and I forgive

you.

I may be an immature father, okay?

But I'm still your employer.

As your boss, I want you on that crew boat tonight and back in the office by Monday.

Do you understand?

Okay. I quit.

Grace!

You can't quit!

Now I need you to keep working!

Hi, Harry!

Oh, yeah, Harry.

What are you smiling about?

I've been seeing A.J. for more than five months, Harry.

Little hypocrite.

Have I ever held you back from doing anything?

What about having a life, Harry?

I told her how to use it.

I didn't show her, Harry.

I was playing with titanium death gauges when I should have been playing with dolls.

And now you're shocked and shaken when I fall in love with one.

So who's the hypocrite here, Harry, huh?

Look at all those nice fights up there.

Listen to me, Grace.

No, you listen to me, Harry.

With the proximity of the asteroid and no prep time, none of our primary plans can

work.

Why don't we just send up 150 nuclear warheads and blast that rock apart?

Terrible idea.

Was I talking to you?

This is Dr. Ronald Quincy from research.

Pretty much the smartest man on the planet.

You might want to listen to him.

General, if you consider your target, her composition, her dimensions, sheer

velocity, you could fire every nuke you've got at her.

It should just smile at you and keep on coming. You should know that the

president's scientific advisors are suggesting that a nuclear blast could change

this asteroid's trajectory.

The president's advisors are wrong. I'm right. Hitting the rock from the outside

won't do the job. Imagine a firecracker in the palm of your hand. You set it off,

what happens? Burn your hand, right? You close your fist around the same

firecracker and set it off, your wife's gonna be opening your ketchup bottles the

rest of your life. Are you suggesting that we blow this thing up from the inside?

Exactly what I'm saying. How we drill? We bring in the world's best deep core

driller, Harry. Get up here, we're taking a hit.

I told you, am I lucky or am I just a genius?

I shut it down for a reason, you jackass.

I released that right up.

I'm the number two now.

Hey, get the guns out of here now.

Three dozen research calls, and every time the same man is recommended.

He's worked on every terrain this planet can offer.

Whenever they said it couldn't be drilled, this guy drilled it.

Everybody up!

Somebody could get killed at it.

You want that on your...

conscience. Hi, Pop. You're a man, Harry. I'm sorry. Hi, Pop. It's fine. Who's

Harry Stamper?

Hey, I'm Harry Stamper. What's all this about? Mr. Stamper, I'm General Montgomery,

Commander of the Pacific Air Force. I've been sent here by the Secretary of Defense

on direct orders from the President of the United States. It's a matter of urgent

national security. I need you to get on that chopper right now, no questions asked.

Crazy Willie putting you up to this?

Great. I don't know. Crazy Willie. Sir, I'm dead serious about this. Harry. What?

I swear to God, she never told me her age. All right. Relax. It's about me. Forget

it.

All right, General. I'll go with you.

I want condition.

We're going to have to take my daughter along.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What do you got, please?

Sir, stay right here.

Sir, get him, Payne, get him on.

Mr. Stamper?

Yeah, I'm Harry Stamper.

How you doing?

Miss Stamper?

I'm Dan Truman, executive director here.

Now, listen, on behalf of all of us, I'd really like to apologize.

I don't know if we can take any more apologies, Mr. Truman.

We've been apologized to for the last 18 and a half hours.

So if you don't mind, how about if we just get on with it and you tell us why we're

here at the NASA Space Center?

We should probably talk alone.

Mr. Truman, I don't keep any secrets from my daughter, Grace.

So whether you tell her now or I tell her later, she's going to find out one way or

the other.

So why don't we just get on with it?

So when the rogue comet hit the asteroid belt, it sent shrapnel right for us.

For the next 15 days, the Earth's in a shooting gallery.

Even if the asteroid itself hits the water, it'll still hit land and flash boil

millions of gallons of seawater, slamming into the ocean bedrock. If it's a Pacific

Ocean impact—which we think it will be—it'll create a tidal wave three miles high,

traveling a thousand miles an hour, covering California and washing up in Denver.

Japan's gone, Australia's wiped out, half the world's population will be

incinerated by the heat blasts, and the rest will freeze to death in a nuclear

winter. Well, actually, this is as real as it gets. Well, it's coming right now,

right for us at 22,000 miles an hour. Not a soul on earth can hide from it.

I take it you're not alerting everyone like this.

Nobody knows.

That's the way it stays.

In the next ten days, there are only nine telescopes in the world that can spot the

asteroid, and we control eight of them.

The president's classified this information top secret.

If news like this got out, there'd be an overnight breakdown of basic social

services worldwide.

Rioting, mass religious hysteria, total chaos, you can imagine.

Basically the worst parts of the Bible.

Six billion people on the planet.

Why'd you guys call me?

We need you to prep the team we're sending up.

Up?

We'll send them to the asteroid, they'll land, they'll drill a hole, they'll drop

some nukes, take off and detonate, if we can fix this equipment problem.

The drilling unit's prototype we've been building for the Mars project.

You, uh, you might recognize the rig.

Yeah, well, I guess I should recognize it.

My design.

Did you steal a key to the patent office?

Yeah, basically.

Let me get this straight.

I got pulled off an oil rig flown halfway around the world because you stole my

drill design, couldn't read the plans right, and did a piss-poor job of putting it

together.

Well, technically, patents don't apply to it out of space.

Just shut up, Quincy. It's not going to Mars anymore.

It's going to try to save this planet, and we need to know what's wrong with it

pretty quick.

You said we did a bad job of putting it together?

No, I said you did a piss-poor job of putting it together.

First of all, you got the flow system all reversed.

Let me guess. You've been tearing up rotors, and you can't figure out why.

Yeah, that's right, actually.

Well, that's because your cans are all wrong, Mr. Wizard.

Who's been operating this thing?

Right there.

We've actually had them training for eight months solid now.

Eight whole months?

Well, pretty much, yeah.

Well, gee whiz.

Well, this is the team that has to do the job up there.

We need you to train them down here.

Well, Mr. Stamper, what do you think?

You know, drilling's a science. It's an art.

Third-generation driller, doing it all my life.

Thank you.

Still haven't got it all figured out. I assume you sent for me because somebody

told you I was the best. Well, I'm only the best because I work with the best. You

don't trust the men you're working with, you're as good as dead. You want to send

these boys into space, fine. Sure, they'll make good astronauts. They don't know

jack about drilling. What's your contingency plan? Contingency plan, your backup

plan. You gotta have some kind of backup plan, right? No, we don't have a backup

plan. And this is the best that the government, the U.S. government, can come up

with? I mean, you're NASA for crying out loud. You put a man on the moon. You're

geniuses. You're the guys that think this shit up. I'm sure you got a team of men

sitting around somewhere right now just thinking shit up and somebody backing them

up. You tell me you don't have a backup plan for these eight boy scouts right here.

That's what you're telling me? Yeah. Oh, Jesus damn it. We're a little short on

time here. Will you help us?

Uh, Max, you got a weight limit on a shuttle?

Max, hey mama.

Oh, that's so sweet, Maxie.

Hey, did you give me one of them yellow jelly bear claws?

Are you in trouble with the law again?

No, Mama.

Maxie.

I swear, Mama, I'm...

You know I want Rock Hound.

We call him Hound because, well, um, he's horny.

You might want to start with every bar in New Orleans.

That is a big, shiny mouth.

How long have you been married?

For two weeks.

See those diamonds?

Yeah.

It's not a diamond.

Would you like another drink?

Yeah.

Sir, FBI.

Not bad.

We have a national security matter.

Good for you.

Let's go.

Now.

How old are you?

Oscar Choice.

Facey but absolutely brilliant geologist.

He owns a horse ranch outside of El Paso.

What the...

Mr. Chick Chapel, at the craps table.

See you at this palace, Las Vegas and Rod.

Yes!

Last time.

Star Chapel.

Game's over.

Who's gonna run the other rig?

How about Benny? He's good.

The only one who knows how to run it as well as I do is AJ.

I thought you said you couldn't trust him.

I thought you said I could.

Yeah, you are on your way, AJ.

Well, you know, being in business for yourself has advantages.

Make my own hours.

Nobody shoots me in the leg.

They don't have a gun on you now, do they?

No.

Good.

So, I wanted to get back to you asking me for help.

Does that mean Mr. All-Go-No-Quit, Big Nuts, Harry Stamper can't handle this alone?

And needs my expert advice?

Something like that, yeah.

Well, no, no, no.

I mean, is it something like that, or is it…?

You and I have a real problem.

Let's go.

Let's go, go.

You know, Harry, there are only five words I want to hear from you right now.

Those words are, A.J., I really look up to you.

You've been a hero of mine for a long time, and I'm very impressed with your work.

Emotionally closed off.

It's like, I don't know, it's like eleven words or so.

You know what?

How about just, A.J., sorry, and I love you?

You know, A.J., there isn't a job on the planet that I'd want you to work with me

on.

Me, man.

So what are you doing?

Harry, what's the job?

Hey, what's up, baby?

Yeah, big shit.

What's up, what's up?

What's up, Harry?

Did NASA find oil on your anus, man?

I don't know if you have to go.

We can all just sit here on Earth.

Wait for this big rock to crash into it, kill everything and everybody we know.

The United States government just asked us to save the world.

Anybody want to say no?

Twenty years.

Haven't turned you down once.

Not about to start now.

I'm there.

Guess I can't let you go up there alone.

I'm with you.

I mean, this is historic.

Guys, this is like deep blue hero stuff.

Of course I'm in.

While I don't share his enthusiasm, you know me.

Beam me up, Scotty.

You all right, Max?

I don't, I don't.

Whatever you think.

What about you?

All right, then.

We go.

I don't mean to meet the materialistic weasel of this group, but you think we'll

get...

hazard pay out of this if you're trying to make me feel better about this scenario

give it up to tell you the truth i'm kind of encouraged this guy chick here was an

air force commando for six years we got robbery assault arrest resisting arrest we

got a collection agent for the mob two of these guys have done serious time look

they're the best at what they do so am i and i'm not so optimistic we spend 250

billion dollars a year on defense and here we are the fate of the planet is in the

hands of a bunch of retards i wouldn't trust with a potato gun so what's the

verdict they'll do it they've made a few requests though such as well there's a few

things here

nothing really big uh well i'm an example uh uh oscar here's got some outstanding

parking tickets and i want some wiped off his record 56 tickets in seven states

i'll tell him oscar i got it okay uh noonan's got two women you you friends that

he'd like to see made American citizens and no questions asked. Max would like you

to bring back eight-track tapes. Not sure if that's going to work, but

let's see what else. Chick wants a full week's emperor's package at Caesar's Palace.

Hey, you guys wouldn't be able to tell us who actually killed Kennedy, would you?

Bear would like to stay at the

Whitehurst.

White house. White house.

White house. Yeah, he'd like to stay in the Lincoln bedroom of the White House for

the summer.

Stuff like that.

Sure, I think we can take care of that.

Some of that.

Harry! Yeah, one more thing.

None of them want to pay taxes again.

Ever.

Who's that for, Mr. Red?

You stick that in me, I'm going to stab you in the heart with it.

You ever see Pulp Fiction?

Oh, sakes in...

Oh!

We're losing them, we're losing them.

Clear!

Freddy, you all right?

Does this look okay to you?

Does this look okay?

Stop.

It's kind of tingly.

Mr. Chappelle, you're next.

Oh, gee, lady, I just came here to drill.

Oh, it's two to nine!

Your triglycerides are way high.

And your bad cholesterol is shockingly bad.

It's on your back and pork rants.

Pork rants.

Pork rants.

Well, at least they're in good spirits.

Piece of cake.

Look, you want to compare brain pans?

I won the Westinghouse Prize when I was 12.

Big deal. Published at 19, so what?

I got a double doctorate from MIT at 22.

Chemistry and geology.

I taught at Princeton for two and a half years.

You know, I think this might be the most uncomfortable room I've ever been in in my

life.

Why do I do this?

Because the money's good, the scenery changes, and they let me use explosives, okay?

Okay, you want to be all psychological with me, that's fine.

I'll tell you one thing that really drives me nuts is people who think that Jethro

Tull is just a person in the band.

Who is Jethro Tull?

My favorite dish is haggis.

Heart, lungs, liver.

You shove that all in the sheep's stomach, then you boil it.

That'll put some hair on your ass.

I am not crazy. I'm just a little emotional right now, okay?

Y'all throwing all this stuff at me, man.

But, I mean, after this is over, could I, like, get a hug from you or something?

Okay, Cyclops Lady's starting to bug me.

Can you handle that?

I mean, I can handle what I'm, you know, I'm going to do.

I can handle that, but I don't know if I can handle this room.

A woman with lard.

Breasts, a woman with medium breasts. Here's Harry giving me a hard time, and uh,

this is Harry telling me it's not good enough, and uh, this is Harry telling me I

can't marry his daughter. Thanks a lot, I appreciate it. Just let it out. I

suffered a major head injury when I was in high school.

This one looks like you with breasts, yeah. I can handle it, yeah, I can handle it.

Fail impressively. Fail. One toxicology analysis revealed ketamine, that is a very

powerful sedative. Sedatives are used all the time, doctor. Well, this one's used

on horses. Some of these guys are pretty big, you know. We normally take 18 months

to psychologically repair pre-screen viable subjects for space travel. We have seen

evidence of a wide variety of territorial aggression. Physically survive the trip,

that's all I need to know here, okay? Personally, I don't know how they survived

the podcast. Talk about the wrong stuff. Good morning. I'm Colonel Willie Sharp. In

addition to flying one of the X-71 teams to that rock, my job is to train you how

to deal with the mental and physical rigors of working in space so you don't freak

out on the asteroid. United States astronauts train for years. You have 12 days. Do

we have any intelligent questions before we get started?

What's an X-71? You're the first civilians to ever see her. We call them the X-71s.

It's a top secret joint venture with the Air Force. She and her sister ship at

Vandenberg are leaving tomorrow for launch prep in Florida, but I thought you ought

to have a look. The two shuttles going up are the freedom and the independence. Her

titanium alloy impenetrable skin covers the toughest, meanest, most sophisticated

space vehicle man has ever made. Air Force Colonel Davis, NASA pilot Tucker will

command.

The shuttle independence, Air Force Colonel Sharp, NASA pilot Watts, shuttle

freedom, munition specialists Gruber and Halsey will supervise the nuclear

ordinance. Anyway, uh, I just thought...

Thought you guys should meet gentlemen. Welcome to our weightless environmental

training facility.

So we're going swimming on this asteroid, is that what this is for? Here at

downtown NASA, we call this monster Armadillo. Going to be retrofitted with your

drilling arm to turn 800 turbo horses in zero gravity. Well, if we take a look at

it now, all these rubber hoses got to go. Max, count them up.

Somebody tell me what this is. Classic ice cream scoop. What that cost about 400?

This is about the sorriest group of people I've seen in all my entire military

career. Your space flight's going to be a brutal assault on your senses. I'm here

to give you a taste of that. NASA's got some of the finest pilots in the world,

they're gonna be sucking your eyes back in your head. It's my first time, I just

want to seriously say I have a small fear of flying. I'm gonna twist and I'm gonna

flip. Wrap your body until your bones. When you squeal, it's gonna go faster and

hard. No, take me down. There's the rest of the crew. Well, uh, sorry about the

rent, Chucks, all over here. Dash boy, if you had to say what would you say? I

don't know. Oscar, who do you think you are? Han Solo? No, if anybody's anybody,

I'm hot, and you're and you're Chewbacca. Have you even seen Star Wars? All right,

Neil Armstrong, 1969, bouncing on the moon. He's bouncing because there's less

gravity up there than on Earth. This will be similar to the asteroid, so watch it.

Something gets launched off that asteroid with enough force, it's going to keep on

going right into outer space. What is it? Is it just mirrors what's really hot?

Yeah, so we have these new generation suits with directional accelerant thrusters.

You won't bounce like Neil Armstrong. Yes, do we have a problem? No, because I'm

trying to describe to you how these DATs keep your ass on the ground. So that if I

were to kick you in the balls and you don't know how to work them, what happens to

you? I'd float away. Yeah, and uh, when do we start training for that, gentlemen?

I'll give you 30 seconds to put your helmets on and the oxygen will be sucked out

of this vacuum and you will know what it's like to be in space. Don't know,

depressed in 30 seconds.

The main pilots have asked me.

Back to the DSI is welcome.

Okay, gentlemen, so here's the flight plan.

Now, let's keep the laughter to a minimum.

I know this is not to scale.

Both shuttles will take off Tuesday at 6: 30 p.m.

Now, 67 minutes later, you're going to dock with the Russian space station to meet

cosmonaut Andropov, who will refuel the shuttles with liquid O2.

That's your fuel.

Then you'll release and take a 60-hour trip toward the moon.

Now, we only have one shot of landing on this rock, and that's precisely when the

asteroid passes by the moon.

You'll then use lunar gravity and burn your thrusters, slingshotting you around the

moon, coming up.

Behind the asteroid you'll be upward of 11 g's. Yeah, I remember this one. It's

where the uh the coyote sat his ass down in a slingshot and he strapped himself to

an Acme rocket. Is that is that what we're doing here? Oh god, no. No, really,

because it didn't work out too well for the coyote, Harry. No, no, actually we have

a lot better rockets than the coyote now. When you've finished your Roadrunner

thrust move, you'll be moving at 22,500 miles per hour coming around behind the

asteroid where we're hoping that the tail debris will be cleared by the moon's

gravity and you'll land right here. That's it. We've got separate landing sites for

each team, softest parts of the rock as we can figure. At NASA we don't take

chances, we double up on everything. First team that hits 800 feet wins. Now this

rock is big, it's dense, it's got some gravity, you can walk around but use your

thrusters so you can work easier. Okay, Mr. Truman, let's say that we actually do

land on this, what's what's it gonna be like up there? Right here, here, here. 200

degrees in sunlight, minus 200 in the shade, canyons of razor-sharp rock,

unpredictable gravitational conditions, unexpected eruptions, things like that.

Okay, so the scariest environment imaginable.

Thanks.

That's all you got to say, scariest environment imaginable.

Okay, so you drill, you drop the nuke, and you leave.

Now, here's the key.

You're going to remote detonate the bomb before the asteroid passes this plane.

Zero barrier.

You do that, and the remaining pieces of rock should be deflected enough to pass

right by us.

Now, if the bomb explodes after zero barrier, game's over.

Paul, this is Houston.

Fire your rocket.

Hey, your rocket's your maximum.

Last two.

Hey, Harry.

Hey, how's it going?

You seeing Grace?

Yeah, she's over in the hangar with AJ.

Harry, wait a second.

Did you say Grace?

Okay, I thought you said Bear.

Will you marry me?

Grace is old enough to vote, Harry.

She's old enough to have a drink or get married if she wants to be a divorce.

Let me tell you something, fellas.

When I get back, when we get this job done, I will deal with this in my own way.

Harry, it's not like I'm rooting for A.J. here.

I'm just saying, Gracie's not a little girl anymore.

Hey, Rock, you know, wait a minute.

Let me get a pencil and a piece of paper.

I want to jot down all you girls of Wytham here.

Serious, Harry?

Come on, you know what?

We're off trotting the globe, hunting mud.

Gracie grew up to become a full-blown hottie, you know?

Harry, she's a babe.

She is fully hot.

Max, Max, okay, you're talking about my little girl, all right?

I think I know who and what she is, okay?

Okay, but, Harry, all we're saying is we're talking about a kid who's coming in her

room right now, and she's getting curious about her body, and she's exploring her

sexuality.

And you know what?

Oscar.

That's a natural thing.

You are about five minutes older than Gracie is.

Why should I listen to you?

And I know what it feels like to have your hormones pulling you in just, you know,

a thousand different directions.

You don't know which end is up.

Don't have no disrespect, man.

But we all helped raise her.

So, in part, we all feel like a bunch of daddies here.

It's true.

I'll be damned if I worked all these years so my little girl can marry a roughneck.

It's better than that.

Better than all of us.

All right, just sit back, relax.

I'll put on a little free armadillo driving clinic for you.

No, no, no.

Two shuttle teams.

A.J. will be running the drill team with Oscar Baron Noonan on the independents.

I'll run the drill team on freedom with Chick, Rockhound, and Max.

Once we land, we'll have eight hours to get the job done.

In order to split this rock on the fault line, we're going to have to drill to 800

feet.

Let's get our game faces on.

Now it's time for underwater simulation.

Come on, independents.

Keep it up.

Let's go.

We're the younger team here.

We're the varsity team.

Take it to 11,000.

Okay, gentlemen, we're going to trick them up.

The computer will simulate a gas pocket at 625 feet and then hard iron ferrite at

635.

I'm going to drop some more O2 in.

Yeah, we'll take it off.

I'm giving it more torque right now.

All right, looking good, Bear.

Clamp it.

Watch your time, independence team.

Thanks, Harry. Would you mind letting me run my own team?

You're going to blow the train, AJ. Slow it down, baby.

Take it easy, Bear. Just relax.

You can handle it.

AJ, you're at 600 feet. Your pipe is long.

Let's back the RPMs down to 8,000.

We don't have time for 8,000!

AJ, take it back down. You're going to snap the pipe.

I don't want to blow this transmission.

Dammit, 11,000!

Slow it down, AJ. Come on, get on our team for a little bit.

Whoa, Space Cowboy.

Harry, are you listening to this?

Yeah, I'm listening to Harry.

Hey, you don't work for Harry anymore, okay?

Hey, how dare you listen to me?

When we're on that run, you've got to do what I say.

Now, send my two to the turbine.

I'm thoroughly up to 11,000.

AJ, back it off. You're going to blow the transmission.

Hey, Harry, would you let me run my team, please?

RPMs are at red line.

Bear, God damn it. I know what I'm doing.

Come on, I shouldn't handle it.

She'll be fine. Trust me.

AJ, back the transmission off.

Number one, transmission is down.

Son of a...

The computer's wrong.

Can you know that?

You did the right thing.

You're going to restart the simulation.

If you want to replace a member of the crew, now is the time.

You're going to catch this.

Take care of this. Get him out of the tank, Jake. You want to go home? Is that it?

You want to be fired? No, I don't. My crew is doing the right thing. Your crew?

Your crew just blew the transmission, AJ. Listen, that NASA computer is just

playing it safe. The machine you built, the rig can do it. Shut up. Shut up. Shut

your mouth. Those men in that room have zero tolerance for showing off, hot dogging,

going by your gut instinct, or you trying to be a hero. You got that? Say the

words, AJ. I got it. I want my men to have tomorrow night off. What do you mean off?

I mean off, out of here for at least 10 hours. Then we'll go to Kennedy. Well,

there's no possible way we can do that, Harry. That's a potentially huge security

risk. What if they talk? What if they get hurt? What if they're too burned out to

do the right thing? What if they get up there and they forget what they're fighting

for? You see what's going on up there?

Those boys are ready to snap. They didn't ask to be here. They got pulled off the

street.

For all we know, tomorrow night could be the last night they ever see Earth. I

don't think it's too much to ask to let them spend it with their families. Well,

listen, there's no possible You got family, Colonel? Two girls.

Wouldn't you like to spend tomorrow night with your little girls?

I'm not asking you.

I'm telling you.

Make this happen.

This is a pretty big law.

Why don't you count the cash?

Nah, this looks like a hundred grand to me.

I'm giving you this for 60%.

I hope you know what you're doing.

Because if I gotta come looking for you, I'm gonna hit you in the head with a

fucking sludge hammer.

No, no, no, no. I'm solid.

You'll get your money back.

You don't look too healthy.

You're not gonna die on me, are you?

Let's just say no more than you are.

Thanks, Nick.

You know you don't have to worry about me, because I'm gonna do my best.

But I'm a little worried about my guys.

If you could just, you know, throw in some Hail Marys.

Throw in a lot of Hail Marys.

Just give them that, you know, a little juice.

That extra umph to kind of get them over the...

Don't want to miss, and I don't want to miss a thing.

You know what I was thinking?

What?

I really don't think that the animal cracker qualifies as a cracker.

Why?

Well, because it's sweet, which to me suggests cookie, and, you know, me putting

cheese on something is sort of the defining characteristic of what makes a cracker

a cracker.

I don't know why I thought of that, I just...

Baby, you have some sweet pillow talk.

I got, like, a little animal cracker Discovery Channel thing happening right here.

Watch the gazelle as he grazes through the open blanks.

Now look, as the cheetah approaches, watch as he stalks his prey.

Now the gazelle is a little spooked.

He could head north to the ample sustenance provided by the madness peaks above.

He could go south.

The gazelle now faces man's most perilous question.

North.

South.

Way down.

Tune in next week.

Baby, do you think it's possible that anyone else in the world is doing this very

same thing at this very same moment?

I hope so.

Otherwise, what the hell are we trying to say?

Because I miss you, baby, and I don't want to miss a thing.

Hey.

What are you doing here?

I was just passing by on the, uh, I came...

That man's a salesman.

Would you go inside?

Thank you.

He got big.

You can't come around like this.

The court says you can't.

It confuses him.

No, I know.

I just wanted to say that I'm sorry about everything.

And I have something coming up.

Something kind of big.

You might be proud of me.

Would you do something for me?

Would you just...

Give him this. You don't have to tell him who it's from.

Just...

Are you doing okay?

Eh, you know.

Pills every four hours.

Jell-O every five.

Goddamn Jell-O.

Putting the sissies...

Boy, I didn't laugh.

Laying around like a dead man on my ass.

That ain't me.

I know, Dad.

I'm ready to go to work.

Do you have a job lined up?

Yeah, Dad. I have a big one coming up.

Well, I'm your man, Harry. You know me.

Oh, go on, no, quit.

That's me.

I've got my boots and gloves.

Just say the word, kid.

How's my granddaughter?

She's good.

She's good.

It's about love. Yeah, she's giving me a hard time now. You know, Harry, God gave

us children.

So we have roses in December. I love you, Dad. Now stop all that nonsense. If you

love me, give me some pudding. I'll see what I can do. Okay, kid. Take care of

yourself. You too.

Uh-oh.

Hey, Noonan, do you need ten grand? Yeah. I gotta put these girls through college.

I love this astronaut stuff. Good work if you can get it. Yeah, I'm just in town

doing a little astronaut training. Ooh, astronaut. Ah, see. I'm a mission

specialist. Yes. And what's that mean? I don't know.

Hey, who the hell do you think you guys are?

You're hogging all the action.

Hey, Pinhead, why don't you find your own party?

Why don't you share the wealth, pal?

Here, why don't you buy yourself a neck?

Hey, Mr. Clean.

He'll confirm it.

You're astronauts.

Yeah, we're astronauts.

Yeah, we're all astronauts.

You are so messing with national security right now, man.

You are fired tomorrow morning.

I'm telling you.

I'll get the CIA and the FBI.

Hey, you'll be working security at Toys R Us.

Oh, oh, baby, no, no, no, don't leave, baby.

No, no, no, you see, I'm going into space and I'm not coming back.

It's coming in at 30,000 miles an hour.

Give me a projected impact.

East Asia, 11 minutes.

We're going to have to warn.

Warn who?

The entire South Pacific?

So the whole world knows.

Tell me you've never let anybody down before.

I've never quit yet.

How's that?

I guess I don't have to do it.

I still remember the first, middle, and last name of every guy that qualified for

the astronaut program the first year I had.

22 years later.

Of course, things were different then.

It wasn't so much about the paperwork and the politics.

It was all about getting the job done.

I went into the engineering program.

Kind of had to.

But boy, I wanted to go up there.

I wanted to be one of those guys with a mission patch on my arm.

I tell you, I'd be on that shuttle with you, Harry, if I could.

But you don't want to be up in that shuttle any more than I do.

You're scared?

Yeah.

You?

Well, good luck in Florida tomorrow.

The death of 50,000 people in Shanghai yesterday has shaken the nation.

A new satellite has tracked an object in space.

Conservatives estimate the tidal wave was five meters high.

This is CNN live from Florida.

We've just learned NASA is on full military alert.

They're calling this a global threat.

The government has been tight-lipped.

The Pentagon is involved in a project with NASA, possibly a shuttle mission.

Senior Pentagon officials have refused to comment, fueling speculation about a

serious problem.

A special team of astronauts arrived in Florida this evening.

NASA is preparing for an emergency launch with Russia, Japan, and France – the

largest joint space venture in history.

Gracie, I got your message.

What are you doing here, honey?

I'm just thinking.

Yeah.

I want to apologize.

No, Grace, please stop.

You don't need to apologize.

I shouldn't have taken you to those oil rigs.

I just don't think I treated you right.

You're wrong.

I love my life.

I love everything about my life.

And I don't blame you for my mother leaving.

She left us both.

And I love you.

And don't talk like you're not coming back.

Promise me that you're coming.

Say I promise.

I promise, Grace.

It's going to be all right.

If it is.

It's not too much trouble. Can you please bring my fiancé home with you?

The president will be addressing the nation and all of you personally within the

hour.

Astronauts!

I'll see you in a couple days, honey.

All my bags are packed.

I'm ready to go.

I'm standing here outside your door.

I hate to wake you up to say goodbye.

So kiss me and smile for me.

Let me know you'll wait for me.

Hold me like you'll never let me go.

Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane.

Don't know when I'll be back again.

Leaving on a jet plane.

I don't know when I'll be back again.

Leaving on a jet plane.

I don't know when I'll be back again.

So Truman, this is who you found to save the planet.

You get to go.

One sec.

Boy, don't take anything seriously.

Yeah, reminds me of a guy I used to know.

I'll marry you.

I address you tonight not as the president of the United States, not as the leader

of a country,

but as a citizen of humanity.

We are faced with the very gravest of challenges.

The Bible calls this day Armageddon, the end of all things.

And yet, for the first time in the history of the planet, a species has the

technology to prevent its own extinction.

All of you praying with us need to know that everything that can be done to prevent

this disaster is being called into service.

The human thirst for excellence and knowledge

Every step up the ladder of science, every adventurous reach into space, all of our

combined modern technologies and imaginations. Even the wars that we fought have

provided us the tools to wage this terrible battle.

Through all the chaos that is our history, through all of the wrongs and the

discord, through all of the pain and suffering, all of our times, there is one

thing that has nourished our souls and elevated our species above its origins, and

that is our courage. Dreams of an entire planet are focused tonight on those 14

brave souls traveling into the heavens. That man's not a salesman. That's your

daddy. And may we all, citizens the world over, see these events through. Godspeed

and good luck to you. Freedom proved. Independence proved. How are you feeling? Uh,

good, you know, I mean, considering I've never been this scared in my entire life,

but, you know.

I know, Harry. I'll, uh, try not to disappoint you.

Take care of yourself, kid.

Freedom's on the bridge.

Attention in the firing room. The oxidizer loading is complete.

Independence on the bridge.

Attention all personnel. We are T-minus two hours in the program home.

Hey, Harry.

Yeah, Ron.

You know, we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon, and a

thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder.

Makes you feel good, doesn't it?

Yeah.

What are you doing, Oscar?

I'm great. I've got that excited, scared feeling.

Like, 98% excited, 2%.

Scared, maybe it's more, it could be two, it could be 98% scared, 2% excited, but

that's what makes it so intense, it's so confused. I can't really figure it out.

You make mine really tight because I don't want to fall out. I mean, almost to the

point of cutting off circulation. Must be a comfort to know that if the space

program goes under, you can always get a job at Helga's House of Pain. All right,

flight directors, I want the go/no-go for launch. Retro go, flight booster go,

flight inco flight trajectory go, flight fido go, flight Ava go, flight capcom

freedom go, flight capcom independence go. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's

pucker time. Independence and freedom, this is Kennedy firing room. We're T-minus

one minute. All crew members, close and lock your visors.

Independence, this is lot control. The advice we're in a smooth count. T-minus 31,

you're go for auto sequence start. PLTs, perform your APU pre-start. Okay,

gentlemen, you're our warriors up there.

God be with you.

You're already heroes.

Just sit back and enjoy the ride.

We're 10 minus 20 seconds.

We have go for independence.

We are cooking, Houston.

Houston, the tower is clear. They're all yours.

Heads up, everybody. They're ours now.

All engines are gone.

Keep a sharp eye out on both of them.

No trouble.

Bobby, no trouble.

Start rolling over.

Good roll program.

One down.

We have a max.

Roger, Control, we are Max-Q.

SRB, sir.

Single engine, press the MECO.

Copy, press the MECO.

Houston, this is a kick-ass ride.

This is space.

We're just in the beginning part of space.

We haven't even gotten to outer space yet.

Roger, Houston, we have a visual on the Russian space station initiating retro burn.

Gentlemen, remember, the Russian space station has been up there for 11 years.

Most of us don't have cars.

is that old now the cosmonaut on board has been on that tin can for 18 months alone

so don't be surprised if he's a little off all right crew let's exit these flight

suits

hello this is a russian space station can you hear me strasviche we copy russian

space station this is houston i'm ready to fire my trust stand by okay i'm not

going anywhere we have a go initiate gravitational spin you are maxed at 40 percent

spin

okay houston i can feel i'm having gravity all right gentlemen we're gonna dock in

a minute now the russian space station has fired a rocket simulate gravity and let

us work faster it's going to make you queasy you so prepare yourself.

It's about time.

I haven't thrown up in about an hour.

Switching to manual.

Manual override.

One foot per second.

Let's take this slow and do it right, folks.

20 feet.

10 feet.

Looking good on radar.

Five feet.

Locks are engaged.

Fuel teams, let's go.

We have soft dock.

Fuel teams, prepare to unload.

All right, gentlemen, watch your heads.

Let's go, independents.

Colonel?

Where is he?

Anybody home?

Welcome, everybody.

I am not a gas station.

This is a sophisticated laboratory.

I'm in charge.

So do not be touching anything.

I need one.

I need you.

Go with me.

Yeah, I need you.

Hurry up.

Hurry up.

Come on.

Oh, very important to watch the fuel gauge, okay?

Put it on.

Consul.

Copy that, Houston.

Prepping for fuel transfer.

Copy that, Houston.

Hold it.

20 minutes.

Fuel potty's down there.

It's down here, huh?

Right.

Okay, let's connect these fuel lines.

Freedom on the left, independence on the right.

All right, we're going left here.

Go to the right, the fuel gauge.

What's the fuel gauge?

150, okay, 160, okay, 200.

Bad disaster for a space station.

So if you watch 200, you can call for a lab on, and you see her number one on.

You ask for lab, and you pull this down all the way down.

What's lab?

I'm Levan Ruffel, colonel of Russian space agency in Russia.

I'm a very big man.

We're ready to transfer.

I'm coming, no problem.

All right, you got it.

All right, you'll stay up.

Unit!

Hard lock.

Ready for transfusion!

Here we go.

Yes, sir, buddy.

Fuel is pumping.

Line on three.

Yeah.

How long have you been up here on your own, man?

Uh, 18 months.

That's a long...

time god love i am so sorry about all the upheaval and strife in your country man

that must be tough up here with the loneliness but i want you to know that up here

there are no russians and there are no americans we're just spacemen check down

here with these guys hey lab the uh the pressure's climbing don't touch my uncle

you know there's a genius on my family

can anybody hear me he used to work for a big bomb factory he used to make the tip

of the bomb the thing that finds uh new york or washington you know

check your hoses we got some thermal variation stamp it let's look at the couplings

back on the shuttle

Okay. Shotgun.

Uh...

What's that noise?

Oh no!

What is it?

Get your mouth back to the shadow!

Pull!

Emergency break away!

in the fuel pot we're losing it control this independence i am seeing vibration

well talk to me not good we got sparks and fire in the fuel pot independence blow

those locks and get out of there now stop the hoses now what happened switch on the

personnel locators cracking aj he's climbing it's too late back to the shuttle this

thing's gonna blow no colonel we gotta move now come on

No, wait, the door is broke.

They got the fire sealed in the fuel pot.

They locked it down.

Tracking them back to the shuttles.

They've still got two men trapped in there.

Keep running the shuttles now, they're 75 feet.

Where's the rest of the team?

Get out of here.

A.J.'s gone.

This way is our only chance.

So all these men are armed with a very cold.

Hold that for lunch, Jesus.

Get back to the shuttles.

And lock that door.

All right.

Get along.

Get out of here.

Get out of here.

Let's try.

Let's try.

Let's try.

It's on fire!

It's on fire!

It's on fire!

It's on fire!

Hold on!

We're gonna get lost.

Blow it along!

Flight Independence does not have AJ.

They're gonna close the door without him.

Traffic, they're 75 feet from the shuttle.

Just turn the airlock to the door and go!

Dr. Hatch, now!

That thing's coming right forward! We got to move!

Freedom!

The Independence crew is on board and accounted for.

We're even heavy one cosmonaut.

They got 90% of their fuel.

Pretty intense, huh?

That's why I told you, touch nothing but you're a bunch of cowboys.

So, while the consciousness of the planet is unified, focused on the NASA mission

taking place right now in the vast ocean of space, we're now in the final hours of

the mission as the freedom and independence prepare to sling.

Shot around the moon morning guys it's time to suit up I guess uh we got a big day

18 seconds to radio interrupt booster sequence confirmed this is houston roger that

freedom we copy

Shuttles are ready for the burn around the moon radio contact terminate we're out

Nine and a half g's for 11 minutes I'd start praying about right now so this is the

part where we're supposed to just hold on real tight and uh hope we don't die and

by for lunar roll high inclination lunar orbit you boys got those wills filled out

correctly

All right, man, this is what we trained for.

Now just suck it up.

On the mark, five, four, three, two, one.

Is this supposed to be like this?

Don't worry, this is normal.

How would you know?

Fourteens.

That's five in the horse.

Fourteens.

How long is this last?

Sixteen.

Fifteen.

It's really heavy, man.

This isn't normal.

What do you mean this isn't normal?

This is way worse.

Eightteens.

Hang tight.

I'm not getting it right now.

Hold a minute.

Light, we've still got nothing now.

We're maxed at $22,500.

Acquisition of signal from Independence and Freedom.

All right.

Welcome back, team.

We have visual of the target.

You see that?

I mean Independence.

Houston, you've got to see this to believe it.

Okay, team, let's take them in.

Okay, Quentin.

How much tail debris do we have?

Freedom, turn on your FOD radar.

FOD radar on.

Everybody hang on.

This could get a little rough.

Engaging invasive radar.

Damn, we got debris.

We're dumping auxiliary boosters.

We're coming in hot.

It's trying to maintain your present heading. You've got a target LZ.

There's too much debris. We've got to peel off.

Negative. We're hit.

Lost main thruster. Stand back up.

Mayday, Houston. Mayday. We've lost our CS thruster.

Mayday, Mayday.

We are out of control and we are going down.

Do you read me? Freedom, we are going down.

Everybody, go to your own life department.

Lock yourself in the cargo bay.

We are going down.

Houston. Houston, we are going down. We have lost control.

I can't get it on.

Good luck, freedom.

Oh, my God.

This is it.

Houston, independence is a dead stick.

They're not going to make it.

Independence has gone down.

When I touch this baby down, full reverse thrust.

Fire!

On your left!

Hang tight! Hang tight!

Houston, we overshot our landing field.

We overshot our landing field.

No!

Initiate system, wind system, check.

Make sure we can still get off this rock.

Our electrical system is screwed. I'm going to backup.

Fuel seals, check. Engine seals, check. Pressure seals, check.

Anyone hurt?

Where's... where's the other shuttle?

What happened to the other shuttle?

Independence is off the grid.

Off the grid? What are you, a freaking cyborg? What does that mean?

Hey, you saw it yourself, right?

They're gone.

Come in, Freedom. This is Capcom Houston.

Freedom.

come in this is capcom houston come in freedom let's just ask god to take care of

our friends

May they rest in peace. We've got eight hours.

This job's gotta go home. Come on, Watts Sharp, somebody. This is Capcom Houston.

Come in, Freedom. Freedom, come in. This is Capcom Houston. Maybe you shouldn't be

here.

I don't have anywhere else to go. Freedom, come in. This is Capcom Houston. All

right, let's get the tools unpacked and fire up the Armadillo. I'm not getting a

damn thing on the inertial nav system. You know where we are? Please step away.

Radio signals dead. I'm flipping the backup generator. Radio signals. We're going

to be cut in half till we get main power back.

We're in segment 202, lateral grid 9, site 15H32, give or take a few yards.

Captain America here blew the landing by 26 miles.

How the hell do you know that?

Because I'm a genius.

The gauges will not read.

They're all peaked like we're plugged into some magnetic field.

Well, who on this spaceship wants to know why?

By all means.

The reason we were shooting for grid 8 is because thermographics indicated that

grid 9 was compressed iron ferrite.

Which means you landed us on a goddamn iron plate.

All right, we heard the man.

Let's wheel out the remote satellite, Link.

We need that radio.

Oh, God, please tell me we still got one of them.

Dependence is flat line.

There's no one else. I know.

Where are you?

Hey, Dave.

Hey, Jake.

I'm going to settle back.

Yeah.

Are you all right?

I'm so glad to see you, man.

I never thought I'd be so happy to see you on me.

Houston, do you read?

This is freedom.

Check your thrust.

Houston, do you copy?

Is everyone good to go?

This place is like Dr. Seuss' worst nightmare.

Let's get the remote satellite.

We'll get better reception up there.

Bring Max down.

Watch yourself through here, Max.

Big fishers to the left, bring it to the left, rockhound, you come on down here,

take some reading, down a flat spot there, it's all right, I have fire watch, I'm

coming back, stand by, mostly iron rock count. God, I hate knowing everything. We

couldn't have picked the worst spot to drill. Well, I can pretty much guarantee

it's not gonna be thicker than 50 feet. How do you figure that? Because if it is,

we're screwed, Max, you good? Yeah, just making a hole. Turn it around, freaking

out of space, it's good.

All right, we're in. Bring another length. We're cutting through pretty good.

There's some stuff in here I ain't never seen.

All right, let's punch it down.

Harry, did you see that?

Yeah, Max, I see it, I see it.

What is it?

We lost the fight in the bank.

All right, back it off, back it off.

God damn.

Sounds like we put through the shank.

Back it out of there, Max.

Good, good, hold her there.

Wow, this is a goddamn Greek tragedy.

We've all seen broken drill heads before.

Not after 10 feet.

I've never seen one.

Well, now you've seen one.

Who do you want?

Unpack the judge.

There.

We're only three astronauts left now.

We're not astronauts, we're oil drillers.

We're not even supposed to be here.

What?

You're not astronauts?

I'm getting us out of here.

Get in.

Why?

Just get in the armadillo, I have an idea.

Houston, this is freedom.

Do you copy?

Houston, do you copy?

Freedom shuttle has...

Okay.

We're going to step up on that.

It's pretty empty, I guess I can hear you.

Oh, thank God we're having freedom.

Freedom, this is Houston. Go ahead.

Don't lose them, Malloy.

Houston, this is Freedom. We landed safely.

Where are they?

Okay, I want to know everything we can about that location.

Get it before we lose them.

Walter, get mechanical on that.

Stevens, we're losing. I'm bringing it up on four.

Come on.

Buff the signal.

Houston.

Houston, we lost. Get him back.

Rupert, we need that hookup.

We do things right.

Seen it.

This thing, man.

Come on.

I want this.

We want this one.

All right, get ready, Max. Thread it.

The clock is ticking. Let's go, go, go, go!

All right, good. Drag it loose.

Keep it at 25.

All right, Chick, give me more torque on the turbine, huh?

Max, I need some more power down here.

All right, boss.

Throw it forth and drop the hammer.

Let's go through this area.

Come on, boys, we got a hop. We're falling behind.

Dig, dig, dig.

Chew this iron bitch up.

Chick, the train's stuck.

Harry, what is it?

Chick, come on, help. Lease the clock.

Okay, well, this thing's not moving.

This is not working out, Harry.

Oh, are you all right?

Oh, I'm blue to tranny.

Blue to tranny.

Come on, girl.

Just a little help.

That's all I'm asking.

I think we're close enough.

You might have heard you.

Here's the bad news.

Before the asteroid passed the moon, the rotation was stable at 32 degrees on an x-

axis.

But now look at this.

The lunar gravity's put her in a spin.

She's tumbling on all three axes.

It wasn't expected.

What does this do for communications?

Not good.

We'll have definite contact with the shuttle for only seven more minutes.

After that, it's radio darkness.

For how long?

And after seven minutes, we may never hear from them again.

But we're trying to bounce a signal off a Russian military satellite.

Reestablish contact app.

If we lose communication with the shuttle, when do we lose the ability to remotely

detonate that nuke?

The weapon remote receives a signal from a Milstar satellite.

Higher orbit, more powerful transmitter.

If we've got the shuttle for seven minutes, we can remotely detonate for an

additional five.

What he's trying to say, General, is that in 12 minutes' time, you may lose the

ability to detonate the nuke.

Permanently.

I need to inform the president.

I just want to be sure you know we're stranded on an asteroid.

Do you know what you're doing?

No, no. You know what?

I have no idea what I'm doing. I really have no idea.

This button… I don't know what it does, okay?

All I know is that we just crashed back there.

I've lost two of my friends. We're 25 miles from the shuttle.

We don't know if he's alive. We don't know if he can fly.

All I know is there's a beep on this thing, and I'm trying to get us there.

Let's get it unpacked.

What's up?

Drilling some kind of metal I've never seen before.

It's fried two of our drill bits, and now we've lost our first transmission.

So how deep are we?

We could use your help with the transmission, Colonel.

I have an assessment report due now.

We're supposed to be at 200 feet, so how deep are we?

Not as deep as we'll be when you stop asking me all these questions and help us

load the transmission.

What is our current depth?

Our current depth is not important, Colonel.

I'll decide what's important. We've got 800 feet to drill.

You've had two and a half hours.

Where are we?

We're at 57 feet.

After you're not too busy, maybe you can give us a hand with this transmission.

Colonel Sharp!

Get him strapped up. I'll be right back.

Colonel Sharp!

All right, I'm coming through. We have contact. Over.

There's what's going to get.

This is freedom. Do you copy?

Working on a remote satellite like at this moment.

Transmission change.

20 minutes. Puts drilling.

Final at 10 hours. Please advise. That's four hours past zero barrier. Please

advise.

What the hell is this?

That's good on death.

And where did this come from? Who are you talking to?

Is that Truman? Let me have that phone. Let me have that phone.

Truman!

Look, this is what happens when you drill.

We cannot use your U.S. Air Force personnel only drill time card.

Who wrote this thing, by the way?

We're losing comms again.

Is he getting this? Does he hear me? What's wrong with it?

I'm stopped.

What do you mean, comms down?

No, I mean, I mean we've lost communication to missing calls.

Fine, let's go back to the cargo bay and get the transmission.

Hey, hey, hey, guess what? You had your shot. You didn't do it.

Do you understand me? Thank you.

Why don't you stay here and take it to the drill sergeant?

Don't take it on the fish.

Second, guys.

Write a report.

Why don't you? That'll be it.

Do whatever you want.

My men and I will get this sorted.

You're NASA's biggest mistake.

We've lost communication.

We're not doing well.

Oh, shit.

We need to restore the radio.

Mr. President, a decision is needed.

We can detonate the bomb in five minutes.

Kimsey here.

Yes, Mr. President.

We see it too, sir.

Maybe we should wait…

Get them out of there.

Evacuate now.

What's going on?

I'm overriding the system.

What is this?

Secondary protocol.

They haven't drilled the hole yet.

President's advisors believe the drilling isn't working, and we've lost radio

contact, possibly for good.

We have only a few minutes left to remotely detonate that nuke.

If we don't act now, we could lose control, and may never regain it.

Tell the president to fire his so-called advisors.

If you detonate that nuke on the surface, we'll waste a good bomb and lose our only

chance to save the planet.

I need that radio.

Grover, give me everything you've got.

Roger that.

Yes, Mr. President, I understand completely, but my point is very simple.

I think you need to trust me on this, as I know something about it.

I guarantee you, if you do this, you'll kill us all.

Yes, sir.

General, he wants you.

This is Kimsey.

Yes, sir.

I understand.

The orders are to remotely detonate in 30 seconds.

You haven't told them yet!

That is my...

One order you shouldn't follow, and you know it!

Let her go!

Key, sir.

Blow it down.

Harry. The clock on that nine-foot nuclear weapon is sticky.

Get the shuttle ready to evac now. It just came on all by itself. What the hell's

happening?

Secondary protocol. What's that?

Secondary protocol. What is that?

What the hell's secondary protocol?

They're not eating this thing from Earth. What do you mean?

They're not eating this thing from Earth. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Get your helmets on now.

Oh, no, no. How you turn off?

I'm sharp. I got two men out on that rock. I got a man out there too. We got an

evac now. Max, rock out. Get back to the shuttle double time. They could be on

their way here. They could be on their way here. They would have talked to us by

now. We would have seen them. What?

They're like a cockpit now. I can't be.

Max, rock out. Hey, wait a minute. How do you turn this? Max, rock out. Harry, do

you copy?

Something's wrong. Yeah, it's all wrong, man. We shouldn't even be up here. I know.

Let's go back to the ship.

I'm not leaving without. I might bend, Sharp.

You've got two and a half minutes.

If you drop it, you get off this line.

If they're not back by the time we finish, we leave without them.

Okay, let's simplify this.

Let's just turn the bomb off right now.

You don't put this bomb down in a hole 800 feet onto a fault line.

All you're going to have is a real expensive firework show.

It's just turning into a surrealistic nightmare.

Wassler, are you listening?

It's Truman.

Listen to me carefully.

I want you to kill it.

Kill the uplink.

Give us the time, Sharp.

Shut this bomb down now.

It's not my call.

But whose call is it?

The order to detonate can only come from the president.

The president's not here!

Turn it off right now.

You've got to give us more time.

I'm telling you to shut this bomb down now.

And I'm telling you it's not my call.

Well, guess what?

I just made the call for you.

It's Harry!

You can set it off.

What are you doing with a gun in space?

Come on.

Gotta stop that bomb right now.

Kill the uplink.

This thing is gonna blow.

We gotta get it off the ship.

Easy.

Stand down, sir.

Shut this bomb down.

And let us finish our job the right way.

I'm under orders to protect this surface detonation.

I'm gonna give you three seconds to shut this bomb down.

Then I'm gonna make you shoot me.

Hurry, boss.

I forgot to say hurry.

Sir?

The override.

It's been overridden.

I've bought us a couple of minutes, so get that radio working, okay?

Hurry, hurry.

Bring me all the way up.

Blow me in my friend's episode.

Listen.

Shut up.

Shut up, Colonel.

Don't talk.

It could start again.

It might have been a prostitute.

That's why you...

We're going to dismantle this bomb.

All right.

What did we miss?

Do it again.

Go.

Sir, I need to cease and desist.

I need your terminal now.

They're reactivating the bomb.

Coming back online, sir.

Oh, jeez.

Here we go again.

What are you doing up here?

Why did you even bother to make the trip?

To do the right thing to see that it's done.

God's sakes, think about what you're doing.

Why are you listening to someone that's 100,000 miles away?

We're here.

Nobody down there can help us.

If we don't get this job done, everybody's gone.

One minute.

I have been drilling holes in the earth for 30 years, and I have never, never

missed the depth that I have aimed for.

By God, I am not going to miss this one. I will make 800 feet.

42 seconds.

I took it alone, Colonel. I need your help.

You swear on your daughter's life, on my family's, that you can get that mark.

I will make 800 feet. I swear to God I will.

Let's turn this part off.

Ah. Steady. Steady.

Get back. Get in my back. Rainbow track.

Under one. Under one. All of them. All of them.

We freeze static.

Do a good job. Do a good job. Steady. Steady.

Go. Go. Go.

Red wire A. Ready? And now.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.

Negative B.

Red, good job.

Track flipped.

Hots in.

Red or blue.

Good job.

God, it sucks up here.

Sir, the clock has stopped at three seconds.

What?

Have we lost complete radio contact?

I got some magic happening.

We're bouncing off Russian and French satellites.

It may have a faint signal.

Houston!

Houston, do you copy?

Go ahead, freedom.

Houston, you have a problem.

Problem.

You see, I promised my little girl that I'd be coming home.

I don't know what you people are doing down there.

We got a hole to dig up here.

Go, go, go.

Go, go.

Come on, we got work to do.

Okay, guys, I'll go.

Don't quit.

How you doing down there?

Good? Okay, got the tranny.

We're back in business.

Hey, you guys should take a break and come up and see this.

Wow, got a great view of the Earth from here.

Too bad we'll never set foot on her again.

Left, do you see anything?

No.

Well, keep going.

I'm not giving up.

Hold up here, Bear.

Oh, boy.

This is great.

We just happened to run into the Graham Canyon on the asteroid.

I told you you took a wrong way, a wrong road.

What?

What road?

Do you see any roads around here?

You know what?

I do not have much pleasure being negative, but do you think this is looking good?

Matt, why don't you just do humanity a favor and just shut the hell up?

Have you ever heard of Evel Knievel?

No, I never saw Star Wars.

All right, you're doing a good job.

Give me a theft reading, Megs.

We're 150 feet, Harry.

Get off the nuclear warhead.

I was doing that guy from that movie, you know, Slid Pickens, where he rides it all

the way in, the nuclear warhead.

No.

I didn't see that one, huh?

We got 700 feet of hole to dig, Rockhead.

All right.

Just wanted to feel the power between my legs, brother.

Hey, Sharp.

No nukes!

No nukes!

No nukes!

You got any more bullets in that gun, Sharp?

What did Watts tell you, Bear?

If she kicked you in the ball, she'd keep floating.

Yeah.

Turn the thrusters off.

We jump this thing.

We float right over it.

Go over it again, lad.

So the jet thrust is off exactly when we jump, and then...

Okay.

We're going to put them on, and we're going to go down nice and slow.

That's it, that's it, baby, that's it.

Is this going to work?

I don't know.

Lev, you know what, just lie to me.

Let's say 50, no, more like, uh, it's like 70, 30, 80, 20.

But you know what, if it works, the two of you are going to be heroes.

Just like that.

Screw it.

Jumping over this can.

Just for the record, this is a very bad idea.

Wait till the end now, don't we get there, wait.

Three, two, one.

Wait a minute.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

We got some rocks!

Go away, go away!

Okay, okay, we're floating into outer space.

This could be a little bit of a problem.

The rust is on.

All right, turn them off!

What's wrong?

The rust is not working.

I hate it, Martin!

I'm stepping outside.

You're going outside?

I am the only certified astronaut. I'm saving your American ass!

Yes, you listen to him.

Right.

Just a second, the fuel line is iced up.

Yeah, I think it's working now.

Don't let me stop working.

I'm sorry, AJ, I was way off the odds.

We're getting higher, man.

Look out, the log.

Project three.

Hold.

We lost that.

AJ.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord.

No, I'm really a Russian hero.

Good odds.

Come on, get in here. We gotta go.

Rock down. Keep out of that transmission.

Granny looks good, Harry.

All right, take it out of there.

Lock it down, Chase.

Nice.

How come we didn't get any training on this thing?

Whoa, very cool.

I can take out this asteroid single- handedly.

Okay, boys, give it a rest. I'll take it from here.

Boom!

What the hell is that?

Whoa, this is so much fun, it's freaky.

Lock out!

Watch your head.

Sorry, Harry.

Out of my way, boys!

Lock out!

Get your maker out!

This is insane.

You lost your mind?

She's got space dementia.

Harry, you want to watch your man.

Max, downshift slowly and put it in reverse.

You've got to get that pipe out of there.

Uh-oh.

The throat's cracking!

Bye, Max.

Take care, buddy.

Armadillo's out the scope.

See, we've got a blowout.

No sign of the armadillo.

Somebody punch up the armadillo.

Get a hold of Truman, prepare the world for bad news. We're getting sketchy

information that the mission has suffered massive failure, and what we're trying to

do right now is to confirm that, find out exactly what that means. We're getting

leaks from several NASA officials, some rushing home to be with their families.

That the drilling was unsuccessful, he called this catastrophe, come down, global

killer. This could very well be our final hour. Begin.

We're gonna go off the air now. Good luck and God bless.

I've got incoming. I've got tracks.

Milrad is tracking four small incoming objects over Europe.

I think one is about to hit near Paris.

Reports are coming in.

Martial law has been implemented in 42 countries.

Once the asteroid hits the zero barrier, it will take about three hours and 57

minutes to impact Earth.

Well, I guess we do it the president's way. I'll order an evacuation.

You can remotely detonate.

You still don't think this will work, do you?

Well, what I think is irrelevant.

We need to do it now.

Can they still take off?

We hope so.

Yeah, we're the ones who pulled him into this.

There's a family up there, so I don't want to hear 'we hope so'.

Guess what, guys?

It's time to embrace the horror.

Look, we've got front row tickets to the end of the world.

Houston, you're not going to believe this, but the other armadillo has arrived.

All right, people, sit down.

Settle down and focus.

Get online.

BPO, set me up.

Your boyfriend is back.

No, Harry!

Hey, Harry.

Do you miss me?

AJ, I have five words for you.

Glad to see you, boy!

That's six words.

Walk him down!

Where's the hole?

Houston drilling is back online.

Can they drill 250 feet in an hour?

They better.

Bring the pit down!

Roger, answer the phone.

Arm coming down!

250 feet to go.

Last transmission, last drill head.

Punch it through.

First gear, we have contact.

I got this.

Let's go!

Left, the right engine hub!

Houston, I'm not getting a response from the pre-flight sequence.

Oh, no, this isn't fair!

Hey!

Get me out of here!

Let's go!

I'm trying to have some fun before I die.

How deep are we?

770.

Whoa, they're having problems.

Gage is spiking.

Methane, shut it down.

Back it down.

Can't pull back now.

If it gets lodged, I don't know what I'm talking about.

We can get through this.

We can knock this out of the park.

This is our last transmission, AJ.

God damn it, if you're ever going to trust me, ever, once in your life, trust me

now.

Harry.

It's going to blow.

Harry, I know what I'm doing.

You just got to trust me.

Make the call.

All right, hold on.

I'm pushing through her.

I'm pushing through her.

What's your death?

7.75.

7.80.

Take it off, baby.

Run the hole.

Run it down, AJ.

7.85.

Come on, come on.

Come on, AJ.

Come on, punch it.

91, come on.

7.92.

7.95.

Run it down, AJ.

7.97.

99.

Stick through.

8.00.

8.02.

Hey.

Yeah.

Here we go.

It's not over until we get the bomb down that hole.

Once, I've got 38 minutes.

You gotta give me that hole.

I'm gonna need two more minutes.

I got a vent pipe jammed in the hole.

We gotta cut it out before we can send the bomb down.

AJ!

She good to go?

Yeah, I'm all set.

All right.

All right.

AJ, come on.

Make it fast.

I'm doing as fast as I can.

There's a lot of gas pressure.

You feel that?

Harry, you gotta give me that hole.

The bomb is almost ready.

Yeah, let's wipe out.

I'm almost through.

Give me 15 more seconds.

Well, this is something new.

You don't think this thing likes it.

That's because it knows I'm here to kill it.

No!

No!

Hey Jay!

I'm finished!

Get me up!

Oh, oh, oh!

Hide your pocket!

Oh no!

I'm struggling!

Oh, God, no!

Sharp, you all right?

I'm okay.

Bear?

Yeah.

I'm here, Harry.

AJ?

Yeah, I'm okay.

We lost Gruber.

Gruber's dead.

Let's get that bomb ready and go home.

Oh, my God.

Is there a problem, Colonel?

The timer, the remote, the whole thing's dead.

What, the bomb is dead?

Nah, the trigger's dead.

It must have been damaged during the rock storm.

How do we detonate it?

We have 18 minutes to zero barrier.

We have bad news.

The remote detonator on the bomb is damaged.

It means someone's going to have to stay behind.

It takes two people to fly this.

Either we all stay and die, or you guys draw straws.

I say we all stay and die.

But that's just me.

I'll draw.

Let's draw.

Nobody's drawing straws.

I'll stay and take care of it.

Well, I can't live with that.

Nobody asked you if you could, alright?

Oh, wait, I will let you.

I volunteer so I can go back to my country like the man who didn't. No way!

Hey, man. Let's draw, and see who's gonna stay up here and dance. Guys, I know you

think I'm crazy, but I want this responsibility.

Alright.

I can do it! Draw a straw and get it over with.

Come on. I ain't drawing against you, Harry.

Well, I'm gonna draw against you, Chick, so you better just go ahead and do it.

Just give me this thing. Is this good or bad? Well,

we all gotta die, right?

I'm the guy who gets to do what's saving the world. So, let's go. We got about ten

minutes, right?

You plug this into the port.

Lift, press, hold.

That's it.

Lift, press, hold.

Shouldn't be too tough.

Even I can't screw this up.

I'll take him down.

Do me a favor, will you?

Just tell Grace that I'll always be with her.

Okay?

Can you do that?

Yeah. Okay, Kenny.

Hey, Mr. Truman.

Make sure Truman gets that.

Stand there.

It's my turn now.

You go take care of my little girl now.

That's your job.

Always thought of you as a son.

Always.

I'd be damn proud to have you marry Grace.

You take care of yourself.

Harry, don't!

I love you, pal.

Harry, Harry, don't!

What happened?

That crazy, stubborn son of a...

Well, this was a real good idea.

All right, let's go, Sharp. Let's get our team out of here.

What is she in front door, you guys?

Are they green? Aren't they green?

AP reset.

I can't believe this is going down. You all right?

Two vents locked.

Engine board is green.

What?

Houston, do you copy? This is Harry Stamford.

That's one bird.

Electrical systems.

Houston, we're out of here in T-minus three minutes.

Day?

Hi, Gracie.

Hi, honey. Grace, I know I promised you I was coming home.

I don't understand.

Looks like I'm going to have to break that promise.

I lied to you, too, when I told you that I didn't want to be like you.

Because I am like you.

And everything good that I have inside of me, I have from you.

I love you so much, Daddy.

I'm so proud of you. I'm so scared.

I'm so scared.

I know it, baby.

But there won't be anything to be scared of soon.

You see, I want you to know A.J. saved us.

He did.

I want you to tell Chick that I couldn't have done it without him.

I went to see your granddad just before I came up here, Grace.

He told me that God gives us children so that we can have roses in December.

Well, you gave me a garden full.

A whole garden full, Grace.

You really did.

I wish I could be there to walk you down the aisle.

But I'll look in on you from time to time, okay, honey?

I love you, Grace.

I love you, Dad.

Gotta go now, honey.

Daddy, no, Dad, no.

oms pot pre-start o2 vents locked pressure loaded what the hell's going on up there

why haven't you guys left yet we're going harry houston we got oms pot pre-start

confirm

what's the problem i don't know what's the wrong

no time no time what what's that oh come on we're staying we're going we're staying

we're going make up your mind damn it sharp get out of here now you got less than

three minutes well come on once come on come on blow the bomb harry we're with you

stop yes stop you don't know the components they're components american components

the russian components all made in taiwan you can type for ignition freedom houston

we've got no fire What does that mean?

It means we've got a busted ship.

A busted ship?

And I'm strapped in here?

I had a great spot picked out there.

Freedom, fire that engine.

If there's not a way, you find a way.

The clock's ticking.

Let's go.

Let's fire that engine, Freedom.

You got less than a minute.

Don't think I won't blow this thing.

Sharp, get out of here.

It's getting bad down here.

I know how to fix it.

Please move.

I have to take you away if you don't move.

What?

You got to get that shuttle started.

You got to fire it up now.

Damn it, Sharp.

Get off this clock.

I'm telling you, please move.

This is our biggest problem in the Russian Space Desert.

Because I don't want to stay here anymore.

Yes, finally.

We can go home.

She's got me back.

She's got me back.

We're hot.

Watch.

Let's go.

Let's go.

This ain't all you want, you son of a bitch.

No time.

Initiate thrusters on my mark.

Two, one, hurry.

Come on, get some altitude. Let's go. Let's go.

Great. It has Max thrust.

Thank you, Harry.

Shuttle's out of range. Still no detonation.

Something's not right. Too much time has gone by.

Zero barriers about to be breached. One minute.

Harry, come on. Press that button.

We're going back and do it ourselves.

Just don't. Wait one minute.

Dan, what about the cluster threshold?

Come on, Harry. Press the button.

button. Colonel, I'm asking you just one more minute. Press the button, Stamper.

Lowen. I hear you'll do it. I know it. You just know how to fail. Press it.

We have detonation.

Affirming detonation.

The two halves are going to miss us by 400 miles, and most of the small particles

have been vaporized.

Houston, we're coming home.

You're Harry.

You're the man.

Kennedy, we see you.

And you never look so good.

I've never told anybody this before, but I hate flying.

So it would be an awful shame to die now.

That's easy for you to say.

I owe $100,000 to a ruthless loan shark, which I spent on a stripper named Molly

Mouse.

That's terrible.

Kennedy, we're $100,000 in debt.

Flap suspension control on full.

Welcome home, astronauts.

Guys, remember, we're heroes now. Let's keep that incident with me and the gun on

the asteroid quiet, alright?

Ms. Tamper, Colonel Willie Sharpe, United States Air Force, ma'am.

Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I've

ever met.

Dad, you're my hero.

Oh, honey. I want to have babies.

Welcome back, Cowboy.

Harry, I wanted you to have this.

You did, huh?

I could stay awake just to hear you breathing.

Watch you smile while you're sleeping.

While you're far away and dreaming.

I just want to stay with you in this moment forever.

Forever, forever and ever, I don't want to close my eyes.

I don't want to fall asleep, cause I'd miss you, baby. And I don't want to miss a

thing. Even when I dream of you, the sweetest dream wouldn't do. I'd still miss you,

baby, and I don't want to miss a thing. I don't want to miss one smile, one kiss.

I just want to be with you, right here with you, just like this. I just want to

hold you close, feel your heart so close to mine, and just stay here for all time.

Don't wanna fall asleep, cause I miss you, babe. And I don't wanna miss a thing.

Cause even when I dream of you.

The sweetest dream would never do. I still miss you, babe. And I don't wanna miss a

thing. Don't wanna close my eyes.

Miss a thing.

I'm ready to go. I'm standing here outside your door. I hate to wake you up to say

goodbye. But the dawn is breaking, it's early morn. The taxi's waiting, he's

blowing his horn. Already I'm so lonesome, I'm so lonesome.

Cause I'm… I don't know.

Where to go.