Space Camp

Only a shootin' star.

C'mon, Andie! It's on TV. You can't see it if you don't come in.

Can too see it!

Just another wisher.

He winked at me!

John Glenn winked at me!

I'm going up.

I am!

I'm going up.

ENGINES ROAR

'We are at T -19 days and counting toward main engine test of Atlantis.'

-Hi, darling!

-I'm not going up!

-Yeah, I heard.

They're sending Eddie Miller! He gets airsick in cars!

-That's why I married YOU.

-I was sure I was going this time.

You'll be next.

Damn right! You won't be the only one in this family to walk on the moon!

-On the bright side, you can spend summer with me at Space Camp.

-No!

You promised.

Terrific (!) I get to play "Let's Pretend" with some kids!

These aren't just kids, you know.

These are clean-cut, All-American kids!

RADIO PLAYS ERIC CLAPTON

# How many times must I tell you, How many bridges I've got to cross,

# How many times must I explain myself Before I can talk to the boss? #

I believe this is one of your kids now.

Yip, I'd recognise him anywhere.

Clean-cut, well-motivated...

..All-American!

-MUSIC BLARES

-Hey!

Great boosters!

Hey!

-Turn that down.

-What?

-Would you turn that down?

-Okay. No sweat.

-Going to Space Camp?

No. My father wants me to. I don't!

-But it's worth it for the car.

-I hope so. Now get your ass out of my parking spot!

Oooh!

Yeah, right. Sorry.

PLANE FLIES OVERHEAD

Wow! Space-age technology, huh?

Have a good summer!

# How many times must I say I love you, Before you finally understand?

# Won't you be my forever woman? I'll try to be your forever man.

# Try to be your forever man, Forever man!

# Forever man, forever man... #

Dad, that left mag is sticking.

'Welcome aboard, campers! I'm Zach Bergstrom, Director of Space Camp.

'We're gonna train you like at NASA. And at Space Camp, you ARE real astronauts!'

Robbie Picket, Purple. Kathryn Fairley, Blue. Fairley? Thanks.

Takamini? Blue Team.

Kevin Donaldson, Yellow Team.

< Ricky Powell, you're on the Purple Team.

'Okay, folks. Gather in the Rocket Park.

'You can meet the other members of your Team and your Counsellors.

'Leave your bags. Move it! Orientation is at 1300 Hours.'

4 years ago Space Camp was created to provide hands-on access to space hardware

and teach you to work as a team.

Hi, I'm Andie Bergstrom.

-Wow! The first female pilot!

-Yeah, how do you know that?

I've read all about you in the Young Astronauts Programme.

-You were back-up pilot on Discovery, but Coates got it instead.

-I know (!)

-What are you doing here?

Hello! And what is your name?

-Rudy Tyler, ma'am.

-Spit it out.

-RUDY TYLER, MA'AM !

I meant the gum, Rudy.

You look like a guy with...

..a lot of energy. I'm putting you in charge of equipment operation.

-Wow! Thanks! My father told me at Space Camp they give you...

-We'll talk later.

-And this isn't the Marine Corps.

-Yes, ma'am.

-Call me Andie.

Andie.

Hi, Andie. I'm Tish. Tish Embrosey.

Yeah...(!) So what brings you to Space Camp, Tish?

I did an audit on radio astronomy. Unbelievable! Can you imagine an extra-terrestrial disc jockey?

Like, radio waves from space!

-I mean, like, waiting for signs of intelligence.

-Like, I know the feeling (!)

I'm going to make you Mission Specialist No.2 - communications.

-Cool!

-Max!

-Why are you here?

-Checking in for my next mission against the Empire, Your Highness.

-Haul ass back to Junior Camp!

-Aw, Andie! I've been there two summers running. Don't kick me out.

-You're just not ready.

-I AM, too, ready!

-Okay, one screw up and you're out!

-Copy, Rogue Leader! Roger and out!

Hideo Takamini... Hideo Takamini!

Right here!

Hideo Takamini (?)

Well, actually, it's pronounced Kevin Donaldson.

-I don't have a Donald-son.

-Well...you have one now.

I'm Kathryn Fairley and it's an honour to meet you.

Okay, I have two positions left - pilot and shuttle commander.

-Kevin, tell me why you'd like to be shuttle commander.

-I wouldn't.

I was thinking more on the lines

of Mission Regent...

or Sovereign, maybe?

M'mmm...

Kathryn, what about you?

I know about the space programme. I'm going into the airforce academy.

And I want to be the first female shuttle commander.

That's more important than pilot?

Oh, yeah.

It's okay. Let her have it. I don't really care.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-Well, now you're commander you're going to have to care. Kathryn! You can be pilot.

-But...

Pilot!

This is a mock-up of the storage pallets.

That arm is the remote manipulator system.

It can be used for repairs and to link up with satellites.

This zero gravity chair creates a feeling of weightlessness.

MAX: This is just the greatest thing!

This is the shuttle simulator which you'll learn to fly at speeds up to Mach 25.

When you know how, it's real easy.

The computer does most of the work. The first lesson...

-..is don't touch anything until you know how to use it.

-Absolutely.

-Is everybody okay?

This is the Mercury Zigma Seven.

When they were building them the astronauts demanded the engineers create a way

to enable them to pilot the capsule through re-entry.

What was that!?

Prototype Maintenance Droid.

NASA built him for the space station. When's he going up?

He's not. His chips become unpredictable.

NASA hasn't been able to iron out all the bugs

so he helps out here and at Kennedy.

Jinx! >

As an extra terrestrial?

No, he's a 27 million handyman.

Where's that ratchet?

In your hand.

Okay, we've met Jinx.

Let's get going.

Max!

Come on.

How many pound of thrust does the shuttle produce at lift-off?

-6,981,400.

-How d'you know?

How does she know all that?

You know, Kevin is a real babe.

-He's a jerk.

-Oh, really (?)

He's completely unserious.

Did you check out the size of his hands?

Earth to Kathryn, come in, please.

What are you doing?

I'm trying to figure out how to run this thing.

-What, the multi-axis trainer?

-It's a tough part of the training. Scarey for a pilot.

-Know anything about it?

-3 concentric circles spinning in different directions.

Object to stabilise from central point utilising hand controls. Want some?

-How d'you know all that?

-I remember everything I read. It's a drag sometimes.

My mind gets totally cluttered.

-What did you get on your SATs?

-800.

Do you ever talk about anything besides learning things?

You know, you're real pretty.

Kinda understated but you got GREAT eyes.

You know, I could do this great make-up job on you.

Guys go for eyes. Kind of.

Guys go for what I haven't got. Make-up won't help.

Thanks, anyway.

What'll your essay be about?

Why I'm going to be the first female shuttle commander.

That's going to go down real big!

Andie'll get a kick out of that.

What'll yours be about?

I'm gonna do "I Want To Go Into Space To Contact Life Forms Living on Chemicals other than Oxygen."

You should visit my high school.

So we struck this deal. I came to Space Camp and he got me the jeep.

-So what are you doing here?

-I want to set up a fast food franchise in space.

-"Rudy T's."

-You serious?

Yeah. Some guy up there will get a Big Mac attack.

Rudy T will be there.

So, that's why you're here?

Well...

What?

I like learning. Some guys in my school say "Rudy, man, how come you taking science?"

They never ask if I like science.

Do you like science?

Yeah. I LOVE science. Now ask if I'm any good at it.

-Not so hot, huh?

-Some things I just can't figure out.

Oooh.

It's a bummer, man.

My philosophy is sleep late... drive fast and...

don't take any of this seriously.

Straight up?

MAX: Hey, Booster Brown! Leave me alone!

-Let me see it! >

-Come on!

MAX: Who do you think you are?

-What have you got in there?

-Hey!

-What's going on?

-There's a thing in there.

Evaporate, laser brain!

Lay off the kid!

Wow!

Waste aboard space station can be handled in two ways.

Jinx! Cancel!

Okay, get down.

Wow! What is it? What does it do?

- Anything you ask him to. - Shake a leg, Jinx!

Don't do that!

He literally does what he's told!

Move over here. This way!

Stop it!

CONFLICTING INSTRUCTIONS

Stop!

It's broken. Let's get out of here.

FAINT PEEPING

Sorry, kid.

MAX: Servos activating.

Sensor generators are okay.

Image analysers are clean.

Retractors stabilised.

I'll put your shield on now, Jinx.

Don't worry. You'll be okay.

You're here with your buddy Max.

And when I'm done with you you'll be as good as new.

There.

Yo, Jinx.

Yo, Jinx.

Peep!

WHIRRING

Yo, Max!

All right!

I can't believe it. I can't believe they did that to you.

What a bunch of monkey clowns! They ought to be zapped.

Hey, where are you going?

To zap them.

No, Jinx, stop it!

Don't take everything so literally.

How else should I take it?

Jinx, it's okay. Don't worry.

Don't worry. You'll be okay.

You know...

you're really neat, Jinx.

You too, Max.

Friends for ever?

Friends...

for ever.

You will leave here knowing the function of every circuit on the shuttle.

You'll know how to fly it!

These jumpsuits provide ease of movement and additional storage space in orbit.

The zero gravity chair helps you simulate the weightlessness you'd experience during E.V.A. -

work outside the shuttle.

Don't push off, Tish!

Only an outside force will stop you.

Kathryn must monitor the onboard systems and feed that data to Kevin

who is in charge of the orbiter.

You can suit up in your E.M.U., Rudy, in 5 minutes once you get the hang of it.

That's Extra Vehicular Mobility Unit.

Kathryn, give me the co-ordinates of the space station at 0100 hours.

You have to call up any information asked for in a moment. There is no room for error.

Space suits are in the airlock. You depressurise there before going from the cabin to the cargo bay.

Kathryn, it's your turn in the multi-axis trainer.

This is a critical task to master.

Especially if you want top ranking here as a shuttle pilot.

Secure?

Okay, you have 30 seconds to stabilise.

30 seconds.

All right, start it up.

If the shuttle is spinning on re-entry, the astronaut has just seconds to stabilise,

or he may enter a flat spin.

Keep your head centred. Don't turn it.

Push your stick forward.

15 seconds. You're going right. Turn it left.

Kathryn, you're the pilot! Fly it!

-I'm trying!

-You've got ten seconds!

Five seconds! Come on, Kathryn, fly it!

Okay. Shut it off.

-I'd have got it in another minute.

-You'd have been burnt in re-entry.

Come on. We're running late.

Andie... I can do it. You're not giving me a chance.

All right. Five minutes.

But that's all.

Come on, Kevin.

Okay, next I'll show you how to strap yourself into the orbital exerciser.

You know, I wouldn't let Andie get to you like that.

-I'll please her if I spend the rest of my life trying.

-Why do you need to please her?

I don't know.

Eh...I'm not an expert, but...

It seems to me if you just eased up on the thing

you could handle it. You're just trying too hard.

Maybe we have something in common.

Em...

You know, there's this... full moon tonight.

What, you turn into a werewolf, or something?

No. But...I know this place where we could... check the shuttle out.

We'll get caught breaking curfew. No way.

Well, if-if I can handle that... will you go?

All right.

All right.

Say, Max, got a minute?

You've been coming here for a couple of years, um... what's the best way to the beach?

Distract the Imperial Guard.

You got ten seconds.

What would Luke Skywalker do?

-How would he get to the launch pad?

-He's getting the droid.

Yo, Jinx!

Yo, Max!

What's the best way to the launch pad?

Out the main gate. Go to the highway, turn left.

-That takes me right by Zach Bergstrom's office.

-Is there another way?

A secret way?

Turn left before Zach's office.

Turn right at Rocket Park, head east to beach.

No-one talks!

MUSIC: # She's an American girl American

# She's an American girl American

# She's an American girl

# She's American She's American

# She's American

# American girl #

Look at that shuttle!

Can you believe

it goes from the earth into the stars?

Look, there's the Seven Sisters!

Oh, yeah?

It's so beautiful up there.

I wish it was like that down here.

So, uh...you're really into this space stuff, huh?

-Yeah. Ever since I was a little girl.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

My dad used to take me up in his plane and hold me on his lap

and sometimes, at night, I used to reach out and try to touch the stars.

I couldn't wait to grow up.

Eh...

What's so...special about going up?

In space, anything is possible.

Maybe we could even do things right up there instead of screwing them up like we have down here.

Yeah, but...what's the point?

I mean, we're all going to get nuked, anyway.

Kevin, that's just an excuse for people who are afraid to try.

Hold it one second here.

It's NOT that I'm afraid to try.

It's just that...

I don't know. I just don't care, I guess.

-Yes, you do.

-Oh, I do, huh?

-M'mm h'mm.

It's just that it's easier to say you don't care...

than it is to try...

and then fail.

I know!

-I'll never tell! Torture me, kill me, I'll still never tell!

-'Fess up. Where's Kevin?

Kathryn has gone, too.

WHERE are Kevin and Kathryn?

Kevin and Kathryn are at the beach. It is a secret.

Jinx!

Let's go.

-I thought you said you'd cleared it?

-Yeah, well...I kinda cleared it.

-Yeah, kinda (!)

I'll just be a minute.

-Kathryn !

-We were just talking.

-That's not the point.

Nobody cares more about Space Camp than I do.

You've been on my case since day one! Why?

The first time I met you I saw it in your eyes.

It was like looking in a mirror.

You're special, Kathryn.

Then why are you so hard on me?

Because some day you're going up.

The only way you will is if you have every drill down better than everyone else.

There's no room for mistakes.

Every i dotted, every t crossed.

That's the way I learned.

That's the way you'll learn it.

You copy?

I copy.

BOYS PROTEST LOUDLY

Who talked?

Not me, Han Solo. The emperor got the information out of Jinx.

Oh, Max!

I'm NOT Han Solo.

And you're NOT Luke Skywalker. There's no empire.

And there's no Force and no dark side. You and I are ordinary kids!

And maybe no-one ever lives happily ever after, all right!?

So just...

just stay away from me.

FAR away.

DOOR BANGS

I wish I was far away! I wish I was anywhere except here.

I wish...I wish I was in space.

I wish I was in space.

LOUD WHIRRING

Put Max in space.

There is no Max listed in astronaut programme.

There is now!

How come I have to do all the dangerous stuff?

KATHRYN: They did this on Discovery 51A.

Somehow I don't think that'll make him feel any better.

Range scale at orbit, primary.

KATHRYN: Roger. Primary and secondary.

Inner OMS-1 burn programme, pilot.

Roger, OMS-1, commander.

Stand by, pilot (!)

Atlantis, this is Control, we have orbit confirmed. 125 nautical miles.

Inclination 35 degrees. You are in position for satellite recovery.

-Move it, man, you're on.

-Rudy's the best on the RMS!

No worries, Max. Rudy knows this like the back of his head.

-Ooomph!

-Sorry, Rudy.

-We almost dropped Max.

Rudy!

Instigate emergency power loss scenario. Sir!

WARNING BUZZER SOUNDS

Somebody get me DOWN from here or I'll be sick.

MAX: He-elp!

Rudy, relax, you're freaking out!

Control, this is Atlantis. We have electrical failure.

-Switching to auxiliary cells.

-That's MY decision.

-It's this green one.

-It's not.

-Rudy, what are you doing?

-I've got the right one now.

He-elp!

-Rudy, just cross-wire them.

-Hey, sit down! Sit DOWN.

That's an order...

Forget it!

What is going on in there? We show another OMS burn.

-The pilot must have done it.

-Why isn't she at her post?

She's doing everyone else's job.

-Orbit's decaying.

-Take over, commander.

Hey, it's not MY job. I need the pilot for that.

You're falling out of orbit, > Atlantis.

-You're going to be toast.

-Wow!

My God!

Be careful.

-Pilot, do you copy?

-I'm sorry, Kathryn's not in,

but if you'd leave your name and number at the tone she'll get back to you.

Ladies and gentlemen, return to your seats with tables in the upright position.

Extinguish all smoking material. We are about to land in the red zone! No survivors!

Rudy, we'll flunk! Kathryn, listen!

-ARGUING CONTINUES

-Stop it!

I'm sorry, but Rudy... Rudy!

Quiet! I don't wanna hear about it.

I can't. You know why? You're all dead.

You just disintegrated during re-entry.

Don't you understand what that means!?

You're dead because you didn't work together as a team!

-And YOU're responsible.

-Me?

-That's right, you.

As commander you are responsible for everything that happens here!

I didn't ASK to be responsible.

That's a pitiful excuse for killing four people.

Oh, God! I don't believe this. Look...

Nobody got killed, okay?

I mean, it's just Space CAMP!

What are possibilities of launching Max into space?

There is no possibility at this time.

This is not going to be easy.

-Hi, Commander Bergstrom.

-Hi, you two. How you doing?

What's a FURF? That's F.R.F.

Flight Readiness Firing - how they test the shuttle engines.

This is the first year we have permission for you guys to experience it

and some of you will be able to sit in this.

Get an astronaut's point of view.

Engine Test. Jinx must be ready. Thursday 4p.m.

Max on shuttle during engine test.

How do we achieve lift off?

Use thermal curtain failure.

Define thermal curtain failure.

Failure of heat shield. Only one booster ignites. Forces lift off.

Why launch?

If you do not, the shuttle will lift off and crash.

That is unacceptable.

To avoid this, second booster is ignited. Result, perfect launch.

Possibility of this happening?

One failure every 4.9 million years.

Max won't live that long! Max needs thermal curtain failure.

Max and Jinx. Friends.

For ever!

I can't believe our luck! We get to sit inside the shuttle.

TANNOY: 'T -16 minutes till the Test Firing at Fort Atlantis.'

-Pretty cool, huh?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-You all right?

-Yeah.

-Okay.

It's amazing, isn't it? I can't believe our luck.

'Countdown cut-off procedures will continue on countdown.'

The next 20 mins will be the most exciting of your lives.

20 minutes! I wish 20 days!

Max enters shuttle.

Engine test into launch.

Max enters space.

Okay, you guys, watch your head as you come in.

Wow! Look at this place.

It's so incredible.

Everyone take the seats you were assigned in the simulator.

Kathryn and Kevin, get up into your seats. Kevin, hop up.

-The only thing missing here is a tape deck.

-Strap in.

This IS amazing!

I can't believe they fly this!

-Max, Tish, take your seats on the mid deck.

-Okay.

-Roger, Commander. I'll arm the laser guns.

May the Force be with you.

Ensure your headsets are plugged in.

Unstow cue cards.

Cue cards. Em... Right.

A.P.U. fuel.

RSC cross feed.

-Is everybody set?

-Roger.

-Roger.

Control, this is Atlantis. Do you copy?

'Roger, Atlantis. Radio check. Over.'

'Rocket boosters A and B ignition. Stand by for main engine test.

-Atlantis, do you copy?

-She's all yours.

Um... Go ahead.

-Are you sure?

-Yeah.

Come on, will you answer him?

Thanks.

Control, this is Atlantis. Radio check satisfactory. Over.

Wow!

I heard that, Kathryn.

Stand by for ignition.

'Counting down. T -10

'nine... eight...

'seven...six...

'five...four...

'three...two...one...'

Go for main engine test.

'We have main engine start.'

Max needs thermal curtain failure.

Oh, my God! Ah-hah!

Thermal curtain failure.

Max and Jinx. Friends for ever.

We have overheat on booster B.

Temperature? 1,200 degrees and climbing.

-The thermal curtain is failing.

-Stop the test!

We CAN'T stop it.

-ALARM SOUNDS

-What does that mean?

Kathryn, get out of there NOW!

-Make them turn it off!

-They're trying.

Booster B is near ignition.

Light, booster A! Light it or we'll explode!

MAX SCREAMS

Grab her!

-Do it!

-We're not authorised.

-Light it, or they'll die.

-Ignite booster A!

Booster igniters. Booster igniters on.

-Rudy, hold on to her!

-I'm trying!

Light it!

Kathryn! Get in the seat!

Go!

My God! We have lift off.

Bye, Max.

-Instituting roll manoeuvres.

-Roger, Control.

'Roll manoeuvres complete. Atlantis, you're looking good.'

Hey, d'you want to take it?

-Uh... Andie?

-Zach!

Guess you won't have to wait so long after all. Honey, you'll have to throttle.

Atlantis, this is Control.

Throttle.

Copy, Control.

Main engines at 65 percent.

Kathryn, just hang on! I know it's tough!

Kevin, we need to drop the solid boosters. They're on your side.

-Arm SRB separations.

-I don't know which ones!

Panel C3.

On your RIGHT SIDE.

-Atlantis you are go for it!

-Hit it!

Control, this is Atlantis,

we have SRB separation.

They have SRB sep.

-Atlantis, you are go for engine cut off.

-Roger.

This will be the lead story!

Cut off on schedule. Over.

Oh, no! I don't know where this drill will end, baby.

But hang in there.

Roger. We're on schedule. Over.

-STATIC

-Andie?

Control, this is Atlantis. Do you read? Over.

-STATIC

-Atlantis? We're losing her.

This bird wasn't flight ready. It's only short range radio.

Oh, no!

Kevin, we have MECO. Go for ET sep on my mark.

Three, two, one...

-Do you know where it is?

-Yes. I've got it.

They're still climbing. Come on!

Atlantis 180 by 33. They're in orbit!

I didn't touch a thing, Andie. Honest.

I know, Rudy.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I think we've achieved orbit.

-Wow!

-Kathryn, are you okay?

-I think so.

-You're floating.

-Just relax and flow with it.

Wow! I could lose the lift off, but this is incredible!

This is unreal! I feel like I'm flying!

We're in space. I can't believe it!

-Max, are you okay?

-I wish I was dreaming.

I feel sick. I'm gonna die.

We're already dead.

It's just like a dream!

Kevin, is this incredible or what?

Oh!

RUDY: Moon man coming through!

-It's like magic.

-Max, you've got to try it.

-Are you all in one piece?

-Yeah!

Oh, good. I think we have a few things to talk about.

-A FEW things?

-Yeah.

Kathryn?

Oh, wow!

Maybe you can touch those stars now, huh?

MAX: Let me see! Is that Earth?

-It sure is.

-It's the coast of Africa.

There's the Swiss Alps. It goes by so fast.

What an amazing sunset!

Boy! I could stay up here for ever.

Me too.

Andie, I wanna go home.

-What went wrong?

-What's this curtain failure?

-How did this happen?

-That's not important. What is is how we get back home.

And we ARE going home.

I'll need your help to get there.

Rudy, you and Kevin stow the aft deck seats.

No voice contact with NASA. Telemetry's still on.

The safest procedure would be for them to bring us down on auto through the next available window.

So we'd re-enter the atmosphere at the right time and place.

Re-entry for Edwards is in 12 hours.

Okay, we just sit tight and keep everything running till then.

In the meantime, I'm gonna check this ship out.

This is unprecedented. I need to have some statement.

All I know is I want that gallery cleared out.

-The President must be told.

-They'll be back in 12 hours.

-How can I keep this quiet?

-Tell the truth.

We launched my wife and 5 kids from the Space Camp. They'll never believe it.

-Reading?

-South by 5, 55.

Zach, we had to find an earlier re-entry.

Why, what's the problem?

The shuttle wasn't flight ready.

They won't be alive in 12 hours.

One tank of oxygen...? Eh, Andie.

How long will one tank last?

12 hours.

That's not enough. We'll need more for re-entry.

-At least another hour.

-So?

Max will erase?

Probability 100%.

Get Max out of space now. How?

NASA is working on the problem.

NASA needs help.

Any suggestions?

-Daedalus!

-Of course!

Now, if only we could talk to her.

She's a good pilot, Zach. She'll think of it.

Great (!) No oxygen was provided for the life support system.

RUDY: What about raiding the oxygen from the propulsion system?

You wanna breathe nitrate, too?

-Where can we get more oxygen?

-I can run down the 7-11.

That's it.

You want to share this with us?

-We're going to Daedalus.

-The space station?

-That's right.

-But it's still under construction.

Yes, but it already has oxygen storage.

Kevin, take a seat. We're going into another orbit.

I just hope we have time.

We're going for Daedalus rendezvous.

Roger. Power up.

-Right. Give me a course bearing.

-Course bearing...

-Em...

-Kevin, you did this in the simulator, come on.

-I faked it in the simulator.

-Then get out of the seat. Kathryn.

-I'll get it.

-Out!

Kathryn, give me a course bearing.

Oh-niner, five five niner.

Stand by for OMS Burn.

Go for OMS.

Roger.

'We have Atlantis transferring to a higher orbit.'

She remembered! That's it!

Give me Daedalus ETA.

The estimated time of arrival at Daedalus is 26 minutes and 13 seconds.

Kevin!

-Did you do it?

-It was too difficult.

Do I have to do everything for you? You've got a 180 IQ. Can't you figure it out?

All right, Max, it's very simple. Just like a dentist's chair.

You know, like Mr Thirsty.

SUCKING NOISES FROM HOSE

-I ain't getting in.

-Max! Don't worry.

It's not as if you're using it for much else. Hop in.

Don't forget to turn the fan on.

-It's Daedalus!

-We made it.

Andie, how will we make it through re-entry without help from Ground Control?

Well, I've been giving that a lot of thought and I've had an idea...

I've had an idea. You know like how you said...

You said they had that telemetry stuff and could read our instruments.

Well, I was thinking, or maybe I was inspired by the view...

Wow! Is that India coming over?

-Tish, what idea?

-Oh. Oh, yeah...

Code. CXT switch.

-Morse code.

-Yeah. I read a book on it once.

Terrific (!) Go get on the switches. Good idea, Tish.

They gotta hear us.

Kathryn, I need your help to get into the airlock.

SIGNALS IN MORSE CODE

HUBBUB OF VOICES

Jinx help NASA. Jinx help NASA.

Jinx help NASA!

Kathryn, would you check that the portable life support system has been charged?

I'll be in there for a while. I'll contact you when I'm ready to go into the cargo bay.

Okay. Open the airlock.

I'll bring back 2 tanks of oxygen. We need to have a back-up.

Once I'm out there I'll be gone 20 minutes.

Don't talk any more than you need. Don't move around unless it's necessary.

Andie...

Kathryn, you're in charge until I get back.

I once knew this guy who could hold his breath under water for hours.

I could never figure out how he did it.

Maybe it wasn't hours but it WAS a long time.

-Rudy...

-That was when I was in the swim team.

It was freshman year.

TISH CONTINUES TO SEND MESSAGES

He used to do it. Hold his breath for hours.

Just by thinking about eating french fries.

-I guess he really got off on eating french fries.

-Rudy.

-Yeah?

-You're using up oxygen, man.

(Yeah.)

Kathryn, do you read me?

Roger, Andie.

-I've entered the cargo bay. I'm securing the hatch.

-Check.

Kinda makes you miss the good old days at camp, doesn't it?

Really!

I'm locked into the MMU. Prepare to open the CBDs.

Kathryn, do you copy?

Roger, Andie.

Prepare to open CBDs.

Go for cargo bay doors, Rudy.

Cargo bay doors activated.

Oh, Zach!

What was that, Andie? I didn't copy.

Oh God!

Guys...

We only have one hour left.

I've found them!

-Wow!

-Okay!

-All right!

Come on. Please!

I just can't reach them.

They're in their storage modes.

-I'll try without the MMU.

-Tell her not to! She'll have no control.

She'll tumble out to space!

Dammit!

It's no good. I just can't reach it.

-She HAS to! Tell her.

-Tish, she can't.

MAKE her.

She just isn't small enough.

< Well, I am.

You can't go out there.

It's a good idea, guys.

I am ready.

-Push a little harder.

-Double check everything.

-Is this the only suit you could find?

-It's the only one down there.

Tish, give me your belt!

Oh, excellent idea!

What are you doing with that?

We are going to make this suit as small as Max. So he can fit through Daedalus!

Wow!

Commander Skywalker reporting in.

Rudy, make sure that arm is in lock and double check everything.

-Radio check is okay.

-What about these doors, guys?

-They're okay.

Max, get strapped into the RMS. Then Rudy'll swing you over to Daedalus.

Roger.

No way!

I've changed my mind! Let me in, please!

Let me in! I've changed my mind!

Max, you have to help Andie.

Let me in! PLEASE!

Luke... Luke...

Use the Force.

Stretch out and feel it.

The Force is always with you.

-Look!

-Go, Max!

-I don't believe it!

-You can do it.

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Help me.

Yo-ow! Ru-u-udy!

Sorry, Max. Hang in there.

It's me. I'm here to rescue you.

-God!

-I'm small enough to reach the oxygen.

Yeah.

That's the way, Max. Now unstrap the tank and pass it over to me.

Only one minute left.

I'll take this back to the ship. The sooner you get the second tank the sooner we can go home.

I'm hurrying, Andie. Honest.

I know you are.

Rudy, PLEASE keep that arm steady.

-He's doing his best.

-She's trying to load the canisters!

Could you argue without talking!

LOUD BEEPING

Well, that's it, campers. All we have left is the air in the cabin.

Ohhhh!

Ohhh!

Oh, no!

Help me!

-Save me!

-Max!

I CAN'T stop!

Max...

I'm right behind you.

I can't stop!

Don't worry.

I won't let you get away from me.

-I'm getting closer.

-I can't stop.

-Come on!

-Steady.

Reach your hand out.

I'm trying to.

I'm going to get you.

Help, Andie.

I'm almost there.

I've got your foot.

Okay, I've got your foot.

You think you're scared now? Wait till your parents get the bill for breaking Daedalus.

Forty minutes to re-entry. They're cradling the arm.

I hope there's oxygen on the end of it.

Andie...

Connect the...

tank hose cap to the...

em...

blue valve.

Which one? There are two.

Rudy, remember this is pure oxygen.

We make the wrong connection and we blow up. You must get it right.

It's the blue valve next to the green.

There is no blue one next to a green.

No, I meant yellow.

We'll all be dead before you decide!

Andie, it's the blue valve next to the red.

- That's the wrong hose. - It's not!

Someone please make a decision.

Andie... It's the red one, Andie.

I'm telling you, it's the YELLOW.

I KNOW I'm right. Believe me!

DO it, Andie.

It's the blue valve next to the yellow.

(Please.)

HISS OF OXYGEN

Good job, Rudy!

Okay! That was cutting it close. They got air!

All right! Put them on auto!

Okay, Max, I have it now. You can go in the airlock.

And, Max...

Thanks.

Andie!

Andie?

Oh, no!

What's happening?

-Status check.

-Closing cargo bay doors.

-Prepare for DR return.

What's going on? Nothing's responding.

Who's closing the cargo bay doors?

Help me. Andie's not in yet.

Come on, Andie. Please.

Andie!

It's NASA. They're bringing us down on auto.

Make them stop!

Come on.

I don't have her.

Stop the doors. She's not in.

Look at Andie!

Andie, do you hear us? Andie, come in.

Andie, can you read us?

Andie! Andie!

T -23 minutes for re-entry.

Prepare for RCSE burn. Turn her round.

There's a manual override switch. I saw it! Where is it?

Here it is!

Hold it. If we override NASA we'll miss the window.

-We gotta go now!

-Andie will die.

-Manoeuvre complete.

-Stand by for OMS Burn.

Kathryn, take the window.

It's your only chance.

Prepare for OMS Burn. Ready for countdown. Ten...

Nine seconds.

-Five.

-DO something.

Two seconds.

All right, Rudy, open the cargo bay doors. Tish, unstow the medical kit.

-Max?

-Yeah?

-We're opening the doors and bringing Andie in.

Use the foot restraints, okay? Hang in there, buddy.

All right, Rudy, do it.

Come on, Andie.

Kathryn... Kathryn!

Help me run a check on the manual systems.

Come on, Andie.

Okay, Max. Okay, there we go.

Right, guys, let's take this off.

Andie?

-Andie!

-I'll get her gloves. Get her out of the EMU.

Tish! Anything?

No. Nothing.

Why would she override auto?

We missed the window. How much oxygen have they?

-Not enough to make it to the next window.

-Why? They've missed their last chance.

What the hell else is going wrong?

How is she?

I think she's hurt her arm and has a few broken ribs. And...I don't know, really.

Kevin, what do we do?

Rudy... I don't know.

-We have GOT to do something.

-I am NOT a doctor. I don't know!

Look, guys...

just get back to your stations and I'll stay here...with Andie.

-I want to stay here.

-I'LL stay!

I'll stay with Andie. You just get back to your stations.

I guess we just keep doing what we're doing, huh?

We missed the window.

I know.

And we don't have enough oxygen to last to the primary for Edwards.

-You did the right thing.

-Yeah?

Rudy... Do they think so?

Andie's part of the crew. You took responsibility for her.

Somebody had to.

That's what makes a good flight commander.

I'm a good pilot, but I'm no commander.

My momma always says that...

being boss and being bossy isn't the same.

I'm never going to see her again, am I?

Come on. Come on!

No, sir, there's nothing new. Yes, Mr President, we'll stay in touch.

We need a miracle.

TISH TAPS OUT MORSE CODE MESSAGES

-I've got an idea.

-Let's hear it.

Hey, guys...

I got a question.

I was wondering, is Edwards the only place we could land?

-I don't know.

-I remember something about the shuttle landing in White Plains, or something.

-That's the middle of New York!

-White SANDS. New Mexico. Columbia of '82 landed there

-So if we could make the window to White Sands...?

-We could land there!

-Tish, make them hear us.

-All right!

-Rudy...

Check out the co-ordinates, okay?

-Okay.

-Max, take care of Andie. Let's navigate this bird!

We're not going to speculate about anything.

BARRAGE OF QUESTIONS

Jinx put Max in space.

Jinx will get Max back.

Jinx put Max in space. Jinx can get Max back.

How do you know about Max?

Jinx and Max friends. For ever.

-What!?

-Get that thing out of here!

Wait. Maybe he can help us.

Yo! Max!

MORSE CODE

Jinx, how can you help NASA?

C O M E I N C O N T R O L...

Get it out!

C O M E I N...

C O N T R O L C O M E...

Come in Control.

C O M E I N C O N T R O L

Come in Control!

-Max's code.

-Morse code!

They're talking to us!

Morse code! Jack, translate this!

Jinx, I'm treating you to a can of oil.

Request...alternate...landing...

White...

White? White Sands. Check it out!

White Sands window is 9 minutes.

-Get me White Sands. We'll have to send them the landing software.

-It's our only shot!

-They'll never hear us!

-Keep going.

What's wrong now?

STEADY BEEPING

Take away my charge card! NASA is talking!

WHOOPING AND CHEERING

Did somebody say NASA? It's NASA!

-Guys! Guys! They need an OMS Burn like now!

-Coming right up.

-Andie has to slow that thing down.

-It's not Andie. Andie's hurt.

A kid named Kathryn's flying it.

-113 by 17.

-Window co-ordinates 113 by 17.

Roger. We figured 250 by 19.

We weren't that far off.

We have to be at re-entry at 0210. And that's...in 6 minutes.

Max, Zach wants to know how Andie's doing.

-Max...

-Andie!

-Give me a headset.

-She wants a headset.

All right!

Andie, relax. Don't worry about it. We can handle it, okay?

Max, you and Andie get strapped in.

Get me out of this now.

-Kathryn?

-Kevin, I never knew how to do this. I don't know...

-Of course you can do it.

-No. It's a re-entry.

-At worst we'll all die.

Well, we'll die if you don't do it.

Just relax, okay. You've panicked.

-You're damn right I'm panicked!

-Okay, I'LL do it.

All right... Tish! Ever read a book on how to fly this thing?

Okay. I'll do it.

A little competitive, aren't we?

Okay, team, put these helmets on and let's DO it.

Kathryn, lock co-ordinates in.

Co-ordinates locked in.

Stand by for OMS Burn.

Twenty-nine seconds and counting.

Hey, Max, we're going home!

Great. I'm starving.

OMS Burn on my mark.

Three, two, one... Mark.

Preparing for manoeuvre.

Doing great, pilot.

Come on, Kathryn, you can do it.

-Just take it easy.

-Entry interface in two minutes.

-Re-entry's in range.

-Prepare for 180 roll.

-Standing by.

Okay. And...

Go for roll!

Okay. Looking good! Whoo!

-Passing through 135 degrees. On our way to 180.

-Who said you couldn't fly this thing?

I think we came around too much.

-Wait a minute!

-We don't have a minute.

Look!

-Kathryn, make it stop!

-Kathryn, you have to concentrate.

-She's lost it. She's out of control.

-Ionisation black out in 30 seconds.

We've GOT to stabilise.

Guys, get strapped in!

What happened to the lights?

The trainer. Remember the trainer. You can do it.

-Andie...

-Kathryn, listen to me.

We talked about when it would be YOUR turn. This is it.

Do you copy?

I copy.

Good work.

Okay, you have to bring the nose up.

-You have to go in at an angle.

-Re-entry angle should be 30 degrees at least.

27! Keep going.

Twenty eight!

Ionisation black out. We've lost contact.

Watch the nose altitude indicator.

You CAN fly it, Kathryn.

Keep the nose at 30 degrees.

Just a little bit more! 30!

-It's not holding.

-We're burning up!

Come on, be there.

Don't push it. Ease up.

Keep holding it.

Come on!

Kathryn, you can do it.

Where are we?

We're dead. We didn't make it.

I know we made it. I KNOW we did.

Goldstone's picked them up.

We did it! Ah-hah!

-She did it!

-Good job, Kathryn.

Good work, Kathryn!

-Good job.

-You did it, Kathryn.

No, we ALL did it.

Damn right we did!

We ALL did it.

'Atlantis, this is Control.' Mission Control!

Copy that, Control. This is Atlantis.

-Andie, are you all right?

-Yeah.

We're all fine. We're just real happy to be home.

Amen.

'Atlantis, we have you on auto and we are bringing you home.'

Subtitles by Irene Noble BBC Scotland 1990.