JOURNEY TO SPACE   

Sensory-Friendly Script  

 This film contains dramatic footage of 6 Shuttle and Rocket Launches. The camera is often close, and the sound is very loud. They occur at the following times:  1:55 - 2:21 for 26 seconds.   7:00-7:32 for 32 seconds.   15:50 - 16:22 for 33 seconds.  

 33:55 - 34:25 for 35 seconds. 36:50 - 37:30 for 40 seconds.  38:30 - 38:40 for 10 seconds. 

     

Please return to an Omnitheater Associate after the show.   

  

     Inspiring!  TEXT 

     The Producers thank NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Lockheed Martin and the IMAX Corporation, for providing spectacular giant screen footage spanning 30 years of the Space Shuttle program from the following films: The Dream is Alive, Destiny in Space, Mission to Mir, Space Station 3D, and Hubble 3D. 

           TEXT      We began as wanderers, and we are 

wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of 

the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars. 

- Carl Sagan            NARRATOR 

00:54    We are the species that explores, that fashions vessels to carry us into the unknown. 

      01:02    We sailed the planet of our birth, saw its 

wonders, and made it home. And it wasn't enough. 

      

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01:10    We built flying machines to explore higher, faster, farther. Heroes flew them beyond what once seemed possible. And it wasn't enough. 

      01:28    In time, we created special craft that would ferry 

us to the edge of space, and back.       

01:39    And as always, there were the few -- brave and brilliant souls -- ready to guide this vessel through dangers in the name of discovery. 

           RADIO COMM (Male voices) 

01:48    "PTC."  "PTC is go. SRO. " " SRO is go. You have a range clear to launch." 

 1:55  

   LOUD - Space Shuttle Launch  

02:21    Using the Space Shuttle, we built an unprecedented outpost in the heavens. 

      02:32    We learned in the weightless world of the 

International Space Station, peered into the dark night of an infinite universe. And it wasn't enough. 

      02:44    Now, we are fashioning vessels to set off on our 

greatest adventure of exploration ever -- to Mars and beyond. 

      

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LOUD - music   

     TITLE TEXT      Journey to Space 

Narrated by Patrick Stewart       

      NARRATOR 

03:11    Who knew that 30 years would go by so quickly?   

      03:17    That these unique spacecraft would leave in 

their wake a public captivated by their achievements . . .  

      03:28    . . . a planet poised at the brink of deep-space 

exploration.            TEXT 

04:03    September 21, 2012             CHRIS FERGUSON 

04:08    As an Astronaut, I definitely felt I was saying goodbye to a long-time friend when the last shuttle landed. 

      Happy and Cheer!  

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04:34    My name is Chris Ferguson. I was lucky enough to fly on three shuttle missions, one of them on Endeavour. 

      04:41    So it's no surprise that I wanted to be there 

when she was headed for her new home at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. 

      04:51    From the look of it, you might think it took as 

much engineering to get Endeavour through the streets of L.A. as launching her into orbit.  Amazing! 

      06:15    Watching the orbiter squeeze through the city 

neighborhoods, you could feel just how much the Shuttle had come to stand for. Almost as if it had taken all of us into space.  Happy and Cheer! 

           CHRIS FERGUSON 

05:35    I sure don't want the world to forget this remarkable spacecraft and those who built it, and the legacy they left, lighting the way toward our next frontier in space. 

           RADIO COMM (Male) 

05:47    "They're coming."  

      

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CHRIS FERGUSON 05:49    The shuttle was the first reusable piloted 

spacecraft. And it’s engineering and software was so bullet-proof it could be flown by computers less powerful than today's smartphones. 

           RADIO COMM (Male) 

06:00    "200"            RADIO COMM (Male) 

06:03    "100"       

 CHRIS FERGUSON 

06:05    At 235 miles-per-hour, the shuttle had the fastest touchdown speed of any flying vehicle ever built. When you glide 220,000 pounds of spaceship to a no-power landing, the gear hits with a major "whomp." 

           RADIO COMM (Male) 

06:22    "Touchdown."            RADIO COMM (Female) 

06:25    "Columbia, Houston: we have a tally ho on alta."             

   

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CHRIS FERGUSON 06:29    Conceived in the 1970's as a kind of winged 

delivery truck to build a United States low-Earth-orbit space station. . . 

           ON-SCREEN ASTRONAUT (Charles Bolden) 

06:36    "Gave you a payload I.D. of one."       

CHRIS FERGUSON 06:38    . . . the Shuttle actually flew more than a decade 

beyond original expectations.       

06:47     

7:00 

  It was the shuttle program that allowed us to do real ongoing work in space, to put delicate equipment into orbit and to retrieve and fix that equipment when things went wrong.  LOUD - Rocket Boosters, Shuttle Takeoff  

      07:51    Orbiters deployed, retrieved and repaired over 

a hundred scientific and communications satellites. 

      07:58    And no missions were more important to our 

understanding of deep space than the five flights, beginning in 1993, made to  repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. 

        

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     RADIO COMM (Male) 08:11    "Hubble affirmative. You have a go for release." 

 Cheer - Success! 

           CHRIS FERGUSON 

08:23    I think history will view the Hubble Space Telescope as one of the crowning achievements in astronomy.  Awe and Wonderment 

      08:35    The Hubble gave us an unprecedented view of 

both our closest neighbors and of galaxies unimaginable far from our own. 

      08:50    Further space telescope investigations have 

revealed that the number of Earth-like planets capable of harboring liquid water is vastly greater than scientists once calculated. 

       

09:41    In 1995, the Shuttles began a new era of international space exploration when Atlantis docked, for the first time, with the  Russian MIR station. 

          

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09:53    RADIO COMM (Male)      "Eight inches." " 

           "One oh point oh seven. 

            

"One oh six.             

"Four inches." 09:58     

      "Now. We have capture." 

           Happy and Exciting! 

 CHRIS FERGUSON 

10:07    Altogether, the orbiters made eleven trips to visit the MIR. These missions established a level of international cooperation and expertise that continues to this day. 

       

10:20    Though MIR no longer orbits Earth, the Shuttle proved itself as a brilliant reusable tool that allowed us to live, build and do science in the weightless environment of space. 

      

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10:57    Fun Music  But the Shuttles' truest legacy crosses the sky above us every ninety minutes. 

      11:05    The International Space Station could never 

have been built without the Shuttle's' payload and, space-walk capabilities. 

      11:16    Space Shuttles and Russian Soyuz and Proton 

rockets made more than 40 flights to construct the International Space Station. A true engineering miracle.  

      11:29    All three of my Orbiter missions were to the 

I.S.S       

Amazing!  

     NARRATOR 11:40    Modules built by NASA partners in Asia, Europe 

and North America came together above Earth over a period of 13 years, to create a floating world longer than a football field and with more living space than a six bedroom house. 

      11:59    A typical I.S.S. mission requires an astronaut to 

live six months onboard. But some crew members will spend a year learning  even more about the very real physical and 

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psychological stresses of long-term separation from Earth.  Fun, Happy Music 

           CHRIS FERGUSON 

12:19    These missions and the 15 nations that designed, built and crew the I.S.S., forever changed space exploration into a cooperative international program and made a true home and science lab like no other. 

      12:41    I.S.S. system designs and scientific experiments 

have spawned a multitude of Earth-useful discoveries, including breakthroughs in water purification, and robotic microsurgery. But most important, the I.S.S. is our springboard to the future, giving us the knowledge and confidence to sustain human life as we explore deep space. 

      13:07    Life on I.S.S. is all about getting the job done 

and having a little fun.          

13:19    And nationality is mostly about tasting each other's food. 

          

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     NARRATOR 13:35    Through three decades of camaraderie and 

dedication, 355 people rode the Shuttle into history. They circled the Earth 21,000 times, and it all came to seem routine. . .until it wasn't.  Feelings of Dread... 

           RADIO COMM (Male) 

13:50    "A minute fifteen seconds, velocity twenty-nine hundred feet per second, altitude nine nautical miles, down range distance seven nautical miles."  Sad 

           OFF-SCREEN VOICE (Male) 

13:56    "This shuttle mission will launch … My god. There's been an explosion. 

           RADIO COMM (Male) 

14:02    "My controllers here are looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction." 

      14:08    In two accidents that stunned the world, we lost 

fourteen astronauts. It was a sobering reminder that every space flight is charged with potential danger. 

       Mournful 

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     RONALD REAGAN  14:21    "They had a hunger to explore the universe 

and discover its truths. They wished to serve and they did." 

        14:29    "They were pioneers. The future doesn't belong 

to the faint hearted. It belongs to the brave." 

       

     NARRATOR 14:43    The world mourned, but pushed on because the 

accomplishments of the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station were full of life-changing promise. In memory of our lost heroes, the global space community pulled together to reignite the future of both programs.  Feelings of Encouragement and Bravery 

                 CHRIS FERGUSON 

15:04    Who could ask for a better ending to my career as an astronaut than getting to fly the last shuttle mission on Atlantis and a final visit to the I.S.S.? 

           KSC MISSION CONTROL 

15:20    "Atlantis launch director, air to ground one" 

      

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     CHRIS FERGUSON 15:24    "Atlantis go" 

           Feelings of Inspiration. 

 KSC MISSION CONTROL 

15:25    "And so for the final time, Fergie, Doug, Sandy and Rex, good luck, Godspeed, and have a little fun up there." 

           CHRIS FERGUSON 

15:34    "We're not ending the journey today Mike, we're completing a chapter of a journey that will never end." 

        

     CHRIS FERGUSON 15:39 

    

15:50  

16:22  

16:40 

  "You and the thousands of men and women who gave their hearts, souls, and their lives for the cause of exploration have rewritten history Let's light this fire one more time, Mike."  LOUD - Shuttle Launch  Fun Music  Feelings of quiet reflection 

        

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     CHRIS FERGUSON 16:55    Though the shuttles no longer fly, I never miss a 

chance to see Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center. 

      17:05    But I came to K.S.C. to get a look at the next big 

step in deep space exploration. And it's called Orion. 

      Amazing!  

17:19    Here in the giant operations and check out clean room, the new Orion multipurpose crew vehicle is coming together. 

           CHRIS FERGUSON      "What an impressive vehicle. Look at that, it's 

beautiful.             ON-SCREEN TECHNICIAN (Male) 

17:29    "Right, so bring it back in."       

      CHRIS FERGUSON 

17:33    That's great. I'd love to climb in there."       

17:35    Orion is a true deep-space exploration craft, designed to carry astronauts of the future back to the moon, to asteroids, and even to Mars. 

       

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     Inspiring  SERENA AUNON 

17:51    I've always been drawn to explore and try new experiences. Maybe that's why I applied to be an astronaut. 

      17:58    I'm Serena Aunon and I'm one of the newer 

group of astronauts chosen by NASA.            SERENA AUNON 

18:09    "Like the rest of my class, I am absolutely honored and humbled to be here, and it's great to be a part of this team." 

      18:17    I guess you could say I'm one of those people 

for whom the future has always seemed an unfolding adventure. 

           SERENA AUNON 

18:24    "So you can go forward and backwards in the procedures just by using this toggle switch over here" 

      18:29    LEE 

     "Yes, that exactly. . ."            SERENA AUNON 

18:30    Learning from astronauts, Like Lee Morin, who have already spent weeks in space gives you a great sense of confidence. 

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           CHRIS FERGUSON 

18:40    The Orion mock-up provides astronauts in training, like Serena, a chance to learn flight procedures and also give feedback to perfect new systems. This should be a piece of cake for Serena since my Shuttle's ten screens, and more than a thousand switches, have been streamlined to just three screens and sixty switches on Orion. 

            CHRIS FERGUSON 

19:00    "Hey, Lee. You can go ahead and open the helium cross-feed valve." 

           LEE 

19:03    "Yeah, we got that set, so go ahead and send that command on the helium crossfeed valve." 

           SERENA AUNON 

19:07    "OK, copy that."       

   CHRIS FERGUSON 

19:08    And the Shuttles' hundred pounds of flight manuals and checklists have been reduced to, well, zero, since Orion's are all on computer. 

      

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     CHRIS FERGUSON 19:15    "Stand by and we'll evaluate." 

      19:18    But even with all these improvements, to get 

Orion into deep space, we're gonna need a bigger rocket. 

      Wow!  

     NARRATOR 18:28    When NASA's giant Space Launch System, built 

by Boeing, is complete, the rocket will stand as tall as a 38-story building and make more than 9 million pounds of thrust, enough to lift 22 elephants into space. 

       19:45    For deep-space expeditions, the S.L.S. will need 

to lift five key mission components beyond low-Earth orbit. 

      19:53    Since Orion is too cramped for a six-month 

journey to Mars, one solution being developed is an inflatable habitat to house the crew en-route. 

      20:06    A solar electric propulsion device will provide 

continuous power for the round trip journey.       

   

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NARRATOR 20:14    A lander craft will carry the crew from their orbit 

above Mars down to the planet's surface.       

20:21    Months later, an ascent vehicle will lift the crew back up to the orbiting Orion for the return trip to Earth. 

      20:30    But even using the most sophisticated future 

spacecraft, a two-and-a-half-year round trip journey to Mars will present new challenges to the human body. 

                 SERENA AUNON 

20:40    "I wanted to thank the Indiana State Museum for having me here. It is an absolute pleasure. . ." 

           SERENA AUNON 

20:45    As a medical doctor with a specialty in aerospace medicine, I am particularly interested in keeping astronauts healthy as we head into deep space for long periods of time. 

      20:58    Our experience with more extended 

weightlessness on the I.S.S. has shown us that the human body will face challenges during lengthy journeys to deep space. 

      

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21:09    Key issues are muscle and bone loss, which can start after just a few days of weightlessness, along with degrading of vision for some astronauts. 

      21:20    We now know that exercise is the antidote for 

most problems caused by weightlessness. And I mean exercise -- about two hours a day. 

           SERENA AUNON 

21:31    But even so, the first explorers to Mars will need to rest at least a few days after landing on the planet, to readjust to walking -- though Mars has less than 40% of Earth's gravity. 

      BIG IMAGE of the Sun  

21:45    Radiation is another risk in Deep Space.        

21:52    Radiation from our sun's solar storms is one source of danger. 

      22:00    But cosmic radiation which permeates all of 

deep space is another ever-present challenge to human health. 

      22:09    Sections of Orion, as well as the transit habitat, 

will have to serve as a shelter in the case of a major solar flare. 

            

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      NARRATOR 

22:22    In the Arizona desert, an Orion mock-up is being drop tested to evaluate re-entry systems. 

      22:33    On returning from deep space, Orion will enter 

our atmosphere more than 50% faster than shuttles or Soyuz capsules, and generate five times more heat. So perfecting her parachute deployment and heat shield integrity is key to crew survival. 

      22:55    At the Kennedy Space Center, Orion is being 

prepped for an uncrewed test flight into deep space. This new vessel marks the first step, in over forty years, to put humans beyond low Earth orbit. 

      Inspiring Music  

23:13    A journey to Mars is on the horizon because of wide-ranging international efforts by both governments and private enterprise. 

      23:22    Companies from Boeing and Lockheed, to 

newcomers like SpaceX, Sierra Nevada and Orbital Sciences are developing spacecraft to service and I.S.S and beyond. 

      

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23:36    Some private groups foresee a technically simpler one-way mission to colonize Mars. Already thousands have volunteered to live permanently on the Red Planet. 

       23:50    The demands of going to deep space will push 

old designs to new limits.            LINDSEY AITCHISON 

23:55    "Size is good?"            ON-SCREEN MALE #1 

23:56    "This looks good."            LINDSEY AITCHISON 

23:58    "Hey, new glove. Should be good."            RICHARD 

24:00    "Sounds good."            LINDSEY AITCHISON 

24:01    My name is Lindsay Aitchison and I am a spacesuit project engineer at NASA Johnson Space Center. 

      Feelings of Fun Nostalgia  

24:08    I first started thinking about space flight when I was four years old, when I first came to J.S.C. to take a tour at the Visitor's Center.   

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We have pictures of me just sitting inside this space suit, and I just knew that's what I wanted to do. 

           RADIO COMM/ASTRONAUT (Male) 

24:25    "Oh, daggummit."       

Whimsical  

     LINDSEY AITCHISON 24:29    When the Apollo suits were first done, those 

were very short duration E.V.A.'s. We didn't have a lot of mobility in that suit, so when you see those astronauts hopping around on the lunar surface, it's not because they themselves are clumsy or that the gravity is just impossible to deal with. We didn't give them enough mobility in in the suits. So we learned a lot from that. 

      Fun Inspiration Music  

24:52    For the next generation suit, there's still a lot that we don't know about what it's going to be like to live and work on Mars every day. Once there, you'd be doing EVA probably, walking outside on the planet, about every other day.  

        

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      LINDSEY AITCHISON 

25:14    Once we have the hardware in house, we become the experts of how that hardware works, what it does and how it meets the needs for our next phase of our mission design. 

      25:36    We actually get into the suits, because the best 

way to understand how a spacesuit moves, is to be inside of it and work it yourself.  

      25:46    I'll be asking Richard to perform specific tasks. 

And what I'm looking at is what is his gait like? And so I'm watching how the bearings in the hip move,and how the bearings in the waist move. And by comparing natural body motion to suited-body motion, we can start to tweak the design of the suit to make it more natural. 

      26:06    So what we're focusing on for exploration is 

how do you walk, how do you bend, how do you kneel, how do you do all those geology type tasks? 

      LINDSEY AITCHISON 

26:31    So, one of the big problems they had in Apollo was all that dust on the lunar surface. It stuck to everything. When the guys would come back inside of the lunar module at the end of their EVA's taking off their suits, there was dirt 

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everywhere. There was dirt on themselves. It was just gross, right?   

      26:54    And that dirt is actually pretty harmful, the lunar 

dirt specifically, to breathe in for long periods of time. So for long duration missions, we wouldn't want to bring that dirt inside with us all the time. 

       

     SERENA AUNON 27:09    "All right, Richard. Nice job. 

Time to come on in."            LINDSEY AITCHISON 

27:14    So one of the key concepts we're looking at for lunar and even Martian missions is using what we call a suit port.   

       27:25    The idea of a suit port is that you have this plate 

that becomes your pressure seal between the vehicle and your suit. So when you're not using the suit, it stays outside the entire time. It is physically attached to the vehicle, so you can come in and out of your space suit without ever having to physically go into an airlock like we do today. 

           SERENA AUNON 

27:45    "Welcome home Richard. How'd the suit feel?" 

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     RICHARD 27:47    "Feels good." 

           SERENA AUNON 

27:48    "Outstanding. Strong work out there." 

           SERENA AUNON 

27:55    Driving a Space Exploration Vehicle on dry land is great training for deep-space missions of the future. 

      Feelings of Calm and Awe  

28:06    But driving a mini-sub was even more exacting.         

28:26    No, there are no liquid oceans on Mars. But before setting out for the Red Planet, astronauts may make test missions to nearby asteroids. 

      28:39    A mini-sub resembles the kind of craft we will 

use to explore asteroids. And the ocean matches the zero gravity of space. 

      SERENA AUNON 

28:56    This NEEMO-16 mission marks the 16th time NASA has trained at the Aquarius Lab which is anchored 60 feet underwater off Key Largo in Florida.   

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      29:22    NASA Aquanauts live in the lab for up to two 

weeks without coming to the surface.         

29:35    This allows us to work the entire day and only decompress once at the end of the mission. Any mistakes here can have real consequences, exactly as in deep inhospitable space. 

      SERENA AUNON 

30:00    Since asteroids appear to have changed very little since they first formed, they could tell us a lot about our early solar system. 

       30:16    Ultimately, we may develop space tools to 

capture and reposition a small asteroid to orbit our moon. 

      30:26    This would allow for easier study and also 

develop our ability to deflect a larger asteroid that was on a collision course with Earth.  Wow!  

     CHRIS FERGUSON 30:58    This Olympus inflatable habitat, designed by 

Bigelow Aerospace, is a look at the future of living in space. 

            

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31:06    "Jay, this is amazing. How big is that?" 

           JAY 

31:09    "Thanks, yeah, it's really big. It's about 22 hundred and 50 cubic meters interior volume which is a little over twice the size of the International Space Station." 

           CHRIS FERGUSON 

31:15    "It looks like it's like 40 feet tall or something." 

           JAY 

31:18    "Yeah, it's probably 45 or 50. It's really big." 

           CHRIS FERGUSON 

31:20    "Once you get into space, you just inflate it with air?" 

           JAY 

31:23    "Right. We bring up huge compressed air tanks that bring up large volumes of air. This thing expands out so the inside is about 16 meters in diameter, and the outside's a lot bigger than that." 

         

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     CHRIS FERGUSON 31:39    It's surprising that an inflatable habitat can 

protect its crew against micro-meteorites and radiation, but that's what tests have shown. 

      31:49    The immense volume of Olympus will provide 

ample work areas as well as living space to help maintain crew morale. 

                 NARRATOR 

32:00    Supply craft to provide food, fuel and radiation protective living space will be landed on Mars well before the first human expedition is launched. 

      32:10    We don't know exactly what all spacecraft will 

look like, but concepts are under active development. 

      32:18    Our infatuation with space exploration is as 

limitless as space itself.       

32:25    Without the Shuttle, there would be no International Space Station, the vital test bed for a future human expedition to Mars. 

      32:34    And that mission is closer than you might 

imagine. NASA projects we will get to Mars in the 2030's. In other words, within the career of today's young astronauts. 

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           SERENA AUNON 

32:47    "So any of these movies that you see where people survive, even for 20 seconds . . ." 

           SERENA AUNON 

32:51    Why go to Mars? Why not just send more and more sophisticated robotic vehicles? 

      32:57    I think to explore beyond what is know is simply 

at the core of our DNA.       

33:03    And only a human mission can tell us definitively if we can survive and establish future settlements on Mars.  Feelings of quiet amazement 

           TEXT 

33:08    Gorgonum Chaos Mesas            TEXT 

33:18    Ridge in Terra Meridiani Likely former streambed 

        

     SERENA AUNON 33:23    Astronauts exploring the planet may notice and 

learn things robots could not -- things that could help take us to the next frontiers beyond Mars. 

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33:28    Twin Peaks Rock Garden            SERENA AUNON 

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  Every 26 months there is an optimal window for launching spacecraft to Mars. But even using the planets' orbits to shorten distance and increase speeds, with currently planned propulsion, the trip to and from Mars will take 6 months -- each way.  LOUD - Rocket Launch 

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  Someday, even more exotic plasma or fusion propulsion could shorten the journey, but the first explorers to Mars will not have that luxury.  LOUD - Boosters Separating 

      34:30    Orion can transport up to six passengers, but for 

a first trip to Mars, it would likely carry no more than four. 

      34:41    While going to and from the Red Planet, Orion 

and the inflatable habitat will be the astronauts' life-support home for flight control, science and that all-important physical exercise. 

        

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SERENA AUNON 35:15    Going to Mars -- getting there, working there, 

coming back – will take nearly 3 years. I wonder how that will feel. . .to be away from home and friends and family for so long?  Dramatic Music Begins 

       35:47    There is no 911 in space. When Orion nears 

Mars, the spacecraft is two years away from any possibility of help from Earth. Even radio communications will take 40 minutes to send and receive, so any equipment failures or other emergencies must be solved by the crew alone. 

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36:10    Rover Curiosity and its tracks            SERENA AUNON 

36:14    Nearly four decades of robotic exploration on Mars has blazed a path for humans to follow. Craft like Pathfinder and Curiosity. Maybe I'll get to kick the dust off their tires.  Dramatic Music 

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36:32    Cerberus Fossee East A long system faults 

       

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Carbon dioxide frost near polar cap  Mars Landing Sequence  Dramatic Music and LOUD Rocket Sounds 

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37:31    Though it will be incredibly exciting to land on Mars, our ongoing training in sophisticated simulator labs means it won't feel entirely unfamiliar when we get there. 

      37:48    Later explorers to Mars might travel hundreds of 

kilometers to mine their own water and hydrogen to make fuel for their return to Earth. But first visitors will have their hands full with making the discoveries that only a human mission can accomplish.  Louder Inspirational Music 

      38:15    I don't know if I'll ever get to walk and work on 

Mars, but I may already know some of those who will. Someone who dreams of it, just like me. 

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     NARRATOR 38:41    Humankind has forever been drawn toward the 

unknown, by the simple innate conviction that to see the long-hidden side of the mountain, to brush the infinite depth of the sea, might reveal where we come from and who we are.  Feelings of Inspiration 

       39:01    When humans do touch and explore Mars, it will 

be among the greatest achievements in history.         

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 But even that won't be enough. We are the species that explores. We will fashion new vessels to carry us still deeper into space, venturing from our life-giving home, to uncover the secrets of the cosmos, and our own unimagined possibilities.   CREDITS  After credits… SpaceX inaugural launch  LOUD - Rocket Launch 

           

 

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