400 Days

Cooper, Theo.

Time to go.

Hey bro,

You got any more of those smokes?

Quitting anyway.

Muchas gracias.

Public intoxication...

disorderly conduct...

sustained crisis.

Have a nice day.

The board wanted to boot you off.

And I agreed with them.

You can count your lucky stars

it's too late to find someone else.

All the potential in the world, huh?

Many years ago,

the great British

explorer, George Mallory,

who was to die

on Mount Everest, was asked

why did he want to climb it.

He said, "Because it is there. "

Well, space is there, and

we're going to climb it.

We choose to go to the moon.

We choose to go to the moon.

We choose to go to the moon in

this decade and do other things

not because they are easy,

but because they are hard.

Because that goal will serve

to organize and measure the best

of our energies and skills.

We've grown used to the idea of space

and perhaps we forget

that we've only just begun.

it's hard to dazzle us.

but for twenty-five years

the United States space

program has been doing just that.

And slipped the surly bounds of earth

to touch the face of God.

- We'll start by sending

astronauts to an asteroid

for the first time in history.

By the mid 2030s,

I believe we can send humans to orbit

Mars and return them safely to Earth.

And a landing on Mars will follow.

What I hope is that everybody will

take a look at what we are planning.

We will work with a growing array

of private companies competing to make

getting to space easier

and more affordable.

That's how we'll ensure

that our leadership in space

is even stronger in this new century

than it was in the last.

At its core, it's a social experiment

designed to test the psychological

effects of deep space travel.

With Kepler's first actual

manned mission just a few years away,

we need to know how these four

astronaut hopefuls will react to

unforeseen challenges on board the

ship. You can think of it as a...

an elaborate dress-rehearsal.

- Where is this ship

you keep mentioning?

You're sitting on it.

- We felt that by

placing them underground,

it would be more realistic

and... well, more inconspicuous.

What are you most concerned about?

- We know that the human

mind can be pretty powerful

when left to its own devices.

And in an environment

like this reality can

become subjective in a hurry.

Dr. McTier is nothing if not honest.

And... and brave. -We're

all a little crazy to sign

up for a mission this long, but

it's also the quickest way to get our

ticket punched on an actual mission.

- And Mr. Dvorak here, in

addition to his regular duties,

has been tasked with

creating a weekly web video

to keep all of you

apprised on the outside.

- Can you tell us about some of

the experiments you have planned?

- I have a relatively

exciting desk analysis

planned for the duration of the trip.

The... the amount of my

PC will blow your mind.

- What about you, captain?

You've been awfully quiet.

- Well, I'm... my girlfriend

just broke up with me

and I'm extremely hung over

from a four day bender,

so I... I don't really know

how much I can contribute

to this conversation.

We also

uh... have planned to throw a

few curve balls at our astronauts

and see how they react to those.

Let's just say that anything can happen.

Remember our deal.

Well...

You take care of my baby.

Alright? -Yes, sir.

- A big part of me wishes

I was going with you.

If any of you quits early,

I'll 86 your career in a nanosecond.

I'm not kidding.

Alright!

Godspeed. See you at launch.

You know this mission's fake, right?

I don't care. It's so cool.

- Alright, what's the 411

on the power situation?

- Solar ray looks OK, we've got

22% efficiency with 4000 watt megs.

- And the O2?

- Good, 21%.

- Alrighty, let's get

this party started.

Current weather conditions look good,

- Everyone is secure and accounted for?

- Yes sir.

- Life systems?

- Good to go.

- Medical?

- Go

- Engineering?

- Go!

Roger that.

- You can pre start.

- Well, I got BPS.

- You are on internal power. Over.

- Yes, sir.

T minus 10... 9...

8... 7...

6... 5...

4... 3...

2... 1...

Ignition.

And liftoff!

All engines look good.

Getting roaming...

Altitude is right on mark.

All systems look good.

- Velocity 32,000 feet per

second down range 1800 miles.

Initiate separation

Warning! Separation failure

Payload still attached

- It says the detach button, it

must not have unhinged itself.

Maybe it's stuck.

- Failure to drop it will

result in complete disintegration

Theo!

Yeah.

Um... Bug, what's our speed?

Mark 1.9

What if we adjust our pinch 2 degrees

to expose the shroud to the mainstream?

- Are you sure? I... I don't know if

that's gonna be enough to shake it off.

...or velocity down to the point

where we all die a miserable death.

- Mission control, permission to

adjust star one pitch 2 degrees.

Permission granted.

Adjusting pitch

Separation achieved.

Crisis averted.

Exiting Earth's

atmosphere in 3... 2... 1..

Congratulations.

You passed your first test.

Go ahead, get yourselves

situated in your bunks,

you'll find that I have left each

of you with a little parting gift.

I'll talk to you

tomorrow at 10:
00 hours.

Mission control out.

It's so clinical.

I guess we're home.

Thank you, Walter!

Are you doing Ok?

Yeah, fine.

- When Nikki and I split up, I used

to pour cough syrup on my cereal.

Bug, I'm fine.

Thanks.

Hey.

Come on in. Have a seat.

So, I'm just going to be

asking you a few questions

to establish a mental health base line.

Very technical.

- Just doing my job. Then

you can be out of here.

"In the past two weeks, how many hours

of sleep have you been getting a night?"

Not enough.

- "On a scale of one

to ten, where would you

place your ability to

fulfill mission duties?"

Ten.

"What is your current mood?"

Tired...

and a little hung over.

- Tired and hung over

aren't moods, I need

something like happy,

sad, depressed... angry.

Depressed.

Angry...

and confused.

- "Are there any particular reasons

why you might be feeling this way?"

Please, don't play games with me.

- Theo, I'm sorry. these are

only the questions on the list.

The woman I wanted to marry

decided she wasn't ready,

and called it quits.

It's more complicated than that.

Enlighten me.

- Yeah, Theo, not everything is

as easy as you want it to be.

What does that mean? What, what?

It means we're done here, Thank you.

Yes.

And here we have our cook

who's preparing the

ship's very first meal.

Bug, what's on our menu?

I am not the cook,

we take turns and this

is re-hydrated mushrooms.

Yikes.

Let's hope we make it through the night.

Alright, is this all we

have? Because I'm starving.

Kitchen is closed after this, sir.

What's with the bear?

My good-luck charm.

How old are you?

- Old enough to know when

someone's being an ass.

What the hell is that?

Immunization vaccines.

Wait a second. No, No. No.

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