Armageddon Page #10

Houston, lndependence is a dead stick.

They're not gonna make it.

Houston, lndependence has gone down.

When l touch this baby down,

full reverse thrust.

- Fires on your right, Sharp!

- Reversing the thrusters!

Hang tight! Hang tight!

- Houston, we overshot our landing field

We overshot our landing field.

- Oh, no!

God!

lnitiate system light system check. Make

sure we can still get off this rock.

Our electrical system is screwed.

l'm going to back-up. Fuel seals check.

- Engine seals check.

Pressure seals check.

- Oh, God. Oh!

Anyone hurt?

Where's-- Where's the other shuttle?

What happened to the other shuttle?

- lndependence is off the grid.

- ''Off the grid''?

What are you, a freakin' 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.

- God!

- Let's just ask God

to take care of our friends.

May they rest in peace.

Amen.

We got eight hours.

Let's get this job done

and go home.

Nothin'. 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.

- Come in, Freedom.

- l 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.

- We're not getting a damn thing

on the inertial nav system.

- l know where we are.

Please step away.

Radio signal's dead.

l'm flipping the backup generator.

Radio signal's gonna be cut in half

till we get main power back.

We're in segment 202, lateral grid 9,

site 15H-32, give or take a few yards.

Captain America here

blew the landing by 26 miles.

- How the hell do you know that?

- Because l'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

was because thermographics indicated...

that grid 9

was compressed iron ferrite.

Which means you landed us

on a goddam iron plate.

All right. Well, you 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 'em.

lndependence has flat-lined.

Oscar! Oscar!

Oh, God!

Hello! Anyone!

ls anyone else alive?

Somebody help me!

A.J.!

- Where are you?

- l'm here.

Lev, there's no one else.

There's no one else.

- l know.

- Oh, man.

- Bear, where are you?

- A.J.! A.J.!

l'm in the shuttle, man.

Are you all right?

l'm so glad to see you, man.

l never thought l'd be so happy

to see your ugly face.

- Houston, do you read? This is Freedom.

- Check your thrusters.

- Houston, do you copy?

- ls everyone good to go?

Wow.

Down here! ln the valley!

This place is like

Dr Seuss's worst nightmare.

Let's get the remote satellite.

We'll get better reception up there.

Bring Max down.

Watch yourself through here, Max.

There's a couple big fissures.

To the left!

Bring it to the left!

Rockhound, you come on down here

and take some readings

down in the flat spot.

lron ferrite.

- l have fire.

- Watts, l'm comin' back. Stand by.

- Mostly iron, Rockhound.

- God, l hate knowing everything.

We couldn't have picked

a worse spot to drill.

Well, l can pretty much guarantee

it's not gonna be thicker than 50 feet.

- How do you figure that?

- 'Cause if it is, we're screwed.

- Max, you good?

- Yeah. Just makin' hole.

- Turn it around.

- Friggin' outer space.

lt's good.

All right. We're in.

Bring another light.

We're cuttin' through pretty good.

There's some stuff in here

l ain't never seen.

All right, let's punch it down!

- Hey, Harry, did you see that?

- Yeah, Max, l see it. l see it.

What is it?

- We lost the bite in the bit.

- All right. Back it off. Back it off.

- Goddam it!

- Sounds like we twisted a shank.

Back it out of there, Max.

Good. Good. Hold 'er there.

Wow, this is

a goddam Greek tragedy.

- We've all seen

broken drill heads before.

- Not after ten feet.

- l never seen one.

- Well, now you've seen one.

- What do you want?

- Unpack the Judge.

Bear, Lev.

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 astronaut?

l'm getting us outta here. Get in.

- Why?

- Just get in the Armadillo.

l have an idea.

Houston, this is Freedom. Do you copy?

Houston, do you copy?

Freedom shuttle has--

We're gettin' some scattered video feeds

here so we're gonna have to lead over.

Houston, this is Freedom.

Do you copy?

- Thank God we have you, Freedom.

- Freedom, this is Houston. Go ahead.

- Don't lose 'em, Malloy.

Sir, we're getting something. Houston,

this is Freedom. We have landed safely.

- We are at site coordinates

approximately 15H-32--

- Where are they?

- Okay, l want to know everything

we can about that location.

- Got it.

- Get it before we lose 'em.

- We're also having electric

and antenna difficulties.

- Walter, get Mechanical on that.

- But we have commenced drilling.

- Stevens, we're losin' him.

Bring it up on four.

- Come on.

- On four.

- Shuttle flight capability

not yet known.

- Bump the signal.

- Bumping.

- Houston. Houston.

We lost 'em. Get 'em back.

Gruber, we need that hook-up.

l'll show you how we do things

where l come from.

Hold on!

Seat it.

All right, get ready.

Max, thread it.

Guys, the clock is tickin'.

Let's go, go, go, go, go!

All right! Good!

Crank it loose!

Keep it at 25. Let's kick

a little asteroid butt!

All right, Chick. Give me

more torque on the turbine, huh?

- Max, l need some more power down here!

- All right, boss.

-Throw it forward, then drop the hammer.

-Let's drill through this turd.

Come on, boys. We gotta hop.

We're fallin' behind.

Dig, dig, dig.

Chew this iron b*tch up.

- Chick, the tranny is stuck.

- Harry!

- What is it?

- Chick, come on! Help!

- Release the clutch!

- Pull it up!

Okay. Well, this thing's

not movin'.

No, no, no!

Shut it down! Shut it--

This is not workin' out, Harry.

- Oh, are you all right?

- Oh, blew the tranny. Blew the tranny.

Come on, God.

Just a little help.

That's all l'm askin'.

l think we're close enough.

He might've heard ya.

Here's the bad news.

Before the asteroid passed the moon...

her 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.

This wasn't expected, sir.

- 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 that way.

lf we lose the shuttle com,

when do we lose the ability

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