Armageddon Page #9

- Countdown clock will hold at--

- Copy that, Houston.

Prepping for fuel transfer.

Countdown clock will hold

at T minus 20 minutes and--

- Fuel pod is down there.

- lt's down here, huh? Great.

Let's go. Move it on.

Here we go. We go. We go.

Bring it down. Bring it down.

Okay, let's connect

these fuel lines.

Freedom on the left,

lndependence on the right.

All right. We're goin' left here.

To the right is fuel gauge.

You watch the fuel gauge. 150, okay.

for space station.

So if you watch 200,

you can call for Lev, on,

and you see here number one, on.

You ask for Lev. And you pull

this down, all the way down.

- What's Lev?

- l am Lev Andropov,

colonel of Russian space agency.

ln Russia l'm a very big man.

- We're ready to transfer.

- l'm coming. No problem.

You. You. You there!

- Hard locked.

- Ready for transfusion!

Fuel is pumping.

Hey, Lev, the, uh, the-the pressure's

climbing. ls there a problem here?

Houston, we're on

fuel transference.

Don't touch my uncle. You know?

He's a genius of my family.

Lev! Can anybody hear me?

Guys? Hello, guys.

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?

- Ooh.

- Check your hoses.

We got some thermal variation.

Stamper, let's look at the couplings

back on the shuttle.

Okay. Shut down. Uh--

- Guys!

- Hold on a second.

- What's that noise?

Oh, no! God!

- What is it?

- Leak! Leak! Leak!

Get your men

back to the shuttle! Go!

Go on! Hurry up!

Get out of there!

Now there's really sparks!

- Pull lever!

- This is the lever!

- Colonel, we must get him out of there!

- A.J., come on out!

Hurry! Hurry!

Emergency! Break away!

We got a fire

in the fuel pod!

- Come on!

- Come on! Get in here!

A.J.'s stuck in the fuel pod!

- We're losing it!

- Come on out of there!

Control, this is lndependence.

l am seeing vibration--

- Malloy, talk to me!

- Not good. We got sparks

and fire in the fuel pod.

- lndependence, blow those locks

and get outta there now!

- Dump the hoses now! We're going!

- What happened?

Let me shut off the O2 feed!

- Harry, it's burnin' up!

Damn! Max, Rock, get in here! Get down

there and crack these pipes over here!

- Harry, no! lt's burnin' up!

- We're goin' back for the other team!

Switch on the personnel locators.

Trackin' A.J. He's climbin'.

- No!

- Go! Go!

lt's too late! Get back to the shuttle!

This thing's gonna blow!

No!

Colonel, we gotta move now!

Come on! You're gonna die!

- Wait a minute! Wait a minute!

We got a man in there!

- Open that door and we'll all die!

- Fuel leak!

- Get out of there!

Evac now! Let's go! Let's go!

Come on back!

No, wait! The door is broken!

- No!

- They got the fire

sealed in the fuel pod.

- They locked it down.

- Tracking 'em back to the shuttle.

They've still got two men

trapped in there!

Keep running! The shuttle's another

- Let's get out of here! The pod--

- Wait, wait, wait! Where's A.J.?

- A.J.'s gone!

- We're not leavin' without A.J.!

- He's gone! lt's too late!

Come on!

This way is our only chance!

So it's minus 100!

Very cold. Hold breath,

or lung freezes!

Get back to the shuttle!

And lock that door!

- Come on!

- Hurry, A.J.!

- Leave him alone! Leave him alone!

- l tried! l tried. But A.J.--

- lt's on fire! lt's on fire, Harry!

- lt's them or all of us!

- lt's on fire!

- Full thrust.

- We're gonna get hit.

Lev! Lev, the door's gonna blow!

No!

We're going! lt's gonna blow!

- A.J.'s still in there!

- Blow the locks. No, the bolts!

- We've gotta blow--

- l think we're almost there!

Flight, lndependence

does not have A.J. They're gonna

close the door without him.

- Tracking. They're 75 feet

from the shuttle.

- Just tell them to air lock

the door and go!

- Dog the hatch now!

- Close it!

Ho--

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Colonel! That thing's

comin' right for us! We got to move!

Hurry up!

There's the shuttle door!

Fire's coming at us!

Close the door now!

Go! Go! Go!

Freedom, the lndependence 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 l told you, ''Touch nothing.''

But you're 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 lndependence

prepare to slingshot around the moon.

Morning, guys. lt's time to suit up,

l guess. Uh, we got a big day.

- Eighteen 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 terminated. We're out.

Nine and a half Gs for 11 minutes.

l'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.

- Stand by for lunar roll.

- High inclination. Lunar orbit.

You boys got those wills

filled out correctly?

All right, men, this is what

we trained for. Now just suck it up!

On the mark. Five, four...

three, two, one.

- ls this supposed to be like this?

- Don't worry. This is normal.

- How would you know?

- 14,000 miles an hour.

- Four Gs.

- How long does this last?

Six Gs.

- 15,000.

- Really heavy, man!

- This isn't normal.

- What do you mean, ''this isn't normal''?

- This is way worse!

- Eight Gs. Hang tight!

- l'm not gonna make it!

Oh, we're gonna die!

Twelve minutes.

Flight, we still got nothin' here.

This is too fast!

Ten Gs!

We're maxed at 22,500!

We have acquisition of signal

from lndependence and Freedom.

We're in, guys.

All right. Welcome back, team.

We have visual

of the target, Houston.

You see that?

Wow.

- Come in, lndependence.

- Houston, you gotta see this

to believe it.

Okay, team, let's take 'em in. Okay,

Quincy, 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 evasive radar.

Hold on!

Goddam! We got debris!

We're dumping auxiliary boosters.

- Houston, do you read me?

- We got debris!

- We're goin' in!

- We're comin' in hot!

lndependence, try to maintain

your present heading.

You've got a target L.Z.

- There's too much debris!

We gotta peel off!

- Negative!

We're hit!

- Mayday, mayday!

- l've lost main thrusters.

Get 'em back up!

Mayday, Houston, mayday!

We've lost R.C.S. thrusters!

Mayday, Freedom, mayday! We are

out of control! We are going down!

Do you read me?

Freedom, we are going down!

We're gonna hit!

Everybody, go to your own life support!

Lock yourself in the cargo bay!

We are going down! Houston! Houston,

we are going down! We have lost control!

l can't get it on!

- Good luck, Freedom.

- Oh, my God, this is it.

No! No!

Pull it! Pull it! Go!

Sharp, what the hell is that?

ls that the lndependence?

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