Europa Report

Hey, buddy.

Space is great.

Umm...

I miss you guys.

We're a long way away now.

I can't even see, uh...

I can't even

see earth anymore.

And, uh... It's peaceful.

You know?

Don't tell your mom this,

but I think

I actually sleep...

Better up here, away from her snoring.

Over.

Tanks b-7 and b-9 are

showing early signs

of freezing. Over.

What would you do

if you get out there

and you find nothing?

Well, even if

we found nothing,

it's in effect

a discovery.

It would make

me very frustrated.

I know there's

something there.

Check on nav bays 3 and 4.

You might want to update...

Mission control,

repeat please. Over.

- Do you want me to show you how to beat 'em?

- Europa one.

William, I've got some static

in the comm array feed up here.

It looks like a radiation spike.

Have you tried

recycling the system?

Rosa, we've lost your feed.

Europa one, come in.

Europa one.

These were the

last images we received

from the Europe one craft.

At the time,

it had already gone farther

than any human being

had ever traveled before.

For 16 long months

I've been asked

"What happened?"

All... I'm sorry.

We have to tell

his family.

We can't.

The communication fix

was never completed.

The system

is fried!

Last sync with mission

control was 19 hours ago.

We're all alone now.

So what happens?

Do we go on?

I was on a plane,

a transatlantic flight,

when the mission feed

went dark.

When I landed, mission

control was still saying

"maybe it's just

a transmission delay."

But, by the time I made it

into mission control,

we were looking at over

15 hours of dead feed.

After James was lost,

the joy of the mission,

the exhilaration

of it all just...

it just left.

I stopped feeling like

a kid on a family trip.

The mission has

stretched on ahead of us,

somehow longer

than it had been before.

No one at home

knows we're alive.

We're doing

the right thing, right?

Absolutely.

Andrei, have you

looked out at Jupiter yet?

Something

to be excited about.

- Are you okay?

- Mmm.

You haven't said

a word to me in a week.

I woke up

one morning... - okay.

I woke up

at some point and...

Didn't recognize myself.

Objectively,

I know it's the zero g

and the isolation that changes you.

But that doesn't make it

any less strange.

It doesn't stop you

from slowly breaking.

I started living my life

in tune with the mission

that I hoped was still going on.

- That's good.

- Okay.

How's your appetite?

I'm fine.

And you're sleeping

kind of...

I'm not.

It's been a year

since we lost him.

Tell me we can still...

Good morning. I am very...

We are all very excited

to be here today.

It has certainly

been a long road

and all of us up here

started

with the shared dream

of space and possibility.

And this really is

a new first-step for mankind.

From one perspective,

you can say our mission

actually began 400 years ago.

That's when Galileo first saw...

...Jupiter and its moons

through his telescope.

For something

this big, you get one shot.

An unmanned mission simply

wasn't going to cut it for us.

You put men

and women into space

because they have strength

in the face of cosmic odds.

Europa one

is cleared for launch.

T- minus 10,

nine, eight,

seven, six...

- ...five, four...

- We're go for main engine.

...three, two, one.

Ignition.

Liftoff!

On the trek to Europe.

Our engines

at 98% thrust.

Fuel rate is nominal.

Rolling right

in zero-point-six degrees.

Telemetry nominal.

Loft at

225 meters-per-second.

Altitude,

2.3 nautical Miles.

And in three, two, one.

We have good

booster separation.

Vehicle is supersonic.

Command module

jettison in three,

two, one.

We have

a good shell separation.

Initial burn is complete.

Staging in three,

two, one.

Copy. We

have good stage separation.

We have visual

of command module.

Beginning turn

for docking.

Trajectory is good.

Thrust is good.

We hadn't left

near-earth orbit since 1972.

Our company was tasked

with moving forward

where the space programs of the

20th century had left off.

- 10 meters to docking.

- I believe

if you have the scent

of a discovery this big...

- Five meters.

- ...You do not simply wait and see what happens next.

Contact.

You go after it.

Copy. We

are green on hard dock.

Locks b through d

are green.

- Connects are stable.

- We are green on dock.

Mission control,

we are proud to report that

we are officially underway.

Roger that.

We'll be here for you

when you get back.

We've prepped some light

traveling music for you.

Internal cam check is a go.

Must be peaceful up there.

External cam check is a go.

# Come on in!

Hello.

Please don't

vote me off.

There's a camera.

What do ya know?

Reality TV.

Okay, Jamie,

this is your own

personal tour

of Europe one.

Oh look. It's you, Jamie.

Hi, Jamie.

"Hi, dad."

Hey, Dan. You still upset

that you got the bottom bunk?

How'd you know I was thinking about that?

I really was

"I'm so cramped."

Look at my spacious bunk.

- Film me for a second.

- Okay.

Okay, so this is actually

one of two living quarters.

What they do is they rotate

around the core module

so this gives us

simulated gravity.

But watch this.

We also get

to experience

real gravity-free

space excitement.

Whoo!

And the head rush

that goes with it.

- Crew meeting in one hour, guys.

- Okay.

Now the thing

about zero gravity is that

it makes our bones

and muscles really weak.

This is why we spend

as much time as possible

in these living modules.

Yeah, okay. Just pass it up.

I got it.

Okay. And there's

the lovely Katya.

Now these are some

of the science tools

that we're using to test

for life on Europe.

And your dad has to fix them

if any of them break.

When you're done

playing tourist,

you can come over here

and help me.

If you're not afraid

to chip a nail.

Now... whoa...

this is the cockpit.

Mission control...

...Sync.

Copy, Rosa. We have sync.

And Rosa, our

pilot, used to fly jets

before she started

flying us around.

And what's she doing? She's

setting up the camera system

which monitors everything

that happens on the ship.

Smile for Jamie, Rosa.

And now... last thing

I want to show you...

have a look at this.

The view.

Kind of ironic, really.

So little space in here

and so much space out there.

Whoa.

As the ship passed the moon,

it had already gone farther

than any human being

had ever traveled before.

Think about that.

Across all of human history,

that moment was the farthest

anyone had ever gone.

But they still had millions

upon millions of Miles to go.

Our craft was heading

for a moon of Jupiter

known as Europe.

This mission is riding

on the shoulders

of many great men and women.

And so if we have

any legacy at all,

I would hope

that it would be

that we would inspire

those who come after us

to keep exploring,

to keep pushing

the boundaries,

to keep looking

for the answers

to those

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