Marooned Page #8

- I have ignition.

- Go! Go!

- All right, go, go!

- Roll programmed.

- Roger the roll.

Pitch programmed.

- Roger the pitch.

- Mark, 50 seconds.

Cabin pressure holding fine, .57.

Mark one plus 40.

PCS update in.

You look good here.

Go for staging.

Roger, Ted,

you are go for staging.

Rescue, this is Flight,

Fido confirms orbit insertion at 8:20.

Roger.

My initial rendezvous parameters...

...indicate Delta V

of 263 feet per second.

Timer burn T plus 12, plus 15.

- Have Fido confirm my numbers.

- Roger, stand by.

Rescue, Flight. We show you right

on the money. Go get them, kid.

Cause of death will be anoxia.

You know, that's

an interesting way to go.

The brain gets starved for oxygen.

Ironman One, this is the Cape.

Do you read?

Just before the end you feel great

and then you laugh it up.

When you're ready

to start singing and shouting...

...blackout.

Ironman One, this is the Cape.

Do you read?

You know, that's

an interesting mechanism.

There's not much data on that either.

Ironman One, this is Carnarva.

Do you read?

Ironman One, Redstone,

do you copy?

Ironman One, Houston CapCom,

do you read?

Ironman One, Houston CapCom,

do you read?

Ironman One, this is Houston Flight,

do you read me?

Ironman, this is Keith.

What the hell do they want?

Hello, Jim, I want to talk to you.

Yeah, what do you want?

I have some numbers for you.

The eye of the hurricane

passed over the Cape at 2218...

...and we had a second window

at 2231:
06, Cape time.

We've successfully launched

the rescue craft through the eye...

... do you understand?

You have launched the XRV?

Yes, that's correct, the XRV

has completed staging...

... and is on its way to rendezvous.

Our transfer will be at 2328.

That's 55 minutes from now,

do you read?

Yeah, I read.

Jim, how do you evaluate

the oxygen situation?

Well, we have whatever oxygen's

left in the spacecraft system...

...and there are only two bottles

of emergency oxygen onboard...

...five minutes each,

that's 10 man-minutes.

My backpack

and Lloyd's and Stone's...

...but there's not much oxygen

left in them.

Well, you'll have to save your

backpacks for the EVA transfer.

Yeah, I know that.

Fifty-five minutes.

We'll be dead by then.

Well, only if you continue

to use oxygen at the present rate.

Well, we can't cut down.

Let's think about that.

You want us to lower

the partial pressure again?

No, we've examined that.

It won't work.

Well, we're lying here

like corpses now.

What else can we do?

You must think.

Yeah, we're thinking.

Are we talking about the same thing?

Yeah.

Why don't you talk it over?

If you could work out something,

it would be a great help.

Yeah, we'll talk it over.

I must point out that any effective

action must be taken immediately.

Look, don't tell me what to do!

We've been taking your damned

orders and where the hell are we?!

From now on we're gonna

make all of the decisions!

Whatever we do, you're out of it!

I appreciate what you're saying, Jim...

...and I agree with you,

you're exactly right.

Yeah, anything else?

No, that's all at the moment.

Would you please give me

those launch numbers again?

Yes, that's launch

at 2231:
06, Cape time...

...rendezvous and transfer at 2328.

Thanks.

Launch at 2231:
06,

rendezvous 2328.

- That's what they say.

- Fifty-five minutes to go.

Through the eye of a hurricane.

Jesus, 55 minutes.

- Right.

- We'll be pretty cold by then.

Well...

...one of us is gonna have to go.

I mean...

...that's what we're talking about,

isn't it?

One of us goes and the other two stay.

Well...

...what are we gonna do?

Look, let's do it scientifically.

Two big guys throw

the little guy out, okay?

Yeah, well that's an idea.

We're gonna have to talk about this.

So, what are we gonna do?

I could do it by chance.

I'll tear out strips from a pad.

One short, two long.

The guy with the short end goes.

Yeah.

Oh, Jesus, we can't do that.

No, we can't do that.

Well look, I don't want

to just lay here and die.

All right, then figure the odds.

Two guys, three guys,

is that much difference?

I say double the pills.

No moving, no talking,

pulse way down.

Even when there's no pressure there's

oxygen molecules floating around.

You live for a while even when

there's no pressure in the gauges.

For God's sake,

it's less than 55 minutes!

- You're dreaming, Stone.

- All right, okay.

I'll go.

I'm the weakest, I'm using up

the most oxygen, I'll go.

It's all right.

All right, all right.

All right, get your helmets on.

I'm going out to fix the engine.

Are you kidding?

You can't fix that engine.

What the hell do you know about it?

I don't know why I let them

talk me out of it.

I should've done this two days ago.

Come on, get your helmets on.

He'll fix it.

He's good, he'll fix it.

You son of a b*tch. You know

what he's doing up there.

- Buzz, don't!

- Jim!

- Get back in here.

- Jim, don't do it!

You're going to rip out the umbilicals.

Jim, don't do it. Jim!

Jim.

Jim, don't do it. Jim!

Stoney. Stoney,

give me some line here.

- Stoney?

- We can't get to him.

Yes?

Mrs. Pruett, I wanted to talk to you.

Mrs. Pruett...

...your husband is dead.

It was an accident.

He was trying to repair the spacecraft.

I'm sorry.

Jim?

Jim?

I told you, Jim's not here.

He had an accident.

Where's Stoney at?

I'm here.

Stoney?

Dougherty's coming.

Stoney, tell Jim to get us out of here.

Stop eating your oxygen,

damn you!

Be still!

Range 76.8.

I've got to hit it.

I'm a little under the line.

Rescue, Flight.

Do you confirm burn attitude?

- Roger, attitude is go, Delta V 63.

- Roger, Ted, this is the one.

Roger, three, two, one.

Oxygen.

Can't. Can't, gotta save it

for the transfer.

I'm dying.

- I'm dying.

- No, you're not dying.

It takes a long time to die.

Ironman, this is Rescue.

Ironman, this is Rescue.

- Read you.

- Turn on your acquisition lights.

Say again?

Come on, Stoney,

turn on your acquisition lights.

Roger. Roger, acquisition lights.

Okay, Stoney, I'm coming right down

the pipe. I'll see you in six minutes.

Six minutes, roger.

Buzz, six more minutes.

Only six more minutes, Buzz.

- I can't.

- You can, Buzz. You've got to.

- I can't.

- You can, Buzz. Think of something.

Think of...

Think of the Earth, Buzz.

Look at the Earth, Buzz.

Look, can you...?

Can you tell where we are?

Stoney?

All right, Buzz.

All right.

All right, Buzz,

you're on my air now.

Take a breather.

I'm going back on cabin air.

There must be some left.

Ironman, this is Keith.

Ironman, this is Keith,

do you read me?

Purpose...

...and objective.

Ironman One,

this is Keith, do you read?

Purpose...

...and objective.

Ironman, this is Keith,

do you read me?

Purpose:

The acquisition of...

...data.

Ironman, do you read me?

No.

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

How beautiful.

I'm beginning to see...

...visions...

Stoney, come in.

...of death.

There you are.

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