RocketMan

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Gemini, this is Houston.

Can you hear us?

Roger, Houston.

This is Captain Fred Randall.

Houston, the earth looks beautiful.

As a big blueberry.

Got it, Houston.

Oh my God! Why can not he

play football, like other kids?

George.

Houston, requesting permission to land.

- Pilgrim One permission for landing.

- Copy that.

Pilgrim One, cleared to land.

Roger, Houston.

Aero-Shell enabled.

Acceleration velocity normal.

The heart rate is steady.

The man is ice cold.

- Bill?

- I see it.

Calls for 20% X gimbal correction.

Say no.

Negative.

Stay the course steady.

- What is happening?

- This is not right.

The computer says we will enter

too steep. 20.000 meters.

Pilgrim falls rapidly to the surface of Mars.

Glide path deteriorates.

- APU clear.

- Gary?

Increase of 20%.

Do it now, or burn up.

Switch to manual.

Why corrects his course?

- Can someone answer me?

- I do not know.

Turns on the landing rockets.

Houston, we are off course.

We're losing her.

We lose the lander!

We're losing her!

Why?

Congratulations, you're all dead!

Third time lucky now, Hackman!

Nice job with course correction!

Paul, it was not his fault.

Your computer is telling me that the right course.

It caused problems.

Is this the problem? Excuse me!

If Gary says that the computer mess up,

the mess up. Fix it!

Give me the name of the guy

who wrote the software!

The safest way to activate the burglar alarm.

Good morning, everyone!

Hello, Claude!

Hi, Kimmy Lee Wong!

Five minutes into the

real work day begins.

It is five minutes

to save the world.

Die! Go back to your own planet!

Your large, orb-eyed fat thing!

Your supervisor showed us.

He said you were the man who created

our operational systems.

Holy baby carrots!

You are the team in March!

Mr. Randall ...

Paul Wick, air traffic controller!

Sir, I am a big fan of you!

It is ...

William Overbeck.

Wild Bill Overbeck!

Get in my office!

I feel like a paleontologist who

eventually have to meet a dinosaur!

- Thanks.

- Eight-shuttle mission! Eight!

Nine actually, but who's counting?

Apparently you my friend.

Oh, thank you for taking him here!

Bill, look at this.

Gary Hackman? PC Specialist!

How does my baby you?

That is why we are here. Some of us

think it could be a glitch.

A glitch?

Oh, no it is not possible.

I did the programming myself.

It's perfect.

Not exactly. The counting error in

our entered track.

Here is the data.

Okay, when we set time.

Here it comes.

- Does it, where it is.

- What? What is what?

This popcorn shell has been fixed

between my teeth for two weeks!

That's your problem.

Gary runs his Hohnan equations

which includes the effect of encumbrances

as an inverse cube of the distance.

I am a decorated astronaut.

I do not do that kind of mistake.

Ok, wait. I'll show you.

I insert the same calculations,

using what we call''the way''

then we open the country's file and

initiates March landing sequence.

"I've seen enough.

-Check this, guys.

This is ridiculous! Move, Move!

There is nothing wrong with my

figures. They are perfect.

Wait just your geek.

See? I told you,

it is the computer.

I can explain everything.

Fractured skull! Injured in

he tried if he was wrong!

- I can explain it.

- He heard you.

So ... what do we do now?

We shoot at it.

We can not Ben! You have seen

monitoring the satellite's report!

There are periodic dust storms

that can last for months,

which prevents the landing!

If we wait now and one of

These storms begin!

If we can not lift it again in two years!

Then we wait two years!

Ben, Ben, Ben ...

If we terminate the start, will

all lose confidence in us.

On you. On me.

For the entire NASA team.

But ... we can sneak in a back-up.

In fact we have two choices.

The first choice, of course,

Gordon Peacock.

But ... he did not

test run for spaceflight.

Try him again.

Who is your second choice?

NASA.

- Mr. Wick, can I call you Paul?

- No.

- Are we there now?

- No.

- How far away is it?

- Quiet.

- Can I drive?

- No!

Hey, where is the short guy John Glenn?

Fred, I have less than a month

glad to see that you can become an astronaut.

I have to give you an ID badge.

Stop here.

Id badge.

Write in down here.

Hey, are you sure

we are on the way to Earth?

For it looks just like the sun.

Of course I'm sure your a fool!

How dare you question my authority?

Good morning.

Sorry. Sorry. It was not me!

It was not me.

The waitress came to me, Mr. ...

- Bud Nesbitt?

- Who the hell are you?

Apollo 13!

You are the one who was responsible for ...

When I say responsible, I

mean I was responsible for this.

Apollo 13 was an accident.

Sure! Just as the captain of

Exxon Valdez did not see Alaska.

Can I have your autograph?

What, one annan''olycka'', Bud?

No, no, it was my fault.

We just went here, and the waitress

just ran out ...

and pushed me straight on

Bud Nesbitt, Apollo 13 desolator.

Bud has been a little tense

recently ...

... Ten or fifteen years.

- Who are you?

- I'm Fred Rand ... Fred Rand ...

- Is it Fred Randall.

- Fred Randall.

Fred, meet your new roommate.

Julie Ford, mission specialist, geologist.

It's a real honor to be with you.

In separate beds.

Fred, she is not your roommate.

He is.

I get it!

Lura beginner good burn!

Legendary Living with

monkey joke!

Ulysses is a chimpanzee, not monkeys.

He is ...

The key to finding life

on Mars.

I train him to find a

special stone from underground fissures.

Of course. There are

still damp under the surface.

Where there's water,

can there be life.

Good boy.

Or dead.

Death to all who dare

disrupt the dangerous Martian,

underground devils with their

toxic feet and wet lips!

Paul? Paul, can I talk

with you for a second?

Sure.

Looks like it's you and

I have my little Ewok.

My first roommate!

So what do you think?

What do I think?

What is your idea here?

Little Dr. Zaius.

We go to Mars, so we

need a guy from Mars?

He is a computer genius.

He is said to be odd.

A little?

Let me go!

I will not let a number of

personal oddities ruin my career!

Excuse me for my convenience

gets in the way of your career!

This assignment means equal

much to you as me, Ford!

And if Gordon can not handle it,

when is this guy our last hope.

Ok, that's impressive.

They are friends already.

Mom, please, stop comparing

this by running away!

It's only temporary.

Travel to Mars is not temporary,

Freddy.

The last time you ran away

from home, only to the garage.

Oh, I know, you're just

defiant right?

Mom, I do not know if the

go to Mars for sure.

I just wish I was.

I have made peanut butter and jam

sandwiches. There is a long journey.

Mom, I'm not hungry.

Look, there's the moon, a star,

and a small rocket.

I'm thirty!

I'm almost a grown man!

I take this rocket.

Is this not a gift!

Finally, my own place.

No one tells me what to do.

It was not me!

Do not eat the puzzle in the house!

And certainly not jumping on the bed!

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