Space Camp Page #2

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- He's a jerk.

- Oh, really?

He's completely unserious.

Did you check out

the size of his hands?

Earth to Kathryn.

Come in, please.

What are you doing?

I'm trying to figure out

how to run this thing. See?

For a multi-axis trainer?

It's one of the toughest parts

of the training.

Scary for a pilot.

You know anything about it'?

Three concentric circles

spinning in different directions

simultaneously.

Object--to stabilize from

central point utilizing hand controls.

You want a piece?

- How'd you know all that?

- I remember everything I read.

It's a real drag sometimes.

My mind gets totally cluttered.

- What'd you get on your SATs?

- 800s.

You ever, like, talk about anything

aside from learning things?

You know, you're real pretty.

Kind of understated.

But you got great eyes.

You know...

I could do this great

makeup job on you.

Guys go for eyes...kind of.

Guys go for what I haven't got.

Makeup's not gonna help.

Thanks anyway.

What's your essay

going to be about?

"Why I'm going to be the first

female Shuttle Commander."

That is going to go down real big.

Andie will get a kick out of that.

What's yours going to be about?

I'm going to do

"I want to go into space

"to contact life forms

that exist on chemicals

other than carbon and oxygen."

You should visit my high school.

So we struck this deal.

He got me to Space Camp,

and I got me a Jeep.

So what are you doing here?

I wanna be the first guy to have

a fast-food franchise in space.

- Rudy T's.

- Are you serious?

Yeah. Some guy in a space station

is gonna get a Big Mac attack,

Rudy T's gonna be there.

So that's why you're here?

Well...

Come on.

I like learning.

Some guys in my school said,

"Yo, Rudy, how come

you takin' science?

You don't need to be

takin' science, man."

They don't ask me

if I like science.

Do you like science?

Yeah. I love science.

Now ask me

if I'm any good at it.

Not so hot, huh?

Some things

I just can't figure out.

It's a bummer, man.

My philosophy is to sleep late,

drive fast,

and not take

any of this sh*t seriously.

Straight UP?

Hey, booster-breath,

leave me alone!

- Let me see it, kid.

- Come on.

Who are you,

the Imperial Guard or something?

What do you got in there?

Let us take a look.

- What's going on?

- This kid's got this thing in there.

We just want to see it.

Why don't you evaporate,

laser-brain?

- Lay off the kid!

- Let's take a look.

Wow, look at that!

Holy sh*t!

Sh*t-solid waste

aboard space station

can be handled

in one of two ways--

Jinx, cancel!

Okay, get down.

What is it'?

What's it do?

Anything you ask him to.

- Sure moves slow.

- Jinx, shake a leg.

- Don't do that!

- All right.

Man, he literally does

what he's told!

Jinx, move over here, buddy.

Stop it!

Get your hands off me!

Play dead.

That's enough!

Shut up!

Wiggle your ears!

Jesus.

It's broken.

Let's get out of here.

- See you later, Dave.

- All right.

Sorry, kid.

Servos activating.

Sensor generators are okay.

Image analyses are clean.

Retractors stabilized.

I'm gonna put

your shield on now, Jinx.

Don't worry.

It'll be okay.

You're here with your buddy Max.

When I'm done with you,

you'll be as good as new.

There.

Yo, Jinx.

Yo, Max.

All right!

All right!

I can't believe it.

I can't believe those

Green Team jerkoffs did that to you.

What a bunch of monkey clones.

They ought to be zapped.

- Where are you going?

- To zap them.

No, no, Jinx, stop it!

There you go again.

Why do you have to take

everything so literally?

How else should I take it?

No, no, Jinx, it's okay.

Don't worry.

Don't worry, you'll be okay.

You know...

You're really neat, Jinx.

You too, Max.

Friends forever?

Friends...

forever.

By the time you leave Space Camp,

you will know the function

of every circuit on the shuttle.

You may never get

the chance to fly in it,

but it won't be

because you don't know how.

If you ever get to be astronauts,

you're going to thank us for

making you wear these jumpsuits

because they provide

ease of movement

and additional

storage space in orbit.

The cushions of air

the zero-gravity chair rides on

helps you simulate

the weightlessness

you'd experience during EVA--

extravehicular activity.

That's the work you'd be doing

outside the shuttle.

To work in space,

you have to know how to move in it.

Don't push off.

Nothing will stop you

unless you're acted upon

by an outside force.

Kathryn, it's your job as Pilot

to monitor all the on board systems

and feed that data to Kevin,

who, as Commander,

is in charge of the orbiter.

You can suit up

in your EMU in five minutes, Rudy,

once you get the hang of it.

EMU--that's extravehicular

mobility unit.

You're gonna need it to do

any activity in the vacuum of space.

Kathryn, give me the coordinates

of the space station at 0100 hours.

You have to call up whatever

information I ask for in a moment.

Split-second decisions are essential.

You're travelling

at 17,000 miles an hour.

There is no room for error.

You'll find your spacesuits

stored in the airlock.

You're on your own there

when you depressurize

as you prepare to move

from the cabin into the cargo bay.

Okay, Kathryn, now it's your turn

in the multi-axis trainer.

This is one of the most

critical tasks to master,

especially if you want to achieve

top ranking here

as a shuttle pilot.

Secure?

Okay, you have 30 seconds

to stabilize.

Here you go.

Thirty seconds.

All right, start it up.

If the shuttle is spinning when it

re-enters the earth's atmosphere,

the astronaut has

just seconds to stabilize

or he might enter a flat spin.

Keep your head centred.

Don't turn it right or left.

- Push your stick forward.

- I got it.

Fifteen seconds.

You're yawing to the right.

Turn it left.

Go right, right.

Come on, you can--

Come on, Kathryn.

You're not a passenger, you're a pilot.

- Fly it.

- I'm trying.

- You've got ten seconds.

- I'm going to be sick.

Come on.

Five seconds.

Come on, Kathryn, fly it.

Okay, shut it off.

I would have gotten it

in another minute.

Another minute, you would have

been burnt up on re-entry.

Come on and get out.

We're running late.

I can do it. You're just not

giving me a chance.

All right.

Five minutes, but that's all.

Come on, Kevin.

Okay, next I'm going to show you

how to strap yourselves

into our orbital exerciser.

- Rudy, you want to go first?

- Give me a hand.

A microgravity environment

is equivalent of prolonged bed rest,

causing the heart to weaken...

You know, I wouldn't

let Andie get to you like that.

I couldn't please her if I spent

the rest of my life trying.

Why do you want to please

anybody but yourself?

I don't know.

I'm not an expert,

but it seems to me

that if you just eased up

on the thing, you could handle it.

You're just trying too hard.

Maybe we have

something in common.

You know, there's this

full moon tonight.

You're gonna turn into

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