The Last Push Page #5

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I'm rebooting the mission.

I'm going to Europa.

Wait a minute.

I got a ton of reasons

why that's not gonna work.

Besides, everybody here is

working to get you down safely.

Just listen to me for a second.

There's a reason

I came up here.

Someone's supposed to go.

Someone's supposed to see this.

Michael, I have no button

to bring you down.

You got me.

You got me.

There's nothing I can do.

I thought my life was over

when that accident happened.

The truth is,

I've been living life up here.

I'm gonna continue to live.

Michael...

what was this all for?

See the whales on Europa?

Mr. Moffitt...

you got to learn

to trust me again.

Michael, listen to me.

I don't know how else to put this,

but we gotta lay Nathan to rest.

We have to.

I just want you home.

You hear me? Michael?

I can't have another death

on my conscience.

Michael? Michael?

This is Michael Forrest

of Life One.

You'll have to forgive me.

I'm not normally a man

of many words...

but I'm doing the best I can.

I wanted to thank all of you...

for your support.

Thought I was alone up here.

I was wrong.

It was about three years ago...

from now that Astronaut

Nathan Miller lost his life.

I lost a colleague,

a fellow astronaut, friend.

But just like all of you,

his spirit never abandoned me.

In a book he brought onboard,

a collection of poems.

He speaks to me.

One passage in particular,

I still hear him loud and clear.

It's by T.S. Eliot.

It says, "We shall not cease

from exploration.

"And the end of all our exploring

will be to arrive where we started.

"And know the place

for the first time.

"Through the unknown,

unremembered gate...

"when the last of Earth left to discover

was that which was the beginning.

"Quick now, here, now.

Always.

"A condition of complete simplicity

costing not less than everything.

"And all shall be well.

"And all manner of things

shall be well.

"When the tongues of flame are

enfolded into the crowned knot of fire.

"And the fire

and the rose are one. "

We're just getting started.

This is Life One... out.

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