火星一代 The Mars Generation Movie Script

[Todd May] Building something from scratch is a double-edged sword.

You can't design a perfect launch vehicle from scratch and put it up on the pad the very first time and expect things are gonna go well.

This generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space.

We mean to be a part of it.

We mean to lead it.

Since NASA was formed in 1958, we've had a pretty small number of different missions that we've undertaken.

The first program was the Mercury program, just to see if an astronaut could survive in zero gravity.

This is Flagship 7, radio loud and clear. Over.

[Dr. Don Thomas] We went on to the Gemini program, sending two astronauts up in a capsule.

We learned how to do rendezvous and docking.

And we learned how to walk in space, to float there.

[astronaut] OK, yeah?

[Ed White speaks indistinctly] OK.

[astronaut] You're right in front, Ed.

You look beautiful!

[White] I feel like a million dollars!

So I'm gonna kick off!

[Dr. Thomas] We put together everything we learned from Mercury and Gemini in the Apollo program.

[JFK] But why, some say, the Moon?

Why choose this as our goal?

And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain?

[mission control] Liftoff! We have a liftoff!

[cheering] [JFK] Many years ago, the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it.

He said "Because it is there." Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it.

And the Moon and the planets are there.