火星一代 The Mars Generation Movie Script

Today, it's 0.4%, almost exactly a tenth of what it was during the Apollo era.

And that's not gonna change.

That's the way it is right now.

[Urban] NASA is handcuffed to the U.S. budget.

The U.S. budget has a thousand claws on it trying to get the money.

For NASA to innovate, for NASA to do amazing things that it would like to do, it needs an insane budget.

It needs a far different budget than the other kind of agencies.

[Jace] NASA, all of the money they have ever received from the government combined, is still less than the yearly budget of the D.O.D.

Which is kind of appalling to me.

[Urban] SLS and Orion are cool.

I mean, if you like rockets, they're gonna be awesome.

They're gonna have immense amount of thrust.

But they haven't done the important innovation, which is that they're still super crazy expensive.

If every time you flew in an airplane, you landed, the passengers got out, and the plane was thrown away cause planes flew once, well, it would cost a million and a half dollars for a coach seat.

No one would fly.

It would be a zero industry.

It would be for crazy billionaires only.

That's the current state of our aerospace industry.

[Dr. Kaku] There is a nasty four-letter word that has haunted the space program.

It's the "C" word.

"Cost".

Imagine your body made out of solid gold.

That's what it costs to put you up in outer space.

That's why we have to drive down the cost.

[Urban] You can improve incrementally when it comes to getting off of Earth with cheaper rockets and maybe better fuel.