火星一代 The Mars Generation Movie Script

It also ushers in an exciting new era to push the frontiers of space exploration and human space flight beyond Earth, and ultimately sending humans to Mars.

One of the reasons that the Space Shuttle had to be retired is that it was so expensive to operate that we couldn't afford to invest in the development of its successor.

That's why we've actually had a gap.

[mission control] Having fired the imagination of a generation, a ship like no other, its place in history secured, the Space Shuttle pulls into port for the last time.

[deGrasse Tyson] When the Gemini program ended, no one shed a tear because the mighty Saturn 5 rocket was sitting in an adjacent launch pad ready to continue that mission, and we knew that was going to the Moon.

When people shed a tear for the last Shuttle landing, I accuse them of shedding a tear not because they'd miss the Shuttle, but because there was not a next spaceship to continue this adventure that we could all then turn to and say, "Mothball the Shuttle, we're going to the next suite of launch vehicles." There was nothing there, it was an empty launch pad.

[Russian choral music] [cameras click] [deGrasse Tyson] I'm a little embarrassed that to get into space we gotta hitch a ride with the Russians.

We're not even hitching a ride, we're buying the seats on the Soyuz vessel to get to and from the International Space Station that we built.

So it's a little embarrassing!

I'll be honest with you.

[cheering applause] [Dr. Kaku] Who'd have thought that with all the intense rivalry with the Russians to go to the Moon that we would be dependent upon hitching a ride on the Soyuz spacecraft?

Let's say there's a crisis that erupts some place on the planet Earth and all of a sudden we're in this awkward situation of being beholden to them for access to outer space.

Perhaps that's not such a good policy.

[Dr. John P. Holdren] It's been costly to buy seats on the Soyuz from the Russians.

We don't like being absolutely dependent on one other country for anything as important as being able to get our astronauts into space.

I think the idea that we have to pay Russia $70 million to send astronauts, our astronauts, American astronauts, to the ISS is absolutely ridiculous.

[Senator Nelson] If you talk to the average person on the street, they think the space program is over.

They associate our space program with Americans flying on American rockets.

Not flying on the Soyuz that we fly on right now.

[mission control] Liftoff.

Liftoff of the Soyuz TMA-05M carrying Suni Williams, Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide on a two-day journey to the International Space Station.

[Kyle] The reason why we put the International Space Station up there in the first place is so that we could start doing long-term experiments on how a human will be able to survive in space.

Because the journey to Mars is going to take a long time.

You ready?

-[camper] Yeah, go for it.