火星一代 The Mars Generation Movie Script

But what was needed was like a giant leap forward in the cost of space travel.

And there really was one way to do that.

And it was the fact that every rocket was used once.

There's a debate as to whether private enterprise or the federal government can create innovation.

[Jace] Privatization of space.

This is a very interesting subject, to say the least.

[Raj] The private space industry is a direct result of NASA not being able to fund everything it wants to do.

I don't think it's a bad thing, it's a good thing.

[Urban] NASA has a lot of leadership potential and a lot of budget potential.

And it can use it to partner with these companies.

Rather than fight against these companies and make its own rocket, let the private companies fight for who has the best rocket, and then NASA will use that best rocket to do its business in space and in Mars.

[newscaster] Welcome to the live webcast of the SpaceX launch of the ORBCOM mission from Launch Complex 40 out of Cape Canaveral, Florida.

[Nye] Elon Musk of SpaceX, he asked, "What is it we need to do to go to Mars?" And people told him, these are experts told him, "We need to lower the cost of getting into low Earth orbit." [Urban] Elon thinks of Earth as a hard drive, and he thinks of humanity as a very important file on that hard drive, and Elon looks at the history of mass extinction events and sees the hard drive has a tendency to crash.

Some people think it's fine, just stay on Earth forever.

And some people don't.

Creating a self-sustained civilization on Mars to provide insurance for life as a whole, a future where we are a space-faring civilization and out there among the stars is infinitely more exciting and inspiring than one where we are not.

The goal of SpaceX is really to build the transport system.

It's like building the Union Pacific Railroad.

[Urban] What SpaceX is trying to do is to build the first reliable interplanetary railroad.

[Lauren Lyons] Using today's standard technologies, it would cost about $10 billion per person to get to Mars and to live there.

That's pretty absurd. Not many people on this planet that can afford that.

And if we're going to build a real civilization there where we have thousands, if not millions, of people living, working and thriving on Mars, we're gonna have to get that cost down significantly.

[mission control] T minus one minute.

[Urban] The idea is the rocket takes off, pings a spacecraft into space, either into low Earth orbit or towards Mars.

The rocket comes back and lands vertically, gets some maintenance, gets refueled.