火星一代 The Mars Generation Movie Script

Boom! Pings another thing out into space.

It can do this all day.

It can send 15 things out in a day, one rocket.

[mission control] Liftoff!

[Kluger] While the U.S. plans to get human beings to Mars sometime vaguely in the 2030s, he believes he can cut that time by 10 years and get them there in the mid 2020s.

It never pays to rule out Elon Musk.

But, also, it never pays to get so seduced by the Tony Stark side of Elon Musk that we think he can do anything.

He's gonna come up against the same obstacles every other rocketeer in history has.

[Jace] Private industry is willing to take risks that NASA isn't.

This could be economically.

They could try to throw a lot of money at something that might not work.

But if it does work, boom.

You have something amazing.

[mission control] The first stage is returning to land.

The second stage powers the Earth satellites into low Earth orbit.

[Urban] If rockets aren't reusable, then humans don't go to Mars this century or next century, or maybe ever.

[excited chatter] [mission control] That is the first stage.

Coming back down and landing!

[cheering] [more cheering] I was just...not shocked, because I knew we had what it would take to do this, we had come so close in the past.

But feeling all of these things that we've been talking about, all this effort, blood, sweat, and tears that went into this to succeed, it was now real.

It was there in front of us.

Being a part of that unique moment in history was just mind-blowing for me.

[Urban] Elon's idea is not to make the Mars thing happen by himself.

Elon is trying to start this chain reaction, he's trying to start a forest fire with a match.

By solving this one giant problem, the fact that you had to build a new rocket for every launch in the past.