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Cool. I love it.

All right.

Are you comfortable?

I'm always comfortable.

Terrific. So what we'd like to do is just get some of your thoughts before

go up. What expectations you have, what you're feeling, and then we'll talk to

you again on the other side.

So, Athena, tell us, why do you want to go to space?

Well, I've dreamt about it since I was a kid, and that was before anyone had

actually done it. No, I wouldn't say it's been a dream. Well, maybe my wife's

dream. Not that I go to space.

She really wanted to be an astronaut.

She's an engineer at PAL, the Polytechnic Applied Astrophysics Lab. I

to go up in 72, Apollo 18, trained for two long years.

Then Nixon canceled the program, rat bastard.

Yeah. I almost went on Tripp's Real Housewives flight, but there are so many

housewives and only so many seats.

And also, I'm not a wife.

Yet. Though you are engaged.

Sure am.

Better than any moon rock.

I love you, Tripp. Not that I'm bitter.

Fifty years of being a football coach has brought its own rewards.

Why do I want to go to space? Easy.

Inspiration, innovation, interplanetary destination.

I can cover Iowa in solar cells and power the entire human race from space.

But by 2250, the Earth is out of resources.

It's mass. It's cosmic.

Tripp says that when you're up there, your consciousness shifts, and you see

that Earth has no borders, no divisions, just oneness. The Buddha called it...

Nibanna. Karen said it's known as the overview effect.

Astronauts have been reporting on it since the earliest days of manned

spaceflight. It's supposed to be life -changing.

It's what God sees.

So said Frank Borman, Apollo 8, lucky son of a mother. But I've made my peace.

I guess I'm doing it to feel...

Closer to humankind.

I can't really say that I'm going for Karen.

Maybe because of her. Really, it should be her up there. But I promised I'd take

lots of pictures.

I guess I'm doing it for my boys. Because the lesson here is, never give

your dreams.

I'm doing it because it's awesome.

I mean, we're going to be riding on a big rocket.

I'm humbled and stoked.

But mostly stoked.

Why do I want to go to space?

I have no earthly idea.

Astronauts are going to the moon almost every six months, and then they just

stopped. No one's even walked on the surface since the 70s. Okay, let's make

70s sound a little less like the Middle Ages.

The everyday hero's mission, it sounds so noble.

Yeah, it's so hazardous.

Hardly. We launch at Mojave tomorrow morning, orbit twice, and we're back on

ground by brunch.

Trip is calling it his three -hour tour.

Oh, well, we all know how that turned out for Gilligan.

Who's Gilligan?

He's a character from Greek myth.

This whole thing has been market tested within an inch of its life.

You know who they got going up with him?

Parker Streeton. He's not a hero. He's barely a zygote.

But his silver company's worth $4 billion, and Trip Houser wants to buy

Tricia Benoit?

Trip's girlfriend.

Well, his fiancée. The only reason he couldn't put her on his real housewife's

flight is because she's not a real wife yet.

Are you going to have any real astronauts with you?

We are.

Major Lewis Kern, Apollo 18.

This says he's a legend.

He's a high school football coach.

Apollo 18 got scrubbed, so Trip has given him his ride for nostalgia points.

Trip Hauser's stock is tanking, and he is putting five tourists on a roller

coaster and saying they're heroes.

Anybody want coffee?

I'm going to make some coffee. You know what? I'll join you.

You good with medium roast?

Hen likes light, but I want her to sleep well and be fresh for the launch.

Are you okay?

Of course I'm not okay.

I'm not jealous, really.

I'm happy for Hen.

She's going to experience something that 99 .999 % of us never will.

It's going to be this moment that she's going to look out the window and see

something all unspeakable.

Then she's going to turn to share it with the person next to her.

Then it won't be me.

So I'm the irresponsible one.

First she ghosts us for months on some undercover thing. Now she's pretending

be an astronaut like she's Neil Armstrong or Katy Perry or something.

All I did was drop out of high school.

She's dropping off the face of the planet.

You'll only be up there for a couple of hours.

So you're okay with it? I mean, it's kind of weird.

It's like she decided to go bungee jumping or something, and Athena Grant

not bungee jump.

Right, like, what is up with her?

I don't know.

But maybe she just needed to do something to feel alive again.

She's not the one who died.

She lost her husband, Harry.

Well, it's not the first time. I mean, you'd think she would be used to it by

now. Okay, no, that was mean.

You can't seriously be that mad at her.

I don't know who I'm mad at.

Not you.

You should have told me that you were thinking about dropping out of high

school. Why?

So you could talk me out of it? I could have told you that there were easier

ways of getting her attention.

I didn't do it to get her attention. I made a choice.

I'm an adult. I get to do that, right?

Sure. Like Dad made a choice to go off and save other people's kids in another

country? Like Bobby made a choice to save his team?

Now she's making one.

And it's not one that is going to help anybody or anything.

She's just doing this thing.

You're scared.

I just think it's so stupid.

I don't think you should be taking risks like this for no reason. She takes

bigger risks every day on her job. Maybe she shouldn't.

Not after everything that has happened.

What's the point?

We moving right up close to me.

What did he call that?

The flight deck. You go on a flight and then you hit the deck.

You know everybody thinks that us going into space is a terrible idea.

No. That's not true. They think me taking you to space is a terrible idea.

Because I'm a jinx.

Because you're a jinx.

It's true.

I am.

I mean, I have a terrible track record when it comes to all forms of non -land

-based transportation. I mean, these are facts, and if I'm honest, I think twice

about taking a train with you, too. Oh, Lord.

I am cursed.

You really are.

You know, you could die because you took me with you. I really could. You

probably will.

Why do you think I redid my will?

Here's to not dying tomorrow.

Here's to dying tomorrow.

Whatever may be.

The press box is full, the board is watching via Skyloop, and the live

just went live. Don, what are my favorables? We're at 1 .8 million

Engagement is high, especially for Henrietta and Sergeant Grant.

There's the heartstring factor for Major Kern, and Parker is trending very well

with men 18 to 35. Apparently they wish they were him. They don't wish they were

me. They're divided on that.

And on Tricia.

What's the problem with Tricia?

We're not sure people will buy her as an everyday hero.

Excuse me, Mr. Houser.

Sensitive.

We're tracking an anomaly with the Skyloop constellation.

There's an outage in the L2 quadrant. I didn't poach you from Bezos to track

outages. I have 6 ,000 satellites up there. Fix it. It's not about the

It's about what's causing it.

Look at this.

What is that?

Radiation spike.

Now, it could be nothing, or it could be the beginnings of a geomagnetic storm.

We should scrub the launch. You want to abort the launch for some potential

space weather? If it's knocking out our satellite, it could cause a chain

reaction.

What are the odds, Cody, that this is a G3 or higher?

Put it at 43 .7%. Hmm.

Yeah, well, take those odds. If we're not aborting the launch, the caters are

already set up.

Start the countdown.

What makes Hen an everyday hero? Well, she's brave, obviously.

She's got a kind heart.

If you call for help, you want Hen Wilson.

She's the best paramedic I've ever worked with. And she's just a hero every

I mean, I couldn't have asked for a better teacher. Working at Hen's side

last few months has been a masterclass.

I think Hen would be the last person to call herself a hero, but that's what she

is. Of course, I've always dreamt of going up there and looking down on the

whole world, but...

Today, all I have to do is look up, because that's where my whole world is

to be. She's a great friend, and it's a privilege to be her captain.

Interim captain.

And there's no one I'd rather have up there with her than Athena Grant.

Athena Grant is a legend. Three decades of service with the LAPD.

She's a kick -ass sergeant. Our mom's a lot of things. Never saw her as an

astronaut. But that's what's cool about this mission, right?

Yes. We are so proud of you, Mom.

We love you, Mama!

Enjoy the view.

Have a blast. Have a blast. Off.

Skies are clear this morning at Macronova Mojave Mission Control as we

counting down to the Inara 2's maiden voyage.

Trip Hauser has assembled five everyday heroes for this historic flight.

These intrepid macronauts will travel past the Kármán line and become our

macronaut crew in low Earth orbit.

And cheering them on, the friends and family who helped these brave pioneers

to this moment.

This is Flight Director Cody

Whiting. We're starting our final systems check.

Propulsion. We're a go.

Thermal. We're a go.

Flight systems.

Go.

Punch it.

Minus one ten.

What's all that smoke?

Condensation from the liquid oxygen. It's normal.

Who's calling you?

It's my office.

To congratulate you?

Probably. Excuse me.

Mom, you're missing.

Why the 911 call? Do you know what today is?

Yeah, I'm watching it. Why is this idiot still going through with this? What do

you mean? Noah's warning of a more than 40 % chance of a geomagnetic storm.

Why isn't he aborting?

has cleared the tower.

Come on.

Come on, baby.

The craft is now reaching Max Q.

What is Max Q?

It's when the forces on the rocket are at their peak.

Second stage ignition.

I think they made it.

How can you tell?

Are we there?

My God.

is now in low earth orbit.

Is Loma in place? Yes, baby, she is.

Macronauts, welcome to Zero -G. You may unbuckle your harnesses. Don't be shy,

heroes. Get your float on.

Oh, God.

That is dope!

Thank you universe.

You are welcome baby.

Oh, how's that for perspective?

There's something all right.

What is that?

Collision. The Anara? No.

We've lost two satellites.

Three.

Eighteen. How?

The avionics are fried.

Formation's collapsing.

I've got bit errors, so the sky loop is crashing.

Well, we momentarily lost connection with the capsule. This is completely

routine, folks. They're just having a ball up there without us.

Mom, is that normal?

Hey, kids.

You're going to want to see this.

Oh, my word.

Like a screensaver.

Mission Control, do you see the aurora?

A guy?

Brace for impact.

Anara 2.

Trip to Anara 2. Do you copy?

We've lost 1 ,200 sats.

1 ,300.

Half our constellation's gone dark. Or worse.

Will somebody please tell me what is going on?

Uh, comms are gone.

NOAA's picking up.

Particle streams.

Photon elevation.

You said it was only a 10 % chance.

I said 43 .7%.

This is now 100%. Of what?

A geomagnetic storm.

How am I supposed to explain that to America?

Disturbance in the magnetic sphere. No. You knew about this, and you sent those

people up anyway?

They had to know, right?

Who knew what?

Karen, is something wrong up there? Trip Hauser launched them into a geomagnetic

storm. Is that as bad as it sounds?

I'm finding out now.

Prashant, how big is the debris field? Big.

Getting bigger.

Our signal has Skyloop satellites smashing like dominoes. Fragments

What about the Inara?

Still there. 50 kilometers off course in a higher orbit.

So, the capsule's okay?

Well... Mission Control!

Mission Control, do you copy?

Why is this happening?

We got hit by a satellite.

Impact made it an IMU problem.

Gyro's shot. We've lost all orientation.

So what do we do now?

Beat the hell out of me. You're an astronaut.

At Apollo, we have controls.

I don't see any controls.

The controls are on the ground. It's all automated. What do we do?

I don't know.

You're a tech bro.

Check it, bro. I mean, I guess we could try unplugging it and then plugging it

back in. Might reboot it. So you're saying that we're stuck inside a billion

-dollar printer?

I think I'm going to puke. No.

Do not puke in zero G. Where's the damn plug?

My desk.

It's in that capsule.

Looks like there's a door on the front.

Okay. Do it.

Hell, I'm pinned here.

Anybody have a screwdriver?

I guess something should work.

It's my Apollo 18 commemorative coin.

I always keep it with me.

They make commemorative coins for missions that don't happen?

I had this one made.

You got it?

Parker!

Pull the plug!

Push through the pain.

Come on, come on! You've got this in you. The closer you get to the center,

less you can touch the floor. You got it?

Come on, come on, you got it! Go, go, go!

Cody, where are my feet?

I can't do anything without my feet.

We're working on it here. I've got a team out at the data center patching

hell. Will you tell them we've got $50 billion and five lives on the line,

including one fiancee?

Tripp, some of the families have been calling, including Karen Wilson,

Wilson's wife.

Okay, well, just tell her something. Tell her that everything's looking good

here and that we'll get back to her. You can't spin her about the spin.

She works at Polytechnic Applied Astrophysics Lab.

Are we suing them?

Well, we're suing each other. Okay, well, you tell her that I can't talk to

unless those lawsuits are resolved.

Perfect. And for God's sake, please remove all our media from remote

I cannot document grieving families getting bad news if it comes to that.

Photographers are leaving.

I guess they probably got all the reactions they needed.

I knew it.

I knew it.

What did you know?

I knew something terrible was going to happen. Hey, we don't know anything

now. She does.

She's probably just trying to get information.

I can't do another funeral, Buck.

Not again.

I can't.

Hey, hey, listen.

All we know right now is they lost communication, but that could be for a

million different reasons.

Let's just take a breath and try not to spin out.

Okay, okay.

You see a plug?

It's gotta be this, right?

I think his heart stopped.

Heart attack? He's so young.

Possible commodio cordis.

Probably brought on when he slammed into this chair.

Yeah, I've seen this happen on the football field. The player takes a hard

to the chest. Next thing you know, he's down. I'm not sure what to do here.

Aren't you trained for this? Yes, on Earth. But face light decreases

Without his vitals, I'm blind blind.

This takes vitals.

Tripp gave it to me. It's a prototype. It's not even on the market yet.

Does this measure heart rate? That, my sleep, my oxygen. It also scans for

vibes. And just an FYI, everyone, the vibes in here are not good.

O2's low. Heart rate's 290.

He's in cardiac arrest of impulseless VTEC.

I'm going to have to perform CPR.

Doesn't he need to lie flat on his back?

Yeah. I feel like that might be a problem.

We have to strap him down.

What's for shots?

Hey. Want some good news?

Please. The Inara 2 stopped spinning.

What? How?

No idea.

Do you think Macronova's back in control?

Not a chance. Their entire satellite constellation is still crashing.

Literally. There's got to be some way to talk to that capsule.

Wait, you said the Inara's off course?

That she's gone higher?

50 kilometers too high, but now it's more like 100 and still climbing. What

you thinking?

I'm thinking that Tripowder's satellites aren't the only ones up there.

Meridian. Exactly.

You want to tell me what the hell's happened with my mom?

How are you going to get them down?

Well, we just need to talk to them first, and then we can figure it out.

If Mission Control can't talk to them, how are you going to?

I have an idea, but I'm going to need to leave for a while in order to bring my

mom back home.

Can we come with you?

No, baby, you're going to stay here.

But I will let you know as soon as I talk to her. You guys can hang with us.

We've got the games, the grub, and the whole day off.

What the hell?

So much for the whole day being off. Looks like the entire department is

put on tactical.

What's tactical?

It means they just want us to drive around in the trucks and see if anyone

our help.

It's okay. We'll stay with the kids. You guys go.

So come on, climb in here.

No, Buckley.

I'm kind of freaking out to figure out if he does that with us instead of in

front of his kids.

He's a kid.

Chris was eight years old when we took him on a ride -along. And Harry is 18.

Get in.

What do you guys think is going on out there?

The end of the world.

911, what's your emergency?

The sky is falling!

Okay, that's as flat as he's gonna get. Give me some room.

That's what I'd call American ingenuity right there.

What's his heart rate?

Uh, no change.

This isn't gonna work. His heart needs a shock to reset. We don't have a

defibrillator up here. We'll have to go analog.

the process, Trish.

Vitals.

150 and dropping.

Stabilize. Nice job.

Nice job.

What happened?

You reset the capsule, but he didn't reset your heart.

So when's the big rescue mission to save us happening?

Unclear. Comms hasn't come back up.

So we're just stuck up here until what, we die?

That's stinking thinking, son.

Nobody ever won a ball game with an attitude like that. And I know my

He's going to find a way to get us home, even if he has to come up here after us

himself.

I bet we're trending.

Great balls of fire across the Southland and parts of the world today as flaming

debris rains down from the heavens.

NASA tells us that space weather is causing Skyloop satellites to collide

-orbit. And while they do expect some of this cosmic shrapnel to burn up in the

atmosphere, they're advising everybody to stay indoors.

But don't get too comfy, because devices linked to Skyloop may also run amok.

This is Captain 118, beginning survey of central Alameda.

Hey, they can't sell you anything we don't already know.

So we just drive around and pretend it's not happening?

We do our jobs, helping people.

Then what's my job?

To stay in the engine, not annoy me.

911, what's your emergency?

No, I'm sorry, I can't see your location right now. Must be a cross street.

Yeah, I understand the app will let you unlock your car. I'm asking you if you

have an actual key.

It's in the house, and you don't have an actual key for that either.

You think it's always like this?

I would hope not.

You'd be surprised.

Sue, this is for shop. My colleague from PAL. Oh, your PAL from PAL. Sue.

Thanks for letting us crash your circus act. You said you needed to borrow a

phone? Yeah.

I think I have what you need.

I give you the most advanced satellite communications technology of 1998.

Old tech to talk to old tech. So what's the tech going to talk to? Because 80 %

of the calls coming in are satellite connection failing.

Trip Housers.

satellites will feel like. There's a difference?

May I?

Of course.

Chip Howell's Skyloop, a network of satellites orbiting the Earth. I had no

there were this many.

He had 6 ,000. That's a few hours old. There's fewer now.

Because they're all crashing into each other and hurtling towards Earth. And in

the middle of all that chaos are Hen and Athena, 300 kilometers above the Earth.

Now... We can't communicate with them or Tripp's capsule because all of his

satellites are dead. But his satellites are the only ones up there.

Meridian satellites.

They've been up there since the 90s.

800 kilometers high.

Above a debris field.

And they still work. They started as a DOD network for military ops. They were

built to last.

So we can use this to connect to those. We talk to a Meridian satellite that's

able to relay to the capsule and then it's person to person. There's one

problem. Meridian is line -of -sight technology.

It needs to see a satellite to connect, and that satellite needs to see the

capsule. So we have to wait until their orbits line up above us, and then we

have a very limited window to talk to them. How limited?

12 minutes, 15 at the most.

And then we lose them for over an hour until they come around again.

Actually, there are two problems.

You said it's line -of -sight.

So that means this clunker won't work inside the building. Correct.

Someone has to dial that phone from the roof and patch it into the call center's

comm system.

Someone?

Didn't they say not to go outside?

So what exactly are we looking for? No idea.

They say you'll know when you see it.

Okay, I think I see it.

Let's get cones out. Let's cordon off this intersection.

Is that one of those self -driving cars?

Uber driver's worst nightmare.

My guess is controlled by satellites.

Yeah. And sensors, localization, mapping, continuous learning.

I can do my research before I ride. So what do we do? Call customer service?

We need to paint it into a corner.

What? These things are programmed to obey traffic laws. Its sensors won't

it to go over double road lines.

If we can create one, then we can trap it.

Like a demon.

Where can we get some white paint?

What about sand?

You guys keep some on the rig, right?

I told you to stay in the engine.

All right, sand it is. Let's go. Let's move.

Help me!

Help!

As soon as he goes past.

Okay, go, go, go, go, go.

Hey, come!

All right, we got the back.

All

right,

de -energize the battery. Eddie, you're the passenger.

I'm never getting one of those again.

Zero stars.

Zero!

What is that?

What is happening?

Give me a backboard!

How's it going up there, Terry?

Sad enough. It's gnarly out here.

All right,

got it.

Just need to plug into our comms relay.

How long is that going to take?

Should be pretty straightforward.

Or not.

Just give me a few minutes.

We've got sky loop debris in Los Angeles, Ohio, and Indonesia.

Luckily, most of it's hitting the Atlantic.

Do we have anything left up there?

We need to talk to the Inara. Send smoke signals. Do something.

You don't want to talk to the board, Myron. This is not Myron. This is Maddie

Hahn.

How'd you get this number?

I'm calling from 911 dispatch. We spoke the other day. You were in a whale.

Oh, Maddie, my guardian angel.

Yeah, look, this is not a good time.

Yeah, even if I told you I could connect you with the Inara?

They called 911?

Of course they called 911.

How did they call 911?

They didn't. We're calling them.

You can do that?

Yeah, I'm going to connect you with Karen Wilson.

Who the hell is Karen Wilson?

The wife. The woman who's about to save your undeserving ass.

Okay, come on. Let's get a gurney.

Ready? Yeah.

Nice and easy.

Stay in the engine.

The app for my peacemaker is telling me I'm having a heart attack.

You need to let me go first because mine's telling me I'm dead. Thank God.

My dialysis machines are failing, the MRIs are going rogue, and the sprinklers

just turned our oxygen therapy suite into hydrotherapy.

Any of this tech, Trip Housers?

All of it.

Great, where should we start?

Okay,

clearly that way.

What is that? That's Ross.

Robotic on the functional surgical system.

The entire suite's automated.

Kill a robot, sure, why not?

Who's that?

Oh, my God, it's Dr.

Lieberman.

Wait!

It got loose!

How do we turn this thing off? There's a monitor on the back. Shut down code

8361. All right, fuck Robbie, shut down the robot.

Eddie, you're on Dr. Lieberman. Let's go.

Everyone down, down, down, down, down.

Just get him on the table.

All right, the code's not working.

Doc, watch your head.

He's lost a lot of blood.

Close and thready.

Head.

We have to stop the bleeding.

Guys, incoming. I think it's coming back your way.

Get down. Get down.

I thought you shut it off.

It's glitching. See if you can pull a cord or something.

On it.

On

it.

Returning to docking station.

All right, good night, sweet prince.

Let's get him to vascular.

Three, two, one.

All right, go, go, go. Go, go, go.

Oh,

no. Battery backup. Oh, no.

I guess we can!

All right, let's get out of here before his friends show up. Come on.

All right, we're back in service.

Here, Harry.

So keep your eyes open.

If you see anything requiring a response, just make sure.

That's why you stay in the engine.

Is that somebody's phone?

I think it's mine.

Hello? Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Karen?

I can't believe you went to space without me.

Is everyone okay?

We're all alive, Karen.

Okay, we're not.

I mean, what the hell? What happened?

The satellites controlling the Inara 2 were taken out by a geomagnetic storm.

Think space hurricane.

I really can't take you anywhere.

All right, we're going to get you home, but we only have a few minutes before we

lose connection, so we have to move fast.

How are they doing that? I can't get service in my kitchen.

Maddie is going to patch you through to mission control. I'm going to connect

you to Trip Hauser and his team, okay?

Macronova, you are now connected with the Inara.

How are my fearless macronauts? Angry.

How the hell did you not know about this space hurricane?

Who's that?

That's the cop, Sergeant Grant.

Sergeant Grant.

Yes, NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,

underestimated the threat.

I'm looking into it.

But in the meantime, let's work on getting you home safely, okay?

Are you coming to get us, baby?

No, Pumpkin. The Anar is going to bring you right back home to us. How?

Okay. You see that console in the center of the craft?

A little door on it? I already popped it.

Okay, great.

We're going to move some stuff around in there. You might want to consider

putting actual controls in next time.

Never underestimate a good toggle.

Yeah, okay.

Now, we're going to manually start the return phase.

Now, all you have to do is listen close and trust that I got you, okay?

You see it? Yeah. Okay, now reseat it.

Done.

What now?

Nothing happened?

No.

Maybe we reroute power to the thrusters.

Do you see a wire marked interface?

Yeah. Disconnect that and reconnect it to...

thrusters.

That's your de -orbit burn. It's slowing you. Now we're going to orient the

Onara and let gravity do the rest. You're basically home free.

Oh, no.

What? What's happening?

We got fire!

It's coming out of the damn vent!

Window's closing.

Okay, don't panic. There's a fire suppression button.

It's on the side of your chair. It's a red button.

Got it!