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Previously on Mars.

When you believe
in a goal the way we believed

in Mars, conviction alone
will sustain you through

almost any test.

Robert!

If you find evidence
of a second genesis.

Evolution can begin again.

I've got faith.

You know,
I used to stand in the doorway

of the farmhouse where I
grew up looking at all of the

crops, thinking about
all the people they'd feed.

If you push too hard too fast,

something's gonna break.

If they fail, everyone's out.

But faith
doesn't guarantee success.

Without plants we're nothing.

The real test is
what happens when you fail.

Richardson, Leslie.

Phase 2, personal entry.

Damn tragedy.

God.

The entire
west section is destroyed.

Paul was always late.

He would get so caught up
in his work that he would

just lose time,
completely forget about it.

And then he would show
up hours later, filthy,

like a kid that had
been playing out in the

mud all day.

And always with that
look on his face,

that look as if he knew
that he was in trouble.

But it was all worth it.

There was this one
night I remember,

It was while we were living
out in South America,

he was still in the
forest collecting samples.

He was late, as usual.

But somehow it was different.

Morning came.

Another day went by.

Finally I could hear
his footsteps approaching.

So, I rushed out to meet him.

And all of the sudden all of
that fear and worry that I'd

felt turned into anger, rage.

I couldn't believe
how selfish he'd been.

And then he appeared.

Victor.

There he is.

Covered
from top to bottom in mud.

With that look on his face...

that look.

And all I could say was,

"I love you."

Without plants we're nothing.

We are not nothing, my friend.

We'd lost seven of our own.

The lab and the
greenhouse were destroyed.

Olympus Town was on complete
lock down until the nations of

the IMSF decided on the
fate of our mission.

Was Mars going to be
a giant leap forward,

or just a passing novelty.

It wasn't the first
time humankind had

faced this question.

We accomplished
the impossible by

stepping on the Moon.

This was, the first hop.

And there would be a skip,
and a jump afterwards.

And we'd keep going
and going and going,

and the future would be
one of endless possibilities,

where the Cosmos was ours.

What do you think
about this Moon landing?

Well it's the
beginning of a new frontier,

a gateway to Mars.

That came to a very abrupt halt.

A major
turning point for Apollo was

the Apollo 13 mission in 1970.

Alright Houston,
we've got a problem.

There is a
bulletin from ABC news.

The Apollo 13 spacecraft
has had a serious

power supply malfunction.

A late report says the
spacecraft now is operating

on battery power alone,
all unnecessary equipment

is being turned off.

Let's everybody keep cool.

Let's not make it
any worse by guessing.

We came
close to losing astronauts.

And it scared the
living daylights out

of lots of people.

And some leaders at NASA
said we gotta stop this.

This is too risky.

We all lived
through that in real time.

We were all wrapped up with
the fate of the astronauts.

It was a close call
to get them back and that

really spooked Nixon.

It soured him on the
notion of sending humans away

from Earth into deep space.

So it was a catalytic
turning point in attitudes

towards space exploration.

Jack and
Fred and I are very proud and

glad to be back
here in Texas tonight.

There were times when
we really didn't think that

we'd make it back here.

After the anomaly on 13,

I thought that our
space exploration would

continue to go.

But the extreme rate of
progress slowed down.

Apollo was this massive promise

of what was going
to be going on, right?

We were going to the
Moon, not to stop.

There were plans beyond the
Moon but all this got killed

as the political will
petered out and was gone.

On a Mars
mission there may be some loss

of life in the process,
there may be failures along

the road, but
people will take it on.

One of the things that you
have to ask is: 'Are the rest of

us willing to allow
them to do that?'

Space exploration is
subject to public opinion,

and political support.

There's no question about that.

If you send astronauts
to Mars and they die there,

I guarantee you, public
opinion will prohibit you from

ever doing it again.

As we buried our friends,

the fate of the mission was
back on Earth in the hands of

my sister and the IMSF.

Hi Ed.

How long until we know?

I told the
press everything I know;

The nations are meeting to
discuss how to proceed and

then we'll make an
official announcement.

You can't let them give up.

You just can't.

They knew something like this
was a possibility, we all did.

Seven of
the world's most beloved

scientists and
astronauts are dead.

Does that mean anything to you?

Of course it
means something to me.

What are you talking about?

It's a time to be strong, to
make a statement that says

we're here to stay.

You're not going
to influence my recommendation

to the committee.

We've come too far Joon.

If the train is derailing,

there's nothing I can do
to keep it on the tracks.

The nations respect you,

they will listen to you;

You can inspire them
to stay the course.

Even if we can Ed,

I'm not sure that we should.

What?

I'm not sure that we should.

Me, I'm sure of one thing.

I won't let go.

Dreamers
of space have always had

their eyes, their hopes,
their aspirations,

on getting to Mars.

Mars has been the goal since.

Wernher Von Braun
got involved with NASA.

Liftoff, we have a liftoff!

Von Braun
overbuilt entirely the rocket

to go to the Moon.

Saturn 5 is the
largest, longest,

and heaviest machine
ever built by humans.

It's absolute overkill
for going to the Moon.

And the reason is, Von Braun
didn't wanna go to the Moon.

He wanted to go to Mars.

The only reason he got
involved in rocketry was

because ever since
he's a little kid,

he's focused on this
idea of getting to Mars.

He invented the
V2 rocket when he was in

his late twenties and
it was the first thing

that ever went
into space from Earth.

Von Braun surrenders
to US forces.

He and his fellow rocket
scientists actually welcomed

by the Americans.

After the war,

he writes a book
called 'das Marsprojekt',

which is basically a manual
on how to build a fleet of

ships that can get to Mars
and get humans back.

He's worked out all the
equations, all the details,

of how it could
actually be done.

And it captured the
mind of the world.

Nobody was thinking
about going to the Moon;

They were all imagining
going to Mars.

This closes a
golden chapter in the age

of space exploration.

At the
end of the Apollo program,

NASA's beginning
to lose its focus:

What do we do next?

And there are two proposals
on Richard Nixon's desk.

One proposal is that
we build a spaceplane,

called the Space Shuttle.

The other proposal was
from Von Braun and he was

really storming
the halls of Congress,

to say that we can go to Mars.

When would
you see a man on Mars?

We could land a man on Mars in

a little over 10 years
if we really wanted to do it.

Richard Nixon was never that

big of a supporter
of the space program.

He came in wanting to cut
the budget to lower taxes,

and space just
was not a high priority

for that administration.

Basically they just wanted
fewer leaps for mankind, right?

Small steps, small steps.

So Nixon
chooses the Space Shuttle

over going to Mars.

Von Braun quits NASA,
and within a few years

has cancer and dies.

It must
have taken a great deal of

determination to carry
on and, in view of some the

early failures that you've had.

Well, yes you just have to,

shouldn't give up.
It's very simple,

something blows in your face,

try again, try again, try again.

One fine day you'll
wind up on top.

After the
devastation to the west section

we needed to scavenge from
our other resources to rebuild,

even the old workshop.

Figure
we use the housings to patch

the corridor the best we can.

If we can get the
section sealed with scrap,

my team can start
working on the damage done

to Olympus Town.

Javier!

What?

Ven mira.

Que, what is that,

corrosion?

It looks like,
aragonite crystal.

Possible the metal catalyzed

perculate carried by the storm?

Unless
something reacted with the

water that came out of
the condensation filter.

It would be nice if I had a lab.

It's getting dark.

Let's get out of here.

Phobos and Deimos.

Fear and terror,

good names for
the Moons of Mars.

We lost
two of our finest cosmonauts

to this catastrophe;

The support of the
Russian people is fading.

We've known this since Apollo:

Once the novelty passes,
so does public support,

and no one ever
died on the Moon.

Is this not
the time to make a statement

that we're here to stay?

We have committed resources,
delivered speeches.

Giving up now could be
a great embarrassment.

More embarrassing than

another tragedy?

We only accepted the risk
in the 60s because it was a

matter of national defense.

People love space,

but not when it means
watching heroes die.

Secretary Seung,

you are as personally
invested as any of us.

I would like to hear your
recommendation to the committee.

May I?

I'm so sorry.

Paul was my responsibility.

We don't need to do this.

They all were.

You didn't kill them and

neither did Paul.

And neither did you.

I gave that order, not you.

We didn't have a choice Leslie.

Paul was right in front of me

and I didn't see him.

If we have
any chance in this place

we need you with us.

Hana...

they asked me to make a choice,

whether to keep pushing,
or to bring you home.

I tried to go
back to that feeling,

that feeling we had,

staring up at those stars
imagining what was beyond.

Unnie, do you
remember that recurring dream

I used to have?

Walking along the regolith
under the twin Moons before

I even knew it was
Mars I was dreaming about.

When I think about you up there,

if it had been you
in that corridor...

If it had
been me in that corridor,

I only hope someone else
would have done the same.

This mission, it's
bigger than all of us.

I've made my peace, and I'd
do it again if I have to.

That dream I used
to have about Mars.

I could never tell
Mom why I would wake up

crying every time.

It wasn't because
it was a nightmare.

It was because the
dream was over.

Hana, I told
them to bring you home.

I'm going to make a public
announcement next week.

I'm sorry.

The mission had failed,

I'd failed the crew,
I failed Ben.

Man, this
reminds me of a place I used

to go with my father
when I was a kid.

So beautiful.

Yeah.

You know,
they can give us a rover;

Put us in EVA suits,

but that blue sky,
gonna miss that.

There's really no way of
knowing if we actually make it

up there, is there?

Nope, but...

What good would we
be if we didn't even try?

Let's get moving.

The tragedy,
for me, of the shuttle...

it was as if we'd
lost our nerve.

Instead of building on the
technology that had gotten us

to the Moon, and saying
okay, let's go to Mars,

we ended up to a shuttle
which was going nowhere.

We went
into lower Earth orbit for

the next forty years.

And I think a lot people felt
a certain amount of betrayal.

So far, the previous
generations since Apollo have

not picked up that torch
and carried it forward.

We're approaching the

50th Anniversary of the
Apollo Moon landing.

People who watched it happen
are still around and still

remember a time when we
did things like this.

And if anybody had told
me that I would be 64 and

we wouldn't be on Mars,

I would have thought
they were crazy.

Dr. Zubrin,
you're mad that this vision

has been stolen
from a generation?

Yes, we turned our back on the

whole Apollo vision.

It's like Columbus coming
back from the New World and.

Ferdinand and Isabella saying,

"so what,
forget it, burn the ships."

The purpose of space ships
is to actually travel across

space and go to new worlds.

Mars is where the science is,

Mars is where the challenge is,

and Mars is where the future is.

That if we say no,
that is beyond us,

then it would really indicate
that we have become less than

the kind of people we used to
be and that is something that

this country cannot afford.

As the others
prepared Olympus Town for the

official evacuation order,
Robert and I took a trip to

visit an old friend, we needed
her help taking us back.

There she is.

Never thought we'd be trying

to take her back.

Me neither.

It looks like she's
been through a war.

She has.

This is it, your
home for the seven-month

journey and the first two
years you'll be living on Mars

surface, when the time
comes to face the unknown,

there has never been
another suit of armor more

skillfully crafted
than this one.

Take good care of her.

She'll take good care of you.

I want you to
stop and ask yourself what

really is important
to you about this mission;

And if the answer to
that question is not the most

important thing in your life,
then I'm gonna invite you to

walk out that door and pursue
that thing, whatever it is.

And don't ever look back,
because no one will ever have

the right to hold
it against you.

Well alright, welcome home.

External
solar arrays are online.

Initializing
for start up on my mark...

3, 2, 1.

Engage.

Pressurizing.

No pressure now Hana,

this is all of humanity
relying on you.

You ready for this?

Three.

Are you?

Two, one, ignition.

Pressurization complete.

NDEs are registering no

micrometeoroid damage.

She'll need the new parts to
address the damage from landing,

but Cygnus brought
everything we need to

get her flight-ready.

How will it be?

What's that?

Going home.

I'm already home.

Marta...

I thought you might
be interested in this.

It was Paul's.

I'd like you to have it.

Is there anything
I can do to help?

Thank you.

When Paul was working on his

early climate
resistant hybrid studies,

I went with him to the
western highlands of Guatemala.

We knew that if we didn't
plan our lives around our work

we'd never see
each other at all.

He was always gone,
sometimes weeks.

Because on top of
his own research,

he also decided that he could
figure out how this particular

pathogen was spreading
through local communities,

so I barely got to see him.

And I resented him for it.

It was as if, plants
were more important to him

than human beings.

Certainly to my mind,
more important than me.

Eventually I understood
that for Paul,

every time he looked
at those plants,

he could see all the
people they could feed,

all the people they could heal.

So how did he figure it out?

Figure what out?

The pathogen.

How was it spreading?

Paul realized that the outbreak

pattern followed the same
vectors as one of the airborne

blights he'd been tracking.

He'd also been mapping
these very complex wind flows

from the mountains.

And from that, he was able
to conclude that the pathogen

must have mutated,
and it was able to survive

in the air and travel on...

The wind.

Yeah.

By executive order,
all non-evacuation related

extra-vehicular activity
is now prohibited.

The biggest
failure in history...

biggest failure in history.

It's easy...

yeah, easy.

Four years of my life...

20 years preparing.

Very good and it's over.

Hey.

We'd be
looking for another location

with moisture to replicate
the reaction use on the WAVAR

so we'd be following
the wind patterns.

Wind patterns.

Javier and I found something.

The samples were too
contaminated to analyze but I

figured it blew in from the
east in the storm because of

the easterly arc of the wind,
no way to track its source.

Your story made me think.

Even though I may not be able
to pinpoint where it came from,

I can figure out where
else it might have blown to.

The way the Tharsis Plateau
affects the wind flow,

it would have
blown straight into the

recurring slope lineae.

On these elevated bedrock
outcrops just to the west.

If there wasn't a moratorium on

nonessential EVAs...

What moratorium?

The history
of space exploration begins

with individuals taking
the road not taken,

with people with a vision.

I really never had any doubts

that it was possible
to go to the Moon.

Today I know.

People being
able to see with their minds

what others had yet to be
able to see with their eyes.

There is
a direct correlation between

the dreams and the works
of science fiction

and the reality.

We as humans over and over
again create the future,

we create the
future we envision.

And then we bring to bear
our resources, our capital,

our technology, our friendships,

and then we make it real.

What is this building called?

This is the launch tower,

so this is where the
astronauts would go up,

and then there would be a big
arm that would swing over to

the spacecraft, and then
they'd walk down the gangway,

climb in the
spacecraft, go to space.

This isn't floors, this is feet.

The long-term goal of
SpaceX is to establish a

self-sustaining
civilization on Mars.

Pretty cool.

It's always seemed like we
should have gone there by now,

that's what everyone expected.

We just kind of lost our way.

It's a long way down.

But now we're gonna
get back there.

SpaceX Falcon 9 go for launch.

Stage 1
tanks pressing for flight.

Verify F9 is in startup.

F9 is in startup.

T-minus 4 minutes.

SpaceX Falcon 9 go for launch.

Vehicle's in manual.

T-minus 1 minute.

This is a
return to flight launch.

We'd had a failed
mission on June 28 of 2015.

After the failure, the whole
launch program ground to a halt.

That obviously put a lot
of strain on the company.

All stations
verify ready for launch.

T-minus 30 seconds.

Elon Musk
has said the key to get to Mars

is the reusability of rockets.

He wants to be able to
fire a rocket into orbit,

launch a payload into space,
and then fire retro rockets

and bring that rocket down to
land vertically, and reuse it.

That's an extremely
difficult concept.

If he cannot make rockets
truly reusable then he cannot

launch a new
civilization on Mars.

So the stakes for every
rocket launch are huge.

T-minus 20 seconds.

Stage Two tanks
pressing for flight.

Flight computer has
control of the vehicle.

Do we
see anything on the sensors

that's a problem?

No, nothing.

They all say go for launch.

T-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6...

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0.

It's gone, baby.

Let's go, check it out.

Speed 1.2 kilometers down
range distance 11 kilometers.

Shortly after main
engine cut off,

we're going to
separate the stages and

begin the second stage ignition.

Come on.

Main engine cut off.

The first stage is returning
to land as the second stage

powers the OrbComm satellites
to low Earth orbit.

The fairings have
successfully deployed.

The first stage will soon
begin its series of three

burns to head back
towards Cape Canaveral.

Where is it going?

Okay, this is bad.

Potentially bad.

That is that first
stage, coming back down.

History in the making guys.

It's standing up!

Coming in, it sounded
like an explosion.

Yeah man!

My God!

Look at this, look at this!

It's just sitting
there, look at that.

What... holy smokes man.

It's kind of amazing that
this window of opportunity

is open for life
to go beyond Earth.

And we just don't
know how long that window

is going to be open.

The thing that gets me
most fired up is that creating

a self-sustaining
civilization on Mars would be

the greatest adventure ever...

ever in human history.

It would be so exciting to
wake up in the morning and

think that that's
what's happening.

Apollo is
still within living memory.

Houston the Eagle has landed.

But the longer
we let it fade into the past,

the dimmer our prospects become.

We do need to make discoveries,

we do need to find out
the truth about life,

and the universe.

To resolve mysteries that
thinking men and women have

wondered about for
thousands of years.

Look up, look up!

There's everything out there!

There's trillions
of other Earths.

That's why we're gonna do
it and the next time we go,

we're gonna go to stay.

The story
Leslie Richardson told me

sparked a thought.

Javier and I found something
at the old workshop.

I need to go there.

The wind
patterns lead to a location

87 kilometers west
of Olympus Town.

We hoped to find a
new sample of the substance.

Marta found on the WAVARs.

Leslie, have
you ever driven one of these?

No, I haven't.

Do you want to have a go?

Come.

We're here at
IMSF headquarters waiting for.

Secretary Seung to make her
announcement regarding what we

believe will be the end
of the Mars mission.

We've come so far,

we stop now
the Mars dream is dead.

Today marks the end of an era,

and the beginning of a new one.

There is life on Mars.

We had come so far.

Overcome so many obstacles.

And though there were times
when our faith flagged,

we persevered.

There would be no evacuation.

And as we prepared
for the next phase,

one thing was clear.

Our dream was alive.