Wow.
This is beautiful.
Shit.
I don't think it was recording.
-Really? -Sorry. It's these gloves.
We're gonna have to do it again.
-That was great though. -Yeah.
-Do it just like that. -All right.
Wow.
It's beautiful.
Hello.
Yeah, this is she.
Christ, I can't--
I can't do this again.
I can't-- I thought I could, and I can't.
Do you know, Kelly, how long I waited when he went down in Korea?
Two weeks. Two weeks I waited, feeling like this.
I can't.
Don't worry, Mom. It's gonna be okay.
Nothing about this is okay.
Nothing.
Baldwin residence.
This is his daughter. You can talk to me.
Yeah.
Thank you.
This is what it's like, Kelly. For the people you love.
This is what it's like, and you should know that.
Dad.
-Hey. -Hey.
Hi.
Goodness, look at you.
I just got a little wet. That's all.
Look, I know it looks pretty bad, but doc said I'm fine.
Well... that's great. You know, no harm, no foul.
-Karen, I'm sorry-- -Sorry for what?
It was an accident. You know, boys will be boys.
-But where are you going? -I'm gonna go to work.
It's 6:00 a.m.
Yeah, I'm gonna get an early start on the day. So...
Glad you're home.
Is she okay?
It was a long night.
Thank you. Hello.
Welcome to Jamestown. Al Rossi, Commander.
Hey there. Tracy. Nice to meet you.
We've met before. Twice, actually.
Oh, God. I'm so sorry. I'm terrible with faces.
That's all right. You've got the recognizable one.
This is quite the welcome wagon y'all put together.
To be honest, I think everybody was just hoping to get on Carson.
Right. Of course.
Well... say hello.
But really, we couldn't be more excited to have you, Tracy.
Giving everyone on Earth a glimpse of all the things we're doing up here,
well, I think it's gonna be great for Jamestown.
I agree, sir. I'm very excited to be here.
And if you don't mind, we have a little Jamestown tradition
we like to do for new arrivals.
Tracy Stevens, I...
Shit.
...hereby christen thee the new Linus of Jamestown.
-Linus? -You know, from Peanuts.
Why am I the Linus?
You're the newbie.
Everybody else on your crew's already been up here, so...
Ain't that something?
Okay, show's over. Let's get back to it.
Hey, Nick, as your first official job now that you're not the Linus,
why don't you give the new Linus here the standard orientation?
Sure thing, chief.
Hi. Hi.
Now beginneth the tour of our humble castle, my liege.
Stupid. So all your power,
life support, communication systems run through here,
radiate out through the various modules.
And we continue.
All right.
This is where we do all of our research projects. Geology, biology, chemistry.
Eyewash station over there on your left,
in case you get any regolith in your eye, which you do not want to do.
Trust me.
That stuff gets everywhere.
In your fingernails, your mouth, your nostrils,
you know, your nether regions.
Don't worry. You get used to it.
-All right. -Unfortunately.
Gerald is our resident chemist, and Gerald here makes a mean moonshine.
We allowed to have booze here?
Well, it's generally frowned upon,
but, you know, sometimes you just need a little nip after a long day,
if you know what I mean.
Yeah. I think I'll be all right, but thank you.
Nice to meet you, Gerald.
Okay. Great.
Yeah. Don't mind him.
All the chemists are kinda weird.
I think it's 'cause they almost never get to go outside.
And this is the brains of the base. Ops/Comm.
Wow, this looks bigger than I thought it would.
Yeah. Everyone says that at first. Just wait a couple weeks.
This is Commander Rossi's quarters, right here.
Other side is the med bay and quartermaster.
So, if you bump your head, need extra TP, that's your spot.
Behind me, we got our construction and mining operations.
Tuzell and Petersen run a pretty mean poker game on Friday nights.
That's good to know.
I'm not too shabby myself. I actually cleaned up off my crew last week.
Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure Petersen's a cheat, so be careful.
Last week, he won Eric's whole ration of lasagna.
Scary Eric.
So, back here, we got LSAM Flight Operations Control and EVA Ops.
As one of our LSAM pilots, you'll be gabbing with them a lot.
This is Julie. She'll mainly be your CAPCOM, and that's Mark.
Good to see ya. Hey, Mark.
Paul, I think--
I think we've got enough for Mr. de Cordova. Thank you.
Sure thing.
And onward we go.
So, what is Johnny like, by the way?
He's the best.
I knew it. And what about Ed? Is he really...
-Is he really drunk all the time? -No. That's just coffee in his cup.
I knew it. I knew he was a good guy.
You know,
I didn't wanna admit this earlier, but when I was a senior in high school,
I saw you save Molly Cobb on TV.
Well, now I feel old.
No. Please. You're not. It's...
It changed my life.
I remember thinking to myself, "One day, I'm gonna be her."
I mean, you know, figuratively speaking, of course, 'cause I'm not--
-Of course. -I'm not-- Yeah.
Thank you, Nick.
No problem.
Onward to mod 1.
Three channels on TV.
Unfortunately, the person with the most moon time in the room
gets to pick the show.
Sorry, Linus.
Call me Tracy.
Okay.
MREs are in here. Restocked every two weeks from the unmanned cargo launches.
The lasagna goes fast, and I'd definitely stay away from the lentils if I were you.
So, this was the old Jamestown Base.
Yeah. It's where it all started. Hard to believe, isn't it?
Anyway, make sure to throw out your trash in the receptacles right here.
-Got a bit of an ant infestation problem. -Infestation?
Yeah, you'll get used to it.
You wanna make a call, you sign up right there, you get 15 minutes.
That's it? When Gordo was up here, it was a whole bureaucratic thing.
It used to drive me crazy.
Yeah, now it's just a regular old phone. Call whoever you want.
You got Johnny's number?
Just kidding. Come on.
I'll show you where you sleep.
You're on shift A.
That's the good one. Trust me. In bunk three. Here.
Locker is all yours. Normally, you'd have to share it with your hot rack partner.
Hot rack?
Yeah, not enough beds on base for all of us.
The eight crew that work the night shift
have to share bunks with the most recent arrivals.
That sounds awful.
It kind of is, but you don't have to worry about that
'cause Commander Rossi thought it'd be better if you had your own space.
It's good to be queen.
-Tell him I appreciate it. -Will do.
We can't smoke in here, right?
Yeah. But... can still use my imagination.
Right. Right. Okay.
What is that?
That's just the air ventilation system.
Like everything else, you'll... get used to it.
Come on. Let's go meet your LSAM crew chief.
Slippery little bastard. Ain't gonna save you though.
Check this out, cheese dick.
Oh, no, you don't.
Sorry, sailor. Saw that coming.
Time to eat your lunch. Pipper's on...
Fox two.
That's all she wrote, buddy.
Geez.
We call that a clean kill.
We call that dumb luck, Gordo.
Let's make it two out of three. That's not good. Warning tone.
Jesus, Ed, you're on fire.
You got flames under your left engine.
Shit!
You better get out and walk, buddy.
More like go for a swim--
Well, that is one hell of a show.
Whose idea was it?
Don't look at him.
Give me one good reason why I shouldn't pull both your tickets.
I take full responsibility for--
Since when? For anything?
-Molly, listen. -Sit down.
Now, I decide who gets to go up and when.
-Molly, you can't-- -I can, Ed.
You were stupid. Both of you.
-Molly-- -Fuck up one more time...
Never gonna happen.
I promise you.
Then get out of here. Scram.
Yes, ma'am.
-That's it? -What?
That was barely a slap on the wrist.
We can't just let them get away with this kind of behavior.
I don't care if it's Ed Baldwin or Charles goddamn Lindbergh.
Things got away from him.
Happens all the time. It's no big deal.
Not a big deal?
Those jets cost over $2 million a pop, Cobb.
You wanna tell the president that's no big deal?
-I'd be happy to. -I bet you just would.
Molly.
I know you and Ed are close,
but I think it would be prudent as you're getting started in this job
to set a certain tone and--
I'm in charge of the Astronaut Office now. Is that correct?
Yes. That's correct.
All right. So the way I see it, for the next few months,
these are my people.
And I will handle them as I see fit.
They're pilots,
not desk jockeys.
Things happen. Not everything goes according to plan.
Things happen. That's a great attitude. Maybe that should be NASA's new slogan.
I don't have to justify myself to either of you.
Have a great day!
Propulsion system training has been moved to the...
Fuck ye--
Pretty cool, huh?
Yeah, it's cool.
So... why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself, "Alieda"?
-Aleida. -Aleida.
Right. All right, tell me your story.
Yeah, I don't really have a story.
Well...
how did you wind up here with us at Apollo-Soyuz?
It's not that interesting.
Over a hundred applicants and you come out of nowhere to grab the job?
I would say that's pretty interesting.
Not much of a talker, are you?
No.
Well...
glad to have you on board.
Yeah.
The docking system design team works out there.
You'll be here with us in Ops,
working on procedures and timelines for the docking module.
That's Elaine, Hank, Bobby.
Most of us were on the old Apollo missions.
And if you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Welcome to Apollo-Soyuz.
Once a month, you take anybody rotating back home back up to their shuttle.
You get the new crew, you bring 'em back with you here to Jamestown.
Now, other than that, your job is gonna be to retrieve unmanned cargo
from various points on the surface.
You land. You hook up the cable,
winch the containers up into the cargo hold, you bring them back here.
Then you unload, refuel, systems check and a whole lot of maintenance.
Yeah, I get it. I'm basically a truck driver up here.
Yeah, we get a lot of pilots up here always thinking they know best,
so let me just disabuse you of that right now.
I've been doing this a long time.
I know this beast like the back of my hand.
Now this is not some Piper Cub.
She's like a wild stallion. You gotta have a deft touch.
Think I can handle it, Doug.
-Auto-start good. -Keep it steady.
Easy.
Shit.
Put your hand back on the ACA and let it switch to P167 automatically.
-There you go. -All right.
Copy that.
Now I got it. Got ya!
Yeehaw!
All right.
"The guy next to you on the subway
seems like Superman to me,
what they used to call a god.
How easy for him to flirt,
to make you smile,
to hear your golden laughter and joke with you again.
'Will he have your phone number before the last stop?'
is a game for gods.
My tongue would shatter before I said a word
if you even looked at me."
Fragment number 16.
Look at you.
Hi.
That was great.
You were great.
Bet you were wondering how a bartender turns into a poet.
No, you always thought more than you said.
Yeah. Well, some point, it just went the other way
and now I just talk without thinking.
You still in Texas?
Austin. Yeah.
Of course.
I heard you moved to the moon.
-Yeah, I bought a condo there. -Well, why not?
-Hi. -Hi.
Ellen, this is Elise, my partner.
Hi, Elise.
I've heard so much about you. We see you in the newspaper all the time.
I'm sorry to interrupt. George wants to introduce you to someone.
Okay.
-Sorry. -No, of course. Go.
-Nice to meet you. -Yeah, you too.
Thanks for coming.
Good seeing you.
Ellen. Hi. Sorry, I just--
I wanted to...
Would it be weird for us to get a drink sometime?
No. Not at all. I mean, it would be nice.
-To catch up. -Yeah.
I've got a reading in Amarillo tomorrow,
but I'll be back in Houston in a few weeks.
Okay.
Great.
-Great. Okay, I'll see you then. -Okay.
That shot of you stepping onto the moon, boy, that was something.
Sure wish Neil Armstrong looked that sexy in a space suit.
Come on, Johnny.
I thought Neil looked pretty good myself.
So, how's it been going on your first few days at Jamestown?
Everyone has just been so welcoming.
It's been great. It's like a village up here.
Well, tell the villagers all of us down here say hello.
Will do, Johnny.
Tracy Stevens, ladies and gentlemen. Our first ever guest from the moon.
Thank you, everyone. I'll see you soon, Johnny.
I bet Ron and Nancy tuned in for that. Pretty cool.
I like Letterman.
Okay.
Approaching 42 Alpha.
Approaching 51 Foxtrot.
-How's the food? -It serves its purpose.
Hey, Gordo.
What on earth is your father doing?
Good question.
Good morning from the south pole of the moon.
It's Tracy Stevens wishing all you nine-to-fivers a sunny day on 88.5,
New York's number one choice...
Keep rocking to WHU FM.
Hey, y'all. It's Tracy Stevens
kicking up moondust for the listeners of K-Billy's Sounds of the '70s.
-And you're listening to Hot 97. -Houston's 96.7. The Brick.
Approaching 26 Yankee.
With the blue-green Earth on the horizon and Milky Way above
and stars and sun, bigger than you can imagine.
Johnny, you can't help but be in awe of the universe.
Wow. Astronaut Tracy--
Approaching 85 Charlie.
Now, a moon day is 655 hours long. Is that right?
That's correct.
That's what, Ed, 30 hangovers?
-You okay, Dad? -Yeah.
It's all part of the training, Son.
I'm Tracy Stevens live from the moon,
and you're listening to the Morning Zoo on KQ 92.
Well, it's lots of work, lots of poker,
but I'm still digging the heck out of it.
Y'all should come up for a visit.
I could be the first man to bounce an alimony check from the moon.
Thank fucking God.
Why are the M16s painted white?
So it doesn't melt through your gloves.
Temps get as high as 250 on the lunar surface.
Hope you packed some sunscreen, Bernitz.
-This is crazy. -Tell me about it.
They still haven't given us any guidelines
as to when we're allowed to shoot these things.
Well, today is your lucky day.
I have here the Rules of Engagement for Use of Force on the moon.
Straight from the secretary of defense.
Well, it was nice of them to give us the word before we took off.
Probably change it mid-flight.
-And again when we touch down. -Listen up.
I've walked through these with General Bradford and the--
You can read this page-turner for yourself in your spare time.
The gist of it is this:
In reclaiming site 357 Bravo,
you will not fire your weapon
unless it is in response to a hostile act or hostile intent.
What exactly is "hostile intent"?
"Hostile intent" is what my face will look like if you make me read this shit to you.
Commander... command.
Aye, aye, ma'am.
Godspeed.
We had plotted the entire year to steal the army's mascot.
-The mule? -No, a flock of mules.
-They don't have just one. -I think you mean a herd.
We broke those guys out of the stable. They were flying.
-Admiral Baldwin. -As you were.
-Dad. -Hey.
Sorry I'm late.
I can get you a plate.
Just pull up another chair.
I'd better get going.
Me and Jimmy are supposed to call Mom in a bit.
-Are you sure? -Yeah.
-Tell her we said hi. -Yeah.
Spaghetti night.
Yeah, I didn't think you were coming.
Well...
Looks like a pretty good crowd out there.
Yeah.
-Hope you're hungry. -A feast.
Wish I could hang, Dad, but I have to go help Ashley with dinner service, so...
-Really? -Yeah.
Was driving over here, I saw Wrath of Khan was playing at the Alabama.
Maybe you could sneak out and we could catch the late-night.
Kelly and I saw it last week.
-Was it good? -Yeah.
Then Spock dies.
-What's going on? -Grab your oxygen mask.
-What? -Your mask.
Jesus Christ.
High carbon dioxide alarm.
-High CO2? In which module? -Can't tell!
Toxic atmosphere detected. Everyone prepare for possible evacuation.
This is not a drill.
I repeat, this is not a drill.
False alarm, folks.
What the hell happened?
Computer read a spike in CO2.
Looks like we had a blocked vent in crew quarters B.
Oh, God.
I'm sorry. I can't sleep.
I can't sleep, so I was just trying to--
Tracy, we're one month into your tour up here.
And honestly, things aren't going very well, are they?
No, sir.
And you've got five more months to go.
I guess I've been having trouble...
adjusting to life up here.
Let me give you some advice.
This is my second tour, and...
I've learned that being up here on Jamestown,
living in the same space day after day,
you just have to embrace the--
Have you been drinking?
-You're drunk. -No, I'm just--
You're one of three LSAM pilots on this base.
What if this had been a real emergency and we had to evacuate?
-Yeah, I'm fine. -No, you're not fine.
This is completely unacceptable. I'm writing you up.
Hey. Don't do that.
If you report me to Houston, they'll ground me.
This is my life.
Please.
Could you please just give me one more chance?
All right.
But the special treatment is over, okay?
Okay.
-No more interviews. No more press. -No problem.
And I'm assigning you to work a training detail on B shift...
in addition to your normal duties.
Double shift.
-Which means you'll be-- -Be hot racking it.
If you don't like it, you can sleep on the floor for all I care.
That'll be all.
Hey, Deke.
I finally made it to the moon.
I don't know what people see in this fucking place.
It's just a big ball of gray dirt.
I don't know. I just thought it was gonna be somethin'.
I just feel like... I'm...
just drifting out here...
alone.
No one to talk to.
Except maybe for you.
If you could, you'd tell me to shut the hell up, but...
you can't, so...
sorry you're stuck listening to me.
I miss my boys.
I miss my bed. Hell, I even miss my bathtub.
I know.
I know. What do I have to complain about?
I gotta quit my whining. I know.
I should be happy.
I got everything I ever wanted.
It's just that now, now that I'm here...
I don't know...
it's just so...
empty.
Dad?
Hey, boys.
-What are you doing? -Nothing.
Just training.
Like the closet?
Yeah. Like the closet.
What closet?
I found him in the closet with his space helmet on the other day.
Everything okay, Dad?
Yeah. You've been acting kinda weird.
Yeah. I'm okay.
I'm just getting ready to go back up to Jamestown.
A lot to keep track of, you know?
A lot to wrap your mind around.
Gotta be prepared.
-Is it working? -Yeah.
Kind of. You know, not as...
not as well as I'd like, but...
Is this about what happened up there last time?
What do you know about that?
I mean, mainly just what was in all the reports on TV.
You had to fly Mrs. Poole back when she broke her arm
and that things were different after.
You never went up again.
Yeah.
You know, you...
you try to hold everything together.
Try to be strong for your family.
You know, tell 'em that you're safe...
and that you're gonna be okay.
But the...
truth is, boys...
it's not always gonna be okay.
Sometimes...
shit happens that you can't control.
Things can go wrong in a second.
And you realize that...
I realized up there that I was weak.
I was afraid.
So... I'm just trying to burn that from my head.
You know, that fear.
Before I go back up.
How's it going?
Not great.
Maybe we can help.
I wish you could, bud, but--
I think Jimmy has an idea.
-Cannonball! -You dick!
Going under.
When did this happen?
I'd say like two months ago.
-Disco dancing? -He loves it.
-Wow. -He and Peter go every Saturday night.
And by now, they're probably well into the hustle.
Does he wear the whole vest and collar thing?
Oh, yeah, the whole getup.
-This round is on the house. -Thanks, Karen.
Karen, that's really not necessary.
Nonsense. It's so good to see you again.
Yeah, I have to admit, when I heard you bought the place I was surprised.
Yeah, so was I. Trust me.
You've done a pretty good job of making it look...
-Less like a shithole? -Yeah.
Yeah. Baby steps though. Baby steps.
Still not sure about those.
Oh, yes, those. You and everybody else.
Hey, if you ever wanna get back behind the bar, you let me know.
No, no, no. Thank you, but...
I live in Austin now with my girlfriend.
That's really wonderful.
Congratulations.
You're welcome back here anytime, all right?
-Thanks, Karen. -Okay.
Cheers.
So you said Larry was working at Boeing now?
-Yeah. -Yeah.
He likes it.
Decent hours. Not as stressful.
You've really... just made a life of it.
Are you thinking of having kids or...
I don't know.
We've talked about it.
Elise definitely wants kids.
But not you?
I've had my fill of slurring, slobbering humans.
I'm sure.
Did you...
You ever figure out which poem was about you?
Took me a long time to write that.
To be able to write that. It's...
Yeah.
Well, anyway, it was a long time ago.
Finally got my shit together.
Finished my master's at UT.
Might stick with teaching. Not sure.
Unless... I become the next poet laureate.
Of course. Goes without saying.
Yeah.
I should probably be heading back. It's getting late.
Drive all the way back to Austin tonight.
Right. Okay.
This was nice.
Yeah. It was.
So, I guess this is goodbye then.
I guess so.
Bye, Ellen.
Bye.
What do you think is in those cases?
I'll tell you one thing, it's not sticks and stones.
Welcome to Jamestown. I'm Al Rossi, commander of the base.
After you're all settled in, we'll have a debrief in my quarters about your--
-your mission up here. -Copy.
Bernitz, it's my understanding that this is your first time on Jamestown.
It is.
Well, we have a little tradition we like to do for new arrivals.
Charles Bernitz, I hereby christen thee the new Linus of Jamestown.
-Linus? -It's from Peanuts.
Stevens, you'll be training Charles here
on advanced LSAM operations for their mission.
He's SIM certified but obviously hasn't flown it up here. Clear?
Well, aye, aye, sir.
Now, why don't you show them to crew quarters A
and then you can give the Linus here the standard orientation.
Copy that. Follow me, y'all.
Do I have to go by Linus?
You'll get used to it.
Wow.
You used to have that exact same NASA ashtray on your coffee table.
Well, that's the actual one. Finally just found the right place for it.
-Good night, guys. Thanks for today. -Thank you, Karen. See you tomorrow.
I remember this one time me and Jimmy were at your house for a sleepover.
It was really late. We were being really stupid,
and Admiral Baldwin was getting really, really upset.
We were all pretty much terrified of him.
Yeah, he can be a little intimidating sometimes.
Well, the bedroom door comes flying open and you come out.
Thank God it wasn't Admiral Baldwin.
-And you said, "Dang it, boys!" -Dang it?
Yeah, even at the time I was like what adult says "dang it"?
Me, apparently.
And then you said, "Knock it off and go to bed right now."
You said it real loud so that Admiral Baldwin could hear.
And then you went like this.
And you whispered, "Just keep it down."
That was great.
And I always thought, "Best mom ever."
You know, or at least top five.
Really? Top five?
Okay, who was better?
Mrs. Henry had those chocolate chip cookies with walnuts.
-What about my ambrosia? -I suppressed that memory.
Come on. No, you didn't.
I do remember this other time I was supposed to come over early for lunch.
I'd gotten there. The door was unlocked, so I came in.
I heard music playing. I think it was Elvis.
-Oh, no. -Yeah. And there you were
in the middle of the living room just dancing.
By yourself.
I mean, I've never seen anyone dance by themselves before.
Of course. What kinda nut dances alone in the middle of the day?
You know, I still think about Shane...
pretty much every day.
Yeah, it's the dividing line in my life.
Before and after, like...
BC and AD.
When he was here and... after he was gone.
Me too.
Good work today, Danny.
It's my job.
No, it's not. Your job is to protect our nation.
Okay.
-Okay, my summer job. -Yeah.
-Dang it. -Don't you dare.
Good night.
Good night, Mrs. Baldwin.