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This is Mission Control Houston.

This is Mission Control Houston.

Space Station Ocula, do you copy?

We copy, Houston.

Major Toomey heading to the bridge.

Let's spin the gravity well test, Ocula.

We want to initiate the correction burn

- coming up at 12:21. - 12:21.

Roger that.

Nice of you to join us, Captain.

I was gonna go for a stroll, but it's about

- minus 450 degrees outside. - Summertime.

Roger that, Houston.

Locking NAB orbital track in the computer.

This is Houston. You are a go for correction burn.

Initiating direction burn in three, two...

- Master alarm. - Where's your malfunction?

- Beats the hell out of me. - I'm looking at all green lights.

Now, Houston, I'm reading a debris field

directly in our flight path.

Ocula, Joint Space Ops has picked up an object

on a collision course. Advise initiating

- course correction immediately. - Ahead of you, Houston.

Counting down in five, four, three, two, one, mark.

Object is still closing, Houston.

It's increasing speed and

appears to have matched our course correction.

- It's not possible. - Russian?

Okay, initiating a second burn

and making a two-degree course correction.

Trying to shake it off.

- Time to impact? - 35 seconds.

Impact critical here, Captain.

- The gravity wave. - Can you widen the impact for me?

Give it a try. Good idea.

- Stand by, detaching. - Hustle.

Twenty seconds to impact.

Initiating wave pulse.

- Brace for impact! - Hold on tight!

Impact in 15, 14, 13,

12, 11, 10,

9, 8, 7, 6,

5, 4, 3, 2...

Shut down!

- Roger that. - Gravity wave shut down.

Ocula, this is Houston, do you copy?

Ocula, this is Houston, do you copy?

Yeah, Houston, we're still breathing.

Used Ted's gravity wave to deflect incoming object.

- Any idea of what that was? - Negative, Ocula.

Joint Space Ops are still tracking and we'll update you.

Whoo!

All right, Ocula, stand by up for uplink

- to JBN Cable News. - Standing by, Houston.

Even better.

This is Ann Poole for HNN Global News.

We have two astronauts making history 250 miles above us,

Major Ted Lockwood and Captain Alex Toomey.

Now, Ted, unless you've been living under a rock

for the past few months, is the mastermind

behind a device that creates a gravity wave

eliminating weightlessness in space.

- Not just space, Ann. - We've recently determined that

we can control and now direct gravity

in space, on the surface, anywhere.

- Amazing. - Can you tell us any more?

What else have you learned since entering Moon's orbit?

Well, I don't bump my head so much.

Well, that's a plus.

Well, the applications are limitless, Ann.

In space, loss of bone density and muscle mass

for long-range space missions could be a thing of the past.

It means trips to places like Titan and Pluto

could become a reality. Now, back home,

controlling gravity fields would be a revolution.

- Revolution. - In every industry.

Skyscrapers could be built in weeks versus years.

And on the other side of the dial,

demolition work could be achieved in minutes

using gravity-based directional pressure

to level anything from a pile of rocks

to 10 city blocks. That rhymed.

The applications are boundless, Ann.

Amazing, amazing.

Well, Ted, we are all wishing you luck down here

and looking forward to hearing the results of the final trials.

You know, Ann, I have to say, the entire thing has been

a team effort.

I couldn't have done any of this without Alex here.

His down-to-the-wire application for the wave

averted a near disaster yesterday.

Well, Captain Alex Toomey, the highly-decorated

son of space pioneer General Michael Toomey,

your dad would be proud to know you're following

- in his footsteps. - I'm sure.

Well, knowing your father is the first man on Mars,

- must cast a long shadow. - No.

No, not at all.

Just proud of my dad and what we're doing up here.

Well, keep up the good work, gentlemen,

and don't bump your head, Alex.

This is Ann Pool talking to the astronauts on Ocula Station

for HNN Global News.

That was fun.

Hey, I could use a hand running through these relays.

- Alex? - Always living in his shadow.

- What? - It's okay, Teddy.

It's okay, I'll get it. You're the big shot.

You invented the gravity wave. I'm just along for the ride.

Is that really how you feel?

No one will ever look at anything I ever do.

Now you heard that dig she got in about my father.

- What was that? - I didn't hear any...

It was a dig.

Trying to get a reaction out of me.

Houston, I've got a 1202 alarm.

- Copy you, Ocula. - We read you.

The team advises 1202 is not critical

and they are working on the problem.

Procedures should follow shortly.

- Copy that, Houston. - We'll just sit tight.

Flight director suggests you continue

- currently-scheduled tests. - Suggest.

Let's go put your ass back to work.

- Alex? - Look at me, boy.

You'll never measure up.

You'll never measure up.

Measure up, Alex. Measure up.

This is Mission Control, Ocula.

- Ocula, do you copy? - Hey, Sandra, morning.

- That's weird. - I was dreaming I was in Fiji.

Sorry, Ocula, Flight Director Barlow

has given me new mission parameters.

- We're all ears. - Stand by, Ocula.

I want to go live for this.

- Hey, fellas. - What's up?

There's been a development.

What I'm going to say is highly classified.

There are six other people on the planet that know

what I'm about to tell you. Our government

has been in communication with an alien race.

Flight, could you repeat?

The near-miss yesterday was not debris.

Data concludes it was an alien probe sending us a message.

Mission parameters have been revised.

Gravity wave experiments and data collection is on hold.

Your mission is now first contact.

One of you will be the first to communicate with the species.

- Copy? - One person, Houston?

- One. - Who's going?

Ted is.

Major Lockwood, you should know

this came down from the president himself.

They want you suited up and ready for transport

- at 11:25 GMT. - That soon?

Copy. We've been able to decipher coordinates

for some type of molecular transport.

Decipher? Transport?

How long have these discussions been going?

Let's just say the probe contained

a wealth of information,

including translation instructions

which we are still analyzing.

Once the Ocula is in the proper rendezvous position

on the dark side of the Moon as instructed,

the transport beam will appear inside of the station,

and Major Lockwood, you will step into it.

Copy?

Copy that, Houston.

What does he say when he meets him?

You shake hands.

Do they even have hands?

The Gorangi have confirmed

they are similar to us in many ways.

Gorangi?

State Department is sending up

a list of questions for you to ask them, Ted.

Ted?

They're sending Ted?

That's your seat, boy, not him!

If I can be number one, so can you.

Measure up, Alex!

Measure up!

Alex?

Alex?

You okay?

I'm good.

I know this sucks.

You're making your mark.

Major Theodore Lockwood.

Everyone's gonna know that name.

And more than that, it's immortality

'cause you're first.

They made a judgment call.

Yeah, based on what?

Qualifications?

Accomplishments?

Really?

Come here.

What is this?