I.S.S.

You good?

Yeah.

From all of us down here in Mission Control,

welcome to Space Care, buster.

Now you're a real astronaut.

Contact and capture confirmed.

The Russians always knock three times.

It's their way of telling us it's time

to start paying attention.

Though, I think it's just a superstition.

Our guys just swing the shit open.

Which one? Wait, Ashley, right?

- No, Mia. - Oh, okay.

- She made the dress. - Aw, cute.

She's my youngest.

Ashley's not really speaking to me right now.

She's at that age where her mother is, my ex,

is probably tellin' her that, "Oh, you know, daddy's..."

Oh, mother of God, yes!

Finally!

What took you guys so long?

- Welcome! - Hey!

How do you feel, good?

- Good, right? - No.

Yeah.

- Zero gravity. - You're better, huh?

- You need food? - Yeah, I'm hungry.

- Let's go get some food. - Let's get dinner.

Alright!

That's no shift.

I'm good, thank you, um, Weronika?

- Nika. - Nika, 50 days.

Yeah, that's exciting.

Yeah and I'm making all of us celebrate this,

along with your arrival, of course.

Of course. That's very nice.

Okay, now...

The important thing?

Good job.

It means the important thing is that we stick together.

It's a quote from the famous astronaut Buzz.

My training partner over there, Alexey,

he and I say it all the time.

- Ah, Buzz Aldrin. - No, the other Buzz.

- Lightyear. - Okay, Russian dad joke.

You just welcome Weronika aboard.

- Oh, it's her first day. - Oh, I'm sorry.

It's okay.

It's alright. Takes a minute.

Put your feet in the foot holes. Isn't that better?

Yeah. Thanks.

The blue handles are your friends.

Nika was just helping me get more acclimated.

- Really? - Yeah.

Get lost.

Weronika, back to work.

Foster. Let's, uh, let's get you stowed away.

Okay.

This is you, port side.

Your glorified phone booth.

You got your bed, uh, your computer up here.

Here's your alarm speaker.

Well, everything I was promised.

Now, look,

no one knows what kind of sleeper they'll be

'til they get up here. I get in the bag.

Christian's a floater, literally floats the entire night.

My advice to you: Start in a bag, go from there.

It will suck, but it will get better.

Alright, Node 2 back there,

that's pretty much your home away from home.

Do whatever you want in your sleep station.

Sleep, watch movies,

the Internet never really works,

so it's a pain in the ass when you want to try to video chat

with your loved ones.

Wanna take a little break, try to reach them,

try and make contact?

No.

Cool.

That little hum you're hearing, that's our life support.

You hear that hum and everything's right as rain.

When you don't hear that hum,

that's when you can start to panic.

Yep.

Like I said, we share everything up here.

So, if you want to avoid

someone looking for an extra pair of watch glasses

and accidentally ruining months of your research,

just lock it up with this key. Works on any American lock.

You can use Russian cabinets, but you just gotta trade keys.

Do you mind if I take a minute and just set up

and get my little guys acquainted, put some things away?

Yeah, no problem. You want me to

you want me to hang out or you want to do it alone?

No, I got it.

Uh, okay. We're happy you're here.

- Thank you. - Take your time.

Alright. Oh, you were takin' a nap, weren't you?

I know. Okay.

I know, I know, I know, I know. You're doin' good.

Yep, yep, yep. Good job!

I know it's weird. Here you go.

Gotta hold, hold, hold, hold, hold. Hi, little booger.

I miss you too.

Look at that. Stay, stay, stay.

Hello, doctor.

Hello.

You alright? You alright?

There you go. Good job.

I hear we'll be working closely.

I'm sorry. My Russian is not very good right now.

No, it's good. It's good. Alright.

Better than my American.

I'm a doctor.

- Pulov? - Da.

No, I read a translation of your thesis

on the contagious cancers amongst Tas Devs.

I'd actually like to talk to you

because there's a direct correlation with my...

I don't, um...

If you could...?

- Oh, God! - Yes.

- Oh, I... - I don't want, impolite.

- Oh, we're sharing? - Yes.

Ah.

Thank you.

Horribly embarrassing.

I know. Oh, sorry, little man.

We've done many of these.

- Mice? - Yes.

Right, I read about the thyroid fabrications.

How is that?

Yes. We've done many with mice. They're afraid up here.

Nothing to hold on to. It...

I'm sorry?

It does not end well.

It was nice meeting you.

Welcome aboard, doctor.

- Not again. - Wow!

- That's a thing we do here? - Yep.

They didn't tell you I'd be playing with fire up here?

Well, playing with fire was highly discouraged.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got your mice.

I've got my babies too, and I miss them very much.

- Aw. - I don't know why

they put us in the gym, though.

Well, they put a toilet here as well.

You don't hear me complaining, do you?

Hey, Kira.

- Hi! - He only complains

when I kick his ass at chess.

Oh, please! Watch this, Captain Bubbles.

- He's showing off. - Oh, my God, oh, my God!

Major FAA violation, by the way.

Yeah, I know. I know that.

But my friend wants...

- Happy New Year. - What's new?

Have a guess.

Well, a little shit.

I've always wanted to see Siberia.

I come from the west side of Russia,

so we have pine trees.

Incredible! You smell it.

- See that's what I'm... - From miles away.

- Yeah, yeah. - Your lungs open up.

I miss that. I miss that.

I'm gonna come and visit you.

We're gonna smell the pines together.

I love this song.

- Not bad! - Here we go.

- Oh, boy. - It's cruel.

Why you say cruel, Gordon?

- Not the song, the song... - No, but this song was

an end of a bad life,

end of a bad era for parents and grandparents.

- No, I, I didn't mean... - We're not doing this.

The song's cruel, I just meant...

What am I doing?

We don't talk politics around here. Here, we're one.

We're evolved species.

It is not politics.

When you grow up like we did, you know, right?

This song means something.

It means something different to all of us.

Yeah, but it means a lot to me.

We don't talk about any of it. We stay away from Syria, Israel.

I definitely don't talk about my service.

And we sure as hell don't talk

about what's goin' on down there right now.

Alexey, I'm sorry. I was only... that was stupid.

I was just jokin' around.

It's bad joke.

Yeah, bad joke.

- Hey. - It was stupid.

I wasn't sure before,

but now, it is exactly

the moment to present to you...

Oh, shit!

Ta-da!