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Mrs. Baldwin? Dr. Josephson.

Hi, Karen Baldwin. Shane's mother. How's he doing?

Is there a Mr. Baldwin?

Yes. But he's unavailable at the moment.

He's on the moon.

He's on the-- Your husband is Ed Baldwin?

Yes, he is. Can you please tell me how my son is doing?

-Please, sit. -I'm fine.

I don't need to sit. I just wanna know what happened to my son.

Paramedics reported a motor vehicle to bicycle accident.

Well, who hit him?

We don't know. The driver left the scene.

A neighbor found him in the street and called for an ambulance.

He was wearing a basketball uniform.

A basketball uniform?

All right, so what did he break?

Your son has sustained serious head injuries.

His skull was fractured, and there's bleeding in the brain.

Wait.

Wait. Wait.

He what?

We're doing our best to help him. He's in surgery right now to drain the blood

and to alleviate some of the pressure from his brain.

No, he's in surgery?

He's in--

No, nobody asked me about surgery. Shane's never been under anesthesia before.

It's a lifesaving intervention, Mrs. Baldwin. We had no choice.

I'm sorry. Lifesaving?

What the hell is going on here? No. I thought he broke a bone or something.

I know. It's okay.

-No, this is not okay. This is not okay. -Let's just calm down.

And if the surgery helps, and a lot of times it does, then that's a good sign.

Shane is young, and youth is always on our side.

Okay.

Yeah.

Shane is strong.

I don't doubt it.

He's gonna be just fine.

Come with me. We have a private waiting area for family members.

Okay. Yeah.

No, he's gonna be fine.

-We're doing everything we can. -Okay.

-I'll keep you updated. -Thank you.

Morning, sunshine.

Morning, Dani.

What's for breakfast today? Eggs, bacon, pancakes?

I finally get a chance for some peace and quiet,

and they put you and Gordo on CAPCOM.

Come on, Ed. You know you miss me.

By the way, Steelers whomped the Oilers again. Twenty-four to ten.

Some things never change.

Pastorini looked lost out there.

All right, don't forget,

Doc needs you to hook up to the biosensors again today

and make sure to repair the aux tank coupling.

Yes, ma'am.

It's all there in the readout.

Yes, ma'am.

Have a good one.

It was Gordon "Gordo" Stevens who safely piloted the capsule

over 200,000 miles back to Earth,

where he and Mrs. Poole landed safely in the Pacific just last week.

Gordo Stevens, a real American hero.

Meanwhile, Ed Baldwin remains at Jamestown,

the lone American on the moon.

And we're here with the crew of Apollo 24,

the astronauts tasked with bringing him home alive.

Harrison Liu, Deke Slayton

and mission commander Ellen Waverly.

I'm sorry, Ellen Wilson.

Congratulations on your recent wedding.

Thank you.

For those out there who don't know it,

Deke, you were one of the original Mercury guys, isn't that right?

That's right. Over ten years ago.

But this will be your first time in space.

You were grounded for health reasons, right?

And you became a bigwig over at NASA instead.

But now you're cleared to fly,

and I'm sorry, but I gotta ask, why aren't you commanding this mission?

Ellen Wilson is a fine commander.

I should know. I trained her and put her in charge of this mission.

I'm sure she is.

But some people feel Danielle Poole's incident at Jamestown

raises questions about the wisdom of having women living on the moon

in such harsh conditions.

Accidents happen. They're not gender-specific.

Danielle Poole is a fine astronaut, and she handled herself well.

First, Patty Doyle's death. Now, this girl's injury.

One has to ask, have we gone too far, too fast, in rushing women into the program?

If anything, Mr. Newsome, it's taken too long.

I believe women should've been part of the space program from the very beginning.

Do you feel that way, Deke?

Do you believe women should've been part of the original Mercury 7?

I believe...

the mission commander is always right.

Harrison, you will be on the moon with Ellen for weeks, possibly months.

Do you have any concerns about her physical fitness

to handle living on the moon?

First, I prefer "Harry."

Second, I just wanna say that the three of us

have been training together as a crew for months.

And I served with Ellen before on Apollo 19.

I've come to not only respect,

but to admire Ellen as mission commander and as an astronaut.

I'm not worried about serving under her at all.

Well, there you have it. Solidarity in space.

When Grumman designed the upgraded LEM for reuse,

the autonomous piloting system wasn't qualified for far-side operations.

So once you dock with the LSAM, you'll be performing a system test

of the lunar comm sat.

That's fine.

You guys finally made your minds up about what our cargo load is gonna be?

We're still working on that.

What's the mystery?

It's basically just 20,000 pounds of food and gas, right?

24,000 to be exact.

I'm sorry if cargo is not at the top of our priority list

what with us trying to certify a Saturn V for flight and all.

Moving on to environmental control systems, the...

Want to explain to me how I flew two Gemini missions,

and now I'm backing up a chick, a geezer and a Korean?

He's Chinese.

Harrison. His family's from China.

Even better.

Remember when it used to be about merit around here?

How good you were.

Now it's about the color of your skin or what's down between your legs.

-How's it feel being back at work? -Good. Real good.

Put me on CAPCOM for Jamestown.

Danielle too.

Figured we'd keep Ed in good spirits,

seeing as we know what he's going through better than anyone.

So, yeah, things are pretty good.

When you first came in here, Gordo, do you remember what I told you?

That this only works if you're completely honest with me.

Okay, for one, I guess I'm worried about my wife.

Okay. What are you worried about?

Well, I don't know. It's just... lately she's been acting different toward me.

This is Tracy?

Yeah, Tracy.

I told you she's an astronaut too, right?

Yes, you've mentioned that.

Yeah.

Yup.

You said Tracy's been acting different. Different how?

Different.

Like...

while I was away, you know, she rented me an apartment, furnished it.

And whenever I do something wrong, which lately feels like all the time,

she tells me to go to my apartment.

-Does she want a divorce? -Oh, no. God, no. Nothing like that.

No. No, she just wants a little space, I guess.

Well, how do you feel about the idea of moving out of your own house?

How do I feel?

Not good. That's how I feel. You know.

I don't wanna move out. It's my house. I wanna be there with my family.

How does she feel about this?

How do you think? She's proud of me. She's real proud.

How long were you away?

145 days.

You know, Tracy...

She's going up real soon. Going with Molly Cobb.

Oh, yeah, the first American woman in space.

Yeah.

Well, that must be quite an honor flying with her.

Yeah, yeah, I don't know if Trace sees it like that.

It's gonna be her first time up there.

And her and Molly didn't exactly get along.

Anyway, they're gonna be repairing a satellite in Earth orbit.

How long will she be away?

Fourteen days, if things go as planned.

It's just you can plan these things,

you know, years and years,

but, you know, then you get up there...

Well, things can...

They can just fall right apart on ya.

What happened up there, Gordo?

Shouldn't there be a couch in here?

I'm never gonna play with Sidney again. He's mean and terrible.

Oh, my. Now what has Sidney done that is so terrible?

-Photosynthesis. -He said there was no Santa Claus.

So that's why you love chocolate.

-Even after I told him we know Santa-- -Come on. Focus, Anthony.

The Great Oxidation Event is when the atmosphere first became...

"oxynegedated"?

Correct. And when did it happen?

Like, two billion years ago.

You've got to say the exact number.

I'm sorry, Mommy, but that terrible...

It's 2,500,000,000.

300.

Everyone is entitled to believe in what they want.

And incidentally, there's a 50/50 chance you might be wrong.

Poor thing. It would be such a--

Esmeralda, don't!

-Hey. -Hey.

Making your famous popcorn Christmas decorations.

That's nice.

How was work today?