00:00:25,030 --> 00:00:26,World Without End (1956)

00:01:40,734 --> 00:01:41,Encode to Washington.

00:01:41,968 --> 00:01:46,No signal from XRM since
last reported at 0118.

00:01:55,181 --> 00:01:57,- No further contact from XRM.
- That means trouble?

00:01:57,617 --> 00:02:00,- Not necessarily.
- They cut off in the
middle of a message.

00:02:00,487 --> 00:02:03,- Could be radio trouble.
- What do people at White Sands say?

00:02:03,423 --> 00:02:05,- No comment.
- Do you think they've crashed?

00:02:05,692 --> 00:02:08,We don't think anything.
We just don't know.

00:02:09,295 --> 00:02:10,- Excuse me.
- But, major...

00:02:10,663 --> 00:02:12,Excuse me.

00:02:13,666 --> 00:02:16,I'm sorry, Mrs. Jaffe. Would
you care to wait in my office?

00:02:16,569 --> 00:02:19,- You'll be more comfortable there.
- No, thank you.

00:02:19,506 --> 00:02:21,I'd better take the
children home.

00:02:21,341 --> 00:02:23,I want Daddy to
come home with us.

00:02:23,676 --> 00:02:26,He can't, Ginny.
He's very far away.

00:02:26,746 --> 00:02:29,Yes, very far.

00:02:30,250 --> 00:02:32,Will you call me, please,
if you hear any news?

00:02:32,552 --> 00:02:35,Yes, of course I will. The
moment we hear anything.

00:02:35,188 --> 00:02:36,Thank you.

00:02:41,895 --> 00:02:44,Why would a guy with a wife
and a couple of kids...

00:02:44,397 --> 00:02:47,...wanna go on a crazy
expedition like that?

00:02:48,201 --> 00:02:51,Has man's first flight into
space ended in disaster?

00:02:51,471 --> 00:02:53,Dr. Eldon Galbraithe and
his crew of adventurers...

00:02:54,007 --> 00:02:55,...are unreported
for many hours...

00:02:55,809 --> 00:02:58,...and grave fears are
felt for their safety.

00:02:58,978 --> 00:03:01,Henry Jaffe, navigator
of the spaceship XRM...

00:03:02,148 --> 00:03:05,...last reported that the ship
was approaching the planet Mars.

00:03:05,385 --> 00:03:07,In the midst of a transmission
in which he described...

00:03:08,087 --> 00:03:11,...the fabulous ice-capped poles of the
red planet, contact was suddenly lost.

00:03:12,158 --> 00:03:16,All over the world, radio operators
are trying to reestablish contact.

00:03:39,252 --> 00:03:41,Dr. Galbraithe, I still
can't get anything.

00:03:41,821 --> 00:03:44,- Are you sure it's not the equipment?
- No, no, that's okay.

00:03:44,791 --> 00:03:47,We lost contact when we
entered Mars' magnetic field.

00:03:47,393 --> 00:03:49,Probably regain it
as soon as we leave.

00:03:49,395 --> 00:03:52,If we don't get it soon, people
will be worried about us.

00:03:52,198 --> 00:03:55,We'll head for home as soon as
we complete the orbit, Henry.

00:03:55,902 --> 00:03:58,John, look at this.

00:03:58,838 --> 00:04:02,Ten degrees right,
15 degrees depress.

00:04:06,579 --> 00:04:09,If only we knew what
that green stuff is.

00:04:09,382 --> 00:04:11,Perhaps it's a sort
of moss or lichen.

00:04:11,951 --> 00:04:13,If it's grass or a
type of grass...

00:04:14,087 --> 00:04:16,...there's no reason why
there can't be life on Mars.

00:04:16,756 --> 00:04:20,So near and yet so far away.

00:04:20,226 --> 00:04:22,- I wish we could land.
- So do I, John.

00:04:23,129 --> 00:04:25,But our mission is
reconnaissance, exploration.

00:04:25,865 --> 00:04:27,If we try to land
now and crash...

00:04:27,934 --> 00:04:30,...all the information
we've gathered crashes with us.

00:04:30,603 --> 00:04:33,We'll be back. And next
time, we will land.

00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:37,Henry, lay out a return flight
plan for 0200 departure.

00:04:38,077 --> 00:04:39,- Check.
- Herb.

00:04:39,746 --> 00:04:43,Soon as your radio starts working again,
tell them we made two orbits of Mars.

00:04:43,516 --> 00:04:46,Equator at 30,000 feet,
pole to pole at 20,000.

00:04:46,819 --> 00:04:48,Complete photomapping
all the way.

00:04:48,755 --> 00:04:51,Tell them we've completed all
assignments and we're coming home.

00:04:51,858 --> 00:04:53,Right.

00:04:53,860 --> 00:04:56,Here's your initial
heading, John.

00:04:56,930 --> 00:04:59,Good. Prepare for
standard acceleration.

00:04:59,966 --> 00:05:02,- Home and mother.
- We're heading for the barn.

00:05:02,402 --> 00:05:04,What a reception we'll get.

00:05:04,637 --> 00:05:07,My creditors will be
deliriously happy.

00:05:07,707 --> 00:05:09,All rockets forward.

00:05:11,411 --> 00:05:12,Rockets forward, check.

00:05:12,946 --> 00:05:15,Cut off at 15 miles per second.

00:05:15,448 --> 00:05:18,Cut off at 15 miles
per second, check.

00:05:19,986 --> 00:05:21,- All set?
- Right.

00:05:21,988 --> 00:05:23,Here we go.

00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:53,Speed, 15 miles per second.

00:06:00,393 --> 00:06:04,- Acceleration leveling off.
- Good.

00:06:11,804 --> 00:06:13,You all right, doc?

00:06:13,873 --> 00:06:15,Okay here.

00:06:20,346 --> 00:06:23,There it goes, the planet Mars.

00:06:23,516 --> 00:06:26,- Sliding into the distance.
- It'll be there when we come back.

00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,I'll drink to that.
Who's for a slug of coffee?

00:06:46,139 --> 00:06:48,Hull temperature going up.

00:06:49,042 --> 00:06:51,Acceleration increasing.

00:06:51,844 --> 00:06:53,We've lost flying attitude.

00:06:54,113 --> 00:06:55,We're spinning!

00:06:55,581 --> 00:06:57,Reverse rockets.

00:06:57,850 --> 00:07:01,- Reverse rockets!
- I can't. I can't make it.

00:07:04,857 --> 00:07:08,Our speed has reached
30 miles per second.

00:07:08,728 --> 00:07:11,Hull temperature
above danger point.

00:07:21,074 --> 00:07:23,Seventy-eight miles per second.

00:08:10,990 --> 00:08:13,Hey. Hey, we've landed.

00:08:14,260 --> 00:08:17,My head. I have a
terrible headache.

00:08:19,532 --> 00:08:22,Oh, I've never been knocked
out like this before.

00:08:22,602 --> 00:08:24,The acceleration must
have been fantastic.

00:08:24,904 --> 00:08:27,- It was. Look here.
- What?

00:08:31,277 --> 00:08:33,Over a hundred miles per second.

00:08:33,946 --> 00:08:36,Over a hundred miles per second?

00:08:36,415 --> 00:08:39,The indicator is knocked
completely off the scale.

00:08:42,722 --> 00:08:44,What do you make of it, doc?

00:08:44,457 --> 00:08:47,- Where are we?
- I don't know.

00:08:47,460 --> 00:08:49,Mars was closest to us.

00:08:50,129 --> 00:08:52,This could be one of
Mars' polar snowcaps.

00:08:52,465 --> 00:08:54,We can be grateful that
we landed on snow.

00:08:54,767 --> 00:08:56,It would have been a rougher
landing without it.

00:08:57,136 --> 00:08:59,Will we be able to
take off again?

00:08:59,272 --> 00:09:02,We won't know that until we get
outside and check for damage.

00:09:03,042 --> 00:09:05,I'll break out the oxygen
helmets and pressure suits.

00:09:05,645 --> 00:09:07,Wait a minute, we
may not need them.

00:09:07,613 --> 00:09:09,It feels to me as though
we have plus-gravity.

00:09:09,949 --> 00:09:12,Hank, will you turn off
the magnetic gravity?

00:09:12,185 --> 00:09:13,Check.

00:09:20,326 --> 00:09:23,You're right. It's normal now.

00:09:23,596 --> 00:09:25,So is the atmospheric pressure.

00:09:25,464 --> 00:09:28,There seems to be plenty
of oxygen out there.

00:09:28,467 --> 00:09:31,- Well, this isn't Mars.
- No.

00:09:31,370 --> 00:09:35,If it were Mars, the atmospheric
density would be one-tenth of normal.

00:09:35,875 --> 00:09:38,Well, there's one
way to find out.

00:09:55,261 --> 00:09:56,Wonderful.

00:09:56,729 --> 00:09:59,Let's get some warm clothes
on, it's cold out there.

00:09:59,465 --> 00:10:01,Yes, sir. Thank you.

00:10:17,183 --> 00:10:18,Hey, doc.

00:10:19,385 --> 00:10:20,Doc, look at this.

00:10:20,586 --> 00:10:24,A high background radiation count,
about 0.5 milliroentgens per hour.

00:10:24,857 --> 00:10:26,About three times greater
than that of Earth.

00:10:27,159 --> 00:10:29,Still not enough to
be dangerous, though.

00:10:29,228 --> 00:10:31,Some damage to control surfaces.

00:10:32,064 --> 00:10:34,Not bad, but we'll need
help to repair it.

00:10:34,734 --> 00:10:35,Help?

00:10:35,968 --> 00:10:39,How are we gonna get any help
on this godforsaken planet?

00:10:39,472 --> 00:10:42,Doc, do you have any
idea where we are?

00:10:42,341 --> 00:10:44,No, Hank, I'm afraid not.

00:10:44,410 --> 00:10:48,At the speed we attained, we
could be almost anywhere.

00:10:48,681 --> 00:10:51,For the moment, let's say we're
on a planet similar to Earth.

00:10:51,751 --> 00:10:54,I suggest we do some exploring
down below the snow line.

00:10:54,654 --> 00:10:58,Herb, while we're packing some gear,
suppose...