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Do you feel like you've been locked in a small room for months on end, isolated from the people that you love? Welcome to Netflix's "Away" and the bubble of five scientists on the world's first manned mission to Mars. Things aren't exactly idyllic. To break down the series, I wanted to first talk about longevity. Hopefully you don't think there's an element of being immortal in the "Away" series.
No. But we'll explore artificial longevity and how the space program could be threatened by lost contact with the expedition base. They only get about eight hours per day of sleep. You'll definitely see some of the same effects of MD, development delay and decomposition because we're stuck in this little crew for so long. It's not like your average astronaut crew. You have work and family, and there's a certain discomfort about not being part of a couple of dozen ambassadors and ambassadors-in-residence from other nations and their families that you're spending so much time with. Everything we did in the first place was about trying to continue our lives. That's our one thing we knew we wanted to do and that we couldn't get anybody else to do.
Did you always set an ambitious goal after having driven home all that science stuff in jail?
I didn't. I've been planning on it for all this time every day. We realized the NASA family has so many awesome support ways to get involved and feedback. They have almost total access to the day's briefing so because of that you have active involvement, you talk, you have conversations. That had been an incentive for us for years. Even when I was in transit, every morning at 6 in the morning I would give the organization visitor access. We have conferencing at the NASA campus; I would show up at the presence way before everybody else and would find guys zoomed in my ear [laughs] and I'd say, "Okay, I'm looking over here, their presence way in front of everyone else, I'm going to try to find them and talk with them."
"Even when I was in transit, every morning at 6 in the morning I would give the organization visitor access."
After, once you actually do it, the second thing is loyalty. I'd been just really enjoying the company of the people who made the Mars journey, but I was naive. A lot of people who are likeminded also died in jail; people who went to war for the mission they were supporting, people that went to NASA to have a profound effect on our lives….
They were not the norm. We never had a business plan coming up on the last mission, we weren't trying to come up with
Do you feel like you've been locked in a small room for months on end, isolated from the people that you love? Welcome to Netflix's "Away" and the bubble of five scientists on the world's first manned mission to Mars. Things aren't exactly idyllic. To break down the series, I wanted to first talk about longevity. Hopefully you don't think there's an element of being immortal in the "Away" series.
No. But we'll explore artificial longevity and how the space program could be threatened by lost contact with the expedition base. They only get about eight hours per day of sleep. You'll definitely see some of the same effects of MD, development delay and decomposition because we're stuck in this little crew for so long. It's not like your average astronaut crew. You have work and family, and there's a certain discomfort about not being part of a couple of dozen ambassadors and ambassadors-in-residence from other nations and their families that you're spending so much time with. Everything we did in the first place was about trying to continue our lives. That's our one thing we knew we wanted to do and that we couldn't get anybody else to do.
Did you always set an ambitious goal after having driven home all that science stuff in jail?
I didn't. I've been planning on it for all this time every day. We realized the NASA family has so many awesome support ways to get involved and feedback. They have almost total access to the day's briefing so because of that you have active involvement, you talk, you have conversations. That had been an incentive for us for years. Even when I was in transit, every morning at 6 in the morning I would give the organization visitor access. We have conferencing at the NASA campus; I would show up at the presence way before everybody else and would find guys zoomed in my ear [laughs] and I'd say, "Okay, I'm looking over here, their presence way in front of everyone else, I'm going to try to find them and talk with them."
"Even when I was in transit, every morning at 6 in the morning I would give the organization visitor access."
After, once you actually do it, the second thing is loyalty. I'd been just really enjoying the company of the people who made the Mars journey, but I was naive. A lot of people who are likeminded also died in jail; people who went to war for the mission they were supporting, people that went to NASA to have a profound effect on our lives….
They were not the norm. We never had a business plan coming up on the last mission, we weren't trying to come up with
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