Defying Gravity Season 1 Episode 1

Donner: (voice-over) My old man calls space travel a fool's game. He says human beings are 60 percent water, they eat, sleep, defecate, can't follow directions, and explode like piñata when exposed to the vacuum in space. Lately, I've been wondering if he is right.

Donner: (voice-over) I've always been one of those people who believe that you create your own destiny. I'm through a few bad decisions, I certainly made mine. But as much as I believe in self-determination, there are those who simply do not. It's that kind of thinking that makes me nervous. Because being an astronaut is all about control. From the walk to the launch pad to the final touchdown. You don't want surprises. It's not about fate. It's about planning.

Donner: We're not getting away from it, are we? Mars is just gonna haunt us till the day we die.
Ted: Headline in our obits.

Ajay: I've always believed that this was my mission, my ship, that I was traveling on the path Ganesha wanted for me. That this out here was where my challenges and obstacles laid. I feel so lost now. I cannot understand this. I cannot. Who needs this path more than I?

Donner: We can find redemption in the simpliest acts of humanity. I've never heard of a robot or a probe that was able to do that. So if space travel is a fool's game, then... Hey, that's what I am. So be it. But I've never felt more alive. Or more human.

Eve Shaw: How many of them do you think would have gone if we had told them.
Mike Goss: That's a weak-minded question, Eve. But the answer is all of them. Every single one.
Eve Shaw: Thank you, I will be able to sleep tonight.