RocketMan

RocketMan is a 1997 comic science fiction film directed by Stuart Gillard, and starring Harland Williams, Jessica Lundy, William Sadler and Jeffrey DeMunn. It was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Caravan Pictures, and was released on October 10, 1997.

While getting ready to board the Aries, Fred chickens out and refuses to go on the mission. Bud Nesbitt Beau Bridges, who Wick claims is the cause of the Apolloaccident, tells Fred about the three commemorative coins given to him by President Johnson. He gave one coin to Neil Armstrong, another to Jim Lovell, and finally shows Randall a gold coin reading, Bravery. It hasnt done me much good, Bud says. Maybe itll mean something to you one day.Fred, along with Commander Overbeck, geologist Julie Ford Jessica Lundy, and Ulysses, a trained chimpanzee, will look for fossils on Mars. To save on resources, crew members are put into hypersleep for eight months while the ship heads towards Mars. Ulysses purposely takes Freds hypersleep chamber for his own and Fred has to sleep in Ulysses chimpshaped chamber. He sleeps for onlyminutes and has to stay up for eight months. While looking at Mars weather data Fred notices severe sandstorms that could endanger the crew. He contacts Bud in Houston and tells him about the storms that are forecast to hit the landing site. If the crew get caught in the storms, they could be lost forever. Bud tells Wick about the situation but Wick ignores him. The crew makes it to Mars, after Overbeck barks at Fred for being awake the whole time and using all the food, except food that the former despises anchovy paste, creamed liver, and gefilte fish, for painting. They land the Pilgrim on the Martian surface. As Overbeck prepares to be the first human to step on Mars, Fred slips from the ladder and lands first. ........

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