:00:36
By the year 2000, we'd overpopulated,
polluted and poisoned our planet...
:00:41
...faster than we could clean it up.
:00:43
We ignored the problem for as long as
we could but were kidding ourselves.
:00:48
By 2025, we knew we were
in trouble...
:00:51
...and began to desperately search
for a new home: Mars.
:00:56
For the last 20 years, we've sent
unmanned probes with algae...
:00:59
...bioengineered to grow there and
produce oxygen.
:01:03
We'll build ourselves an atmosphere
we can breathe.
:01:06
And for 20 years it seemed to work.
It looked like we'd pulled it off.
:01:11
Then all of a sudden,
oxygen levels started to drop.
:01:14
We don 't know why.
:01:32
The international community has thrown
all its resources behind us.
:01:36
It's the greatest undertaking man
has ever attempted.
:01:39
Our ship, Mars-1 , is too massive to
launch from the surface of the planet.
:01:44
We've shuttled to the high-orbit
space station...
:01:47
...for a low-gravity launch to begin
our six-month trip:
:01:52
The first manned mission to Mars.
:01:55
The hope and survival
of mankind rests on us.