Shorts
The characters speak
Thirty-second scenes from each track, voiced by the people who lived them. Every Short points back to its full video and its chapter here.
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Scene 1Coming soonI memorized my own hand before I left.
Scene 2Coming soonThis is the only thing I'm taking that can't be replaced.
Scene 3Coming soonYou don't look back at a rocket. It'll be there.
Scene 4Coming soonThey read our names like a roll call. Four of us answered.
Scene 5Coming soonI count down out loud for everyone else. This one I kept.
Scene 6Coming soonThe ground shook first. Then the rest of me.
Scene 7Coming soonSomeone had to go first. I didn't volunteer. I just didn't stop.
Scene 8Coming soonI wasn't cleared to bring them. I brought them.
Scene 9Coming soonFrom here you can cover Earth with your thumb. I used my whole hand.
Scene 14Coming soonFor four minutes, nobody in the universe knew if we were alive.
Scene 15Coming soonThe shaking stopped. Nobody moved. Then James laughed.
Scene 17Coming soonI promised myself I wouldn't cry on camera.
Scene 18Coming soonI've done this four times. This was the first with nothing in between.
Scene 19Coming soonIt smelled like iron and wet soil. It smelled like a place.
Scene 20Coming soonEveryone else was inside. Someone had to finish the roof.
Scene 21Coming soonWe lay on the floor and looked up.
Scene 22Coming soonI stared at it like it might be a mistake.
Scene 24Coming soonI pointed at a blue star and told him that's where he's from.
Scene 25Coming soonThat's my crib. A pilot welded it out of the ship he landed.
Scene 26Coming soonA hundred years of planning, and it came down to my hand.
Scene 27Coming soonI'm a hundred years old, and I have never seen rain.
Scene 28Coming soonEveryone calls them history. I call them family.
Scene 30Coming soonThey asked me what I'd miss.