Meanwhile, the agents examine NASA records and find evidence that Belt played a role in other failed missions, including the Challenger disaster.īelt behaves irrationally and collapses screaming as he hears mention of the entity from the astronauts. The payload is successfully deployed, but a crew member reports seeing a ghostlike entity outside the ship. Belt fixes the situation, but orders the mission to proceed. The astronauts then report hearing a thump outside the shuttle and begin to experience an oxygen leak. As he lies in bed in agony, an astral presence leaves his body and flies out the window, heading into the sky. Belt tells Mulder that the shuttle program may be cancelled if the mission is not completed successfully.īelt returns home and has another flashback. Over the objections of Generoo and the agents, he orders the mission to proceed and lies to the press about its progress. Belt orders the uplink to be cut, allowing the astronauts to rotate the craft manually. Generoo believes that the uplink is being sabotaged. The shuttle has moved into direct sunlight and Mission Control is unable to rotate it into a safe position, putting the astronauts' lives in danger. The agents manage to get her out of her overturned car and, despite being injured, she manages to get back to the base. While driving back to Mission Control, she sees the face come at her through her windshield, causing her to crash her car. As the agents are leaving, however, Generoo informs them that contact is lost with the shuttle in orbit. He allows the agents to watch the successful launch from Mission Control. Belt, who now manages the Space Shuttle program, dismisses the agents' concerns and states that nothing can possibly go wrong with the mission. Mulder and Scully travel to NASA and meet Belt, a childhood hero of Mulder's. She also has a personal interest, as her fiancé will be aboard the next mission. A recent Space Shuttle liftoff was aborted seconds before commencement, and Generoo fears the next launch will be similarly compromised. Generoo believes that someone within NASA is sabotaging launch attempts. Sixteen years later, Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) are approached by Michelle Generoo ( Susanna Thompson), a communications commander for NASA's Mission Control. Marcus Aurelius Belt ( Ed Lauter), an astronaut, is plagued by flashbacks of an encounter with the disembodied face during a spacewalk. In 1977, after the discovery of a face sculpted into the landscape of Mars, Lt. Although the episode made use of a significant amount of inexpensive stock footage from NASA, the construction of the command center set was subject to cost overruns, eventually leading the episode to become the most expensive of the first season. The episode was conceived as a low-budget bottle episode, due to several earlier episodes having exceeded their budgets.
BEWARE THE FACE OF MARS XFILES SERIES
Series creator Chris Carter was inspired to write "Space" after reading about news of the "face on Mars"-an instance of pareidolia wherein a mound in the Cydonia region of Mars was taken to resemble a human face.
When investigating possible sabotage in NASA's Space Shuttle program, Mulder and Scully find that an astronaut who had been Mulder's childhood hero may be possessed by an extraterrestrial spirit. The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. "Space" earned a Nielsen household rating of 6.5, being watched by 6.1 million households in its initial broadcast, and received negative reviews from critics. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. It was written by series creator Chris Carter, directed by William Graham, and featured guest appearances by Ed Lauter and Susanna Thompson. It premiered on the Fox network on November 12, 1993. " Space" is the ninth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. Ed Lauter as Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt.The episode was derided by one critic for its "pretty decidedly unscary" graphics.
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