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Stowaway (2021)

Earth → Mars orbit

No date is given; the MTS-42 crew sets out on a two-year mission to Mars and the film ends on the way there. 590.2 million km in all on the map.

EarthMars15Distances to scale.Dates unknown: the ship takes the most efficient orbit for the trip; the planets are where it meets them.Which way the map is turned is arbitrary.
  1. 1

    Launch Earth · date unknown

    Barnett, Kim and Levenson lift off for Mars; the launch site is not named.

    MTS-42

  2. 2

    Stowaway found in space · date unknown

    Shortly after launch the crew finds engineer Michael Adams aboard, and the carbon dioxide scrubber he damaged leaves too little air for four.

    MTS-42

  3. 3

    Climb up the tether in space · date unknown

    Zoe and David climb the 450 m tether to the spent upper stage for liquid oxygen; a solar flare forces them back.

    MTS-42

  4. 4

    Zoe's last climb in space · date unknown

    Zoe fetches the left-behind cylinder through the flare and dies outside the ship, looking at a faint Mars.

    MTS-42

  5. 5

    Mars (not reached in the film) Mars, orbit · date unknown

    Where MTS-42 is headed; the film ends before it arrives.