Episode P1.1

Waking a little hungover from his 5 year mission send-off party at Spaceport, Alan only half remembers, although with some embarrassment, his drunken departing words: that he had resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark [of space] … to where, veiled in cloud and crowned with unimagined stars… Something like that. 

It had all sounded rather better, and less pretentious, when he had rehearsed it to his bathroom mirror. At least he knows it will not be repeated on television and film for the next fifty years.