Fact1: NASA Space Shuttle Explorer commanded by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski is in Earth orbit on mission STS-157 to service Hubble Space Telescope, Fact2: Dr. Ryan Stone is job being to perform set of hardware upgrades on Hubble, Fact3: Mission Control in Houston warns Explorer 's crew about Russian missile strike on defunct satellite, Fact4: defunct satellite has caused chain reaction forming rapidly-expanding cloud of space debris ordering crew to return to Earth immediately, Fact5: Communication with Mission Control is lost shortly
Output: NASA Space Shuttle Explorer, commanded by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski, is in Earth orbit on mission STS157 to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Ryan Stone is aboard on her first space mission as a mission specialist, her job being to perform a set of hardware upgrades on the Hubble. During a spacewalk, Mission Control in Houston warns Explorers crew about a Russian missile strike on a defunct satellite, which has inadvertently caused a chain reaction forming a rapidlyexpanding cloud of space debris, ordering the crew to return to Earth immediately. Communication with Mission Control is lost shortly thereafter as more and more communication satellites are knocked out by the debris. Highspeed debris strikes the Explorer and Hubble, tearing Stone from the shuttle and leaving her tumbling through space. Kowalski, using a Manned Maneuvering Unit MMU, rescues Stone, and they return to the Explorer, soon discovering that the Shuttle has suffered catastrophic damage and the rest of the crew are dead. Stone and Kowalski decide to use the MMU to reach the International Space Station, which is in orbit about 1,450 km 900 mi away, Kowalski estimating that they have 90 minutes before the debris field completes an orbit and threatens them again. On their way to the International Space Station ISS, the two discuss Stones home life and her daughter, who died young in an accident. As they approach the station, they see that the ISSs crew has evacuated into one of its two Soyuz spacecraft, the remaining Soyuzs parachute being prematurely deployed, rendering it unable to return to Earth. Kowalski suggests using it to travel to the nearby Chinese space station Tiangong, 100 km 60 mi away, in order to board its docked Shenzhou spacecraft and return safely to Earth in its reentry capsule. Out of air and maneuvering fuel, the two try to grab onto the ISS; Stones leg gets entangled in the Soyuzs parachute cords and she grabs a strap on Kowalskis suit, but it soon becomes clear that the cords will not support them both. Despite Stones protests, Kowalski detaches himself from the tether to save her from drifting away with him. Stone is pulled back towards the ISS, while Kowalski floats away. Stone enters the space station via the airlock of the Pirs Docking Compartment. She cannot reestablish communication with Kowalski nor Earth and concludes that she is now the sole survivor. Inside the station, a fire breaks out, forcing her to rush to the Soyuz. As she maneuvers the Soyuz away from the ISS, the tangled parachute tethers snag, preventing the spacecraft from leaving; Stone performs a spacewalk to cut the cables, succeeding just as the debris field returns, destroying the station. Stone angles the Soyuz towards Tiangong, but soon discovers that the Soyuzs engine has no fuel. After a poignant attempt at radio communication with an Eskimo on Earth, Stone resigns herself to her fate and shuts down the cabins oxygen supply to commit suicide. As she begins to lose consciousness, Kowalski enters the capsule; scolding her for giving up, he tells her to rig the Soyuzs soft landing rockets to propel the capsule toward Tiangong before disappearing. Realizing Kowalskis appearance was a hallucination, Stone regains the will to go on, restoring the spacecrafts oxygen flow and rigging the landing rockets to propel the capsule towards Tiangong. Unable to dock with Tiangong, Stone ejects herself from the Soyuz and uses a fire extinguisher as a makeshift thruster to travel to the rapidly deorbiting Tiangong. Stone manages to enter Tiangongs Shenzhou spacecraft just as the station enters the upper atmosphere, unlocking its reentry capsule just in time. The Shenzhou capsule reenters the atmosphere successfully; however, during the descent it is damaged by debris from the disintegrating Tiangong and a fire starts inside the capsule. The capsule lands in a lake, but dense smoke forces Stone to evacuate immediately after splashdown, shedding her spacesuit and swimming ashore. Stone shakily takes her first steps back on land.