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The future. Former military pilot Ted Striker and his beloved, flight attendant Elaine, are having relationship trouble again. Trying to win back his love, Ted boards a new space shuttle heading to the Moon, since Elaine is flying on it. It soon turns out that the ship has serious malfunctions, and the flight director, eager to launch the vessel as quickly as possible and make more money, ignored the engineers' warnings about the danger.
