Atmosphere: A Love Story

To celebrate the one-year mark of candidate training, everyone organizes a camping trip at the lake, including astronauts, instructors, candidates, and their families. Joan brings Frances with her. Frances quickly befriends other children, while Joan and Donna set up their tents. Joan sees Lydia struggling with her tent and offers to help. Jimmy and another pilot walk by and mock them. Joan and Donna react with anger, but Lydia only laughs. Joan tells Lydia that she shouldn’t laugh and encourage them, and the two argue. Lydia believes that they must behave like the men to get ahead. Joan refuses to play that game or excuse their bad behavior. They agree, though, that the situation is difficult and there’s no one way to respond to it.

Later that evening, Griff approaches Joan to tell her that he has recovered from her rejection. He thanks her for giving him space and says they can go back to being friends. He warns that while he doesn’t believe in such policies, he fears that if she has feelings for the person he thinks she does, she needs to be careful or she could risk her career. Joan says she doesn’t know what he’s talking about.