As Planet Nine is drawn into the sun, NASA is forced to reveal its secret Space Shuttle Nighthawk . While man can do nothing to help the intelligent life trapped on the doomed planet , we can retrieve a data capsule the aliens place in orbit around the Moon . Aaron and Holly, ex-Shuttle pilots and estranged lovers, are eager to get back into space. Bill Mackenzie, an investigative reporter and television host, refuses to sit idly by and let the biggest news story in history, alien contact , slip through his fingers. Bill vows to scoop the story by reporting it "live," even if he has to spiral into the sun with the aliens .