Cooper was torn. Leaving meant missing his children’s lives forever. But staying meant they had no future. Promising Murph he would return, he piloted the Endurance into the wormhole, alongside a team: the professor’s brilliant daughter, Amelia; two scientists, Romilly and Doyle; and two robotic companions, TARS and CASE.

Cooper had no place in this future. His daughter told him to go. "No parent should have to watch their own child die," she said. "Go find Amelia."

"Because no one else would be brave enough to walk into a stranger's hospital room."

"I knew you'd come back," she whispered, her voice fragile. "Because my father promised me."