So I was watching the new trailer and I saw at first the pilots hair was buzzed and looked freshly cut but then after he secures the pelicans breach and it shows his wife’s hologram or whatever, he picks up the hologram and his hair looks really grown out like as if it’s been a really long time in the pelican. So it makes me think after he wakes up from the ship being shaken by whatever, probably the created, he is left there for a really long time until he finds the chief.