Former NASA Astronaut Rates 10 Space Movie Scenes in Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
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Published 2019-11-14
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Can you hear something explode in the vacuum of space? Is it possible for spaceships to run out of fuel in the middle of space travel? Why do movies often get it wrong when it comes to rotating space stations? Reisman explains the science underlying these and many other space movie phenomena, including the physics of the Death Star in "Star Wars"; dangerous space debris in "Gravity"; artificial gravity plates in "Star Trek"; Matt Damon’s Iron Man stunt in "The Martian"; crash-landing on a desert planet in "Spaceballs"; and event horizons, wormholes, and Einstein’s theory of relativity in "Interstellar." What went so horribly wrong in the real-life NASA Apollo 13 mission — and did the 1995 Tom Hanks movie get all its facts right?
He breaks down why scuba divers and astronauts both have to worry about decompression sickness, what's with the bending light inside the tesseract in "Interstellar," why Sandra Bullock should have held on to George Clooney in "Gravity," why Chris Pratt would get something called barotrauma in "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1," and what’s so impressive about Stanley Kubrick's depiction of Space Station V, the fictional spinning spacecraft in "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Reisman is a NASA veteran who was selected as a mission specialist astronaut in 1998 and went on to fly on all three of NASA's space shuttles: the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Space Shuttle Discovery, and the Space Shuttle Atlantis. He's spent months at a time on the International Space Station and performed three spacewalks over the course of his missions. Post-NASA, Reisman went on to head space operations at Elon Musk's SpaceX from 2011 to 2018, helping the aerospace company prepare for human spaceflight. He continues to serve SpaceX as a senior space advisor while also teaching at the University of Southern California Viterbi School as a professor of astronautical engineering. Reisman's been profiled in The Wall Street Journal and has been featured on "The Colbert Report" with Stephen Colbert.
Reisman is the author of the upcoming book "Down to Earth."
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Real Astronaut Rates Unrealistic Space Movie Scenes | How Real Is It?
All Comments (21)
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ur telling me I watched George Clooney die unnecessarily
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"why do all sci-fi movies have artificial gravity?" "because it's cheaper."
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“How realistic is Space balls?” “Well, uh, It’s possible to find a desert in space.”
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"When you have a grip of George Clooney you don’t let go" Lol
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This guy is an entertainer as well as an educator, more of him pls.
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he should have reviewd the docking scene in Insterstellar
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16:17 'Let me tell you a story, I was up in the space station...' The greatest pick up line ever.
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"When you have a grip of George Clooney you don't let go" "Any movie with a talking raccoon is okay in my book" Can you guys bring him again for another rating of space movies, because he is a great entertainer and educator
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That moment when "star wars" is more realistic than "gravity"
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Can we get: "A Real Cop Reacts to Brooklyn Nine-Nine"?
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“BOGUS. TOTALLY BOGUS” 3/10 ... ... “But the rest of the movie was like a 9.”
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To be honest, the hole in the glove scene in The Martian was not in the book. He joked about doing it, but never did it.
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This guy is hilarious, more with him please!
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“Whyyyy....why does she have to let him go?!” Genuinely made me laugh out loud 😂 it’s like the old time Dilemma of whether or not Rose has enough room for jack on the door in Titanic lol she had also mentioned she’d never let go..😭
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I love that Gravity has the same rating of Spaceballs.
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As an engineer, I appreciate his love of Apollo 13. The movie and the event are often discussed in engineering school. It’s a shining example of what engineering is all about. Space exploration was and still is one of the greatest engineering feats of humankind. On this particular mission, it wasn’t mountains of textbooks, hours of verification and design reviews, and precision machining that saved their lives. It was quick thinking, good collaboration, and the raw determination to not let themselves and their friends die. Engineering of the highest caliber got them there. Engineering in its rawest form brought them home.
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So.. Consult this guy when making a movie in space. Got it
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To be fair, the movie "The Martian" ignored the ending of the book, and went with a throw away joke in the book as a serious solution. ;)
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I love this guy. It's like Scorcese wrote an astronaut character.
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Starlord's dad is a planet, so that might explain thing or two... Oh, and the movie also has a talking and walking tree.
