Astronaut Chris Hadfield Reviews Space Movies, from 'Gravity' to 'Interstellar' | Vanity Fair

I found out after they made Interstellar, some people told me that when I was on the International Space Station and I did a cover of a David Bowie song and they were trying to decide how to light Matt McConaughey's face when he looked through the windows of their

space

ship they actually looked at that clip of mine - to see what real light looked like on a

space

ship and then they reflected that when they were lighting Matt's face it made me laugh that art imitating life imitating the art of my His name is Chris Hadfield , an Air Force colonel, an

astronaut

who flew in space three times, commanded the International Space Station, did two different space walks, was a test pilot, engineer, alpine ski racer, occasional guitarist and today we are here to see some scenes from different space

movies

uh this is

gravity

and this is the scene where the space shuttle Explorer is orbiting the Earth and they're repairing the Hubble telescope and they're going through some kind of asteroid debris field.

Well, that's a good concept and images. They're cool, but what's happening is so far from reality that I just want to turn my head first, this satellite is whizzing by at, I don't know, maybe 120 miles per hour, the satellites are going five miles per second 17 and an A half a thousand miles an hour, how that thing you go to you can identify the satellite passing by and then it's like a big dump truck suddenly puts this big pile of debris right upwind of the space shuttle and all of a sudden it looks like an avalanche would have occurred in space.

It pours in front of this ferry and they violate the laws of physics when Sandra Bullock she's at the end of big Canada I'm the big robotic arm and she's spinning around and she lets go of her little straps and suddenly, voo, she flies away in a whole new direction like there was some force on Sandra that wasn't in the arm like why does she have a different

gravity

than the arm and then everyone on the team, I mean the dialogue, everyone yells at Houston like somehow Houston out I'm going to help you here and George Clooney refers to this other

astronaut

who is dr.

Stone like they don't really know each other yet and he's asking someone I don't know for permission to go help her. I mean, it's not astronaut behavior, it's not logical behavior, it's so execrable in a real practical demonstration. about what the reality of space flights is like, the most experienced astronaut in the history of the United States is a woman, she is Peggy Whitson, she has been in space longer than any other American, she commanded the International Space Station twice, She performed ten space walks, she was the main NASA astronaut in this film. Sandra Bullock has only been an astronaut for less than a year and when she is faced with the problem, she panics and has no idea what to do and George Clooney leads like some kind of space cowboy as the only person who really knows what he is. going. and they met when they were on this spacewalk and then it's like he's trying to pick her up during a spacewalk your pretty blue eyes and what is he doing out there driving around in his jet pack?

I mean, no Getting outdoors recreationally is very different from real people who are exploring space, who dedicate their lives to being astronauts, who are actually on the space station right now, the wonderful examples of human models that we have of people who are doing these things. I think it set back a little girl's vision of what a female astronaut could be, a whole generation Sandra Bullock did a great job portraying this character in the movie, but I think the character they wrote for her was really disappointing, That's what would have changed. the characters get it to represent what astronauts are really like and then build the story around that not only does it become The Perils of Pauline where she is tied to the train tracks and needs George Clooney to magically appear next to her to tell her what book open in order to do the right thing the real astronauts recognize the seriousness of their job the fact that it is always life or death and that they were there as representatives of seven and a half billion people they all trust that we are good at If you want to know how watch a space walk, there has never been a better movie than gravity.

That opening scene is magnificent because of the visual impact and the beauty of the silent world spinning and the resolution of every single fine thing and the lighting is wonderfully good, so it gives you the raw emotional feeling of a space walk, it just doesn't pay attention to what the astronauts are actually doing in this movie: the passengers, so if you're going to get on a ship and you're going to be on it, you know, between the stars it's going to settle on some planet in another solar system, you can't be floating weightless all the time, who knows what your babies would be like if they were conceived, developed and tried to grow without gravity, you know their bodies wouldn't grow properly, so how is gravity created if there is no planet nearby?

One way, of course, is like we do it in a little experiment where we spin it in a centrifuge, you can spin the whole ship and then everyone. It's trapped against the outside of the ship just by centrifugal force and that feels like gravity, if you turn off the spinner it will continue to spin for quite a while, there's really nothing to slow it down and that's one of the big scenes in the

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. passengers, the problem is that the ship stops rotating and therefore everything becomes like on the International Space Station and starts floating, so I'm not sure why when it starts losing power the ship suddenly starts to slow down.

I had to put big brakes on it to keep all that metal from spinning. I'm not sure why the ship didn't continue spinning merrily as it headed toward the asteroids, but it would have been a worse story if that were the case. had happened so let's say the ship stopped spinning now everyone is gravity free and one of the characters is in a pool so what's up with the gravity free water aboard the International Space Station? We played with water all the time, you could throw it and it would just float there in front of you, naturally with the surface tension it turns into a perfect ball which is the easiest shape for it, so if you had a pool held in place by the gravity and then gravity disappeared, the water had some inertia as the ship slowed down and sloshed around, but then the water almost looked like a big mass that slowly turned into a ball and I think that shows up pretty well and I think It's even stranger if you were in the water at that time.

How could you even know which direction to swim, which direction the surface is if there is no up or down, even if you started swimming in one direction the mass is flexing and the way you are swimming could start further away from you So it was a very compelling experience? a cure scene assuming there's a pool aboard a spaceship, the way it's resolved, although it kind of bends the edge of probability because if you spin the ship again, you generate this intrinsic force and the water would be crushed back to the bottom. the pool side of the room, but it would take a lot of force in time to take a ship that has stopped this big huge metal thing and expand again, it wouldn't be like anything and then hit gravity like shown in the movie. where suddenly everyone hits the ground as if gravity were an on/off switch, but that wouldn't have been as visually convincing and would have allowed the crew member, the young woman, to get out of the water on her last breath and stay with life.

It's coming hot oh yeah, okay, this movie is Armageddon, which is kind of the disastrous ending to everything and I think it's an appropriate name for this movie. I haven't seen it since I walked away from it when it first hit theaters in this scene. Here we are aware that the two space shuttles are landing on an asteroid that you know, with the deep sea workers and blasters who are going to blow up the asteroid so that it does not destroy the Earth. There are so many things wrong with it. this is I don't even know where to start, let's start with the fact that they are talking to Mission Control in real time, there are no delays, how did time suddenly change in space?

You can instantly communicate up to this asteroid with legless and then one of them says we're coming in hot, we're coming in hot in relation to what you're talking about and how you know. Do you have any magical information about an asteroid landing so you know what? You're going faster than you intended and then if you notice the shuttle starting to power up, it powers up as if it's slowing down so it can land on the asteroid, as if pulling back on the stick there would be air on an asteroid. I mean, what magically made that happen and there are these weird video game screens on the space shuttle that let you suddenly you're flying in the game asteroids and the crew are all panicking and screaming at each other that the big engines of the back they are constantly running where the fuel comes from there is no gas tank so they would be speeding all the time so why I mean what are they doing that?

It's as egregiously bad as any space movie ever made. It's as bad as it is. tragic comic, I'm glad they landed safely on the asteroid, but it's just atrocious, let's look at a 7500 force board something more than that on Matthew's advice, this is the Martian. I like how the crew member is wearing his name tag in the middle of his chest. He is a little further along in the mission to wear his name tag. Mars is an interesting planet because it has dust storms that we can see through our eyes. telescopes from Earth and some of those dust storms envelop large sections of Mars simultaneously, this is unfortunately The worst thing about the entire movie Martian is that the atmosphere is so incredibly thin on Mars that it is almost like the very edge of space on Earth .

You'd have to be about a hundred thousand feet up to know how thin the areas are on Mars. and think about the people who go to the top of Everest which is only twenty eight thousand feet high, almost everyone needs oxygen just to be able to get to the top of Everest and this is four times higher than that if the air was blowing incredibly quickly, there were so many molecules of combustible air passing by you that you would barely feel them and there was no way you could pick up all those big pieces and blow them up and take down Mark Watney and it's a slow buildup. change of seasons on Mars, the people who made the movie simply decided that gravity on Mars is the same as gravity on Earth, although it's actually only thirty-eight percent of gravity, so Matt wouldn't be as attractive on Mars as it would be.

He wouldn't be solidly on the ground, he would only weigh a third of what he weighs on the ground, so he would be much more bouncy about moving and things would move differently. Mark Watney played by Matt Damon is trying to find a way. To make enough food to last until they can be rescued, all you really have are our potatoes, but potatoes are simple and they grow and multiply, so you need a few things, you need water, you need nutrient rich soil, you need heat and needs oxygen. It will actually make sense that they would be growing plants on Mars, if you're going to live there you can't bring everything in little cans and dehydrated packets, you have to grow food wherever you go, we've been growing things in spaceships for decades so The movie ends up being very good because how do you get that small environment for a human being and his potato crop to grow on Mars?

The idea of ​​using human garbage from outside to harvest the nutrients that potatoes need is like putting manure on crops at home here on earth, how you used existing chemicals, whether it's rocket fuel or whatever, all They're kind of hydrocarbons, you know, with hydrogen, oxygen and carbon in them, etcetera. As long as you can get the chemical reaction right, you can get the things you need and if you think about it, that's kind of what happened on Earth. We didn't use to have oxygen on Earth, it's just a chemical process that created our atmosphere here. on Earth and Mark Watney Matt Damon is accelerating that process on Mars on this planet.

One of the best parts about The Martian is that it comes from Andy Weir's book. He's a very smart guy as an engineer, but he also crowdsourced. the science as he wrote it in the book, he published it and said: Hello everyone, tell me what's wrong with my science. What am I doing wrong as an astronaut? Mark Watney could have been any of the people in the astronaut office. that type of person, the deep academic training, the strong operational sense of what you are going to do next. I think he gave people an idea of ​​what it's like to be an astronaut.

There are some difficult, sad and difficult parts, but there are alsoothers ridiculously funny and almost always. Lighthearted parts and a great sense of camaraderie better than almost any space movie. The Martian Shows Apollo 13 Apollo 13 tells the story of an explosion that actually occurred on the way to the moon. Very good film, perhaps the most realistic of all. space movies this is Houston, repeat it, please Houston, we have a problem when you talk on the radio, of course the first word you have to say is who you are talking to, that's why from a spaceship the first word we say is Houston or Moscow or Tokyo or whoever we're talking to Mission Control is sitting there and if you hear the ship's commander say Houston, we have a problem, it's a euphemism, but it has a huge impact: all normal operations cease and everyone is now.

Listening to hear what the commander is going to say next, searching for data like crazy, is a wonderfully succinct way of putting it and every space commander since then, including themselves, has used that phrase when necessary because it has the effect wanted. You've lost a lot of oxygen and much of your purification equipment. How do you get carbon dioxide out of the air aboard a spacecraft? You need some type of cleaning equipment and when it has malfunctioned it may not work as it should. you planned it but they had the lunar lander it had its own carbon dioxide cleaning system the problem is they were built by different companies the parts were not interchangeable the engineers recognized the problem early they presented it to flight director ed harris made a great job playing Gene Krantz and Gene Sam ok, I understand the problem, now go fix it, that happens every day, it's a facelift, maybe not that dramatic, but I worked at Mission Control, it's this great quest for detectives every day about how we can take what we hope to do. which is now being ruined by the reality that everything is going wrong and we are constantly reinventing things and all the people in the back rooms are trying to find solutions to the problems, but the way it was portrayed in Apollo 13 was tremendously dramatic.

An example of that, but it's almost a textbook of what really happens when you solve problems to do something. Ron Howard when he made the movie, I mean, he tried to restrict the dialogue between Mission Control and the space capsule so that it was actually what the transcripts of what the crew did. had said back then, Ron actually came to Houston, spent time with us, saw what the houses were like, came to launch, really wanted to know what astronauts and everyone else at Johnson Space Center and in the space business were like. I really admire the team that created Apollo 13 and I love the movie.

I think he does a great job of showing what space flight is like, especially at that time. Well, now I'm confused, if you understand, this is

interstellar

. sucked into a black hole, I mean, people are worried about rip currents on the coast, you know, this is like a rip tide, a tyrannosaurus, this is beyond our ability to imagine the extent of the forces involved and not just a force like gravity. us to the surface of the earth, but a change in gravity with distance because gravity is its force is proportional to where the black hole is closest, you get more gravity again, it would just be tearing everything apart until eventually the forces are so high that they even absorb light.

It's not something you can build a sturdy little capsule and somehow penetrate. There is nothing that we know of at this time that can withstand the destructive force of being near a black hole. How will that be? portrayed in a movie you can do whatever you want with it for now it is the only thing we are able to perceive that transcends the dimensions of time and space no, we are in a mathematical equation is there a symbol for love? I guess it will be a nice little heart, but I don't know how you multiply it or divide it, maybe for the arc of the artistic story, then love is the only way to go to the end and end up in that place looking towards his daughter's . library shelf, it's very emotionally pleasing, but I'm not sure Einstein or Stephen Hawking would have followed the logic I brought here, we are here to communicate, so how do you handle time travel, which is essentially what happened here?

It gets so confusing that it's almost as if the film needs scientific footnotes and subtitles here so the viewer can get a sense of what's going on. Also, there's no point in yelling through your spacesuit, no one can hear you outside your spacesuit. I'm also very confused. By the physicality of what we're seeing, I mean, all of a sudden, it's in some kind of huge filing cabinet, the infinite land of Venetian blinds. The movie makers had something specific in mind when trying to take physics and mathematics and make them three-dimensional. It still ends up being quite baffling for me.

The

interstellar

has a fascinating birth story. It was the creation of one of the best physicists in the world. A guy named Kip Thorne and Kip was trying to figure out the mathematics of what happens around a black hole. And he hired a company called Double Negative and they took his calculations and turned them into raw images of what a black hole would look like and that became the genesis of the movie. It's a really interesting combination of a science fiction story based largely on an experiment in how to visualize the non-intuitive complexity of what the environment around the strange singularity that is a black hole might look like.

The reason time dilates for the crew and is interstellar is simply because of the incredible change in gravity, the warping of time makes the enormous gravitational forces, but what that means is that if you go faster and faster, the Time passes differently for you than for someone who hasn't gone as fast, so while I was on the space station I had some people do the math for Look, did I age faster or slower than people on Earth? I'm actually younger than I would have been if I had stayed on Earth for the full six months. Each month I aged about one millisecond less than people on Earth, so after six months six. milliseconds younger than then, my family means nothing, but if you extrapolate it to interstellar speeds and physical conditions, suddenly the difference becomes enormous.

I've waited years where a fixed amount of time for Matt McConaughey and his crew would be a wildly different amount of time for people in a different set of circumstances, intuitively it doesn't make sense, you just have to accept that the world we live in it's just a particular set of physical and very different circumstances. They exist in other places in our galaxy and the universe This movie is the first man the story of the first human being to walk on the moon the story of Neil Armstrong Didn't that altimeter say it was at 45,000 feet before the astronauts became?

Astronauts always have some other significantly complex technical profession. A lot of them used to be test pilots and that includes the three Apollo 11 astronauts, including obviously Neil Armstrong, and there's the opening scene of the movie where he's flying an x-15. right on the edge of the envelope, right at the limit of its capacity, one of the biggest problems with the scene is the sound, it's like you're in a van driving through a field with that big whiny noise that tells you how fast goes. Going all the time you can hear a kind of going up and down as if maybe there is a big piston engine, I don't know, running nearby, everything is completely wrong, you don't hear that in the cabin and the vibration, there is a lot of little rattling . vibration where does that come from he is in a bullet plane with a rocket engine in the back that the vibrations would be imperceptibly small planes especially planes like that they fly very smoothly also he keeps going in and out of the clouds he is at 45,000 feet what clouds are?

At 45,000 feet, there may be the occasional storm that rises that high, but you wouldn't fly an X-15 through one of those storms and then have this strange kind of rattle. It had a noise like old junk, okay, and then all of a sudden, absolute silence, so what happened there, where did all that sound come from and where did it all go? And since the pilot is also wearing a pressure suit, has headphones on, is inside a cockpit, you can't hear any of that as he pulls back on the stick and starts climbing to raise the x-15, that's fine, a Once your rocket fires up, then you want to start climbing where the air gets thinner and thinner, well the sky, oddly enough, gets clearer and clearer like the sky.

It goes from kind of a normal blue to this light blue, which is the opposite of what happens when you ride a rocket into space. It goes from light blue to dark blue because there is less and less air to refract the light until it finally turns black. this clip for some reason goes from normal sky to light blue, light blue and then suddenly the sky turns black, like if you wanted to, you turned a corner, just something, the front of the x-15 starts to glow with the heat, well, that's because of the friction of the air when it's going fast it doesn't happen at the right time, you know where the air is thinnest and they didn't really show how fast it was going, the time it takes to heat up the front of an airplane and the amount of air molecules that have to hit it to cause the friction and drag to do all that heating and make the metal glow a different color, it almost looks like it got the space and then the nose got hot and those two things They are not related to each other, what disappointed me most about the first man was how sad everyone was, everyone inside was gloomy and space flight is joyful, it's funny, it's magical, you can fly, you're seeing the whole world, these guys were . going to the moon had many responsibilities, but where is the spark of joy there?

And every second of the time you're on board a spacecraft, the distance from stall to orbit, we know where it is by mass, we know the weight of the mercury capsule. We know you did the math. I really liked the movie Hidden Figures. It tells a story that most people don't know. It highlights a group of people who did really pivotal work in getting us into space in the first place. He is a really nice human being. story and it's very well acted, there's a scene where the character Catherine Johnson, who is, of course, one of the really brilliant human computers in the movie, is trying to solve one of the math problems that you have to solve to Orbital mechanics and how to put people into orbit. and doing it accurately enough is super simplified and dramatized and it's like the entire NASA staff is 15 people in this room somewhere and the role played by Kevin Khan is like the leader of this team and he seems to be the administrator of the POT. and he seems to be the flight director for the specific mission, but you have to simplify things to tell a story and I guess that's fine, but there are people sitting in front of whiteboards postulating and proposing ideas that are real, that are realistic, that's how We discovered many things. of those things maybe it's not new mathematics at all it could be ancient mathematics Euler's method there is nothing unusual in saying that this is ancient mathematics all mathematics is old it is only whether we have discovered what the mathematical principles are or not one of the guys The one who discovered a lot of mathematics was a guy called Silk Offski, who was a mathematics teacher in the 19th century.

He discovered space flight with mathematics by candlelight in his house in rural Russia and Euler devised some equations that are absolutely necessary. so we can make the predictions correctly so we can meet and start the engines at the right time to get where you want to go, but I love the interaction of brilliant minds and quirky kind of people. which really allowed the first space flights. This is the movie ad astra. The chase scene on the surface of the moon between the bad guys who are in the Black Moon Rovers and the good guys who are in the White Moon Rovers, which makes things easier for those of us on Earth. to move on God must work well without air guns they don't need oxygen to really work if you think about what happens inside a bullet you know there is a striker in the back that causes a chemical explosion and it is the gas that explodes inside the confines. of the rifle that makes the projectile come out the end very quickly that does not have gravity and does not have the Earth's atmosphere, so a gun would work well on the moon, in fact, we carried weapons on board the ship Russian space station that I flew and when I went to the Russian Mir space station in 1995, the ships that arrived had weapons, but they were in the rescue package because if you did a deorbit ofemergency from the space station, you could land anywhere on Earth and you could land in a place where there were, you know, grizzly bears, so there was a specially designed weapon that had to fire cannons and one cannon so you could fire two Grizzly bear shots and maybe the last one for you.

Don't know. I know, but we've had guns in space before, I've never fired one in space that I've ever heard of. On the Moon there is about one-sixth the gravity of Earth, so bullets will fall more slowly than on Earth. it will take more time, yes that means the bullet with the same speed horizontally would go further, it would go further around the moon, it is possible. I guess if you had a gun big enough to reach the speed you could actually outrun them. He could escape the speed where he was going so fast that by the time the moon's gravitational pull continued to pull him down he would be far enough away to have inertia to float away from the moon forever.

I have not done it. mathematics to determine exactly what that speed is. I'm sure we could make a gun big enough to do that. Why are they driving Apollo Rovers in the future? Those Rovers were built in a hurry during the Apollo program to try and let astronaut explorers have slightly better range and explore more of the Moon. We wouldn't build Rovers like that in the future. It's like you're watching a movie in the future and they bring in a Ford Model T as the vehicle everyone uses. running is like why do they drive Ford Model T?

You know, those were from the 1920s, that doesn't make any sense while you're watching this scene where all the noise is coming from you, you're in a perfectly empty vacuum on the moon, so while you're watching this scene it's very loud, you can hear the vehicles bouncing and you can hear the guns firing and you can hear them hitting and everything, there is no air on the moon, if you make a noise on the moon, there is no way that the pressure wave can be transported anywhere, You can't hear anything that's not happening inside your ship or inside your suit, like if there was, I don't know, Mel Gibson driving in some kind of dystopian future and you can hear with the big vehicles behind them it would be perfectly silent the whole time.

The only thing you would hear was everyone breathing and talking to each other, so I guess that makes it familiar to people, but it's wrong, maybe the best space movie of all time 2001, a space odyssey. Arthur C Clarke's great book incredibly portrayed in the late 60s by Stanley Kubrick and his team when I returned from my first space flight and sat in my living room with my wife. I remember telling him that it was incredible how you see the world at the speed that we are heading over the world, its great curve is exactly how they guessed it would be when they showed it in 2001, the images of that ship that left Earth and is approaching to dock with the rotating Space Station of the type of the gigantic, slow ballet of spaceships at that time.

I remember thinking it was like elephants mating in this big, heavy, careful three-dimensional activity with a specific purpose in mind, but that's what it feels like to fly a ship to try to dock with a space station, the little pen floating around. outside of the passenger on board who has fallen asleep and now the stewardess walking down the aisle and with velcro on the sole of her shoe matches the velcro on the floor, the interior of the International Space Station is there is velcro everywhere anywhere where you want to stick anything, including that pen, there is velcro on the pen with a type of velcro, um, and the wall is the pile or the hook, you know, she tripped, which was obviously a matter of gravity if Look at it very up close, but the idea of ​​putting one foot in, then putting another foot in and peeling them off almost like someone was walking through an ice wall or something was an interesting solution to the problem.

I think it is beautifully represented artistically and scientifically. It's great. The movie is Wall-e really designed for children, very sweet in this scene, Wall-e is flying in space and having fun using a fire extinguisher and Eve, the most advanced robot, has its own propulsion system. I'm a little confused about Eve because Eve's head is not attached to her body, but there is some kind of strange red umbilical cable on the outside. What intrigued me was how the animators moved Wall-e by shooting a fire extinguisher and it would work well if you got a fire extinguisher. Pull the trigger, all that stuff comes flying out of the fire extinguisher and if you don't prepare it will push you towards the earth, if you are floating in space and you can't prepare at all it will propel you just like a little rocket engine and they were the smart enough to make sure that Wally always lowered it to the center of his body because if you did it by the head then he would push you off center and you would just sort of spin, but if he can push it through the center of your mass, in middle of your body, then it will move you in a straight line and is very careful to constantly move the mouthpiece to the right place.

It's quite cute and a pretty nice little study of orbital mechanics the first one. American spacewalk when Ed White went out, he actually had one of those squirters with him, not a fire extinguisher, but a little handheld squirter that he could maneuver around. We eventually discovered that it was an impractical way to get around. It's better to just put in handholds. on the ship or use a jetpack but the same thing that Wally uses and that was actually used by the first American never walked in space this is sunlight a movie about a crew that has to revive the Sun but in this scene the crew recognized that they are Seeing Mercury come between them and the Sun is almost like a small version of an eclipse and people love eclipses, you know, it's almost mystical, it's a cool thing to see, so I think it would be natural for the crew to he would love it.

Seeing the mercury highlighted against the light of the Sun in a single mercury is going around the Sun. I mean, just in the time it takes those people to sit and look out the window, it probably makes an eight-fold revolution around the Sun in Earth days. Mercury takes like months, 88 days or something like that to go around the Sun, so you wouldn't perceive the movement relative to the Sun just by looking out the window as if they were too. The Sun is stupendously bright. How do you see mercury against the Sun? staring into the headlights of a car and trying to see, you know, marble or something, your eyes would just be so overwhelmed by the glare of the sun unless they had some really cool special filters somehow on their display screen and on your ship.

The great thing about the scene is the sense of awe, the amazement at the majesty of the reality of the rest of the universe and seeing it firsthand. I have been around the world approximately 2,650 times and never got to see enough of it in my lifetime. My first spacewalk while outside in the dark, we were actually far enough south to pass through Earth's aurora. It is so incredibly beautiful and such a raw artistic human experience to look at the Northern Lights it is like magic to be in them to surf. them, but that is beyond magic, it is surreal, my last orbit of the world was even richer, magnificent and impressive, and then all the previous ones, the unheralded beauty of our planet and the place where it is located and the environment environment we are in.

It is so constantly magnificent that when you look at it you speak in a low voice, you know as if you have entered a giant forest or the most beautiful cathedral in the world, no, you do not speak in a great metallic tone. Voice there, you are reverential of where you are and I think that little scene gets some of that, the reverence and understanding of both the minuscule nature of being human in the enormity of the universe and the enormity of being able to see. In this way, the great awareness we have of our ability to try to interpret and understand it.

I think they portrayed it well. I'm Chris Hadfield. I love space movies. It was nice to have the opportunity to see some of them. With you, I look forward to every new space movie that comes out and I hope some of the things I've said here help you see every new space movie you see through a happily sighing astronaut.