'Space Cadet' applies humor to NASA astronaut selection, says film director (interview)

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'Space Cadet' applies humor to NASA astronaut selection, says film director (interview)
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Director and screenwriter Liz Garcia reviews the script with Emma Roberts before filming a scene in the new movie"Space Cadet."Right now, in real life, the members of NASA's astronauts corps are helping to review the thousands of applications that the space agency has received to join their ranks as the next candidates to train for space. Chances are, though, none of the submissions are from the likes of Tiffany"Rex" Simpson.

"I wouldn't be surprised to see NASA open up the field to people with even more credentials and fields that we don't necessarily think of as being directly related to space exploration as we move into the phases of creating habitats on What if you were incredibly smart and sort of naturally inclined toward the type of work that goes into space exploration, but you didn't have any of those credentials and you were also not laser focused because of circumstances in your life? So she was really built out of what's the polar opposite of the person you would expect to be an astronaut.

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