Netflix - Return to Space : A new film Documentary soon online

By Mulder, 07 march 2022

For the first time, Oscar-winning directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo, The Rescue) point their lenses to the sky, covering the inspirational rise of SpaceX and Elon Musk’s two-decade effort to resurrect America’s space travel ambitions. 

The film documents the rise of the SpaceX and Elon Musk’s two-decade effort to resurrect America’s space travel ambitions, offering rare access into the first crew mission launched from US soil since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011. It’s inspirational and moving look at not only the people who devoted years to reviving the Space travel program but also at the lives of two men who took the Space X first flight.

Offering rare access inside the first crewed mission launched from U.S. soil since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, this is an intimate portrait of the engineers and astronauts chosen for the historic moment. 

Following NASA veterans Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, and their families in the leadup to launch, return to space brings viewers along for their thrilling ride to the International Space Station, and into mission control with Musk and the SpaceX team as they bring them back to Earth for a dramatic splashdown return.

(Source : press release)