GRAVITY has gravitas!

Rating: 8/10 (29 October 2013)

Since I am a member of both The National Space Society (NSS) and The Planetary Society (TPS), and I knew the general storyline I expected to be underwhelmed by this movie. Was I wrong! While there probably were some technical and scientific mistakes, I found the movie exciting at many levels. The acting was right on, and the visuals are wonderful. It re-energized my desire to help build a positive future for humanity by creating a spacefaring civilization. The movie shows people living and working in Earth orbit - which is just the beginning of humanity's journey into space. This movie will encourage the safe and sustainable use of the vast resources of space for the betterment of humanity. It may even promote social, economic, technological, and political change in order to expand civilization beyond Earth, to settle space and to use the resulting resources to build a hopeful and prosperous future for humanity