At one time, astronaut Story Musgrave held the record for most time spent spacewalking. His photo collection, taken over the course of six missions for NASA into outer space, includes images of the aurora borealis taken from miles above the Earth's atmosphere. The sci-fi flick documents a fictional series of manned missions to the Red Planet in the year 2020. It was every minute of every day, it was on that set every second.
Movies are a highly intense and highly organized organism.
It was a chapter of my life. It's very rare that you get some event that sets itself aside from anything else in the continuity of your consciousness. Among its predictions on the potential future of Earth and the space program, the film posits that in the near future, NASA will send married couples on extended space missions. The theory is that the closeness of a married relationship will foster more relaxed environments for space travel. You'd get more out of it.