Exclusive: artemis ii crew inspired by sci-fi hit 'project hail mary'

Aboard the historic Artemis II mission, the crew's enthusiasm for the genre wasn't limited to the lunar landscape. Aboard the spacecraft, they found a different kind of inspiration: the film adaptation of Andy Weir's novel 'Project Hail Mary', directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

Groundbreaking cinema meets real-world space exploration

During their pre-launch quarantine period, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, along with crewmates Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, screened the critically acclaimed sci-fi film. Hansen, who made history as the first non-US astronaut to venture beyond Earth's orbit and orbit the Moon, praised 'Project Hail Mary' as an