“Who better than a migrant farm worker to leave this planet and plunge into the unknown?” Michael Peña, playing a real-life NASA astronaut, Jose HernandezAnswers that question in the new film.A million miles away“(“A million miles away“). Amazon dropped the film’s first trailer on Tuesday (August 15), a month before it premieres on its streaming service. Prime Video.
“It’s for sure! The movie is about to release!” (The real one) posted Hernandez X (previously on Twitter) in response to the trailer’s release. “I hope my story inspires many people to follow their dreams.”
Directed and co-written by acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Alejandra Marquez Abella, “A million miles awayFollows Hernandez’s path of exploration from working in the fields with his family to flying into space.
“This may not be your future, but it will always be your past,” a scene in the trailer tells a young Hernandez about his work on the field.
Despite earning engineering positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Johnson Space Center in Houston, Hernandez’s path to becoming a NASA astronaut was not without its challenges.
“In the last 10 years, I applied to the space program 12 times and was close to giving up after each rejection,” Pena says in the trailer, referring to the actual number of times Hernandez applied to the astronaut corps. But you know, sir, here I am. So you can reject me again, but rest assured, I will be here again in a year.”
Hernandez was eventually accepted into NASA’s 19th astronaut team, “The Peacocks,” in 2004. As the film shows, he fulfilled his dream in August 2009 by becoming the mission specialist for STS-128 on the space shuttle Discovery. The actors are shown in the trailer Starring Hernandez’s crewmates are Isabelle Erenlund as fellow mission specialist Nicole Stott and Garrett Dillahunt as Commander Rick “CJ” Starco.
The two-and-a-half-minute trailer reveals that “A million miles away” stays fairly close to actual events in Hernandez’s life, including his first memories of space exploration, watching the launch of the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission on television in 1972; learn to fly and dive to improve your chances of being selected as an astronaut; And he took literal steps in a bright orange Advanced Crew Escape (ACES) suit on his way to spend about 14 days in space on a mission to the International Space Station.
Pena previously played a fictional NASA astronaut in the film “Mars“In 2015 and was in a sci-fi disaster movie”moon fruitBy Roland Emmerich in 2022. The film’s cast also includes Rosa Salazar, Sarah Blue, Veronica Falcon, Julio Cesar Cadillo and Bobby Soto.
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Editor’s note: These stories of victory for Latinos are always inspiring and even more so. You must watch this movie.