Former NASA Astronaut Rates 9 More Space Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

Retired NASA astronaut Nicole Stott watches and rates the realism of how outer space is portrayed in movies.

Stott breaks down what would actually happen if you went outside in space without a helmet, as seen in "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, and Bradley Cooper. She details what went wrong with the Apollo 13 mission's lunar module and how the crew returned to Earth in "Apollo 13," starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton. She discusses how fires spread in microgravity in "Gravity," starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. She explains the challenges of docking to a space station in "Interstellar," starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Matt Damon. She talks about how lunar rovers work in "Ad Astra," starring Brad Pitt. She separates fact from fiction in what would happen if you collided with an asteroid in "Armageddon," starring Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, and Liv Tyler. She highlights the portrayals of two pioneering astronauts — John Glenn in "The Right Stuff," starring Ed Harris and Dennis Quaid, and Neil Armstrong in "First Man," starring Ryan Gosling. Finally, she relates her own experiences in low gravity in "Passengers," starring Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, and Laurence Fishburne.

During her 30-year career at NASA, Nicole Stott worked as an engineer on the space shuttle and International Space Station programs and flew on two space missions. She is the cofounder of the Space for Art Foundation.

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Former NASA Astronaut Rates 9 More Space Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

[PsilentThunderer]

I love these types of videos from Insider and Wired. Nicole Stott did another one for wired and it was fantastic. I could listen to her talk all day. You need more of her.

[Triskaan]

Would love to see The Expanse in there.

[jvlicious]

Yes to Galaxy Quest 👍😄👍
Underrated and super funny

[DeathOfRetailPrice]

Nicole has awesome older aunty energy. Could listen to her stories and opinions about space and space travel for days.

[evvalerio]

Very happy to see this video, congratulations to everyone involved. Learning a lot.

[MozartTheGOAT]

If you need former composer to rate waltz scenes in movies... I am here

[Banana_Cognac]

Man, that editing at 20:18 was no bueno. That wasn't the 3rd stage lighting, it was the 2nd S-II stage, after the first stage (S-IC) was jettisoned. The ring coming off was the skirt that protected the 5 J2 engines from staging. The 3rd stage would have been the S-IVB, after they were already going horizontal

[Cellis]

For the ones who haven't seen Guardians of the Galaxy. The only reason why he didn't die when his face froze up is because (Peter Quill) is only half human. The other part is "Celestial" (super human abilities/almost god like)

[animalmotherx]

….I was fully prepared to rage quit and uninstall YouTube if she didn’t give Apollo 13 a 10/10.

[leoperidot]

HEere are some more underrated space movies which often gets overlooked like;

2010 THE YEAR WE MADE CONTACT.
CAPRICORN ONE.
CONTACT.
EVENT HORIZON.
LIFE.
LIFEFORCE.
LOST IN SPACE.
MAROONED.
THE MARTIAN.
MISSION TO MARS.
RED PLANET.
SOLARIS.
SUNSHINE.
WALL-E.

[leifnelson]

An astronaut that lists Galaxy Quest as a favorite movie? Completely unexpected. And Awesome!

[saltyalty]

I recently showed Rocket Man to my kids and they loved it! Classic and underrated movie .... "It wasn't me!"

[jacobatkinson]

She's right Galaxy quest and rocket man are the best source movies.

[stevenhatchel]

Next video: flat earther "expert" reviews all of these space scenes and rates them all a 1, because space is a myth.

[huawafabe]

Why does she only give the Passengers scene a 7 while she didn't complain about anything and literally said that this is how it would play out? I know the movie sucks, but that scene is amazing and authentic, and she's supposed to rate the scene, not the whole movie 🤔

[SuiLagadema]

The grit, determination and, well, bravery in the early stages of manned space exploration (I will consider the USSR because their cosmonauts were the same) is astonishing. You were practically buying a ticket for space but w/o a guarantee it won't be a 1 way ticket. Lets go Mars!

[Jayjay-qeum]

Wish you include Deep Impact, The Martian, and the Space Odyssey films.

[anonymes]

Fun fact: NASA's own research (on dogs, chimps and one unfortunate technician named Jim Le Blanc) tells us that even a normal human would _probably_ recover mostly unharmed after 1-2 minutes in vacuum, albeit _not_ immediately. And of course Peter Quill is <spoilers> :).

(great video though, fun to hear about this stuff from someone that actually did it)

[OhNoNotAgain]

I don’t know much about space, but I AM an experienced water and sewage treatment engineer. I’ve rated scenes in 3 films. In “Batman Begins”, if they poked a hole in a water main, there would have been a geyser that flooded the basement, drowning all the bad guys. In “Shawshank Redemption”, the opposite would have been true. When he poked a hole in a non pressurized sewage line, there would NOT have been a geyser. Finally, “Finding Nemo”. Nemo would have been shredded going through the treatment plant.

[AnonymousFreakYT]

The First Man footage… Using the real footage was incredible - and made possible because NASA put *AMAZINGLY* high quality cameras and film on/in the Saturn V to record every possible (with the technology of the day) angle for study later.

Notably, the footage of the ring dropping away - the film canister for that camera was then dropped away a few moments later, and made to survive reentry, to be caught by a waiting ship in the ocean. There was no live video downlink like SpaceX has with their modern systems.