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Space Cowboys - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Space Cowboys - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The scenes out in space were entirely computer graphics. The actors' faces were added in digitally.
Space Cowboys - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The cast includes three Oscar winners: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, and Marcia Gay Harden; and two Oscar nominees: James Garner and James Cromwell.
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Global Effects, Inc. designed ten space suits for the movie, using the same woven Teflon as real suits. They've also created space suits for Armageddon (1998), Deep Impact (1998) and the MTV Moonman.
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In this movie, the four astronauts appeared together on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992). To promote this movie, they all appeared together on the same show.
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This movie reunited Clint Eastwood with Donald Sutherland, who starred alongside Eastwood in Kelly's Heroes (1970), and James Garner, who played Bret Maverick on Maverick (1957). Eastwood appeared in season two, episode nineteen, "Duel at Sundown".
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Originally, Sir Sean Connery was supposed to play Jerry O'Neill and Jack Nicholson was supposed to play "Tank" Sullivan.
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Clint Eastwood wrote the theme that plays at the beginning of the movie and it was worked into the score by Lennie Niehaus.
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The simulator is the same that real astronauts use to train for their missions.
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James Garner's "unprofessional" and awkward sermon-style is very similar to Clint Eastwood in the beginning of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) (where he was hiding-out in a small town as a preacher). Only Garner's character is actually ordained.
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According to Adam Savage, in order to replicate the appearance of gold foil on camera, the special effects team tested various materials and found that the gold-colored wrappers of Rolo candies worked best.
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Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" in France as one of the ten best movies of 2000, at number nine.
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Clint Eastwood nicknamed this movie "Geezer Power".
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The Modelling Department put a Space Mr. Coffee in the cargo bay of the shuttle. This was the idea of chief modelmaker Adam Savage, former co-host of MythBusters (2003) on the Discovery Channel.
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To create "weightlessness", the actors clung onto objects as if they were grounding themselves. Clint Eastwood opted against using the "Vomit Comet", the plane used to film weightlessness in Apollo 13 (1995).
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N.A.S.A. jargon during the STS-200 ascent: "Negative Return" means that the Shuttle is beyond the point of being able to return to the Kennedy Space Center and the Shuttle Landing Facility. "Two Engines TAL" means that the Orbiter can reach the primary emergency Trans-Atlantic Landing (TAL) site in Merona, Spain even if one of its three main engines fails. "Press to ATO" means that if one engine fails, the crew will make every effort to Abort-To-Orbit instead of landing at the secondary emergency landing site in Zaragoza, Spain. After ATO, it may still be possible to perform the mission as planned if the orbit is close enough to nominal.
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Clint Eastwood's team initially thought they'd need forty special effects shots. They ended up with about three hundred.
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Tommy Lee Jones and William Devane appeared in Rolling Thunder (1977).
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With the exception of his cameo as Silvana Mangano's husband in the obscure Italian movie The Witches (1967), this is the only time Clint Eastwood played a formally married man. His characters are usually single and meet their potential love interest (if any) as the story develops. On other occasions he's played divorcées (Tightrope (1984), Heartbreak Ridge (1986), The Rookie (1990), and The Mule (2018)), widowers (Dirty Harry (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Gran Torino (2008), and Trouble with the Curve (2012)) or men who are separated from their wives (True Crime (1999)), but never actually married.
Space Cowboys - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts