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Space Cowboys. Space Cowboys is a 2000 American adventure drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. It stars Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four aging former test pilots who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite. It was theatrically released on August 15, 2000, received positive ...
Aug 4, 2000 · Space Cowboys: Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner. When retired engineer Frank Corvin is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space.
Space Cowboys is a sci-fi adventure film starring Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, and Donald Sutherland as retired NASA pilots on a daring mission. See how critics and audiences rated this ...
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Aug 4, 2000 · Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
The plane stalls and they are forced to eject, narrowly missing a Boeing B-50 Superfortress flying with navigator "Tank" Sullivan (James Garner). On the ground, Frank punches Hawk for taking unnecessary risks and jeopardizing his career, but their fight is broken up by flight engineer Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland).
Aug 4, 2000 · Space Cowboys. The guys who had the original right stuff get a second chance in "Space Cowboys," 42 years after their Air Force experimental flights in the X-2 rocket plane were replaced by orbiting monkeys and something called "astronauts." When NASA desperately needs expertise that only grizzled veteran Frank Corvin ( Clint Eastwood) can ...
associate visual effects supervisor: ILM. Kirk Henderson. ... visual effects concept artist: ILM. Robert Hill. ... motion control first assistant camera. Ivo Horvat. ...
"Over the hill" only applies where there's gravity! Forty years after their original space mission was scrapped, a retired Air Force "space cowboy" leads a group of former astronauts on a dangerous mission to help repair a damaged satellite. Despite their age, they prove they still have the right stuff. Starring and directed by Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood ("Unforgiven," "In the Line of Fire"). All star cast includes Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones ("The Fugitive," "Men in Black"), Oscar-nominee ...
Principal photography on Space Cowboys began in mid July, l999, and continued through mid October, with locations in the general Los Angeles area (Saugus, Agua Dulce, Canyon Country, March Air Force Base and Victorville) providing the background for most of the early years of the story, followed by sequences filmed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
About this movie. In 1958, the members of Team Daedalus, a group of top Air Force test pilots, were ready to serve their country as the first Americans in space but were pushed aside. Now, as a Russian satellite fails and is about to crash into earth, Team Daedalus is back in action in a rescue mission. In 1958, the members of Team Daedalus, a ...
