Season 1
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Writing credits: Ken Kaufman, Howard Klausner
Movie Genre: Comedy/Drama/Sci-Fi
Released: 2000
Running Time: 130 minutes
Rating: PG
In this adventure drama, four men passed over by the space program get one last chance to be heroes and live out their dreams.
Frank Corvin, Hawk Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and Tank Sullivan were top pilots within an elite Air Force squadron and on the fast track to becoming the first Americans in space in the early 1950s.
However, when NASA was established, the pilots were cut out of the loop; Corvin went on to become an aerospace engineer, Hawkins continued on as a freelance pilot, O'Neill became an astrophysicist with a sideline in designing roller coasters, and Sullivan took up preaching as a Baptist minister.
Years later, a Russian satellite's guidance system has started to malfunction, and it is expected to crash into the Earth within a matter of weeks.
The system is identical to the one Corvin designed for Skylab, so NASA head Bob Gerson asks Corvin to help him with the emergency mission to repair the satellite.
Corvin agrees under one condition — that he be sent up to do the repairs himself, with Hawkins, O'Neill, and Sullivan as his crew.
Tagline: Boys will be boys.