Is the Movie Gravity Based on a True Story?

While the movie Gravity  certainly feels realistic and the human story is riveting, breathtaking really, the story is fictional. Gravity, staring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock is about astronauts who go on a routine spacewalk to do maintenance on their space station when suddenly debris from a destroyed satellite begins to orbit the earth at speeds more than 5 times faster than shots fired from a gun. The astronauts have only seconds to react and become separated form each other. Will they be lost in space forever or find a way back home? The movie earned several Oscars. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Warner Bros Pictures 2013.

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Read this Forbes interview of astronaut Garrett Reisman to hear his interesting take on the film.

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Is the Movie Flight Based on a True Story?

Flight (2012) starting Denzel Washington is not based on a true story.

But who can forget this true American hero. Real life pilot Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III made a heroic water landing on the Hudson River in New York saving the lives of all 150 passengers on board. The flight was US Airways 1549 January 15, 2011. [Pictured right]


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