I saw the movie today, had to chaperon my son and his girlfriend to the movie. I noticed some flaws, but for a Hollywood movie they were using "comic book phys

I saw the movie today, had to chaperon my son and his girlfriend to the movie. I noticed some flaws, but for a Hollywood movie they were using "comic book physics" which most scifi movies and TV shows use. I assume that it takes place in an alternative universe where NASA didn't scrub the Space Shuttle program, and space stations are placed close to each other as some form of disaster planning, and of course commercial companies like Space-X and Virgin Galactic didn't exist. I kind of thought it was like "The Net" but instead of running from the police and computer hackers, she was trying to escape from space and get back to Earth. :) Anyway my son and his girlfriend saw it and loved it, and both decided to take astronomy because of it. They are both freshmen in high school taking physical science. I think the movie was meant for them. I had to explain after the movie how in space there is no air, and the space capsule parachute was tangled on the ISS and she had to cut it free. That it wasn't because it would slow down the capsule but that it had tethered it to the ISS. That if the chute was free there'd be no air to slow it down. They thought there was something in space the chute would slow it down on, but I told them it was a vacuum. Chutes only work in the atmosphere. That the friction of reentering the atmosphere is what had caused the heat that was burning up the other capsule she had to get on the Chinese station. Some spoilers Warning Let me see, Explorer Space Shuttle trying to repair a telescope with a new circuit board. Russians go crazy trying to blow up out of control spy satellite with some super missile that just wipes out all satellites and throws debris everywhere. NASA was not aware of it, and had miscalculated the velocity of the debris so there was no way to abort the mission before they got hit. Some super space suit thruster pack got George Cloney to fly around like Superman and save Sandra Bullock and get to the ISS. But the ISS has problems and the Russian space capsule has a deployed parachute in space. Bullock gets snagged on parachute cord, Cloney has to let go to save her or else she'll get lose. She has to use Russian capsule to get to the Chinese station that has a clone of the Russian capsule with a working parachute to get back to Earth. I won't say how it ends though. Sure it was mostly animation for 90 minutes, and we saw it in IMAX. But the main point is that it gets teenagers to study more math and science as a result of seeing the movie and asking questions about the physics involved. So I can forgive the mistakes and "comic book physics", if it promotes education.