I didn't know that until I was actually talking to her,' said Swank. 'She is also from the same town my parents are from, which is incredible. 'I was able to pick her brain and that was really helpful in terms of what it means to be a commander, the responsibility that comes with that and how that is shaped in a man's world,' 'Peggy was wonderful and she shared with me both the smallest and biggest details,' Swank said. Swank, who once dreamed of being an astronaut, had the chance to speak with Whitson as part of her research for the role. 'A lot of people don't know that it was a woman who did that.' 'I was fascinated with Peggy Whitson, the United States astronaut who spent the most time in space, and has served the longest tenure as commander,' said Hinderaker. In addition to Kelly, who holds the record for the single longest mission by an American, the cast and crew of 'Away' looked toward several NASA astronauts to help shape the crew of the Atlas mission to Mars. Click to view and enlarge video in a new, pop-up window. 'Away' is set to debut on the streaming service on Sept. 'It really is the story of Emma, played by Hilary Swank, not only leaving, but leaving at a time when her family is in such crisis and perhaps when they need her the most,' Katims said in a statement released by Netflix. 'We wound up bringing it to the writer, Andrew Hinderaker, who wrote a beautiful pilot script.' 'We really wanted to create a show that was in space, but one that was also deeply human, emotional, relatable and really grounded in human emotion, rather than in science fiction, and we wanted to look at what it's like to be away in different forms,' executive producer Jason Katims said about the approach to the series. That the article and series share the same title is not by accident Kelly's flight, as recounted by Jones, served as the inspiration for the show (and Jones joined the series' writing staff, penning one of the 10 episodes in the first season of 'Away').

It also describes the real-life story chronicled in 'Away,' writer Chris Jones' 2014 feature for Esquire magazine that focused on NASA astronaut Scott Kelly's year-long expedition aboard the International Space Station. That is the plot of the new Netflix series 'Away,' starring Hilary Swank as a Mars-bound astronaut. An American astronaut joins an international crew for a long-duration spaceflight and has to endure both the challenges of the mission and the effects of being separated from Earth.

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