TOFU STIR FRY, TWO CUPS OF broccoli, one cup brown rice. 0% yogurt, one grapefruit. Thirty baby carrots, 4 tsp hummus.
No, this isn’t the pre-holiday diet from hell, but a typical day’s food for Emma Green, an astronaut played with trademark intensity by Hilary Swank in Netflix’s new 10-episode drama series Away. At least, that’s what she eats when she’s earthbound. Up there, it’s a lot worse…
SFX is having a nosey around Emma’s tasteful family home (actually an elaborate set in Vancouver), opening drawers to examine cutlery, and picking up and playing with space-themed ornaments.
“Lex, money for pizza on fridge” is scrawled across a blackboard; naturally, we head to the fridge, where we find no money, but rather the meal plan in question, pinned under a family photo just as it might be in any kitchen. We’re in pain just looking at it.
Have you ever imagined life as an astronaut? Wondered what it would feel like to be only the 663rd person to see Earth from space? Would such privilege make the preparation, the isolation, the confinement, and the diet – the dehydrated, freeze-dried, ultra-processed “Neapolitan ice cream” and such that’s de rigueur for astronauts – worth it? Such are the questions posed by Away – inspired by a 2015 Esquire article of the same name, about astronaut Scott Kelly’s year-long stay on the International Space Station, as the first step towards a human expedition to Mars.
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