One More Orbit

[Played Sept. 29 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on Amazon Prime Video, Pluto TV, and various VOD platforms.] Terry Virts narrates his compelling, educational, inspiring, intriguing, 74-minute, 2020 documentary highlighted by terrific cinematography that chronicles an international effort in support of a crew, including former astronaut test pilot Col. Terry Virts, mission captain Hamish Harding, captains Jeremy Ascough and Yevgen Vasylenko, command pilot Jacob Bech, lead flight engineer Benjamin Rueger, payload specialist and engineer Jannicke Mikkelsen, Qatar flight attendant Magdalena Starowicz, and photographers Dan Green and Bill Bennett, who took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida in a high-speed Gulfstream jet in an attempt to set the around the globe speed record (i.e., 46h40m22s) in July 2019 and flying 25,803 statute miles over the North and South Poles and consists of commentary by Carbon Underground founder Larry Kopald, Terry Virts Sr., wife Linda and son Giles of Hamish Harding, FAI representative Kris Maynard, and Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka.
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