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MOVIE REVIEW By HAROLD EGELN

[A note from the Editor of Chapter News: Harold Egeln is President of The New York Space Society chapter of NSS.]

The era of personal space travel gets a Hollywood starry boost, thanks to a new movie, "The Astronaut Farmer," kind-of-an "October Sky" super-sized and piloted forward to 2007, 50 years since Sputnik I dazzled an awe-struck world with wonderment in 1957. ..........
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.....Over a dozen NSS-NY Members and guests were treated, along with other invitees, to a special free advance preview screening of the movie on Saturday morning, February 10 in Manhattan at the AMC Loew's 34th Street 14 Theaters, thanks to the movie's promotors. In other select cities around the USA, NSS chapters have been treated to free previews. Previously, NSS-NY has taken part in special screenings of "The Dish" and "Roving Mars."

The Astronaut Farmer” starring Billy Bob Thornton and Virginia Madsen. Slated for general release February 23rd nationwide.

“The Astronaut Farmer” - Out of the Cradle
Review by Ken Murphy, V.P., North Texas NSS

One of the perquisites of being a member of a space organization like the National Space Society is that often we get special invites to special events not available to the general public. This was how some of the North Texas chapter members got to see “Roving Mars” early, and one day boxes of “Zathura” goodies showed up on my doorstep for us to distribute. (We of course always plunder first…) This time around is a new space movie, just in time for the run-up to the 2007 ISDC, which is adopting a strongly ‘frontier’ theme.

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