Who doesn't love a good space travel movie? The bravery, the adventure, the sheer caliber of intellect and fitness that is required to be a cinematic astronaut — it's inspiring to all of us earthlings watching from our theater seats. However, now that space travel is becoming more normalized with Blue Origin flights full of celebrities and elites, like Katy Perry, William Shatner, and Jeff Bezos himself, it got me thinking: there have been so many movies that feature space travelers that you wouldn't want to send to the grocery store let alone space — characters that are so unqualified for space travel that you wonder how they ever made it off the launch pad.So, here are 9 movies where the wrong people go to space—and somehow, it works. 1. Armageddon (1998) - YouTube www.youtube.com This is the textbook example of unqualified people going to space unironically. Upon the news that an asteroid the size of Texas is on a collision course with Earth, NASA recruits Bruce Willis and his crew of deep-core oil drillers, which includes a very tearful Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi with a death wish, and Michael Clarke Duncan in tiger stripe bikini undies. The biggest questions audiences had after watching the film: Wouldn't it have been easier to train astronauts to drill than it would have to train drillers to be astronauts? Yeah, but then you wouldn't have the movie. 2. Space Cowboys (2000) - YouTube www.youtube.com Now, no one is saying that a crew of...
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