re: The movie: "The Astronaut Farmer". I've just seen it.
Enjoyable but a bit silly. Of course they got the physics wrong. Its no wonder people have no idea how the world works. To me one of the most glaring errors was the deorbit burn. They made it appear as though when the retros fired the spacecraft just stopped and fell strait down. But the point of the story was not reality. It was a man pursuing his dream and not letting the naysayer’s stops him. It was a bit like “Field of Dreamsâ€.