Hollywood meets NASA on future Mars mission

Posted by jburk to Entertainment at August 30, 1999 12:00 PM

Moviemakers have begun working on the $100 million Mission to Mars film in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among a cast of Hollywood actors-turned-astronauts on a 55- acre plot of sand dunes converted to red planet terra firma, are ex- space walkers, a Mars Pathfinder geologist, and NASA's chief scientist for the International Space Station.