Factual error: The shuttle's original mission was to service Hubble, yet when the shuttle is wrecked, Kowalsky moves with Stone to the ISS, which just happens to be "a short hike away." Hubble orbits at an altitude of 350 miles/560km, while the ISS does so at an altitude of about 250 miles/410km. Furthermore, even if they had been able to see the ISS from Hubble's orbit, they would have only seen it speed ahead, as their orbital velocities are very different: 7.66km per second for the ISS and 7.5km per second for Hubble. (00:23:20)
Gravity (2013)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: George Clooney, Ed Harris, Sandra Bullock, Basher Savage, Eric Michels, Orto Ignatiussen
Kowalski detaches from Stone so that she can survive. He presumably breaks Solovyev's space walk record. Stone uses the soft landing jets on the Soyuz capsule, which has no other fuel, to get to the Chinese space station as it's reentering earth's atmosphere, gets into their functioning re-entry vehicle, and makes it back to Earth alive. She lands in a large lake, swims out, kicking off the space suit, and staggers ashore.
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Matt Kowalski: You have to learn to let go.
Question: During the scene in which Matt detaches himself from Ryan so that he does not pull her away with him, why didn't he bounce back towards her when the rope snapped taut? Was there something that kept pushing/pulling him away that I missed?
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Answer: If they had been tightly tethered to the space station, he would have bounced back toward her. But her foot was only tangled in parachute cords, so that when the tether snapped taught all it did was begin to pull her away from the station as the parachute cords gave more and more slack, slipping more and more loose as they drifted further away.
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