But could anyone build something that tall? And can people actually climb up from Earth into space? A tall order In the movie, the space antenna looks like pipes stacked upon pipes that reach into space. He plummets from the blackness of space toward Earth until his parachute opens, slowing his descent. But this day, McBride’s sweet view is interrupted by an explosion that hurtles him off the antenna.
This spindly structure stretches up toward the stars. He does mechanical work atop an international space antenna.
Astronaut Roy McBride peers out over the Earth at the start of the new sci-fi flick Ad Astra.
