“The training sequences were hard,” says a laughing Marquez Abella, during a separate video interview, referring to a couple of sequences that feel a bit like the montages from a boxing movie.
José Hernández, whose yearslong journey from a migrant farmer to a NASA astronaut, talks about 'A Million Miles Away,' as does the Prime Video movie's director, Alejandra Marquez Abella
'A Million Miles Away' shares the true story of NASA flight engineer José Hernández. Hernández was rejected by the NASA astronaut training program 11 times before being selected at the age of 41 in 2004.