that entails) back on Earth. For Green, that’s her husband, NASA engineer Matt Logan (Josh Charles), and her teenage daughter, Alexis (Talitha Bateman).
Matt was supposed to lead the mission; medical complications kept him behind in Houston with Alexis, who isn’t coping well with Emma’s decision to leave her family behind — just as she’s entering high school and needs her mother’s emotional support.The astronauts can communicate with their families via video chats for about six months post-liftoff before their distance from Earth makes that impossible (cell phones and texting, apparently, can continue).
It’s through these video chats (and a series of flashbacks) that we learn the backstories of Emma’s team aboard the Atlas: surly Russian.
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