{"id":376911,"date":"2026-02-27T03:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=7504263ff2ab5f37559825e78406f5fb"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:19:03","slug":"inside-project-hail-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=376911","title":{"rendered":"Inside Project Hail Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06-dg01304.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06-dg01304.jpg?w=2000\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"At right, a man in a blue flight suit with patches on it takes a selfie with his cell phone. He is in the photo, as well as panel members and the large audience. They are in an auditorium. In the far background, there is a NASA &quot;meatball&quot; insignia and the letters &quot;JPL&quot; on the wall.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06-dg01304.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06-dg01304.jpg?resize=300,203 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06-dg01304.jpg?resize=768,518 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06-dg01304.jpg?resize=1024,691 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06-dg01304.jpg?resize=1536,1037 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06-dg01304.jpg?resize=400,270 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06-dg01304.jpg?resize=600,405 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06-dg01304.jpg?resize=900,608 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06-dg01304.jpg?resize=1200,810 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Dan Goods<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA astronaut and deputy director of the Flight Operations Directorate Kjell Lindgren takes a selfie with panelists and the audience at the agency&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 25, 2026. Actors Ryan Gosling and Sandra Huller, screenwriter Drew Goddard, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and producer and writer of the &#8220;Project Hail Mary&#8221; novel Andy Weir stopped by NASA JPL to talk about their experience making the movie and the collaboration between scientists and creative media.<\/p>\n<p>NASA supported the creative team behind the movie with subject matter experts who answered questions from the crew, and Lindgren met with Gosling during filming to share insights on human spaceflight and being an astronaut.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Dan Goods<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut and deputy director of the Flight Operations Directorate Kjell Lindgren takes a selfie with panelists and the audience at the agency\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 25, 2026. Actors Ryan Gosling and Sandra Huller, screenwriter Drew Goddard, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and producer and writer of the \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d novel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15607,19717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jet-propulsion-laboratory","category-kjell-n-lindgren"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377355,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376911\/revisions\/377355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}