After climbing El Capitan for their Oscar-winning documentary, "Free Solo," and going into caves to "dive out" the Thai soccer team in "The Rescue," filmmakers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin go to the final frontier with "Return to Space," their informative chronicle of SpaceX and the new era of human space flight.
The filmmakers track SpaceX and Elon Musk's failure to launch a rocket (Falcon 1) three times before they reached liftoff. But as the film shows, their trial-and-error period resulted in SpaceX developing the science to perfect booster landings and create a "reusable rocket," and man a successful commercial mission, Dragon Demo 2, to the International Space Station. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are interviewed in the film about their experiences.
