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Return to Space (2022) on Netflix

NR20222h 8mDocumentary

After the Space Shuttle retires in 2011, no crew launches from American soil. Elon Musk and SpaceX work for two decades to build rockets that can carry NASA astronauts.

  • Netflix3.8/5
  • IMDb7.3/106,212 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes79%

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Elon Musk and the engineers at SpaceX spend two decades building rockets able to carry people, working to return American astronauts to orbit. Their vehicles include the Falcon 1, the reusable Falcon 9 and the Crew Dragon capsule. NASA veterans Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are picked for the first crewed flight from American ground since the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011. The cameras stay with the two men and their families as the launch approaches.

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