Introduction

Recently, the trailer of Michael Pena's newest movie, ‘A Million Miles Away’, has been released. The film was directed by award-winning filmmaker, Alejandra Márquez Abella, and starred Michael Peña, Rosa Salazar, Bobby Soto, Sarayu Blue, Veronica Falcon, Julio Cesar Cadillo, and Garret Dillahunt.

Trailer Release

Prime Video released the first trailer for astronaut biopic 'A Million Miles Away', on Tuesday, August 15,,with the amazing tagline, ‘Who better to leave this planet and dive into the unknown than a migrant farm worker?’. The real-life Jose Hernández also announced that the movie about his journey had come out. Not only that, he reacted to the trailer's release and hoped that his story could inspire many people to follow their dreams.

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What Trailer Told About

The two-and-a-half-minute ‘A Million Miles Away’ trailer told about Jose Hernández' life events, including his earliest memory of space exploration such watched the 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 moon landing mission on TV, learning to fly and scuba dive to improve his chances of being selected as an astronaut, and his journey to spending nearly 14 days in space on a mission to the International Space Station.

Michael Pena Highlighted

Michael Peña was portraying real-life NASA astronaut, José Hernández, in the new movie ‘A Million Miles Away’. But, it was not first time he starred as an astronaut character. Michael Peña previously played a fictional NASA astronaut in the 2015 film ‘The Martian’ and was in Roland Emmerich's sci-fi disaster movie ‘Moonfall’ in 2022.

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The Film Was About

‘A Million Miles Away’ was inspired by the real-life story of NASA flight engineer, José Hernández. The film told the story about Jose Hernandez and devoted family of migrant farm workers who had been on a decades-long journey, from a rural village in Michoacán, Mexico, to the fields of the San Joaquin Valley, more than 200 miles above the Earth in the International Space Station.
Alejandra Márquez Abella as writer and director, has created a dazzling tribute to the loyalty and tenacity of the entire Jose Hernández’ family. With the support of his parents, mates, and teachers, unstoppable José Hernandez’ determination culminates in the opportunity to achieve his impossible goal.

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Jose Hernandez Struggle

As the film depicts, Jose Hernández's way to becoming a NASA astronaut was not without struggles. Even after he had been landing positions as an engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Johnson Space Center in Houston. Over the last 10 years, he have applied to the space program 12 times and all got rejected.
Finally, Jose Hernandez was accepted with NASA's 19th group of astronauts, ‘The Peacocks’, in 2004. He accomplished his dream becoming an STS-128 mission specialist on the space shuttle Discovery in August 2009.

Conclusion

After discovering the newest film of Michael Pena, ‘A Million Miles Away’, the fans most questioned about when is the ‘A Million Miles Away’ release date. According by a source, the film releases globally on Prime Video on September 15, 2023. 

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