“I’m Not Afraid of Space; I’m More Afraid of Not Getting It”

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Lean Right

Factuality

Ownership

There is a scene in the film Gravity in which Sandra Bullock floats in silence, lost in a space without top or bottom. Her body floats, without fixed direction, without solid materials to hold on to. Only her breath is heard: darkness and silence is what rules in that environment. Noel de Castro is not paralyzed by that image: she trains her. She has been living in Houston for eight months, where the days are measured less by the clock than by s…