Dr. Frank Corvin This is Me

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1. 1. Space Cowboys - Movie Review by Joe Lozito - Space Aged

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   Published on: 6/21/2006   Last Visited: 6/25/2006

   As if to validate the premise of his new film "Space Cowboys", Clint Eastwood's NASA engineer Frank Corvin rationalizes "Hell, you sent Glenn up there."
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   Apparently, the septuagenarian astronaut's recent return trip to space should be enough for a suspension of disbelief of this proportion: Frank and his former flight team, now well into Senior Citizenship, must make a trip into outer space. Actually, that part of the film is perfectly believable, and a lot of fun too. It's the remainder of the plot that falls short. The film flirts with the idea of making the aging Satellite that the boys must save before it comes crashing down to Earth an analogy for the aging astronauts themselves (it seems that Frank and his team are the only ones who remember the archaic navigation system that has failed on the satellite).

2. 2. Space Cowboys

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   Published on: 11/27/2000   Last Visited: 3/12/2001

   Once Corvin convinces the brass that IKON can only be fixed in space , he's in position to blackmail NASA into letting him fulfill an old dream : to lead Team Dedalus into outer space. NASA agrees , but only on the condition that the mission will be scrubbed if Corvin and his team can't keep up with the training regimen of the younger astronauts who are to accompany them on the space shuttle. But the training is only one of Team Dedalus' many worries. An old nemesis from their Air Force days is now the director of NASA ( James Cromwell ) , and he's working behind the scenes to queer their chances of success.

3. 3. Box Office Report - Daniel's Reviews: Space Cowboys

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   Published on: 8/24/1999   Last Visited: 5/27/2002

   Eastwood stars as Frank Corvin, the leader of a former group of test pilots know as Team Daedalus. After making it as close as can possibly be to space without actually being there, the program was disbanded in 1958 in favor of NASA. Upon this occurrence Frank and the other three members of the crew Hawk (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry (Donald Sutherland) and Tank (James Garner) went their own separate ways.
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   Frank went on to become a great early engineer for NASA by designing the guidance system for the Skylab project. The film then fast-forwards to the present, where a serious situation has occurred with a former USSR satellite that is loosing its orbit and will soon crash into earth. You're probably thinking what's the big deal about one Soviet satellite, but that big deal is eventually revealed in one of the film's bigger payoffs. Anyway, the Soviet satellite mysteriously runs on the same guidance system as Skylab, which is so old that no one at NASA can understand it and in one of the film's funnier ongoing jokes, everyone that could once understand it is now dead. Their ultimate solution is to get Frank to fix it.
   
   Frank smells something fishy in all of this and as a result plays out the situation as best he can. So well in fact, that he is able to get NASA top dog Bob Gerson (James Cromwell), the same official who stopped Frank from making it to space in the first place, to allow him and the rest of Team Daedalus to go into space in exchange for his being able to fix the problem. Frank then goes out to gather up Tank, now a minister, Jerry, a roller coaster engineer with a heavy sex drive, and Hawk, a high-risk pilot who hasn't spoken to Frank for years. Frank then goes out to gather up Tank, now a minister, Jerry, a roller coaster engineer with a heavy sex drive, and Hawk, a high-risk pilot who hasn't spoken to Frank for years.
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   After the training has been completed, a few plot twists here and there, and a few side stories such as the relationships between Frank and Hawk, Frank and Gerson, and Hawk and a NASA official played by Marcia Gay Harden, the launch date finally arrives.
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   After the training has been completed, a few plot twists here and there, and a few side stories such as the relationships between Frank and Hawk, Frank and Gerson, and Hawk and a NASA official played by Marcia Gay Harden, the launch date finally arrives.