Mark McCaughrean<p>Separated at birth / Gone but not forgotten 🚀</p><p>I've just watched the trailer for the film of Andy "The Martian" Weir's book "Project Hail Mary", starring Ryan Gosling & due out next year.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GPyA7VniTY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=3GPyA7VniTY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Take a careful look at 01:30 into the trailer, as Gosling's rocket launches.</p><p>Yep, that's an Ariane 5 dropping its umbilicals 🤪</p><p>First picture: screenshot from the trailer<br>Second picture: the 2023 Ariane 5 launch of ESA's JUICE</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProjectHailMary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectHailMary</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArianeSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArianeSpace</span></a></p>