College of Engineering News • Iowa State University

Distinguished Faculty Fellow Clayton Anderson comments on the science of “Gravity”

“Gravity” gives moviegoers “a reasonable taste” of what it’s like to be in space, said Clayton Anderson, Iowa State University’s astronaut-in-residence.

“It brought back a lot of memories,” Anderson said.

Anderson, an ISU graduate, is a former NASA astronaut who participated in two space flights. He is now a distinguished faculty fellow in Iowa State’s aerospace engineering department.

When Anderson first saw a trailer for “Gravity,” he was unsure of how factual the movie would be, he said.

Read the original story by The Des Moines Register, here.

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