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The Soviet Union put the first man of African heritage in space in 1980 (America's first black astronaut flew in 1983).
The hero, in a sense, is the company doctor, who helps Vincent realize his dreams of becoming an astronaut in order to spite the biotech-state (the doctor's own eugenically planned son "didn't turn out the way they promised").
Astronaut Shannon Lucid returned to earth after six months on the Russian Mir space station, setting an American record and a world record for women.
Imagine a NASA astronaut having the nerve to say such things!
Now that it's in theaters, the pans are pouring in for this "ridiculously derivative" movie (Maslin, the New York Times ) about an astronaut (Johnny Depp) who returns to Earth after a strange, and possibly alien, encounter in space.