The story of José M. Hernández, one of NASA's few Latino astronauts, is the topic of Prime Video’s “A Million Miles Away” starring Michael Peña as the engineer and former astronaut.
Sept. 19, 2023, 1:41 PM UTCThere were five key “ingredients” that José M. Hernández’s father shared with him to achieve a"recipe" for success.
“José’s story was such an amazing, such a beautiful, honest, inescapable story that I just had to do,” director Alejandra Márquez Abella tells TODAY.com. “I did have the experience of parallelizing myself to his story. If he could achieve all this then I can.” For Márquez Abella, it was important for her and Hernández to have a close relationship, which they cultivated over time.
Márquez Abella notes that Miss Young visiting Hernández right before he headed to space was “added sparkle.” “So I decided that we should chapter it in those ingredients,” she continues, adding that it “made sense” and “it takes the audience in a much clearer way through the dream.”In 1984, Hernández earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of the Pacific. Two years later, he earned a master’s degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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