Recommended reading: "
Life in space is impossible," by Dwayne Day at The Space Review. The title refers to a line from the opening of
Gravity. The article is about various movies, including the weak
Elysium and the much-anticipated (by me)
Interstellar. Day has a somewhat downbeat view of how the pro-space movement, as he calls it, is doing, as reflected in the movies, though I'd add that such a movement has always had its challenges, including in the supposedly halcyon 1960s when public opinion did
not give much support for the Apollo program.