On Saturday, June 22, and Saturday, June 29, 2024, at 5:00 p.m., the Cosmosphere will host free advance screenings of the upcoming film "Space Cadet" in the Justice Planetarium, thanks to the Space4All initiative and producer of the film Amazon Studios MGM.

Members of the public may reserve complimentary tickets for admission to the screenings in person at the Cosmosphere's Box Office, by calling 620-665-9312 or at cosmo.org.

Join us Friday, June 21 at 2pm for a private screening of Space Cadet, a new film from Amazon starring Emma Roberts as Rex, a space enthusiast who gets more than she bargained for when her best friend falsifies her resume and she is accepted into NASA's astronaut training program. Parts of this movie were filmed right here at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center!

'Space Cadet' applies humor to NASA astronaut selection, says film director (interview)

Right now, in real life, the members of NASA's astronauts corps are helping to review the thousands of applications that the space agency has received to join their ranks as the next candidates to train for space. Chances are, though, none of the submissions are from the likes of Tiffany "Rex" Simpson.

Rex, as played by actress Emma Roberts in the new movie "Space Cadet," now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, dreamed of being an astronaut as a young girl but, as often happens, life got in the way. That is, until she decided she was no longer content being a 28-year-old bartender ('mixologist"), sometimes-alligator wrestler and full-time Cocoa Beach party girl and applied to NASA.

From there, as they say, the comedy ensues.