With its sense of realness, its talented actors, and its impetus for the aging, Space Cowboys proved to be a huge success. First, the movie has an excellent sense of realness. During the movie, it showed some of the harsh preflight training that real astronauts would have had to go through. The actors tried their best to make every scene seem as real as possible. For example, when they did a centrifuge scene, the actors …showed first 75 words of 264 total…

…showed last 75 words of 264 total…dreams. NASA called on Clint Eastwood's character and the rest of his aging "crew" to help fix a problem with a satellite. So the four men get to relive their dreams after years had past since the first time. Being able to relive their dreams shows that the aging should never give up on the dreams they had as youths. Space Cowboys contained and portrayed many elements that made the film a box office success.