far from home

There were never going to be aliens,” says Jessica Goldberg, showrunner for Netflix’s deep-space drama Away, in which a five-person crew blast off from the moon to Mars. “For us,” she continues, “it was very important that everything was based on what happens on a real mission to Mars.”

Starring Hilary Swank as American astronaut Emma Green, the commander of the ambitious Atlas mission, isn’t exclusively set in the claustrophobic confines of the Mars-bound spacecraft. Those left behind on Earth – such as Emma’s NASA engineer husband