'The Space Between Us' (Movie Photos)

Raised on Mars

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Mission engineer Kendra Wyndham (played by Carla Gugino) raises Gardner (Asa Butterfield) after his mother dies in childbirth.

Sneaking Out

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Behaving just like a teenager on Earth would, Gardner (Asa Butterfield) sneaks out of the Mars colony.

Dune Buggy

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The Mars dune buggy is based on the design of NASA's old moon rovers.

Quantum Communication

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For faster communication between Earth and Mars, the story utilizes a theoretical type of technology that exploits quantum entanglement, which could allow information to travel faster than the speed of light.

Quantum Communication

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On Earth, Tulsa (Britt Robertson) chats online with Gardner (Asa Butterfield) during class.

Cross-Country Road Trip

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When Gardner (Asa Butterfield) arrives at Earth, he elopes with Tulsa (Britt Robertson).

Biplane Adventure

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Tulsa and Gardner take officials with Genesis Space Technologies and police on a cross-country chase that involved a biplane (and several stolen cars).

Earth

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Gardner (Asa Butterfield) experiences the natural wonders of Earth for the first time.

Dream Chaser

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The Dream Chaser is a spacecraft designed by NASA and Sierra Nevada Corp. Its intended purpose was to serve as a space ambulance for space station emergencies. An actual prototype of the spacecraft appears in "The Space Between Us".

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Hanneke Weitering
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Hanneke Weitering is a multimedia journalist in the Pacific Northwest reporting on the future of aviation at FutureFlight.aero and Aviation International News and was previously the Editor for Spaceflight and Astronomy news here at Space.com. As an editor with over 10 years of experience in science journalism she has previously written for Scholastic Classroom Magazines, MedPage Today and The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After studying physics at the University of Tennessee in her hometown of Knoxville, she earned her graduate degree in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting (SHERP) from New York University. Hanneke joined the Space.com team in 2016 as a staff writer and producer, covering topics including spaceflight and astronomy. She currently lives in Seattle, home of the Space Needle, with her cat and two snakes. In her spare time, Hanneke enjoys exploring the Rocky Mountains, basking in nature and looking for dark skies to gaze at the cosmos.