Take a ride aboard the Vomit Comet.
Houston, we have a problem…
A vomit-shaped one to be exact.
Bacon never got sick because he assiduously took the anti-nausea meds NASA provided to the crew.
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The same could not be said for the crew.
“I did get thrown up on,” Bacon confesses.
“One of the cameramen threw up on me.
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To make matters worse, Bacon says the lunch options on set were not ideal.
And I was like, ‘Can we just calm down on the lunch thing?’
I was afraid I was going to be wearing it that afternoon.”
That was just part of the intensive approach the trio experienced as they trained to believably play astronauts.
“We learned all about the switches and levers,” he says.
“It all went right over my head, but I literally think Hanks could fly in outer space.
He was really, really into it.
Paxton was too.”
“We spent a lot of time in spacesuits unable to move in the chairs,” he says.
We’d have 15-20 minutes or a half an hour to just bulls—.
