Space Cowboys
Space will never be the same.
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the US Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps.They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
- Worldwide
- $129M
Who's in it
Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the US Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Space Cowboys returned 2.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $65M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $129M
- Release date
- Aug 4, 2000
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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