Space Cowboys Turns 24

OTD 2000: Space Cowboys opens. The film takes a piece of real history -- record-breaking air force flyers were ignored by NASA -- and paints a fascinating "what if": what if decades later, one of those spurned flyboys is the only man capable of fixing a Russian satellite hurtling from orbit, back to Earth? Clint Eastwood's original idea was to recruit Connery, Nicholson, and Beatty for the film. Although the 'legends tour' didn't pan out, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and especially Donald Sutherland are great. Highly recommended 👍