“Project Hail Mary,” the best-selling novel by Andy Weir, centers around a middle school science teacher who finds himself aboard a spaceship light-years away from Earth and entrusted with saving the planet. The book has now been made into a film, which opens on Friday.
Host Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Weir.
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