One of Astronomy Club of Edinburg's members just shared a set of trivia related to the Martian which you can access in full at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/t... (*MAJOR BOOK AND MOVIE SPOILERS*). Some are very interesting!
Without spoiling anything here, one piece of behind-the-scenes movie-making trivia was particularly interesting to me. "When designing the space suits in the movie, the costume designer looked at many of NASA's actual Mars suits and said they were 'exactly like a Buzz Lightyear suit'. From how bulky they were, even Ridley Scott disliked them, so the final designs of the suits were based on images of actual suits but aimed for a more practical approach."
The Martian appears to have most closely emulated the spacesuit design of Dava Newman, an MIT Astronautics and Aeronautics Engineer and former NASA deputy administrator. In this video, she goes into a little more detail as to how her modern spacesuit was designed and the form it takes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kL53...
Without spoiling anything here, one piece of behind-the-scenes movie-making trivia was particularly interesting to me. "When designing the space suits in the movie, the costume designer looked at many of NASA's actual Mars suits and said they were 'exactly like a Buzz Lightyear suit'. From how bulky they were, even Ridley Scott disliked them, so the final designs of the suits were based on images of actual suits but aimed for a more practical approach."
The Martian appears to have most closely emulated the spacesuit design of Dava Newman, an MIT Astronautics and Aeronautics Engineer and former NASA deputy administrator. In this video, she goes into a little more detail as to how her modern spacesuit was designed and the form it takes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kL53...