‘The Martian’ Trailer Receives Great Reviews And Praise From NASA

A second trailer was released for Matt Damon’s upcoming film The Martian on Wednesday. On social media, viewers and critics reacted with two thumbs way up.

#TheMartian Trailer

Help is only 140 million miles away. Watch the new trailer for #TheMartian, in theaters Oct. 2. #BringHimHome https://t.co/mY5KLT3czf

— The Martian Movie (@MartianMovie) August 19, 2015

Matt Damon is Mars’s badass botanist in this trailer for #TheMartian: https://t.co/WmDiGCNT4E pic.twitter.com/024vf7qGDA — Vulture (@vulture) August 20, 2015

Okay #TheMartian, you are bound for Oscars! It looks funny, factual and ultimately fantastically acted.

— onlyMerlintheworld (@Merlin_Davies) August 20, 2015

So excited for #TheMartian loved the book hope the movie is at least half as good. #potato #mars #ARIES — Megan Connell PsyD (@MeganPsyD) August 20, 2015

The film, directed by Ridley Scott, is based off the adaptation of Andy Weir’s book.

The story follows Mark Watney, whose colleagues abandoned him on Mars after concluding that he died in a storm. Watney, the “self-proclaimed best botanist on Mars,” must stretch 60 days’ worth of supplies into enough for four years, when a new crew is expected to arrive. With no way to contact NASA or his crew, he makes a GoPro camera his companion and starts to communicate with people on Earth.

Jim Green, NASA director of planetary science, tells the Los Angeles Times he couldn’t be more excited about the film’s release. Green says that in spite of lots of Hollywood drama, the film is true to the science, technology and human cooperation necessary “to overcome major challenges” in space.

He says the film could also act as great publicity for hoped-for manned missions to Mars.

The Martian hits theaters Oct. 2.