🍿 The Inspiring True Story Behind ‘Good Will Hunting’

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The Inspiring True Story Behind ‘Good Will Hunting’

Just over a quarter of a century after they kicked down Hollywood’s door with an anti-authoritarian screenplay about two kids from the wrong side of Boston (one of whom happens to be a mathematical genius), Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have carved out their own illustrious and individual careers. But when the duo reunites, it’s always exciting.

This month, Ben and Matt will join forces again in Air, the story of Michael Jordan’s iconic sneaker line (Affleck plays Phil Knight, co-founder of Nike; Damon plays Sonny Vaccaro, a shoe salesman working to sign a rookie MJ). So ahead of the film’s release, Inverse caught up with the people behind their original team-up, Good Will Hunting, to dig up some fresh details about the Academy Award-winning movie.

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The first name called on during Monday’s Artemis II crew announcement was Christina Hammock Koch. NASA will, for the first time, fly a woman to the Moon.

Koch has said she’s always wanted to be an astronaut. She began as an electrical engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and three years ago, she returned to Earth from a 328-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) where she set the record for longest single spaceflight by a woman.

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