Swades: Aiming for sky

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's official website www.nasa.gov makes a mention of Bollywood and director Ashutosh Gowariker who shot Swades at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The article mentions: Gowariker is directing at Launch Pad 39A, where a strong wind blows in from the Atlantic, making life difficult for the hair and make-up crew. Dozens of important looking people with clipboards and headsets run around making sure everything's just right and that Shah Rukh Khan, the film's lead actor and one of India's biggest stars, has plenty of water and shade as the Florida summer kicks in." In the film, an engineer played by Khan leaves his home in India and comes to the US to work for NASA. "In the movie, spacecraft is lifted into orbit aboard a space shuttle; NASA's real orbiter fleet is scheduled to return to flight in March 2005, when Discovery carries Commander Eileen Collins and her crew on STS-114," the website adds.