Alexandra Shipp, Kyle Allen, Simon Helberg, Kevin Bacon, Madeline Brewer

Get your Popcorn Out because Space Oddity is Streaming on Tubi this July

A one-way ticket to Mars gets complicated by love, family, and unfinished business on Earth.

JULY 1, 2026

Space Oddity has the kind of premise that sounds like a joke until it starts sneaking up on you. A young man signs up for a one-way mission to Mars while his family farm is falling apart, then love walks in and makes the exit route a lot less clean.

Directed by Kyra Sedgwick, this is romance, comedy, drama, and sci-fi sharing one slightly chaotic launchpad. The Mars mission gives it scale, but the real charge comes from the question underneath it: when life on Earth feels impossible, is leaving bravery, panic, or both?

Space Oddity arrives on Tubi soon. If you like your love stories with a little existential space dust, this belongs on the list before it drops.

The Cast

Kyle Allen

Allen plays the young man caught between escape velocity and unfinished business at home. He gives the story its restless heartbeat, the feeling of someone staring at the sky because staying on the ground has started to hurt too much.

Alexandra Shipp

Shipp brings warmth and spark as the romance that complicates a one-way plan. Her presence shifts the movie’s orbit, turning a cosmic exit strategy into something more human, immediate, and hard to file neatly under destiny.

Simon Helberg

Helberg adds dry comic pressure to the Mars dream, grounding the sci-fi premise with nervous energy and very earthly skepticism. He understands the movie’s sweet spot, where ambition, denial, and awkward honesty all share the same room.

Kevin Bacon

Bacon plays family tension with the weight of someone who knows every acre of the life being left behind. He gives the farm story a lived-in gravity, making the choice to leave feel personal before it ever feels planetary.

“I planned for Mars. I did not plan for you.”

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Why Watch It

The hook is big, but Space Oddity works because it keeps looking back at the small stuff: family pressure, grief, attraction, fear, and the strange comfort of having a plan even when the plan is wildly inconvenient. It is a space movie with dirt under its fingernails.

This is for anyone who likes romantic dramas that do not move in a straight line. The comedy has a gentle bite, the sci-fi idea gives everything a playful lift, and the emotional question is simple in the best way: what are you really running toward?

It is coming to Tubi soon, and it has that rare pre-drop appeal of being easy to describe, yet clearly stranger and sweeter than the logline suggests.