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Rocket Girls
ロケットガール
2007 · TV series · 24 min episodes · 1 season
AnimationScience FictionFantasyDrama
Yukari Morita’s journey to find her missing father takes her to the far off Solomon Islands, where she is offered a deal by the Solomon Space Associations’ director. They will help her search, but in exchange, she must become an astronaut.
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Adding couple space related yet quite plausible anime/manga series:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Girls - basically space flight marketing for highschoolers created in cooperation with JAXA - has a pretty good description of using a biosuit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Brothers_(manga) - a near future "so you want to be an astronaut, eh? " story - very realistic description of what you need to do before actually going to space (38 volumes/99 anime episodes)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Operators - a space opera that has quite minimal super science and a lot of hard physics - lasers vs overheating, detection/stealth in space (and the lack thereof), signal propagation issues, how to turn big ships quickly enough to use thrusters/fire axial weapons, using neutrino detectors to spot enemy warships based on neutrinos from their nuclear reactors
Various UC Gundam series - pretty accurate description of O'Neil Island 3 space colonies, mass drivers, orbital infrastructure in general - zero g only ships & stations
There aren't enough solid science movies to make a proper recommendation, unless you want to see a documentary.
Anime however, are plenty -
Rocket Girls, Moonlight Mile, the Ghost In The Shell series of films and episodes, Planetes have good science themes that will make you think.