So, I have no doubt that Mission Control will deal with some very real issues that those working on space missions actually deal with, while giving the audience some solid interpersonal relationship drama.
Grimm may have seen Giuntoli deftly handle zauberbiests, hexenbiests, fuchsbaus and other creepy things on a regular basis, but Mission Control promises to be a more down to Earth job, even though it deals with NASA.
For instance, Poppy Montgomery is listed as the female lead of the show, and I can imagine that it’s possible that Julie and Stevenson might end up in each other’s orbit at some point, pun intended.
Andy Weir managed to make The Martian a very relatable science fiction story about one man’s fight for survival in a harsh landscape that he had to brave all on his own, while those that he worked with had to figure out the most effective way to help him.