Molly Cobb

Molly Cobb is a NASA astronaut clawing for a seat on a mission in a space race that suddenly has new competition. Blunt, competitive, and allergic to sentiment, she treats spaceflight as a job to be earned through sheer skill, not a dream to be gushed over, and she resents anyone who gets in her way.

Sonya Walger plays her with a flinty, unglamorous confidence that refuses the usual astronaut-hero polish — Molly is prickly, funny, and entirely unbothered by being liked. The show lets her ambition be plain and unapologetic, and Walger's dry delivery makes her one of the most purely enjoyable people to watch scheme her way into the sky.