Mina Sundwall might be playing Penny Robinson on Lost in Space, but she doesn't actually love the idea of being lost in space. Or being in space, period. 

A testament to her acting skills, Sundwall convincingly plays someone who is excited about being a colonist on a different planet. But in real life, the idea of being alone in an infinite, unexplored dark place actually freaks her out. "I'm very scared of it in the sense that I'm not a very big fan of being in the dark and that feeling of being isolated and having no way of getting back to where you came from," she told PureWow in 2020.

"But if I were to go, I mean, I would want to be with Neil Armstrong or someone with experience," she continued. "If there was a way to be 100 percent certain that nothing would ever go wrong, and if it had been done a thousand times and was as common as taking an airplane trip, maybe I would consider it. But not yet."

She also doesn't have an affinity for the fine delicacies of, er, space cuisine. Sundwall and her Lost in Space co-star Max Jenkins tried space food for Netflix Futures. While Jenkins seemed to love most of the dehydrated offerings, Sundwall had different opinions. According to her, the biscuits and gravy were "cardboardy," the broccoli and mushrooms were horrible and the blueberries were tasteless. The ice cream was, by far, the worst — Sundwall said it tasted like chalk. 

Even though Sundwall might not love the idea of space flight or space food, she did enjoy herself on a Lost in Space research trip to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. 

"It was incredible. We were able to have a tour of the Goddard center and see how they prep some of the craft that go out into space," she said to KTLA 5 in 2019. "[W]e saw the robots that will go into space and fix the satellites when something is wrong. They have these platforms that spaceships will go on so you can test the vibrations of a launch or rooms where you can test the sound... It was very interesting."

Sundwall's feet might stay on the ground, but, despite her fears, she is helping audiences soar into the stratosphere and beyond as they binge on the Robinson family's adventures.