List Of Films Featuring Space Stations
There is a body of films that feature space stations.
Science fiction films are the most popular genre to have featured both real-life space stations such as the International Space Station and Mir as well as fictional ones such as the Death Star and the Satellite of Love.
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List of films
Non-documentary films involving direct use of a real space station as a plot
| Film | Release year | Space station | Spacecraft transporting the crew | Spacecraft transporting the filming equipment | Cast aboard the space station during production | Time aboard on space station during production | Time shot on space station during production | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return from Orbit | 1984 | Salyut 7 | Soyuz T-9 | Soyuz T-9 |
| 27 June - 23 November 1983 (149 days, 10 hours, 45 minutes) | Unknown | |
| Apogee of Fear | 2012 | International Space Station | Soyuz TMA-13/TMA-12/STS-124 | Soyuz TMA-13/TMA-12 |
| 14 - 24 October 2008 (11 days, 20 hours, 35 minutes) | 8 minutes | |
| Yolki 5 | 2016 | International Space Station | Soyuz TMA-16M/TMA-18M | Soyuz TMA-16M/TMA-18M/Soyuz MS-02 | Mikhail Kornienko (Astronaut) | 27 June - 23 November 1983 (340 days, 10 hours, 45 minutes) | 3-4 minutes | |
| Soyuz MS-02 | Soyuz MS-02 | Andrey Borisenko (Astronaut) | 27 June - 23 November 1983 (340 days, 10 hours, 45 minutes) | |||||
| The Challenge (Vyzov) | 2023 | International Space Station | Soyuz MS-19/18 | Progress MS-17/Soyuz MS-18 |
| 5 - 17 October 2021 (11 days, 12 hours, 52 minutes) | 35-40 minutes |
Films involving indirect use of a real space station or partially fictionalized[A] space station as a plot
| Film | Year | Space station | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armageddon | 1998 | Mir | |
| A Beautiful Planet | 2016 | International Space Station | |
| Contact | 1997 | Mir | |
| The Day After Tomorrow | 2004 | International Space Station | |
| Gravity | 2013 | International Space Station and Tiangong | |
| Life | 2017 | International Space Station | |
| Love | 2011 | International Space Station | |
| Marooned | 1969 | SIVb Orbital Workshop | |
| Mission to Mars | 2000 | World Space Station | |
| Mission to Mir | 1997 | Mir | |
| Out of the Present | 1995 | Mir | |
| Rampage | 2018 | ||
| Salyut-7 | 2017 | Salyut 7 | |
| Searching for Skylab | 2019 | Skylab | |
| Space Explorers: The ISS Experience | 2020 | ||
| Space Station 3D | 2002 | International Space Station | |
| Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | 2017 | Alpha (former International Space Station) | |
| Virus | 1999 | Mir |
Films involving indirect use of a fully fictionalized space station as a plot
Notes
- A.^ Partially fictionalized meaning either directly based on a heavily studied real concept/station (e.g. the SIVb Orbital Workshop in Marooned), or an extension of an existing modern station (e.g. the World Space Station in Mission to Mars being an extension of the International Space Station.)
See also
The following films also include spacecraft that have also been called space stations by outside sources:
- Silent Running (1972), which features the space freighter Valley Forge
- The Fifth Element (1997), which features the space liner Fhloston Paradise
- WALL-E (2008), which features the generation ship Axiom
References
- Westfahl, Gary (2009). Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature. Borgo Press. ISBN 978-1-4344-0356-8.
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