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.
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 | [1] |
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 | [2] |
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 | [3][4] |
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 | [5] |
Film | Year | Space station | Ref. |
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Armageddon | 1998 | Mir | [6] |
A Beautiful Planet | 2016 | International Space Station | [7] |
Contact | 1997 | Mir | [6] |
The Day After Tomorrow | 2004 | International Space Station | [8] |
Gravity | 2013 | International Space Station and Tiangong | [9] |
Life | 2017 | International Space Station | [10] |
Love | 2011 | International Space Station | [11] |
Marooned | 1969 | SIVb Orbital Workshop | [12] |
Mission to Mars | 2000 | World Space Station | [13] |
Mission to Mir | 1997 | Mir | [14] |
Out of the Present | 1995 | Mir | [15] |
Rampage | 2018 | [16] | |
Salyut-7 | 2017 | Salyut 7 | [17] |
Searching for Skylab | 2019 | Skylab | [18] |
Space Explorers: The ISS Experience | 2020 | [19] | |
Space Station 3D | 2002 | International Space Station | [20] |
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | 2017 | Alpha (former International Space Station) | [21] |
Virus | 1999 | Mir | [22] |
The following films also include spacecraft that have also been called space stations by outside sources: