Space Station 3D (2002)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Toni Myers

Writer:

Toni Myers (written by)

Release Date:

27 April 2002 (UK)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

A Select Few Have Been Aboard... Now It's Your Turn!

Plot Keywords:

Joint Mission | Cosmonaut | Educational | NASA | Science

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Tom Cruise	...	Narrator (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
James Arnold	...	Himself
Michael J. Bloomfield	...	Himself (Pilot, STS-97)
Robert D. Cabana	...	Himself (Commander, STS-88)
Leroy Chiao	...	Himself
Kenneth D. Cockrell	...	Himself
Robert L. Curbeam Jr.	...	Himself
Brian Duffy	...	Himself (Commander, STS-92)
Marc Garneau	...	Himself (Mission Specialist, STS-97)
Michael L. Gernhardt	...	Himself (Mission Specialist, STS-104)
Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko	...	Himself (Soyuz Commander, Expedition One)
Umberto Guidoni	...	Himself
Chris A. Hadifield	...	Himself
Susan Helms	...	Herself (Expedition Two Flight Engineer)
Susan J. Helms	...	Herself
Charles Owen Hobaugh	...	Himself (Pilot, STS-104)
Marsha Ivins	...	Herself (Mission Specialist, STS-98)
Brent W. Jett Jr.	...	Himself (Commander, STS-97)
Thomas D. Jones	...	Himself (Mission Specialist, STS-98)
Janet Lynn Kavandi	...	Herself (Mission Specialist, STS-104)
James M. Kelly	...	Himself (Pilot, STS-102)
Sergei Krikalev	...	Himself (Flight Engineer, Expedition One)
Steven W. Lindsey	...	Himself (Commander, STS-104)
Yuri Valentinovich Lonchakov	...	Himself (Mission Specialist, STS-100)
Michael E. López-Alegría	...	Himself
William Surles McArthur Jr.	...	Himself
Pamela Ann Melroy	...	Herself (Pilot, STS-92)
James H. Newman	...	Himself (Mission Specialist, STS-88)
Scott E. Parazynski	...	Himself
John L. Phillips	...	Himself (Mission Specialist, STS-100)
Mark L. Polnaksy	...	Himself
James F. Reilly II	...	Himself
Paul William Richards	...	Himself
Kent V. Rominger	...	Himself (Commander, STS-100)
Jerry L. Ross	...	Himself (Mission Specialist, STS-88)
William M. Shepherd	...	Himself (Commander, Expedition One)
Joseph R. Tanner	...	Himself (Mission Specialist, STS-97)
Andrew S.W. Thomas	...	Himself
Yury Usachev	...	Himself (Expedition Two Commander)
James S. Voss	...	Himself (Flight Engineer, Expedition Two)
Koichi Wakata	...	Himself (Mission Specialist, STS-92)
James D. Wetherbee	...	Himself (Commander, STS-102)
Peter J.K. Wisoff

Runtime:

47 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.44 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS

Certification:

Germany:o.Al. | UK:U | Singapore:PG | Australia:G

Filming Locations:

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Company:

IMAX Space Ltd.

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like the moon: dry but cool

So you wanna spend umpteen million bucks and go visit the space station? Why not just spend eight bucks and go see this movie? That way you get the weightlessness without the nausea (unless you're sitting too close to the screen).

For people expecting an action picture, I think Space Station will seem slow and dry. But for science and astronomy geeks who want to see what's up there, this movie is pretty cool. After thirty minutes, planet earth seems foreign, and the space station seems familiar! It seems so narrow and long, like a school hallway lined with scientific equipment.

Tom Cruise was a good choice of narrator, because of, yeah, star appeal, but also because his voice telegraphs his childlike sense of wonder. To me, there was also a sense of danger, similar to the danger of being on a submarine. You're travelling through a truly hostile environment, and always just a thin shell away from disaster.

For the general public, I'd give it a seven. But for space geeks, it's atleast a nine. Now I can't wait for "Apollo 13" to come to Imax.