# list of films featuring space stations
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the international space station has been featured in several films including challenge yolki 5 gravity the day after tomorrow love a beautiful planet and space station 3d
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
# # non-documentary films involving direct use of a real space station as a plot element
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
return from orbit: 1984: salyut 7: soyuz t-9: soyuz t-9: vladimir lyakhov (astronaut) - aleksandr aleksandrov (astronaut): 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: yuri lonchakov (astronaut) - michael fincke (astronaut) - greg chamitoff (astronaut) - richard garriott (director): 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): 21 october 2016 - 10 april 2017
the challenge (vyzov): 2023: international space station: soyuz ms-19/18: progress ms-17/soyuz ms-18: anton shkaplerov (cosmonaut) - oleg novitsky (cosmonaut) - pyotr dubrov (cosmonaut) - klim shipenko (director) - yulia peresild (actress) - mark t. vande hei (astronaut): 5 - 17 october 2021 (11 days 12 hours 52 minutes): 35-40 minutes:## films involving indirect use of a real space station or partially fictionalised space station as a plot element
film: year: space station: notes
armageddon: 1998: mir
a beautiful planet: 2016: international space station
contact: 1997: mir
the day after tomorrow: 2004: international space station: modified from the finalised iss with some international segment modules removed but with the planned expansions to the russian segment included.
gravity: 2013: international space station and tiangong-1
i.s.s.: 2024: international space station
life: 2017: international space station: heavily modified to include additional pressurised modules
love: 2011: international space station
marooned: 1969: s-ivb orbital workshop: similar to wet workshop designs considered for skylab.
mission to mars: 2000: world space station: appears to be the international space station modified to accommodate an artificial gravity ring.
mission to mir: 1997: mir
out of the present: 1995: mir
salyut-7: 2017: salyut 7
searching for skylab: 2019: skylab
space explorers: the iss experience: 2020: international space station
space station 3d: 2002: international space station
valerian and the city of a thousand planets: 2017: alpha (former international space station): incredibly modified to the point of near nonrecognition. the structure of the modern iss is only briefly seen in the opening montage.:## films involving use of a fully fictionalised space station as a plot element
film: year: space station
51 degrees north: 2015
2001: a space odyssey: 1968: space station v
3022: 2019
ad astra: 2019: norwegian biomedical research space station
aliens: 1986: gateway station
alien: romulus: 2024: renaissance
android: 1982: terraport station ulc-53
arena: 1989
assignment: outer space: 1960: zulu extra 34
cargo: 2009: station 42
the cloverfield paradox: 2018: cloverfield station
conquest of space: 1955: the wheel
the creator: 2023: u.s.s. nomad
dante 01: 2008: dante 01
dark city: 1998: the city
earth ii: 1971: earth ii
elysium: 2013: elysium
ender's garme: 2013: battle school
enemy mine: 1985
event horizon: 1997: daylight space station
fortress 2: re-entry: 2000
geostorm: 2017: international space station iv
the green slime: 1968: gamma iii
hellraiser: bloodline: 1996: minos
interstellar: 2014: cooper station
io: 2019
jason x: 2002: solaris research space station
lockout: 2012: ms one
macross: do you remember love?: 1984: sdf-1
moonraker: 1979
moonfall: 2022: unnamed spacex refueling station
the marvels: 2023: s.a.b.r.e space station
mutiny in outer space: 1965
mystery science theater 3000: the movie: 1996: satellite of love
the noah's ark principle: 1984: florida arklab
oblivion: 2013: the tet
planet of the apes: 2001: oberon
project moonbase: 1953
queen of outer space: 1958
rampage: 2018
red planet: 2000: high orbit space station / mars-1
robotech: the shadow chronicles: 2006: space station liberty
rogue one: a star wars story: 2016: death star
solaris: 1972: solaris station
solaris: 2002: prometheus station
space buddies: 2009: russian research space station (r.r.s.s)
spacecamp: 1986: daedalus
space station 76: 2014: omega 76 space station
star crystal: 1986
star trek beyond: 2016: yorktown
star trek: the motion picture: 1979: orbital office complex
star trek ii: the wrath of khan: 1982: regula i
star trek iii: the search for spock: 1984: earth spacedock
star trek iv: the voyage home: 1986: earth spacedock
star trek v: the final frontier: 1989: earth spacedock
star trek vi: the undiscovered country: 1991: earth spacedock
star wars: episode i - the phantom menace: 1999: droid control ship
star wars: episode iii - revenge of the sith: 2005: death star
star wars: episode iv - a new hope: 1977: death star
star wars: episode vi - return of the jedi: 1983: death star ii
starship troopers: 1997: ticonderoga
starship troopers: invasion: 2012: fort casey
stowaway: 2021
thunderbirds: 2004: thunderbird 5
thunderbird 6: 1968: thunderbird 5
tik tik tik: 2018
titan a.e.: 2000: salvage station tau 14 new bangkok
war of the planets: 1966
zenon: girl of the 21st century: 1999
zenon: the zequel: 2001
zenon: z3: 2004
a. partially fictionalised meaning either directly based on a heavily studied real concept/station (eg the s-ivb orbital workshop in marooned) or an extension of an existing modern station (eg the world space station in mission to mars being an extension of the international space station.) some stations share the name of real space stations (eg the international space station iv in geostorm) but are otherwise unrelated these are in the "fully fictionalised" category
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
**+** the wandering earth (2019) features the international space station- which despite its name follows the same interstellar trajectory of the aforementioned wandering earth
**+** westfahl gary (2009.) islands in the sky: the space station theme in science fiction literature. borgo press. 56-8
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